LGBTQ

Police have released a CCTV photo of people they would like to speak to in connection with the attack on Anthony Crumbley. (GoFundMe and Boston Police Department) A gay Black man in Boston, Massachusetts, who was stabbed and left in a coma for four days, is living in fear knowing his attackers are still “out there”. Anthony Crumbley was walking home from a bar in South Boston at about 10.45 pm on 18 December when he was attacked, according to CBS Boston. The 25-year-old said: “The two males and a...

The patient uploaded a photo of the nurse's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) strewn across the floor of the hospital bathroom. (Envato) A nurse at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, is under investigation after having gay sex with a COVID-19 patient in a hospital toilet. On Friday (25 December), the gay sex between the nurse and COVID-19 patient was revealed after the patient posted about it on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation, according to Indonesia Expat. This was accompanied by a photo of the nurse’s Personal Protective...

Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle had their Instagram account removed for "violating" rules, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong. (Instagram) A gay couple are devastated after their hugely popular Instagram account was shut down for “violating” rules – but they still don’t know what they’re supposed to have done wrong. Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle have been sharing their lives with fans for years through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...

Colton Stankowski was asked to leave a women's clothing store when she told an employe that she was shopping for herself. (Envato Elements) A trans woman from Calgary, Canada, was told she was making shoppers “uncomfortable” in a women’s clothing store and was asked to leave – and now she’s fighting back. Colton Stankowski opened up about the traumatising ordeal in an interview with 666CityNews – and revealed how she has since worked to turn the upsetting moment into a positive experience with the help of TikTok. Stankowski told the news outlet...

Ellen DeGeneres. (Steve Granitz/WireImage) In what might be the purest and most wholesome thing to occur during this well and truly cursed year, a closeted teen was gifted Ellen DeGeneres merchandise by her parents to let her know “it’s OK to be lesbian.” Sophie opened up her presents Friday (25 December) to find her parents had bought her The Ellen DeGeneres Show wares, which included a festive-themed t-shirt and a pair of socks threaded with the words “be kind” on them. Yes, what you’re feeling right now is called serotonin....

Marcus Bachmann. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Donald Trump appointed Tuesday (22 December) Marcus Bachmann, an anti-gay counsellor who once referred to gay people as “barbarians“, to an advisory post as the US president scrambles to entrench key allies in top positions. The husband of Michele Bachman, who was once dubbed “America’s biggest homophobe“, has been repeatedly accused of practising conversion therapy at his so-called Christian counselling clinic in Minnesota. But the White House released a list of people appointed by Trump to “key” positions in the administration, with one being Marcus’...

A gay couple who have been together for more than two decades offered up a striking rebuttal to the homophobic refrain that being gay is a phase. Kurt English and Nick Cardello shared a pair of eerily similar photos on Twitter taken 24 years apart, showing them blissfully in love at Washington Pride in 1993, and at the same march in 2017. The photos went viral on Twitter with the caption: “It’s just a phase,” garnering 600,000 likes and more than 150,000 retweets. Nick, a photographer, told PinkNews in 2017 that the...

HJ Farr and Deity Blair in A Very Queer Holiday. (YouTube) Christmas can be a tough time of year for LGBT+ people, and the lack of representation in films traditionally watched over the festive period is only one of the reasons. Family rejection, having to go back into the closet, having mental health issues exacerbated by Christmas stress, being around alcohol or spending the time alone can all be difficult, and that’s before you throw in the small matter of a pandemic. For those going to see their biological families,...

Alan Turing was a gay man, a scientist and a war hero. (Getty) Boris Johnson’s last-minute Brexit deal has scrapped the Erasmus exchange programme and replaced it with a new scheme named for the gay WWII hero, Alan Turing. The prime minister announced on Thursday (24 December) that the UK had reached a trade deal with the EU, having rushed to meet the final deadline of 31 December. While the full economic cost remains unclear, it has been confirmed that one major casualty will be the loss of the European...

'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic was jailed for trying to have an animal rights activist murdered. (Facebook) Joe Exotic has hastily withdrawn his lawsuit against the US Department of Justice after learning that his request for a pardon has actually been seen by the president. As he faces a 22-year stint in federal prison, the “gun-toting gay redneck” of Netflix’s Tiger King is growing ever more desperate for a get-out-of-jail free card from Trump. With his many grovelling appeals going nowhere, he decided to change his tactics last week by...

Zachary Quinto is to produce and star in a new audio drama podcast shedding light on Harvard University’s attempts to purge gay students. The Boys in the Band star is set to delve back into queer culture with upcoming scripted podcast series Secret Court, which tells the true story of a purge of gay students from the Harvard class of 1920. After gay Harvard sophomore Cyril Wilcox took his own life, the university had instigated a secret court led by the university’s president and deans, which dedicated itself to eradicating...

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 forward by Alexandrine Kantor, a Liberal Democrat councillor. Discussing the motion, Kantor spoke about statistics that said trans people had avoided eating and drinking so they didn’t have to use public toilets. Some had even developed kidney and urinary tract...