US: 5.6% identify as LGBT+, Gallup poll finds

EILE Magazine A record 5.6% of Americans – or 18 million people – are LGBT, a Gallup poll found on Wednesday, attributing a significant increase to greater social acceptance. The 2020 survey showed a 24% rise from the last poll in 2017, when 4.5% of adults identified as LGBT+. The increase was largely driven by Generation

US: Openly gay Arlando Teller is ally for tribal nations

EILE Magazine Get more Native Americans to school, equip tribes with broadband internet, and help indigenous communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Formidable goals for an incoming government official, but ones which Arlando Teller, an indigenous lawmaker in President Joe Biden’s administration, is determined to achieve. Teller, 47, wants to use his appointment to campaign

Reviewing I Care a Lot

Afterellen When I first saw ads for the new thriller I Care a Lot, I assumed it would be a smell-alike for Gone Girl. We heard you liked Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, so we’re bringing you Amy Dunne, complete with confessional voice-over! This time our villainess has dispensed with The Cool Girl and has

Stuff Lesbians Love: Rizzo from Grease

Afterellen Rizzo, from the 1978 musical film Grease, is a hot-headed, rebellious teenager who smokes, drinks, and does whatever she pleases. Stockard Channing played the character of Rizzo when she was thirty three-years-old, having been a teenager in the 1950s, when Grease was set. There are many reasons why lesbians love Rizzo: she’s a misunderstood,

Israel: Homophobia soars amid COVID lockdowns

EILE Magazine Homophobia and transphobia surged by 27% in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic, as lockdowns trapped gay and transgender people at home with abusive families, one of the country’s oldest LGBT+ rights groups said. The Aguda received a record 2,696 reports in 2020 – up from 2,125 the previous year – with sharp increases

Ghana: Anti-gay uproar closes first LGBT+ centre

EILE Magazine Anti-gay outcry has forced Ghana’s first LGBT+ community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors, three weeks after it opened, its founder said on Tuesday. Church groups, politicians, and anti-gay rights organisations have called on the government to shut down the centre, run by local charity LGBT+ Rights Ghana, and