Lily Wakefield

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Survivor of Pulse nightclub massacre is tired of gun violence being ‘normalized’

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Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, has insisted that it “isn’t impossible to solve” gun violence. Since the the June 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which saw 49 mostly Latinx LGBT+ people killed, there have been at least 50 mass shootings in the US, according to GLAAD. Wolf was one of the survivors of the atrocity and a lead gun reform advocate. Speaking with the podcast LGBTQ&A, produced by The Advocatemagazine in partnership with GLAAD, Wolf said: “It’s sad that we’ve almost allowed ourselves to feel like violence is inevitable, especially against young people. “The reality is not that […]

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A quarter of HIV-positive Americans have experienced intimate partner violence

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HIV-positive Americans are at a high risk for intimate partner violence, with one in four (26.3 per cent) having experienced it at least once, new data has shown. The findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, used data from the Medical Monitoring Project, “a surveillance system designed to learn more about the experiences and needs of people who are living with HIV”. The study showed that not only are HIV-positive people in the US at higher risk of physical abuse at the hands of their intimate partners, but that “intimate partner violence […]

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Texan bill defines parents of trans kids consenting to healthcare as ‘child abusers’

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A chilling new bill in Texas would define the parents of trans kids who consenting to their affirming healthcare as “child abusers”. Texas Senate Bill 1646 was filed on 11 March, 2021, and is sponsored by 13 Republican state senators. The bill states that a person will be considered guilty of child abuse by “consenting to or assisting in the administering or supplying of, a puberty suppression prescription drug or cross-sex hormone to a child, other than an intersex child, for the purpose of gender  transitioning or gender reassignment” or “performing or consenting to the performance of surgery or another medical procedure on a child, […]

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Hundreds protest as brazen homophobes sworn into Israeli parliament

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Hundreds demonstrated in Jerusalem on Tuesday (6 April), protesting the swearing in of a group of viciously anti-LGBT+ Knesset members. The protest was held outside parliament as all 120 members of the Knesset, Israel’s national legislature, were sworn in following last month’s elections, according to AFP. Among them were six members of the far-right Religious Zionism alliance, which includes the parties Noam and Otzma Yehudit, and the Religious Zionist Party (National Union–Tkuma). Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party and self-described “proud homophobe”, helped to organise the 2006 anti-LGBT+ “beast parade”when World Pride came to Jerusalem. The “beast parade” saw right-wing activists trace […]

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BMX pro Corey Walsh comes out as gay with defiant message of hope

Canadian BMX pro Corey Walsh has come out as gay, making him one of the only openly LGBT+ riders in the industry. Walsh, 26, is the 10th best BMX rider in the world, according to the Boardr BMX Global Ranking, and competed at the Vans BMX Pro Cup World Championships in 2019. On Monday (29 March), he opened up about his sexuality for the first time on Instagram. “If you were to tell me a year ago that today was going to be the day where I said f**k it and let the world in on my personal life I would have […]

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Queer kids are being offered conversion therapy, right now, in the UK

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Dr Igi Moon is a chartered psychologist whose work focuses on psychotherapy, gender, sexuality and emotion. They are also chair of the Coalition for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Against Conversion Therapy, which includes 17 major therapy organisations, such as BPS and UKCP, GPs, NHS England and NHS Scotland, and is pushing for a ban on conversion therapy in the UK.  Moon told PinkNews why a ban on conversion therapy in the UK is vital, and why all healthcare providers “must come together again and fight to stop any of our community being told they need to be ‘cured’”. Are you a white […]

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Gay men sent back to Chechnya by Russian police are in ‘mortal danger’ with no access to a lawyer

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Two gay men who escaped torture in Chechnya but were returned by Russia police are in “mortal danger” with no access to a lawyer, the Russian LGBT Network has said. Salek Magamadov and Ismail Isayev, who is just 17 years old, managed to escape to Russia from Chechnya, the site of deadly so-called gay purges, in June 2020. Having been tortured by the Chechen special police for running an opposition Telegram channel, the Magamadov and Isayev were relocated by the Russian LGBT Network to Nizhny Novogorod, a city around 400 kilometres east of Moscow. But on Thursday (4 February), the Russian […]

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LGBT+ activist Ken Jones, Who Helped Fund Pride Flag, Dies

Trailblazing LGBT+ activist Ken Jones, who helped fund Gilbert Baker‘s Pride flag, has passed away after a battle with cancer. Jones passed away Thursday (14 January) at the age of 70, having been diagnosed with bladder cancer in September last year. He was a pioneer who pushed for the desegregation of the LGBT+ rights movement, and worked alongside activists like Roma Guy, Sally Miller Gearhart, and Gilbert Baker in San Francisco. Jones was the first Black chair of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board, worked for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation from its conception, and even illegally traveled to Cuba in the […]

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Trump Eviscerated by Lesbian Niece Mary for ‘Orchestrating’ Riots

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As violent white supremacists attacked the US Capitol, and democracy itself, on Wednesday (6 January), Mary Trump called out her uncle for ‘orchestrating’ the insurrection. An armed, extremist mob of Donald Trump supporters breached the US Capitol, storming the rotunda and breaking into the Senate chamber to fire tear gas at senators in a bid to overturn the US election result as the Electoral College votes were counted by Congress. The election has now been certified by Congress as a win for Democratic president-elect Joe Biden and his vice president-elect Kamala Harris. The pro-Trump rioters descended on the Capitol on the president’s instructions, moving from the […]

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The Future of LGBT+ Rights ‘is at Stake’ in the Georgia Senate Run-offs

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LGBT+ rights will be “at stake” on Tuesday (5 January), when America elects two Georgia senators in a run-off elections determining which party has control of the US Senate. Neither of the two Republican senators running for election in Georgia, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, managed to draw a majority on election day (3 November), so they were forced into run-offs against their Democratic challengers, Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. If Republicans win either race in Georgia, they will retain control of the Senate, posing a serious challenge to Joe Biden’s pro-LGBT+ legislative agenda and the Democrat-controlled lower House […]

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