Americas

Canada's travel advisory has been updated to warn LGBTQ+ travellers about the US.

News
Aug 29 2023

Canada issues advisory to warn LGBTQ+ people travelling to the US

Republican presidential candidate hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wears a white shit, red tie and blue jacket as he speaks to reporters. The White House hopeful has used his platform to speak out against the LGBTQ+ and trans community in his campaign

Politics
Aug 28 2023

Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy uses racist Jacksonville shooting to talk about trans people

New anti-LGBTQ+ education policies in Saskatchewan, Canada, have sparked protests. (Envato)

Education
Aug 28 2023

Canadian parents rally against new anti-LGBTQ+ education policy

Crowds celebrate during a Brazil Pride march under a giant LGBTQ+ flag.

Law
Aug 24 2023

Homophobic slurs now punishable with prison sentences in Brazil, High Court rules

On the left, a photo of Alana Chen. On the right, the cover of new podcast Dear Alana.

Activism
Aug 22 2023

Dear Alana is the new podcast exploring the devastating impact of conversion therapy

Wendy Guevara in a red top and crown.

TV
Aug 14 2023

Wendy Guevara makes history as the first trans woman to win a Mexican reality TV show

Guatemalan presidential candidate Sandra Torres

Americas
Aug 14 2023

Guatemala presidential frontrunner to keep same-sex marriage illegal and run country with ‘fear of God’

People at a Pride parade in Caracas, Venezuela 2023

Americas
Aug 12 2023

Venezuelan LGBTQ+ activists demand justice for 33 men arrested over sauna visit

Chile's Tomás González poses on the podium with the gold medal after winning the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Floor Exercise Final during the Lima 2019 Pan-American Games in Lima, on July 30, 2019

Sport
Aug 03 2023

Olympic gymnast Tomás González comes out as gay in new autobiography

Canadian footballer Quinn wears a red and black uniform as they chase a football along the field at the 2023 Women's World Cup

Sport
Jul 22 2023

Canada’s Quinn brings joyful trans and non-binary representation to the Women’s World Cup

A couple kiss as they hold up rainbow LGBTQ+ Pride flags during a march in Peru where advocates call for same-sex marriage laws, for queer people to be protected from discrimination and more

Law
Jul 22 2023

Peru court offers same-sex marriage hope for LGBTQ+ couples

Dylan Mulvaney smiles, while wearing a white jacket, looking over the Peruvian mountains.

Trans
Jul 12 2023

Dylan Mulvaney says she had to leave America ‘to feel safe’

Side by side screenshots from a TikTok video about right-wing backlash to a planned kid-friendly drag event. Both images depict different women confronting staff about the event

US
Jul 10 2023

Children’s store exposes right-wing hate over family-friendly drag event in viral TikToks

An audience dressed in Pride t shirts gather around Seth Damon as he signs legislation on a desk covered with Pride flags.

Law
Jul 06 2023

Navajo Nation lawmaker introduces bill to legalise same-sex marriage

University of Waterloo

Americas
Jun 30 2023

Waterloo university stabbing was ‘targeted anti-LGBTQ+ attack’, police say as suspect charged

A graphic of drag wrestler Alice Starr wearing a pink and blue outfit as they lick a lollipop with an image of them wrestling in the background

Drag
Jun 25 2023

Drag wrestler Alice Starr wants to ‘indoctrinate’ people – ‘to be not as hateful’

A picture of Bubba Pollock standing in front of a hospitalised man, blurred out

News
Jun 19 2023

Right-wing troll charged with harassment of LGBTQ+ activist for posting selfie with dying dad

A person holding a trans flag in the sky.

Sport
Jun 16 2023

Child, nine, says she was ‘crying and hurt’ after vile transphobic school sports day abuse

Trans
Jun 13 2023

MP injured at trans protest says he’ll ‘take a punch for queer and trans youth any day’

Baseball player Anthony Bass raising his arm to throw a ball during a Baseball game.

Sport
Jun 11 2023

Toronto Blue Jays drop pitcher Anthony Bass after anti-LGBTQ+ Bud Light post

Science and Tech
Jun 04 2023

Twitter safety chief resigns as Elon Musk says deadnaming ‘definitely allowed’ in anti-trans film row

Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Anthony Bass wears a white uniform and blue baseball cap as he throws a baseball somewhere off screen

Sport
Jun 03 2023

Blue Jays fans relentlessly boo own player Anthony Bass after sharing anti-LGBTQ+ video

A person holds up a sign reading 'drag is not a crime' amid a protest against surging anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the US like Tennessee's drag ban

US
Jun 03 2023

Tennessee drag ban thrown out by Trump-appointed judge

A graphic of Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis wearing a suite and tie as he stands in front of a capitol building, the US flag as he launches his presidential campaign

US
May 25 2023

Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid: Sad attempt to ‘export extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ agenda to the nation’

A set of trans flags waving around near the legislative branch of the State of Mexico.

Non-Binary
May 21 2023

Mexico unveils new non-binary passport: ‘Diversity enriches and flourishes’

LGBTQ+ people in Guyana

Activism
May 21 2023

Overturning British colonial-era ‘buggery’ law ‘first step’ to protecting LGBTQ+ people in Guyana

Jamaica King Charles LGBTQ

Activism
May 20 2023

Jamaica’s break from British monarchy must bring about queer liberation, activists say

Americas
May 11 2023

Gay Brazilian congressman who helped Edward Snowden blow whistle dies aged 37

A split image of the suspect in an Ontario assault case and Dylan Mulvaney drinking Bud Light.

Crime
May 11 2023

Two attacked outside beer shop by homophobes who thought they’d bought Bud Light, police say

Collage including a pink map of Barbados, King Charles and Mia Mottley

World
May 04 2023

Barbados activists pushing for LGBTQ+ rights after shedding ‘cloak of imperialism’

Female bikers in a Pride march in Ontario, Canada

Drag
May 04 2023

‘Butch’ female bikers protect drag queen story hour from right-wing bigots

Collage of a map of the Caribbean and a white man holding a holy bible

World
May 04 2023

The Caribbean is shaking off the monarchy – but ‘imported’ Christianity still fuelling homophobia

Trans activist Iman Le Caire holds up her hand near her mouth as she speaks during a protest march

Activism
Apr 30 2023

Iman Le Caire: Trans woman who fled home after being stabbed by own brother is saving trans lives

Sid Miller Texas Agriculture Commissioner

US
Apr 27 2023

Republican orders staff to wear clothes 'consistent with their biological gender'

US
Apr 25 2023

Tucker Carlson: Fox News’ loudest anti-trans voice falls silent – but ‘dangerous’ legacy lives on

Stills of a video posted by conservative John K Amanchukwu Sr where he rants about LEGO supporting the LGBTQ+ community while inside a store

US
Apr 16 2023

Conservative gets roasted online for recording bigoted temper tantrum over Pride pins in a LEGO store

A side by side image of Joe Rogan drinking from a can of Bud Light next to an image of trans TikToker holding a can of Bud Light in her hand

US
Apr 16 2023

Joe Rogan defends Dylan Mulvaney over Bud Light and Nike backlash

Sport
Mar 25 2023

Former Formula One champion fined for racist and homophobic Lewis Hamilton comments

Anti-LGBTQ+ Tennessee governor Randy McNally was caught commenting on gay man’s racy Instagram photos.

US
Mar 15 2023

Randy McNally: Drag ban Republican caught ‘liking’ gay thirst traps quits social media

Composite images of children attending a drag brunch in Canada

News
Mar 13 2023

‘Conservative mum’ goes undercover at drag show in epic spoof video: ‘They’ll never get over this’