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School official compares young student’s Pride artwork to Nazi flag

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Parents in Georgia have reported that an elementary school administrator took down a young child’s Pride artwork and compared it to a Nazi flag. The artwork featured a rainbow Pride flag, an umbrella, and the words “Gay is OK”, and was drawn by a student at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, in Athens, Georgia, which teaches children aged five to 11. The child’s teacher proudly displayed the drawing in their classroom, but according to local TV station WXIA-TV, was told to remove it by school administrators. When the teacher questioned why they should take it down, an administrator reportedly compared the adorable Pride […]

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Conversion therapy survivor explains how ‘insidious’ counsellor lured her in with kindness

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A trans woman has shared her heartbreaking experience of conversion therapy to warn how the barbaric practice can at first come across like “kindness”. Warning: Discusses mental health, suicidal thoughts, sexual assault and conversion therapy.  In a Twitter thread that has gone viral, Meghan explained that she attended Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute between 2009 and 2012. While there, she claimed, she underwent horrific conversion therapy. Megan said that she knew that she was a girl from the age of four. “When I first learned about trans people I asked a parent about them,” she wrote. “They told me, ‘Transsexuals are deeply […]

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Sex workers are ‘dropping like flies’ and forced into ‘risky work’ as COVID runs rampant

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Lydia Caradonna says there’s “no way to work safely” as a sex worker as long as the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing. COVID-19 has upended so many industries and it has resulted in countless people losing their jobs. Sex workers have been among the worst affected. The Omicron wave has made the outlook even worse. Once again, sex workers have found themselves unable to meet clients safely, always working in fear that they could contract or pass on COVID-19. High case numbers have also impacted on client numbers. Countless sex workers have found themselves struggling to make ends meet – and they no longer have […]

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Tesla sued by Black, gay employee over ‘festering’ racism and being anti-LGBT+

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Kaylen Barker was a contract worker at a Tesla Inc factory in Lathrop, California, inspecting brake parts, according to Bloomberg, and her complaint filed Tuesday (1 February) alleges that she was also subject to physical violence. She claims a white colleague called her the n-word, “stupid”, “dumb” and a “bitch” while they hit her with a hot grinding tool. The worker was fired, according to her complaint, but “shockingly rehired without any forewarning or explanation” just two weeks later. Barker, 25, was hired at the California sub-assembly plant via a staffing agency, but was fired just eight month later in “retaliation”, she […]

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Young LGBT+ Brits afraid to report sexual assault because of prejudice

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Young LGBT+ people who have experienced sexual assault have reported being afraid to seek help because of prejudice. A survey released Monday (7 February) by the NHS asked 4,000 people in England about their experiences of sexual assault. Two in five people said they did not know where to get help after being sexually assaulted, while 56 per cent of sexual assault survivors sought no help from support services following the attack. The NHS offers support for people who have experienced sexual assault including through specialised sexual assault referral centres, or SARCs. However, 72 per cent were unaware the NHS even offered such help. […]

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Majority of LGBT+ Christians don’t feel safe to be themselves in church, damning report finds

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A worrying report has shown that just a third of LGBT+ Christians feel safe to be themselves at church, fearing “hostility and discrimination”. The report from the Ozanne Foundation, in collaboration with nine LGBT+ Christian organisations, is the result of research conducted last year and overseen by Dr Sarah Carr, a mental health and social care research specialist. The survey received around 750 responses from queer Christian adults in the UK, with the majority (59 per cent) attending Church of England churches, and the remaining respondents belonging to other Christian denominations. It found that less than a third (31 per cent) of LGBT+ Christians […]

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‘F**k you bender’: UK Police officers ‘joked’ about being gay and rape, damning report finds

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A “shocking and offensive” report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has shown that Metropolitan Police officers engaged horrific bullying and harassment, including calling each other “f**king gay” and threatening to “hate f**k” each other. In 2018, the IOPC investigation initially “focused on teams formed to tackle crime and disorder in the Westminster area”, but was expanded when further officers came forward. It eventually expanded to nine investigations, linked to become Operation Hotton. Investigators “reviewed thousands of messages exchanged by officers, including many which were highly sexualised, discriminatory or referred to violence”, and which were “generally described as banter by […]

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New highly-infectious and damaging strain of HIV discovered in the Netherlands

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A new highly-infectious and damaging strain of HIV, resulting from a mutation in the virus, has been discovered in the Netherlands. Scientists working on the BEEHIVE project, a study of HIV genomics and virulence across Europe and Uganda, published their findings in the journal Science on Thursday (3 February). According to UNAIDS, 38 million people around the world are currently living with the most prominent strain of the virus, HIV-1, and it has caused, to date, around 33 million deaths. HIV-2 is the other most prominent type of HIV, and is most commonly seen in West Africa. The newly discovered mutation, a subtype of HIV-1, has been named […]

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LGBT+ Ukrainians are ready to fight for their freedom if Russia invades

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LGBT+ people in Ukraine are afraid of what’s to come as tensions escalate between their country and Russia.  Ukraine and Russia have been at war with each other since 2014, but there are fears that conflict could spill over after Russia deployed tens of thousands of troops to its border with Ukraine in recent days.  Since then, the United States has put 8,500 of its own troops on alert to send to Ukraine if the war worsens, and NATO announced that it was sending ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe in preparation for a potential conflict.  A Russian attack, […]

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Donald Trump vows to ban trans athletes nationwide if re-elected president

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A defiant but still very much defeated Donald Trump vowed to ban trans athletes nationwide if elected to a new term as president. Trump, the former firebrand Republican president, took to Conroe, Texas Saturday night (29 January) for his first Texan MAGA rally since 2019. In a meandering speech that stretched more than an hour-long, Trump laid out a string of promises certain to roil his critics – LGBT+ people included – at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. “We will ban men from participating in women’s sports,” he told his toadying supporters dressed in “Trump 2024” t-shirts and hats. “So ridiculous.” He also decried […]

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