Pet subscription service BarkBox is currently under fire from various quarters over its range of colourful Pride dog toys, including a cactus called Consuela and a dragon queen with rainbow wings. BarkBox is a monthly subscription service that sends out two new toys and two bags of healthy treats to owners across the US, and […]

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As anti-trans and anti-migrant sentiments deepen under Keir Starmer’s Labour, Pride Month must be about resistance, not rainbow capitalism and toxic positivity, Ayman Eckford – a member of Rainbow Migration’s Refugee Advisory Panel – writes exclusively for PinkNews. When I arrived in the UK six years ago as an asylum seeker, I was stunned by […]

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the centrepiece in the conversation of online misinformation, especially regarding LGBTQ+ people. As the popularity of the likes of ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Co-Pilot has grown, so too have concerns over the potential ramifications, including plagiarism, scams and, most notably, misinformation and bias. Modern AI chatbots, generally speaking, rely […]

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