In the last year, the dad has gone from Trump supporter to LGBT+ ally. (TikTok/ fitxander) A dad covered his entire garden with Pride flags in a show of solidarity with his 73-year-old neighbour who just came out as gay to an unsupportive family. The video was posted by TikTok user @fitxander, a gay personal
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Star Trek: Discovery‘s LGBT+ crew just grew a little bigger as actor Mary Wiseman confirms she is “queer and proud”. Wiseman, a powerhouse actor who plays fan-favourite Ensign Tilly, revealed that she has loved “people of all genders” in a recent interview with StarTrek.com. That small detail almost wasn’t published as the Zoom call’s audio
Podcaster, screenwriter, queer lifestyle writer and loud, proud lesbian Jennifer Lynae Lee has been getting off to male gay porn since her teenage years – and she’s convinced other lesbians do the same for a number of very important reasons. For PinkNews, she explains why. I hold my breath. I listen with my left ear
Surprise surprise, traits of toxic masculinity are more likely to be found in Trump fans (Envato) An entirely predictable study has found that Americans who support traditional stereotypes of toxic masculinity are more likely to back Donald Trump. A team from Penn State University found a correlation between belief in “hegemonic masculinity” – the notion
Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, branded LGBT+ people as “deviants”. (Jack Taylor/Getty) The incumbent president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has won his sixth consecutive term after an election campaign marred by aggressive homophobic rhetoric. On Saturday (16 January) Museveni was once again declared the winner of the presidential election with 58.64 percent of the vote.
Dominque Jackson plays Elektra in Pose. (FX) The number of queer characters on television dropped slightly in 2020, despite the fact that LGBT+ shows “dominated the conversation”. The findings were released in GLAAD’s latest Where We Are on TV report, released on Thursday (14 January). Of the 773 series regular characters scheduled to appear on broadcast scripted
Philip Schofield reacts to the pleas of Patricia, a 73-year=old pensioner unable to pay her energy bill. (Screen capture via ITV) Enduring national treasure Phillip Schofield offered to pay a pensioner’s thumping energy bill Thursday (14 January) after it left her unable to “eat or sleep” and no, you’re crying right now. The British television
Don Lemon eviscerated Lindsey Graham after he publicly criticised Donald Trump, but was seen with him just days later. (Dimitrios Kambouris/MANDEL NGAN/Getty) Don Lemon has absolutely eviscerated anti-LGBT+ Republican Lindsey Graham for pandering to Donald Trump – and it is truly a read for the ages. Graham publicly condemned Trump after the president encouraged a
The first episode sees Elizabeth Hurley join RuPaul, Michelle and Graham. (BBC) Wondering what time Drag Race UK season two is out? Want to know how to watch it from the US? Well, racers, start your engines, because the wait is almost over. After leaks, delays and the small matter of a global pandemic, RuPaul
Robin Morgan-Bentley shared a list of the worst things people have said to him since becoming a father. (Stock image from Envato Elements) A gay man has shared a list of the top 10 bizarre, offensive things people have said to him and his husband since they became dads. Robin Morgan-Bentley shared the list on
Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, branded LGBT+ people as “deviants”. (Jack Taylor/Getty) Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said gay people are “deviants” and the movement for LGBT+ rights is a form of “social imperialism”. Museveni, who has been president of Uganda since 1986, made his comments in an interview with CNN‘s Christine Amanpour, who asked him
Vice president Mike Pence. (Getty/J. Scott Applewhite) Indiana, the home-state of vice-president Mike Pence, could be next in line to ban traumatising conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in a groundbreaking move. JD Ford and Sue Errington, two Indiana Democrats, have introduced bills that would outlaw the dangerous practice in the state. If passed, the bills would
Wendy Stuart Kaplan and Steven Bloomer-Teague will be hosting TriVersity Talk this Thursday at 7 PM ET with featured guests Randi and Bob Barlow. TriVersity Talk is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn.
