© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedMike Cooper of Plymouth Argyle. (Pete Norton/Getty Images)Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Mike Cooper says he was subjected to homophobic slurs spewed at a League One match in Lancashire, England.Cooper, 22, claimed that during the Saturday (13 November) match at Accrington Stanley FC, he heard “young fans” make anti-gay comments.“And to…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedMy Genderation’s YouTube channel remains down. (Screenshot/My Genderation)The YouTube channel of My Genderation, an independent trans film project, was deleted without warning on the first day of Transgender Awareness Week (13 November).“Someone stole the My Genderation YouTube channel and now it’s been deleted,” co-founder and filmmaker Fox Fisher tweeted…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedCharlie says the lack of trans models he had growing up has inspired him to make a difference for young trans people now. (Supplied/Just Like Us)Charlie Middleton was relentlessly bullied at school for being different, but his life changed after he came out as trans.Now, he’s an ambassador for Just…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights Reserved(Andrei Daniel Production/@adanielproduction)A priest and his partner have become the first same-sex couple to receive a Church in Wales blessing.Father Lee Taylor, 44, and his partner Fabiano Da Silva Duarte, 45, received a blessing from the Church in Wales on Saturday (13 November).Father Lee said the service at St…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedSaweetie on stage at the MTV EMAs 2021 ‘Music for ALL’ at the Papp Laszlo Budapest Sports Arena. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)Saweetie delivered a powerful message of support for Hungary’s embattled LGBT+ community while hosting the MTV EMAs in Budapest on Sunday night (14 November).The much-loved rapper, lying on a chaise…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedJenny De Leon. (Facebook)Just days after 2021 became the deadliest year on record for anti-trans violence, yet another trans woman, Jenny De Leon, has been slain in the US.De Leon, a 25-year-old with a “bright soul”, was murdered in Tampa, Florida, on 2 November.With her death comes a grim…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedAmerican fast food restaurant chain, Chick-fil-A. (Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)A sign displayed by a Tennessee franchise of the anti-LGBT+ fast food chain Chick-fil-A has gone viral for condemning discrimination… against anti-maskers and the unvaccinated.The sign, pasted on the window of the Chick-fil-A in Franklin, Tennessee, reads: “We do not…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedThe group of students called themselves the Created by the “Anti-Queer Association (AQA). (Twitter and Envato) High school students in Illinois have been issued a survey asking if “queers” should be able to use the bathroom alongside “normal people”.The survey was distributed at Anna-Jonesboro Community High School in Anna,…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedNicole Maines (L) stars on Supergirl as the Dreamer. (Alex Stone/The CW) Nicole Maines, who plays television’s first openly trans superhero, knows what it means to fight for what is right. She does it every day.The 24-year-old from Glosservile, New York, is a hero after all. In 2014, she…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedElaine Chambers (L) and Caroline Paige. (Fighting With Pride)For the first time ever, LGBT+ veterans marched at Britain’s Remembrance Sunday service in a ceremony dubbed “an enormous honour” by one former lieutenant.The remembrance service, which honours those who have fallen in Britain’s wars, is one of the most sombre…