World News

Trans March and Festival Returns to DC

Posted on 12 Jan 2025 in World

The Washington Blade LGBTQIA+ newspaper reports that Community members, advocates, and LGBTQ leaders came together for the annual National Trans Visibility March on August 24th amid a weekend filled with workshops and events focused on transgender rights and advocacy. It was the first time the march returned to D.C. since its inaugural event in 2019. Speakers took the stage, including Rev. Carmarion D.

Horror of Latest Taliban Diktats

Posted on 9 Jan 2025 in World

Irish public service broadcasting station RTE Radio 1 reports that the already insanely fundamentalist Taliban regime in Afghanistan has passed a new set of diktats which enforce yet more oppression on women in particular, but which have ramifications for everyone in the society.

Veteran LGBT+ Newspaper Holds Awards

Posted on 15 Dec 2024 in World

The Washington Blade, the US capital's LGBTQIA+ newspaper says that its awards season is now open. The long standing paper reports "It is Decision 2024! Nominate your favorites in our 2024 Best of LGBTQ DC categories through August 29th.

Unity in Philly Against the Bulldozers

Posted on 6 Dec 2024 in World

Laura Rowello meets with Asian drag performer Mandy Mango to update the readers of Philadelphia Gay News to the problems associated with a proposed gentrification building development that will cut into both the Philadelphia China town and its LGBTQIA+ neighbourhoods. "Mandy Man

Protests Against Violence Against Women

Posted on 6 Dec 2024 in World

Sarah Bates writing in the left wing weekly newspaper Socialist Worker says that nursing and medical staff in India are taking action after the rape and murder of a young doctor on hospital property. Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them health workers, are demanding justice fol

Nov

"Think Twice" Before Using Celine's Music

LGBTQIA radio network for the Midlands, Gorgeous FM, and Sky News Channel both report that Celine Dion's team has urged Donald Trump to 'think twice' before using her Titanic film classic My Heart

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Trans Women Rally in Pakistan Against Hate

Radio Free Europe reports that Transgender women have rallied in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, to demand protection from hate crimes.

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Those Most LGBTQIA+ Friendly Cities in World

Gay and bi men's fashion house Andrew Christian has published a summer blog post outlining the most gay cities in the world.

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Conservative Pundit Slams Trumpism

Tom Nichols, a conservative journalist, but one who respects the US constitution from those that wish to undermine its principles of equality before the law, blasts the Republican Party in the Stat

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Nipping Homophobia in the Bud Down Under

Australian gay men's magazine DNA reports that vigilance is essential to ensure that crimes against gay, bi and pansexual men in the country are nipped in the bud. They report "Ho