Bangkok Pride 2026 lands on Sunday 31 May with a 4.8km parade through Silom, the heart of the city’s gay nightlife, and this year feels bigger than a standard Pride celebration. Thailand legalised same-sex marriage in January 2025, and more than 26,000 couples have already registered nationwide in the law’s first year. Pride 2026 arrives...
Hong Kong’s biggest annual LGBTQ carnival is off for the second year running. Pink Dot HK confirmed on Instagram on 18 May 2026 that the 14 June event at Stanley Plaza and Murray House will not go ahead, after the venue operator told organisers it could not be rented for public activities. The reason given...
Most Boys Love series sell adolescent crushes and uniform tugs. Soul Mate, the new Japanese BL that hit Netflix on 14 May 2026, tells the story of two damaged men who hold on to each other for a decade. That alone is worth the eight hours it’s asking from you. The eight-episode mini-series stars Hayato...
Comments on our Instagram posts often circle back to the same idea: that some of the loudest homophobes may be struggling with homosexual desires themselves. It is a belief many people in the LGBTQIA+ community hold: the loudest, nastiest homophobes are often secretly gay themselves. Now, a video from Facebook creator Lucas Bean brings much-needed...
Kylie Minogue sat down with Joel Creasey on Nova’s The Joel Creasey Show for her first Australian radio interview about her new Netflix documentary, Kylie, which drops globally on 20 May 2026. The pop icon talked about the years of quiet persistence it took to get her on board, and shared a moment with Joel...
Carlos Alcaraz, the 23-year-old Spanish world number two and the most-watched man in tennis, is the new cover star of Vanity Fair‘s Sports Issue, photographed by Ethan James Green and interviewed by José Criales-Unzueta. The shoot has Alcaraz rolling around in orange clay in a Louis Vuitton tank top and Nike shorts. With the direct...
As the 79th Cannes Film Festival rolls out along the French Riviera this week, it is worth pulling one of the most spellbinding queer films the festival has ever crowned back into the light. Tropical Malady, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2004 and became the first Thai film to...
The 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna has bangaranga’d its way into the winners’ circle. Dara celebrates a historic first win for Bulgaria, collating 516 points, with this wild and cheeky, genre-bending anthem Bangaranga. It is a victory that feels emblematic of the modern Eurovision spirit: bold, unapologetic, and completely bonkers. But what does it...
Dominique Jackson has reworked the cerulean monologue from The Devil Wears Prada and aimed the punchline straight at the gay men who think anti-trans attacks have nothing to do with them. The Pose star teamed up with the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) on the clip, posted to Instagram on 6 May 2026. In the parody,...
Rainbow Giving Australia’s Sweat with Pride campaign is two days out from the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination and chasing one round number: 1,000. That’s how many sign-ups the team wants locked in by IDAHOBIT on Sunday 17 May, and they’ve already got more than 850 people on the board with over A$20,000 raised before...
Sniffies, the browser-based gay cruising app, has launched its first Summer Swim Collection through its Sniffies HUSH apparel arm. The drop went live on 13 May 2026 and includes swim briefs, relaxed-fit cargo trunks, cropped muscle tanks, and an oversized statement towel. The campaign was shot on location in San Juan, Puerto Rico. If you...
Australia has its strongest Eurovision contender in years. Overnight in Vienna, Delta Goodrem stormed through Semi-Final 2 of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with her track Eclipse, locking in a spot in Saturday’s Grand Final and giving Australia its best shot at the trophy since Dami Im came runner-up back in 2016. The Wiener Stadthalle...
Thirty years ago this June, a small British film about two teenage boys falling in love on a Thamesmead council estate walked into UK cinemas and quietly changed what a queer film could feel like. Beautiful Thing turns 30 on 14 June 2026, and a generation of gay men still hasn’t shut up about it....
Sam Asghari has stripped down for a new PrEP campaign, and somewhere between the towel, the sauna and the dripping-wet shots of him caressing RuPaul’s Drag Race Pit Crew member Bruno Alcantara, the internet has landed on one question. Is he gay, or just the most enthusiastic ally on the market? The 31-year-old Iranian-American model...
Private Lives 4 is open. La Trobe University runs it, Meridian is among the community organisations pushing it, and your answers feed straight into federal LGBTIQA+ health policy through 2035. Sunday 17 May is IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia. This year, it arrives with something practical you can do in...