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Man jailed for chilling homophobic letters telling activists to ‘get AIDs and just f**king die’

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A 74-year-old man who owned multiple firearms and ammunition has been sentenced to 30 months in jail after sending bomb threat letters to pro-LGBTQ+ campaigners. Robert Fehring was sentenced on Wednesday (3 August) after pleading guilty in February to one count of mailing threatening communications, according to Buzzfeed News. The retired USA high school teacher had reportedly been arrested in December 2021 after sending at least 60 anonymous threats to Pride Month organisers, government officials, and other pro-LGBTQ+ individuals over the course of eight years. He began his campaign of hatred in 2013 when he targeted New York’s Long Island and […]

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Monkeypox vaccine: Australia secures 450,000 doses as EU struggles to roll out jab

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The Australian government is to import 450,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to help tackle a rise in cases. Health minister Mark Butler told reporters on Thursday (4 August) the government had negotiated at least 450,000 doses of the third-generation Bavarian-Nordic vaccine to be prioritised for specific at-risk groups including gay and bisexual men. The government began negotiating vaccine distribution on 20 May, according to Butler, just one day after the first confirmed case in Australia. At the current time of reporting, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 53 cases of the disease have been reported in Australia […]

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Ron DeSantis files ridiculous complaint over kid-friendly drag show

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Republican governor Ron DeSantis has filed a complaint against a Miami restaurant after a video showed kids at a drag brunch event. The Florida governor spoke about the video – which sees a child walking with a drag artist – at a Wednesday (27 July) news conference, saying that an investigation by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation was conducted. “They actually had agents going to this place and effectively just gathering information, getting intelligence, seeing what’s going on,” he said. “And what they found was not only were there minors there, the bar had a children’s menu. […]

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San Francisco officials declare state of emergency as monkeypox cases surge

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San Francisco has declared a state of emergency, with the city in “desperate need of vaccines” as monkeypox cases skyrocket. The US has seen around 4,600 confirmed cases of monkeypox across the country. Of these cases, 261 have been detected in San Francisco, representing around 30 per cent of all cases in California. On Thursday (28 July), San Francisco mayor London Breed said: “We are at a very scary place. And we don’t want to be ignored by the federal government in our need. So many leaders of the LGBT community have also, weeks ago, asked for additional help and support […]

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Men claim they’ve had sex with virulently homophobic pastor Jesse Lee Peterson

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Several men have alleged they had sex with anti-LGBTQ+ pastor and conservative radio host Jesse Lee Peterson.  The allegations emerged after Church Militant – a far-right Catholic group and website – released an almost 30-minute video in June featuring interviews with men accusing Peterson of making sexual advances toward them.  ​​Patrick Rooney, one of the men in the video, claimed he had a sexual relationship with Peterson that he said lasted about 10 years. Rooney, who has known Peterson since 1992, alleged in the video that the Los Angeles-based pastor made sexual advances toward him for years before they became sexually involved […]

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Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘groomer’ slur banned on Reddit in bid to tackle hate speech: ‘Your move Twitter’

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Reddit has banned the anti-LGBTQ+ slur “groomer” under its hate speech policy, as well as any other reference to LGBTQ+ people as “paedophiles”. The vile slur, which conflates LGBTQ+ identities with paedophilia, has been increasing in use online, and has now been banned by Reddit as hate speech. Journalist Alejandra Caraballo explained on Twitter that the social media platform will now “enforce their hate speech policy on content that utilizes the groomer libel”, which means that posts containing the slur will break Reddit policy and could be taken down. The community “Against Hate Subreddits” added that as well as the “groomer” slur, Reddit will […]

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El Salvador urged to introduce trans rights reforms and act on historic Supreme Court ruling

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El Salvador is facing calls to urgently introduce a path to legal gender recognition and protection from discrimination for trans people. In February 2022, El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled that the constitution prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, and gave the legislature one year to create a system for trans people to change their names on their identity documents. To comply with international human rights standards, lawmakers are also being called upon to introduce a a system for gender recognition. Five months on, with no reforms announced, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report officials to create a “simple, efficient procedure to allow […]

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Queer mum forced to adopt her own child after being refused birth certificate wins High Court case

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A queer mother who was forced to adopt her own child after a registrar refused to put her on the birth certificate has won her legal battle. Sarah Osborne, 48, and Helen Arnold, 48, welcomed a child together via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 2014. But they were told by the Cambridge Register Office that Osborne could not be listed on the child’s birth certificate as there “could only be one mother”. Only if Osborne was the father, which she “clearly wasn’t”, the registrar quipped, could her name have been added. The registrar said Osborne would have to “adopt” her own […]

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Breathtaking first James Webb Space Telescope images reignites row over homophobic ‘purge’ leader

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As the James Webb Space Telescope releases its first images, there are renewed calls for NASA to distance itself from the man it’s named for. The multi-billion-dollar telescope – the most powerful ever to be launched into space – garnered controversy last year after NASA chose to name it after government official James Webb, who is believed to have led a homophobic “purge” in the 50s and 60s. At the time NASA said it had a “debt of gratitude” toward Webb, who was the second administrator of NASA, for his efforts in leading them through a portion of the Cold War. However, […]

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Queer women and trans folk need abortion rights too: ‘We’re being left out of the conversation’

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Members of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States have spoken out about their own abortion experiences after Roe v Wade was struck down. The Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which legalised abortion across the country, on 24 June, meaning that it will now be up to individual states to decide their own abortion laws. In a 213-page majority opinion, the Supreme Court justices wrote: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.” he ruling […]

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