LGBTQ

Are you a fan of breakfast and being gay? Then Kellogg’s has the cereal for you (Kellogg’s) Kellogg’s is launching a limited edition LGBT-themed cereal in celebration of Pride, so you can start your day with the breakfast of champions: glitter. The company teamed up with GLAAD to create the special cereal, “Together with Pride”,

Days Gone. (Sony) Fans have launched a petition for Sony to approve Days Gone 2. The open world zombie adventure from Sony’s in-house Bend Studio was in the news recently, in a Bloomberg article discussing Sony’s first-party exclusives. The article focused on an internal team at Sony who began work on a potential remake of

Nathaniel “SpokGoane” Mbele was stabbed to death on 2 April. (Twitter) A beloved gay man has been stabbed to death in South Africa, prompting an outpouring of grief from the LGBT+ community and desperate calls for hate crime laws to finally be passed. According to MambaOnline, Nathaniel Mbele, known as Spokgoane, was found dead on 2

Yasiel Puig. (Getty/ David Maxwell) The woman accusing Major League Baseball (MLB) star Yasiel Puig of sexual assault has said they couldn’t have had consensual sex because she’s an “out and proud lesbian”. The woman filed a lawsuit against Puig in 2020, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in 2018 in the bathroom at a

Oxenfree II – Lost Signals. (YouTube) A sequel to Oxenfree was the final game shown during the latest Nintendo Indie World showcase. Lost Signals looks set to continue the first game’s dark side-scrolling aesthetic and innovative radio mechanic. It will arrive sometime later this year. Plenty of games were revealed in the showcase, especially for fans

Mae Martin. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) Mae Martin has come out as non-binary in a heartfelt Instagram post. The star and co-writer of Netflix’s Feel Good opened up about their gender and announced their pronouns are they/them – they “don’t mind” she/her as well, they added. Martin is very much still on a personal journey when

Mason “mason” Venne. (Dreamhack) Twitch has banned streamer and former professional Dota 2 player Mason “mason” Venne for allegedly using a homophobic slur on stream. He was playing the popular Dota 2 and commented on a teammate’s item choice, saying “I think the Aghs is a pretty terrible choice.” “Aghs” here refers to the item

Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike share a kiss in the music video for “COUNT ON ME”. (Screen captures via YouTube) Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike make out in a new Brockhampton video and we are definitely feeling a lot of things here. Brockhampton recruited Lil Nas X and Fike for “COUNT ON ME”,

Robert Jacob. (Facebook) Robert Jacob, the former gay mayor of Sebastopol, California, has been arrested on charges of child sexual abuse. Jacob was being detained in the Sonoma County Main Adult Detention Center on Sunday night without bond after he was arrested for the sexual assault of an adolescent, according to The Bay Area Reporter. The

Edward Walpole, the son of prime minister Robert Walpole, was accused of sodomy by a gang. Bands of extortioners targeted men – including the son of a prime minister – and extorted them for cash in the 17th and 18th centuries, researchers have discovered. Middlesex University London found that there was a “trend” of gangs

Lady Gaga performs onstage during The ARTPOP Ball tour opener. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Lady Gaga addressed a fan-led petition signed by tens of thousands Tuesday (13 April) for her to drop “volume II” of ARTPOP. The viciously underrated 2013 album was the successor to Born This Way. So, safe to say it had a lot of

Leslie Jordan in his new sitcom Call Me Kat. (FOX via Getty) Will & Grace star and queer legend Leslie Jordan has explained that he can’t go to gay clubs anymore because he’s too famous. Jordan, best known for playing Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace and later starring in American Horror Story, reached new heights of

Alba Party Central Scotland candidate Margaret Lynch. (Alba Party) A Scottish Alba Party parliamentary candidate has been condemned for spreading the ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ lie that Stonewall wants to lower the age of consent to 10-years-old. Margaret Lynch, the Central Scotland candidate for Alex Salmond’s recently-formed Alba party, made the comments at the party’s Women’s Conference

Kate McKinnon had queer SNL viewers in fits of laughter with a painfully familiar “Lesbian Period Drama” trailer starring Carey Mulligan. Riffing off recent hits such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ammonite and The Favourite, the new trailer asks the question on everyone’s minds: “Will these lesbians be lesbians together?” Carey Mulligan and Saturday Night Live regular Heidi Gardner play

