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NFL to host Pride night during Super Bowl week

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The National Football League (NFL) will once again host A Night of Pride event during Super Bowl week, leaving bigots up in arms.  The third annual A Night of Pride with GLAAD, presented by Smirnoff, will be held on 7 February ahead of the Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas four days later.  It will be an evening of music, cocktails and interview-style conversations with GLAAD, including a panel on how inclusion in sports advances acceptance for LGBTQ people, and will feature a special live performance by singer-songwriter VINCINT. GLAAD president and chief executive Sarah Kate Ellis said: “[Our] partnership with the NFL is committed […]

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Lawmakers in South Carolina approve ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors

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Lawmakers in South Carolina, USA, have approved a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.  On 18 January, the Republican-dominated House debated and voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of the bill, as per AP News. The bill prevents health professionals from performing gender-affirming surgery, prescribing puberty blockers and overseeing hormone therapy for patients under 18 years old. The bill also prevents those under the age of 26 – eight years past the age of majority in the Southern US state – from using Medicaid, the nation’s public health insurance program for those from a low-income background, to cover the cost of gender-affirming […]

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Queer people of colour don’t think they will live as long as their white peers, study finds

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Large numbers of queer young people of colour in the US believe they have a low life expectancy compared with their white peers, a new study has found. The research for LGBTQ+ youth mental-health charity The Trevor Projectshowed that, overall, 58 per cent of young queer people believe there is a high chance they will live to at least the age of 35, while 34 per cent view their chances as low. The remaining respondents were unsure. The report, which surveyed 28,524 LGBTQ+ people between the ages of 13 and 24, found that 59 per cent of young LGBTQ+ people of colour […]

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Russian singer jailed under LGBTQ+ propaganda laws after nude performance

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A Russian singer has been jailed under the country’s LGBTQ+ propaganda laws after performing a show wearing nothing but a sock on his genitals.  On Monday night (8 January), Maxim Tesli, front man of Shchenki (The Puppies), was detained at a St Petersburg airport.  It has been reported by Russian media that he was planning to leave Russia amid growing calls for his arrests, following a video of his performance going viral.  At court the following day, Tesli was jailed for 10 days on charges of petty hooliganism. In November, Russia’s supreme court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism by branding the “international public LGBT […]

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Same-sex marriage is now officially legal in Estonia

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Same-sex couples can now legally marry in Estonia, in a landmark moment for the Baltic states. LGBTQ+ people in Estonia have been able to register civil unions since 2016, but the country became the first former Soviet republic to legalise same-sex marriage in June 2023 after a vote of 55 to 34 in the country’s 101-seat parliament.  The legislation officially came into force on New Year’s Day (1 January) and same-sex couples in the country can now register their marriage applications online. It is believed the first applications will be processed and certified by early February.  Estonia’s minister of social protection, Signe […]

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Kim Davis ordered to pay $260,000 in fees for refusing to marry same-sex couple

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Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples in Kentucky, must pay more than $260,000 in legal fees and expenses after one couple sued her.  That’s on top of the $100,000 in damages already awarded to David Ermold and David Moore. The gay couple took the former Rowan County clerk to court in 2015 after she declined to issue them a marriage licence.  Davis’ legal woes began that year when she started denying marriage licences to queer couples – despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalised same-sex marriage across the US. In September, US […]

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Moms for Liberty candidates face blistering defeats in school board races 

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Moms for Liberty backed candidates are facing blistering defeats in Philadelphia, despite holding their annual conference there.  In July, Moms for Liberty hosted their annual conference in Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania.  Moms for Liberty, which now has branches across 48 states, with over 300 local chapters, focuses on opposing the mention of LGBTQ+ rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory and discrimination in school curriculums. Residents from Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs held counter-protests linked to the Moms for Liberty Summit.  In continued protest they are now voting Moms for Liberty endorsed candidates out of school boards across […]

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Trans LGBTQ+ activist shot dead in Baltimore remembered as ‘incredible person’

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Trans woman Meghan Riley Lewis, who was shot dead in Bel Air, has been remembered as an “incredible person”.  On Wednesday (27 December), Lewis, who was a mum-of-two, was shot and killed in the parking lot of her apartment complex.  Brian Delen, 47, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault and firearms charges in relation to the incident. He is currently being held without bond. Bel Air Police said Delen was delivering food at around 6.30pm to the English Country Manor neighbourhood when he got into an argument with Lewis that turned physical. Dylan pulled out a gun […]

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Government guidance to force teachers to out trans kids to parents

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Teachers who become aware that a child intends to transition will be expected to tell their parents, the UK government’s long-awaited guidance on the topic is expected to say. After months of speculation, the government is expected to issue guidance this week on how schools should respond if a child says they plan to socially transition. According to The Guardian, teachers in England will not have to “out” children to their families if they are simply asking questions about gender identity – the Tories’ right-wing faction apparently pushed to make this a feature of the guidance. In the end, the government […]

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Gay man to be deported to Uganda after refugee status rejected: ‘I’ve run out of options’

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A gay man has expressed his horror and hopelessness after learning that he will be deported back to Uganda after living in Canada for five years. The 25-year-old man, who came to Canada in 2018 as an international student, and has since worked in Edmonton, Alberta as a nurse, ran out of options this year when his work visa expired and his application for refugee status was rejected. Uganda has become one of the most dangerous countries for LGBTQ+ people this year, with the introduction of its harsh Anti-Homosexuality Act. The act, which was signed into law in May, calls for […]

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