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Gay Times fires ‘Jews are gross’ editor who sent vile tweets
The new editor of Gay Times has been fired after tweeting offensive remarks. Josh Rivers posted slurs about transgender people, lesbians, women in general, Jews, Asians, Africans, the homeless,...
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Same-sex marriage is like marrying Satan, says The Spectator magazine
The Australian version of The Spectator magazine has sparked outrage by comparing same-sex marriage to marrying the devil. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Australia had voted overwhelmingly in...
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Girlguiding is accepting transgender girls – and it’s sparked a backlash
The largest girls-only organisation in Britain is allowing trans children to join its ranks – and has been attacked for it. Girlguiding, which has been empowering girls and women for 107 years through...
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The Exorcist boss tells fans upset by gay kiss to f**k off
The showrunner of Fox TV series The Exorcist has told fans upset about a gay kiss exactly where they can go. The Fox show, which recently returned for a second season, is a successor to the popular...
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Munroe Bergdorf slams the media for ‘screwing up’ transgender kids
Transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf has spoken out against transphobic media coverage. 2017 saw a huge increase in transphobic stories in the mainstream press, prompted by what some...
View ArticleChinese court agrees to review ‘gay relationships’ video ban
A 30-year-old man in Shanghai has submitted a successful legal challenge against China’s ban on video services streaming gay content. The ban, which came into action in July, forbade video streaming...
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Fired Gay Times editor Josh Rivers lashes out at ‘racist’ criticism of his...
Josh Rivers, who was fired as Gay Times editor after tweeting horrendous remarks about practically every minority group, has lashed out at the “racialised” criticism of him. Rivers posted slurs about...
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Munroe Bergdorf hits out out the fashion industry’s ‘transgender quota’ in...
Transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf has outlined how the fashion industry and media can treat trans people. Bergdorf hit the headlines last year when she was fired by L’Oréal for condemning...
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Parents of Manchester bomb victim Martyn Hett criticise media intrusion
The media acted intrusively in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, the parents of Martyn Hett have said. Mr Hett was among 22 people killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb after an Ariana...
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The Sunday Times’ hateful story depicts transgender woman as ‘male-bodied’...
A horrendous story in The Sunday Times has depicted a transgender woman as a potentially violent monster. The newspaper is read by the best part of a million people, and the article was featured...
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Hindus have a long and surprising history of supporting transgender people,...
A Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Thought of the Day detailing how Hinduism has historically supported transgender people “long and surprising approach to gender...
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Tennis star lashes out at media after ‘homophobic tweets’ are unearthed
US Tennis star Tennys Sandgren has apologised after he received criticism for insensitive tweets. The American tennis star, who reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open this week, came under...
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Former Equalities minister Maria Miller slams media for being anti-trans
Former Conservative equalities minister Maria Miller has lashed out at mainstream media outlets who have aired anti-trans views. Miller particularly targeted reporters who wrote critically about the...
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Ellen DeGeneres cancels trip to Bermuda over anti-gay marriage law
Ellen DeGeneres has urged fans to boycott Bermuda over its anti-gay marriage law. Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, recently opted to abolish same-sex marriage less than a year after weddings...
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Bisexual Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez targeted by Twitter photoshop hoax
Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez, the bisexual head of Stoneman Douglas High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance, has been targeted by a photoshop hoax that shows her ripping up the US Constitution. An...
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Evening Standard sparks hilarity by accidentally using photo of George...
The Evening Standard has incurred ridicule online for using a picture of a George Michael lookalike instead of the real star. The newspaper made the mistake yesterday in a story about the largest study...
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A ‘liberal lesbian’ reveals what it’s really like to work for Fox News
A woman who worked at Fox News has opened up about her time as a “liberal lesbian” at the highly conservative media outlet. CNN political commentator and activist Sally Kohn worked for Fox News for a...
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LGBT representation in Hollywood has somehow got even worse
LGBT representation in major studio releases decreased significantly in 2017, according to a major new report. GLAAD, an LGBT media advocacy organisation, has released its sixth annual Studio...
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Ian McKellen on LGBT representation in Hollywood: ‘gay men don’t exist’
Sir Ian McKellen has criticised the lack of representation of LGBT people in mainstream films. In an interview with TimeOut, the award-winning actor and LGBT rights activist hit out at the film...
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Business Insider issues LGBT sensitivity guidelines after controversial...
Business Insider has put in place new guidelines for opinion pieces exploring “sensitive topics,” after removing an article that defended Scarlett Johansson for accepting a film role as a transgender...
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Romanian newspaper compares LGBT+ activists to Nazis
A leading Romanian newspaper has been condemned for a front page which featured a drag queen in a Nazi uniform. The image on the front of România Liberă, which also features a rainbow flag on the...
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Stonewall hits back at ‘inaccurate’ transgender lottery grant bias claims
Stonewall has responded to an “inaccurate” article by the Sunday Times about a grant reportedly awarded to the charity by the Big Lottery Fund. The piece claimed £500,000 was donated to the LGBT...
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The Sun used a photo of mermaids instead of trans charity Mermaids
The Sun has been ridiculed after using a photo of people dressed as mermaids in an article about transgender children’s charity Mermaids. On Wednesday (February 20), The Sun published a story about the...
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Over 90% of queer women feel negatively stereotyped in media
More than 90 percent of queer women feel they are negatively stereotyped in popular media, a survey has found. The survey was conducted by media agency UM and surveyed 500 women who identified as...
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Pride in London criticised for barring press from parade route
Pride in London is under fire after barring journalists and photographers from entering the parade route during Saturday’s (July 6) Pride march. The decision to exclude the majority of accredited media...
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Pete Buttigieg says LGBT media attacks him for being ‘wrong kind of gay’
Pete Buttigieg has complained that LGBT+ media outlets criticise him for being the “wrong kind of gay”. The Democratic presidential hopeful made the comments in an interview with SiriusXM on Wednesday....
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Relentless anti-trans media is causing depression and psychological distress...
Trans people who are routinely barraged with anti-transgender media coverage are more likely to experience depression and negative mental health outcomes, a study has found. Researchers from the The...
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Christina Aguilera is being honoured by GLAAD and fans are emotional: ‘Her...
Lifelong LGBTQ+ ally Christina Aguilera will receive the Advocate for Change award at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards for her fierce LGBTQ+ and HIV activism. The “Your Body” singer has been a bold...
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Pansexual, intersex and transgender people worst represented in LGBTQ+ media,...
Research from leading LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us has found pansexual, intersex and transgender people have the worst LGBTQ+ representation in media. LGBTQ+ representation in media has been on a...
View ArticleLBC presenter blasts right-wing media for ‘recycled homophobia’ over cat...
LBC presenter Natasha Devon has condemned right-wing media for “recycled homophobia” over its coverage of an alleged gender identity dispute at a school in east Sussex. It was claimed that a dispute...
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