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10.9KSamoa Bans Elton John’s Rocketman Due To Gay Content
ABC News reports Samoa’s only cinema won’t be screening the Elton John biopic Rocketman due to its gay content. The cinema had planned to screen the film but had to cancel due to the country’s censorship laws. Simon Kenchington, the theatre’s technical specialist said, “The entire film was rejected … because of the homosexual content,...
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9.1KBotswana’s High Court Decriminalises Gay Sex
The New York Times reports Botswana’s High Court has overturned laws that criminalised homosexuality. In statement as he delivered the judgement, Judge Michael Leburu said the existing laws were discriminatory. “Human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalised. Sexual orientation is not a fashion statement,”he added. “It is an important attribute of one’s personality.”...
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10.3KStraights Behaving Badly During Pride Month
Milo Yiannopoulos the right-wing provocateur has been named the official face of the Boston Straight Pride parade. Queerty reports the group behind the parade, Super Happy Fun America, asked Yiannopoulos following legal threats by Brad Pitt for the use of his image without consent. In a statement released by the group Yiannopoulos said, “I might...
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12.4KDNA at Eurovision 2019: Tel Aviv – Special Issue
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15.9KChris Evans Calls Out Homophobic Men
American hunk Chris Evans has voiced his support for the LGBTIQ community on Twitter after the Washington Post published a request for a ‘Straight Pride’ parade in Boston. The actor followed up with a second tweet saying “Wow, the number gay/straight pride parade false equivalencies are disappointing.,” Chris Evans who is most famously known as...
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10.4KMatt Mitcham Engaged!
Arguably Australia’s cutest Olympian, Matt Mitcham has gotten engaged to partner Luke. Making his announcement via Instagram Mitcham said his partner “got down on both knees and he said yes,” View this post on Instagram He got down on both knees, I said yes, and now we’re engaged. A post shared by Matt(hew) Mitcham (@matthewmitcham88)...
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7.9KZakar Twins In New Video Showing It Getting Better!
Fashion model twins and LGBT activists, the Zakar brothers have shared their coming out story on YouTube. Joining others from the LGBTIQ community the twins in the video Coming Out: 4 Words Or Less expressed what it was like to be in and out of the closet. The twins book, Pray The Gay Away, is...
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11.4KSurgeon Charged With Rape After “Stealthing” His Male Partner
A prominent Australian surgeon has been charged with rape after he allegedly removed his condom without permission (stealthing) while having sex with another male doctor, reports The Age. Police arrested the surgeon in September 2018 as under Victorian law stealthing is classified as rape. When charges were laid, the surgeon had his practising licence suspended...
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Boy George, Bowie, Madonna And Judy Garland To Get The Rocketman Treatment?
Fresh on the heels of Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman MGM is developing a biopic about Boy George, with other music biopics said to be in development include David Bowie, Madonna and Judy Garland. Boy George posted on his Instagram his excitement about the movie. View this post on Instagram A MOVIE! @mgm_studios Thrilling! A post...
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9.5KMadonna’s X Factor!
To celebrate the release of Madonna’s new album Madame X, we’ve chosen the pop icon’s ten (or X in Roman numerals) gayest moments! I Vogue This sleek, chic house music #1 from 1990 took inspiration from Harlem’s late 1980s gay vogueing/ballroom scene and continues to “give good face”. Season two of Ryan Murphy’s boldly beautiful...
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14.0KHaiti Makes History Hosting First-Ever Gay Pride Celebration
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) in Haiti made history hosting the country’s first ever gay pride event alongside International Condom Day (ICD). Haiti is enormously homophobic so the event held significant meaning for its LGBTIQ community. In a statement AHF Haiti Country Program Manager Karine Duverger said, “AHF Haiti took this opportunity to declare that everyone...
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Rocketman – Relax, It Doesn’t Suck!
Elton’s biopic is fun, camp and honest, writes Cameron Bayley. As the second true-life story of an out music icon from the ’70 and ’80s to be released within a year, comparisons between Rocketman and the hugely successful Bohemian Rhapsody are inevitable. And, in a nutshell, this is the one that does so with gay...
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Taiwan Celebrates First Official Same-Sex Weddings
Over 100 same-sex couples in Taiwan will say I do as the country’s same-sex marriage legislation comes into effect. History was made in Taiwan last week when it became the first Asian nation to legalise same-sex marriage. Local authorities said more than 150 same-sex couples were scheduled to register marriages in Taipei on Friday. The...
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10.4KSultan Of Brunei Hands Back Oxford University Honorary Degree Over Gay Sex Death Penalty Backlash
ABC News reports Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah returned his honorary degree awarded by the UK’s Oxford University after a global backlash, headed up by Elton John and George Clooney, after the death penalty for gay sex and adultery became law in Brunei. A petition calling on Oxford University to take back its honorary law degree had...
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22.2KMore Mormonism And No More Porn Says Markie More
Queerty reports gay porn star Markie More has quit the adult entertainment industry and has joined Fight The New Drug, a Mormon-run group opposed to porn. Via Twitter More said In separate Tweets More said he’s “doing better right now than I have in all my 26 years, especially the last 6.” More went further...
