AntiLGBTQ

Frazer Blaxland--the voice actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's beloved tiefling blacksmith, Dammon--is facing criticism after players noticed him following a number of controversial Twitter accounts, liking tweets that promote homophobia, sexism, transphobia, and other bigoted views, and expressing apparently unwavering support for the IDF's actions in Palestine, which have killed tens of thousands of people.Blaxland (who also voices other Baldur's Gate 3 NPCs, including Anders, Arne Jacobson, and Bunt…

"I do not see the point of inviting the 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with," singer says at Kuala Lumpur's Good Vibes fest The 1975’s set at a Malaysian music festival was cut short Friday after frontman Matty Healy harshly criticized the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ stance onstage. A handful of songs into the band’s headlining gig at Kuala Lumpur’s Good Vibes festival, Healy apologized for even taking the gig in Malaysia, which has strict laws banning same-sex…

GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign have teamed to issue a public letter signed by more than 250 notable names that urges CEOs of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to help curb anti-LGBTQ hate on their platforms by better enforcing policies that protect that community. The full list of signatories includes allies and LGBTQ talent like Elliot Page, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Amy Landecker, Amy Schumer, Angelica Ross, Bebe Rexha, Bella Ramsey, Ben Barnes,…

About once a fortnight, David Ermes gets an email from a journalist or fact checker along the lines of “Boys have to dress up as girls in queer week at school, is it true?”“Of course I can say it’s not true—it isn’t even lawful, since we don’t have school uniforms,” says Ermes, who is head of communications at the ministry of education in Schlewig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state. Over the past year or so he has had to deal with a steady flow of misinformation spread on social media that misrepresents conversations…

When Claire Kouba heard that the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU’s) annual meeting would be held in New Orleans in 2025, she was worried. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, Louisiana had banned the procedure with few exceptions. Kouba—a hydrogeologist at the University of California, Davis, and an AGU member since 2011—had attended the 2022 meeting in Chicago while…

Modelo Especial beer arranged in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBud Light lost its top spot in the U.S. beer market last month, as the brand's sales sagged following a conservative uproar over its partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.Constellation Brands' Modelo led the market as it nabbed 8.4% of beer sales from retail stores in the four weeks that ended June 3, according to NielsenIQ data from consulting firm Bump…

It looks like Activision officially severed ties with Nickmercs, one of Call of Duty's most prominent content creators. The company removed the operator bundle named after him from the Modern Warfare II and Warzone store after he made an anti-LGBTQ comment in response to a tweet about Pride Month protests.Chris Puckett, one of esports' most popular commentators, tweeted about the sad state of the country in response to news about anti-LGBTQ protestors attacking Pride supporters outside of a schoolboard…

Activision Blizzard has removed a skin based on FaZe Nickmercs from Call Of Duty, days after the FaZe content creator posted an anti-LGBTQ+ tweet. On Wednesday (June 7), esports commentator Chris Puckett shared a video that appeared to show individuals assaulting “pro-LGBT demonstrators” outside of a school board meeting in California. While Puckett condemned the attackers and urged them to “let people love who they love and live your own life,” FaZe content creator Nick ‘Nickmercs’ Kolcheff answered: “They should leave…

Credit: Shutterstock Anti-LGBTQ+ hate from religious conservatives and far-right extremists in the United States, and now in Australia, is a worrying trend. It was shocking to see video of an attack on a peaceful LGBTQ+ protest outside a church in southwest Sydney where Mark Latham was speaking in the lead-up to the 2023 New South…

Chris Pratt Once Cleared The Air On Accusations Of Him Attending Anti-LGBTQ Church ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Hollywood star Chris Pratt in 2019 was widely criticised for attending Hillsong Church which some argued is anti-LGBTQ. The actor at the time stayed mum but addressed the same in 2022 in an interview with a leading magazine. The renowned actor claimed that he was not a religious person adding that religion has been oppressive as f*k for a long time. Scroll down to read more. Chris Pratt recently made…