archiveDecember 2020

As country music entered a new millennium, multiple stars of the 1990s added to their legacies. Indeed, some of 2000's better songs come to mind whenever anyone brings up Sara Evans, Jo Dee Messina, John Michael Montgomery, Travis Tritt and Lee Ann Womack.Beyond defining moments for established names, the year introduced...

For Dayna Frank, owner of First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the feeling was completely indescribable. For Kerri Park, general manager at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, there was a palpable shift towards positivity. For Christine Karayan, owner of the Troubadour in Los Angeles, there was still some understandable hesitancy. It...

Tom Hanks stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about his new Western film, News of the World. But given that he’s, well, Tom Hanks, the conversation turned pretty free-wheeling, and the veteran actor was able to recount a few of his classic Hollywood anecdotes. “There was a time...

For Colored Girls (Netflix)For Colored Girls is Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. It contains a series of interlocking stories that mainly focus on the struggles that black women face. The film features an ensemble cast that...

South Oxfordshire District Council has voted for a new policy ensuring all its buildings have gender-neutral toilets in a new inclusive move. The local authority will also ensure all services, communications and policies are gender-neutral and accessible to all “regardless of their sexuality or gender identity”. The motion was put...

Samy Nemir-Olivares, District Leader in Brooklyns AD523, Williamsburg and Bushwick (Instagram/SamyNemir) The Brooklyn Democratic Party has voted unanimously to remove gender requirements from its county committee seats after it was sued by six trans and non-binary candidates. A lawsuit was brought by six candidates who were allegedly forced to run...

JK Rowling attends the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them premiere in 2016 (Getty/Jim Spellman) A mother has wrestled with whether to let her youngest read Harry Potter after her trans son asked her to boycott author JK Rowling. Writing to Slate‘s Dear Prudence column, a mum-of-three explained that...

2020 wasn't all that bad, if you think about it. (PinkNews) If you can bring yourself to look back at 2020, it’s hard not to write it all off as a screaming trashfire ejected straight from the bowels of hell. It’s incredible to think that a year that began with...

Jacob Candelaria wants to see an end to the gay panic defence (YouTube/New Mexico in Focus) The first gay man ever to serve on New Mexico’s state legislature is working to abolish the “gay panic” defence as a justification for murdering LGBT+ people. State senator Jacob Candelaria is backing a...

The change led to a wave of protest and concern from the LGBT+ community and civil rights groups. (George Gascón for District Attorney) The newly-elected district attorney for Los Angeles County has backed away from a plan to scrap sentence enhancements for hate crimes as part of criminal justice reforms....

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the London-based Gender Identity Development Service, has begun an appeals process (Getty) The NHS trust that runs the UK’s only gender identity clinic for transgender children has begun the process of appealing the High Court’s ruling on puberty blockers. The Tavistock and...

T'Nia Miller at the Victoria and Albert Museum Summer Party in 2019 (Keith Mayhew/SOPA/Getty) T’Nia Miller kept her sexuality hidden until her early 20s, but now that she’s out she’s determined to be seen. The east-London born actor played the ethereal housekeeper Hannah Grose in Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly...

Tel Aviv Pride 2019 in Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty) Trans people in Israel should be given legal recognition regardless of whether they have pursued gender-affirming surgery, a government task force packed with top officials has recommended. A joint committee between the Justice and Social Welfare Ministries suggested a raft of new...

Conservative radio host and minister E.W. Jackson An evangelical radio host has warned Georgians that it would be spitting in the face of Jesus to vote for pro-LGBT+ candidates. American Family Radio host and minister E.W. Jackson made the claim ahead of January’s Senate run-off elections in Georgia, which are...