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DaBaby, Kanye West and Marilyn Manson perform during the Kanye West Donda event on 26 August in Chicago, Illinois. (MEGA/GC Images/ Brian Prahl) Kanye West is facing huge backlash for bringing DaBaby and Marilyn Manson on stage at his the listening party for his new album Donda. Last month, rapper DaBaby sparked outrage with an offensive rant about gay people and those with HIV, before later skirting around an apology by insisting that his gay fans “don’t have HIV/AIDS” because they’re not “nasty” or “junkies”. After several sponsors and festivals dropped him, he admitted that...

A US Marshal says he was fired just 70 days before retirement because he stood up for a lesbian colleague who was facing disgusting harassment at work. The woman, deputy US marshal Dawn Mahoney, says male officers relentlessly bullied her because of her sexuality, and at one point even urinated in the cookie jar on her desk. On another occasion a colleague allegedly gazed at her body and said “Look at you, you sexy bitch,” before grabbing her waist as she walked past him. “It was a free-for-all of abuse,”...

People take part in Antwerp Pride on 10 August 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium. (Getty/ Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto) A 25-year-old was brutally beaten in a homophobic attack in Belgium after he gave his boyfriend a goodbye kiss. The Brussels Times reported that the victim was attacked in Place Flagey in Brussels on Saturday (21 August) afternoon. According to the outlet, he had just kissed his boyfriend before he got off a bus when he was attacked by a man in his 40s. The attacker reportedly punched the gay man in the...

Ryan Murphy attends The 2019 Met Gala. (Getty for THR/ John Shearer) TV mogul Ryan Murphy has shut down a critic who whined that he writes too many “gay perverted addicts” with an epic clapback. This week, a Lady Gaga fan account caught Murphy’s attention when it tweeted: “Can Ryan Murphy write a season without gay perverted addicts??? I feel like he’s used this trope a million times.” The tweet seemingly referred to the premiere of the tenth season of American Horror Story on Wednesday (25 August), American Horror Story: Double...

The Church in Wales' Bench of Bishops. (Facebook/ The Church in Wales) The Church in Wales is set to vote next month on whether same-sex couples should receive blessings for the first time. A bill to allow the blessings, introduced by the church’s bench of bishops, will be considered by the church’s governing body at a meeting on 6 September after members said it was “pastorally unsustainable” to ban such a service. In an explanatory memorandum, the Church in Wales bishops said: “Approval of this rite would be stating that...

The ITV exec insisted that Love Island is "about boys and girls". (YouTube/ Love Island) ITV managing director Kevin Lygo has declared that queer Love Island definitely won’t happen any time soon, insisting: “It’s about boys and girls.” Speaking on a virtual Edinburgh TV Festival session on Wednesday (25 August), Lygo shut down the idea of inviting queer contestants onto the ITV dating game show, which this week finished its seventh series. He said: “Love Island is a particular thing. It’s about boys and girls coupling up, so if you want...

OnlyFans said changes to its terms of use were "necessary". (LightRocket via Getty/ SOPA Images/ Pavlo Gonchar) OnlyFans has suspended its recently announced ban on “sexually explicit” content, following fierce backlash from users and sex workers. This month the platform, which had become a hub for amateur and professional adult entertainers, said it would be changing its content guidelines to attract more outside investment. OnlyFans said that from October 2021 it would ban “sexually explicit” content, allowing some nude images but prohibiting videos and photos showing real or simulated sex...

Out Paralympian Robyn Lambird has spoken frankly about their experience of ableism, saying perceptions of disability often make it “hard to feel empowered and sexy”. The 24-year-old Australian wheelchair racer will compete in the women’s T34 100m Wheelchair Sprint this month as one of three out non-binary athletes in Tokyo. They were diagnosed with cerebral palsy when they were nine, but the last thing they want you to do is pity them. “It’s not always this tragic, depressing thing that the media makes it out to be,” they told Mamamia....

Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, and Kylen Carrol Schulte, 24, were found fatally shot near their Utah campsite on 18 August 2021. (YouTube/FOX 13 News Utah, Courtesy: Bridget Calvert) A newlywed couple were found dead near their campsite in Utah after telling friends they were “creeped” out by a “weirdo” man nearby. Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, and Kylen Carrol Schulte, 24, were reported missing and found shot dead days later on Wednesday (18 August) at the South Mesa area of the La Sal Loop Road in Grand County, Utah, according to a...

The new 'hate crime' cars coming soon to UK police forces (Instagram/@yourpolice.uk) UK police are facing heavy criticism for a new fleet of rainbow-coloured squad cars they claim will boost “confidence” among the LGBT+ community. The “hate crime cars” will be introduced in forces across the country in a bid to encourage more victims of anti-LGBT+ crimes to come forward to police. Currently as many as 80 per cent of LGBT+ people don’t report hate crimes to the authorities, according to Stonewall, but police believe their colourful cars will change...

Oregon farmers Jaybill and Erin McCarthy erected a massive progress Pride flag after the Newberg School Board voted to ban Pride and Black Lives Matter flags from school buildings. (NBC News/KGW) Farmers have erected a giant progress Pride flag near an Oregon high school after the local school board voted to ban LGBT+, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other “political” signs. Jaybill McCarthy told NBC affiliate KGW that he shared his idea for the massive Pride protest on social media. The protest came just a short while after the Newberg...

Stonewall has said it is “proud” of its diversity champions programme after a police commissioner said the charity poses “a threat to women”. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Conservative Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend accused the trailblazing LGBT+ rights charity of pushing a “dangerous ideology” because it supports trans rights. Among the many initiatives run by Stonewall is the diversity champions programme, which sees the charity work with more than 900 external organisations to empower LGBT+ staff. Townsend is now demanding Surrey police bow out of...

Marsha De Cordova MP. (Dave Benett/Getty Images) Labour’s shadow equalities secretary Marsha de Cordova has been accused of snubbing an event hosted by her party’s LGBT+ group in conjunction with Stonewall. De Cordova was invited to sit on a panel at an event titled “Labour and LGBT+ rights, where next?” with Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley, Labour MP Angela Eagle, and two members of LGBT+ Labour. However, de Cordova reportedly declined the invitation, The Times reports, making her the first shadow equalities secretary to not attend the annual event since it started more...

Police arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with the death of a gay man in London. (Envato Elements) Police have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of murder after a gay man was found dead in a London cemetery. Emergency services were called to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park at around 7am on Monday morning (16 August) after a gay man was found unresponsive. He was declared dead at the scene, while a post-mortem later found that he died after suffering a “blunt force trauma to the head”, the Metropolitan Police...