Former Russian Olympic ice hockey coach Vladimir Plyushchev has blamed ‘petty bisexuals’ for the country’s exclusion at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics. Russia has been banned from competing in the Olympics since since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Athletes from Russia did not compete at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, with only […]

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Texas has become the latest US state to ban trans people from using the correct bathrooms after passing one of the most restrictive laws of its kind in the country. Republican governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas House bill into law on Monday (22 September), calling it the answer to what he described as a […]

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Firebrand Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again calling for the seven year prison sentence of disgraced congressman George Santos to be commuted, citing his conditions in solitary confinement. MAGA Republican Greene, known for her inflammatory comments about the LGBTQ+ community, previously urged US president Donald Trump to end Santos’ imprisonment, describing his sentence […]

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An anti-trans Republican running for governor in Wisconsin on a family values platform has been revealed to have followed several sexually explicit accounts online, including one belonging to a non-binary adult performer. Earlier this week the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported 56-year-old businessman and former Navy SEAL Bill Berrien, a GOP candidate for governor, has an […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK stars and the great and good of LGBTQ+ activism have signed an open letter endorsing a secondary school teacher to be the first trans person elected as deputy general secretary of Europe’s largest teaching union. Kacey DeGroot, a drama teacher from Coventry who served five years as the LGBTQ+ seat holder […]

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