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Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime one step closer to being aggravated offence
In a win for LGBTQ+ rights, the House of Lords passed an amendment that will see LGBTQ+ hate crimes made an aggravated offence. On Wednesday (4 March), an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill passed the House of Lords. The bill will bring hate crimes targeting LGBTQ+ and disabled people in-...
Billy Porter says he was ‘dead for three days’ in horror health battle
Pose star Billy Porter has revealed the horrific details of his sepsis diagnosis last year, explaining that he was “dead for three days” after being put on a life support machine. Billy Porter, 56, made his sepsis diagnosis public last September after he was forced to pull out of starring in Caba...
Chick-fil-A faces another boycott over plans to return to UK
Controversial fast food chain Chick-fil-A is facing mass boycotts for funding anti-LGBTQ+ organisations as it prepares to return to the UK. Protestors have said they plan to stage demonstrations outside the chain’s London branch upon its opening on Thursday (5 March) over its historical funding o...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski says ‘I know what it’s like to be othered’
Zack Polanski opened up about understanding what it is like to feel excluded in society, while speaking at the launch of TransActual’s latest report on the state of trans lives in the UK. The trans non-profit published its Trans Lives 2025 report on Tuesday (3 March), which revealed the stark imp...
Trans Muslim woman slams anti-trans Ramadan abuse: ‘You can’t tell me who I can’t be’
“You’re going to hell. You can’t be Muslim, trans, or fast in Ramadan,” one hateful comment overlaid on content creator Faye Kingston’s Instagram reel reads. It’s just one of many abusive messages she has received this Ramadan – the first year she has been open about her faith on social media. Y...
Drag Race UK’s Zahirah Zapanta on her relationship with Mariah Balenciaga and Kate Butch: ‘That’s my baby’
Move aside Eliminaysha Lopez, it’s Safehirah Zapanta’s time. After five episodes of being chronically safe, Zahirah Zapanta is the fifth queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World season three to sashay away. On the bright side, coming in sixth place isn’t half bad for someone who got the call t...
‘Hostile’ anti-trans environment in UK deterring trans people from healthcare
Nearly every single transgender person living in the UK has been impacted by the relentless anti-trans media attacks against the community, a report has found. Ninety-nine per cent of trans people in the UK told non-profit TransActual that anti-trans coverage by right-wing media outlets had harme...
Rosalía says her type is ‘gay men’ as she opens up about dating
Spanish pop star Rosalía has said her type is “gay men” as she opened up about dating. Rosalía, who dated Euphoria star Hunter Schafer for several months in 2019, opened up about dating in a conversation with Argentine author Mariana Enríquez. The chat was part of Spotify introducing Spotify A/...
Alexander Skarsgård’s dog in Pillion just won an acting award
Maggie, the rottweiler owned by Alexander Skarsgård’s leather dom Ray in kinky queer film Pillion, has been honoured with an acting award. Maggie fetched the award in the Rom Com Rover category at the 20th annual FIDO Awards (For Incredible Dogs On Screen) on 1 March, beating off competition from...
Doechii’s Levi’s Jeans ad sends conservative Christians into a meltdown
Doechii’s Levi’s Jeans advert has sent conservative Christian mums into a meltdown. The musician, who last month appeared to come out as a lesbian, was one of the stars who collaborated with the inclusive brand for its “Backstory – Behind Every Original” Super Bowl commercial. The “Backstory” c...
School pays Christian teacher $650k over trans policy dispute
A Christian fundamentalist teacher has been paid over $650,000 after claiming he was fired for refusing to respect a transgender student’s pronouns. Music teacher John Kluge agreed to a settlement with his former workplace, Brownsburg Community Schools in Indiana, following nearly eight years of ...
Paul McCartney reveals John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono thought Lennon ‘might have been gay’
Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that Yoko Ono, the widow of his The Beatles bandmate John Lennon, once told him that she thought Lennon “might have been gay”. In an interview with Vanity Fair, conducted in 2015 and published last week to coincide with Man on the Run, a documentary about McCartney...
Republican congressman who targeted trans healthcare ousted by more extreme candidate
U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw was defeated by Steve Toth in the Republican primary for Texas‘s 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday (3 March), signalling a shift in the GOP as Toth positions himself as a more extreme candidate. Crenshaw, known for leading efforts against gender-affirming care...
No, LGBTQ+ ally skater Alysa Liu did not say she doesn’t believe in pronouns
Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu didn’t say she doesn’t believe in pronouns, despite claims circulating online. According to rumours, when asked about the removal of pronouns and pro-LGBTQ+ content from her social media profile, Lui responded: “I was a kid, I don’t believe in that stuff anymore....
LGBTQ+ fostering households on the rise in Wales
The number of LGBTQ+ households in Wales that are fostering children is rising, according to new statistics. There are currently 56 LGBTQ+ households that are fostering in the area, compared to the 30 in 2024. Stats also show that 12.5 per cent of those households are with Foster Wales Carmarthen...
Cillian Murphy breaks silence on Harry Potter Voldemort casting rumour
Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has firmly shut down rumours that he is set to play Voldemort in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series. The Oscar-winning Oppenheimer actor, 49, had been largely speculated to take on the role of the infamous Hogwarts villain in HBO’s controversial TV adaptation o...
Whitewashing, influencers and gay death penalty: Dubai was never a ‘safe’ place
Dubai’s glittering veneer as a futuristic and faultless oasis in the heart of the Middle East for wealthy, Western expats has been shattered. But, as queer people have long known, beneath the city’s picture-perfect influencer posts, luxury shopping malls and record-breaking skyscrapers, lies a da...
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Fontana comes out as transgender: ‘There is only she’
Drag Race star Fontana has come out as a transgender woman, sharing that she is now ready to live “fully and authentically” after a year of personal growth since filming RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World. In an exclusive statement, Fontana explained to PinkNews that while filming the series she ...
Jack Schlossberg slams Ryan Murphy’s ‘grotesque’ show on Kennedy family
Jack Schlossberg, nephew of the late John F. Kennedy Jr., has slammed the portrayal of his family in Ryan Murphy’s FX TV show Love Story. In a new interview, the 33-year-old Kennedy scion called on Murphy to “do something about getting Trump out of power”. Love Story chronicles the romantic relat...
Kesha slams White House for ‘disgusting and inhumane’ use of her song
Pop star Kesha has hit out at the White House for using her 2011 song “Blow” to make “light of war”. The 39-year-old “BOY CRAZY” hitmaker’s track was used in a clip that President Donald Trump’s White House’s TikTok account. The video, posted 10 February, sees a fighter jet shooting a missile at ...
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