Boris Johnson stands by decision to exclude Trans people from conversion therapy ban

LA County District Attorney George Gascón, left, swears in members of his LGBTQ+ Advisory Board. Photo: LA County District Attorney’s Office.

SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian man who in January was convicted of killing a gay American doctoral student more than three decades ago by pushing him off a cliff received a sentence on Tuesday of 12 years. In 1988, the American, Scott Johnson, 27, was a graduate student in mathematics who had moved to Australia to be with his partner. On Dec.

A new video has emerged online showing North Carolina GOP congressman Madison Cawthorn appearing to be groped by a man believed to be one of his staff members.

Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.An initial draft opinion written by right-wing Justice Samuel Alito is being circulated among the justices and was obtained by Politico, which reported on the matter Monday night.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

Parting with over 50 Abercrombie & Fitch catalogues (not #1). 

Trigger Warning: This story discusses a gay hate murder, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The case had remained unsolved for over three decades, until White’s ex-wife Helen alerted the police in 2019 about his role in the murder.Helen told the court that her ex-husband had boasted about “bashing gays” to her and the couple’s children.His lawyers had claimed that White himself was gay.

Lichsenate"I've had this happen. Like, damn, what kind of ego makes someone determine 'if this person isn't into me, it can only be because they are not sexually attracted to my gender'?"—Thesadzombie—captainmagictrousers"Real men just rip the sandwiches in half with their own hands."—Top_Belt251"When I'm feeling extra manly, I just take a bite out of a cow and then chew on some raw wheat. Like a man."—AmigoDelDiabla—KentuckyFriedEel"If you didn't start with it you definitely go straight into 'Fuck You' for an encore, while maintaining contact with them the entire time, obviously."—OnlyGrimLeader—Freshrendar"I have a pink phone.

Legal experts are responding to the bombshell news from Politico, which reports the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to fully overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that found a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution. The Court has not released its opinion.

After nearly three years of claiming that Don Lemon assaulted him, Dustin Hice has dropped his case against the CNN anchor, claiming to have misremembered the night's events. This news comes just weeks before the civil assault jury trial was to begin, and shortly after a federal judge ordered Hice to pay Lemon $77,000 in attorneys fees for failing to comply with court rules.The filing this evening in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York, brings the chapter to a close.The case began in 2019 when Hice filed a lawsuit against Lemon, claiming that the journalist had assaulted him inside a popular Hamptons bar in July of the previous year.As The Advocate previously reported, Dustin Hice claimed in his lawsuit that after leaving his bartending job during the summer of 2018, he recognized the well-known journalist at a bar in the Hamptons and offered to buy him a drink. According to the lawsuit, Lemon declined the offer, and both went their separate ways.

Today’s Kristen Dahlgren last week, ahead of the draft.“They’ve done a great job of pushing me to be the best version of myself, just constantly getting support and love,” McBride said of his two moms.“I’m excited to see him just live his dream,” Kate McBride said. “When your kid comes to you when they’re little and they say they want to be president, it’s ‘OK, honey, that’s great.’ He wanted to play in the NFL, and he’s going to do it.”Kate and Jen McBride started their family in the mid-1990s, when same-sex couples with children were something of a novelty.

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Precita Eyes Muralists founding director Susan Cervantes have organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to restore "The Hope for the World Cure" mural in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district.Cervantes was the lead artist and director for the Hope for a World Cure project; the mural was painted in 1998 and commemorates the Castro district's struggle with the AIDS pandemic in vivid colors and rich detail.On the fundraiser's webpage, organizers aim to raise $55,000 to fully restore the mural, which has been damaged by vandals as well as faded over time. In January, Broke Ass Stuart reported that the mural had been badly defaced.

What do you get when you put eight Russian men into a country house and have them try to figure out which one is gay? A new homophobic Russian reality show of course.Vitaly Milonov, a politician affiliated with the far-right United Russia party and best known for his extreme homophobic rhetoric, is presenting the new online series I’m Not Gay and was featured in the first episode.Milonov was the principal sponsor of Russia’s “Gay Propaganda Law,” which prohibits the distribution of pro-LGBTQ material. These materials are any which  “raises interest in…non-traditional sexual predispositions,” or  include “distorted ideas about the equal social value of traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships.”The show has eight men living together as they try and figure out which one is gay.

