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"The first thought I had was, 'Wow, I sound really gay', he said. 'And then I thought, I am gay. What's wrong with sounding gay?' This, he explained, led him onto 'gay voice'. He opined that 'if you're in the gay community, you are on the spectrum of gay voice. Everybody's on the spectrum.' Placing himself as a 'moderate gay voice person,' Jackson said he'd spent years being 'very afraid to come across as gay.'"

Many of us idealize a day in which no one needs to "come out," when wherever someone falls on the gender or sexuality spectrum is accepted and embraced. Sadly, today is not that day - the world can be cruel (and often is) to anyone who doesn't fit into the heteronormative bubble. But if you're here, it probably means the last thing you want to do is contribute to the mental and emotional toll put on LGBTQ young people.

Apple has confirmed that it has removed two of China's most popular gay dating apps - Blued and Finka - from its app store in the country following an order from authorities. "We follow the laws of the countries where we operate. Based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China, we have removed these two apps from the China storefront only," an Apple spokesperson said.

I remember the moment it happened - the single spark that set my body aflame. Cecelia stood behind me on the Pilates reformer and pressed her legs into my back, her hands into my shoulders. The strength of her long, lean limbs drove me into submission. Her perfectly-highlighted blonde hair tickled the back of my neck. "Connect your pubic bone to your sternum. Hold it." Her voice was deep, throaty.

Doctors had told her she was a boy, but that she had an illness, which was why she couldn't urinate standing up. They told me this is a problem, the 60-year-old from Hong Kong says. And that in the future, you cannot marry, you cannot have a baby, so you need to have surgeries. Having been bullied at school for her ambiguous gender presentation, she found the idea that she could be modified back to normal a compelling one.

Members of the congregation have painted the church's front steps in rainbow colors in what its pastor, the Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison, calls an act of "sacred resistance." Church leaders and congregants wanted "to make sure that our neighborhood had a visible, bold statement to say that they are not being erased," she says. Oak Lawn is a heavily LGBTQ+ enclave, and Griffin-Allison sees her church as a sanctuary for the community in Dallas and all of Texas.

China's main internet regulator and censorship authority ordered Apple to remove two very popular gay dating apps its App Store last weekend: Blued, an app with an estimated 56 million users; and Finka, which has 2.7 million users. The apps remain functional Chinese people who've already downloaded them, but their removal is just part of China's ongoing crackdown and censorship campaign against its LGBTQ+ citizens.

Eight nurses are challenging a policy which allows the single-sex room at Darlington Memorial Hospital to be used by Rose Henderson, a biological male who identifies as a woman.

Last week's election triumph for incoming NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani got attention for a lot of reasons, among them the fact that he's one active politician who remains openly supportive of trans communities-as opposed to demonizing them for conservative brownie points, or avoiding the subject whenever possible like most mainstream Dems now. It was a rare piece of good news in that sphere these days, after years of transpersons being the target of choice for gratuitous, paranoid attacks

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed district judge David Hittner's 2023 ruling that Senate Bill 12 was unconstitutional, meaning businesses could be fined $10,000 (£7,600) for hosting so-called sexually oriented performances. Drag artists could be charged with a class-A misdemeanour, punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 (£3,000).

Over the weekend, Georgia Tennant posted a series of screenshots on her Instagram Stories, detailing some of the horrendous messages she has received on the platform. In one post, shared by Metro, a troll dubbed Tennant "sick" and told her to "die" and to "go back to the street". They also shared a false claim about her marriage to Good Omens actor David Tennant, branding her the "ex-wife" of the actor. Other messages called her "disgusting" and a "dirty w****" who deserved to "die for good", per the Daily Mail.

The archival visual threads running through the magazine incluse "a squirting cucumber, an ancient Greek fertility statue, and a young Björn Borg looking at you excitedly, holding a small present," Merel says. The creative director collaborated with Kees de Klein for these odd yet cohesive images, pulled from his own personal archive, alongside Torbjørn Rødland's portfolio of images. Kees also shot portraits of Feeld members for the magazine's meet cute section, which he described as "like going on eight different dates", Merel says.

'I write publicly because I want to share this last journey, as I have shared so much of my activist life with you. You gave me a life's cause. It is wonderful to have had a life's cause: freedom and dignity for lesbians. I believe that's what lesbian feminism is really about: sharing. We built a movement by telling each other our lives and thoughts about the way life should be. We cut against the grain and rethought almost everything.'

For decades I've read about Diane and me being best friends rather than lovers. We weren't just friends. We aren't just friends. It was simply a burst of passion that lasted for years. And yes, I liked men too, but that didn't conflict with my love for Diane, the billionaire explained in his memoir.

The BBC has ruled that one of its most recognizable anchors breached impartiality standards after she changed the scripted term pregnant people to women live on air, a moment that went viral and was cheered online by gender-critical activists, including Harry Potter author JK Rowling. The British broadcaster's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) found anchor Martine Croxall's facial expression and audible hesitation amounted to an implicit stance in the ongoing battle about trans language and categories.

In Pokémon GO, Community Days are a monthly event which see a specific Pokémon spawn on the game's map at an increased rate for a set period of time. Alongside giving trainers a chance to up the amount of candies they have for that specific Pokémon - vital for powering up and evolving - the increased spawn rate means you also have a boosted chance of encountering the much sought-after shiny variants, and the event also provides trainers with an exclusive attack as a reward for evolving the spotlighted Pokémon to its final form.