Dozens protested outside a shopping centre in Reading, the site of the UK’s first Chick-fil-A store. (Martin Cooper) A UK parliamentary hopeful in Reading is calling for the city’s Chick-fil-A to stay open despite the chain’s well-documented anti-LGBT donations. Christian People’s Alliance candidate Yemi Awolola is riding a campaign based on restoring “traditional families” and
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Blu Hydrangea and the other eliminated queens will return for the Drag Race UK finale. (BBC) Drag Race UK is bringing back the eliminated queens for next week’s grand finale and we need to know what. Is. Happening?! It was always going to be a risk bringing RuPaul’s Drag Race to the UK. Before the
Baga Chipz and Sacka Spuds (BBC). We’ve all been made up to see just how well Drag Race UK has managed to migrate across the pond from its mother show. But how did the British queens fare flouncing with family? Drag Race UK season 1 episode 7: The verdict. How much Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and
A trans refugee in the Kakuma Refugee Camp was brutally battered by a group of ‘homophobic’ persons’ today. (Supplied) A mob of homophobic people attacked a trans Ugandan refugee in broad daylight at a Kenyan camp, slicing his neck, punching him and then pulling on his genitals. Fleeing to the Kakuma Refugee Camp hospital following
Hillary Clinton. (ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty) Hillary Clinton has said that trans rights pose a “legitimate concer” for cisgenders women’s “lived experience”, despite previously saying she was “just learning” about trans identities. Clinton gave an interview on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, November 12, to promote the book she co-authored with her daughter Chelsea, The
A cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and a donut bag sit on a counter. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images) A trans Dunkin’ Donuts employee, brutally beaten by customers, was allegedly told by management to quit if she couldn’t handle the abuse. In a stinging lawsuit, the woman, identified as ‘Jane Doe’ worked at the fast-food branch in
Robyn Crawford and Whitney Houston circa 1988. (Getty) Whitney Houston and her girlfriend Robyn Crawford once considered waiting outside Wendy Williams’ radio studio to confront her over her comments about Houston, Crawford has said. Crawford is currently busy doing the press circuit following the release of her memoir A Song For You: My Life with
Conservative leader Boris Johnson, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. (Getty) “As we promised,” said the ‘LGB Alliance’ (it’s not clear who on earth asked for this): “QUESTIONS FROM LGB ALLIANCE TO BE ADDRESSED TO PROSPECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES IN THE UK GENERAL ELECTION.” A string of some 20 tweets followed, with 12
Piers Morgan (L) has called Munroe Bergdorf’s comments ‘gobbledygook’. (HGL/GC Images via Getty/Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage) In the Piers Morgan playbook, dealing with people who know a resounding amount more than you do is simple. Call the totally valid point they just said “gobbledygook”. After suffering a stinging defeat when thousands of Good Morning Britain viewers called
Singaporeans form the words ‘Repeal 377A’ in Hong Lim Park on June 29, 2019. (Ore Huiying/Getty) Tomorrow the high court in Singapore will hear the first arguments to overturn Section 377A, a colonial-era law that criminalises gay sex. Singapore’s strict penal code classes sex between men as an act of “gross indecency” punishable by up
The Lib Dems have now launched a disciplinary investigation against Kevin McNamara (Yourthurrockfilms/YouTube) Liberal Democrat candidate Kevin McNamara has been forced to step down ahead of the general election after a series of homophobic and racist tweets were unearthed. The party said it had “immediately opened disciplinary investigations” against McNamara, who was the party’s candidate
Sam Smith misses their family and friends so much while on tour that they may give it up altogether, they have revealed. Smith said that touring is “really, really difficult” and said they’ve had “a bit of a meltdown” after every tour they’ve done. “You go away from all your family and friends for so
Madonna performs onstage during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for dcp) A Florida man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Madonna after she kicked-off one of her concerts two hours later than sold. At her Miami Beach gig, the Madam X singer was scheduled to appear at 8:30pm. Disgruntled fan Nate Hollander,
Keith Vaz has announced his resignation from parliament. (Getty) Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who was suspended after he “expressed willingness” to buy cocaine for two men, has said that he will not be standing at the December 12 general election. Vaz said that he will retire from politics after 32 years as the MP
LGBT+ author Robin Stevenson with copies of the book she was due to discuss at the school (Instagram/@robinstevensonwrites) Queer author Robin Stevenson has condemned an Illinois school for cancelling her visit in response to a complaint from a ‘homophobic’ parent. Robin Stevenson is the award-winning gay Canadian author of Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood
A gay man from Cork, Ireland has revealed that he shared a bus last night with a group of straight men who had gone to a gay club seemingly to mock LGBT+ people. David Murray was travelling home from work on a bus in the city when the group of men got on. They had
Boris Johnson during a general election campaign visit to Diageo’s Roseisle Distillery in Scotland. (Daniel Leal-Olivas – WPA Pool/Getty Images) “Bum boys against Boris” is the latest campaign from UK queer activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants. The campaign, which sees the slogan emblazoned on a series of T-shirts, launched this week and
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
Dan Carden (left) and Conor McGinn (right) are accused of offensive language while on a coach trip (Parliament.uk) A senior Labour politician is accused of changing the lyrics of the Beatles song “Hey Jude” to “Hey Jews” while his MP colleague repeatedly used the slur “poof” during a late-night coach journey last year. Daniel Carden,
A bar in Scotland is winning praise on Twitter after it changed its bathroom policy to make it kinder and more inclusive to trans and non-binary people. The Banshee Labyrinth – which claims to be Scotland’s “most haunted pub” – has had a viral moment after somebody shared the bar’s updated bathroom policy. “One of
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
Teachers at the Catholic high school told the student she could not even sit next to her girlfriend at lunch. (bishop_amat_hs/ Instagram) A gay teenager at a Catholic high school was left “anxious” and “afraid” after she was forced by the school to attend counselling under the threat of being outed by her teachers. Magali
Dawn Butler is the first major candidate to replace Tom Watson as Labour deputy leader (Bloomberg) Dawn Butler, Labour’s shadow women and equalities secretary, has announced she will stand to be the party’s deputy leader following Tom Watson’s decision to resign. Butler is the first major candidate to put herself forward for the prominent role,
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
Drag fans rejoice! RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has just been confirmed for a second season, and the first season isn’t even over yet. In recognition of their new majesty, RuPaul, BBC Three has just committed to broadcasting another season of the award-winning global hit in 2020 – and applications for the next set of sickening
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has been confirmed for a second season. (Getty) Drag fans rejoice! RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has just been confirmed for a second season, and the first season isn’t even over yet. Season one slayed audiences across the globe and was a runway success for BBC Three, with 6.5 million total requests
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
The “world’s first backpacking queen” Pattie Gonia. (Pattie Gonia/ Instagram) Wyn Wiley is an eagle scout, hiker, rock climber and traveller. He is also Pattie Gonia, the self-described “world’s first backpacking queen”, who dances on mountains in six-inch heels and makes fabulous dresses out of outdoor gear. Pattie’s first Instagram post was only a year
The two twin boys were rejected from a daycare because of their fathers’ sexuality (20minutes) A pair of three-year-old twin boys were turned away from a Swiss daycare centre because they have two gay fathers. The playgroup in Lenzburg, central Switzerland, refused to enroll Rafael and Rahul because its owner believes that a gay couple
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