News : May 3rd 2026
- May 2
- 4 min read
'Classless Trump' jeered for 'very rude' interaction with King Charles on White House lawn
Social media cringed at President Donald Trump barging ahead of King Charles in a receiving line with his top administration officials.
The 77-year-old king shook hands with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top cabinet officials before begging off halfway through the receiving line, and the 79-year-old president sauntered past and picked up shaking hands where Charles had left off.
EU court rules against Hungary’s LGBTQ+ media ban: Repeal it or possibly face fines
This is the first time that an EU court found that a member state violated one of its founding values.
The highest European Union court ruled that Hungary’s ban on LGBTQ+ content in schools or primetime television violates EU laws and treaties and must be repealed. Hungary voted out Viktor Orbán, the prime minister behind that bill, earlier this month, and now needs to respond to the EU’s demand.
“There is now no excuse for the Commission not to require Hungary to quickly withdraw the law,” said Katrin Hugendubel, ILGA Europe’s deputy director. “Hungary cannot enter a post-Orbán era without repealing [anti-LGBTQ+] legislation, including the Pride ban. If [incoming Hungarian prime minister] Péter Magyar truly aims to be pro-EU, he must place this at the top of his agenda for his first 100 days in office, as an essential part of his EU-facing reforms.
Meryl Streep praises queer fans & fashionistas: ‘Would we have anything without gay people?’
The iconic, award-winning actress has long been an LGBTQ+ ally and an inspiration with her many roles as unapologetically powerful women.
Legendary Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep praised gay fashion designers and creatives in general in an interview with Out magazine yesterday, adding that she helped create her upcoming film, The Devil Wears Prada 2, with the LGBTQ+ community in mind.
Streep spoke with the publication about her upcoming film, in which she’ll reprise her iconic role as Miranda Priestly, a powerful, withering editor of a world-famous fashion magazine. Out‘s interviewer asked Streep how she felt about her lines of dialogue from the original 2006 dramatic comedy being repeated as ironic punchlines by gay fans in everyday conversation.
Russia’s sweeping LGBTQ+ visibility purge. Seven support groups outlawed this spring, one court ruling at a time, as “extremist organisations”
Russian courts have designated seven LGBTQ+ rights organisations as “extremist” in the space of roughly as many weeks, with two more cases pending, regular fines to streaming services, and a parallel criminal investigation now reaching into the country’s largest book publisher. The assault against LGBTQ+ representation has been ongoing since the Supreme Court banned the non-existent “International LGBT social movement” in November 2023, but these past few weeks show an intent willingness to squash any support networks remaining.
Trump DOJ says LGBTQ+ legal protections are “anti-Christian,” pledges to erode them further
The report envisions a Christian Nationalist future that privileges Christian “religious expression” above LGBTQ+ equality.
A 197-page report released Thursday by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias said that pro-LGBTQ+ policies pursued by former President Joe Biden are anti-Christian. Biden is Roman Catholic, and numerous Christian groups support LGBTQ+-inclusive social policies.
“The Biden administration’s policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices. These conflicts frequently arose over abortion, gender ideology, and sexual orientation,” the report says, focusing almost entirely on so-called anti-Christian federal polices, some allegedly antisemitic ones, and none affecting other faith communities.
A politician made graphic comments about his gay colleague’s sex life. Now he’s paying the price.
He has promised to appeal the “absurd” “woke” ruling.
An Australian legal tribunal ordered former parliament member Mark Latham to pay $100,000 to current parliament member Alex Greenwich for unlawfully vilifying and sexually harassing him over his homosexuality, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. The case involved public statements Latham made on social media, in the Saturday Telegraph newspaper, and on the online radio station TNT Radio. While the tribunal told Latham to delete his homophobic social media posts about Greenwich and refrain from making similar unlawful statements, Latham has pledged to appeal the tribunal’s ruling.
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