PRIDE Daily
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The world’s ONLY daily LGBTQ+ news podcast. We bring you the top three global stories in just two minutes. PRIDE Daily: LGBTQ+ news for everyone. Listen here:
Today’s line-up… · A transgender girl’s bullied out of an Irish dancing competition in Florida. · Botswana’s big day in the push for same-sex marriage. · Jerusalem’s only gay bar shuts down. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
It’s International Non-Binary People’s Day. Non-binary means someone who doesn’t identify exclusively as a man or a woman. They may see themselves as both, or neither, and this could be a fluid thing. 1/4
Today’s line-up… · Brothers are jailed for the 1984 murder of a man they thought was gay. · A push in the Philippines for easier legal gender recognition. · An LAPD whistleblower could be punished for exposing colleagues’ homophobia. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Today’s line-up… · Far-right Canadian bedwetter Amrit Birring doesn’t like rainbows. · A woman wipes her feet on a rainbow flag at Kyiv Pride. · Russia de-gays SpongeBob SquarePants. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Russia has come up with a new way to stop people being queer - taking the rainbows out of SpongeBob SquarePants. One has been replaced by a big yellow blob during a recent TV broadcast of the cartoon on the 2x2 channel. 1/3
Conversion therapy is to be promoted at a Church of England meeting of its governing body. A five-day gathering of the General Synod begins on Friday in York. It includes an event called “People Change: Sexual Identity Transformation”. 1/3
Today’s line-up… · A transgender student’s perfect ending to high school. · Thugs attack a cancer patient in a wheelchair with eggs at a Pride event. · A teacher who told his pupils LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill is struck off. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Radical right opinion channel GB News is platforming the trope that gay men are paedophiles. A Christian commentator known as Based and Bougie has claimed “Gay men and gay couples are more prone to… child sexual assault with their adopted children.” 1/4
Today’s line-up… · Radical right GB News platforms THAT trope about gay men and children. · A mural for renowned gay Italian poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini is vandalised. · Why the sharks have been circling at an anti-trans demo. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Today’s line-up… · An Oscar winner at Madrid’s well-heeled Pride race. · Hong Kong plans gender-neutral reforms to its sex crime laws. · An LGBTQ+ cruise can’t dock in Turkey ’cos morals. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Today’s line-up… · Is the online hype around new gay dating app Goose legit? · A push for Italy’s lesbians and single women to get fertility treatment access. · Esports at the Gay Games for the first time. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Is the online hype around a new gay dating app called Goose legit? Technology news outlet Wired has been investigating the platform. It’s invitation-only, but invites may be coming from people on Instagram who don’t actually exist. 1/2
Today’s line-up… · Rugby club owners u-turn on plans to quit over homophobia. · Foreign embassies in Russia support queer rights. · Queen Camilla meets Harry Potter’s Wicked Grandma™. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Queen Camilla has sparked a backlash from transgender allies after being pictured with Harry Potter’s Wicked Grandma™. The UK monarch has met with the gender critical author at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the final day of Pride Month. 1/3
Today’s line-up… · The death of gay student Ed Cornes in London is to be re-investigated. · America officially ignores workplace discrimination against trans people. · Juno News publishes fake video linking Pride marchers to paedophilia. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Bans on transgender girls and women, competing in female school sports in two US states, have been upheld. America’s Supreme Court had been expected to oppose challenges to restrictions in Idaho and West Virginia. 25 other states have similar laws. 1/2
An anti-woke Canadian website has published a fake video of Toronto Pride, doctored to feature the chant “We’re coming for your children”. Juno News, which says it “puts the truth at the center of what we do” claims it was unaware the video, linking LGBTQ+ people to paedophilia, was false. 1/2
Today’s line-up… · A woman admits the torture and murder of transgender man Sam Nordquist. · 50 arrests at Istanbul Pride. · Germany’s parliament gets its first same-sex married couple. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
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Today’s line-up… · Police raids on Sydney gay bars lead to a misconduct investigation. · Spain’s a step closer to criminalising conversion therapy. · Dublin Dyke March attracts more than 1,000 people. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Spain is a step closer to criminalising conversion therapy. The lower house of parliament has voted to strengthen the country’s ban on attempts to change someone’s sexuality or gender identity. 1/2
Today’s line-up… · Plans for a conversion therapy ban in England and Wales are finally published. · Asu Kepaoa becomes the latest homophobic Australian sportsman. · South Korea’s first-ever bisexual dating show. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Anyone pushing the abuse known as conversion therapy in England and Wales could face up to five years in prison. The draft of a ban on attempts to change someone’s sexuality or gender identity has been published, having first been promised back in 2018. 1/2
Today’s line-up… · Róisín Moloko Murphy talks transgender again. · Four years since an anti-LGBTQ+ terror attack in Norway. · The Lesbians of Australia. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Today’s line-up… · Transgender activists protest at Stonewall’s London offices. · Queers and allies at Rome Pride are attacked with pepper spray. · Legendary bisexual music exec Clive Davis dies aged 94. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Today’s line-up… · Do police suspect a transgender gran over her grandson’s disappearance? · Nepal’s Supreme Court issues a final ruling in favour of marriage equality. · 5,000 people turn out for Kyiv’s Pride March. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
A massive congratulations to Sky News for finally remembering it has an LGBT (no Q+..?) section after four and a half months.
A transphobic lawmaker has been torn a new one by constituents in Pennsylvania in the US, for deliberately misgendering a colleague during a council meeting. Ed Brzezinski referred to Erie City Council President Tyler Titus, who’s a transgender man, as “Ma’am”. 1/3
Today’s line-up… · A transphobic lawmaker’s torn a new one by constituents. · The young boy abused for waving a rainbow flag at a protest in Albania. · South African culture warrior Ngizwe Mchunu is convicted of anti-queer hate speech. Pod app · smart speaker · YouTube · pod.link/1712324163
Nepal’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of marriage equality - and this time it’s final. There have been previous decisions endorsing queer unions, with same-sex marriages taking place in the country, but these have been open to legal challenges. 1/2