Queer FM Episode October 27, 2015
October 27, 2015
8:04am - 10:30am
-Rapper Wale says being gay is now an 'advantage'
Wale has said while Sam Smith is 'talented', other people have the 'same level of ability'
-Toronto Pride parade moves to July long weekend in 2016
Three trans people elected to the Pride board at the 2015 annual general meeting, where big changes to the annual festival were unveiled
-Four openly gay or lesbian new MPs elected to Ottawa
New faces replace four queer NDP MPs who went down in defeat, retirement
-China could ‘fix’ lack of women by letting men marry each other, academic suggests
-Ruby Rose smashed people’s ideas of gender at the EMA Awards
-Man charged with murder after deadly Grindr date
-Same-sex couples marry in mass wedding hosted by the Taipei government for the first time
Sex-same marriage is however not legally recognized in Taiwan
-Crowd of ISIS supporters stone two gay men to death
-Lawsuit requests 3rd option besides “male” and “female” on passport
-PA Supreme Court candidate suggested lesbians provoke men into shooting them by ‘fondling each other’