LGBTQ Entertainment News

Caitlyn Jenner on BBC Radio 4 podcast Don’t Tell Me The Score (BBC News/YouTube) Caitlyn Jenner has revealed that the years of training she went through for the Olympics was nothing compared to the lifetime she spent preparing to transition. The former Olympian and member of the Kardashian clan won the men’s decathlon at the

Sadly, queer people all over the world are bullied at school because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. But what is the right thing to do if your teenage bully later comes out as bisexual? That was exactly the situation that one Reddit user found himself in recently. The 27-year-old gay man asked Reddit

A ‘rainbow wave’ is sweeping across the US as LGBT+ candidates claim victory in local and state elections (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty) Almost half of the openly LGBT+ candidates claimed victory in US state and local elections this week, in a sweeping movement that’s been dubbed ‘the rainbow wave’. According to the LGBT+ Victory Fund, a political

The Manitoba government must now allow a gender neutral option for birth certificates (Twitter/@MBHumanRights) The Canadian province of Manitoba has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a transgender person who was denied the right to have the gender marker on their birth certificate replaced with an “X”. The Manitoba government has also been ordered to

Confetti is seen thrown in Dam Square, Amsterdam, one of the top ten most LGBT-friendly cities A new study has revealed the most LGBT-friendly cities in the world, based on a ranking of 77 major world cities. The Wellbeing Index was created by Fitbit and ranks the cities in order of their liveability based on

Most Avengers fans are well aware that Captain America star Chris Evans is a huge LGBT+ ally – but his gay brother, Scott Evans, is a little less known. The two brothers, who are both actors, appeared side-by-side on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to play a game of “Know Your Bro”. Scott and Chris

Milo Yiannopolous (left) released a recording of Richard Spencer (right) who clashed with police at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 (Getty) Milo Yiannopoulos, the disgraced former editor of Breitbart and mascot of Boston’s Straight Pride parade, has leaked an explicit, racist recording of fellow far-right activist Richard Spencer. Yiannopoulos was

Doctors are concerned over new strains of a bacteria which are antibiotic resistant (Pexels) Doctors have expressed concern over the rise of a sexually transmitted bacteria in gay men which they say is now becoming resistant to antibiotics. Researchers studied the bacteria – which is called Campylobacter coli – in gay men in Seattle and

As a young gay man in the closet, Andrew Puccetti began to suffer from OCD, having obsessive and compulsive thoughts about washing his hands and counting steps. Coming out helped him overcome his mental illness. At just nine years old, Puccetti started having this “constant nervousness and anxiety”. He tells PinkNews: “I’d be in class

Russell T Davies has revealed what he’d do if he had a real-life time machine, and it’s heartbreaking. The TV showrunner, who revived Doctor Who back in 2005, spoke to the BBC’s Desert Island Discs about what he would do while reflecting on the life of his husband Andrew Smith, who died in 2018. He explained: “If

Saira Khan attends The Best Heroes Awards 2019 at The Bloomsbury Hotel on October 15, 2019 in London (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty) Loose Women host Saira Khan has said she’d like to see a trans woman become a panellist on the ITV chat show, providing she had something to add to the conversation. Her open-minded

Virginia lawmaker Danica Roem is facing transphobic attacks from lobby groups as she fights for re-election. Roem made history as the first out transgender state lawmaker in 2017, when she won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Although she primarily campaigned on local issues, Roem’s opponents have sought to weaponise her gender identity

The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the owner of a print shop who refused to make a Pride t-shirt because it was against his religious beliefs. Blaine Adamson is the owner of Hands-On Originals in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2012 he declined to print t-shirts promoting a local Pride event, saying: “It goes

“F**k diamonds, try Crystal” (BBC). RuPaul’s Drag Race UK marched back on our screens to spice up our lives and deliver some TLC with an ode to girl groups. But did it reign Supreme over last week’s knockout Snatch Game? Drag Race UK season 1 episode 5: The verdict. How much Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and

Katya said that season 7 had a lot of unused talent. (Joseph Shepherd) Katya admitted that Drag Race’s seventh season was “not so good” and hinted at a frosty relationship with RuPaul. The self-styled “Russian hooker” said that the moment she entered the werk room was among “the worst in [her] life”. “They just seemed

Sgt. Keith Wildhaber, an officer within Missouri’s St. Louis County Police Department A gay police officer has won $19 million in damages from his employer, after he was told to “tone down” his sexuality. Sgt. Keith Wildhaber, an officer within Missouri’s St. Louis County Police Department, had filed a lawsuit in 2017 after he was

Intersex Justice activists protest non-consensual surgeries on intersex people. (IntersexJustice/ Twitter) A trans intersex person has explained, in a moving opinion piece for Intersex Awareness Day (October 26), why they didn’t need surgery to be “fixed”. There are many different ways that a person can identify as intersex, which is an umbrella term encompassing those

Photo illustration of popular dating website Tinder logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Tinder “only caters to cis people” and its attempts to be inclusive of the trans community are “virtue signalling”, say trans folks who’ve been banned from the dating app. Despite having more than 50 gender options,