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1.9KThe Berlin Mosque That Flew The World’s First Rainbow Flag Is Back Open
The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in Berlin, the first mosque in the world to fly a rainbow flag, has reopened after a year-long closure forced by an ISIS-K plot to attack it. Founded in 2017 by Turkish-German lawyer Seyran Ateş, the liberal mosque welcomes queer Muslims, lets women and men pray together, and sits at the...
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1.6KFlorida Man Charged With Hate Crime After Allegedly Beating A Five-Year-Old For Being Gay
A 33-year-old Florida man has been charged with aggravated child abuse with a hate crime enhancement after police allege he beat a five-year-old boy because he believed the child was gay. Andre Brown Jr., of Davenport, Florida, was arrested on Sunday, 3 May 2026, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release reported...
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2.5KAlfie Whiteman Walked Away From Tottenham At 26 To Take Nude Self-Portraits
Former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Alfie Whiteman has gone from a Premier League contract to shooting naked self-portraits, and his debut exhibition is now open at OOF Gallery inside the very stadium where he used to train. The 26-year-old retired from professional football in 2025 after 16 years at Spurs and now works as a photographer...
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1.9KBotswana Repeals Anti-Sodomy Law – More Progressive Change For Africa
Botswana has formally repealed Section 164 of its Penal Code, the colonial-era law that made same-sex intimacy punishable by up to seven years in prison. Attorney General Dick Bayford published the amendment on 26 March 2026, finalising what the country’s High Court ruled unconstitutional in 2019. Botswana now joins a small group of African nations...
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1.3KKoby Evans Apologises For Homophobic Slur As AFL Crackdown Drags On
Brisbane Lions draftee Koby Evans, 18, has apologised for directing a homophobic slur at an opponent during last Saturday’s VFL match against Coburg, and the AFL’s integrity unit is now investigating. Evans is the league’s latest case in a pattern that has seen at least six AFL players suspended for anti-gay language since 2024. The...
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2.9KMeet Frank Christians, The 55-Year-Old Silver Daddy Behind That Viral Manspread Shoot
A shirtless silver fox sprawled in silk underwear, sock garters and black lace-ups has the gay internet in tatters this week. The man behind the manspread is Frank Christians, a 55-year-old German-Danish model, and the shoot is a preview from issue #17 of male nude publication L’Homme Nu, lensed by Czech photographer Marcel Plavec. The...
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2.3KCooper Kim Came Out To His Stanford Team And Walked Off The NCAA With Two Gold Medals
The Stanford gymnast took the NCAA floor exercise crown and helped his team to gold this April. Days later, he sat down with Outsports to talk publicly about being a gay athlete for the first time. It’s been a big April for Cooper Kim. The Stanford men’s gymnast won the NCAA individual title on floor...
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3.1KGQ Says Chest Hair Is Back, We Say It Never Went Away
Men’s fashion magazine, GQ has just declared that chest hair is officially “sexy again.” Bless! This is not news to DNA readers! Tyler Chin’s March 2026 trend piece for GQ declares chest hair a full-blown comeback story, traced through Paul Anthony Kelly’s viral Central Park shoot, Jon Gries fronting a Jacquemus campaign, Dylan O’Brien in...
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4.2KMary’s Poppin Turns 10 And Adelaide’s Queer Scene Is Louder Than Ever
If you’ve never made the pilgrimage to 5 Synagogue Place, you’ve still probably heard the name. Mary’s Poppin is the 100% queer-owned bar in the Adelaide CBD that’s been running weekend drag shows, themed club nights and the kind of unhinged dancefloor energy you remember on Monday morning. It opened in April 2016, and on...
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3.4KMark Latham Must Pay Alex Greenwich $100,000 For Homosexual Vilification
Former One Nation MP Mark Latham has been ordered to pay openly gay independent MP Alex Greenwich $100,000, after the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled on 30 April that a 2023 tweet and related media statements amounted to homosexual vilification and workplace sexual harassment under the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act. It is the...
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3.8KGay Creator Says The OnlyFans Gold Rush Is Over, But A Queerer Chapter Might Follow
The pandemic-era OnlyFans boom that turned subscription content into a quick-cash plan for out-of-work creators is finished, according to gay TikToker and OF performer Josh Bigosh, known online as @beefyotter. His verdict is plain. The market is saturated, the average payout is thin, and the company is heading into a messy ownership shake-up. The twist?...