Homophobia: Last News

15 resolutions proposed for the imminent Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) Annual General Meeting (AGM) must be very concerned at the sharpness of internal conflicts in our movement and the calls from both “sides” to suppress debate, exclude many LGBTQI+ groups from the Parade and to expel individuals from SGLMG itself.We 78ers call on all members of SGLMG to embrace the importance of inclusiveness, open discussion and democracy in SGLMG. That the situation has reached this nadir only underlines the need for the SGLMG Board to focus on mediation, conciliation and conflict resolution and to stop right now the “let’s destroy them completely” option now afoot.This is the best way for members to call a halt to this unconstructive conflict and to tell the two “sides” to change direction.

 The Trans Pride Concert will be held on February 12, 2022 in the heart of Melbourne at Fed Square, and the Trans Pride March is scheduled to be held in November 2022 to coincide with Trans Awareness week. “The trans community has long been marginalised and we still face countless oppressions and stigmatisation from the broader community,” Rebeckah Loveday told the Star Observer. “To showcase who we are in a public space, will allow our community to come together and celebrate who we are but also show the broader community, we are more than just the labels that are placed upon us,” said Loveday. The organisers reckon it’s one of the first march and concert of its kind in Australia, organised by the trans community to showcase trans excellence and talent on stage. The concert is being planned as a three-hour extravaganza, showcasing performers from the trans and gender diverse community in Victoria. Racerager, Kindred Surprise, Sei Vainalei Chen Pao, Jade Starr, The Trans Showgirls and Stone Motherless Cold have been confirmed as talent for the event. “There will be a smoking ceremony and welcome to country.

Queer exhibition has been five years in the making. An Australian-first, the landmark exhibition opens on 10 March 2022 and trains a queer lens on the NGV collection, celebrating the rich diversity of the LGBTQI community and foregrounding the many untold stories. The exhibition originated as a themed issue of the NGV’s art journal around the time of the Marriage Equality debate in Australia in 2017. The bathers (1926-1933) by Duncan Grant“We realized very quickly that there was actually a lot of content and enough to really dive quite deep and explore the whole collection.

remarks about transgender people in his most recent Netflix special, actor Wil Wheaton has apologized for his own past homophobia.“For much of my teen years, I was embarrassingly homophobic, and it all started with that comedy special,” the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” alum wrote in a Facebook post, a reference to Eddie Murphy’s 1983 standup show “Delirious.”In the lengthy social media post, he detailed a moment when he was young and said a slur, referencing gay men in a locker room — a room full of gay men, no less.

A group of neo-Nazis attacked a gay bar in Ukraine on Tuesday night by breaking windows and yelling “white power” and “death to faggots.” Warning: This story has details of a homophobic attack on a gay venue and use of anti-gay slurs and 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 attack was captured on closed circuit cameras outside the bar.

Warning: This story has details of violent, homophobic assault and 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.“I’m not fucking gay”, is what Stephen Taylor, a 24-year-old from Liverpool screamed at his victim while stabbing him 12 times with a knife, apparently as a reaction to being rejected when he asked the victim to perform a sex act.The night of the homophobic attack had started innocently enough when the victim met his attacker for the first time at drinks at a friend’s house in June 2020.Taylor, who introduced himself at the time as “Tyson”, said he worked at a nursing home.

TMZ obtained video of the incident, which occurred at the end of an NBA game in Los Angeles on Saturday. In the clip, the male fan approaches Mayweather to ask for a photo.

They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, and a recent group of protesters have proven this age-old adage to be true when they picketed the New York Film Festival Premiere of Benedetta earlier this week, describing it as a “blasphemous lesbian movie”.Benedetta, is the work of director Paul Verhoeven and is based on the book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith Brown.

Newsweek reported.“It comes with an extremely heavy heart that my close friend and co-host of Real Science Radio has lost his battle with COVID.” lamented Williams. “Bob Enyart was one of the smartest, and without question the wisest person I’ve known.”Williams concluded the post by asking fans to “pray for Enyart’s family during this difficult time.”Enyart and his wife Cheryl had been hospitalized with COVID-19 for over a week, per a Sept.

