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The Royal Mint has unveiled its new rainbow-coloured 50p coin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pride UK.

The Royal Mint has revealed a commemorative 50p coin which celebrates Pride’s 50th anniversary in the UK with a Progress flag design.

London a few years ago, I said yes but was a little apprehensive.This was the first time I would play for a team that wasn’t LGBTQ+ since I’d come out as gay 12 years ago, and I knew they’d probably assume I was straight – as is the default, unless I tell people otherwise.Match-day came, we played well, won fairly comfortably and then hit the clubhouse for some celebratory beers. It came to my round and I ordered a load of half-pints, but there was a hitch.‘We don’t do half-pints here mate,’ said the barman.Guys who’ve tried to order a half-pint of beer in a pub will be familiar with this line of ‘banter’.

Parliament has scheduled a debate on including trans people in its restrictions on ‘conversion therapy’ after a petition on the issue got more than 140,000 signatures.

3 min read Funding has been committed to help establish a long-awaited Australian LGBTIQA+ museum to be based in Sydney.

In a historic first, a majority of local councils in Victoria raised the rainbow flag on Tuesday to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Discrimination Against Intersex People and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).According to the Victorian Pride Lobby, a record 68 of the 79 local councils in Victoria flew the rainbow flag “from town halls, libraries, and even courthouses”. During the October 2020 council elections, around 270 candidates had signed the Lobby’s Rainbow Pledge and made a commitment to support the issues of the LGBTQI+ community.“We’re proud to again be flying the rainbow pride flag today to mark IDAHOBIT day,” said Wellington Shire Council CEO David Morcom in a post on . “We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer with our people and the community at the heart of what we do. Organisations who don’t promote and celebrate diversity in all forms are missing out.

On a brisk November day, in a wing of the Newark Museum of Art mocked up as the first New York museum dedicated to L.G.B.T.Q. history, Billy Eichner stood in front of a glass vitrine. Inside was a black-and-white image of Magnus Hirschfeld, a Weimar-era physician and sexologist.

Source Music has announced that it has begun taking legal action over bullying allegations against LE SSERAFIM member Kim Ga-ram.Last month, after soon the South Korean label introduced Kim as a member of the brand-new girl group, the 16-year-old singer found herself embroiled in a controversy over allegations that she had been involved in bullying incidents during her middle school days.One netizen, who claimed to be Kim’s classmate from middle school, alleged that Kim had regularly harassed younger students, according to posts archived by Koreaboo. Another set of posts archived by KBIZoom alleged that Kim repeatedly cussed out another person while asking them to pick up the phone.At the time, HYBE denied all allegations, claiming that the posts had been “cunningly edited” in order to “maliciously slander” Kim.However, new allegations have surfaced since the initial claims.

Gemma Collins has shared her thoughts regarding her potential return to I'm a Celebrity...

Sarah Ferguson has opened up on her ex husband Prince Andrew, explaining what kind of parent he is to their two daughters Beatrice and Eugenie.The Duchess of York, 62, who was recently praised for her "impeccable manners" by Dame Joan Collins, spoke out in an exclusive chat with OK! at the launch of her best-selling Mills & Boon novel, Her Heart for a Compass, on Monday 16 May. Fergie and Andrew, also 62, married in 1986 and had Beatrice, now 33, and Eugenie, now 32, before deciding to go their separate ways and eventually divorcing in 1996.

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Top left: Malcolm Kenyatta photographed by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival; bottom left: Izzy Smith Wade-El courtesy Victory Fund; right: Brian Sims photographed by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Elizabeth Taylor AIDS FoundationThere were mixed results for LGBTQ+ candidates in Pennsylvania’s primary races Tuesday, with two out state representatives losing bids for higher office but a continued LGBTQ+ presence in the legislature assured — including, possibly, Pennsylvania’s first nonbinary state lawmaker.John Fetterman, currently Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, won the Democratic primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, besting U.S. Rep.

The Advocate in January. Before entering electoral politics, she was policy advocate at the Oregon Food Bank in Portland, then policy director for Children First for Oregon.The LGBTQ Victory Fund, which had endorsed Kotek, celebrated her victory.

