The organiser said Straight Pride was a “totally peaceful racist group.” (Modesto News/ YouTube) The organiser of a Straight Pride event was heckled at a city council meeting on Wednesday (August 7) for slipping up and saying that he was part of a “racist group.” Don Grundmann is the founder of the “National Straight Pride
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Gareth Thomas of Crusaders in action during the Engage Super League Match between Crusaders RL and Salford City Reds at Millennium Stadium on February 13, 2011 in Cardiff, Wales. (Stu Forster/Getty) Rugby player Gareth Thomas has revealed that he made contact with a gay footballer who is in the closet. Thomas, who is one of
Transgender Jessica Jones actress Aneesh Sheth says the media is too focused on “sensationalism over their bodies.” An out and proud transgender woman, Sheth plays the role of Gillian—Jessica Jones’ assistant on the Netflix show. Sheth, who made history as the first transgender character to appear in a Marvel series, spoke exclusively to PinkNews about being a
Activists parade during the “March of Diversity” campaigning for the comprehensive trans law in 2017. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty) When conservatives in Uruguay campaigned to repeal a law that provides essential protections for trans people, a vast majority of population stopped it from happening. Trans people have been able to legally change their gender since 2009, but
David Corenswet and Ben Platt in new Ryan Murphy musical comedy The Politician (Courtesy of NETFLIX) The first images have been released from Ryan Murphy and Ben Platt’s new Netflix musical comedy series, The Politician. The upcoming show is Pose creator Ryan Murphy’s first show under a big-budget deal that will see him create exclusively
Landon Cider is a “proud cis woman, lesbian and drag king.” (landoncider/ Instagram) US reality drag competition The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula will be the first in America to feature a drag king. The show is currently available on Amazon Prime video, and when its third season is released this month (August 27) one of the contestants
The organiser of a Straight Pride parade has hit back at her estranged gay son, claiming it is “typical” of gay people to “pull away” from their family. Matthew Mason has vowed to resist his mother Mylinda Mason’s Straight Pride rally, which is set to take place in Modesto, California, on August 24. In an
Two members of the German heavy-metal band Rammstein defied Russia’s anti-LGBTQ policies by sharing a kiss during a concert in Moscow on Tuesday. Guitarists Paul Landers and Richard Kruspe kissed onstage as the band performed “Ausländer,” German for “foreigner.” “Russia, we love you,” the band wrote in an Instagram post accompanied by an image of
Actor and television personality Mario Lopez is facing backlash for claiming it’s “dangerous” for parents to support children who identify as transgender. Lopez, a father of three and co-host of the entertainment news program “Extra”, shared his opinions during a June interview on The Candace Owens Show, a PragerU video series hosted by the 30-year-old
Carissa Pinkston ― an up-and-coming model who has worked for Rihanna’s lingerie line, Savage x Fenty ― apologized Saturday for lying about identifying as transgender, after losing her job over transphobic messages she posted on Facebook, reports the HuffPost. The controversy began in May, when a number of Facebook posts Pinkston made under the name
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R), who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate last week, claims Americans are too “preoccupied with homosexual activities” and “the wife swap shows” and it is ruining everything from TV to the country’s moral direction. Merrill, one of multiple Republicans looking to challenge Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in 2020,
“One Million Moms” is calling for a boycott of Pixar’s Toy Story 4 over what the conservative anti-LGBT group admits is a “subtle” nod to the LGBTQ community. “At the start of the movie, when Woody’s new owner Bonnie goes for her first day of kindergarten, in the background there is a quick scene where
New York Police are investigating after eight posters featuring U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe were found vandalized with homophobic slurs. The New York Police Department (NYPD) hate crimes task force said it was investigating after the posters were vandalized with derogatory slurs at the Bryant Park subway station in New York. Police confirmed to
As some Disney fans continue to vent about the casting of an African-American actress to play the iconic role of Ariel in the new live-action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, many have pointed to a group of biographers of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen who claim that he wrote “The Little Mermaid” as a short fairy tale in 1837
A life-size wooden statue of first lady Melania Trump has been unveiled in near her hometown in Slovenia – but local residents say “it’s a disgrace”. The project was commissioned by Berlin-based American artist Brade Downey, who hired local sculptor Ales “Maxi” Zupevc to carve the statue out of a tree stump by the river
Twitter users couldn’t help but notice First Lady Melania Trump’s rain-soaked white dress offered a very revealing glimpse of everything underneath during President Trump’s Fourth of July “Salute to America” event at the Lincoln Memorial. The First Lady, who pushed the racist Obama birther conspiracy, wore a white Caroline Herrera dress to the event, but
On the last day of Pride Month, rapper Lil Nas X seemingly came out as gay in a cryptic social media post. The 20-year-old singer — who shot to stardom with the country-rap hit “Old Town Road” — asked his followers to listen to his new song, “c7osure,” in which he alludes to his sexuality.