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This zookeeper delighted viewers at home with an impromptu fan dance (Twitter/@dariennelake) An Australian zookeeper has won worldwide fame by dancing away the coronavirus blues with a snap of his rainbow fan. Australia’s Melbourne Zoo has restricted visitor numbers to just 2,000 people a day to allow for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. With

The fetish store donated all of its scrubs to the NHS. (Envato) A medical fetish store has donated its entire stock of hospital scrubs to the NHS to help fight coronavirus. The NHS has desperately been trying to manage the need for extra supplies during COVID-19 pandemic, even calling in the army to help distribute

Broadway legend Audra McDonald has issued a powerful tribute to gay playwright Terrence McNally, who tragically died from coronavirus this week. In an interview with The Daily Beast, six-time Tony winner McDonald reflected on her time working with McNally and praised him as a powerful advocate for queer representation on stage. The Broadway veteran praised

An LGBT+ charity has said it has seen a huge increase in the number of calls to its helpline since the coronavirus pandemic started. The UK-based LGBT Foundation said the number of calls received over the last week was more than double the number received in the same period last year. Worryingly, the charity said

Kious Kelly, a native of Michigan, texted his sister that he tested positive for coronavirus. She never heard from him again. (Facebook) “I’m OK,” gay nurse Kious Kelly told his sister March 18, “don’t tell mum and dad. They’ll worry.” These were his last words. Kelly has become a headline dreaded by New Yorkers –

RuPaul’s gameshow Gay for Pay will be available on OUTtv. (Ethan Miller/Getty) The UK’s first-ever TV channel dedicated to LGBT+ series, movies and documentaries, OUTtv, is launching next week on April 1. According to its website, OUTtv “presents movies with an edgy twist from award-winning titles, through to indie features and acclaimed shorts”. It will

Adam Quinn Atwood was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a lesbian, saying he would “fix the gay”. (Envato) A man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a lesbian woman, and police said he told her that he would “fix the gay”. According to Deseret News, Adam Quinn Atwood, 34, was arrested on Wednesday March

Munroe Bergdorf shared an exchange with a transphobe in her DMs (Dave Benett/Getty/Instagram) The trans model and activist Munroe Bergdorf showed exactly what it means to ‘kill them with kindness’ as she responded to a transphobe in her DMs. Berdorf’s visible online presence unfortunately means that she attracts a lot of bile from anonymous trolls

Pornhub will also donate 50,000 face masks to first responders and hospitals. (Envato) Pornhub is offering free premium accounts to every one of its billions of users around the world, in a bid to encourage people to stay home during the coronavirus lockdown. Pornhub’s vice president Corey Price said in press release: “With nearly one

Virtual sex parties are keeping people occupied during the coronavirus lockdown (Pexels) Sex in the time of coronavirus is undoubtedly trickier than it was before, but like all great certainties in life, the orgies must go on. Ever adaptable, many queer people cut off from their communities by the coronavirus lockdown are finding new ways

Bars and restaurants boarded up and closed down on Old Compton Street in Soho, at the heart of the West End (photo by Mike Kemp/In PIctures via Getty Images) London’s G-A-Y Late venue suffered a break-in during the coronavirus lockdown, as venues across Soho are boarded up. The venue’s owner Jeremy Joseph revealed the incident

Nina West won Miss Congeniality in RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11. (Nina West/ Twitter)  RuPaul’s Drag Race royalty Nina West is the star of a hilarious new shampoo commercial for Pantene, making her a “Pantene queen”. West is best known for starring on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11, in which she placed sixth but won

18-year-old Alex Davies was stabbed more than 100 times. (Lancashire Police) “Cold blooded” killer Brian Healless, who brutally murdered a teenager he met on Grindr by stabbing him more than 100 times, has been sentenced to life in prison. On Monday, March 23, Healless was found guilty at Preston Crown Court of killing 18-year-old Alex

Anti-LGBT+ preacher Larry Stockstill. (Larry Stockstill/ Facebook) A fundamentalist church has launched legal action against the City of Edinburgh after having its booking for a public venue cancelled over a speaker who suggests homosexuality is caused by a demonic spirit. The Glasgow-based Destiny Church had planned to hold a three-day conference at Edinburgh’s publicly-owned Usher

A gay man has said he prefers having sex with straight men because there is no risk of romance or commitment. The anonymous man described his unconventional sex life for The Guardian’s weekly column “My Life in Sex”.  He wrote: “There have always been men who have sex with other men, but don’t consider themselves

