At least 34 out LGBTQIA+ identifying athletes are heading to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games next month, reports OutSports. The figure is at least double the amount that competed in 2018, with the majority of out athletes now being men.
Associated Bank earns 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual assessment of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi have reportedly been put to death after first being arrested six years ago.
The authorities in Denmark don’t categorize the coronavirus a “socially critical disease” anymore due to a high vaccination rate
For Valentine’s Day, Pride Month or any other time of the year, it’s always good to know where you can find great romantic movies that celebrate love, LGBTQ+ style.
A gay Bollywood’s director has blasted the Indian government’s decision to ban his film about a gay army officer.
(Bloomberg) — Grindr, a popular gay dating app, has been removed from Apple Inc.’s App Store in China, days after Beijing said it was going to renew its campaign to police online content.
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France Outlaws Conversion Therapy – “There’s Nothing To Cure”
By Joshua Donovan
Posted on January 28, 2022
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France is introducing new legislation that will ban so-called “gay conversion therapy” and is bringing in harsher penalties for practitioners of the dangerous and widely discredited practice, reports ABC News.
Dominant strain which led to restrictions this month was first seen in another animal.
Seen in retrospect, Russia’s demand for a written response was a trap, one neither the U.S. nor NATO yet recognizes, writes Scott Ritter.
The EcoHealth Alliance proposal that DARPA rejected was about studying bat-born Coronaviruses in Wuhan. However, the proposal that was rejected by DARPA saying it is ‘too dangerous’, was later approved by the USA’s NIAID, which is headed by Dr Anthony Fauci. The proposal was named ‘Project Defuse’.
STOCKHOLM, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Sweden has decided against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11, the Health Agency said on Thursday, arguing that the benefits did not outweigh the risks.
From a sapphic alien thriller to the new Sally Rooney adaptation, here’s some of the most anticipated queer content coming to our screens this year.
Dr. John Ioannidis, a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Athens, says that Greece and other Western nations are likely transitioning out of the pandemic and into an endemic phase of the coronavirus.
Because we desperately need something to look forward to right now
This Saturday, the members of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will vote on a number of motions relating to the behaviour of activist group Pride In Protest.
The Top 25 Finalists for the 2022 South African Car of the Year (COTY) competition has been announced. This prestigious competition, staged by the South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ), has run continuously since 1986.
Botswana’s president vowed Monday to fully implement a 2019 court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, two months after losing an appeal that sought to overturn it.
The South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ) today announced the Jury and Trainee Jury members for the 2022 South African Car of the Year Competition.
Grade 12 learners from the class of 2021 were celebrated last week but media reports are mixed, painting a grim employment outlook for many of these school leavers. Experts and academics have predicted that as many as seven out of 10 matrics looking for a job this year will not find one, heightened by an unacceptably high unemployment rate of 34,9%.
It seems conceivable that the state of disaster declared under the Disaster Management Act (DMA) in 2020 might soon end.
The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron variant appears more contagious but not more severe, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said on Wednesday.
Darren Hayes will return to Australia to headline the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in March.
The CW is a network infamous for its sexy young actors and shows brimming with sexual tension, whether it’s Gossip Girl or Smallville or…well…DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
Renault SA (RENA.PA), Nissan Motor Co and Mitsubishi Motors (7211.T) on Thursday said they plan to deepen cooperation in electric vehicle production as their two decade-old alliance positions itself to compete as auto markets switch to EVs.
Almost 100 coronavirus patients contracted the virus in Oxford hospitals, new figures have revealed.
Euphoria played with fans’ emotions as Cal got a queer, romantic origin story.
We’ll have to wait just a tiny bit longer for the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio.
More than 120 German Roman Catholic priests and officials have jointly come out as LGBT+ and called on the church to do better by queer Catholics.
“Try not to care what the world thinks about us. Because this is real for me.”
Around one in four LGBT+ victims of sexual violence in the UK could have been assaulted by people trying to “convert or punish” them, research suggests.
Queer Britain will create an inclusive museum space that celebrates the queer community‘s stories, people and places.
A drag-performing son tells his mother in the ad, “You are just unbothered having people looking or judging you differently.” That was “insensitive and offensive to some,” Samsung said.
Netflix’ first Arabic original feature film, Perfect Strangers, has come under fire from conservatives across the Middle East due to a lead character being gay, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The GALA Queer Archive (GALA) invites applications for a paid internship opportunity.
Transgender actor Ivory Aquino has joined the cast of Batgirl, marking a landmark moment for the DC Universe.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British poet Joelle Taylor, winner of this year’s prestigious T.S. Eliot prize for a collection exploring lesbian identity, says it is time the mainstream media gave a voice to “butch dykes” like herself.
Europe might be seeing the end of the covid-19 emergency. A statement released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO) expresses cautious optimism, two years since the first cases of covid-19 were identified in France.
New study calls an old evolutionary assumption into question.
Given that lockdown was very nearly ordered on the advice of Sage last month, it’s worth keeping an eye on the ‘scenarios’ it published, and how they compare to the situation today.
