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Graham Linehan joined a queer women’s dating app to share trans people’s profiles. It backfired, badly

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The dating app did not specifically name Linehan in its response, but tweeted: “Let’s make this clear: HER is an app for ALL WOMEN and queer folx. It is not our, nor anyone else’s place to question or invalidate another’s identity. We are here for ALL WOMEN, including the trans community.”
pinknews.co.uk     Feb 21, 2021

Anne Robinson faces blistering backlash for ‘nasty’ lesbian questions in viral Weakest Link clip

In one clip, which has been viewed over 2.5m times, Robinson asks a single mother “how many ASBOS” (antisocial behaviour orders) her three sons have. She follows it up with questions about “how many of your three boys have got tags on their ankles”, if the woman is “doing benefits” and asking “what happened to the husband”.
pinknews.co.uk     Feb 17, 2021

Nintendo announces February’s NES and SNES retro classics joining Switch Online

Get ready gamers, there’s a lot to look forward to this month especially from Nintendo. Not only did they announce that Overcooked! 2 is free to play for an entire week (yes, you heard right), but they’ve also announced four classic NES and SNES titles arriving on 17 February.
pinknews.co.uk     Feb 10, 2021

Far-right Christians want a priest publicly shamed for leading LGBT+ ‘souls to hell’

She is especially important to communities that have been persecuted or marginalized. For example, Father John Giuliani, who died recently, often portrayed her as a Native American woman, with Native American references and symbols prominent in his paintings…. pic.twitter.com/YuCMSZMBXQ — James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) January 19, 2021
pinknews.co.uk     Feb 07, 2021

Arlo Parks

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pinknews.co.uk     Feb 05, 2021

Arlo Parks announces Collapsed in Sunbeams tour: how to get tickets, prices and dates

economy and finances

The artist’s personal, poetry-like lyrics explore her own relationships including “Green Eyes”, which sees her sing about homophobia that many LGBT+ couples experience: “Of course I know why we lasted two months, could not hold my hand in public, felt their eyes judgin’ our love and beggin’ for blood, I could never blame you darlin”.
pinknews.co.uk     Feb 05, 2021

WWE star Tegan Nox reveals how ‘the power of Captain Marvel’ helped her come out as bisexual

The WWE star spoke with Brie Larson, the actress who played Captain Marvel, about how the comic book character gave her the “boost” to come out. She directly attributed Larson’s role as Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, with giving her the confidence to be more open about her anxiety and depression and to help inspire young wrestling fans to do the same.
pinknews.co.uk     Feb 02, 2021

UK’s highest court confirms when it will hear landmark case on gender-neutral passports

crime, law and justice

The case, which was first heard by the High Court in 2018, is brought by campaigner Christie Elan-Cane, who has fought for legal and social recognition as a person of non-gendered identity for almost three decades.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 29, 2021

Polish MP who compared same-sex marriage to bestiality promoted to deputy minister of education

politics

Rzymkowski joined Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) in 2019, but began his political career by representing the far-right ultranationalist party National Movement, which was formed after the country’s 2012 Independence Day march saw violent clashes between right-wing extremists and police.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 28, 2021

Dr Jill Biden kicks off tenure as first lady with visit to LGBT+ health centre and AIDS clinic

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On Friday afternoon (22 January), Biden will pay a visit to Whitman-Walker Health in Washington, DC, “to highlight and promote support services for cancer patients and caregivers, and hear about the impact of COVID on access to health care, including cancer screenings and prevention efforts”.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 22, 2021

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? player wastes three lifelines on frustrating Tiger King question

As he was vying for the £1 million jackpot, Blackburn floundered as he admitted he’s never watched the seven-episode-long show which seized humanity with the story of zoo-keeper Joe Exotic, Metro.co.uk reported.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 18, 2021

Miriam Margolyes calls out ‘nuts’ anti-vaxxers, ‘a-hole’ Trump and ‘clown’ Boris Johnson

“He is a dangerous man, he’s a fascist, and I think it was obvious from the beginning that he was going to be like that,” she continued. “It looks as if there was planning, a conspiracy to invade the Capitol, and I just long to see the back of him.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 14, 2021

This cake analogy perfectly shuts down Republicans who claim Trump was unfairly banned from Twitter

The lame duck US president’s @RealDonaldTrump account was initially suspended from Twitter on Wednesday (6 January) after the social media platform decided a video he posted praising armed, extremist rioters at the US Capitol, describing them as “very special”.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 10, 2021

Gay ex-policeman arrested for ‘deviant’ sexuality loses bid to win back his job

crime, law and justice

On Valentine’s Day, 2018, 31-year-old former police brigadier Tri Teguh Pujianto was arrested with his partner as they were saying goodbye to each other, and inappropriately questioned on his “deviant” sexuality. By October, he was fired from his job after 10 years in the police service.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 10, 2021

Gay teenager told to masturbate to pictures of women in horrifying bid to ‘cure’ his sexuality

health

In the article, the 26-year-old said he “finally came to terms” with his sexuality when he was 16-years-old – but when he came out, he was pushed into conversion therapy that left him with “permanent mental and emotional scars”.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 09, 2021

Bigoted police officers fired after secret tapes revealed enough homophobic, racist and sexist slurs ‘to last a lifetime’

social issue

The officers mocked LGBT+ people as “queers” and “horrible tranny faggots”, as well joking about migrants drowning, referring to a Black colleague as a “mixed breed” of dog with “forged Nigerian documents”, and called women as “sluts” and “whores”.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 08, 2021

11 unashamed and unabashed queer moments from David Bowie, whose LGBT+ legacy lives on today

The acclaimed singer-songwriter had been handed his diagnosis 18 months earlier, but he chose to keep it a secret from the public, instead channelling his final months into recording his last album – one that is now remembered as one of his best.
pinknews.co.uk     Jan 08, 2021