Birmingham Pride, 2019. (Jim Wood/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) Birmingham Pride has officially postponed its 2020 festivities because of the coronavirus pandemic, following London Pride which postponed on the same day. The Birmingham celebrations were set to take place on May 23 and 24, with confirmed performers including Cheryl and Kelly Rowland. But organisers said in

Madonna delivered a soapy speech about the coronavirus from a petal-strewn bathtub, because obviously. (Instagram/Madonna) Madonna, the gay icon and sometimes popstar, has created quite the splash with a candlelit, petal-strewn video about the coronavirus. In her soapy sermon, Madonna gets real about what she sees as both a terrible and wonderful thing about the

Barack Obama talks with performer Justin Timberlake. (Pete Souza) In some much-needed news to keep our minds of this cursed timeline we live in, a woman is stumped as to why her boyfriend has a group chat with his male friends to swap and critique d*ck pics. On what can only come from a reddit

Diana Zurco made her debut on Televisión Pública in Argentina on Monday (YouTube/Televisión Pública Noticias) Argentina just reached a major milestone for equality with its first ever transgender news anchor Diana Zurco. This week, the 40-year-old journalist became co-anchor for the primetime news programme Televisión Pública, on the national public broadcasting station. She hopes her

A trans flag is waved at a protest against the Trump administration’s attacks on the LGBT+ community, California 2018. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty) Coronavirus is already highlighting the inequalities in our society. The first moments of pandemic panic – which, in the UK, meant British people panic-buying toilet roll and other essentials – showed the divide: in

Writer Roxane Gay attends the Feminist AF Panel at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles, California.(TARA ZIEMBA/AFP/Getty) Roxane Gay has restored everyone’s faith in humanity by offering to buy groceries for people in financial trouble because of the coronavirus pandemic. The bisexual feminist writer, professor and commentator wrote on Twitter: “If you are broke and need

Amid dire shortages of surgical masks – vital for frontline medics – designer Christian Siriano has vowed to manufacture them for New York state. (John Lamparski/Getty Images/Screen capture via Instagram) In today’s edition of celebrity activism that does a lot more good than singing “Imagine” for no ungodly reason, designer Christian Siriano has vowed to

Monika Diamond, a business owner, a mother, and now the fourth trans person murdered in the US in 2020. (Facebook) As she was rushed to the hospital to treat shortness of breath, a trans woman Wednesday was brutally shot to death after a man burst into the ambulance in Charlotte, North Carolina. About to celebrate

A queer costume designer has shared his experience with the coronavirus and has urged people everywhere to take the pandemic seriously. Writing on Instagram, Tarek Soliman, who designed Sasha Velour’s headpiece for the season 10 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race, shared his experience with COVID-19. He said he wanted “young people who think this virus

American singer and actor Adam Lambert has said he wants to play George Michael in a film about the late singer’s life, saying we “don’t know that much about him”. Lambert, who rose to fame on American Idol and later toured with Queen, told Metro that he would like to see George Michael’s life story

Victoria’s Secret is attempting to evolve into a more inclusive brand (Instagram/@Victoriassecret) After years of criticism, Victoria’s Secret has finally embraced inclusivity with a new Spring campaign that showcases trans, plus-size and older models. The Spring 2020 line, ‘Body by Victoria‘, kicked off this week featuring Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio and two plus-size models, Candice

A lawsuit states that the Trump administration haw ‘unlawful’ plans to strip LGBT+ Americans of vital discrimination protections, threatening access to federally-funded services. (Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images) A lawsuit states that the Trump administration has ‘unlawful’ plans to strip LGBT+ Americans of vital discrimination protections, threatening access to federally-funded services. The suit centres on a “notice

A screen capture from Jesus Strikes Back 2: The resurrection showing a user controlling alt-right meme poster-boy, Pepe the Frog, killing a “furry deviant”. (2GenPro) Buckle your seatbelts and prepare for some truly delightful reading, for an alt-right video game that sees players control US president Donald Trump and murder drag queens and queer folk

An evangelical preacher has insisted that coronavirus is actually God’s punishment for same-sex marriage. In a church sermon, Tennessee preacher Perry Stone suggested that the spread of COVID-19 was a response to the legalisation of the “abomination” of equal marriage and abortion. Coronavirus is God’s ‘reckoning’ for the abomination of gay marriage, apparently. He said:

Iceland’s Daði og Gagnamagnið had been tipped to win Eurovision 2020. (Screen capture via YouTube) Weeping. Crying. Wailing. Mass orders of comfort food on UberEats. Staring into the abyss. Listening to ABBA. Caterwauling. More crying. These are just some of the symptoms of gay people discovering the news that the Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled