Michael Sam Jr. doesn’t talk to his father, who has been caricatured in the press as an anti-gay man who abandoned his family. But there’s a lot more to the story. In a yellow-walled room in a Texas nursing home this July, a man in a wheelchair watched a flat-screen TV. He saw Michael Sam […]
A step closer to equality. At a state election forum on Wednesday night, a panel of cross-party MPs unanimously supported an apology to the LGBTI community for police activity at the first Mardi Gras in 1978. View this image › Lane Sainty / BuzzFeed News The panel, hosted by the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, […]
Plot twist! A group of LGBT activists has claimed responsibility for “pinkwashing” a vandalised ATM that had been decorated to celebrate the Auckland Pride Festival. We were sad to see our NZ-designed #gaytmnz has been vandalised overnight. Clean up is in progress. — ANZ_NZ (@ANZ New Zealand) Dubbed ‘GAYTMs’, the colourful machines were first introduced […]