Out LGBTQI Australian actors Murray Bartlett, Hugh Sheridan and Troye Sivan have been nominated for the 2022 Logie Awards. The nominations for Australian TV’s biggest awards were announced on Sunday and LGBTQI excellence was featured in some of the prominent award categories. The awards ceremony will be held on June 19, 2022.  A post shared by Hugh Sheridan (@hugh_sheridan)Sheridan was nominated for a Silver Logie in the Most Outstanding Supporting Actor category. “Why did no one tell me?!! THANK YOU BEYOND.

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An SNP veteran has called on Nicola Sturgeon to reveal the outcome of a bullying probe into party stalwart Fergus Ewing.

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U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn is projected to have lost his primary Tuesday night and be a one-term Congressman.

Idrissa Gueye traveled south to Montpellier with his Paris St.-Germain teammates for the team’s league game on Saturday but wound up watching it from the stands. Gueye was not injured, his coach said after P.S.G.’s victory: He “had to leave the team for personal reasons.” Those personal reasons, a team source confirmed Monday, were that Gueye had refused to join his teammates in wearing a special jersey featuring rainbow-colored numbers created to highlight discrimination before Tuesday’s global events marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. The jerseys were part of a coordinated leaguewide effort.

appointed by former President Donald Trump, issued a preliminary injunction in the case of Pamela Ricard, a Kansas math teacher who sued USD 475 Geary County Schools over its policies that attempt to protect LGBT students, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. Ricard argued that the rules conflicted with her Christian beliefs.Ricard's issues began with two transgender students in her class, who, per the district's rules, did not allow faculty members to disclose their preferred names or pronouns to their families.

said in a statement on Twitter that Flagler Palm Coast High School issued a disciplinary action against him which he said would prevent him "from running for senior class president."He said that the decision followed his school suspension that came after organizing a mass protest against the state's Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed as the "Don't Say Gay" law that was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in late March. The legislation bans teachers in Florida from discussing topics related to sexual identity and sexual orientation in certain grade levels.My name is Jack Petocz.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy defended white people on Sunday after Time magazine argued that free speech has become a “tech bro obsession.”

The US Department of Justice filed a motion to block Alabama from enforcing a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.

highest-ranking transgender person in the federal government, will speak on the grave harm done by anti-trans legislation and policies when she addresses the Out for Health Conference Saturday at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.“Trans youth in particular are being hounded in public and driven to deaths of despair at an alarming rate,” Levine wrote in the speech she will deliver; she shared the prepared remarks with NPR. “Fifty-two percent of all transgender and nonbinary young people in the U.S.

During Lesbian Visibility Week, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund honor the lives and experiences of transgender and non-binary lesbians. We affirm that trans women are women and that trans and non-binary lesbians are a valued part of the LGBTQ community.

CAITLYN Jenner had "clear the air" talks with Piers Morgan before she appeared on his Uncensored show last night. And the former athlete, 72, began their live chat by explaining exactly why she cancelled on him over his Donald Trump interview.

Megan Fox bought her children LGBTQ-inclusive books so they could learn about the “full spectrum” of gender identity.

Piers Morgan Uncensored in an episode that aired last night.In the interview, Trump told Morgan that he wasn’t “a fan” of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and that he recently shot a hole-in-one while playing golf. He also dove into transphobic remarks related to trans athletes, bringing up trans swimmer and swimming champion Lia Thomas.“I think it’s grotesquely unfair,” Morgan told Trump.

The Matrix creators Lana and Lilly Wachowski have announced a movie memorabilia auction to raise money for a trans youth charity.The filmmakers confirmed on social media that they will be auctioning off props and concept art from The Matrix but also Sense8 and V For Vendetta.“Hi youse! so me and Lana have been doing some spring cleaning at our Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse and have happily decided to pass on some of the best treasures we’ve been collecting over the years!!” Lilly told fans on Twitter.hi youse! so me and Lana have been doing some spring cleaning at our Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse and have happily decided to pass on some of the best treasures we've been collecting over the years!! no ark of the covenants but some pretty major and magical artifacts!— Lilly Wachowski (@lilly_wachowski) April 23, 2022“No ark of the covenants but some pretty major and magical [artefacts]!”The Wachowskis will be raising money for Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund, with their event titled Enter the Matrix: The Wachowski Collection.Most recently, Lana Wachowski directed The Matrix: Resurrections without her sister Lilly, and explained how writing the film helped her grieve her parents.“I didn’t ever wanna make another Matrix movie,” she said. “I told everyone for 18 years I didn’t wanna make another Matrix movie.

