© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedRussia’s President Vladimir Putin. (Getty/ Mikhail MetzelTASS)LGBT+ groups in Russia should be designated as “extremist” organisations, an influential government figure has said.According to Moscow Times, the Russian state-run news agency TASS reported that Andrei Tsyganov, chairman of a commission for the protection of children at the Roskomnadzor communications regulator,…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedA lesbian couple hold hands at Tel Aviv Pride. (David Silverman/Getty)A rabbi in Israel has called on a local mayor to ban gay lecturers and teachers from working in the city of Rishon LeZion.Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, a Rishon LeZion councillor and regional chairman of the Shas Party, wrote a…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedThe BBC headquarters. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty)The BBC has been accused of key failures in its coverage of LGBT+ issues – particularly towards the trans community – in a letter signed by more than 800 people.The letter, organised by former BBC research and development technologist Chris Northwood, condemns the broadcaster for…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedRuby Rose. (Getty Images)Following Ruby Rose’s claim that toxic behaviour on the set of Batwoman led to her leaving the show, Warner Bros has hit back at what they call her “revisionist history”. The Orange Is The New Black actor posted a series of stories on Instagram Wednesday (20 October), saying that…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedA police officer next to a banner reading ‘All cops are bastards period!’ at a Black Trans Lives Matter march in London, 2020. (Dave Rushen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)AL, who is trans, non-binary and genderqueer, has been assaulted twice on public transport in the last 18 months – but…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedA Pride rally in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2017 (Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty)A Russian court has banned a deeply homophobic, misogynistic and racist social media movement for stoking hatred against LGBT+ folk, women and Black people.Male State, an umbrella group for a reviled array of nationalist, pro-patriarchy communities of some 150,000,…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedTrans kids will be forced to play on the team corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato)An anti-trans bill that will ban trans youth from playing school sports has passed in the Texas House and will now go to the Texas Senate for…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedTransgender Action Block activists and supporters protest outside the first annual conference of the LGB Alliance at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre on 21st October 2021 (Getty)A trans woman was called a “homophobic nonce” and a “f**king pervert” while attending the conference of anti-trans charity LGB Alliance.The conference, held…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedBritain’s equalities minister Liz Truss leaves Downing Street. (BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)The Conservative government has finally announced proposed plans for its conversion therapy ban – with religious forms of the discredited practice to remain legal.More than three years after ministers promised to outlaw conversion therapy in England and…

© 2021 PinkNews ⦁ All Rights ReservedCanadian poet Margaret Atwood. (Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood ignited outrage by sharing an article titled: “Why can’t we say ‘woman’ anymore?”The opinion piece, penned by Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno, explores the the ongoing conversation around gender-neutral terminology.DiManno, 65, argued in the piece (which is behind a paywall)…