Aquaria won season 10 of Drag Race. (Supplied) Ahead of the Drag Race season 12 finale, PinkNews caught up with reigning fashion queen Aquaria about Zoom parties, keeping her queer fashion fantasy alive at home and what’s made this season so special. Aquaria entered Drag Race a fully-formed fashion enigma. The drag daughter of season
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‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic was jailed for trying to have an animal rights activist murdered. (Netflix) Tiger King – that Netflix docu-series that dropped just as a global, viral pandemic paralysed us all – might be in-line for a second season, according to Joe Exotic’s right-hand man, John Reinke. Speaking to The Sun, the 54-year-old
The singer Boy George, who was jailed in 2009 for imprisoning a male escort (Brian Rasic/WireImage) A Tory minister has quit due to the row over Dominic Cummings and, apparently, it’s all a bit much for Boy George. Junior government minister Douglas Ross became the first to resign over the row on Tuesday, one day
Sandi Toksvig. National treasure Sandi Toksvig says that the tabloid press have stopped calling her a lesbian –– but that doesn’t mean she isn’t one. In an interview with the Guardian from the work shed in her south London garden, Toksvig remembered coming out as a lesbian in the 1990s and the reaction from the
Doja Cat performs during the SnowGlobe Music Festival 2019 at Bijou Park on December 30, 2019 in South Lake Tahoe, California. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty) Rapper Doja Cat has come under fire over a resurfaced 2015 song in which she appears to mock police brutality, and for allegedly video chatting with an alt-right incel group. A 2015
Kevin Hart attends the FX Networks’ Star Walk Winter Press Tour 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 09, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage) Comedian Kevin Hart, who stepped down from hosting the Oscars in 2019 after backlash over his homophobic jokes, has said he deserves “a chance to move on”. Last year,
Iggy Azalea shared a meme of an iconic scene in Female Trouble on Twitter. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for iHeartMedia) Iggy Azalea should do the world a favour and apply to become a United Nations diplomat because she might be the one to finally unite us all. The world has long been eroded by prejudice, toxic
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande dropped ‘Rain On Me’ Friday (May 22). (Twitter) Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande dropped their long-awaited “Rain On Me” duet, featured on the upcoming album Chromatica, and the gays… they went well and truly wild. At precisely 12am Friday (May 22), Greta Thunberg, global world leaders and the creators of the
Ricky Martin has been announced as a guest judge for Drag Race All Stars 5. (WOW) Drag Race All Stars 5 has confirmed that the lip sync for your legacy format will be replaced by a new lip sync assassin twist, with a new trailer also revealing that Ricky Martin will guest judge the premiere.
Ruby Rose as Batwoman. (The CW) Ruby Rose has quit Batwoman, stunning fans by announcing her departure from the queer superhero show after just one season. The TV star had blazed a trail with the CW show, playing the out-and-proud vigilante Kate Kane, who takes on the titular superhero mantle. Batwoman wrapped up its first season
Prideland is a PBS series that will debut June 12. (PBS) A right-wing Christian fundamentalist group launched Friday (May 15) an attack against the Public Broadcast Station (PBS) for “promoting homosexuality” with its Pride month content. In other, less homophobic terms, PBS are airing a series of shows on Pride Month titled Prideland. Oh, the
Lady Gaga. (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty) A slew of hackers who got into legal firm severs and swiped the private data of Lady Gaga and a host of other celebrities have doubled their ransom money to $42 million, and are threatening to leak information about US president Donald Trump as well as dumping the data onto
Cynthia Nixon has a trans son called Samuel. (Bryan Bedder/Getty) Cynthia Nixon, the Sex and the City star who lost a bid to be New York governor in 2018, has opened up about her transgender son. Nixon revealed that her 23-year-old son, Samuel, is transgender in 2018 – the same year she made her bid
Pabllo Vittar strips off for Clavin Klein. (Twitter/Calvin Klein) Pabblo Vittar, Tommy Dorfman and Chella Man are among the stars who’ve stripped off for Pride in Calvin Klein’s latest campaign. Pride month may be cancelled this year, but Calvin Klein is still celebrating the LGBT+ community. Today Calvin Klein released a new campaign, featuring nine
Sam Smith performs on stage during Lollapaloosa Sao Paulo, 2019. (Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images) Sam Smith was “ridiculed” by a Sunshine Radio presenter last year in a programme that regulator Ofcom says was a breach of the broadcasting code. Paul Ellery, who has since resigned from Sunshine Radio, made the comments in his breakfast show on
