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Non-binary New Yorkers will soon have the option to choose an X gender marker on state-issued ID documents. (Getty Images) Non-binary New Yorkers will now be able to have state identification cards with an X gender marker on them – a simple but seismic step forward. New York governor Kathy Hochul announced Friday (27 May)

Emily Bridges. (ITV News) Cyclist Emily Bridges has called on LGBTQ+ allies to speak out and use their voice as trans women continue to be the “punching bag” of society. It comes after she was blocked from participating in the women’s British National Omnium Championships in March after the world governing body of cycling, he

Handball player Jacob Bjørn Hessellund has come out as gay. (Instagram/@ hessellundjacob) Danish professional handball player Jacob Bjørn Hessellund has bravely come out as gay – and he hopes to one day find a “wonderful man”. The 30-year-old, who plays for the Lemvig-based team Lemvig-Thyborøn Håndbold, became the second handball player in a month to come out

British Labour MP Stella Creasy (L) has said JK Rowling’s views on trans people are ‘wrong’. (Getty Images) British Labour MP Stella Creasy defiantly stood her ground as a Tory MP Mark Jenkinson asked if she was “drunk” for saying JK Rowling’s views on trans people are “wrong”. The Walthamstow MP sat down with The

Jesse Watters and Jason Whitlock blamed “pansies” and trans rights for the Texas shooting which killed 19 children. (Fox News) Fox News guest Jason Whitlock has insisted that the Texas shooting saw children get murdered because “traditional masculinity” is “under attack”. The world has been reeling this month after two mass shootings took place in the US

Ethan Schmidt told LGBTQ+ folk and their supporters that they were “not safe”. (Twitter/ PatriotTakes) Right-wing extremist Ethan Schmidt, who founded the group The Anti-Maskers Club, has announced that he will be “hunting” LGBTQ+ people and their supporters during Pride month, adding: “They’re not safe.” Schmidt is a racist, anti-vax, homophobic, transphobic, Trump-supporting social media user

Pride Parade in London, 2019. (Getty) More adults identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than ever before, with one in 12 young people saying they are LGB, according to new official figures. Eight per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds described themselves as LGB in the 2020 Annual Population Survey, it was revealed for the first

Cricketer Steve Davies is the first and only English male pro to come out as gay. (Alex Davidson/Getty) Gay cricket coach and activist Sam Schofield has criticised the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for “letting down” the LGBTQ+ community. After Jake Daniels became England’s first pro male footballer to come out as gay in

Zander Moricz gave a powerful speech against ‘Don’t Say Gay’, without saying “gay”. (YouTube/ Liz Ballard) A gay Florida student gave an incredible graduation speech about his fight against the state’s horrific ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation – without saying gay. ‘Don’t Say Gay’, signed into law by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in March, forbids discussion of

Ricky Gervais resorted to tired anti-trans jokes in his new Netflix special. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) It takes Ricky Gervais less than two minutes to crack cheap jokes about trans people in his new Netflix special. The comic opens Ricky Gervais: SuperNature, which was released on Netflix on Tuesday (24 May), with a 15-minute-long segment about trans

Tory MP Crispin Blunt and former Tory Imran Ahmad Khan, who remains MP for Wakefield. (Getty/Parliament) Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has yet again defended disgraced ex-colleague Imran Ahmad Khan after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teen boy, claiming Khan “did not get a fair trial”. Disgraced ex-Tory MP Khan, 48, was found

The stages of monkeypox. (UK Health Security Agency) Monkeypox is continuing to spread across the UK and Europe, while the number of people forcibly displaced by conflict has surpassed 100 million for the first time. Elsewhere, Ellen DeGeneres is preparing to bow out from her world famous talkshow and footballer Jake Daniels continues to be

ILGA Europe’s 2022 Rainbow Map and Index. (ILGA Europe) The annual Rainbow Map ranking has placed Malta as the best nation for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe for the seventh year in a row, while the UK’s score continues to plummet. ILGA Europe’s Rainbow Map and Index has ranked European countries on the basis of their “legal

Riot police formed a blockade around the students, before arresting them one by one. (Twitter/ budirenisi) A Pride parade at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, was violently broken up by authorities, with dozens of students arrested by riot police. LGBTQ+ people face increasing persecution in Turkey, and in 2015, Instanbul Pride was banned for the first time.

Pride parade in Padua, Italy, 2021. (NurPhoto via Getty/ Massimo Bertolini) A 16-year-old in Italy was beaten so severely by his own uncle that he broke four ribs, all for having a rainbow scarf on his bag, rights groups have said. On 17 May, which was also International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), the