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Conservative gets roasted online for recording bigoted temper tantrum over Pride pins in a LEGO store

An enraged conservative threw a bigoted temper tantrum after he saw some LEGO store staff wearing rainbow pins, and now he’s getting roasted online.  The tirade began when John K Amanchukwu Sr, who describes himself as a contributor to far-right organisation Turning Point USA, went into a LEGO store and saw employees wearing kaleidoscopic Pride pins on their uniforms.  He then pulled out his camera, started arguing with them and posted the result on his social media channels.  Amanchukwu asked one worker if the “LEGO group supports” LGBTQ+ people, to which the employee called over another worker before replying, “Yes.”  […]

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Florida House Passes 3 Bills to Restrict LGBTQ+ Rights

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The Florida House passed a litany of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation on Wednesday. These bills could prohibit gender-affirming care for children, punish businesses letting minors watch drag shows, and treat transgender people peeing in the wrong bathroom as criminals. While lawmakers insisted none of the bills targeted queer people specifically, all sparked fears and concern within the community in the Sunshine State. Florida Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican who openly said he supports erasing LGBTQ people, said his real hope in legislation is protecting children. “We heard that this bill is about the right to decide what is appropriate for your child. I got […]

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Twitter Drops Policy Against Anti-Trans Harassment

Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s name before they transitioned, as well as purposefully using the wrong gender for someone as a form of harassment, in 2018.  On Monday, Twitter also said it will only put warning labels on some tweets that are “potentially” in violation of its rules against hateful conduct. Previously, the tweets were removed. It was in this policy update that Twitter appears to have […]

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Crimewave targeting LGBTQ clubgoers kills 7 in NYC: report

A wave of robberies that took place after the victims were drugged has left at least seven clubgoers dead in New York City, The Guardian reported. There have been at least 43 known druggings — mostly taking place at LGBTQ-themed nightclubs — since September 2021, and police are saying the deaths are not isolated incidents. So far, police have arrested four suspects who conspired to “approach intoxicated individuals upon exiting a bar or nightclub, engage them in conversation, and offer and administer dangerous and illicit substances to them for the purpose of causing their incapacitation,” according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s […]

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Florida Expands “Don’t Say Gay” Law To All Grades K-12

ABC News reports: The Florida Board of Education has voted to expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity. This rule would build on the Parental Rights in Education law Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in March 2022. The law bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade. Supporters of the rules argue that “there is no reason for instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity to be part of K-12 public education. Full stop,” according to a spokesperson for DeSantis. Read the full article.

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Would the Pope Fall Foul of Uganda’s Pending Anti-LGBTQ+ Law?

Ugandan lawmakers have passed extreme legislation, that includes the death penalty for repeat offenders, requires people to report anyone suspected of being gay or lesbian to the authorities, and could send activists to jail for 20 years. President Yoweri Museveni has 30 days to sign the bill for it to become law. This is an apt moment to recall Pope Francis’s recent statements that laws criminalizing homosexuality are “unjust,” and that the Catholic Church can and should oppose them. Recognizing that certain Catholic bishops support such laws, the Pope remarked on the need for change within the Church and emphasized the importance […]

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Australia on track to become one of first countries in world to eliminate HIV

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A 10-year study has found that Australia could become one of the first countries to “virtually eliminate” HIV transmissions, with new infections decreasing dramatically.  The findings, published in Lancet HIV, showed that HIV infections decreased by 66 per cent between 2010 and 2019 in New South Wales and Victoria, while there was a 27 per cent rise in people accessing effective HIV treatment.  Increased access to HIV treatment and PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) – the medication that prevents a person from contracting HIV – was cited as a key reason for decreased transmissions.  The journal also endorsed the public health strategy “treatment as […]

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As Ukraine’s LGBTQ soldiers fight on the front line, acceptance grows in the conservative country

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On a riotous Instagram profile featuring pole-dancing, cross-dressing and fierce makeup, a picture of Ivan Honzyk in high heels and stockings next to an image of him in military uniform has gotten the most likes by far. The junior sergeant’s posts are a bold statement in socially conservative Ukraine, where pride parades were often attacked before the war and swaths of the country are occupied by forces loyal to Russia, one of the world’s most conspicuously homophobic states. But as more members of the LGTBQ community fight on the front lines, the greater visibility of gay and lesbian military personnel appears to be […]

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Southern Queers: New Study Reveals the Reality of LGBTQ+ People in the South

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A new study published Thursday examines the lives of LGBTQ+ Americans in the South and the results might be surprising to some. The data indicates that the notion that LGBTQ+ people only live in blue states or big cities isn’t entirely accurate. In a survey of 1,042 LGBTQ+ adults living in 12 Southern states from Alabama to Virginia, the progressive think tank and polling firm Data for Progress examined the significance of LGBTQ+ affirming community spaces, the relationships between LGBTQ+ Southerners and their communities, and the specific threats faced by marginalized, rural LGBTQ+ communities. This research examined how queer people in rural […]

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Nebraska Lawmakers Take Fight Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation Nationwide

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Nebraska lawmakers who are fighting anti-transgender legislation are seeking to have an impact far beyond their state’s borders. Sens. Machaela Cavanaugh, John Fredrickson, and Megan Hunt have formed a political action committee, Don’t Legislate Hate, to support pro-equality candidates for state legislatures around the nation. Cavanaugh has made news with her filibuster against a bill seeking to ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth. She started it in late February, vowing to “burn the session to the ground over this bill.” That has meant hours of debate over every piece of legislation to keep the anti-trans measure from passing. Hunt and Fredrickson, the first […]

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