Jonathan Schmitz was found guilty of second degree murder. (Netflix) Trial by Media, a new Netflix documentary, shines a fresh light on the “gay panic” murder of Jenny Jones Show guest Scott Amedure. Scott Amedure was a 32-year-old gay man who, in 1995, was murdered senselessly in a case that shocked America. Three days before
World-renowned illusionists and conservationists Siegfried and Roy (right) pose with their white tiger in an undated photo. (Photo courtesy of Siegfried and Roy/The Mirage via Getty Images) Roy Horn, the tiger-levitating entertainer who dazzled Las Vegas audiences as half of magic duo Siegfried and Roy, has died from COVID-19 complications. Roy Horn died at MountainView
RuPaul has announced a shake-up for Drag Race All Stars 5. (WOW) When Drag Race All Stars 5 begins in four weeks’ time, expect to be gooped and gagged by the biggest twist in the show’s her story. The All Stars machine is firing back up into action ahead of season five’s June 5 premiere,
Macaulay Culkin plays an “insane character” in the tenth season of American Horror Story. (Erik Voake/Getty for Adult Swim and Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images) Macaulay Culkin’s character in the forthcoming series of American Horror Story will have “crazy, erotic sex” with Kathy Bates, according to show creator Ryan Murphy. Murphy has already revealed that Culkin will
Sven Sundgaard had worked at the TV station for 14 years. (explorewithsven/ Instagram) A beloved and super-hot gay weatherman has been unceremoniously fired after calling out Trump-supporting, far-right, anti-lockdown protesters. Sven Sundgaard, 39, is a gay vlogger and until last week was a weatherman for TV station KARE 11, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Queerty,
Kevin Spacey during a rare public appearance in August. (Getty) Kevin Spacey has compared his public fall from grace amid sexual assault allegations to the coronavirus pandemic. Spacey was first accused of abusing Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14-years-old back in 2017. In response, he chose to come out as gay
Anti-LGBT+ lobbying group One Million Moms are reacting as you’d expect to news that Paris Jackson is to play a gender-flipped version of Jesus. The bisexual actress, the daughter of Michael Jackson, is set to take on the role of Jesus Christ in the upcoming thriller film Habit. Paris Jackson is set to play Jesus
Dylan McDermott (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan/Getty) and Leslie Jordan (Harmony Gerber/Getty) Ryan Murphy has revealed that he is working on a new project which will star Leslie Jordan and Dylan McDermott – but there’s a catch. The popular gay television writer has apparently got the two actors on board for the project, even though he hasn’t
Divina De Campo, The Vivienne and Baga Chipz made it to the top three of Drag Race UK. BBC) The BBC has dismissed complaints that RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is anti-women. Drag Race UK was accused of being “based on [a] misogynistic premise” by an unspecific number of viewers, the BBC has revealed. A fortnightly
Circus of Books director Rachel Mason has said she had a very emotional reaction to hearing her brother open up about coming out. Mason’s documentary, which debuted on Netflix earlier this month, tells the story of her conservative, religious parents Karen and Barry Mason – who ran a minor gay porn empire in Los Angeles.
New leaks from The Last of Us Part II suggest that a rumoured “homophobic Christian cult” may not be part of the plot after all. The eagerly-anticipated video game sequel has already been the subject of various rumours, but the latest leak is hard to disprove. The Last of Us Part II game footage has
Someone blended the BBC News and BBC World intro themes with Dua Lipa’s “Hallucinate” and it’s glorious. (Christopher Polk/Getty) In news that is well and truly breaking, a queer man remixed the British and World BBC News intro themes with “Hallucinate” by Dua Lipa and it is, frankly, the LGBT+ agenda. Ben Howell, based in
A trailer for road trip film Braking for Whales has given the world a glimpse at Draco Malfoy kissing Taylor Swift’s brother. The upcoming dark comedy stars Harry Potter alum Tom Felton as Brandon, a closeted gay man who is on a road trip with his sex addict sister in order to honour their dead mother’s
British singer Sam Smith revealed Sunday that they want to date an older man after “freaking out” about being single during coronavirus lockdown. The 27-year-old non-binary star’s last public relationship was with 13 Reasons Why actor Brandon Flynn in 2018. Once social distancing restrictions were enforced by government, Smith jumped to dating apps. Same, Smith,
Ellen DeGeneres, after production of her show was suspended due to coronavirus, is back and is filming from her Los Angeles living room. (YouTube/The Ellen Show) Ellen DeGeneres will recover from the fierce backlash she’s currently on the receiving end of by being “phoney” and “playing the game”, a reputation expert has said. Ellen has,