Munroe Bergdorf and Lady Phyll. (Getty/Mike Marsland/WireImage for GAY TIMES) Black trans woman Munroe Bergdorf is schooling 300 investment bankers about racism and transphobia in the UK. It’s a sign of how far we’ve come: Just under three years ago, Bergdorf was publicly shamed by the press and fired from a high-profile modelling gig with
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Far-right Christian group One Million Moms has taken a surprise break from homophobia to instead protest against Disney for daring to stream Hamilton with the “f-word.” We are in the midst of a global pandemic as well as a wide-scale reckoning on systemic racism, but there are more pressing concerns for the evangelical Christian group, which is
President of Poland, Andrzej Duda (Filip Radwanski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) President of Poland Andrzej Duda has narrowly secured re-election, after an ugly election campaign that saw him resort to homophobic dog whistles. According to preliminary results from Sunday’s run-off vote, the ultra-conservative Duda received 10,394,843 votes (51.22 per cent), giving him a wafer-thin margin
Giancarlo Albanese, who attended a circuit party at Fire Island Pines, New York. (Screen captures via Instagram) An attendee of a July 4 Fire Island, US, party that saw beaches swell with hundreds of toned torsos, rarely wearing face coverings or abiding by social distancing rules, has spoken out amid stinging criticism. Giancarlo Albanese, a
Mark Feehily of Westlife. (Christie Goodwin/Getty Images) It only took the ballroom contest 16 years and around 240 mixed-sex couples, but Strictly Come Dancing is foxtrotting its way out of the dark ages and featuring a same-sex dancing couple. And Westlife star Mark Feehily is top of the bookie’s lists of celebrity men tipped to
A Boystown Chicago banner hangs along Cornelia Avenue in the Boystown Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) In weeks to come, those half-drunkenly ordering taxis to Chicago’s queer neighbourhood won’t be typing in Boystown, but rather “Queerville”, “New Town”, or “Spectrumville”. Around 1,200 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for local leaders
Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis has shared their heartbreaking story of how they learned about their medical history. In a Twitter thread shared earlier this week, Pagonis – who has reclaimed the word “hermaphrodite” – said that they had recently discovered new information about their body that they hadn’t previously known. When they were 18-years-old, Pagonis
Graham Norton on December 4, 2018 in London, England. (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty) Graham Norton was afraid that he was going to die after he lost half his blood in a horrific stabbing in 1989. The Irish talkshow host opened up about the terrifying experience in an interview with author Adam Kay for his new
Police breaking up a fight outside a pub in Soho on July 4, 2020 in London (Peter Summers/Getty) Westminster City Council is introducing a raft of new measures to stop overcrowding after photos of a packed Soho led to public outrage last weekend. There was swift condemnation last weekend when photos of overcrowding in Soho
Sweeping changes made to Tasmania’s gender recognition laws last year have made trans lives easier without creating any unintended consequences for cisgender people, according to the country’s Law Reform Institute. Last year, the Tasmanian government passed new laws which made gender optional on birth certificates and allowed trans people to legally identify as their correct
Naya Rivera and her son, Josey Hollis. (Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images) Glee star Naya Rivera, known for playing the sultry, sassy cheerleader-turned-singer Santana Lopez, was reported missing Wednesday night (July 26) and, authorities said, feared dead. Rivera, 33, who starred across all six seasons of the Fox network series, rented a boat in Lake Piru, California,
Army Sergeant Shane Ortega laces up boots before posing for a portrait at home at Wheeler Army Airfield on March 26, 2015 in Wahiawa, Hawaii. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Democratic lawmakers have pressed for an end to Donald Trump ‘s ban on transgender people serving in the military, in wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling
Turkish president Recep Erdoğan gestures. (Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Turkey’s president Recep Erdoğan offered a thinly-veiled defence of a homophobic tweet from the head of the country’s largest humanitarian agency. Erdoğan, the ruling Justice and Development Party founder, accused LGBT+ people of “sneaking up on our national and spiritual values again” and claimed
Michelle Steel, president of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and a candidate in California’s 48th congressional district A video has surfaced of a Republican congressional candidate bragging about pulling her daughter out of college because she supported equal marriage. The video appears to show Michelle Steel, who is president of the Orange County Board
