LGBTQ Entertainment News

One Twitter user remarked: “I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending.” (Twitter/ Killing Eve) The new Killing Eve trailer has paid beautiful, sapphic tribute to Romeo and Juliet and fans are already “screaming”, “crying” and left with “so many questions”. On Tuesday (1 February), the trailer dropped for the fourth and
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Hunter Schafer’s character, Jules repped a pair of DC Shoes in Euphoria. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO) Hunter Schafer wore some iconic noughties footwear in a recent episode of Euphoria. In episode three of current season of the HBO series, Schafer’s character Jules repped a pair of DC Shoes. The show’s visuals regularly highlight noughties favourites
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PinkNews Futures brought young LGBT+ people together with industry experts and inclusive employers for a day of networking and learning. (Provided) PinkNews Futures arrived in Manchester with a kaleidoscopic line-up of speakers sharing wisdom with young LGBT+ jobseekers. PinkNews‘ flagship careers event travelled to Manchester for the first time, bringing LGBT+ young people together with
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Rylan Clark-Neal during the 2018 Celebrity Big Brother Final. (Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage) Rylan Clark has dismissed the “slow news day” after a negative tabloid report about the British media personality surfaced online. Clark, the cheery British presenter with a hundred-megawatt smile, faced controversy Sunday (30 January) after The Mirror published mobile phone footage of him jokingly
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Indian filmmaker Onir. (Arijit Sen/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) A gay Bollywood’s director has blasted the Indian government’s decision to ban his film about a gay army officer. Onir, born Anirban Dhar, is best known for Mr Brother…Nikhil, one of the first mainstream Hindi films to explore HIV and same-sex relationships. Inspired by the real-life
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The fourth episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 saw the remaining queens deliver on unnecessary drama, tears and Jennifer Lopez. So, the usual, really. “She’s a Super Tease” kicks off with Jasmine Kennedie waxing lyrical about how she feels she should have won last week’s fashion ball over Willow Pill. It’s a fairly standard moment of
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Elsa Frost was jailed after a campaign of abuse directed towards trans reality TV star Chelsey Harwood. (Merseyside Police/Liverpool Echo) Elsa Frost, the so-called “Banter Queen” of TikTok, has been jailed over an escalating feud with a trans reality TV star. Frost, of Whitefield Close in Woodchurch, Wirral, threw paint at the door of Chelsey
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Boris Johnson and Joe Lycett. (Getty/ Daniel Leal-Olivas – WPA Pool and Getty/ Anthony Harvey) Joe Lycett had followers in stitches with a spoof “Partygate” report that you would be forgiven for thinking came from Sue Gray herself. Senior civil servant Sue Gray’s report on lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street was expected to arrive this
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France bans barbaric conversion therapy once and for all (Kay Nietfeld – Pool/Getty Images) France’s law banning conversion therapy has passed its final stages, with president Emmanuel Macron declaring “being yourself… is nothing to be cured”. The sweeping ban, which gives no exemptions for religious conversion therapy, was voted in by parties on both sides
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Lesbian sues US Army and Air Force over boss’ pressure to ‘appear more feminine’ (Screenshot via Fairness West Virginia) A lesbian member of the National Guard is suing the US Army and Air Force after her boss allegedly pressured her to “appear more feminine”. Kristin M Kingrey of the West Virginia Air National Guard (WVNG)
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MP Päivi Räsänen arrives at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland on 24 January. (AFP via Getty/ Lehtikuva / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO) An MP in Finland went to trial on Monday (24 January), accused of hate speech after she said that gay people have a “developmental disorder”. Päivi Räsänen, a seventh-term member of the Finnish
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Adam Rippon reveals that he got married to Jussi-Pekka Kajaala in a “perfect” and spontaneous ceremony on 31 December 2021. (Instagram/@adaripp) Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon has revealed that he secretly tied the knot with his Finnish fiancé on New Year’s Eve. Rippon and his partner Jussi-Pekka “JP” Kajaala first started dating in 2018 after
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A protester holds a ‘We Belong’ placard during a trans rights demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) An Arizona Senate committee has pushed through a bill that would ban trans youth from competing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. Senate Bill 1165 (SB 1165) would prevent trans youth from participating in
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An employment tribunal dismissed a case from a teacher who was sacked from New Christ Church Primary School in Reading over hateful behaviour. (Google street view) A primary school teacher who was sacked after calling colleagues “fat s***s” and “bloody lesbians” had her unfair dismissal claim thrown out in court. Iqbal Khanem was sacked for
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Sha’Carri Richardson. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) The trailer for a new film by Vigil Abloh about the firey-haired star sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson has dropped. Before Abloh, the barrier-breaking Black designer who redefined luxury fashion, passed, he founded the film studio ARCHITECTURE FILMS. Now his film, Sub Eleven Seconds, is set to premiere at the 2022 Sundance  Film
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Jack Monroe. (Mike Marsland/WireImage) Budget cooking blogger Jack Monroe has laid bare the brutal and “infuriating” reality of Britain’s cost of living crisis. Prices in Britain rose at their fastest pace in 30 years in December, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday (19 January). Energy bills, grocery expenses, household goods, motor fuel costs and
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Joe Biden. (Getty) Joe Biden repeatedly vowed to get the Equality Act passed during his presidential run – but one year on from his inauguration, it is still languishing. If passed, the Equality Act would revolutionise LGBT+ rights in the United States. The wide-reaching law would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation
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Cardi B. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Cardi B has pledged to pay for the funerals of the 17 victims who lost their lives after a devastating fire tore through a New York apartment building. On 9 January, a malfunctioning space heater on the third floor set off a fire that left possessions charred, stairwells blackened and thick smoke roaring
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American screenwriter and director Joss Whedon. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) For fans of Joss Whedon, the American screenwriter behind countless cult classics and big-budget blockbusters was always something of a “god”. Whedon, after all, is everywhere. A staple of many a generations’ childhood, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Toy Story and The
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