Sir Ian McKellen is marking 30 years since he publicly came out as gay. Sir Ian came out during a BBC Radio 3 interview, during a discussion about the controversial Section 28, a local government bill that banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality or showing gay relationships as normal.
A new legal challenge could finally stop President Donald Trump from banning transgender troops in the military for good. Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN this week asked a federal district court to permanently block the Trump administration’s plan to stop transgender people from openly serving in the U.S. armed services.
A sea of colour has lined the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda this afternoon for the annual Pride March, celebrating gender and sexual diversity. Actor and LGBTQI advocate Magda Szubanski was among 8000 people who made their way along Fitzroy Street for the Midsumma Pride March. “We’re all fully equal, there are no discrepancies,” Szubanski told the crowd.
Hungarian immigration officials should not have put a Nigerian asylum seeker through psychological tests to determine whether he was telling the truth that he was gay, the EU’s top court ruled on Thursday. Effectively barring use of sexual orientation testing as an invasion of “the most intimate aspects” of life, the Court of Justice…
The Cajundome Convention Center will be transformed to lights, camera, “Apollo” as their krewe hosts its 42nd ball Saturday night. The Mystic Krewe of Apollo de Lafayette is now the largest gay krewe anywhere, but it started out much smaller when members founded it in 1975.
Brandi Seals, a black transgender woman, was shot to death in Houston on Dec. 13, becoming the country’s 22nd known trans woman of color to be killed in hate violence in 2017. Like many other transgender and gender non-conforming homicide victims, her gender identity and name were not initially acknowledged, even in death.
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