LGBTQ

Grease was released in 1978 and is now viewed as one of the most iconic films of all time. (Gabriel Bouys/Getty) Grease was called “racist, rapey and homophobic” after it was aired on BBC1 on Boxing Day, with some viewers saying it should never be shown on TV again. Grease was first released in 1978 to

NikkieTutorials, real name Nikkie de Jage. (Screen capture via YouTube) YouTuber NikkieTutorials has opened up about her experience of 2020 which saw her blackmailed into coming out publicly as trans as well as being robbed. The makeup guru, known off-screen as Nikkie de Jager, revealed she was trans in a YouTube video published in January

Things got, er, odd in the first trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. (Screen captures via Twitter) Drag queens, start your engines – the official trailer for the long-awaited second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK dropped Sunday evening (3 January) and yup, we are absolutely gagging for it. Immediately sparking hope that maybe 2021

Busy Phillips (L) and her child, Birdie. (Getty/Instagram) Busy Philipps revealed Thursday (31 December) that her eldest child is gay and uses they/them pronouns. Yes, believe it – a positive, wholesome news story. They still do exist! The 41-year-old Dawson’s Creek star opened up about raising Birdie Leigh, 12, with husband Marc Silverstein on her

Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock. (Instagram/@jvn) Jonathan Van Ness has opened up about his relationship with Mark Peacock after the pair quietly married in 2020. Taking to Instagram Saturday afternoon (2 January), the Queer Eye star shared adorable photographs of them together, his “favourite moments” of last year, he said. They ranged from re-enacting

Video footage showed the moment a cruise sank as rescue boats scrambled to save passengers from drowning. (Screen captures via Twitter/@fitnessgayz) As Mexico’s coronavirus caseloads soar, a queer party boat packed with some 60 people sank to the depths of the ocean Friday afternoon (31 December). Startling mobile phone footage uploaded to social media showed

(From L-R) Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson and Cynthia Erivo. (Getty) For season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, making history is commonplace. From featuring the series’ first trans masculine contestant to it being filmed completely under coronavirus restrictions – now it’s a constellation of stars set to make appearances that will be yet another addition to

Celine Dion and Celine Dion. (Twitter/ ThomasDodd1 and Getty/ Frazer Harrison) A 30-year-old gay man from Staffordshire drank so much one night during the festive period that he legally changed his name to Celine Dion. On 30 December, the man formerly known as Thomas Dodd posted a photo on Twitter of a pile of paper

The circuit party was attended by 2,000 shirtless, maskless men. (G1) A circuit party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was shut down by police and firefighters after thousands of maskless men attended as the city’s COVID cases soar. The Festa Revolution gay circuit party took place on Tuesday (29 December) at Faro Beach Club in the

Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock got married with their families watching via FaceTime. (Instagram/ MarkLondon) Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has revealed the happy news that he quietly married his “best friend” during 2020. In an Instagram post summing up events during the past year that he felt thankful for, Van Ness revealed

Devika Akka was one of two trans woman elected in India. (Twitter) Two transgender women have won local elections in their villages in India in an incredible history-making moment. Both women were elected to the gram panchayat – a form of local government operating in villages in India – on Wednesday (30 December), Devika Akka, a

The poster for Forbidden Love in Heaven. (Ran Yinxiao_ A simple film about a gay couple who adopt a homeless child, Forbidden Love in Heaven has become something almost unthinkable for LGBT+ filmmakers and moviegoers in China: a hit. In a nation where acceptance of same-sex couples is progressing at a less-than-glacial rate, Chinese filmmakers have

John Barrowman has thrown his support behind the idea of the next Doctor being LGBT+. The Doctor Who actor, who is set to reprise his role as “omnisexual” time-traveller Captain Jack Harkness in the upcoming New Year’s Day special, told The Telegraph that he can see an LGBT+ Doctor in the show’s future. “Of course the next Doctor

Stornoway Harbour, Western Isles. (Getty/ Tim Graham) Councillors in the Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland, have rejected LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education in favour of Roman Catholic teaching. The Western Isles council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, overwhelmingly voted this month in favour Roman Catholic teaching materials to be used in lessons on relationships,

A 17-year-old in New York City was brutally attacked by three men who threw food cans at them while yelling homophobic slurs, causing them to tear their knee ligament. According to Gay City News, the teenager was walking through Melrose Playground in the Bronx on 12 December at around 9pm when they were attacked. A

