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That feeling when: You find time for Mario. Kim Cattrall commented on a resurfaced Nintendo advert and things are getting kinda weird fast. (Screen capture via YouTube/Nintendo) Grab a glass of water and settle your stomach because we have some very hard pills for you to swallow: Kim Cattrall got horny for Mario, yup, that

Joe Biden (Frederick M. Brown/Getty) The biggest transgender activist group in the United States has said Joe Biden is “the advocate and president we need” in a powerful endorsement. Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Action Fund threw her organisation’s support behind Biden in a wide-ranging statement released today (May 5).

A Florida appeals court has ditched vital LGBT+ discrimination protections in the middle of a global pandemic. Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals struck down the law, which protected LGBT+ people’s right to public accommodation, employment and housing, in a ruling last Friday (May 1). Plaintiffs in the case argued that the LGBT+ protections, which

US actress Natalie Wood, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1981 (Silver Screen Collection/Getty) Natalie Wood would have been at the forefront of the battle for LGBT+ rights if she were alive today, her daughter has said. The late Hollywood star, known for her iconic film roles such as Maria in West Side Story and

Dylan McDermott (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan/Getty) and Leslie Jordan (Harmony Gerber/Getty) Ryan Murphy has revealed that he is working on a new project which will star Leslie Jordan and Dylan McDermott – but there’s a catch. The popular gay television writer has apparently got the two actors on board for the project, even though he hasn’t

Franklin Graham has claimed the media and “liberal politicians” are using the coronavirus pandemic to “destroy” Donald Trump. Graham, the notorious anti-LGBT+ evangelist, made the comments in a Facebook post shortly after he was told to close a New York tent hospital set up by his charity Samaritan’s Purse. The Central Park tent hospital was

Lil Nas X posted thirst traps in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, proving anyone can go horny on main. (Twitter) Lil Nas X has done a lot of things in his short time on this planet in the void of space. He was sufficiently glad to have crashed a wedding, he ascended to the

Ellen DeGeneres’ public persona has appeared to be at odds with her private actions (Anthony Harvey/Getty) A bodyguard assigned to protect Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars has claimed that her famously friendly demeanour is nothing but “false facade and bravado”. Tom Majercak was selected as ‘executive protector’ for DeGeneres, her mother, and her partner,

Former intergalactic helmsman and all-round nice guy George Takei has a genius solution to keep right-wing bigots at home: just convince them coronavirus turns you gay. Takei, 83, makes no secret of his hatred for Donald Trump, and for the past few years he’s been using his platform of 2.9 million followers to highlight the

Circus of Books director Rachel Mason has said she had a very emotional reaction to hearing her brother open up about coming out. Mason’s documentary, which debuted on Netflix earlier this month, tells the story of her conservative, religious parents Karen and Barry Mason – who ran a minor gay porn empire in Los Angeles.

Drag Race season 12 continued with a makeover challenge. (WOW) Drag Race season 12 and its Celebrity sister gave us a sickening double helping of female drag, and fans are living for it. Drag Race continued this week with the legendary makeover challenge. Each year, towards the end of the competition, RuPaul tasks the queens with transforming

Michael Brown urges people not to “rejoice” over the birth of Anderson Cooper’s son (YouTube/ASKDrBrown_ On Thursday evening CNN’s Anderson Cooper celebrated becoming a first-time father, announcing that he had welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world. The joyful news brought some much-needed positivity in the midst of a global pandemic, but predictably it

A new EP from Super Drama will be the label’s first release on June 1 (Facebook/Super Drama) A new, independent, LGBT-focused record label is set to launch next month to increase visibility of queer artists in the music industry. Named ‘51-53‘ after the address of the Stonewall Inn in New York, the label hopes to

The woman was arrested after setting herself on fire. (Tamaz Sozashvili/ Twitter) A trans woman in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, set herself on fire in protest against the country’s treatment of transgender people during the coronavirus pandemic. Madona Kiparoidze set fire to herself outside the capital’s city hall on Thursday, April 30. She was

Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. (Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty) More than 3,500 same-sex couples have tied the knot in Taiwan since marriage equality was legalised almost a year ago. Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage on May 17, 2019, which also happened to be International Day

Saara and Meri Aalto got married in Helsinki, Finland. Saara Aalto has married her partner Meri Sopanen, now Meri Aalto, her wife, in an intimate ceremony after a three-and-a-half year engagement. The Finnish singer-songwriter and her partner had planned a beautiful wedding for this summer, but the event had to be cancelled because of the

