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Indian filmmaker Karan Johar perfectly hit back at a Twitter troll who questioned his sexuality on Monday (August 18). Often informally referred to as ‘KJo’, Johar is a director, producer, screenwriter, actor and television personality who has worked on several hit Bollywood films. He commands a 16.6 million strong fan base on Twitter. The 47-year-old

The Leader of Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, delivers a speech at a campaign convention on May 19, 2019 in Krakow, Poland. (Omar Marques/Getty) The leader of Poland’s ruling party has announced that the “travelling theatre” of LGBT+ Pride marches must be “unmasked and discarded.” Poland is preparing for a parliamentary election on October

Taylor Frey and his husband. (taylorfrey/ Instagram) It Chapter Two star Taylor Frey has spoken about his experience of being gay at a Mormon college in an interview with Attitude magazine. The new film opens with a homophobic attack. The scene was in the original Stephen King book, but has never before been shown in

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty) Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has backed the idea that trans women should be given separate bathrooms. Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said that Duterte “agrees with the concept” of LGBT-only bathrooms. “He said there should be a third restroom. We talked about it last Sunday,” Panelo, also the president’s chief

Antonio Banderas at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won best actor. (John Phillips/Getty) Antonio Banderas has dramatically revealed that a drag queen once saved his life. The Spanish actor said he was driving a motorbike in 1976 when he got into a serious accident. “The front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch

A 2015 protest rally condemning violence against members of the LGBT+ community in Jerusalem. (Omer Messinger/NurPhoto) The Palestinian Authority has banned all LGBT+ groups from carrying out activities in the West Bank. The ban came after Al-Qaws, a group for sexual and gender diversity that supports LGBT+ Palestinians, planned to hold a meeting for members

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton. (Darrian Traynor/Getty) The chief commissioner of Australia’s Victoria Police has issued a landmark apology to the LGBT+ community. Graham Ashton addressed the community and LGBT+ police officers as he apologised for the historic enforcement of anti-gay laws. “There have clearly been times when police actions caused unnecessary and unacceptable

A Royal Marine’s son came out as gay – and his reaction was perfect (Simon Bruty/Any Chance/Getty Images) A former Royal Marine’s recently came out as gay to him, and his reaction on social media had users gushing about his parenting skills. Jack – known only by the Twitter handle @jackp593 online – took to

LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 19: Rob Rinder attends the ITV Gala at London Palladium on November 19, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) Celebrity barrister Robert Rinder – who is perhaps best known for being the eponymous figure in ITV reality show Judge Rinder – has warned those in the limelight

Tower Hamlets council has saved the UK’s last remaining gay fetish club by blocking plans to have it redeveloped it into a 12-storey apartment block. According to The Guardian, the local authority ultimately decided that getting rid of the long-running bar – and subsequently turning it into a 46-flat complex – would “harm the long-term

Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson has come out as gay. (Photo by Andrea Cardin/NHLI via Getty Images) Jim Watson, the Mayor of Ottawa, Canada has come out as gay. In an emotional op-ed published by the Ottawa Citizen, the 58-year-old opened up about the struggles he has faced with coming to terms with his sexuality,

Billy Porter sat down with Pose creator Ryan Murphy to discuss its positive impact in changing black, gay characters’ narratives (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) American Horror Story: Apocalypse actor Billy Porter has opened up about how Pose is expanding the kind of narratives we see for black gay men onscreen. Joining showrunner Ryan Murphy

BBC’s religious show Songs of Praise is set to feature a same-sex wedding in a groundbreaking new episode. The long-running series, which broadcasts hymns sung at churches across the UK, will feature parts of a same-sex wedding service at an inclusive church on Sunday, August 18. The episode will feature the wedding of Jamie Wallace

Students jump into the air for photographers after receiving their A-level results. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) More than 150 students identified as non-binary when sitting their A-level exams this year, according to two of the UK’s leading exam boards. It’s the first time that the number of non-binary A-level candidates has been publicly shared since exam

The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that it is legal to fire a person for being transgender. A brief was filed on Friday August 16 by the Justice Department arguing that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender identity. Earlier this year,

Nicky Bandini. (Twitter) Renowned sports journalist Nicky Bandini came out as transgender this week. It was everything you’d want, if your job means – as Nicky Bandini’s does – that you need to come out publicly: a national newspaper gave her the space to tell her story, in her own words; it updated her author

The Tel Aviv deputy mayor said the treatment of trans people was an “urgent problem.” (Chen Arieli/ Facebook) Chen Arieli, the new deputy mayor of Tel Aviv and the first openly gay person to hold the position, says that Israel’s treatment of transgender people is an “urgent problem”. Before becoming deputy mayor, Arieli was one

President Donald Trump with Franklin Graham during a ceremony as the late evangelist Billy Graham lies in repose at the U.S. Capitol, on February 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty) To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Trump-supporting right-wing pastor Franklin Graham has slammed a new state law which requires schools to teach about LGBT+

A French football match was brought to a screeching halt on Friday over homophobic songs and chants. The Ligue 2 game between Nancy and Le Mans was temporarily halted by referee Mehdi Mokhtari in the first half after repeated chanting from home supporters at Stade Mercel Picot. Fans had been warned to stop chanting over

Rally calling for an end to conversion therapy in Canada. (Global News) Thirteen and a half percent of all transgender people in the US have been through conversion therapy despite major medical organisations calling it ineffective and unethical, research has found. Equating to some 187,923 trans people across all 50 states, the study found that

There’s nothing like that feeling of going on a good first date. You get that light, airy feeling afterwards, and you can’t stop thinking about seeing them again – until you receive a creepy message that ruins it all. That’s what happened to Eric Dimitratos, who is head of digital at MTV. He shared a

Police are searching for witnesses to the murder of Tracy Single (Facebook/Tracy Single) The 15th transgender woman of colour to be murdered in the US this year has been named as Tracy Single, 22, from Houston, Texas. Tracy was found dead at a gas station on July 30. The cause of her death has not

A Christian MP in the Faroe Islands has pledged to roll back same-sex marriage, if his party returns to power. Same-sex unions have been permitted in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing region of Denmark which is home to 50,000 people, since 2017. However, Centre Party MP Bill Justinussen has vowed to roll back the law,