LGBTQ

Mariah Carey is being sued after being accused of stealing her hit song “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. (Kevin Mazur/Getty for MC) Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement over her 1994 mega-hit “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. Carey and her co-songwriter Walter Afanasieff have been accused of copying the

Fossil has released its Pride collection and confirmed a donation to The Trevor Project. Fossil has released its Pride collection inspired by the colours of the Progress and trans flags. The limited edition range features Pride-inspired watches, straps, jewellery and accessories. As part of the collection’s launch the watch brand has also confirmed a donation

Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ administration has demanded the state’s board of medicine bar young trans people from accessing live-saving healthcare. In a 2 June letter obtained by NBC News, DeSantis’ surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, urged the board to block young trans and gender non-conforming people from receiving gender-affirming healthcare. It follows and draws on ‘guidance’ issued

Ugg releases its apparel and slides collection to mark Pride Month. Ugg has unveiled its truly unique collection to celebrate Pride Month 2022. The brand has released rainbow-inspired versions of its classic slides that will definitely turn heads. As part of the campaign Ugg is donating money to helplines that are available specifically for LGBTQ+

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. (Getty) You’re one of the only role models like me I ever saw on t.v. My little half mexican lesbian ass will love you forever ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Lynda Carter kicked off her Pride Month with a bang by explaining just why Wonder Woman is such a queer icon. The actor, ally

Colton Haynes says he almost wasn’t cast in Teen Wolf after MTV caught wind of a photoshoot he did for a gay men’s magazine. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty) Teen Wolf star Colton Haynes has revealed that he almost wasn’t cast in the MTV teen drama after execs found out he’d been in a gay magazine

Elliot Page describes a horrifying incident where a “big dude” threatened to kill him while he was walking on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. (Getty/David Livingston) Elliot Page has opened up about an appalling encounter with a “big dude” who shouted vile slurs and threatened to kill him. Elliot Page said he was crossing

Jonny Depp (L) and Amber Heard. (Getty Images) Johnny Depp has won his high-profile defamation case against Amber Heard. A jury of five men and two women returned their verdict Wednesday evening (1 June) and found Heard defamed her ex-husband in her 2018 op-ed. She was ordered to pay the actor $15 million in damages.

Sara Ramirez has reflected on how jarring the pandemic was for them. (Jamie McCarthy/WireImage) Sara Ramírez, who played stand-up comic Che Diaz in And Just Like That…, has opened up about their experience of suicidal thoughts. Ramírez, 46, said the early days of the coronavirus pandemic proved especially difficult for them. Seeing an America so

The Proud Trust opens it new building at 49-51 Sidney St, Manchester. (Proud Trust) Europe’s first LGBTQ+ youth support centre has reopened in Manchester after a massive redevelopment effort. LGBTQ+ charity The Proud Trust unveiled its newly redeveloped centre, The Proud Place, on 27 May. It’s a place where LGBTQ+ people can access community groups,

Marjorie Taylor Greene has bizarrely claimed straight people are facing extinction. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks straight people are going extinct and we have no words. Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, made the bizarre claim that heterosexual people will vanish in “four or five generations” as she spread misinformation about

Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Trans swimmer Lia Thomas has a simple message for transphobes: Trans women are “not a threat to women’s sports”. In an interview with ABC on Tuesday (30 May), Thomas, 22, said that trans people don’t transition to win medals in sports

Nontokozo Motloung is the fourth LGBT+ person to be murdered in South Africa. Credit: Mamba Online A 27-year-old South African lesbian was “brutally murdered” and mutilated in a suspected homophobic killing. Warning – violence. Nontokozo Caroline Motloung was found dead in a bush on 21 May, almost a week after she was last seen with

WNBA Brittney Griner in Russia (Getty Images/ Christian Petersen/Russia State TV) Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star Brittney Griner is still locked away in a Russian prison despite being held on so-called drug charges for more than three romans. Phoenix Mercury star Griner was first detained on 17 February after recently playing for the Moscow

Margot Heuman, a Holocaust survivor, opened up later in life about living in the concentration camps as a gay woman. (YouTube/Yad Vashem/USC Shoah Foundation Institute) Margot Heuman, one of the few Holocaust survivors to testify about her life in the concentration camps as a gay woman, died at 94.  Margot Heuman died on 11 May

Britain’s Got Talent finalist and singer-songwriter Gabz has come out as trans and changed his pronouns to he/him. Gabz first came into the public eye as a 14-year-old competing on the 2013 season of Britain’s Got Talent. His self-written songs captured the hearts of viewers, with his musical talent landing him a spot in the final.