Tony Perkins, President of the Family Researcil Council, said Joe Biden’s trans inclusion initiatives are from ‘the pit of hell’. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) In an unsurprising development, a cluster of right-wing groups that actively campaign for anti-trans bills are also backing voter suppression and anti-vaccine conspiracies. New restrictions that could see tougher limits on early

Sebastian Lletget during the Italy v USA International Friendly in 2018 in Belgium. (Pier Marco Tacca/Getty) Major League Soccer has launched an investigation into LA Galaxy’s Sebastian Lletget over a homophobic slur in a video he posted to Instagram. The 28-year-old, who began his career at West Ham before returning to the US in 2015,

Love Island has previously faced criticism for failing to include LGBT+ contestants (ITV) ITV has announced it will welcome LGBT+ contestants for the 2021 series of Love Island after previously claiming it would be “logistically difficult” to do so. When the dating show returns in June the villa may be looking a little less straight

Pete Buttigieg joked that he still has all his fingers after meeting Joe Biden’s dog, Major. (Screen capture via TMZ/Getty Images) For Pete Buttigieg, there’s only one man in the White House who he’d ever call a good boy, put a leash on and let him lick his face: Joe Biden’s dog, Major. Buttigieg spoke to

Uzbek LGBT+ activist Miraziz Bazarov sustained serious injuries (Twitter/Agnieszka Pikulicka @Aga_Pik) The Uzbek LGBT+ community say they’ve been driven underground in fear of homophobic backlash after a vicious attack on a prominent blogger and his supporters. Miraziz Bazarov remains hospitalised with serious injuries, which he sustained in a savage beating by three masked men with

Dustin Lance Black (left) with husband Tom Daley. (Getty/ David M. Benett) Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has said that the UK government is “ignoring” queer people by not bringing in a conversion therapy ban. Speaking to Reuters from the London home he shares with husband Tom Daley and their two-year-old son, Black said: “This

Leslie Jordan attends the Fox Winter TCA at The Fig House on 6 February 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Gay legend and actor Leslie Jordan has said he would be on board for a Will & Grace musical “in a minute” if the opportunity ever came up. Jordan played Beverley

Secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Pete Buttigieg has said that racism is “physically built into” America’s most high-profile infrastructure initiatives. The transport secretary is at the forefront of the Biden administration’s efforts to pump huge sums of money into improving the nation’s buffeted bridges, roads, ports, airports, century-old water systems, public transportation

The cast of Glee got together virtually to remember Naya Rivera at the GLAAD Media Awards. (YouTube) The cast of Glee came together virtually to deliver a touching tribute to their late co-star Naya Rivera at the GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday. Naya Rivera, who played Santana Lopez on the show, tragically died in July 2020 by

Failed congressional candidate and Trump-supporter Angela Stanton-King has exploded in a hate-filled tirade against her trans daughter and Dr Phil. Stanton-King previously spent two years in prison over federal conspiracy charges for her role in a car theft ring but was pardoned by Donald Trump in February 2020. She then tried to challenge the late

The highly-anticipated launch of the first-person shooter action-adventure game Deathloop has been delayed by publisher Bethesda until September, leaving fans disappointed but understanding. Deathloop, one of the most talked-about reveals during last year’s PlayStation live showcase, announced this afternoon (8 April) on its official Twitter account that a decision to delay the launch until September 14

Hundreds of LGBT+ advocates convened in Washington DC in 2019 in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court hearings that could legalize workplace discrimination, primarily against LGBT people, on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender presentation. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Three North Carolina Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill

US vice president Mike Pence speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the US Department of Education 8 July 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Former vice president Mike Pence is launching a political group to promote “traditional conservative values” and defend Trump policies. Pence has remained fairly

American poet Emily Dickinson, whose name was signed on an anti-trans letter almost 140 years after her death.(Getty/ Culture Club) An open letter demanding the Women’s Prize exclude trans women bizarrely bears the names of several long-dead authors. Last month, author Torrey Peters became the first trans woman to be nominated for the £30,000 prize

Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman says it is “gratifying” and “humbling” that his gay novel could have the “slightest influence” on how Lil Nas X decided to name his hit song. “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” has taken the world by storm, inspiring countless memes and classic TikTok videos. The unapologetically