It’s now hoped more countries, where being gay is still illegal, will follow in Barbados’ footsteps. On Monday, 12 December, the High Court of Barbados further undid its colonial-era homosexuality laws by scrapping Sections 9 and 12 of the…
On Tuesday, Indonesia passed a 200-page criminal code that bans sex outside marriage. The penalty is up to one year in prison. This code also bans cohabitation before marriage, and places new limits on freedom of speech…
An unprecedented number of travelers have complained about airlines refusing to refund their canceled trips. So out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is taking the unprecedented step. Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation (DOT) is requiring six airlines to pay $600 million in…
With “work to live” rather than “live to work” as the unofficial lifestyle mantra, more than 1,100 miles of coastline to explore and delicious pastéis de nata all over the place, putting down roots in Portugal sounds pretty appealing…
When we gathered over Zoom to plan stories about LGBTQ+ lives, Esquire’s Market Editor Alfonso Fernandez Navas said something so profound and significant that we will quote it in full: “Can we, like, have fun?” It is not an exaggeration…
Exhibiting his best “don’t-make-me-turn-this-plane-around” dad vibes, a Southwest Airlines pilot recently used the plane’s intercom to admonish an unidentified passenger to stop sending inappropriate NSFW pics to his cell phone. Video of the incident captured by TikTok user @teighmars has…
Organizers have canceled a free concert at New Orleans‘s upcoming LGBTQ+ festival Southern Decadence due to the threat of monkeypox. The larger six-day festival, September 1-5, will continue as planned, as it always has since 1973 with the exception…
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