The Reverend Canon David R. Forbes, a leatherman, outdoorsman, and Episcopal priest loved as much for his compassion as his intellect, died at his home in Palm Springs, April 26, three days short of his 97th birthday.Born April 29, 1926, in Palo Alto, Reverend Forbes would "live a life of extraordinary service to the Episcopal Church, Episcopal schools, and their communities," stated an obituary issued April 28 by Grace Cathedral, where he served on and off in numerous capacities for several decades."Remembered as the first Canon Precentor of the modern era, David was instrumental in the transformation of our liturgy, and the completion and consecration of Grace Cathedral in 1964," according to the obituary.

Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. has prohibited Pride flags to be flown outside any of its offices during Pride month.

Who among us hasn’t looked in the mirror and wished something was different? But it might be good practice to start accepting the things we can’t change, so to speak, especially since poor body image can be detrimental to our mental health.Speaking to The Guardian in 2019, a spokesperson for the Mental Health Foundation cited research suggesting that “higher body dissatisfaction is associated with poorer quality of life, psychological distress, and risk of unhealthy eating behaviors and eating disorders.”Meanwhile, Josh Bradlow, a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ equality organization Stonewall, told the newspaper that “stereotypical assumptions and beliefs about masculinity and femininity can be deeply damaging for how anyone—especially LGBT people—see themselves and their bodies.”At least these insecurities seem to fall away with age. In a recent poll of more than four thousand UK adults, 57 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds admitted to body-image anxieties, though that number fell to 30 percent for 45- to 54-year-olds and 20 percent for those 55 and over.In any case, users of Reddit’s r/askgaybros subreddit recently listed the attributes that guys shouldn’t feel insecure about, and their responses might put you at ease.

Last Week Tonight when it came to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his attacks against Disney.The GOP governor signed a bill last month that stripped Disney World of its special self-governing status in response to the company speaking out against that state's “don’t say gay” law.After the bill was signed by DeSantis, the Walt Disney Company was quick to release a statement vowing to help repeal the contentious law. The special status Disney World held started in 1967 and had served to let Disney economically boost central Florida while allowing the company millions in tax breaks and annual fees, according to Vanity Fair.“Yeah, it’s true: In the part of central Florida where Disney World is, the company technically functions as a self-contained government, providing essential services — except, crucially, a morgue,” Oliver joked.

know what it means to be transgender now…People know that gender affirming care saves lives,” Maines said. “We know that transgender kids are not being groomed by their parents.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, homosexuality was classified as a “sociopathic personality disturbance,” characterized by a failure to conform to prevailing social norms. As a result, every gay man and lesbian, no matter how well-adjusted, was branded as mentally ill.

the upcoming series Generation Drag, a reality docu series about teen drag performers. A trailer for the series was released by Paramount+ last week, and Boebert took exception, sharing her feelings on Twitter. Retweeting a post from the anti-LGBTQ+ account of Chaya Raichik (aka “Libs of TikTok’’), Bobert captioned her tweet “Siri, define grooming,” in keeping with the right’s current — deeply cynical and homophobic — midterm strategy of equating anything LGBTQ+ related to grooming and pedophilia.

The biggest drag show in herstory has four new queens. RuPaul’s Drag Race LIVE!, which made its debut in January 2020 at Flamingo Las Vegas, has added to its cast of Drag Race All-Stars.

There is no “right time” to come out of the closet, but judging by the reaction to one woman’s story, there might be a few “wrong times.”In an anonymous Reddit post titled “Am I the a**hole (AITA) for throwing a ‘tantrum’ after my brother came out at my wedding?”, the woman, 27, explained that she came out as a lesbian to her homophobic parents when she was 12 years old, and that it took them years to accept.It also caused her younger brother, Olly, to become her parents’ de facto “golden child.” “It made my relationship with Olly a little salty,” she wrote.She explained that her parents and Olly attended her recent wedding, which she described as a “welcoming environment” with many queer people in attendance.During the reception, she noticed a commotion coming from her family’s table. Her brother, now 23, had just come out to their parents as gay.“Olly took advantage of the moment to come out (nothing new, I had doubted his sexuality since he was a child, but it wasn’t up to me to expose it),” the post read.

Lancaster Online reports. “Parents reported that the event was advertised as a drag show.” Performers were professional dancers, not students. Video of the event was shared online.The show, held last Monday, was sponsored by the school’s Gay Sexuality Alliance Club.

