Current Affairs News

Daniel Issues Dignified Response to Detractor

Posted on 13 May 2024 in Current Affairs

Acting legend Daniel Radcliffe has issued a dignified and calm statement after certain tabloid right wing newspapers printed remarks made about him and Emma Watson by anti-transgender author Joanne Rowling. Rowling had criticised the pair for not agreeing with her anti-trans rhetoric. Mr Radcliffe's considered response reads: "I realize that certain press outlets will probably want to paint this as in-fighting between J.K. Rowling and myself, but that is really not what this is about, nor is it what’s important right now.

Internet Disinformation Targets Abortion

Posted on 29 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

Imran Ahmed, writing for the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which has recently emerged victorious from a court case brought against it by billionaire transphobe Elon Musk, says that the group has produced a new report showing how major internet corporations are skewing the debate on abortion

Gloucester Police Apologise for Past Wrongs

Posted on 18 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

In a press release, the Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights expresses thanks to Gloucestershire Police becoming the fourteenth police force to apologise for past homophobic witch-hunts and discriminatory law enforcement. In a letter to LGBT+ campaigner P

Extremist TV Channel Challenged by Eco Group

Posted on 15 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

Despite its association with the now quit gay male television pundit Dan Wooton, the right wing television channel GB News is generally considered hostile to LGBTQIA+ rights, and particularly those of transgender women, the supposed dangers of, it continually fea

Charges Brought in Michigan Murder Case

Posted on 14 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

US based LGBT+ newswire Them reports that an eighteen year old heterosexual male has been arrested for the murder last June of gentle and caring black transgender woman Ashia Davis, whose compassion and humanity had led her to graduate from a nursing course and she was looking fo

Apr

Edinburgh Discussion on Abolitionism

Lighthouse is a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop in the Scottish capital Dùn Èideann / Edinburgh.

Apr

Countering Hate Online with New US Laws

The Campaign for Countering Digital Hate, which monitors and advocates against the worst hateful excesses of the internet, says that it welcomes a draft bill before Congress. The

Mar

Public Believe that Prison Reform Needed

The Guardian Media Group reports that a majority of the British public, albeit a small one, believe that pregnant and nursing mothers should not be sent to prison where a community

Mar

Horror at Right Wing TV Channel in the UK

The right wing news channel GB News has been described as "riding roughshod" over broadcasting laws in the UK, which are designed to defend fair access and a reasonable level of im

Mar

The Irish public broadcaster, RTE, has started broadcasting the internationally syndicated LGBTQIA+ newsmagazine programme This Way Out. Produced in Los Angeles,