LGBTQ

Ewan McGregor (L) and Chris Messina said their characters in Birds of Prey are ‘likely’ gay. (Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage/George Pimentel/WireImage) Billed as a not-so-typical superhero flick, Birds of Prey has been buzzing praise for its women-led cast, but its two male villains have seen a different kind of response from fans. Actors Ewan McGregor and Chris

Alexis Mateo and Serena ChaCha meet a young fan at RuPaul’s DragCon UK. (Tristan Fewings/Getty for World Of Wonder Productions) The unstoppable rise of RuPaul’s Drag Race has put the art of drag if not in the mainstream, then right on its fringes. Though Drag Race and nightclub acts are very much aimed at an

Madonna has been forced to cancel eight of her Madame X shows. (Getty) In the latest in a string of delayed shows and cancellations, pop queen Madonna has just cancelled the first London, England, show of her Madame X tour. Furious fans took to Twitter to express their dismay over the concert’s cancellation, due to

A teenager who was expelled from her Christian school for celebrating her birthday with a rainbow cake says she was forced to come out by a right-wing magazine editor. The girl celebrated her 15th birthday wearing a jumper with rainbow stripes on it and a multi-coloured rainbow cake. Her mother posted a picture of her

Mike Pence has played a quiet role in many of the Trump administration’s anti-LGBT+ policies. (Drew Angerer/Getty) Republicans are planning on running an advert on Fox News, urging senators to impeach Donald Trump so that Mike Pence becomes president. Republican group Defending Democracy is telling GOP senators to vote to remove Trump from office in

Rally in Copley Square, Boston to celebrate the US Supreme Court decision to strike down a sodomy law in Lawrence v Texas. (Rick Friedman/Corbis) In 2020, there are 16 US states that still have sodomy laws against “perverted sexual practice” and “crimes against nature”. According to ACLU, laws against sodomy were originally designed to prohibit

Meet the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12. (VH1) The Drag Race season 12 cast is finally here, with 13 brand-new queens ready to compete for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar. RuPaul has asked 13 brand new queens “to pledge allegiance to the drag” for Drag Race season 12. A mix of

Madhi is a gay Christian man from Iran facing deportation to Germany. (Change.org) Supporters of a gay Christian asylum seeker from Iran currently locked up in an immigration detention centre in the UK are calling on the Home Office to release him immediately. Madhi is a gay Christian man who has twice been tortured in

Maya Haddad was described by one friend as having nobody to “support her”. (Facebook) Disowned by her family aged 15, trans Israeli model Maya Haddad was terrified of her future. More than a decade later, and Haddad was in the running to represent her country in the Miss Trans International Beauty Pageant. But this week,

A Chick-fil-A logo is seen on a take out bag at one of its restaurants on July 28, 2012 in Bethesda, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty) Despite immense backlash over its funding of anti-LGBT+ organisations, Chick-fil-A has insisted that it will push forward with opening a “permanent” UK location. The statement comes on the same day that

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren reacts during a town hall event at Weeks Middle School on January 19, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Spencer Platt/Getty) Elizabeth Warren has promised that, if elected President of the United States, at least half of her cabinet will be women and non-binary people. The Massachusetts senator vowed that

The governor of New Jersey has signed a bill to officially ban the archaic ‘gay panic’ and ‘trans panic’ defence in the state. The new law, signed by Democratic governor Phil Murphy on Tuesday, prevents criminal defendants from claiming that they were provoked to violence after discovering the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity –

Blert Morina is the first named person to update his name and gender on ID documents. (Facebook) A trans man in Kosovo has become the first named person in the country to update his name and gender marker on his ID documents. Blert Morina won a two-year court battle to exercise his right to change

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The decision by presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to pull out of a fundraiser at a gay club that has a pole in the middle has caused outrage among pole dancers. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, cancelled a fundraiser at LGBT+ venue The Dark

Jess Philips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, quit the ballot to become the next leader of the party. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Jess Phillips has withdrawn from the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The outspoken feminist confirmed on Tuesday that she would not continue in the race, after

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks during a town hall event (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Elizabeth Warren has unleashed an attack on Donald Trump’s nomination of anti-LGBT judges. The Democratic Senator and presidential hopeful called out the number of fundamentalist judicial candidates being rushed into posts by the Trump administration. Speaking at a forum in Iowa

