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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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‘Targeting trans people and migrants isn’t where oppression ends – it’s where it begins’

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When I arrived in the UK six years ago as an asylum seeker, I was stunned by how LGBTQI+ friendly the country seemed. Compared to Ukraine and Russia – where I had previously lived – it felt almost like time travel. I’ve known I was trans since I was four years old. But it was only here, in the UK, at the age of 24, that I finally felt safe enough to come out. Since then, much has changed. The political climate has shifted. Laws have shifted. In 2015, the annual Rainbow Map and Index by ILGA-Europe ranked the UK as the […]

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We asked seven AI tools to list ‘pros and cons’ of transphobia – here are their replies

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the centrepiece in the conversation of online misinformation, especially regarding LGBTQ+ people.  As the popularity of the likes of ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Co-Pilot has grown, so too have concerns over the potential ramifications, including plagiarism, scams and, most notably, misinformation and bias. Modern AI chatbots, generally speaking, rely on a process called machine learning, where a computer system uses trial and error to analyse patterns and create instructions based on thousands of simulations to reach a goal. In the AI chatbot’s case, the goal is to accurately answer a query. While machine learning […]

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The gay tennis players smashing down barriers at the French Open 2025

The second Grand Slam event on the 2025 tennis calendar, the French Open, or Roland Garros, got underway in Paris on Sunday (25 May), and there are several gay tennis players offering some vital rainbow LGBTQ+ representation. Since the days of trailblazing gay Grand Slam champions Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, women’s tennis has long provided some of the biggest LGBTQ+ names in sport – and there are currently several players Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour carrying that torch for a new generation. The men’s Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour continues to lag way behind the women’s game: Until last year, […]

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Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: ‘This is what Love requires of us’

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Quakers in Britain have been commended for rejecting claims that a UK Supreme Court ruling prevents trans people from using single-sex spaces. The Christian group, which represents Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends faith group, argued that a ruling handed down in April, which aims to clarify the 2010 Equality Act’s definitions of women and sex, has not affected the rights of trans people to use gendered facilities consistent with their birth sex. In a unanimous ruling, Supreme Court judge Lord Patrick Hodge argued that the terms women and sex in the legislation refer to “biological women” and “biological sex.” Lord […]

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London-based scientist lured on Grindr before being killed and dismembered, police say

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A “warm-hearted” London-based scientist was lured on Grindr before being killed and dismembered, police in Colombia have said. Alessandro Coatti, 38, was last seen leaving his hostel in Santa Marta on 4 April.  The microbiologist, who had recently left his role at the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) after eight years as a senior policy officer, had told staff at his hostel that he wanted to learn about the local flora and fauna.  On 6 April, Coatti’s head, hands and feet were found in a suitcase near the Sierra Nevada Stadium. His other body parts were found the following day in […]

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Labour’s leaked Women’s Conference plans condemned as an ‘attempt to isolate trans people’

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In the documents, the NEC is urged to vote in favour of postponing the National Women’s Conference because it would be at “significant risk of a legal challenge” following the judgement if it were to go ahead – as it had in the past – on the basis of self-ID, adding given the “proximity” to the ruling it may result in “protests, direct action and heightened security risks”.  “This would also represent a political risk which would be likely to feature prominently throughout conference week,” the document also reads.  The leaked papers went on to warn that Labour would face […]

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Gender policing does not ‘protect’ butch women and lesbians

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When the Supreme Court issued its 88-page long judgement that the legal definition of ‘sex’ is based on ‘biology’, gender critical lobbying group and controversially registered charity LGB Alliance declared it was a “landmark for lesbian rights in the UK”.  “This matters greatly to LGB people,” CEO Kate Barker said of the ruling. “It is especially important to lesbians, because the definition of lesbian is directly linked to the definition of woman.”  Barker – who once claimed a singular drag queen carrying the Olympic torch demonstrated the “erasure of woman in all spheres of public life” – went on to say the ruling “marks a watershed […]

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