Ex-president Donald Trump told Wyoming that teachers should not ‘teach transgender’. Chet Strange/Getty Images) Former US president Donald Trump – clearly with nothing better to do – has once again attacked trans people at a hate-filled rally. During a 90-minute speech at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, Wyoming, Trump read from the usual Trump

Non-binary New Yorkers will soon have the option to choose an X gender marker on state-issued ID documents. (Getty Images) Non-binary New Yorkers will now be able to have state identification cards with an X gender marker on them – a simple but seismic step forward. New York governor Kathy Hochul announced Friday (27 May)

John Waters in 2013. (Robin Marchant/Getty) You would be forgiven for thinking that, by now, John Waters wouldn’t really care what people think of him. Over the course of a long, illustrious career, Waters has directed cult classics such as Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. He has also toured the world, written books, and he’s won admiration and

The BBC’s complaints department has said there’s no ‘evidence’ that JK Rowling’s trans views are ‘unpopular’. (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) The BBC has said it is “misleading” to say that JK Rowling’s deeply anti-trans views are “unpopular”. During a 24 March episode of Front Row on BBC Radio 4, journalist Tom Sutcliffe said Rowling’s views

Handball player Jacob Bjørn Hessellund has come out as gay. (Instagram/@ hessellundjacob) Danish professional handball player Jacob Bjørn Hessellund has bravely come out as gay – and he hopes to one day find a “wonderful man”. The 30-year-old, who plays for the Lemvig-based team Lemvig-Thyborøn Håndbold, became the second handball player in a month to come out

Arsonist pleads guilty to setting Seattle LGBTQ+ venue Queer/Bar on fire (Edward Smith/ Getty Images) An arsonist who said it’s “wrong” that there are “a bunch of queers in our society” has admitted to setting fire to an LGBTQ+ venue in Washington, United States. Kalvinn Garcia, 25, pleaded guilty on Thursday (26 May) to setting

Jesse Watters and Jason Whitlock blamed “pansies” and trans rights for the Texas shooting which killed 19 children. (Fox News) Fox News guest Jason Whitlock has insisted that the Texas shooting saw children get murdered because “traditional masculinity” is “under attack”. The world has been reeling this month after two mass shootings took place in the US

Novak Djokovic stands next to the Wimbledon men’s honours board, which does not use titles. (AELTC/Thomas Lovelock) Keyboard warriors are having a nonsensical tantrum over a Wimbledon decision to stop defining female tennis champions by their marital status. On Friday (27 May), it was revealed by Times Sport that Wimbledon would be changing the way

When Swedish pop supergroup ABBA first announced that they were to release a new song after 39 years, few people could have imagined, let alone dreamed, that a full album would follow. Including, perhaps, the group themselves. So the chances of ever seeing ABBA perform in their original line-up would surely be zero – it

Ethan Schmidt told LGBTQ+ folk and their supporters that they were “not safe”. (Twitter/ PatriotTakes) Right-wing extremist Ethan Schmidt, who founded the group The Anti-Maskers Club, has announced that he will be “hunting” LGBTQ+ people and their supporters during Pride month, adding: “They’re not safe.” Schmidt is a racist, anti-vax, homophobic, transphobic, Trump-supporting social media user

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – FEB. 16: San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks at a press conference. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Democratic mayor of San Fransisco London Breed is refusing to march in the city’s annual Pride parade unless its organisers reverse a ban on uniformed police officers. Breed condemned the ban

Patrick Sandford pictured at the age of 9 (L) when his primary school teacher first started sexually abusing him, and Patrick pictured on the right in the present day. (IICSA) When Patrick Sandford was just nine years old, he was groomed and sexually abused by his primary school teacher. Warning – sexual abuse. It would

Singer Tank performs onstage during Club Quarantine (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) R&B singer-songwriter Tank has hit back against haters who are accusing him of being gay for singing at a Pride event. Featuring on the Drink Champs podcast, the Grammy-nominated star reflected on the backlash he received in 2017 for performing at a Washington

Laverne Cox is Barbie as Mattel release a collectible doll celebrating the trailblazing trans icon. (Mattel) Laverne Cox is once again making history as Mattel release a Barbie doll celebrating the trailblazing trans icon. The brand new collectible is the first of its kind for Barbie, giving trans girls a doll that represents them. She