LGBTQ

Trump official Richard Grenell. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Richard Grenell, the first openly gay US cabinet member and unwavering Donald Trump ally, said the Republican president simply can’t be homophobic because he… had gay friends in the 1980s. Oh, boy. With election day looming, Trump’s allies have sought to shore up support by revising history itself

Donald Trump and his wife Melania. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Melania Trump blamed last Thursday (October 29) the “many enemies in the political establishment” on why people feel Donald Trump is anti-LGBT+, something she says she’s “shocked” about. The First Lady has, throughout the president’s pique and caustic leadership, positioned herself almost as a balm of

Stacey McKenzie, Brooke Lynn Hytes and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman are the judges of Canada’s Drag Race. (BBC) Canada’s Drag Race judge Brooke Lynn Hytes has addressed the heaving criticism the show faced over its judging panel. Brooke Lynn told ET Canada that fronting the spin-off was a “learning experience” as she had never judged on the

A high school coach’s tweet against marriage equality became a lightning rod for controversy. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato/Twitter) A high school coach is under investigation from a public school district in Missouri, US after he tweeted that marriage is only “between a man and woman”. Charles Glotta, a basketball, tennis and track coach in

RuPaul has admitted that she “feels bad sometimes” for her fellow Drag Race judges because her “natural chemistry” with Michelle Visage is so strong. The drag icon and Visage first met in 1988 and have remained close friends ever since. Speaking to Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall in an interview with Cosmopolitan, RuPaul said Visage is “a good

Trans woman Miley Selena Fletcher is being held in a maximum security men’s prison (Pexels) The reality of life as a trans woman in a men’s prison is laid bare in a harrowing letter from an inmate in an all-male facility. Miley Selena Fletcher is being held in the State Correctional Institution Forest in Pennsylvania,

Two men were shot dead outside a gay bar in Mexico after a fight broke out (Envato Elements) Two men were shot dead outside a gay bar in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico after a controversial HIV fundraiser that flouted COVID-19 guidelines. The men, who have not yet been named, reportedly got into a physical fight with

A quiet suburban family home decorated with Pride flags and signs was targeted by homophobic vandals who plastered the walls with hateful graffiti. The house in Barrington, Illinois, had rainbow-decorated trees lining the driveway and an array of positive signs in the backyard, including one that read: “Love and peace over hate.” Sadly it seems

Lauren Jauregui attends Instagram’s GRAMMY Luncheon on January 24, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic) Lauren Jauregui has said she feels “blessed” her parents her parents chose their relationship with her over their “beliefs” when she came out as bisexual. Former Fifth Harmony member Lauren Jauregui, 24, was outed on social media in 2016,

G-A-Y bar in Soho, London. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty) Jeremy Joseph, the owner of G-A-Y nightclubs in London and Manchester, has vowed to keep fighting after the courts refused to hear his legal challenge against the coronavirus curfew. Joseph launched a legal challenge against the UK government’s 10pm curfew for pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants

Jake Bain opened up about his experience of sexual abuse (It Gets Better campaign screenshot/YouTube) Jake Bain, the high-school football star who made headlines when he came out as gay, has opened up about being sexually abused by his father. Bain became one of the first openly queer athletes at the NCAA Division I level

Donald Trump officials sought to boost the president’s polling amid the coronavirus pandemic by reaching out to Britney Spears. She declined. (Getty) Trump administration officials reportedly plotted to drum up support for the beleaguered president by approaching celebrities to bolster his handling of the coronavirus pandemic – just not ones who support LGBT+ rights. In

Johnny Flynn plays David Bowie in Stardust. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty and IFC Films) The first trailer has dropped for the controversial David Bowie film Stardust, which features none of David Bowie’s music, and fans are already “horrified with this God awful attempt at a biopic”. The film, which stars singer-turned-actor Johnny Flynn as Bowie, premiered Wednesday

Students walk across the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty) A toxic fraternity, which claims to be one of the oldest in America, is suing a chapter that admitted women and non-binary members for causing “irreparable harm” to its “image”. In 2016, Stephanie Stoneback was asked to pledge the fraternity Sigma

Tanwarin Sukkhapisit poses before the parliamentary vote for Thailands new prime minister in Bangkok. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) Thailand lost its pioneering first-ever trans MP Wednesday (October 28) after the constitutional court revoked her seat. Tanwarin Sukkhapisit won a seat last year with the Future Forward Party, which dissolved in February this year; increasing discontent

