Maggie Baska

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Trans woman arrested, pepper-sprayed and beaten by cop because she didn’t say hello to him

A senior cop in Sydney, Australia has admitted to fighting and arresting a transgender woman because she didn’t say hi to him. Senior Constable Mark Follington, 61, and his junior colleague were on a patrol in Liverpool’s Golden Fleece Hotel in May 2019 and were asking customers at the pub for their IDs. But Anya Bradford, a trans woman, got up and walked out of a gaming room. The two police officers confronted Bradford as she left the building.× According to Australia’s 7News, Bradford told Follington to “f**k off” when he asked for her name. She also told the police that she didn’t have an […]

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An LGBT+ person was attacked every three hours in Israel last year, report reveals

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An LGBT+ person was attacked every three hours in Israel in 2020, a sharp spike in violent and hate-fuelled incidents against its LGBT+ community. An annual report by the Nir Katz Center of the Aguda – The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel found 2,696 attacks against the LGBT+ community were reported in 2020, compared to 2,125 reported incidents in 2019, a 27 per cent increase.ADVERTISING The Aguda said their report revealed LGBT-phobia is “still present in all areas of life” including home, work, social settings and government institutions in Israel.SPONSORED CONTENT5 Ways to Protect Your ChildBy Sutter Health Over half (55 per cent) of all […]

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Gay campground bans trans men ‘to build a like-minded atmosphere’. The backlash was swift

A gay campground in Michigan, has issued a ban on trans men to “build a like-minded atmosphere”. Camp Boomerang RV Park and Campground has yet to open its site in Orleans, Michigan, but is already in hot water after co-owner Bryan Quinn announced a set of transphobic campground rules on its Facebook page. Quinn wrote: “Camp Boomerang is a private, membership-only RV park/campground that allows only ‘guys’. “A ‘guy’, in terms of this discussion, is defined as a person with a penis, [who] presents himself as male and has a state-issued ID that says ‘male’. “We understand this statement, unfortunately, may not make […]

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Myanmar’s LGBT+ community marches with rainbow flags against military coup

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LGBT+ people have joined in the ongoing protests against the military coup in Myanmar, demanding the freedom of the country’s elected officials. Over the past four days, tens of thousands of people across Myanmar have taken to the streets in protest of a military coup which removed power from the country’s elected officials. Myanmar’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party were arrested on 1 February by the military after it declared the country’s November general election results fraudulent.  Now, LGBT+ people in Myanmar have joined in the protests.  Myanmar freelance photographer Kyaw Htet captured photos of LGBT+ […]

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81-person orgy broken up in France for breaking coronavirus rules

French police shut down an orgy with at least 81 participants in a warehouse on the outskirts of Paris because it breached coronavirus regulations. Police were called to Collegein – about 20 miles outside Paris – after locals alerted them suspecting a party was taking place in the warehouse on Friday (29 January).  Officers arrived on the scene at around 9pm and found 11 people in the car park, who were fined €135 for breaking France’s coronavirus curfew which restricts movement from 6pm to 6am. At 11pm, officers were granted legal permission to enter the warehouse where a large number of people were engaged in an orgy. The […]

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