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Stars are United in Defence of Pro-Choice

Posted on 17 May 2022 in World

Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, Halsey and Megan Thee Stallion have signed a letter denouncing the US Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion which threatened the possible overturn of Roe V. Wade, the 1973 ruling in the Supreme Court which guaranteed the Right to Choose across the States. The New Muscial Express says that the four artists are among one hundred and fifty musicians, cultural and political figures who have signed a letter, published in the New York Times and organised by the Reproductive Choice organisation Planned Parenthood.

US Reactionaries Also Hurt Intersex People

Posted on 1 May 2022 in World

The Texas Observer newspaper reports on the hypocrisy of those US states that have imposed bans on gender transition or affirmation services for young people. Even whilst they have shut down these options for transgender youth, the authorities have ensured that intersex people are still subject

Second Self-Immolation over Environment

Posted on 30 Apr 2022 in World

Please note that this story may be triggering for some people and caution is advised. LGBTQIA activists from a wide variety of groups within the environmental movement, added their sympathies to the friends of an eco activist called Alan Bruce, who self-immolated on Friday 22nd April, a United N

FBI : Right Wing Threats not "Free Speech"

Posted on 25 Apr 2022 in World

LGBTQIA advocates have long expressed the view that homophobic and transphobic people are dangerous, violent and unable to control their emotional problems. The Independent newspaper reports that the evidence is stacking up in the US case of thirty four year old right wing extremist Jeremy David

Tribute to Democratic Politician Brad Ashford

Posted on 24 Apr 2022 in World

LGBTQIA commentators and political progressives have paid tribute to the life of Democratic politician Brad Ashford who has passed on at the age of seventy two. Mr Ashford served Nebraska in the House of Representatives and the State Legislature over a thirty year period. He supported samesex m

Apr

Brooklyn LGBTQIA Venue Gets Massive Support

A man faces a possible forty year prison term in New York after deliberately setting fire to a popular LGBTQIA bar in the diverse and close knit Brooklyn neighbourhood. Unhinged heterosexual bigot

Apr

Fundraising for Ukraine at Top London Bar

The A list gay venue Ku Bar in London’s Leicester Square has shown it is possible to mix business with pleasure with a fundraising night for LGBTQIA Human Rights charity OutRight International, wh

Apr

US Forces Protect Personnel from Hate Stances

The US based gay magazine the Advocate reports that the United States Air Force is keeping an eye on a raft of Republican led anti-LGBTQIA initiatives around the country and is offering assistance

Apr

Homophobic Pariah State Russia Shuts Groups

Amnesty International, the leading human rights organisation, reports that the Russian authorities have effectively closed down their Moscow branch by delisting it as a permitted group. The group,

Apr

Homophobic Russia Is "Not Currently Fascist"

The homophobic, authoritarian and macho Russian state is certainly unpleasant, but is not fascist, in the classical sense. That is the conclusion of a lengthy analytical report aired on the famous