LGBTQ

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

Dr Ronx Ikharia in a promotional photo for The Truth About Boosting Your Immune System (BBC) After appearing on TV screens in BBC documentary The Truth About Your Immune System recently, viewers took to Google and Twitter to find out more about presenter Dr Ronx Ikharia, an incredible trans and non-binary A&E doctor, role model,

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

A preview for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 has pitted the losing queens against each-other. (Screen captures via YouTube) Tensions are higher than they are in Congress in the Porkchop Loading Dock in a sneak preview of episode two of season 13 RuPaul’s Drag Race. In the clip, it shows RuPaul keeping up the hotly-anticipated season’s

Bisexual mayor Christy Holstege hit out at those travelling abroad during the coronavirus pandemic. (Facebook) Christy Holstege, mayor of Palm Springs in California, has slammed the “white privileged people” flocking to resorts for holidays as coronavirus cases surge. Many queer people have been watching in horror in recent weeks as influencers – many of them

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

Aaron Schock has faced backlash after sharing photos of himself holidaying in Brazil with other influencers as coronavirus cases surge. (Instagram) Aaron Schock is facing backlash once again after he shared photos of himself holidaying in Brazil as coronavirus case numbers surge in the United States. The disgraced former Republican congressman, who came out as

Donald Trump speaks during a rally in support of Republican incumbent senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of Senate run-off in Dalton, Georgia on 4 January, 2021.(AFP via Getty/ MANDEL NGAN) Donald Trump pleading with Georgia election officials to “find” more votes has already been remixed with the song “Seasons of Love” from the

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 Nightingale Club in Birmingham has offered to assist with the vaccination roll-out in the city. (@NightingaleClub/Twitter) The Nightingale Club in Birmingham has offered its venue to help with the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in the city. In a tweet today (4 January 2021) the iconic club wrote: “Following the amazing lead taken by @BrewDogJames we

Owen Jones (left) ad Judith Butler on the Owen Jones Show. (YouTube) Feminist writer Judith Butler has given her theory on why JK Rowling has deemed it necessary to speak out on trans lives. In an interview with Guardian journalist Owen Jones, Butler spends an hour talking about trans rights, feminism and intersectionality – and,

NikkieTutorials, real name Nikkie de Jage. (Screen capture via YouTube) YouTuber NikkieTutorials has opened up about her experience of 2020 which saw her blackmailed into coming out publicly as trans as well as being robbed. The makeup guru, known off-screen as Nikkie de Jager, revealed she was trans in a YouTube video published in January

Things got, er, odd in the first trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. (Screen captures via Twitter) Drag queens, start your engines – the official trailer for the long-awaited second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK dropped Sunday evening (3 January) and yup, we are absolutely gagging for it. Immediately sparking hope that maybe 2021

Busy Phillips (L) and her child, Birdie. (Getty/Instagram) Busy Philipps revealed Thursday (31 December) that her eldest child is gay and uses they/them pronouns. Yes, believe it – a positive, wholesome news story. They still do exist! The 41-year-old Dawson’s Creek star opened up about raising Birdie Leigh, 12, with husband Marc Silverstein on her

Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock. (Instagram/@jvn) Jonathan Van Ness has opened up about his relationship with Mark Peacock after the pair quietly married in 2020. Taking to Instagram Saturday afternoon (2 January), the Queer Eye star shared adorable photographs of them together, his “favourite moments” of last year, he said. They ranged from re-enacting

Video footage showed the moment a cruise sank as rescue boats scrambled to save passengers from drowning. (Screen captures via Twitter/@fitnessgayz) As Mexico’s coronavirus caseloads soar, a queer party boat packed with some 60 people sank to the depths of the ocean Friday afternoon (31 December). Startling mobile phone footage uploaded to social media showed

(From L-R) Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson and Cynthia Erivo. (Getty) For season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, making history is commonplace. From featuring the series’ first trans masculine contestant to it being filmed completely under coronavirus restrictions – now it’s a constellation of stars set to make appearances that will be yet another addition to

