Jameela Jamil came out as queer while defending her decision to judge a new voguing competition show. (Getty) Jameela Jamil has further defined her sexuality after coming out as queer last month, saying she’s bisexual, possibly pansexual. Last month, HBO announced that the actor, activist, model and presenter would be sitting on a panel of
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This zookeeper delighted viewers at home with an impromptu fan dance (Twitter/@dariennelake) An Australian zookeeper has won worldwide fame by dancing away the coronavirus blues with a snap of his rainbow fan. Australia’s Melbourne Zoo has restricted visitor numbers to just 2,000 people a day to allow for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. With
Broadway legend Audra McDonald has issued a powerful tribute to gay playwright Terrence McNally, who tragically died from coronavirus this week. In an interview with The Daily Beast, six-time Tony winner McDonald reflected on her time working with McNally and praised him as a powerful advocate for queer representation on stage. The Broadway veteran praised
RuPaul’s gameshow Gay for Pay will be available on OUTtv. (Ethan Miller/Getty) The UK’s first-ever TV channel dedicated to LGBT+ series, movies and documentaries, OUTtv, is launching next week on April 1. According to its website, OUTtv “presents movies with an edgy twist from award-winning titles, through to indie features and acclaimed shorts”. It will
Britney Spears. (VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo credit should read VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images) Britney Spears stans of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! The history of all previous societies has been the history of struggling to get tickets to a Spears concert, but philosophy students with Che Guevara
Nina West won Miss Congeniality in RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11. (Nina West/ Twitter) RuPaul’s Drag Race royalty Nina West is the star of a hilarious new shampoo commercial for Pantene, making her a “Pantene queen”. West is best known for starring on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11, in which she placed sixth but won
Lady Gaga’s new album Chromatica was supposed to be released on April 10. (Lady Gaga) Lady Gaga has delayed the release of her long-awaited sixth studio album, Chromatica, because of the coronavirus pandemic. The news of Chromatica’s postponement comes as a severe blow to the queer community. In a heartfelt Instagram post, the singer said
Amid dire shortages of surgical masks – vital for frontline medics – designer Christian Siriano has vowed to manufacture them for New York state. (John Lamparski/Getty Images/Screen capture via Instagram) In today’s edition of celebrity activism that does a lot more good than singing “Imagine” for no ungodly reason, designer Christian Siriano has vowed to
Hilary Duff has offered some stern and important advice to young people everywhere as the coronavirus continues to spread across the world. Amid reports that some young people are ignoring social distancing guidelines and going out partying, the Lizzie McGuire star – who is easily the voice of a generation for her famous Disney Channel
You might have thought that the coronavirus would put an end to drag queen storytime events for a while, but one former Drag Race contestant is making sure it keeps going. Drag queen Nina West has relieved the pressure on parents everywhere to entertain their children by doing a drag queen storytime event on Instagram
Angelica Ross found out her new boyfriend was already engaged thanks to Twitter. (Twitter/FX) Angelica Ross’ romantic misfortunes deserve their own Pose subplot. The Pose star and activist took to Twitter on Wednesday, March 18, to announce that she had met someone special in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “Finally found him and have
In an effort not to succumb to the despair of the current coronavirus pandemic, fans are debating cancelling Timothée Chalamet. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) Do you remember 2016? Brangelina divorced, #KimExposedTaylorParty was a thing, people annoyed teens named Daniel over their white Vans and top-tier twink Timothée Chalamet did a live reading of Tennessee.