David Starkey. (David Levenson/Getty) David Starkey issued an apology Monday (July 6) after fielding intense accusations of racism for suggesting that slavery was not genocide because there are “so many damn Blacks” in Britain and Africa. The author of several books about Henry VIII and his wives, and a frequent guest on British television and
Tessa Thompson has said that the next phase of Marvel films will “push the bounds” of representation. The Thor star plays the superhero Valkyrie – who is bisexual in the comics but has so far had most references to her sexuality left on the cutting room floor. Thompson has already told fans to expect a queer
A viral video of a guy surprise proposing to his boyfriend has turned us into a blubbering, weeping mess – and serves as a timely reminder that there are good things in the world. In the video, Cody distracted his boyfriend Brandon by asking him to look at something in the distance. He then quickly
Another Black trans woman has been killed in a brutal shooting, making her at least the 21st trans person murdered so far this year in the United States. Bree Black was found dead at her home on Friday night (July 3) after a fatal shooting. Police in Florida were called to the 200 block of
This “ladies man” thought he was straight – until he had a stroke and ended up in the care of a handsome gay nurse, he revealed on First Dates. Adam, who appeared on First Dates in 2014, went down a storm with viewers at the time – and now the clip of his date has resurfaced, reminding viewers
Nicholas Petricca of Walk the Moon has come out as bisexual (Steve Jennings/Wireimage) Walk the Moon lead singer Nicholas Petricca has proudly come out as bisexual in an emotional video about the importance of living your truth. The singer-songwriter came out to his 100,000 Instagram followers in a powerful video recorded on the last day
Indian sprinter Dutee Chand. (NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images) The fastest woman in India, Dutee Chand, has sought to inspire fellow sprinters and sporting enthusiasts alike to come out as queer and emphatically told same-sex couples: “Please, do not be afraid.” The 24-year-old told American diplomats, New Indian Express reported, that coming out as queer
Gay Utah County commissioner Nathan Ivie. (Screen capture via Twitter) An American gay commissioner who lost a local government election feels the reason he failed to win was “absolutely” because he is gay. Utah County Commissioner Nathan Ivie, 40, who came out as the state’s first openly gay elected Republican last year, was one of a
Tanya Compas, Otamere Guobadia and Electra Pain (L-R) taking part in the TikTok Pride campaign. Pride Month has drawn to a close for another year, and street parties are still out of the question, but that shouldn’t stop us from coming out together to celebrate our queerness. June 2020 was a Pride Month unlike any
Paris Jackson is set to play Jesus Christ in the new film. More than 277,000 people have signed a petition to stop Paris Jackson playing a lesbian ‘gender-bending’ Jesus in new film Habit. The queer actor, musician and daughter of Michael Jackson is set to take on the role of Jesus Christ in the upcoming
LGBT+ South Africans wave Pride flags at Durban Pride Festival. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images) Lawmakers in the upper house of South Africa’s parliament passed a bill Wednesday (July 1) that bars marriage officers from objecting to marrying same-sex couples. South Africa remains an outlier in the patchwork of policies and laws in Africa wired to erase
Billy Porter. (Getty images) In becoming the first openly gay man to cover ESSENCE magazine, Billy Porter delivered a grand creed on the impunity felt by those who slay Black folk and addressed the concerns expressed by religious homophobes over his “salvation”. The Pose star featured on the magazine’s July/August 2020 issue in an Aliétte dress
Cars drive past a billboard featuring Black trans model and activist Jari Jones in an advertisement for Calvin Klein. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Popping a bottle of champagne, a Black trans plus-sized woman looked up at a billboard on Lafayette Street, in New York’s lower Manhattan, to see herself. Model Jari Jones was surrounded
One of the UK’s largest LGBT+ swingers festivals has been cancelled, citing coronavirus safeguarding measures. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato/Aurora Lifestyle Festival) Social distancing measures have imbued every aspect of life – pad-locking the economy, stonewalling loved ones from one another and… leading to the cancellation of Europe’s largest swingers festival. Nothing is sacred, not
Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon. (John Berry/WireImage) In a momentous landslide victory for LGBT+ activists, the upper house of the Gabon parliament, the Senate, voted to decriminalize homosexuality. It comes after lawmakers in the lower house of the west coast central African country voted to reverse a law criminalising same-sex relations that was only
Brayla Stone. (Facebook) Brayla Stone, a 17-year-old trans teen with a fondness for making her own original music, was found dead on 25 June 25 in Arkansas, US, in a suspected murder. In a volley of local media reports that have slothfully misgendered her, Sherwood Police Department patrol officers responded to calls at 2:55pm about
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