US pop star and gay icon Adam Lambert has launched the Feel Something Foundation “to support LGBTQ+ organisations that are moving the needle for communities of all ages and backgrounds”. Making the announcement via Instagram, Lambert named the foundation after his solo track released in 2019. Feel Something Foundation will work with charities whose impact...
US Vice President Mike Pence attended a service at the Holy City Church of God In Christ on the weekend to mark Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day. Following Pence’s speech, where he made general comments on the civil rights leader, Bishop Jerry Wayne Taylor gave an anti-LGBTIQ sermon that was live streamed by the...
DNA cover model and adult entertainer Ian Frost features in the web series The Circuit, which delves into the US party scene. The series preview attracted much attention on Facebook and passed over 15,000 views on YouTube in just a few days. The Circuit is created and directed by Daniel Lui, who says he was...
UK singer Sam Smith is expected to deliver an electrifying performance when they takes to the stage at the Mardi Gas Party on 29 February. Smith, who uses the non-binary pronoun “they”, announced via Twitter they were attending Mardi Gras which they described as “being one of the highlights of my career.” “Australia has meant...
In 2019 we’ve been introduced to LGBTIQ characters in major films like the most recent Star Wars and Marvel’s upcoming The Eternals, but in 1982 the portrayal of a gay role ended Harry Hamlin’s film career, he says. Following the success of Clash Of The Titans, Hamlin wanted to play an edgier role and so...
In mid-December the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison released the final draft of a religious discrimination bill aimed at making it okay for people to use religion to vilify and discriminate against others. And he did it in the middle of Australia’s bushfire crisis. Using a natural disaster as a smokescreen is probably appropriate for...
iOTA may not be a household name, but he comes with over 25 years experience in Australian show business as a multi award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer, playwright, stage performer, film actor and visual artist… and that’s only the half of it! DNA caught up with him the day his new song, Life, dropped. If this...
James Wharton, a former openly gay British soldier, told Forces News of an incident where Prince Harry stepped in after he experienced prejudice from other soldiers. “When I was serving in the army I was openly gay, and In 2008 while we were working together, I’d got myself into a bit of a situation with...
When Casey Donovan sings, we take note. Australians discovered her powerhouse vocals in 2004 when she won Australian Idol at the tender age of 16. Since then she’s had many stage and screen roles, wowed New Year audiences with her Adele and Thelma Houston covers, and in 2019 she shared her Indigenous heritage in an episode of Who...
The mayor of Depok, Indonesia has orders raids on the LGBTIQ community following the conviction, in Britain, of Reynhard Sinaga, a serial rapist. Sinaga is from Depok but had moved to the UK to study. He was convicted last month of raping 136 men who he’d taken back to his apartment and drugged. The mayor...
US rapper Kanye West has announced he will appear at Awaken 2020, a stadium-sized prayer rally that includes some of the US’s most anti-LGBTIQ activist speakers. The Arizona event includes Dominionist preachers like Lou Engle and Cindy Jacobs. Dominionists are part of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement that seeks to bring about a theocratic...
US actor DJ Qualls who is best known for his roles in Supernatural and The Man In The High Castle came out as gay on stage at a friend’s comedy show in San Diego. This is the first time he has gone public about his sexuality ENews reports. Following the show, Qualls posted on Twitter...
Ahead of the Chinese New Year Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba released an advert featuring a gay couple coming home for new year celebrations. In the 20 second ad, a man introduces his male friend to his mum who welcomes them in as his dad looks on suspiciously while two girls laugh presumably knowing the two...
UPDATE: The UQ Young Liberal National Club president, Wilson Gavin has died following the group’s protest at the Brisbane City Council library yesterday. It is understood Gavin took his own life Monday morning, the ABC reports. Gavin was one of a group of protesters from the conservative student group who crashed the library’s drag queen...
Jake Gyllenhaal will play a closeted gay dad in a film based on the Broadway musical Fun Home. Gyllenhaal’s character, Bruce Bechdel runs a funeral home in small town Pennsylvania. The film, and the musical, is based off Alison Bechdel’s book about her childhood growing up with a gay father. Following the secret life of...