News pertaining to the LGBTQ community!
Every June, an increasing number of brands roll out special edition products for LGBTQ Pride Month that are often swathed in garish rainbows, causing a sort of rainbow fatigue in the community. So it’s a relief to see that Skittles has gone in the opposite direction, removing the rainbow—in fact, removing color entirely—from its packaging for…
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Written by LILY WAKEFIELD for Pink news Canada has just approved a site for a $8 million memorial to thousands of LGBT+ people who were forced out of government and military jobs by a five-decade institutional “purge”. The memorial will be built in Ottawa, overlooking Canada’s Supreme Court and Parliament Hill, according to LGBTQ Nation. Over…
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The emergence of COVID-19 has greatly exposed the fragility of the American economy and social safety nets established to support underserved communities. COVID-19 reveals to many that the United States and the world are severely underprepared when it comes to combating new and more virulent outbreaks of disease and other disasters. We’ve found that these…
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Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood’ Is Glitz, Glam, and Gay The latest project from multihyphenate TV and film creator Ryan Murphy is an aspirational story of a bygone Hollywood that flips the script on the straight white male studio stronghold that was considered its Golden Age and instead delivers a queer, intersectional world. The seven-episode limited series…
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After coming out as queer in February, actress Jameela Jamil, who will appear on HBO Max’s upcoming Legendary series, has revealed she’s not exactly sure where in the spectrum she fits. In February, Jamil was announced as a major figure in the new show Legendary, a competition that centers the ballroom community. As the actress…
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In a perplexing move, Egypt has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that queer people do not exist. Representatives of the country made the statement earlier this month in response to a new push from the UN to end discrimination against LGBTQ people worldwide. Egypt rejected the new guidelines for protecting sexual orientation and gender identity…
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Rapper Da Brat came out in an emotional video posted to Instagram. Da Brat is a Grammy-nominated musician who is perhaps best known for her late 1990s/early 2000s collaborations with Missy Elliott, Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupree, and Destiny’s Child, among others. In a video posted yesterday on her Instagram, Da Brat confirmed that she is…
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Puerto Rican trap singer and long time LGBT+ ally Bad Bunny got a full drag makeover and twerked with himself in his new music video. The video for his song ‘Yo Perreo Sola‘ was released on Friday, March 27, and sees the artist, known off-stage as Benito Ocasio, make multiple outfit changes including several incredible…
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Netflix’s new true crime documentary Tiger King is about a gay Oklahoma tiger breeder called Joe Exotic who may have tried to have an animal rights activist murdered. The streaming giant appears to be taking ‘Be Gay, Do Crime’ as something of a mission statement recently – dropping its third true docuseries about an LGBT+…
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Worldwide sex toy sales have surged in recent months, as the huge number of people stuck in coronavirus self-isolation discover the benefits of a little alone time. According to T3, sex toy brand Womanizer found that its sales figures for the period between January 1 and March 6 were 50 per cent higher than predicted. Sales…
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Over the past five years, there’s been an industry wide obsession with “gender-less” or “unisex” apparel in fashion. Though people have been working in this way for far longer than that — namely brands like Helmut Lang, Rad Hourani, and Telfar — it really started to pick up recently. One of the latest brands to…
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South Carolina’s law banning the mention of same-sex relationships or other LGBTQ topics in sex education classes is unconstitutional and can no longer be enforced, a federal court ruled Wednesday. Under the 1988 law, sex ed classes in the state’s public schools in the state could not have any “discussion of alternate sexual lifestyles from…
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