RuPaul’s DragCon might just be the gayest place on the planet… and the straights are loving it! Over a decade ago, a minor pop star with a cult following chatted excitedly to DNA about a new TV series he had devised and was hosting involving drag queens battling it out in a reality show TV format not dissimilar to America’s Next Top Model. Every week...
PHOTOGRAPHER: Christian Scott | Instagram True sex appeal is more than just skin deep, says photographer Christian Scott, who says it is revealing his subjects’ character that creates the best pictures. As a photographer, I know that being sexy is not always about a handsome face or a hard body. There are many aspects that contribute to a man’s sex appeal. When DNA asked me to...
Photography and interview by James Franklin | Instagram Model: Alex Mecum | Instagram Alex Mecum is happily married, cares not for accolades and has a compassionate, humanist heart. DNA: What brought you to porn? Alex Mecum: I was a university student and didn’t like the idea of student loans. The winter semester of 2015 was especially hard. I’d quit...
Israel Folau, the sacked Wallaby, blamed same-sex marriage and the legalisation of abortion in NSW for the bushfires and drought that are ravaging the Australian east coast during his sermon on Sunday. In a video posted to Facebook, Folau said the timing of the bushfire crisis was not a coincidence but instead a taste of...
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have packed in a full and fabulous Festival schedule that kicks off on 14 February and ends with all the glittery queerness of the Parade on 29 February and the Party 1 March. The theme of this year’s Festival is What Matters. Mardi Gras Arts Interim CEO, Grant Lowe...
Photography and interview by James Franklin | Instagram Model: Max Konnor | Instagram DNA: What’s your background? I’m a small-town boy from Georgia. I have one older sister. I was raised by extremely religious and strict parents. Our week consisted of school, church, work and more church. I didn’t mind it. It was my norm. I...
US cable channel Freeform has greenlit its first ever Valentine’s Day movie and it’s all about Harry. Titled The Thing About Harry, the movie focuses on high school enemies Sam (played by Jake Borelli) and Harry (Niko Terho), who are forced to share a car ride to their hometown in Missouri so they can attend...
Cardinal George Pell has been granted a final appeal by the Australian High Court against his child sexual abuse conviction. Pell’s legal team argued that the majority of judges in the Victorian Court Of Appeal erred by finding, in August, that jurors were not unreasonable to believe the testimony of Pell’s alleged victim. “There did...
Jordan Steffy, a gay teenager stood up to his bully with an in class confrontation after years of homophobic abuse. Steffy, who is a student at LaPorte High School in LaPorte, Indiana said the unnamed boy posted a hateful homophobic message about him on SnapChat. In an interview with Insider Steffy said, “He made an...
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the 50th anniversary of former tennis star Margaret Court grand slam year will be recognised but not celebrated by Tennis Australia. Last week Court, who in recent years has pushed her anti-gay views, called on Tennis Australia to “sit and talk with me’’ ahead of the anniversary, saying she...
Brian Smith, who starred in Sense8 and Treadstone has come out as gay in a recent interview. Talking to Attitude, Smith spoke of his childhood growing up in rural Texas where he often felt isolated. “I was terrified. At school, I really couldn’t fit in anywhere. I wasn’t a jock or a nerd,” he says....
Sean Doolittle, who plays for the Washington Nationals who won the 2019 World Series, has declined an offer to visit the White House because he disagrees with the policies of Donald Trump. While his surname might be Doolittle he’s not doing little for the LGBTIQ community. Speaking to the Washington Post Doolittle said he...
Argentina’s president-elect, Alberto Fernandez said he’s proud of his son who is a respected drag performer called DYHZY. Fernàndez, who recently marched in the Buenos Aires pride parade, beat out conservative right-wing incumbent Mauricio Macri in last week’s presidential election. In a radio interview with Radio Con Vos, the president-elect said his son, Estanislao, was...
The peak NSW HIV organisation ACON, has announced its opposition to NSW Government plans to legislate mandatory HIV testing of people whose bodily fluids come in contact with frontline workers as paramedics and police. In an announcement made this week, the government outlined its intent to introduce a scheme that allows mandatory testing of HIV...
In an interview with the BBC, script writer and television producer Russell T Davies (Queer As Folk, Dr Who, Torchwood, Bob And Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova and A Very English Scandal), said openly gay script writers are “still very new” to society but they are opening up new territory to bring LGBTIQ issues to the...