LGBTQ Entertainment News

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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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