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ABC.Scott Philip White, 51, was convicted in January for the crime after surprising the court and his lawyers by pleading guilty to killing the math postgraduate student whose naked body was found at the bottom of the cliffs near Manly in northern Sydney. Johnson was 27 at the time of his murder.The court heard Monday from White’s ex-wife, Helen White, who said she twice asked him about the murder, first in 1988 and then again in 2008 after an article mentioned the crime.“I remember asking him if this was one of the gay men that he’d bashed and he said ‘oh that girly looking poofter,’” Helen White said in testimony to the court, ABC News reports.

host of Celebrity Lingofor the U.K.’s ITV network. This is on the heels of February’s announcement that the Drag Race creator would be hosting a U.S. version of Lingo as well.For those unfamiliar with the game show, contestants are pitted against one another as they attempt to guess the letters of a word — it’s essentially Wordle meets bingo.

Oprah Winfrey took the coronavirus pandemic very, very seriously.

You don’t realize the rarity of queer Latinx artists until you try to name five. The list gets difficult after Ricky Martin. And no, Enrique Iglesias isn’t gay.

As a middle-distance runner for Columbia University, Jacob Caswell did not feel like they had space to be themself. Because collegiate track and field events include only men’s and women’s divisions, Caswell, who is nonbinary, competed in men’s races. But they said they felt constrained by gender norms as an N.C.A.A.

As they open their stylish home for the very first time, Emmerdale actress Michelle Hardwick and her wife, one of the soap's producers Kate Brooks, invite OK! to tour the special place where they are building a life as a family. And in our exclusive interview, the couple tell all on family life so far, spilling the beans on their Vegas nuptials, IVF journey and how they deal with horrendous trolls sending death threats about their sexuality.

Rep. Lauren Boebert may not like being mentioned alongside her unhinged colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene, but the Colorado Republican appears to have no trouble making a fool of herself all on her own.Boebert took to social media to parrot the Right’s favorite, newly-revived talking point — that LGBTQ people are “groomers.” Re-tweeting a trailer for the upcoming Discovery+ reality series Generation Drag posted by the conservative Libs of TikTok account, Boebert wrote, “Siri, define grooming.”Siri, define grooming.

ban on conversion therapy.Jamie Wallis, Conservative MP for Bridgend, came out in defence of trans rights this week, accusing Boris Johnson of ‘breaking his promise’ to LGBT+ people.The Welsh Backbencher was praised for his bravery last week after he revealed he is trans in a highly personal statement on Twitter. Following theTory U-turn on the conversion therapy ban, he said it is ‘wrong to exclude protections for a whole group of people’ from an ‘abhorrent’ practice.‘I hope the announcement that a separate piece of work will now be done on this issue will be done at speed,’ Mr Wallis added.‘If the CT (conversion therapy) ban passes through Parliament without any protections for the transgender community, it cannot be described as anything other than a broken promise.’His comments come as more than 100 charities, including Stonewall, plan to boycott the government’s first global LGBT+ conference over its stance on conversion therapy.It is now unclear if the ‘Safe To Be Me: Global Equality Conference’ in London will go ahead after the LGBT+ and HIV charities, along with major sponsors, pulled out just three months before the event.A government spokesperson said it was ‘disappointing’ to see partners quit the conference, which was set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever London Pride march.They added officials are still ‘considering how to proceed’.In a statement on Twitter yesterday, Stonewall said it will only participate if the prime minister reverts to his promise for a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy.‘This is a decision we take with a heavy heart,’ it said.

London Trans+ Pride will make its return this summer with a protest march to “celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries”.

Six in 10 people (58%) intending to vote for the Conservative Party want a ‘conversion therapy’ ban to cover trans people, a study has found.

Hundreds of people took to Downing Street on 10 April to protest the UK government’s decision to exclude trans people from a ban of so-called ‘conversion therapy’.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a Conservative, received backlash from health and LGBTQI organisations after doubling down on exempting trans kids from the ban on ‘conversion therapy.’In an interview with SkyNews, Johnson remarked that he is “sad” about the backlash but said, “I don’t think that it’s reasonable for kids to be deemed so-called Gillick-competent to take decisions about their gender or irreversible treatments that they may have. I think there should be parental involvement at the very least.” He finished the statement by saying that he is understanding of people’s situations and supportive if people want to “change” genders. Boris Johnson explains why he is exempting trans children from the ban on conversion therapy He also ranges more widely on the issue of competing rights for the first timeFull exchange: pic.twitter.com/cRY2ohXev1— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) April 6, 2022The acting chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) representative body, Dr Latifa Patel, disagreed with Johnson and believes that “conversion therapy should be banned “in its entirety. “While this is now supposedly happening for gay and bisexual people, it seems the Government will only rely on current legislation or non-legislative options for transgender people who are subjected to the practice.

London – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday people born male should not compete in female sporting events, after a transgender cyclist was barred from a women’s race.Debate in Britain about transgender rights has become ever more acrimonious, and others in Johnson’s government have said it should be left to sporting bodies to decide on who gets to compete. But with splits emerging in both the Conservative and opposition Labour parties, ahead of local elections on May 5, Johnson went further in wading into the gender front of Britain’s so-called “culture wars.”“I don’t think that biological males should be competing in female sporting events.

The Prime Minister has argued it is not “reasonable” for children to make decisions on their gender without parental involvement.

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LGBT+ rights.Mr Anderson said trust and belief in the government's commitment to the LGBT+ community had been damaged after a series of U-turns on plans to introduce legislation to ban conversion therapy.Also called cure therapy or reparative therapy, conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy that aims to change a person's sexual orientation or suppress a person's gender identity.'Conversion therapy is abhorrent'In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson shared on Twitter, Mr Anderson said it had been the honour of his life to serve as the UK's first LGBT+ business champion, but felt he had "no choice" but to resign."As a young gay man I lived through fear and oppression under the backdrop of Section 28," he wrote. What is conversion therapy and what has the government's position on banning it been? 'Don't say gay' bill signed: Teachers forbidden to give sexual orientation lessons in Florida Marvel's first Muslim superhero Kamala Khan celebrated as new series Ms Marvel is teased "I could never have dreamt then that a government - any government - would appoint an LGBT+ champion later in my lifetime."However the recent leaking of a plan to drop the government's flagship legislation protecting LGBT+ people from conversion therapy was devastating.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s exclusion of Trans people in the law that would protect them from conversion therapy has caused upset in the UK’s LGBTQ+ community. It was revealed yesterday, March 31, that the Prime Minister planned to drop the ban altogether, but following major backlash, he u-turned on the decision. The practice will now […]

Boris Johnson has praised the ‘courage’ of the first British MP to come out as trans, hours after reportedly joking about gender identity to a room full of Tories.Tweeting in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Jamie Wallis, the Conservative MP for Bridgend, revealed he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and spoke about the recent trauma of being raped and blackmailed.Mr Johnson is said to have opened his speech at a dinner for Tory MPs earlier that night by saying: ‘Good evening ladies and gentleman, or as Keir Starmer would put it, people who are assigned female or male at birth.’After Wallis’s announcement, the prime minister tweeted: ‘Sharing this very intimate story would have taken an immense amount of courage. ‘Thank you for your bravery, which will undoubtedly support others.

Boris Johnson agreed that a Conservative government would ban conversion therapy - a practice which involves trying to change someone’s sexuality or identity, which mostly happens in certain religious settings. Since then the government has consulted on the ban, but campaigners, and some news organisations, have flagged up claims that a ban could unintentionally criminalise clinicians and therapists helping people - particularly teenagers - dealing with gender dsysphoria.Last night ITV’s Paul Brand revealed that the government had dropped plans for a ban.

Boris Johnson’s government is set to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’ after all, though his plans reportedly do not cover practices aimed at trans people.

https://t.co/cbt0tKQZuN pic.twitter.com/IUaCjm9PtE‘Being an MP and hiding something like this was always going to be tough, but I arrogantly assumed I was up for it. Well, I’m not.’MPs were among a vast number of social media users who quickly piled in to support Mr Wallis, with warm words being sent from across the political spectrum.Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised his MP on Twitter this morning, despite reportedly joking about trans rights at a dinner for Tories last night.

The UK government is no longer planning to introduce a ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’, a leaked document has revealed.

Boris Johnson allegedly made a joke at the expense of the transgender community hours before the first-ever UK MP came out as trans.

Related: Gaga’s “switched baristas” dismissal of Caitlyn Jenner is our new go-to phraseWallis posted a statement to Twitter shortly before 3am local time today. Earlier in the evening, Wallis attended a private dinner thrown by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for MPs.It’s time. https://t.co/cbt0tKQZuN pic.twitter.com/IUaCjm9PtE— Jamie Wallis MP (@JamieWallisMP) March 30, 2022Wallis’ statement said:“Yesterday the parliamentary party had a photo in the chamber and then we went for dinner together.