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Celebrate diversity and equality: Understanding the significance of Pride Month

‍As we celebrate Pride Month, it is vital to understand the significance of this month-long celebration of diversity and equality. Pride Month is an annual commemoration of the Stonewall riots, which …
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Justin Fashanu – First out gay footballer

In 1990 Justin Fashanu stunned the football world as the first professional footballer to come out as gay. At this time racism and homophobia were endemic in football. Justin’s early …
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Celebrating Pride Month – Marsha P Johnson

Marsha P Johnson was an outspoken transgender rights activist at the forefront of important moments in LGBTQ+ history. Her activism in the 1960s and 70s had an enormous impact on the LGBTQ+ …
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Americans split over anti-transgender laws

The United States is currently in a heated debate over transgender rights, specifically about which public restrooms transgender people should be allowed to use. On one side of the debate are those …
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Political correctness: A guide to the controversial ideology

Political correctness, or PC culture, is a term used to describe how public discourse has changed to avoid offending certain groups of people. It is often seen as excessive sensitivity to minority …

5 things that will continue to divide black people in 2016

In life, I try to avoid being around negative ignorant people who are too set in their ways to be enlightened.  Sadly, I buck up on these people every day on social media. I spent a lot of time …

Gay rights group picket Jamaican High Commission over LGBT murders in Jamaica

Thirty protesters picketed the Jamaican High Commission in London on Wednesday, 28 August, in protest against the mob murder of teenage cross-dresser Dwayne Jones and a 41-year-old gay man, Dean …

Wentworth Miller comes out as gay and says no to Russia

Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller came out as gay and gave a polite but firm up-middle finger to an invitation to St Petersburg International Film Festival as a “guest of …

Cross-dressing teen, Dwayne Jones killed by mob

If you were wondering if Jamaica is still the most homophobic country in the world the story of 17-year-old Dwayne Jones should set you straight. On 22 July, gender non-conforming teen Dwayne Jones …
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Jamaica’s buggery law to be challenged in Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Jamaica is today set to hear a controversial motion that challenges the constitutionality of the 1864 buggery law. US based advocacy group AIDS-Free World filed the claim on …

Has Queen Latifah finally come out?

According to reports Queen Latifah has come out as gay. The hip hop queen, has never openly acknowledged her sexual identity. Despite  being photographed vacationing with women rumored to be her …

Preview: Stud Life

London-set ‘Stud Life’ is a sexy, young, cool, and gay British urban romance that pays homage to Spike Lee’s ‘She Gotta Have It’. It is the only new British film to be screening at the British Film …
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