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More than 100 trans inmates ‘missing and presumed dead’ after Israeli strike on Iranian prison

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More than 100 trans prisoners are reportedly missing, and presumed dead, after the infamous Evin prison in the Iranian capital city of Tehran was hit by Israeli airstrikes. Situated in the Evin neighbourhood of north Tehran, Evin Prison was opened in 1972 and has a long and bloody history of human rights abuses, including beatings, torture, prolonged solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and sexual abuse, alongside poor conditions.  The prison is the main site for detaining the Islamic Republic’s political prisoners, journalists, academics and foreign citizens accused of spying – including dual-British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert. The prison […]

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Police Scotland announces trans women will be searched by male police officers

Police Scotland has announced that trans women held in custody by police in the country will now be strip-searched by male officers, not female.  The decision comes over two months after the UK Supreme Court ruling. The landmark case brought by gender-critical group For Women Scotland against the Scottish government found that the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women and the protected characteristic of ‘sex’ under the 2010 Equality Act refers to biology. The ruling has had wide-ranging implications for the trans and non-binary community, particularly in policies detailing single-sex spaces, inclusion and discrimination. Weeks after the ruling, the Football Association, the England and […]

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Starmer says bodies must ban trans people from single-sex spaces ‘as soon as possible’

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Keir Starmer has urged public bodies currently not enforcing the Supreme Court’s gender ruling to bar trans people from single-sex spaces “as soon as possible”. The court verdict, handed down in April, deemed that the legal definition of the protected characteristic of “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to “biological sex” only, so excluding trans people. In response, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the UK’s equality watchdog, issued interim guidance which called for transgender men and women to be banned from single-sex facilities which matched their gender and, in some cases, from using those which matched their “biological sex”. When asked at the […]

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Australian hockey stars wear rainbow socks to support gay teammate

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Members of Australia’s national field hockey team have sported rainbow socks to mark Pride month – and support a gay teammate.  Davis Atkin was accidentally outed as gay to his coach at the University of Canberra by a team psychologist in 2021. The following year he told Outsports: “Last year, I was in a pretty dark place.”  The midfielder has now played for the Kookaburras 20 times, including in the 4-3 win over England in an FIH Pro League game on Saturday. A photo of the team posted on Instagram revealed they were all wearing Pride rainbow socks.  Atkin told Hockey Australia: “I said […]

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Two red states have a disproportionately high number of gay porn viewers

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Voters in two states won by Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election have been revealed to watch gay porn much more often than the national average, according a study by Pornhub. The porn site’s latest Pride Insights research revealed that North Dakota topped the charts in terms of hours of gay porn watched in the past year, with Wyoming not far behind. Both are notorious for implementing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and both have Republican governors. North Dakota’s proportion of gay porn fans seemingly exceeded the national average by 43 per cent, and Wyoming by 29 per cent. Other states with a higher-than-average interest included […]

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Gay couple killed in Air India crash honoured at Pride event they were due to attend

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A minute’s silence was held at a Pride event to honour a gay couple who were amongst the more than 240 passengers killed in the Air India crash.  On Thursday (12 June) the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was destined for London Gatwick but crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport, plummeting from the air and into a building in the suburb of Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat state. The couple, Former BBC TV show DanceX contestant Jamie Greenlaw-Meek, 45, and his husband Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, 39, were amongst the 53 Britons on the flight when it crashed.  The two men ran […]

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Slovakia urged not to stop legal recognition of trans people

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Europe’s top human rights commissioner has urged the Slovak Republic to reconsider a bill that would strip legal recognition of trans people from law. Proposed amendments to Slovakia’s Constitution would allow the central-European country to disregard international human rights laws to preserve its “national identity” and to answer what it calls “fundamental cultural-ethical questions.” One of the proposed amendments that attempts to answer these questions is a declaration that recognises “only the sex of male and female,” essentially denying that trans, non-binary, or intersex people exist.  Another amendment, if passed, would restrict adoption rights to only allow married heterosexual couples […]

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The New York Mets went all out for Pride Night 2025, and homophobes are – predictably – furious

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New York Mets fans have praised the iconic baseball team’s celebration of Pride Month, flying the Progress Pride flag during the national anthem and spotlighting a gay kiss on the jumbotron. On Friday (13 June), the Major League Baseball (MLB) game between the Mets and the Tampa Bay Rays became a showcase of LGBTQ+ acceptance and joy, marking the Mets’ ninth annual Pride Night celebration. As per the Mets website, Pride Night is “one night each year when Citi Field swaps blue and orange for the entire rainbow!” Despite losing the game (9-0), the Mets pleased many fans with their full volume support of LGBTQ+ rights. A couple […]

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Tennessee trans woman beaten in ‘terrifying’ attack at storage unit

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A Tennessee trans woman who was beaten in a “terrifying” attack at a storage unit has spoken out about the horrific incident.  Professional makeup artist Tyler Flanagan visited the Extra Space storage facility in Nashville on 30 May when an employee of Black Tie Moving verbally and physically assaulted her.  Flanagan claims she and her friend were moving items in their storage unit when five men wearing branded Black Tie Moving shirts began shouting hateful slurs and misgendering them.  Taking to social media, Flanagan shared horrendous CCTV footage which showed the men attacking her. ‘Loud, hateful, and terrifying’   She shared that […]

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Trump’s ‘punitive’ travel ban will disproportionately harm LGBTQ+ people, expert warns

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A human rights group has warned a travel ban on 12 countries imposed by Donald Trump will disproportionately affect LGBTQ+ people and other vulnerable groups. The 78-year-old US president signed a proclamation in the early hours of Thursday (5 May) banning travel to the US for nationals of several countries. Countries whose citizens are now banned from entering the US are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The White House cited several national security concerns in a statement after Trump signed the travel ban, claiming it would help protect the US from “foreign terrorists.” […]

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