Tag: discrimination
We Live Here : The MidWest …. how LGBTQ+ families quality of life is threatened in the US heartlands
At Queerguru we have always been very aware of the fact that the trio of places we are based/live i.e. Miami Beach, Provincetown, and London enables our queer lives to be both comfortable and overwhelmingly welcoming. Even as the political climate seems to be shifting away at times now. Even though we are aware…
A 92 year old WW2 veteran/transgender widow denied her rights
Sometimes when we are arguing and fighting for the rights of our LGBTQ community, it’s good to sit back and think about some of the actual people that are affected so badly by all this discrimination. Robina Asti was a WWII veteran and pilot and a very high-powered businessman until 1976 when she transitioned. …
For LGBT couples, vacations are often no laughing matter
Those nice people at Virgin Holidays conducted a new survey on how different people were treated in vacation where they spoke to 1,000 LGBT couples and 1,000 straight couples, and the results are both sad and shocking. One of the things that they uncovered was that only five per cent of LGBT couples are comfortable showing affection…
Holocaust Memorial Day : How Can Life Go On?
To mark the annual Holocaust Memorial Day this year on January 27th, the HMD Trust in the UK have just released this extremely moving video to mark the occasion, and sadly remind us that the world is still not free from all different levels of hatred. It tells the story of Bea Green and her…
Why we LOVE James Corden
The more we see of (fellow Brit) James Corden the unquestionably funniest Late Late Show Host on American TV right now, the more we love him. Watch him here pitch in with his very witty take on why Dalton Maldonado, the star basketball player at Betsy Layne High School in Kentucky omitted from his yearbook because…
