Category: Anti-LGBTQ discrimination

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Students protest against school who ‘suspended bisexual teacher for coming out’

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Around 100 students walked out of school in support of a teacher who was allegedly placed on leave for coming out to students as bisexual. At the start of the school year, literature teacher Lucas Kaufmann included a “Things that describe me” slide on an introductory presentation to students. A student questioned why a rainbow flag was featured in the presentation, to which the teacher responded that he is bisexual. This enraged some parents at Winterset High School in Iowa, with Jacob Hall, who runs the local anti-LGBTQ+ website, Iowa…

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Brazil’s gay presidential candidate says LGBTQ+ equality is ‘not a cause he will lay down for’

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Eduardo Leite, a contender to become Brazil’s next president, will not make LGBTQ+ equality a top priority during his campaign. Leite made history when he came out as gay in July 2021 by becoming the first out governor in Brazil’s history. He has been tipped as a top contender to current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, offering a change from his far-right agenda. Leite, who is a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (BSDP), previously revealed that he came out before running for high office so he would not be…

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China’s government bans “sissy men” from television

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China’s government banned effeminate men from appearing on TV and ordered broadcasters to promote “revolutionary culture”. President Xi Jinping has demanded a “national rejuvenation” which will see tighter control of all sectors of society from the Communist Party. The new rules require broadcasters to “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics” on screen. There has been concern from officials in the government that Chinese pop stars are not encouraging men to be masculine enough. These “vulgar internet celebrities” should be avoided at all costs, the broadcast…

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Misgendered trans man ‘asked to take pregnancy test’ by hospital

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A transgender man is planning to sue a hospital after he was allegedly discriminated against during an inpatient stay there. Trey Lowery’s documents identify him as a man, though he claims staff at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York repeatedly used “she/her” pronouns when referring to him. Quenisha, his wife explained: “They never once referred to him as a male, never, not once. Even when I corrected them, they still referred to him as the same thing.” The 33-year-old was scheduled for bariatric surgery, with one nurse even allegedly asking…

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Gay couple denied use of wedding venue by owner because of “religious beliefs”

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A gay couple were not allowed to hire a wedding venue after an owner told them they do not cater to same-sex relationships. Mike Gill said that he and his partner, Coty Heaton, thought they had found the perfect place to get married when they discovered the Barn in the Bend – a rustic wedding venue in Nashville, Tennessee. However, things quickly took an odd turn when Gill began exchanging emails with the venue’s owner, Jackie Daniel. Daniel had sent the couple a proposal for their big day on 31…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Articles Conversion Therapy LGBTQ+ News Life Mexico News Same-sex marriage

Mexican state bans conversion therapy and legalises same-sex marriage in historic move

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Same-sex marriage has been legalised and conversion therapy banned in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It becomes the 22nd state in the country to allow same-sex weddings, with Sinaloa doing so in June and Baja California in August. Yucatán’s Congress voted 20 to five to pass the measure allowing gay couples to marry, which altered Article 94 of the state’s constitution to define marriage as a “free and voluntary legal union” between two people. Despite the fact that Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled state-level prohibitions against same-sex marriage in 2015, LGBTQ+…

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Lifeguard denies trans man entry to pool unless he wears ‘female swimsuit’

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A transgender man was told he could not use a swimming pool by a lifeguard unless he wore a “female one-piece swimsuit”. Gabi Young said the incident took place in New York City on 20 August at a gym he had specifically joined for the swimming facilities. Young, a transgender man using he/they pronouns, was wearing a blue swimming top and blue swim shorts when he was stopped by a female lifeguard as he approached the pool. The lifeguard asked: “Excuse me, can I help you?” “I’m going into the…

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Victim of “homophobic hate crime” found dead in cemetery named by police

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The victim of a suspected homophobic murder has been named by police as 50-year-old Ranjith Kankanamalage. Kankanamalage’s body was found dead in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, East London, in the early hours of 16 August. The 50-year-old, who was known as Roy by friends, was declared deceased at the scene by members of the London Ambulance Service who arrived at around 6.30am. He was found to have a head injury and a post-mortem examination later ruled that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. In a…

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Police make further arrests in relation to horrific Birmingham Gay Village attack

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Three suspects have been apprehended by police after a gay couple were left bloodied and beaten in a horrible attack in Birmingham’s Gay Village. On 15 August, partners Rob and Patrick, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, were in Birmingham for a friend’s housewarming party and decided to go out in the city’s Gay Village. The pair left Missing Bar where they had initiated a light-hearted conversation with a group of men carrying balloons. After joking about whether the balloon was for a birthday the group of four men, who were said to…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Articles Boosie Badazz Culture LGBTQ Music Lil Nas X Music News

Lil Nas X effortlessly brushes off homophobic comments from Boosie Badazz

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Lil Nas X has responded to the latest homophobic rant from rapper Boosie Badazz. In a recent interview with The Breakfast Club radio show, Boosie launched into a rant about Grammy Award-winning Lil Nas X. “I gotta speak up because as far as straight people in the world, you don’t have any opinion no more on sexuality. Everything is harm,” Boosie said when he was asked to explain previous homophobic comments made about the 22-year-old. In the past, Boosie has threatened Lil Nas X over live performances he has seen…

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