Reiss Smith

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Man Found Dead after Arranging a Grindr Hook-up

The body of a 56-year-old Australian man was found hours after he allegedly left home for a Grindr hook-up. The unidentified Canberra man was discovered dead on February 2 by a man walking his dog in Boulee, New South Wales. His body had been dumped in bushland a few metres away from the purple Honda Jazz he had been driving. He had no visible injuries, and police are waiting for autopsy results to determine his cause of death. Officers believe the man had been on his way to a Grindr hook-up, as he was known to use the app and […]

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Journalist Fired after Claiming a Man Launched a ‘HIV Attack’ by Spitting in Cop’s Mouth

CBS New York has confirmed that a reporter who named a man and revealed his HIV status in a dangerously misleading report has been dismissed. The journalist was sacked after writing an article suggesting that a man put a police officer at risk of acquiring HIV by spitting in his mouth after he had been arrested for stealing a yoghurt at LaGuardia Airport.ADVERTISING The alleged incident was described as a “HIV attack” in a tweet penned by the reporter, who also wrote that the “suspect admitted they spit into an officer’s mouth knowing they had HIV”. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes […]

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Starbucks Fired a Trans Supervisor after Staff Played ‘Pig’ Prank on Cops

Starbucks fired a trans woman from her supervisor job after a police officer was given an order labelled “pig”. Lola Rose, a trans college student, said she was “made to be a martyr” after the incident went viral and is now considering legal action, She had been working as a shift supervisor at a Starbucks in Glenpool, Oklahoma, on Thanksgiving morning, when a police officer was handed a muffin with “pig” on the label. Rose told The New York Post that she’d noticed the label and intervened, thinking, “No, that’s not right.” “I jumped into action, apologised, then I thanked him for […]

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Half of Americans Don’t Think the Country is Ready for a Gay President

As Pete Buttigieg continues his campaign to become the first openly gay US president, a new poll has suggested that America isn’t ready for an LGBT+ commander in chief. According to the Politico/Morning Consult poll, 44 percent of voters don’t think that the country is ready for an openly gay president, with 40 percent saying the opposite. But for many, the problem seems to be a societal one rather than any personal prejudice. When asked if they themselves could accept a gay president, 50 percent answered with either definitely or probably, compared to 37 percent who said definitely or probably not. […]

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LGBT Muslims to Make Dream of First Pride Festival a Reality

A new LGBT+ Muslim Pride festival is just £400 away from reaching its crowdfunding goal. Imaan, Europe’s biggest charity sporting LGBT+ Muslims, is trying to raise £10,000 to put on an event which will “provide a space for LGBTQI Muslims from across the UK to be empowered, engaged and to make no apologies for being practising Muslims and LGBTQI people”. With a day left until the campaign ends on Tuesday afternoon, October 29, the crowdfunder is £403 short of its goal. Imaan posted on Twitter: “With now just 1 day left – dare we dream we can do it? The […]

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Facebook Rejects a PrEP Awareness Campaign because of ‘Politics’, but Allow Politicians to Post Lies

Apicha Community Health Center wanted to run advertising on Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) to promote public awareness of PrEP, a drug which can prevent HIV transmissions. Despite Facebook’s newly-relaxed rules around political advertising, the New York-based centre – which serves people of colour and the LGBT+ community – was told that it could not run the adverts because it “hadn’t been authorised to run ads about social issues, elections or politics”. “They said the copy was the problem but were unable to tell us what part of the copy was too political,” Phillip Miner, Apicha’s director of grants […]

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Boyfriend Charged Over Murder of 16th Trans Woman to be Killed in US this Year

Police investigating the murder of Tracy Single, the 16th trans woman of colour killed in the US this year, have arrested a man she had been dating. Joshua Dominic Bourgeois was arrested Friday, August 23, on suspicion of Single’s murder, according to ABC News. The 25-year-old became a suspect after investigators learned he had been in a “dating relationship” with Single, also known as Tracy Williams. Police said she was found dead with a puncture wound and several lacerations in a gas station parking lot in west Houston on July 30. She was 22 years old. It took officials two weeks […]

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Gay Man Says LGBT Asylum Seekers’ Claims are ‘Not being Taken Seriously’

Abderrahim El Habachi fled Morocco two years ago out of fear he could be imprisoned for his sexuality. He said that he is now part of a “huge community” who have come to the UK “to live their lives in an authentic way”, but have faced poor treatment under the British asylum system. “The Home Office is putting people through hell,” he told ITV News. “They don’t believe our sexual orientations or the struggles we are facing in our countries.” El Habachi said that in Morocco, LGBT+ people are considered criminals and live under the constant threat of violence. The Home […]

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Zipline Inprov Appears at Occidental Center for the Arts Just 13

Saturday July 13 @ 7 pm. Zipline Improv at Occidental Center for the Arts. Skilled Bay Area actors led by local actress and founder Laura Wachtel present an evening of delightful improvised scenes and stories with your suggestions to inspire them. Their focus is on narrative improv both short scenes and full length. What will it be this time? Join us to see! $15 Adv/$20 at door. Fine Refreshments. Accessible to persons with disabilities. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465 www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org

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Homophobia Fell Faster after Same-sex Marriage Law, Research Finds

New research has found that US states which legalised gay marriage before the 2015 Supreme Court ruling became more accepting of LGBT+ people at a quicker rate. The study led by psychologist Eugene Ofosu found that “while anti-gay bias has been decreasing over time,” it did so “at roughly double” the speed after states introduced equal marriage. “We find both implicit and explicit anti-gay bias was decreasing or stable over time before same-sex marriage legislation,” researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “However, following the passing of legislation perceived as supportive of this marginalised population, on average, anti-gay […]

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