Celine Dion and Celine Dion. (Twitter/ ThomasDodd1 and Getty/ Frazer Harrison) A 30-year-old gay man from Staffordshire drank so much one night during the festive period that he legally changed his name to Celine Dion. On 30 December, the man formerly known as Thomas Dodd posted a photo on Twitter of a pile of paper

The circuit party was attended by 2,000 shirtless, maskless men. (G1) A circuit party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was shut down by police and firefighters after thousands of maskless men attended as the city’s COVID cases soar. The Festa Revolution gay circuit party took place on Tuesday (29 December) at Faro Beach Club in the

Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock got married with their families watching via FaceTime. (Instagram/ MarkLondon) Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has revealed the happy news that he quietly married his “best friend” during 2020. In an Instagram post summing up events during the past year that he felt thankful for, Van Ness revealed

Devika Akka was one of two trans woman elected in India. (Twitter) Two transgender women have won local elections in their villages in India in an incredible history-making moment. Both women were elected to the gram panchayat – a form of local government operating in villages in India – on Wednesday (30 December), Devika Akka, a

The poster for Forbidden Love in Heaven. (Ran Yinxiao_ A simple film about a gay couple who adopt a homeless child, Forbidden Love in Heaven has become something almost unthinkable for LGBT+ filmmakers and moviegoers in China: a hit. In a nation where acceptance of same-sex couples is progressing at a less-than-glacial rate, Chinese filmmakers have

John Barrowman has thrown his support behind the idea of the next Doctor being LGBT+. The Doctor Who actor, who is set to reprise his role as “omnisexual” time-traveller Captain Jack Harkness in the upcoming New Year’s Day special, told The Telegraph that he can see an LGBT+ Doctor in the show’s future. “Of course the next Doctor

Stornoway Harbour, Western Isles. (Getty/ Tim Graham) Councillors in the Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland, have rejected LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education in favour of Roman Catholic teaching. The Western Isles council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, overwhelmingly voted this month in favour Roman Catholic teaching materials to be used in lessons on relationships,

Megan Barton-Hanson attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2020 at Royal Albert Hall. (Getty/ Jeff Spicer) Bisexual Love Island star Megan Barton-Hanson has revealed the “mortifying” homophobic comments she received from her brother’s girlfriend when she began dating women. Barton-Hanson came out publicly as bisexual last year when she appeared on Celebs Go Dating,

Eddie Izzard campaigning for the Labour party in Mermaid Quay on May 10, 2017 in Cardiff, Wales. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) Comedian and Labour campaigner Eddie Izzard sparked a wave of “collective gender euphoria” when she was referred to with she/her pronouns throughout a recent TV appearance. Eddie, 58, whose career in stand-up comedy began in

Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. (CBS2) A transgender woman was shot dead on Christmas Day in what her friends believe was a hate crime incident, before she was misgendered by police in death. Friends and family of

A participant holds a sign saying “Man, woman, human” at a Christopher Street parade in Hamburg on August 1, 2020. (MORRIS MAC MATZEN/AFP via Getty Images) Trans activists in Germany want the “archaic” gender-recognition law to be reformed so that legal gender can be changed by a process of self-declaration. The current process, in place

Tina Carter, played by Luisa Bradshaw-White. (Twitter/ChloeKalfie25) EastEnders fans are outraged after the soap’s only lesbian character, Tina Carter, was suddenly murdered last night – but some are hopeful she could still be alive. Tina was killed on Monday night’s episode (28 December) when she confronted Gray Atkinson about his past, with viewers watching on

Police have released a CCTV photo of people they would like to speak to in connection with the attack on Anthony Crumbley. (GoFundMe and Boston Police Department) A gay Black man in Boston, Massachusetts, who was stabbed and left in a coma for four days, is living in fear knowing his attackers are still “out