A member of restaurant staff allegedly barricaded a unisex toilet to stop a trans customer using it. Zee Pepper told LGBTQ+ outlet the Star Observer that he was at Melbourne’s Soho Restaurant and Bar with family members and went to find the toilet while his mother was paying the bill. He had unpleasant experiences in […]

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A coalition of 52 Democrats is demanding proof that gay asylum-seeker Andry Hernández Romero is still alive.  Robert Garcia, who is himself gay, has been joined by 51 other lawmakers to demand that secretary of state Marco Rubio intervene in the case of the gay hairdresser, who was deported to a mega prison in El […]

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The chairwoman of the UK’s equalities watchdog thinks guidance on trans access to single-sex spaces could become law by early next year. Appearing before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday (11 June), Kishwer Falkner, who heads up the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said officials calculated that the guidance could become “statutory” within “seven or […]

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