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American Soldier and TikTok star that will make your phone super hot.

6Aug

By RaffaNo Comments

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American Soldier and TikTok star that will make your phone super hot.

He is one of the most followed on TikTok and his videos are a mix of funny moment and hot moves. He is often shirtless showing off his very well shaped body (oh good lord!!)... and since he has opened his TikTok profile he became a star of this social network, that Trump is threatening to close in the USA. @garett__nolanthis is how we like it dc: @whoisdvrko ##dvrkochallenge♬ This is How - DVRKO & Sarah de Warren His sexy and fun videos can reach over 60k likes and he now touched the number of 4.7 Millions followers. His TikTok profile is also one of the most automatically pushed profiles on the social network where he became one of the fist verified profiles in the USA. He served in the United States' armed forces. His former Tiktok account was garett_nolan,...

Darin Zanyar, Sweden’s king of pop, just came out as gay.

5Aug

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Darin Zanyar, Sweden’s king of pop, just came out as gay.

He came out to his 110k followers on Instagram with a special message rich in pride. Darin Zanyar is 33-year-old, born in Sweden of Kurdish parents, king of Pop that on 3rd August told his 110,000 followers, and the whole world that he is “proud to be gay”. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbLU09hsrt/ Darin reached a high lever of fame in Sweden after becoming the runner-up in the first season of Idol, a TV talent show back in 2004, when he was only 16. He became one of the country’s best-selling artists, with seven number one albums. Darin’s comingout-post on IG was received with lots of happiness and gratitude from the Kurdish Queer Community that praised the singer’s bravery for coming-out. He is not the first Kurdish artist to come out as a memento of the LGBT+ Commuinity, in fact his ...

Man charged for homophobic and hate crime after he set a Pride flag on fire in Brighton.

5Aug

By RaffaNo Comments

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Man charged for homophobic and hate crime after he set a Pride flag on fire in Brighton.

This would have been the week-end of the Pride in Brighton and Hove, one of the most famous Pride marches in the UK. A man has been charged with committing a homophobic related hate crime related arson following the shocking late night incident in Brighton. The man charged is Moulay Abdelhakim Ismaili of Beaconsfield Road in Brighton, that has been detained on suspicion of committing a homophobic hate-related crime, as The Argus reports. Brighton is very well known for being a truly inclusive and LGBT+ friendly city, where people can be themselves with no fears of being judged, beaten or made feel ridiculous, but in this case when homophobia found its way in this man. The 36-year-old man was remanded in custody to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court, yesterday 4th August. Sussex Poli...

Young gay Arab couple beaten and spat on in a horrible homophobic attack in Israel by other Arabs.

4Aug

By Raffa2 Comments

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Young gay Arab couple beaten and spat on in a horrible homophobic attack in Israel by other Arabs.

Hundreds of people stood and watched the attack. The Israeli Police arrested a 16-year-old from the central Israeli city of Lod on Monday on suspicion that he took part in a violent attack on two young gay Arab men in the area of Jaffa Port on Saturday, August 1. The suspect is being investigated and today will be heard, for aggravated assault linked to a hate crime. As it is also reported by Haaretz, the police also obtained a “grim video evidence of the brawl, which was even disseminated on the internet”. https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1290546689334484992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1290546689334484992%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinknews.co.uk%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fgay-arab-israel-lod-homophobic-attack-homophobia-jaffa-port-viral-video-hate-cr...

Edinburgh asks Krakow to defend LGBT+ Rights

4Aug

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Edinburgh asks Krakow to defend LGBT+ Rights

After Krakow joined the LGBT+ Free Zones, the Mayor of Edinburgh asked their counterpart in Poland to rethink their position and oppose to homophobia by defending LGBT+ rights. As reported by the Edinburgh Evening News, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Frank Ross, has written to the Mayor of Krakow - Jacek Majchrowski - and has asked him to clarify the Polish city’s opposition to homophobia and LGBT+ oppression. Since 1994 the two cities are twinned by a civic partnership agreement, and cooperate in many areas including culture, heritage, monument protection and education. This same partnership has been renewed last year, but after Krakow decided to join the “LGBT+ Free Zones”, the Mayor of Edinburgh is urging them to rethink their position. Twinned towns can obtain EU grants of up to €1...

