US LGBT Suicide Helpline Flooded With Fake Calls From 4Chan Trolls

Melanie Wilford listened helplessly as her son Dillon let out an agonising scream. It was a chilling noise she was used to. There was rarely a time Dillon wasn’t writhing in pain, begging for his leg to be amputated.

Thirty four years ago a young newly graduated police constable Tim Dooley arrested LGBTQI activist Rodney Croome, who was calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Tasmania. Last week the two met for the first time after over three decades in very different circumstances. This was just the second encounter between Cooley, now a Commander with the Tasmanian Police, and Croome, a former Tasmanian of the Year, who was appointed Member of Order of Australia for his LGBTQI activism in 2003. Croome recalls that in 1988 the LGBTQI community’s relationship with the local police were “at a low ebb”. In 1988, Tasmania’s LGBTQI community started their decade long battle to call for the repeal of the law that criminalised homosexuality with up to 21 years imprisonment.

recent Vuelta a España winner Remco Evenepoel and defending world time-trial champion Filippo Ganna. Related: Ellen van Dijk pips Grace Brown to win Road World Championships opener These were the riders expected to triumph in Wollongong. Not Foss.

It was a big night for HBO’s runway hit The White Lotus at the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning nearly all the major categories it was nominated in. Sydney-born out gay Australian actor Murray Bartlett took home Emmy for best supporting actor in a limited series, while co-star and gay icon Jennifer Coolidge won the best supporting actress in a limited series. In his acceptance speech, Bartlett thanked White for “giving me one of the best experiences of my life” and gave a shout out to his mom. “I just want to thank my mom all the way home in Australia for giving me the most wonderful foundation of unconditional love. And inspiring me to believe that we can all do that for each other.

Reality TV fans cannot deny that Married At First Sight has returned to our screens with a bang! There's jaw-dropping drama, side-eyed cheekiness, heart-warming speeches and seemingly, a lot more chaos to come. And as OK! have been glued to the most dramatic series yet, we're revealing all the gossip from the much-loved E4 dating shows, from sly phone calls to smuggling booze...The Weddings No need for divorces here! While the nuptials used to be legally binding, it changed last year to align with the Australian format – so the brides and grooms aren’t technically married.

the sale never occurred. The Biden administration has taken a less confrontational approach with the app, but many new reports indicate that the private data of TikTok users is stored in China and not in the United States.

Manchester United centre-back Will Fish is set to join Scottish club Hibernian on loan.

brief from the world’s top crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization, LGBTQ youth with one parent in the military face 17% higher odds of experiencing anxiety symptoms, 14%  higher odds of contemplating suicide, and are nearly 40% more likely to have reported attempting suicide in the past year.The data backing up these findings was drawn from The Trevor Project’s 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, which surveyed nearly 35,000 LGBTQ youth ranging in age from 13 to 24 years old.Overall, 5% of LGBTQ-identifying youth reported having a parent currently in the military, a figure that rises to 7% when just counting those youth who are under 18 years old. Geographically, LGBTQ youth in the South report higher rates of having a parent in the military, at 7%, compared to only 4% in the Northeast and Midwest and 5% in the West.

An art teacher has been cruelly trolled for showing her curves in front of her students at school with people accusing her of being "desperate for attention".

tweeted. The backlash comes after the Republican representative from Colorado criticized Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Maryland last week, saying Saturday, “How the heck could Joe Biden call America First conservatives a threat to democracy with a straight face and a dry diaper?”“He’s the one who has allowed millions to invade our southern border,” she said in an interview with Fox News’ “Hannity.” “He’s the one who is robbing hardworking Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.” (No, lesbian dance theory isn’t a real major but rather a blanket term used to describe degrees that have no perceived value in the real-world workplace or in society.)In response to her comment, many called out the representative’s hypocrisy over her disapproval of taxpayer money being spent on things of which they don’t approve.

Naomi Judd‘s autopsy report officially confirmed her cause of death — she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The 24 hours since President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive some or all student loan debt for about 43 million Americans, Republican politicians have stormed conservative media outlets calling it “completely unfair” (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Newsmax) and “reckless” (Rep. Vern Buchanan on Fox Business) and “overeducated elitism” (Rep. Matt Gaetz on the Firebrand podcast).