LGBQT+ News & Articles

'Queer experiences deserve to be in any museum'.​

Former contestants of a now-axed BBC LGBTQ+ dating show say they feel "frustrated" and "sad" at the decision to shelve the programme.

I Kissed A Boy first aired on BBC Three in 2023 and made history as the UK's first gay dating show.

A year later, the show's production company, Twofour, launched an all-women series, called I Kissed a Girl, before switching back to all-male cast in 2025.

Despite the popularity of the shows, the BBC has confirmed that both versions will end after the next series.

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Senegal approves tougher anti-gay law as rights groups raise concerns.​

"Senegal's parliament has approved a new law doubling to 10 years the maximum prison term for sexual acts by same-sex couples and criminalising the "promotion" of homosexuality..."

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United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: "It stops here" - LGBTQ Nation

One advocate accused the U.S. of being “willing to lie” to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system."

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Delegates at the United Nations 70th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) overwhelmingly voted against considering a proposal by the U.S. to adopt an anti-trans definition of “gender.”


On March 19, the final day of the nine-day conference, the U.S. introduced a resolution calling on U.N. member states to officially define “gender” as referring only to men and women. The resolution claimed that the landmark Beijing Declaration on women’s rights, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, already defined gender as “referring to men and women.”

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Speaking to Devex, Jennifer Rauch, global advocacy officer at Fòs Feminista, accused the U.S. of being “willing to lie” to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system.”

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"The organisation that oversees girl guide groups in the UK has said transgender girls must leave the organisation by September.

It follows an announcement in December by Girlguiding that it would no longer accept biological boys who identify as girls from joining.

It said the action was being taken in response to the Supreme Court ruling in 2025 that said sex meant biological sex in equality law.

Campaign group Trans+ Solidarity Alliance described the news as "heartbreaking" for children. Sex-based rights group Sex Matters said it was "the right thing"for Girlguiding to do..."

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Ungnome said:

I seriously hope one day the UK government wakes up and realizes the amount of harm they are doing to trans people.... I also REALLY hope I live to see that day.

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"Florida restricted teaching around sex, gender and race. Lux is now giving students a forum for these issues.."

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Ungnome said:

I seriously hope one day the UK government wakes up and realizes the amount of harm they are doing to trans people.... I also REALLY hope I live to see that day.

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Anonymous X said:

They realise, all right. Cruelty is the point with these dreadful, heartless ghouls.

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"Single-sex spaces - such as changing rooms and toilets - must be used on the basis of biological sex, new guidance from the equalities watchdog has confirmed.

This means, for instance, that a trans woman - a biological male who identifies as a woman - should not use female toilets or changing rooms, according to the code of practice.

The guidance, produced by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and now approved by ministers, makes it clear that transgender people should instead be offered a third or a gender-neutral space.

The code states that leaving a trans person without access to any services or facilities would be unlikely to be proportionate and could be discriminatory..."

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