LGBTQ Entertainment News

Life Is Strange: True Colors. (Square Enix) Life is Strange: True Colors, the latest game in the LGBT+ series, will feature a bisexual lead when it’s released in September. Developed by Deck Nine Games since 2017, the story will focus on new character Alex who visits her brother’s hometown of Haven but soon must investigate
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Father Helmut Schüller leads the Pfarrer-Initiative, a group of dissident rebel Catholic priests who support the blessing of same-sex unions. (YouTube/ kondomsteuer) A group of rebel Roman Catholic priests have vowed to defy the Pope’s orders prohibiting the blessing of same-sex relationships, insisting: “We will not reject any loving couple.” The Pfarrer-Initiative (Priests’ Initiative) was
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). (Getty) The British government on Tuesday (16 March) effectively doubled crucial funding to its national rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis, otherwise known as PrEP. Health ministers have injected a thumping financial boost to the routine commissioning of the daily drug, the most effective protection against HIV transmission. The public health grant, used to fund local authority health
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Far-right extremists clash with riot police at a Pride parade in Lublin, eastern Poland, in 2019. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty) A leaked letter has revealed Poland’s plans to replace the Istanbul Convention on violence against women with an international treaty banning abortion and same-sex marriage. It’s understood that the Polish justice ministry is preparing an alternative treaty
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A man identified by social media sleuths as police officer Rick Fitzgerald attending a Proud Boys event. (Facebook) A police officer in Fresno, California, has been placed on paid administrative leave after being photographed attending a Proud Boys protest Sunday (14 March). Rick Fitzgerald allegedly attended the demonstration organised by the far-right nationalist group which
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Andrea Jenkins vice president of the Minneapolis City Council spoke to community members at “The Path Forward” meeting at Powderhorn Park, a meeting between Minneapolis City Council and community members. (Photo by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images) Andrea Jenkins, the first Black openly trans woman to hold office in the US, talked about the
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Tunisian activist Rania Amdouni dressed as a clown in an anti-government protest on January 23, 2021 (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty) Human rights advocates are sounding alarm after a prominent Tunisian LGBT+ activist was jailed for pursuing a harassment complaint against the police. Rania Amdouni, 26, was arrested on 27 February and sentenced to six months in prison
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Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, at a press conference in February (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/ Getty) Hungary’s top court has thrown out Viktor Orbán’s attempt to implement a retroactive ban on trans people’s gender identity being recognised in official documents. Launched last year, the devastating law known as Section 33 legally erases trans people by forcing
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Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have introduced a bill that would allow cisgender students to sue a school if they are ‘forced’ to share school facilities with trans students. Jason Zachary, a Republican congressman from Knoxville, introduced House Bill 1233 at the same time Mike Ball, a Republican senator from Riceville, introduced its sister bill in
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The BBC has defended a conversion therapy debate that took place on the Stephen Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty) BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan Show is facing stinging criticism from the LGBT+ community after it invited two straight cis men and an LGB Alliance representative to debate conversion therapy. Former DUP politician
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There has never been any evidence to support conversion therapy, with even Freud insisting that being gay was not a disease. (Getty/ Imagno) A queer historian has explained that the practice of conversion therapy has always been so indefensible that even the early psychotherapist Sigmund Freud was an “ally”. Queer historian Sacha Coward told the BBC
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Ella Hunt and Hailee Steinfeld in Dickinson. (Apple TV+) Actor Ella Hunt clarified that she “loves women” after her coming out as “queer and happy” was questioned by fans. The 22-year-old, who plays Sue Gilbert on the series about poet Emily Dickinson, opened up about how she defines queerness in an interview with Square Mile.
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Former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas announced he is HIV positive after “evils” threatened to out him. (Clemens Bilan/AFP/Getty) Welsh rugby star and TV personality Gareth Thomas has described being “petrified” each time someone knocked on his door, while he was blackmailed over being HIV-positive. In 2019, Thomas was forced to publicly reveal his HIV
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Fair Play for Women argued at the Royal Courts of Justice that the ONS was “redefining sex” with the word “passports”. (Getty/ ODD ANDERSEN/ AFP) The High Court has ordered the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to amend 2021 census guidance on the question “what is your sex?” after a challenge by the anti-trans pressure group
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Boris Johnson. (Christopher Furlong/WPA Pool /Getty) MPs from across the UK have insisted that any ban on conversion therapy must also include trans people. During a debate in Westminster Hall on Monday evening (8 March), MPs urged the government to ban the harmful, pseudoscientific practice. The debate, triggered by a petition to government signed by
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MNEK on stage in 2018. (Burak Cingi/Redferns) When MNEK released his debut album Language in 2018, he didn’t expect the artwork – which puts queer love front and centre – to be a controversial topic. Sadly, it wasn’t exactly plain-sailing for the British singer-songwriter. He got a coveted spot on BBC News to promote Language. The album artwork was never
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The term “barebacking” became widespread in the LGBT+ community in the 1990s. (Pexels/ Ketut Subiyanto) Like riding a horse without a saddle, barebacking is when someone with a penis penetrates a sexual partner without using a condom. Many people who have any kind of penetrative sex report that going at it without a condom is
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Read Only Memories: Neurodiver. (Midboss) Exploring memories is a major theme of much sci-fi media, but it’s at the core of Read Only Memories: Neurodiver, the forthcoming cyberpunk game from LGBT-focused developer MidBoss. In this world of Neo-San Francisco memories are malleable. Like a hard drive, files can become corrupt, defragmented, or completely overwritten. And
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Around 36,000 people attended the 43rd Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade at the SCG on 6 March, 2021. (Getty/ Brendon Thorne) Around 36,000 revellers attended Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Saturday (6 March), with no need for masks or social distancing. While 2020 saw nearly every major LGBT+ festival either cancelled or converted into digital-only events, Sydney’s
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Drag Race UK star Lawrence Chaney has deleted her Twitter following “disgusting” abuse she received after last night’s episode. The Glasgow drag performer deactivated her social media account following Thursday (4 March) night’s dramatic episode. It’s believed this came out after the episode featured a fallow out between Lawrence and fellow Drag Race UK contestant
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Young trans people and their families living in Alabama have been warned to “run” after the state banned gender-affirming care for minors. Marie Willa, who posted on TikTok as MissWilla, pleaded for parents living in Alabama to get their trans children out of the state and to “somewhere safe”. In an emotional video on TikTok, Willa,
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Mississippi has voted to be on the wrong side of history with an anti-trans sports bill (Envato Elements) The Mississippi House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that will ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams in schools and universities. The Republican-dominated House voted by a margin of 81-28 in favour
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