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. (Focus Features) Conservative commentator Andrew Pierce has defended straight actors playing gay characters by praising Sean Penn for his role as “Harvey Moon” in Milk. No, that’s not a typo – he actually referred to the trailblazing gay politician Harvey Milk, who the film is named after (it’s literally called Milk) as
Julio Lancellotti shared photos of himself with trans women on Instagram. (Instagram) A priest has won praise from his followers after he delivered a powerful message of love and solidarity with trans people. Father Julio Lancellotti, a Catholic priest from Sao Paulo, Brazil, shared photos of himself with transgender women on Thursday (7 January) and
Arnold Schwarzenegger pictured in 2015 in London, England. (Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty/ Paramount) As Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers a scathing takedown of Donald Trump and the US Capitol riots, it’s easy to paint the Terminator as a liberal hero. But that’s not how many LGBT+ people remember him. The former actor, bodybuilder and politician has had quite
Hunter Schafer at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. (Matt Winkelmeyer/VF20/WireImage) When HBO’s Euphoria landed on our screens in 2019, it did that rare thing that a good show is wont to do: made the entire cast famous, almost overnight, and none more so than Hunter Schafer. It was the 21-year-old’s first-ever acting role, and
These LGBT protest signs keep going viral on Reddit. (Reddit) We’re just one week into 2021, and so far, it hasn’t been all that great. Plenty of people had high hopes that 2021 would be somehow better than 2020 – and, in fairness, the bar wasn’t set particularly high, what with COVID-19 ravaging the world
The first episode sees Elizabeth Hurley join RuPaul, Michelle and Graham. (BBC) We’ve seen the Drag Race UK season two opener and believe us – it couldn’t come at a better time. You don’t need us to tell you 2021 has, so far, been every bit as horrific as the-year-that-shall-not-be-named. And, frankly, a new season
Ginny Lemon, one of the new Drag Race UK queens. (BBC) Alan Carr has revealed Drag Race UK fans will notice some major differences from the show’s forced production break. Drag Race UK season two wasn’t immune from the pandemic – with production forced to shut down half-way through as the first wave of coronavirus shuttered,
A trans woman must pay for her own children to be relocated to live with their other parent abroad. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) An Ontario, Canada, court has ruled that a trans woman must pay the travel costs for her two children to move in with their mother in Washington, US. Increasingly isolated from
Former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla) As a stunned America reacted to the violent storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump white supremacist mob, just one thing was certain – Richard Grenell would lie about it all. Ripping pages straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, Grenell continued to spew wily
Jim Parsons. (Frazer Harrison/Getty) Jim Parsons has gracefully waded into the long-simmering debate over whether straight, cisgender actors should play LGBT+ people in film and television. Parsons, 47, reflected in an interview with the Los Angeles Times newspaper on his role in The Boys in the Band, the Netflix flick with an all-queer cast that centred
Transgender people and their supporters march during London’s second Trans Pride in September, 2020. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Gender dysphoria can be a hard one to explain to cisgender people. How do you understand something that you don’t experience? While cisgender people understanding dysphoria may not be the most pressing issue facing trans and
Trans politician Addison Perry-Franks. (Facebook) Addison Perry-Franks, a talented filmmaker and steadfast trans Texan Democrat who sought a career in politics to combat transphobia, has died. She was 39. Her wife, Lacey Franks, confirmed her death in a Facebook post 1 January. “The love of my life has passed away today,” she wrote. “I don’t
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Democrat Jon Ossoff has declared victory in the Georgia election against Republican David Perdue, with news desks yet to officially call the result. Against a rumbling Republican cabal to blindside Congress’ certification of president-elect Joe Biden’s victory and Donald Trump’s roiling claims of voter fraud, Ossoff made the
Owner John McAffrey describes the bizarre moment his staff found his bar bespattered with blueberries. (Screen captures via OKC) A queer bar in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been targeted by an anonymous homophobe who has vandalised the site across two nights. But it’s the bizarre ways in which the bar has been defaced that has
Khairi Saadallah, who stabbed to death three gay men in a Reading park has pleaded guilty to murder. A man who killed three gay men in a ‘terror’ attack in Reading, England, last year believed he had to “kill as many people as possible” as he was “performing an act of religious jihad”, prosecutors said
Queer people in all 50 states now have equal protection from domestic violence under the law. (Envato Elements) Queer victims of domestic violence are finally protected by law in all 50 states after a historic court ruling in North Carolina. North Carolina had been the only state that did not offer equal protection to queer
The Royal Courts of Justice where the High Court is located in London. (Getty/ BEN STANSALL/AFP) Many parents and carers of trans children are afraid to tell their kids about the High Court ruling on puberty blockers, Mermaids has reported. The High Court ruled on 1 December that transgender under-16s must understand the implications both
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