I knew we Tucsonans are pretty proud of our fun little city, but there is a whole gay world out there full of amazing people and we should know a little about their lives. With that in mind, I present to you the Gay News section; a few of my favorite news sources talking about Gay News and Events around the world. Check back regularly for constantly updated news and information that truly matters.
Latest news and features from theguardian.com, the world's leading liberal voice
Multiple allegations of sexual misconduct made against bosses of title billed as safe space for journalists
As it nears its 20th anniversary next year, PinkNews should be celebrating a period that has seen remarkable progress for some but not all LGBTQ+ people in Britain.
Instead, the future of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ website looks uncertain after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James, the couple who run the outlet.
Continue reading...Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendas
The get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, was not just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds.
Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their political agendas, developed under the umbrella of Trump’s Maga vision.
Continue reading...Social and political commentator whose work focused on the environment and the marginalisation of poor people
Jeremy Seabrook, who has died aged 85, was a social and political commentator, and the author of more than 40 books and hundreds of articles.
His work, over 60 years, covered the post-imperial and post-industrial world, focusing on the environment and on the victims of a development designed to enrich others. He early pinpointed the destructive consequences of inequality. “Why is it,” he wrote, “that the rich must become immeasurably more rich before the poor can become even fractionally less poor?”
Continue reading...‘I think we’re just getting a real reflection because people finally feel comfortable to express that,’ campaigner says
Damien Nguyen is 22, out, loud and proud – in every sense.
Nguyen, who uses he/they pronouns, sits on the Mardi Gras board and helps run the activist group Pride in Protest.
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Continue reading...Advocates say the landmark ABS findings show LGBTI+ people are a substantial part of Australian society
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed for the first time that one in 20 Australians are lesbian, gay, bi, trans or gender diverse, or intersex (LGBTI+).
According to ABS head of health statistics, Robert Long, this is the “first nationally representative data of their kind in Australia”.
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Continue reading...Bill authorizes pay raises, strips coverage of trans medical treatments for children and aims to counter China’s power
The Senate passed a defense bill on Wednesday that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895bn while also stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children of military members.
The annual defense authorization bill usually gains strong bipartisan support and has not failed to pass Congress in nearly six decades, but the Pentagon policy measure in recent years has become a battleground for cultural issues. Republicans this year sought to tack on to the legislation priorities for social conservatives, contributing to a months-long negotiation over the bill and a falloff in support from Democrats.
Continue reading...As late as the 1990s, the law sided with fathers over custody on the basis of a woman’s sexuality. I detailed the scandal for Radio 4, and was shocked at the cruelty involved
I am more than just aware of the faint outlines of queer history – it is something I see in Technicolour. I immerse myself in lesbian books, films and art, and have written all sorts of articles about contemporary lesbianism. It is for this reason that I was shocked to learn only recently of the state having removed children from the custody of lesbian mums.
In July, a radio producer contacted me to tell me about 74-year-old Judi Morris, whose son George had slid into heroin addiction and fallen in and out of the criminal justice system. The call started a journey that would end in a radio documentary, Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal.
Sophie Wilkinson is a freelance journalist who specialises in entertainment, celebrity, gender and sexuality
Continue reading...Studio says ‘many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline’
An upcoming Pixar animated television series will no longer include a transgender teenager after Disney removed dialogue that referenced the character’s gender identity.
Win or Lose, which will begin on Disney+ in February, follows different members of a young mixed gender softball team, the Pickles, in the lead up to their championship game. Voices in the show include comedian Will Forte as the team’s coach, Dan.
Continue reading...Lawmakers should break their silence about the escalating anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation in the US Capitol
Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent.
When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963, Governor Wallace traveled to Tuscaloosa to stand defiantly in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium. In tailored suit and tie, the white southern governor, whom Dr Martin Luther King once called “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today”, prevented the two Black students from attending class.
Jay Saper is an organizer of the bathroom sit-in in Congress led by Gender Liberation Movement. Along with Morgan Bassichis and Rachel Valinsky, she is coeditor of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
This article was amended on 17 December 2024 to reflect that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has condemned the Capitol bathroom resolution
Continue reading...Jacktone Odhiambo sentenced to 50 years in prison over killing of housemate in city of Eldoret
The housemate of an LGBTQ+ activist in Kenya has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was discovered in a metal box almost two years ago.
The high court in Eldoret found Jacktone Odhiambo guilty over the January 2023 killing that drew global attention to attitudes toward gay rights in the largely conservative Kenya, where the president, William Ruto, has called gay rights a non-issue, and sex between men is illegal.
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This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial intelligence (AI).
The data regulator also banned X from sharing children’s personal data with third parties to train generative AI and ordered the company to amend its privacy policy to reflect these changes.
X, owned by Elon Musk, has five business days to comply with the decision, which was issued December 16. It has 10 business days to make further changes to its privacy policy that would disallow the company from collecting and using Brazilian users’ data for any unspecified purpose.
In July, an X user noticed that the company had, without informing users or requesting consent, opted all users into allowing X to use their data to train Grok, an AI chatbot built by another Elon Musk-owned company. In September, after the United Kingdom and 10 European data protection authorities filed complaints, X suspended its use of EU users’ data to train Grok.
A month later, X updated its privacy policy to allow third parties to train their AI using X users’ data.
Under Brazil’s data protection law, children’s personal data can only be processed “in their best interest” and when a parent or guardian gives “specific and distinguishable consent.”
Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority’s decision is the latest in a series of powerful moves to protect children’s data privacy from AI systems. Human Rights Watch had reported in June that personal photos and data of Brazilian children were being used to build powerful AI without the knowledge or consent of children or their parents. In July, the regulator issued a preliminary ban on Meta’s use of users’ data to train the company’s AI, citing the need to protect children’s privacy; it later upheld part of the ban to continue preventing Meta from using child users’ data to train its AI.
Other governments should take note. The scraping of children’s data into AI systems threatens children’s privacy and the misuse of such trained AI may further put children at risk of harm. As lawmakers around the world grapple with regulating AI, they should follow Brazil’s lead in proactively establishing data privacy safeguards that would help shape AI into a technology that promotes, not violates, children’s rights.
Tony Ray Baker
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