International News Cynthia Nixon stands up for trans kids at trans rights protest after New York hospital cancels appointments for trans kids scheduled receive puberty blockers Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has revealed that her son, her sister’s kids and her best friend’s kid are all proudly trans during a trans rights protest in New York City. Nixon joined hundreds of demonstrators that took to the streets of Manhattan to protest after a hospital cancelled at least By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News GLAAD launches Weather Watch with RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Salina EsTitties, your new favourite queer ‘meteorologist’ American LGBTQ+ charity GLAAD has launched the GLAAD Weather Watch, a new initiative with RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Salina EsTitties as an LGBTQ-policy focused ‘meteorologist’. GLAAD, with Salina at the wheel as everyone’s new favourite weather girl, will educate LGBTQ+ people and allies about pro- an By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Music Lady Gaga speaks out in support of trans community while accepting Grammy Award Lady Gaga spoke out in support of the trans community while accepting the trophy for best pop duo/group performance at the 67th Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 2 alongside her Die with a Smile duet partner Bruno Mars. ‘I just want to say tonight, that trans people are not invisible,’ the 38-year-o By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Transgender News Trump bans trans people from serving in the US military, saying they are “medically and morally unfit to serve” Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning trans people from serving in the military. In the order, Trump claimed that “the Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology,” and claimed that trans people are both “medically and morally unfit to serve.” It is estimated that ther By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News With Donald Trump reversing protections for LGBTQ+ people across the US, Lady Gaga has stepped up to defend marginalised communities With President Donald Trump reversing protections for LGBTQ+ people across the United States, award-winning pop star and actor Lady Gaga has stepped up to defend marginalised communities in an interview with Elle, saying the “election was devastating” for LGBTQ+ people’s existence, but she also made By Graham Robson • 1 min read
News ‘Reform UK spokeswoman’ Ann Widdecombe calls for UK government to end ‘profusion’ of Pride and Black Lives Matters flags ‘Reform UK spokeswoman’ Ann Widdecombe has called on the UK government to ban Pride and Black Lives Matter flags from flying from government buildings. The former Conservative minister, and reality TV star, said: “I think that the only flags that should be thrown from a government building are, firs By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Bishop tells President Donald Trump that “trans children and immigrants are scared of you’ A representative of the Republican party in the United States has called for an American Bishop to be “deported” after she told President Donald Trump to his face that “trans children and immigrants are scared of you’. Speaking at Trump’s inaugural prayer service, Bishop Mariann Budde, who was born By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News LGBTQ+ youth charity reports surge in calls to crisis hotline after Trump is sworn in as President As President Donald Trump delivered his second inaugural address on Monday, January 20, an American LGBTQ+ youth charity has reported a surge in calls to its crisis hotline. Trump outlined his anti-LGBTQ+ policies on Monday, January 20, including banning trans people from the military and sports and By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Transgender News Trump to launch unprecedented attack on America’s trans communities after being sworn back into office President Donald Trump is to launch an unprecedented attack on America’s trans communities after being sworn back into office. One of Trump’s first executive orders will require federal agencies to define sex as strictly either male or female, thus eliminating recognition of transgender and nonbinar By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Big Gay Wedding: LGBTQ+ couples rush to tie the knot before Trump’s inauguration LGBTQ+ couples have rushed to Unitarian churches in New York to tie the knot before Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Big Gay Wedding event was a free opportunity for LGBTQ+ couples, many of whom are fearful that marriage equality will be in jeopardy under the next administration, to get married befo By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Transgender News Republicans, and two Democrats, vote to ban trans women and girls from school sports Republicans, and two Democrats, have voted to ban trans women and girls from school sports. The Bill would rewrite current legislation to define sex as “reproductive biology and genetics at birth” – effectively banning trans athletes from competing on teams matching their gender identity at any scho By Graham Robson • 1 min read
The Village People, group portrait, New York, 1978. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) LGBTQ+ News Y.M.C.A. songwriter, and Village People member, denies song is a gay anthem and defends Trump’s use of the camp disco classic Victor Willis, one of the songwriters of Village People’s camp disco hit Y.M.C.A. has defended president-elect Donald Trump’s use of the song while campaigning in the US presidential elections, and has firmly denied the song is a gay anthem. Willis, who acknowlegded he was to earn “several million d By Graham Robson • 2 min read
