Current Affairs News

First Prosecution over Lyra McKee Murder

Posted on 26 Sep 2022 in Current Affairs

A man involved in a terrorist group, who owned the gun that was used in several attacks and which killed the lesbian journalist Lyra McKee during a disturbance in Derry, Northern Ireland, has received a seven year sentence. Niall Sherrin is a twenty nine year old. American gay magazine The Advocate says that the splinter group the New Irish Republican Army had expressed regret that Ms McKee was killed in the crossfire between the dissident Republicans and the authorities.

Norton's "Gorgeous" Tribute to Queen Mourners

Posted on 26 Sep 2022 in Current Affairs

Speaking with the Sunday Times Magazine, television personality Graham Norton said that he had been humbled by the public outpouring of emotion in Britain at the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.

THT Pays Tribute to Late Queen's HIV Work

Posted on 17 Sep 2022 in Current Affairs

Ian Green, the Chief Executive of the country’s largest sexual health and HIV Charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust, paid tribute to the role of the late British Monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who died on 8th September, in tackling HIV stigma.

The Far Right Rage Against "Elusive Phantoms"

Posted on 16 Sep 2022 in Current Affairs

“America on the Brink” is a new book by Luke Mogelson, a journalist who has covered many failed countries over the years and now returns to the US to document the unfolding problems with extremist Republicans in his homeland.

Attacks on LGBTQIA Youth Investigated

Posted on 15 Sep 2022 in Current Affairs

LGBTQIA advocates have long argued that anti-gay people are just murderous thugs who are unstable and prone to violence, even against the defenceless.

Sep

MP Comes Out Fighting as Phobe is Charged

Kate Osborne, the popular Member of Parliament for Jarrow in Tyne and Wear has said that homophobes and misogynists from the political far right wing will not grind her down despite their best effo

Aug

Police Chief Tells the Haters to Shut It

A Chief Constable of Police has said what many LGBTQIA people think, and that is that homophobic people should just shut up and accept the fact that the service they provide is for all sections of

Aug

Police Capture Two Southbank Hate Criminals

The Metropolitan Police have responded for calls for better and more robust defence of LGBTQIA communities in London’s Southbank after two young queer men were viciously assaulted, robbed and in on

Aug

Report Slams Tech Giants for Profit on Hate

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate and the Human Rights Campaign in the US have joined forces to publish a damning report on how major internet platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, who claim

Aug

Society of Authors Hits Back at Rowling Slur

Joanne Harris, the chairperson of the Society of Authors, a trade union and support network for writers in the UK, has hit back after an astonishing personal attack on her by the anti-transgender a