Iceland’s Daði og Gagnamagnið had been tipped to win Eurovision 2020. (Screen capture via YouTube) Weeping. Crying. Wailing. Mass orders of comfort food on UberEats. Staring into the abyss. Listening to ABBA. Caterwauling. More crying. These are just some of the symptoms of gay people discovering the news that the Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled
The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The future of the pan-European contest, which was set to take place in Rotterdam in May, was confirmed after the Netherlands joined other countries in placing restrictions on concerts and mass gatherings. Despite hopes that the show might be able to go
BFI FLARE Film Festival at BFI Southbank on March 23, 2019 in London, England. (Tim Francis/Getty) Organisers of the LGBT+ international film festival BFI Flare have cancelled the 2020 event because of the “rapid evolution” of coronavirus. BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, which was supposed to take place between March 18 and March 29,
Disney XD cartoon Star vs. the Forces of Evil featured a subtle gay kiss New Disney CEO Bob Chapek has dismissed an anti-LGBT activist’s claims that his company is losing money because it is “promoting LGBT ideology.” During Chapek’s first annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, he was confronted by notorious British anti-LGBT activist Caroline Farrow
Little Britain star Matt Lucas is set to join Noel Fielding as the new host of The Great British Bake Off after Sandi Toksvig stepped down earlier this year. The news was confirmed today (March 11) on the show’s social media channels. In a video posted to Twitter, Lucas appears alongside Fielding and spoke about his
The New Mutants features a love story between Wolfbane and Dani Moonstar, played by Maisie Williams and Blu Hunt. Long-delayed X-Men spin-off The New Mutants has a beautiful same-sex love story at its core, for a character played by Maisie Williams. The film, which was shot in 2017 but had its release stalled by Disney’s acquisition of
Madonna has been struggling with health problems throughout her Madame X tour (Instagram/@Madonna) Madonna has been forced to cancel the final dates of her Madame X tour due to coronavirus restrictions. The two remaining dates of her tour, March 10 and 11 in Paris, have been scrapped after French authorities barred gatherings of more than
Sasha Velour performing ‘So Emotional’ during Smoke & Mirrors. (Jeff Eason) Exactly three weeks after Madonna stopped by with her Madame X show, Sasha Velour stormed the London Palladium armed with magic tricks, dazzling costumes and bundles of heart. Going into to Smoke & Mirrors – Sasha Velour’s first-ever one-woman tour – it’s safe to
Fans of RuPaul’s comedy-drama AJ and the Queen are begging Netflix to revive the show, which was axed last week after just one season. AJ and the Queen followed drag queen Ruby Red, played by RuPaul, who goes on a tour of the United States with an 11-year-old called AJ in an RV after being
Bisexual comedian Mikey Bustos did what can only be described as the Lord’s work by giving coronavirus-preventive tips to the tune of Lady Gaga’s ‘Stupid Love’. (Twitter) While we all find ways to kill time before this planet hurtling around in a void is pelted with asteroids, a comedian has taken it upon himself to
Supergirl will go to battle with a transphobic villain alongside trans superhero Dreamer in an upcoming episode of the hit CW series. Supergirl and Dreamer will go to battle with the villain in a season five episode called “Reality Bytes”, Digital Spy reports. The storyline was revealed in a plot synopsis shared by The CW
RuPaul’s comedy-drama AJ and the Queen has been cancelled by Netflix less than two months after the show’s first season hit the streaming platform. AJ and the Queen followed drag queen Ruby Red, played by RuPaul, who goes on a tour of the United States with an 11-year-old called AJ in an RV after being
Demi Lovato has returned to The Ellen Degeneres Show to remind Rihanna just how much she wants to make out with her. Two years ago the Grammy-nominated singer made her feelings for Rihanna very clear when she played “Who Would You Rather?” on Ellen’s show. Lovato describes her sexuality as fluid and has said she’s
Malaysian rock band Bunkface has come under fire for releasing a song which includes the lyric “go die LGBT”. The song is titled “Akhir Zaman”, which means “the end of times”, according to QueerLapis.com, and includes the lyric “LGBT pergi mampus”, which translates as either “go to hell LGBT” or “go die LGBT”. An online
Hilary Duff at the Disney+ Showcase in California, 2019. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Hilary Duff has hinted that Disney dropped the new Love, Simon TV series for the same problematic reason that the Lizzie McGuire reboot has stalled. The new TV show is called Love, Victor and is a spinoff of the movie, which was based
Noah Schnapp plays Will Byers in Stranger Things. (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty) Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has addressed speculation that his character Will Byers is LGBT+. Season three of the hit Netflix show introduced Robin (Maya Hawke), its first character confirmed to be queer, but other details in Stranger Things 3 had fans hypothesising that Will
Clifford the Big Red Dog in New York City. (Brad Barket/Getty Images) An evangelical right-wing Christian group is furious at ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ – a kids TV show – because one of the characters has lesbian mums. The group, One Million Moms – an astroturf organisation from the anti-LGBT+ hate group American Family
A boundary-breaking Bollywood rom-com starring a same-sex couple has been banned from being screened in Kenya by the country’s film regulatory body. The Kenya Film Classification Board banned the film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, which hit Indian theatres Friday to a consultation of five star reviews across the board. But in a statement to newsrooms, the board’s CEO Ezekiel Mutua