Texas Governor Greg Abbott at the state capital on May 24, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Drew Anthony Smith/Getty) A Texas regulatory board has overturned a ruling that allowed social workers to freely discriminate against LGBT+ people, as well as people with disabilities. On October 12, Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott pressured the state’s regulatory board, the

First Lady Melania Trump spoke to Trump supporters at a Make America Great Again event in Atglen, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2020. (GABRIELLA AUDI/AFP via Getty) While attacking Democrats at a Make America Great Again event, Melania Trump insisted that husband Donald “sees potential in everyone, no matter their gender or sexual orientation”. First lady

Caroline Nokes, the Conservative chair of Parliament’s women and equalities committee. One month and five days after Tory equalities chief Liz Truss announced the government would not be reforming the Gender Recognition Act, the women and equalities select committee has launched a new inquiry into trans equality. The women and equalities committee is a cross-party

Transgender veteran Kelly Roser carried the shame of her discharge for decades (Tim Graham/Getty) The US airforce has finally granted an honourable discharge to a trans veteran whose life was marred by mental illness, homelessness, unemployment and drug use. In 1984 Kelly Katherine Roser’s exemplary military career was upended by a one-time positive drug test

Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg joined Tenacious D to get young voters to “jump to the left”. (Tenacious D/ YouTube) Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren did the “Time Warp” with Tenacious D in a truly iconic Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute to encourage voters to “jump to the left”. The video is part of the

A Trump supporter told a teen to ‘vote Biden and suck it’ following a squabble over face masks. (Screen captures via Twitter) In today’s edition of A Donald Trump supporter does the darndest thing, a belligerent fan of the Republican president grabbed his crotch and called a 16-year-old “pimply” during a squabble over face masks.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett reacts as she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. (Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty) Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed for the Supreme Court. The Senate voted to confirm Barrett’s nomination 52 to 48 on Monday (26 October). Barrett is expected

Danell Leyva, three-time USA Gymnastics Olympic Medalist, attends a viewing party of the Olympic Opening Ceremony hosted by the filmmakers of “Icarus” at the Hollywood Athletic Club on February 9, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Netflix) Three-time Olympic gymnastics medallist Danell Leyva has explained how stereotypes about male gymnasts held him back

Local drag queens in Perth, Australia, performed a number inspired by Lady Gaga’s Chromatica and it deserves to win every single Tony award. (Screen capture via TikTok) Over in Australia, where the coronavirus has been almost stamped out, a scene which is all but a dream to most of the world – a crowded drag

Baroness Nicholson. (UK Parliament, cropped. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Anti-trans Tory peer Baroness Nicholson claims it’s “very dangerous” that the BBC explained what pronouns are to children. On International Pronouns Day, BBC Bitesize – the public-service broadcaster’s free online study support resource for UK pupils – tweeted a cartoon of three teenagers in a changing room, each with

J.M. Barrie writing letters to his great friend Robert Louis Stevenson at his desk in Adelphi Terrace House. (Sotheby’s via Getty Images) Never-seen-before letters reveal JM Barrie telling Robert Louis Stevenson “I have discovered that I love you” – and the only possible explanation is that they were “the greatest of friends”. It’s the first

The company behind the Lady Boys of Bangkok will get more than £1 million from the government’s emergency arts funding. (Twitter/TheLadyBoys) The Lady Boys of Bangkok has secured emergency government arts funding as part of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. Gandey Productions, which stages the Chinese State Circus and the Lady Boys of Bangkok,

A man reads The Times newspaper as he rides the tube in London. (Robert Alexander/Getty) Media coverage of trans issues has been linked to an increase in the number of young people seeking support at specialist gender clinics, a landmark study has found. In the past 10 years there has been a significant increase in

Del Martin (L) and Phyllis Lyon (R). (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AFP via Getty Images) The home of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, a late lesbian couple who sought to defy federal and state marriage equality bans in 2004 by getting married, could be preserved as a city landmark. Lyon and Martin were the first in California to receive

Hayling Island Bowls Club, where trans woman Stella Moore has played for nine months. (Hayling Island Bowls) A women’s bowling club has removed advice on its website saying that “transsexual” women shouldn’t “vamp up” after backlash to its “archaic” policy on transgender inclusion. The first part of the Portsmouth & District Women’s Bowling Association policy,