Eddie Izzard campaigning for the Labour party in Mermaid Quay on May 10, 2017 in Cardiff, Wales. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) Comedian and Labour campaigner Eddie Izzard sparked a wave of “collective gender euphoria” when she was referred to with she/her pronouns throughout a recent TV appearance. Eddie, 58, whose career in stand-up comedy began in

Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. (CBS2) A transgender woman was shot dead on Christmas Day in what her friends believe was a hate crime incident, before she was misgendered by police in death. Friends and family of

A participant holds a sign saying “Man, woman, human” at a Christopher Street parade in Hamburg on August 1, 2020. (MORRIS MAC MATZEN/AFP via Getty Images) Trans activists in Germany want the “archaic” gender-recognition law to be reformed so that legal gender can be changed by a process of self-declaration. The current process, in place

The patient uploaded a photo of the nurse’s Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) strewn across the floor of the hospital bathroom. (Envato) A nurse at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, is under investigation after having gay sex with a COVID-19 patient in a hospital toilet. On Friday (25 December), the gay sex between the nurse

Police have released a CCTV photo of people they would like to speak to in connection with the attack on Anthony Crumbley. (GoFundMe and Boston Police Department) A gay Black man in Boston, Massachusetts, who was stabbed and left in a coma for four days, is living in fear knowing his attackers are still “out

Stock image of a person powerlifting. (Envato/sportpoint74) USA Powerlifting has introduced four new competition categories at local, state and regional levels, one of which is a gender-neutral ‘MX’ category. The four new categories are MX, adaptive athlete, para bench, and raw with wraps, and will be introduced from 1 January. The move has been hailed

Hannah and Jake Graf welcomed their first daughter in April. (Twitter) Hannah Graf has said she grew up thinking that being a transgender woman meant you were “unlovable”. Graf, who made history when she became one of the UK’s first transgender parents alongside her husband Jake Graf, opened up about her journey to self-acceptance in

Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle had their Instagram account removed for “violating” rules, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong. (Instagram) A gay couple are devastated after their hugely popular Instagram account was shut down for “violating” rules – but they still don’t know

Colton Stankowski was asked to leave a women’s clothing store when she told an employe that she was shopping for herself. (Envato Elements) A trans woman from Calgary, Canada, was told she was making shoppers “uncomfortable” in a women’s clothing store and was asked to leave – and now she’s fighting back. Colton Stankowski opened

Daniel Newman. (Twitter/Instagram) In a true Christmas miracle, Daniel Newman announced Friday (25 December) that he has joined OnlyFans, but stressed that it won’t be “x-rated”. The bisexual Walking Dead star and out and proud “dom top” is the latest celebrity to join the platform, which sees users pay for content that can range from

Ellen DeGeneres. (Steve Granitz/WireImage) In what might be the purest and most wholesome thing to occur during this well and truly cursed year, a closeted teen was gifted Ellen DeGeneres merchandise by her parents to let her know “it’s OK to be lesbian.” Sophie opened up her presents Friday (25 December) to find her parents

Marcus Bachmann. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Donald Trump appointed Tuesday (22 December) Marcus Bachmann, an anti-gay counsellor who once referred to gay people as “barbarians“, to an advisory post as the US president scrambles to entrench key allies in top positions. The husband of Michele Bachman, who was once dubbed “America’s biggest homophobe“, has been repeatedly

Jean O’Leary and Midge Costanza were in a secret relationship in the ’70s (National Archives/Getty) On 26 March, 1977, a couple of lesbian feminist activists in a secret relationship pulled off an incredible lovers’ plot: holding the first-ever meeting on LGBT+ rights at the White House. When Jean O’Leary, co-executive director of the National Gay

A gay couple who have been together for more than two decades offered up a striking rebuttal to the homophobic refrain that being gay is a phase. Kurt English and Nick Cardello shared a pair of eerily similar photos on Twitter taken 24 years apart, showing them blissfully in love at Washington Pride in 1993, and

HJ Farr and Deity Blair in A Very Queer Holiday. (YouTube) Christmas can be a tough time of year for LGBT+ people, and the lack of representation in films traditionally watched over the festive period is only one of the reasons. Family rejection, having to go back into the closet, having mental health issues exacerbated