LGBTQ

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...

Vixen, a superhero in DC Comics, has come out as queer and shared that she is dating another woman in a recent comic book. (DC Comics) An iconic DC superhero has come out as queer and revealed that she is in a relationship with another woman. Vixen, a model and animal-rights activist slash superhero, has come out in a recent issue of Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour. The comic book series – created by Tee Franklin, Matt Sarin and Marissa Louise – is a spin-off of the Harley...

Adele attends The BRIT Awards 2022 at The O2 Arena on 8 February 2022 in London, England. (Samir Hussein/WireImage ) Adele has vowed that her postponed Las Vegas residency is “absolutely 100 per cent happening this year” as she has “plans” for next year. Last month, Adele shared on Instagram that she had made the heartbreaking decision to postpone her Las Vegas residency just a day before the opening show. She told fans that the show had been “absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID”. The Grammy-winning artist elaborated more...

A group of students allegedly assaulted a transgender teen after a basketball game between North Attleboro and Foxboro high schools. (YouTube/CBS Boston) Massachusetts police are investigating after a trans student was attacked after a high school basketball game. The teen – who attends North Attleboro High School in North Attleborough, Massachusetts – was allegedly assaulted after a basketball game between North Attleboro and Foxboro on Tuesday (8 February), WBZ 4 CBS Boston reported. According to the outlet, there was a verbal altercation during the game between students. The argument later...

Grindr on an Apple iPhone. (Getty/MARTIN BUREAU) A group of three women reached levels of queendom never thought possible for looking for a new flatmate with “masculine energy” by advertising on Grindr. People in Birmingham, England, logging onto Grindr, the world’s most popular queer dating app, may have seen a pretty unusual sight in the tiled torsos. Cliodhna Heffernan, from the West Midlands city, had set up a profile on the app with a photograph of her and her two flatmates earlier this month after struggling to find interest on SpareRoom,...

Either Euphoria stars Hunter Schafer and Dominic Fike have confirmed that they are dating, or they’re the internet’s biggest trolls. Weeks after the co-stars were first spotted holdings hands during several outings together, Dominic Fike shared a photo of him kissing Hunter Schafer on Instagram Friday (11 February). The 26-year-old musician captioned the snap: “Happy birthday happy birthday”. Dominic and Hunter are officially dating I will cry they're so CUTTTTEEEEE pic.twitter.com/8McT7sHPkn — lorraine (@rainoverthemoon) February 11, 2022 For Euphoria fans who have been enjoying the chemistry between Schafer’s Jules and Fike’s Elliot,...

Polish president Andrzej Duda. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) A “disastrous” bill that will “punish” LGBT+ youth by curbing access to teaching on queer issues has been passed by Poland’s lower house of parliament. In yet another attempt by the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) to stoke hostility against LGBT+ people, lawmakers rammed a bill through the Sejm, the lower house, that increases the government’s control over schools on Wednesday (9 February). Rallying around calls to “protect children,” PiS MPs unexpectedly sprung the vote for the law more...