The British biologist, science popularizer and star of international atheism was stripped of the 1996 Humanitarian of the Year Award because of a transphobic tweet: Dawkins called trans people “frauds.” The American Humanist Association (an influential educational NGO dedicated to the development and promotion of humanist ideas) announced on its website on April 20, 2021 that it was retroactively withdrawing its Humanist of the Year award from evolutionary biologist, ethologist and prominent

The famous actor, director and openly gay man will play the controversial owner of an exotic zoo, also openly gay, the hero of the Netflix hit documentary. It has become known that the NBC television channel, together with the USA Network, are launching the production of a live-action mini-series based on the real biography of Joe Exotic - the “Tiger King”, the owner of an exotic private zoo, an eccentric homosexual and a complete madman.

The Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan is studying the case of checking “short socks” in one of the schools in Tashkent. According to the ministry, the incident with checking “short socks” occurred only in one educational institution - school No. 110 in the Mirabad district of Tashkent, as reported by Svoboda. Uzbekistan". The press service of the Ministry of Education of Uzbekistan in its commentary specifically emphasized that it did not give such instructions to schools.

Financial assistance is needed for the charity foundation that is making the project “It’s Simple!” on social adaptation of children living with HIV. Goal: collect 780,000 rubles by May 1. The non-profit charitable foundation of Svetlana Izambayeva asks for support in carrying out the social project “It’s simple!” It is aimed at helping children living with HIV.

A local police officer came to the mother of the founder of the Kazan LGBT center “Acceptance”, Mikhail Zaitsev, and threatened her with “criminal liability” for “propaganda of homosexuality” (for which there is no criminal liability). Mikhail himself said on his Facebook page that a local police inspector visited the mother of Tatarstan LGBT activist Mikhail Zaitsev, head of the Kazan center “Acceptance,” for unclear purposes.