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1.8K“The Bravest, Strongest Man I’ve Ever Known.” Jason Collins Has Died At 47
Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in NBA history, has died at 47. His family confirmed his death on 12 May 2026, eight months after the league announced he was being treated for a brain tumour. Collins was diagnosed in December with stage 4 glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease....
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3.5KBroadway Purists Are Shaking Over These Unapologetically Queer Tony Nominations
The 79th annual Tony Award nominations landed on 11 May 2026, and Broadway’s queer wing did not come to play. Camp cult musical The Rocky Horror Show led the day with nine nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actor for Luke Evans as Dr Frank-N-Furter. Céline Dion-inspired pop opera Titanique picked up...
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5.4KMatt Bomer Finally Names His Favourite Fellow Travelers Sex Scene With Jonathan Bailey
Matt Bomer has finally answered the question every Fellow Travelers fan has been asking. His favourite sex scene with Jonathan Bailey is the one from episode one, the early encounter where Bailey’s Tim Laughlin first submits to Bomer’s Hawk Fuller. The Showtime limited series is still pulling fresh attention more than a year after it...
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1.7KThe West Hollywood Gay Dads Who Punched A MAGA Influencer Have A Message…And It Isn’t About Him
David Vulin, one half of the West Hollywood gay couple who clashed with right-wing influencer Ryley Niemi in April, has told CNN that the real problem in the viral confrontation is not Niemi himself but the platforms that pay for rage-bait content aimed at LGBTQIA+ families. The Vulins sat down with CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan in...
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2.2KAdam Lambert Is In His Industrial Era With New Single “EAT U ALIVE” And Sixth Album “ADAM”
Adam Lambert has announced his sixth studio album, Adam, due 10 July 2026 via his own label, alongside lead single Eat U Alive and a dramatic Nick Knight album cover that has the internet doing a full reappraisal. The 12-track record is the singer’s first set of original songs since 2020’s Velvet and his first...
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3.3KA Trans Politician Just Won JK Rowling’s Home District. She Backed The Losing Anti-Trans Candidate
Scotland elected its first two transgender Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) on Friday, 8 May 2026. Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane won seats for the Scottish Green Party. Manivannan represents Edinburgh and Lothians East, which is JK Rowling’s home region. The Harry Potter author, who has spent the past six years publicly campaigning...
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2.7KSydney Sauna Lost Its Instagram… So Did 100 Other LGBTQIA+ Accounts
Sydney Sauna, the sex venue of choice for Oxford Streeters, says Meta permanently suspended its Instagram account in March without warning. The account had more than 5,000 followers. No content was flagged, no policy was cited, and no appeal has worked. The suspension is one of more than 100 LGBTQIA+ and sexual health account removals...
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3.7KJosh Duhamel Knows The “Love, Simon” Scene Gay Viewers Keep Thanking Him For
Eight years on from Love, Simon and Josh Duhamel still gets stopped in the street for the same reason. Fans want to thank him for playing Jack Spier, the dad who, after fumbling his son’s coming out, sits down and apologises for it. That apology scene has done a lot of quiet work. For many...
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2.8KFremantle Captain Alex Pearce Wants The AFL To Feel Safer For LGBTQIA+ Fans
Alex Pearce, the captain of the Fremantle Dockers, is calling out homophobia in Australian Rules football and asking the men’s game to be a safer place for the LGBTQIA+ community. The 30-year-old skipper said it in a long interview with Bharat Sundaresan, published on AFL.com.au and pushed out on the league’s official Instagram on 30...
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3.3KSir David Attenborough Turns 100 Just Weeks After The Queen’s Centenary
Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this Friday, May 8. A whole century of that voice telling us why the planet is worth fighting for, why a beetle is fascinating, why we should care what happens to a coral reef thousands of kilometres from our living rooms. It is a strange thing to sit with, because...
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2.6KKings Beach Is The Gay Sanctuary Worth Fighting For And The Campaign Is Far From Over
A small stretch of sand south of Byron Bay has spent more than fifty years quietly becoming one of the most culturally significant queer spaces in Australia. Kings Beach, tucked inside the Broken Head Nature Reserve, has been a meeting place for gay men since the 1970s, a site of HIV and AIDS-era memorials, and...
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3.0KThe Berlin Mosque That Flew The World’s First Rainbow Flag Is Back Open
The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in Berlin, the first mosque in the world to fly a rainbow flag, has reopened after a year-long closure forced by an ISIS-K plot to attack it. Founded in 2017 by Turkish-German lawyer Seyran Ateş, the liberal mosque welcomes queer Muslims, lets women and men pray together, and sits at the...
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2.4KFlorida Man Charged With Hate Crime After Allegedly Beating A Five-Year-Old For Being Gay
A 33-year-old Florida man has been charged with aggravated child abuse with a hate crime enhancement after police allege he beat a five-year-old boy because he believed the child was gay. Andre Brown Jr., of Davenport, Florida, was arrested on Sunday, 3 May 2026, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release reported...
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3.4KAlfie Whiteman Walked Away From Tottenham At 26 To Take Nude Self-Portraits
Former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Alfie Whiteman has gone from a Premier League contract to shooting naked self-portraits, and his debut exhibition is now open at OOF Gallery inside the very stadium where he used to train. The 26-year-old retired from professional football in 2025 after 16 years at Spurs and now works as a photographer...
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2.5KBotswana Repeals Anti-Sodomy Law – More Progressive Change For Africa
Botswana has formally repealed Section 164 of its Penal Code, the colonial-era law that made same-sex intimacy punishable by up to seven years in prison. Attorney General Dick Bayford published the amendment on 26 March 2026, finalising what the country’s High Court ruled unconstitutional in 2019. Botswana now joins a small group of African nations...
