Tag "Homophobia"
Eddie Murphy talks about regretting his ‘ignorant’ old jokes about AIDS and homosexuality
Eddie Murphy has said he now ‘cringes’ at his old anti-gay jokes. The comic had a decidedly homophobic start in comedy, with his 1983 special, Delirious, opening with a five-minute
Homophobe claims Homosexuality can’t be loving because anal sex is painful, and gets shut down by Twitter
Logging onto Twitter and seeing a homophobe on your timeline is almost par for the course these days, but one bigot got schooled after she said homosexuality isn’t loving because
Lil Nas X says he was scared of losing fans by coming out as gay but was ‘pushed by the universe’
Lil Nas X said in a recent interview that he didn’t initially plan to come out as gay, in part due to his fear of alienating some of his fans.
BBC’s LGBT correspondent Ben Hunte reveals the homophobic abuse he receives
The BBC‘s LGBT+ correspondent Ben Hunte has revealed some of the homophobic messages he’s received after his personal phone number was leaked. Hunte, 27, is a gay journalist who became
THE NAME OF MY GIRLFRIEND
Perhaps I was the one who made the mistake of linking my brother to my friend. Not like there had been a lot of options at the time: the family
Lil Nas X responds to the homophobic reactions to his coming out
Hip hop star Lil Nas X took to Twitter on Sunday to make a revelation that nobody saw coming. Although the 20-year-old didn’t specifically say ‘I’m gay’, he asked fans
Facebook Gets Messy With Olumide Glowville’s Hypocrisy
Every now and then, a person with social media influence of Facebook – i.e., a Facebook celebrity, defined as someone with many followers, many likes with each post he makes,
THINKING ABOUT GOD, THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM AND THE OTHERS
For the longest time, even when I was a growing child, I never really understood why people felt so negatively toward gay people. I always wondered why people had so
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE TESS?
Over time, I have come to realize that I love being around tomboys, and even having them as friends. Typically-feminine girls are not at all my fancy, because I was
A CRASH COURSE ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE GAY (Education For Those Who The Shoe Fits)
It started with the viewing of an IGTV video. A 3-minute clip of Ireti Bakare-Yusuf (@sisiogelagos) talking about LGBT Pride, which I found both startling and pleasing, because it seemed
