The former director of a Wyoming library has been awarded $700,000 after she was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books. Former director of the Campbell County Public Library, Terri Lesley, agreed to drop her lawsuit after she was removed from her position in 2023. After nearly three decades working within the library system the […]

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The number of anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales have marginally decreased, but they are still not figures to celebrate. Home Office figures published on Thursday (9 October) show in the year ending March 2025 there were a total of 115,990 hate crime offences, up from 113,166 the year previous year, which marks […]

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The National Autistic Society has condemned Robert F Kennedy Jr’s claims that circumcision can cause autism. The US health secretary shared the misinformation during a government cabinet meeting, spuriously arguing that circumcised people have “double the rate of autism,” which is not proven. There is one (2015) Danish cohort study that found an association, but […]

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UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been praised for how he grilled Reform’s Zia Yusuf on BBC Question Time, along with making several other well-received points, which have since gone viral on social media. Zack Polanski, who was elected leader of the England and Wales Greens in a landslide victory at the start of […]

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A right-wing evangelical group called the King’s Army have marched through Soho chanting homophobic slogans and disrupting traffic. The King’s Army took to Old Compton Street, home to famous queer bar the Admiral Duncan pub as well as well-known nightclub G-A-Y, on (5 October) dressed in black shirts and chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans. Launched in 2024, […]

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