Margaret Court and husband Barrymore Court watch the Women’s Singles on day one of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images) Australia’s 2018 Homophobe of the Year Margaret Court has made her return to the Australian Open to mark the anniversary of her tennis accomplishments. The women’s tennis player will be commemorated

Dancing on Ice: Ian ‘H’ Watkins reveals Strictly text after same-sex routine Film and TV Steps singer Ian H Watkins with Dancing on Ice skater Matt Evers. (ITV) Ian ‘H’ Watkins, fresh from gliding into the history books as half of the first same-sex couple on Dancing on Ice, has revealed the rattling message Strictly

Scottish Labour health spokesperson Monica Lennon. (Corbis/Getty Images) Anti-poverty campaigners are calling on politicians to back Labour’s plans to end period poverty in Scotland. Scottish Labour health spokesperson Monica Lennon’s bid to provide universal access to free period products has been backed by more than 30 campaign groups and individuals. But the Scottish government, led

Linda Bellos, left, and Posie Parker at the WoLF event on Friday 17 January. (Facebook/WoLF) Two of the most well-known voices in the UK’s “gender-critical feminist” movement made a trip to New York at the weekend, to speak on a panel about their feminism. The event was organised by a “feminist” group that has directly

Sign supporting trans students. (Derek R Henkle/AFP/Getty) Republican lawmakers in a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on young transgender people at the urging of conservative advocacy groups, LGBT+ advocates say. These bills include barring doctors from providing certain gender-related medical treatment to young trans people and banning young trans people from playing school

Stock photo. (Envato) A gay couple who were being blackmailed after a hookup were attacked with tear gas in their home by four masked men. The couple, who have not been publicly identified, live in Épinay-sur-Seine, near Paris, France. They had used a dating app to meet a 19-year-old man, who entered a sexual relationship

The Honourable Michael D. Kirby said Japan must end its “regime” of forced sterilisations. (Wikimedia/SashaHMP) An international human-rights lawyer has called on Japan to end its “regime” of forcing sterilisation on trans people. Michael Kirby, 80, who is co-chair of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute and a former justice of the Australian High

Protesters demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament for reform of the Gender Recognition Act, in an event organised by the Scottish Trans Alliance, on June 12, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Ken Jack/Getty Images) The Catholic Church has called on its congregation to oppose proposed reforms to gender recognition laws in Scotland, which it called “troubling”. It

A man has been found guilty of the aggravated assault of Guardian columnist Owen Jones due to homophobia and his aversion to left-wing political views. James Healy, 40, was one of three men who violently attacked Jones last August outside a London pub. Speaking at the conclusion of a two-day trial today, presiding judge Anne

Natalie Portman’s iconic film roles have provided the inspiration for a new play about a 16-year-old African-American lesbian set to debut off-Broadway in February. All The Natalie Portmans tells the story of lesbian Keyonna. She and her older brother Samuel find themselves on the brink of eviction, which leads Keyonna to escape into a world

An Irish woman has opened up about the pain of discovering that her husband of 20 years was gay. Speaking on RTÉ Radio One’s Liveline, the woman – who only gave her first name, Mary – said she thought she was “happily married” until she discovered her husband’s sexuality. “He was a good, decent, kind

Women holding equal rights signs at a Pride Parade in Miami Beach, Florida. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty) Seven Republican lawmakers filed four anti-LGBT+ bills on the same day in Florida, just hours before the cut-off on submissions for the upcoming legislative session. The bills were filed on Monday, January 13, by representatives Anthony

Health secretary Matt Hancock celebrated a drop in HIV transmissions and got an immediate response (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Health secretary Matt Hancock is facing calls to roll out PrEP across England, after celebrating a fall in HIV transmissions. The Tory minister had celebrated new data published on Thursday that reveals

A senator of the actual town of Snowflake, Arizona, is now blaming liberal snowflakes for “tainting” her bill to ban the word homosexuality in schools. Sylvia Allen was forced to backtrack on Senate Bill 1082, a bill that attacked the state’s sex education laws with a proposal to remove all mention of LGBT+ matters from public