Kelly and Crowder continuously delegitimize and questioned the experiences of trans people, especially the experiences of trans youth.Speaking about trans athletes, Crowder said, “We're looking at men beating the hell out of women … in their own sports.”Kelly then claimed that there are “crazy trans activists” that are trying to make young gay men trans.“The crazy trans activists are so vicious and they're basically kind of doing conversion therapy on young gay men — instead of you're not gay, you're trans, you're secretly a girl,” Kelly said.In a segment of the transphobic conversation, posted on Twitter by Media Matters’ Senior Researcher Jason Campbell, Kelly and Crowder also questioned the “T” in LGBTQ+. “The interests aren’t necessarily aligned,” Kelly said while attacking the LGBTQ+ rights group GLAAD, asking if the organization has “lost the real scope of its original mission.” Throughout Kelly’s show, she and Crowder also criticize the medical associations that support trans children, while making false assertions about gender-affirming care over and over again.  Kelly went on to attack White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki for her comments about state legislatures going after the rights of trans children.Last week, Jen Psaki shed some tears during a recent interview on the News Not Noise podcast when the subject of the latest barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being proposed and passed by the GOP came up. Podcast host Jessica Yellin asked Psaki for her thoughts on the recent legislation and whether its motivation was sincere or an “organized political attempt to create a wedge issue ahead of the midterms,” to which Psaki said, “Ding.

Schitt’s Creek star Noah Reid has slammed the current wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in a new interview.

Princess, a Houston trans woman missing since April 18, currently has bright blonde hair, friends said.

The cast of Queer Eye can’t speak enough about Angel Flores.

A social media post promoting a transgender and gender diverse swim night hosted by Inner West Council has received a deluge of abusive and transphobic comments, causing the post to be removed from . Earlier this month, Council announced that Ashfield Aquatic Centre would be hosting a free, exclusive swim night for the local trans and gender diverse community, as well as allies, friends, partners and families.

Mayor London Breed has made it official and appointed Pau Crego as the permanent executive director of the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives.Crego, a trans and nonbinary Spanish immigrant, had been serving as acting executive director since Clair Farley, a trans woman who headed the department since 2017, stepped down last September after leading the office for four years.Breed and City Administrator Carmen Chu made the announcement April 21.The office was established by the late mayor Ed Lee in June 2016 with Theresa Sparks as its inaugural director. It marked the first time a mayor in the nation had a senior director of trans initiatives, Lee's office stated at the time.

Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, has called on teachers to “involve parents” when children come out as transgender.

California legislators are once again pushing forward on a number of bills aimed at improving the lives of the state's transgender and nonbinary residents. And due to the legislative attacks on trans children in several other states, lawmakers in Sacramento are also focused on assisting those youth and their parents who are trying to access gender-affirming health care.In addition to improving transgender medical care in the Golden State, lawmakers have introduced bills that will require California community colleges not to deadname their trans and nonbinary students, faculty or staff; require the governor to annually proclaim November 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance; and create an advisory body for a statewide pool of funds for trans services that would be renamed the Transgender, Gender-Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness and Equity Fund.Other bills would protect LGBTQ people who want to become foster parents, establish a pilot project to assist LGBTQ youth receiving child welfare services, and require affordable housing builders to contract with LGBTQ-owned businesses.Tuesday, April 19, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the language for the bill he plans to officially introduce this month that will make California a refuge for trans kids and their families persecuted by their own governments in states such as Texas and Idaho.The Idaho House of Representatives passed legislation last week to make it a felony for parents to allow their children to receive gender-affirming care, while similar policy is under consideration by lawmakers in Louisiana and Arizona.

The Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive in Vallejo was damaged last month after a driver plowed into the converted garage that houses it and reportedly fled, while the founder is expressing support as she works to have the building repaired.Ms. Bob Davis, a trans woman who founded the archive in 2017 — it opened in September 2018 — told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview that no one was injured during the incident, which occurred on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility."I was rushing to events in San Francisco and ran into the archive to get some brochures," Davis wrote in an email to supporters. "Imagine my surprise when I was greeted by an SUV parked in the middle of the office.

recent order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott directing state welfare agencies to investigate parents for suspected “child abuse” if they have reason to believe that a transgender minor has obtained gender-affirming health care, such as hormones or puberty blockers, to treat their gender dysphoria. Schaffer, who scoffed at the idea as hyperbolic, joked with guest Dave Landau, a comedian, during a recent episode of his show Slightly Offensive.Both men, who live in Texas, laughed at the rhetoric allegedly used by Schaffer’s off-air confidant and the characterization of Abbott and Republican lawmakers in Texas as “fascists.”Landau started the exchange, telling Schaffer, tongue-in-cheek, that he and other Texans have been instructed to kill transgender children by dragging them behind a moving truck.“How many trans kids did you kill today,” Schaffer asked.

The petition calling for trans people to be protected in a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ in the UK is less than 14,000 signatures away from 150,000.

faced death threats and calls to be canceled over her remarks.“There isn’t one answer to all these trans questions,” Margolyes told the UK’s Radio Times magazine, according to Yahoo News.“We all know people who are slightly pansy or a bit butch or whatever you call it,” the actress said, saying that “there is a spectrum and people can be anywhere along that.”“But I think the vituperation J.K. Rowling has received is misplaced,” she said of the vitriol directed at the author.“I admire her as a human being.

A university has agreed to pay a philosophy professor $400,000 after disciplining him for refusing to use a trans student’s preferred pronouns.

Harry Potter star has defended J.K. Rowling and said that anger towards the author over her views about transgender people are "misplaced."Miriam Margolyes who played Professor Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter films has come out in support of Rowling and described her as a "generous woman."Rowling has been embroiled in a number of controversies over her views about the transgender community and several actors associated with the Harry Potter franchise have publicly disagreed with her, including Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne and Emma Watson.The author has denied feeling negatively toward transgender people.

Length: 13 hours 47 minutesWhat it's about: Aiden Thomas's debut novel tells the story of Yadriel, a trans teen boy who comes from a traditional Latinx family of brujos and brujas. When Yadriel comes out to his family, no one knows where he fits in, and his family refuses to perform the ceremony required to make him a brujo. Yadriel, however, knows who he is, and with the help of his best friend and cousin Maritza, he sets out to prove it.

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling and the cast, including Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson, following the author's vocal stance on trans issues. Additionally, Emma appeared to snub the author at the BAFTA Awards earlier this year, after she said that she is "here for all the witches" while presenting an award at the event, seemingly in reference to Rowling's criticism of Labour Leader Keir Starmer saying "trans women are women".It comes after Rowling faced backlash after taking to Twitter two years ago to mock an article which used the phrase, "people who menstruate" instead of "women".Additionally, last year celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter franchise's first installment.And while many cast and crew members were invited back to film scenes for the one-off taping, JK was nowhere to be seen.Instead, she appeared in archived clips taken from previous interviews as fans rushed to social media, under the impression JK had been snubbed from the reunion.Appearing on GB News earlier this year, Evanna attempted to dispel rumours of a rift between the cast and the creator of the wizarding world.The Luna Lovegood actress said: "I think there's things we don't all agree with and don't understand."The star went on to insist that despite a difference of opinion, they all respect each other.She continued: "I've talked to all the cast, they all have great respect for her even if they don't agree with her beliefs."I really strongly disagree with the narrative that there's a rift," she added.The star went on: "She has her beliefs and she's doing her thing.

CW’s Supergirl character Dreamer is set to make her DC Comics debut in the upcoming issue of Superman: Son of Kal-El.

Missouri State Representative Ian Mackey, a Democrat, has gone viral for his defence of transgender young people during the debate on whether to allow transgender girls to compete on all-girls sports teams.Talking to the amendment’s sponsor, Representative Chuck Bayse, a Republican, Mackey even brought up Bayse’s own gay brother to make his point. “Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he?” Mackey asked.Bringing up the fact that Bayse’s brother was afraid to come out to him, Mackey said “If I were your brother, I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you too because of stuff like this – because this is what you’re focused on.“This is the legislation you want to put forward.

In a small win for LGBTQ+ rights, Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed the state’s anti-trans sports ban.