LGBTQ Entertainment News

Piers Morgan (L) has called Munroe Bergdorf’s comments ‘gobbledygook’. (HGL/GC Images via Getty/Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage) In the Piers Morgan playbook, dealing with people who know a resounding amount more than you do is simple. Call the totally valid point they just said “gobbledygook”. After suffering a stinging defeat when thousands of Good Morning Britain viewers called
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Lucy Spraggan and her wife Georgina Gordon. (Antony Jones/Getty Images for Diva Magazine) Singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan has announced that she is splitting from her wife Georgina Gordon, and said that after six years together they will now “part ways on [their] adventure”. The musician, who was a contestant on The X Factor in 2012, announced
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Ireland’s gay Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was at a Lizzo concert in Dublin last night and the absolute indifference of the audience was hilarious. People in Ireland flocked to the Olympia Theatre last night expecting a perfectly spectacular evening at the ‘Truth Hurts’ singer’s first Irish show. Needless to say, people were surprised to see Varadkar
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LGBT+ author Robin Stevenson with copies of the book she was due to discuss at the school (Instagram/@robinstevensonwrites) Queer author Robin Stevenson has condemned an Illinois school for cancelling her visit in response to a complaint from a ‘homophobic’ parent. Robin Stevenson is the award-winning gay Canadian author of Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood
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Dan Carden (left) and Conor McGinn (right) are accused of offensive language while on a coach trip (Parliament.uk) A senior Labour politician is accused of changing the lyrics of the Beatles song “Hey Jude” to “Hey Jews” while his MP colleague repeatedly used the slur “poof” during a late-night coach journey last year. Daniel Carden,
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Teachers at the Catholic high school told the student she could not even sit next to her girlfriend at lunch. (bishop_amat_hs/ Instagram) A gay teenager at a Catholic high school was left “anxious” and “afraid” after she was forced by the school to attend counselling under the threat of being outed by her teachers. Magali
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A ‘rainbow wave’ is sweeping across the US as LGBT+ candidates claim victory in local and state elections (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty) Almost half of the openly LGBT+ candidates claimed victory in US state and local elections this week, in a sweeping movement that’s been dubbed ‘the rainbow wave’. According to the LGBT+ Victory Fund, a political
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The Manitoba government must now allow a gender neutral option for birth certificates (Twitter/@MBHumanRights) The Canadian province of Manitoba has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a transgender person who was denied the right to have the gender marker on their birth certificate replaced with an “X”. The Manitoba government has also been ordered to
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Milo Yiannopolous (left) released a recording of Richard Spencer (right) who clashed with police at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 (Getty) Milo Yiannopoulos, the disgraced former editor of Breitbart and mascot of Boston’s Straight Pride parade, has leaked an explicit, racist recording of fellow far-right activist Richard Spencer. Yiannopoulos was
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Doctors are concerned over new strains of a bacteria which are antibiotic resistant (Pexels) Doctors have expressed concern over the rise of a sexually transmitted bacteria in gay men which they say is now becoming resistant to antibiotics. Researchers studied the bacteria – which is called Campylobacter coli – in gay men in Seattle and
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Virginia lawmaker Danica Roem is facing transphobic attacks from lobby groups as she fights for re-election. Roem made history as the first out transgender state lawmaker in 2017, when she won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Although she primarily campaigned on local issues, Roem’s opponents have sought to weaponise her gender identity
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Donald Trump lifts a baby during a campaign rally. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) announced today that adoption agencies will be allowed to discriminate against LGBT+ people. Ironically, the rule change was announced on the first day of National Adoption Month (November 1). The rule change, effective
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Strictly pros Johannes Radebe and Graziano Di Prima. (Johannes Radebe/ Instagram) Two Strictly Come Dancing pros will perform the show’s first one-on-one same-sex dance this weekend, and head judge Shirley Ballas has said it’s “magnificent”. Johannes Radebe and his Coronation Street star dance partner Catherine Tyldesley were voted off as contestants last week, but Radebe
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Popeyes is bringing back its chicken sandwich this Sunday. (Joe Raedle/Getty) Popeyes has announced the return of its much-loved chicken sandwich, while also throwing serious shade at anti-gay Chick-fil-A. The sandwich was originally released by Popeyes during the summer, but was in such high demand that the chain ran out of stock by August. The
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Katya said that season 7 had a lot of unused talent. (Joseph Shepherd) Katya admitted that Drag Race’s seventh season was “not so good” and hinted at a frosty relationship with RuPaul. The self-styled “Russian hooker” said that the moment she entered the werk room was among “the worst in [her] life”. “They just seemed
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Great British Bake Off winner David Atherton. (Channel 4) Gay baker David Atherton has been crowned the winner of the Great British Bake Off 2019, and he said it was the “best feeling in the world”. The self-described “underdog” managed to out-bake Alice Fevronia and Steph Blackwell in the final on Tuesday (October 29) on
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Rick Genest (L), better known as ‘Zombie Boy’, and Lady Gaga in her ‘Born This Way’ music video in 2011. (Screen capture via YouTube) Canadian officials have ruled that the death of Rick ‘Zombie Boy’ Genest, a model known for his head-to-toe skeletal tattoos, died of “accidental death”, rather than suicide as first suspected. In
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