Radio Free Europe reports. Igor Derbin, the director of the Dobrynin Palace of Culture, said he and other leaders of the theater were “outraged” by the performance.“‘Initially, the event was planned to be upbeat and positive. Their trick was a surprise for all of us.

Radio Free Europe reports. Igor Derbin, the director of the Dobrynin Palace of Culture, said he and other leaders of the theater were “outraged” by the performance.“‘Initially, the event was planned to be upbeat and positive. Their trick was a surprise for all of us.

The Courier Mail.The sustained attack lasted several days until a welfare visit on the family led to his arrest in August 2020, and has remained in custody ever since then.Following his arrest, the man told police: “It’s hard to explain it, I caught my boy sitting on another boy’s lap, this is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”He added: “I’m a piece of s***.

controversial homophobic remarks at the Rolling Loud concert on July 25.Cannon, 40, appeared on radio station 105.1’s program, “The Breakfast Club” and expressed his thoughts on the 29-year-old’s comments. The “Wild ‘N Out” host himself has previously come under fire for anti-Semitic statements he made on his “Cannon’s Class” podcast in 2020.

Edinburgh Evening News, the men — understood to be a married couple — were talking to a woman when four men approached them and started to punch, kick, and spit on them in an “unprovoked” attack.“The gay men did not fight back, they only tried to defend themselves,” the witness said.

a written statement: “We understand hate crimes can have a huge impact on those targeted, and an attack on people because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, race or beliefs, is not only abhorrent but will not be tolerated.”Witnesses have described how four men punched, kicked and spat on the victims leaving them in a pool of blood, before stealing a bag and fleeing the scene at around 9.20pm on Friday.

Run This Town and uttered by Kanye West, “It’s crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow to everybody on your dick—no homo.”In the latest example of the toxic and homophobic behaviour employed by some performers in the hip hop industry, Grammy nominated rapper, DaBaby, recently performed a set at music festival Rolling Loud.Backlash began to build when a video of his performance at the festival shows him addressing the crowd, saying “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cell phone lighter up,” he said.

The Truth Of It tour starring its managing director Martyn Iles, who is known as the “youthful face of the Christian right”.The trust had earlier barred the Lobby from its venues claiming it was a politically motivated event. Perth Theatre Trust chair Morgan Solomon told WA Today that its venue hiring policies were under review, but since the review was unlikely to be completed before the dates of the event, it was allowing  the Lobby to go ahead with the event at its venues.“The PTT will revise its venue hire policy to strengthen its position to make decisions for commercial hires in accordance with the PTT’s values,” Solomon told WA Today.The Lobby, that has been known to target the LGBTQI+ community and supported homophobes like rugby

following a payment of $50,000.Legal Representative and Catalans chairman Bernard Guasch said of the outcome  that “Israel has been great with us in 2020 both on and off the field and we wanted to facilitate the negotiations to reach an agreement. He told us his desire to play alongside his two brothers and we didn’t want to prevent him. We wish him all the best in the next chapter of his career.”Folau’s return will be significant to the culture of the NRL – in recent years the league , along with AFL and Australia Tennis, have worked to  improve upon inclusion frameworks within sportsStar Observer has written extensively about Folau over the years, from when he was more than comfortable gracing our front cover to that moment of 2018, when

Fifty-seven year Perth-resident Michael Buhle remembers the first words he heard when he reached an under construction building site and was met by three men swinging baseball bats. “The first guy said, ‘we are going to teach you a lesson’,” Buhle told Star Observer in an email interview, recovering from the vicious homophobic attack that left him with a broken jaw, fractured skull and fearing for his life. Buhle, was one of the two men in Perth, who were lured by through the online dating app Scruff to an under construction site and then brutally attacked last month.

the Sunday Times. “It’s painful.

On Saturday, Australia celebrated its LGBTQI communities as Sydney held the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. But, there was no rest for homophobes. In a shocking incident ABC Sydney crime reporter Mark Reddie and his gay friends were targeted by homophobic hoons just hours after the parade. “We were leaving a Mardi Gras party and there was a group of four of us.