LGBTQ

A Connecticut lawsuit that sought to stip trans teens of the right to compete in school sports has been scrapped by a federal judge. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A US federal judge binned a cruel Connecticut lawsuit that sought to ban trans girls from competing in high school sports on Sunday (25 April). The 2020 suit saw a band of cisgender students claim that they face “unfair competition” from two trans teens competing in track and field events alongside them. The plaintiffs sought to scrap guidelines from the state’s...

Roshaante Anderson, an intersex man, spoke to UNILAD's Minutes With Series about what it was like to find out he was intersex when he was aged 11. (YouTube/Roshaante Anderson) Intersex activist Roshaante Anderson wants people in the LGBT+ community and allies to remember there’s an “I” in the acronym, and there are voices that need to be heard. Anderson, who is an intersex man, told UNILAD‘s Minutes With series that he didn’t find out he was intersex until he was 11-years-old. He told UNILAD that he was raised as a girl...

Romeo Nguase has died by suicide after claiming asylum in the UK (Facebook/@Ladsfchull) An asylum seeker who came to Britain to escape anti-LGBT+ hate died by suicide after being forced to live in poor conditions, his family say. Romeo Nguase, 22, fled family abuse in Namibia three years ago to claim asylum in the UK where he would be free to “be a bisexual man”. Humberside Police found him dead at his home on Pendrill Street, Hull on the morning of 16 April. It is understood that he took his...

After being slain, Paula Midge's home was sent on fire by her alleged killer. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) Paula Migeon, a 50-year-old trans woman, was murdered and her home set on fire to conceal the crime. Firefighters rushed to Migeon’s home in Reims, France on 7 April where they found the apartment ablaze. As the flames razed the complex, Migeon body was found in the bathroom entrance. She had been stabbed 14 times in her throat and neck and the fire, investigators concluded, was accelerated with household cleaning products. A 27-year-old man was...

Alabama governor Kay Ivey is presented with an award at the Alabama 7A State Championship game on 4 December 2019 at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Republican Alabama governor Kay Ivey has signed legislation banning trans athletes from competing on teams matching their gender identities – turning a nightmare into reality. Ivey signed House Bill 391 into law on Friday (23 April) afternoon, according to CNN. The bill states: “A public K-12 school may not allow a biological female to participate on...

A man has described his humiliation after gym staff complained about his Tom of Finland bag. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A gay man was left “humiliated” after taking a Tom of Finland bag to a gym in Adelaide, South Australia, only to receive complaints from pearl-clutching gym-goers. Jeff Trahair explained to the Star Observer, a decades-old LGBT+ news outlet, how he fashioned a bag made out of a shower curtain covered in the buff, gritty graphite prints by the Finnish illustrator. But while the illustrations themselves were “very PG”, Trahair...

Kehlani. (Instagram/ Kehlani) Kehlani shared her coming out story on TikTok, and said that none of her family were surprised when she came out as a lesbian. Earlier this month, an Instagram Live clip was circulated on social media in the singer she said she “finally knows” she is a lesbian. Now Kehlani, who is “on the non-binary scale”, has told her lesbian coming out story in a TikTok. She said: “I’m just going to f**king say it, because everyone keeps bringing it up today… Well, it’s f**king true. I am gay,...

Neil Cleal, 25, spat on a trans woman before punching her to the ground. (Hampshire Constabulary) A man who, in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic last year, spat on a trans woman’s face has been jailed for 19 months and two weeks. In the Southhampton, England, attack described by authorities as “abhorrent”, Neil Cleal lobbed anti-trans abuse at a trans woman in her 50s on 21 July 2020. Cleal kicked her front gate down on Ludlow Road and beelined towards her, spitting on her face before punching her in...

People march at London's first-ever Trans Pride, 2019. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) London Trans Pride has announced that a peaceful protest will go ahead this year in the capital with a confirmed June date. On 26 June, trans and intersex people and their allies will “celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries”, the organisers said in a statement. Organisers also called out the “abhorrent double standard” of attacks on healthcare for trans youth in the UK while intersex genital mutilation surgeries...

A trans woman was refused the COVID-19 vaccine. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A trans woman in Oklahoma was denied the life-saving coronavirus vaccine because she had a “mismatched” identity document. The resident, who has not been named, was turned away by the Logan County Health Department because her name did not match what was written on her ID card. She sought to explain this administrative snag to healthcare officials – she was waiting on the paperwork, she claimed – but the department still refused, KOCO5 News reported. Frustrated, the...

Roblox. (Roblox) An undercover Roblox player has infiltrated the White House press corps, in a ruse that lasted for months. The fake reporter, named Kacey Montagu, posed as a writer for fictional news outlet White House News and created multiple Twitter accounts, which are followed by top White House officials and journalists. Montagu was able to attend COVID-19 response Zoom briefings, their physical absence explained by social distancing protocols. Four times their questions were posed to President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki. But who is Kacey Montagu? “I love...

Uche Maduagwu. (Instagram/@uchemaduagwu) Uche Maduagwu, a rising star in Nollywood and a social media prankster, revealed Monday (19 April) that he lied about being gay. The Nigerian actor said earlier year that he was “proudly gay“. At the time, he urged his nearly 89,000 followers to live their truths while calling on US president Joe Biden to challenge Nigeria’s “inhuman laws against law-abiding homosexuals”. “Appreciate others and share only love,” he said in the since-deleted post. Three months later, Maduagwu rowed back in a candid Instagram post. He stressed that he...

Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster holds a press conference after touring the province's largest COVID-19 vaccination centre on 29 March 2021 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) Politicians in Northern Ireland will debate a motion calling for a ban on the tortuous practice of conversion therapy “in all its forms” in the country. The motion was proposed for debate on Tuesday (20 April) by Ulster Unionist assembly members (MLAs) Doug Beattie and John Stewart. It calls on Stormont to “reject the harmful practice widely referred to as...

Phillip Lühl and his twin daughters in South Africa. (Instagram/@phillipluehl) A top Namibian court rejected Monday (19 April) a gay couple’s plea to return home with their twin daughters, born in South Africa through surrogacy. In a case that threw the republic’s decades-old restrictions on LGBT+ people into question, Phillip Lühl and his husband Guillermo Delgado have fought the government to bring their children, Maya and Paula, to Windhoek. Lühl is currently stuck in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the newborns. Delgado is in Windhoek with the couple’s two-year-old son – they...