“I lost my job because of the LGBT+ Mafia”, says the teacher that used to misngender a trans boy.

4Aug

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“I lost my job because of the LGBT+ Mafia”, says the teacher that used to misngender a trans boy.

He was already fired from another school for calling Muhammad a “false prophet”. The Oxford Mail reports the happening: Joshua Sutcliffe - this is the name of the teacher - got fired from Cherwell School in Oxford back in November 2017 for repeatedly misgendering a trans boy. He said his christian faith and beliefs could not allow him to accept the gender theory. After he was sacked, he wrote a letter to the school saying: “As a Christian, I do not share your belief in the ideology of transgenderism. I do not believe that young children should be encouraged to self-select a ‘gender’ which may be different from their biological sex; or that everyone at school should adjust their behaviour to accommodate such a ‘transition’; or that people should be punished for lack of enthusiasm about it...

Jewish revolution: B’nai Mitzvah a Gender Neutral coming-of-age celebration.

3Aug

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Jewish revolution: B’nai Mitzvah a Gender Neutral coming-of-age celebration.

This gay 13 year-old, together with a cool Rabbi, decided to have a gender neutral coming-of-age ceremony instead of the usual Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah. It is well known that Judaism celebrates their young members when they get to the “age of maturity”, when they can be counted as active part of the community, almost a religious-adult age. In this cases, when you are boy you celebrate your Bar Mitzvah, when a girl you have instead your Bat Mitzvah, and celebrations see your entire family and all your friends having a party with you. We are in Massachusetts and as The Guardian reports, Ruby Marx did not feel right having a tradition coming-of-age ceremony and decided she wanted to “something in the middle”. She said: “Judaism is a big part of my family – we keep kosher and my older si...

Luxembourg’s RTL will not participate in the 65th Eurovision Song Contest

1Aug

By Luka MandićNo Comments

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Luxembourg’s RTL will not participate in the 65th Eurovision Song Contest

The Luxembourgish national broadcaster RTL has confirmed that they will not participate in the 65th edition of Eurovision in 2021. Luxembourg is one of the founding members of the ESC, they debuted in 1956 with Michele Arnaud’s “Ne Crois Pas”. They have not participated since 1993 even though there were rumours of a comeback in 2004 and 2010. The dutchy has an impressive track record - their first win was in 1965 with France Gall‘s "Poupée de cire, poupée de son". Since then they’ve achieved a total of 5 wins! You can check out Luxembourg’s top 10 entries here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6GUmZPk6Bc RTL’s Steve Schmit explained that the broadcaster is a small station producing only 2 hours of programme per day. Schmit also explains: “our strategy is focused on information an...

Masterchef celebrity Riyadh Khalaf admits he was afraid his dad would have honour-killed him because gay.

31Jul

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Masterchef celebrity Riyadh Khalaf admits he was afraid his dad would have honour-killed him because gay.

Before being crowned, Riyadh Khalaf struggled through some dark times with his sexuality and the fear of being honour-killed for being gay. When Riyadh - Irish-Iraqi TV broadcaster and YouTuber - came out to his family at the age of 16, he had to face a really family rift, with his Irish-Catholic being supportive and his father appalled to face the reality of his soon being gay. “I was scared my father would honour-kill me”, Riyadh said. https://twitter.com/RiyadhK/status/1288934976818499602?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet His mum found that he was gay after she found some gay porn material on the family computer. He is the winner of this edition of Masterchef Celebrity and in an interview with the BBC he said: “My parents were right at the bottom of the pile fo...

Trans woman sent to men’s prison: a story of abuses and terrifying rapes

31Jul

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Trans woman sent to men’s prison: a story of abuses and terrifying rapes

A trans woman from Virginia lived one of the most horrible experiences a trans person could live. As the WYDaily reports, Tykira Spruill’s nightmare began back in 2006 at St Bride’s Correctional Facility in Chesapeake, Virginia, after she was arrested for stealing. At that time she had recently started medically transitioning with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and silicone injections in her face, but when she arrived she was stripped of any gender-affirming clothing and placed in a men’s area. But unfortunately it did not stop there, as she later got charged with “identity fraud charges” and when she was taken to prison the story repeated. She was still having silicone injections before she was incarcerated, and when she was taken the doctor on duty for an infection - always in the m...