A scientist has explained why Mike Pence refused to wear a mask while visiting patients recovering from coronavirus, and the clear culprit is toxic masculinity. Pence, who is taking a break from his long career of fomenting anti-LGBT+ hatred to lead the White House efforts to tackle coronavirus, paid a visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota on

Megan Rapinoe interviewed Joe and Jill Biden. (Megan Rapinoe/ Instagram) Lesbian icon and football star Megan Rapinoe has offered to be Joe Biden’s vice president, and we’d really love to see it. Rapinoe interviewed 2020 democratic nominee Joe Biden in an Instagram live on Thursday, April 30, alongside his wife Jill who was sporting a

It’s been 30 years since the gay actor Michael Boothe was brutally beaten to death by a group of six men in a gay hate killing in London. In 1990, Britain was a very different place for queer people compared to what it is today. Two years prior the vile, homophobic Section 28 had been

Don Lemon sighed in frustration, and Mike Pence’s excuses were “ridiculous”. (CNN/ YouTube) CNN host Don Lemon has slammed US vice president and homophobic Mike Pence for disregarding a hospital’s mask-wearing policy while meeting coronavirus patients. Pence, who is taking a break from his long career of fomenting anti-LGBT+ hatred to lead the White House efforts to tackle

There have been more than a million coronavirus cases in the US and more than 60,000 deaths, with LGBT+ people disproportionately affected, but the White House gift shop is busy selling commemorative COVID-19 coins. No, really. The coin, which costs $125 to pre-order, has a graphic of coronavirus on one side and on the other

Project Runway winner Geoffrey Mac has launched an OnlyFans account. (Screen captures via Instagram) Geoffrey Mac has opened an OnlyFans page, fresh from scoring a $250,000 cash prize for winning season 18 of Project Runway. The fashion designer announced on April 25 that he has opened an account on the adult content website. In a

Dr Rachel Levine giving a live update on the coronavirus crisis in Pennsylvania (Facebook/Pennsylvania Department of Health) Pennsylvanians have united in support of Dr Rachel Levine, the transgender secretary of health who’s leading the state through the coronavirus crisis. A graduate of Harvard College and a specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine, Dr Rachel Levine

What is the difference between sex and gender identity, exactly? Whether you want to brush up on your knowledge or you’re questioning your gender identity yourself, you’ll find the answers here. Sex and gender have historically been used interchangeably, but that doesn’t mean that they’re the same thing. “We don’t know how to measure gender,”

Jade Thirlwall, certified hun. (Getty) Jade Thirlwall continues to justify her gay icon credentials, this time admitting she baked herself a penis pie because it’s the thing she’s missing most in lockdown. The Little Mix star has been a constant source of camp and delight in recent weeks, recreating iconic TV scenes and educating the

TOWIE star Bobby Norris has spoken out about homophobic trolls who sent him vile abuse during a live-stream. The reality star, who has appeared on The Only Way Is Essex since 2012, is no stranger to facing homophobia – petitioning Parliament in 2019 to make online anti-LGBT abuse a criminal offence. He called out trolls once

A trailer for road trip film Braking for Whales has given the world a glimpse at Draco Malfoy kissing Taylor Swift’s brother. The upcoming dark comedy stars Harry Potter alum Tom Felton as Brandon, a closeted gay man who is on a road trip with his sex addict sister in order to honour their dead mother’s

Naofal Moussa’s Instagram Live video where she instructed her followers to make fake accounts on gay dating apps. (Screenshot/Supplied) LGBT+ activists have confirmed that at least one gay man in Morocco has died by suicide after being hunted down and publicly outed by a transgender beauty influencer. Gay men in Morocco have been living in

Placard at a sex workers’ rights march in Stockholm. (Twitter/SWARM) Trans sex workers in Greece who don’t have legal gender recognition are being excluded from government support in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. In Greece, where sex work is legalised but heavily regulated, only Greek nationals with a female gender marker in their documents

The new findings by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County could be revolutionary for HIV research (Envato Elements) Researchers have made an exciting HIV breakthrough that’s been described as a “paradigm shift” in understanding and treating the disease. The new findings by UMBC published in Science refer to the virus’s RNA, where its genetic information