LGBTQ

The Anderson-McLean family moments after a judge granted them adoption rights. (Facebook) A gay couple in Pennsylvania, US, who adopted six brothers and sisters so they could all grow up together as a family, has celebrated three years together. And that, reader, is our faith in humanity restored. Even as some bigots still believe that children need one mother and father, Steve Anderson-McLean and Rob Anderson-McLean proved otherwise after they adopted the kids who spent nearly five years in foster care in 2019. The Pittsburgh couple adopted Carlos, 14, Guadalupe,...

Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc of Team United States skate during the Pair Skating Free Skating on day fifteen of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games (Elsa/Getty Images) US skater Timothy LeDuc, the first non-binary athlete to compete in a Winter Olympics event, has unfortunately missed out on a medal, but inspired fans with an “elegant” performance. LeDuc and partner Ashley Cain-Gribble placed eighth in the pairs figure skating event, having performed on 18 February and 19 February, while China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong took the gold. Though the...

Martina Caldera's death has only recently been confirmed. (Facebook) Last year was even deadlier for trans people than feared as the murder of Latina woman Martina Caldera brings an already daunting death toll to 56. As 2021 drew to a close, activists recoiled in horror after more than 50 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people – many of them Black trans women – were murdered, various monitoring groups found. But weeks into 2022, yet more victims of a wave of violence that the American Medical Association declared an “epidemic” have...

Donald Trump’s lawyer has insisted that he should be considered a “protected class” because he’s a Republican. On Thursday (17 February), judge Arthur Engoron ruled after a two-hour hearing that New York attorney general Letitia James will be able to question Trump and his two eldest children – Ivanka and Donald Jr – under oath, as part of a civil inquiry into his business practices. Both James’s inquiry and a separate criminal investigation by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg both seek to assess whether Trump used financial statements to exaggerate...

The viral video reportedly shows Bipul Singh, principal of Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, in Athens, Georgia, stabbing the balloons. (YouTube/ Jeffrey Jackson) A viral video has shown the principal of a Georgia elementary school stabbing rainbow balloons with scissors after they were sent to support a young student. Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, in Athens, Georgia, has already faced immense backlash this year, after a school administrator took down a young child’s Pride artwork and compared it to Nazi symbolism. The child’s artwork, proudly displayed by their teacher last month, featured...

A record 7.1 per cent of Americans identify as LGBT+. (Pexels) More Americans than ever both say they identify as LGBT+, a study has found, with the percentage having doubled over the last decade thanks to Gen Z. The percentage of Americans who identify as LGBT+ is now 7.1 per cent, more than double the 3.5 per cent that did in 2012, according to a survey from Gallup. The data is a result of interviews with more than 12,000 adults in the US, and the jump in those identifying as LGBT+...

Scottish trans rights activists hold a demonstration next to an anti-trans demo on 2 September 2021 in Edinburgh, Scotland (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty) The majority of women in Scotland support reforming gender recognition laws to make life easier for trans people, yet another poll about “the transgender issue” has found. One in four Scottish adults strongly supports making changes to the gender recognition process to make it easier for trans people to get a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), which is the document that can then be used to update the gender...

The Turner Guilford-Knight Correctional Center in Miami where the trans protestors claim the abuse happened. (Vallery Jean/Getty Images) Three trans people who were taken into custody after attending Black Lives Matter vigils and protests are suing over the “discriminatory” and “dehumanising” abuse they endured from prison officers in Florida. The lawsuit, which is against Miami Dade County and dozens of individual prison officers at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, claims that the three were misgendered, shamed, ridiculed, and forced to expose themselves for amusement. The case alleges they were...

The child of a school board member in Loudoun County, Virginia, has received a horrific death threat over their mother’s support of trans kids using bathrooms. An anonymous letter addressed directly to the child of school board member Brenda Sheridan read: “It is too bad that your mama is an ugly communist whore. “If she doesn’t quit or resign before the end of the year, we will kill her, but first, we will kill you!” Sheridan was the chair of the Loudon county school board until last year, when an alleged...

The alleged homophobic attack took place in Primark at London's Westfield White City shopping centre. (BuildPix/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty) A queer woman has described how she was “choked and hit” in an alleged homophobic attack at Primark, in London’s Westfield White City shopping centre. Dehayna Thomas, a 21-year-old history student at Goldsmiths University, told MyLondon that she was shopping with a friend at Westfield on Thursday (10 February) when a man began “berating” staff because he had to wait in a queue. Thomas said she told him that he would have to wait like...

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of Team France compete during the Ice Dance Free Dance on day ten of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games (Cui Nan/China News Service via Getty Images) France has scored a gold medal for its “breathtaking” figure skating routine, the second gold achieved by LGBT+ athletes at this year’s Winter Olympics. France’s Guillaume Cizeron, who is openly gay, and his partner Gabriella Papadakis not only won the gold medal but smashed a world record with a score of 226.98. The pair’s win comes after they...

Sha'Carri Richardson. (Getty/ Jonathan Ferrey) US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson has called out the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for allowing Kamila Valieva to compete at the Olympics amid a doping scandal. The 15-year-old Russian figure skater won a gold medal in the team event, but it was later revealed by the World Anti-Doping Agency found that she had tested positive for the banned drug trimetazidine at the Russian Figure Skating Championships at the end of December. Despite a positive doping test within the last two months, the CAS announced...

RuPaul is rebooting the classic TV game show Lingo as Wordle continues to delight and frustrate the world. Lingo, which first aired in the US in 1987, saw two teams attempting to guess five letter words, one letter at a time. Sound familiar? The gameplay is similar to Wordle, the viral game recently acquired by The New York Times. American TV network CBS has announced its plans to reboot Lingo, with Drag Race’s very own Rupaul Charles as the host. According to Deadline, CBS has been developing a prime time reboot of...

Students walk across the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. (Getty/George Frey) The US Department of Education has dismissed an investigation into how LGBT+ students are treated at Brigham Young University (BYU). The university is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church. BYU’s main campus is in Provo, Utah, and the school also has satellite branches in Idaho and Hawaii. The department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) said in a letter that it was dismissing a complaint against BYU...