US embassies and consulates have been given authorisation to display the Pride flag alongside the American flag for the duration of the 2021 Pride season, reports ABC News. Previously under the Trump administration, US embassies were banned from flying Pride flags on flag poles. In reaction to this ban, several embassies chose to fly these...
A rise in anti-LGBTQIA+ violence on Polish streets, fuelled by verbal attacks from the Polish government, have led to a mass exodus of gay people from Poland, reports The New York Times. In an interview with Polish national Marta Malachowska, the 31-year-old describes the situation in Poland as “increasingly hostile for gay people,” citing a homophobic...
Former Olympic gold medal winner, transgender activist and reality tv star, Caitlyn Jenner, has announced that she is running for Governor of California, reports Reuters. In a statement released on Friday, Jenner says that she has been a “compassionate disrupter” throughout her life and seeks to “fundamentally fix our state before it’s too late”. Jenner,...
In February 2020, 21-year-old Charlie Michael Edward Caire set up a fake Grindr profile in order to lure and torture an elderly man in regional South Australia, reports ABC News. Caire pleaded guilty to a number of offences including false imprisonment, aggravated blackmail and aggravated assault. On Wednesday, Judge Liesl Chapman sentenced Caire to five...
Jonathan Bennett and his fiancé Jaymes Vaughan planned to tie the knot at Palace Resorts in Mexico but were allegedly told by the owner that “marriage between two men violated his morals,” reports HuffPost. Bennett and his fiancé recently made history appearing as the first gay couple on the cover of leading wedding publication The...
Harry Styles and his co-star David Dawson will film a number of nude sex scenes that will look “as real as possible,” reports The Daily Mail. Styles is currently filming for the up-coming movie My Policeman. Set in 1950’s England when homosexual acts were illegal, Styles plays a gay policeman who has a secret affair...
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Lady Sings The Blues was the much-awarded 1972 film about jazz-blues singer Billie Holiday with Diana Ross in the leading role. The only thing missing was the story of the most important song of Holiday’s career, Strange Fruit, a vicious indictment of the lynching of black people in the USA. “I didn’t know what Strange Fruit meant when I was...
UPDATE: The Florida bill mentioned in this story will not pass, reports The Advocate. Sponsors of the bill have said that there isn’t enough time for them to work out the ‘controversies’ of the bill. This bill also lost traction after the National Collegiate Athletic Association made it clear to legislators that they would cancel...
Steven Oliver, from the hit ABC television series Black Comedy and host of Indigenous art-themed quiz show Faboriginal, is bringing his critically acclaimed cabaret show Bigger And Blacker to the Sydney Opera House. Oliver’s show weaves comedy and contemplation through a series of song and dance numbers drawing on his personal journey as a gay...
Coming off the back of his controversial Montero (Call Me by Your Name) music video, Lil Nas X has starred in a racy new video for boyband Brockhampton’s new single Count On Me alongside Dominic Fike, reports Out. The Count On Me music video opens with the pair driving, chatting and flirting before kicking off...
The Texas Senate is considering a new bill set to criminalise parents who help their children access gender-confirmation procedures, reports The Advocate. The bill proposes that transgender treatments for minors, such as “puberty suppression drugs, hormone replacement therapy, or surgical and medical procedures for the purpose of gender transitioning” will be redefined as child abuse....
The former Oakland Raiders football player and Bachelor star has come out as gay in an exclusive pre-taped interview on Good Morning America, reports ABC. “I’ve ran from myself for a long time. I’ve hated myself for a long time,” Underwood tells GMA. Adding that he went through “dark and bad” times before being ready...
An anonymous buyer has spent $43,000 (18.6942 ETH) to buy the original 2007 footage of Chris Crocker’s iconic Leave Britney Alone viral video as an NFT or non-fungible token. A non-fungible token is a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore...
In 2019, Alabama school boy Nigel Shelby, aged 14, took his own life after being “relentlessly bullied for his race and sexuality” by classmates, allege the attorneys representing Shelby’s family from Ben Crump Law in a press release posted on Twitter. Shelby attempted to seek help from school administrators but was told his “sexuality was...