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How Trump’s rhetoric promotes anti‑transgender views

How Trump’s rhetoric promotes anti‑transgender views

July 31, 2026, 11:43 AM - 7 min read

Trump’s offhand remarks often invoke disgust and paranoia against perceived enemies – for example, toward immigrants, whom he has repeatedly described as dangerous criminals. These same patterns emerge in the Trump administration’s formal communication regarding trans issues.

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40 years on, New Zealand’s legal system still fails gay men

40 years on, New Zealand’s legal system still fails gay men

July 13, 2026, 01:07 PM - 6 min read

The 1986 reform decriminalised consensual anal intercourse – subject, naturally, to the age of consent being respected and with protection for those without capacity to consent. Other forms of male homosexual activity could now occur without the risk of arrest. Female homosexual activity wasn’t mentioned because it had never been criminal.

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Zanele Muholi: Queer activist with global influence

Zanele Muholi: Queer activist with global influence

April 2, 2026, 05:07 PM - 7 min read

Muholi uses the non-binary pronouns they/them/their and prefers the term “visual activist” over “artist” or “photographer”. This makes it clear that their work is explicitly political and is intended to bring about change through transforming how Black LGBTIQ+ people are portrayed and perceived. Their photographs are a powerful meditation on Blackness and being. They summon a new and resistant form of visual language to expose and contest racist violence.

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Senior advocate Meneka Guruswamy becomes first queer MP

Senior advocate Meneka Guruswamy becomes first queer MP

March 11, 2026, 08:37 PM - 2 min read

Guruswamy is the woman who had helped strike down Section 377 that had criminalised homosexuality since 1861 and will now be entering Parliament that had failed, in the last six years since, to construct anything on the ground that that verdict had cleared.Her journey includes defending the RSS and the West Bengal government in controversial cases, raising complex questions about her future role.

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BJP MP Bhim Singh speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the monsoon session of Parliament in New Delhi.

BJP MP objects to ‘GAY’ code for Gaya airport; sparks backlash

August 6, 2025, 01:53 PM - 3 min read

LGBTQ activists criticised Bhim Singh's claim that the airport code is offensive, saying it reveals deep-rooted prejudice rather than genuine cultural concerns.

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