Football Australia has criticised Triple M radio host Marty Sheargold for making “unacceptable” comments about the Matildas, Australia’s women’s football team. On Wednesday (26 February), the sports governing body said it was “deeply disappointed” by Sheargold’s comments, with the presenter and radio station landing in hot water over the misogynistic remarks. “Such remarks not only […]

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A fundraiser launched to save Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (BGWMC) from closure has raised more than £4,000 ($5,000) in less than 24 hours. The LGBTQ+ venue in East London has been at risk since a two-month eviction notice was issued against it last June. Although that was successfully resisted, the threat of closure remains, […]

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The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a straight woman’s ‘reverse discrimination’ civil rights lawsuit after she claimed she was passed over for promotion and demoted in favour of gay colleagues who she says were less qualified than her. Marlean Ames, 60, worked for a number of years at the Ohio Department […]

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