Gay ‘networking’ app Grindr has announced that UK-based users will now undergo an essential security check to combat underage use of the software. Grindr, the app used by primarily gay and bisexual men to ‘network’ (read: hook up with each other) has introduced an age assurance feature in the United Kingdom for new users. Users […]

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Gay Senator Jeremy Moss effortlessly took down his Republican counterpart Jonathan Lindsey, after the latter suggested the Michigan senate called President Trump ‘Daddy’. A recent Michigan state senate session took a turn for the weird when Republican Senator Jonathan Lindsey told the assembled participants that we should all be calling president Trump our ‘daddy’. Lindsey […]

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Matildas football star Ellie Carpenter has transferred to Chelsea in a four year deal, meaning she will face off against her new wife, Daniëlle van de Donk, in the WSL next season. Australian football star Ellie Carpenter has joined Women’s Super League champions Chelsea in a four year deal after playing with Lyon for five […]

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A trans teenager has become the centre of anti-trans rhetoric after winning a chess tournament. 17-year-old Nora Heidemann became embroiled in a heated debate over trans people’s right to participate in chess matches after she won an under-18 girls’ chess championship in Germany in June. The North Rhine-Westphalia player scored 7.5 out of nine points, […]

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A woman’s incredible sign mocking an anti-LGBTQ+ protestor at Pride has gone viral on social media.  A photo posted by popular Facebook account Have A Gay Day has received more than 330,000 reactions and over 30,000 shares.  The photo shows what appears to be an anti-LGBTQ+ protestor, who seems to be a white cisgender man, […]

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London’s “oldest LGBTQ+ venue” has reopened following a six-figure investment.  The City of Quebec – an Art Deco pub in the heart of Marylebone – reopened to the public on 26 June. The pub, which is owned by pub company and brewer Greene King, has been a hub for the LGBTQ+ community since its establishment in […]

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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, joined the New York Pride march over the weekend. Having recently shocked the establishment by winning the Democratic primary, Mamdani wrote on Instagram, alongside pictures of himself with activists holding trans and Pride flags, that it was “a joy” to march on Sunday (29 June). […]

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