Film and TV

Dominque Jackson plays Elektra in Pose. (FX) The number of queer characters on television dropped slightly in 2020, despite the fact that LGBT+ shows “dominated the conversation”. The findings were released in GLAAD’s latest Where We Are on TV report, released on Thursday (14 January). Of the 773 series regular characters scheduled to appear on broadcast scripted
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Regina King won Best Actress at the 2019 Oscars. (Getty) Actor and director extraordinaire Regina King has expanded her pledge of ensuring all projects she produces are “50 per cent women” to include non-binary people, too. When King won a Golden Globe Award for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk in 2019, she used her
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Armie Hammer. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images) Armie Hammer wanted to “barbecue and eat” his ex-partner’s rib, she has alleged, among other gruesome sexual fantasies and claims of emotional abuse. Courtney Vucekovich, a 30-year-old app founder, told Page Six that she met the Call Me by Your Name star in June 2020 through mutual
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Richard Madeley admitted during the discussion between four straight people that there was not a single gay person in the whole studio. (Channel 4) Richard Madeley led a train wreck debate on whether gay actors should be cast in gay roles while guest hosting an episode of Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch. Stepping in for regular
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Dickinson star Hailee Steinfeld wants LGBT+ people to feel “seen” by the Apple TV series. When most people think of Emily Dickinson, they probably picture a very different life to the one presented in the Apple TV series about her life. Most people probably know the basic, oft-repeated story of Emily Dickinson’s life: that she
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Things got, er, odd in the first trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. (Screen captures via Twitter) Drag queens, start your engines – the official trailer for the long-awaited second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK dropped Sunday evening (3 January) and yup, we are absolutely gagging for it. Immediately sparking hope that maybe 2021
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Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock. (Instagram/@jvn) Jonathan Van Ness has opened up about his relationship with Mark Peacock after the pair quietly married in 2020. Taking to Instagram Saturday afternoon (2 January), the Queer Eye star shared adorable photographs of them together, his “favourite moments” of last year, he said. They ranged from re-enacting
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The poster for Forbidden Love in Heaven. (Ran Yinxiao_ A simple film about a gay couple who adopt a homeless child, Forbidden Love in Heaven has become something almost unthinkable for LGBT+ filmmakers and moviegoers in China: a hit. In a nation where acceptance of same-sex couples is progressing at a less-than-glacial rate, Chinese filmmakers have
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Megan Barton-Hanson attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2020 at Royal Albert Hall. (Getty/ Jeff Spicer) Bisexual Love Island star Megan Barton-Hanson has revealed the “mortifying” homophobic comments she received from her brother’s girlfriend when she began dating women. Barton-Hanson came out publicly as bisexual last year when she appeared on Celebs Go Dating,
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Producer Amy Scholder (left) and director Sam Feder speak at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen premiered in January. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) “Disclosure has been a project I’ve been thinking about for probably 20 years,” filmmaker Sam Feder tells PinkNews. It was the summer of 2015 when he finally committed
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Ellen DeGeneres. (Steve Granitz/WireImage) In what might be the purest and most wholesome thing to occur during this well and truly cursed year, a closeted teen was gifted Ellen DeGeneres merchandise by her parents to let her know “it’s OK to be lesbian.” Sophie opened up her presents Friday (25 December) to find her parents
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BBC bosses previously defended the decision to broadcast the uncensored version of ‘Fairytale of New York’ in Gavin and Stacey (BBC) The BBC has agreed not to broadcast a homophobic slur on Christmas Eve when it airs a repeat of the Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special. The controversial episode sees two characters perform a karaoke duet of
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Gottmik will be the first competing trans man on RuPaul’s Drag Race. (VH1) Drag Race welcoming Gottmik – its first competing trans man – to season 13 is more than just an inclusive gesture – it’s “groundbreaking” mainstream representation, as one trans man perfectly explained. The long-awaited Drag Race season 13 lineup was revealed on
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Everyone’s favourite omnisexual space pirate returns to Doctor Who (James Pardon/BBC) As Captain Jack Harkness, the omnisexual immortal Time Agent, John Barrowman blazed onto screens in the 2005 revival of Doctor Who and has never looked back. Fifteen years later – via headlining the show in spin-off Torchwood – Jack’s back to battle Daleks on
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Elliot Page thanked fans for their “love and support” after he came out as transgender in December 2020. (Instagram/Rich Polk/Getty) Elliot Page has thanked fans for the “love and support” he has received since coming out as trans in an emotional Instagam post. The actor, who made his breakthrough in Juno, came out as trans on
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Emmerdale stars Max Parker (L) and Kris Mochrie (R). (Instagram) Emmerdale brothers turned off-screen couple Max Parker and Kris Mochrie have moved in together in central Manchester, England, reports say. Parker and Mochrie, who played on-screen siblings Luke and Lee Posner on the British ITV soap, have moved into a plush £8,000 per-month penthouse in
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A Jeopardy! contestant is celebrating a historic win after claiming a victory in the long-running quiz show. Kate Freeman, a financial analyst from Lake Orion, Michigan, sported a trans pride pin as she took part in the quiz show on Friday (11 December). A streak of right answers saw her best Kendra Blanchette, who had
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Margot Robbie attends a screening of Bombshell at Regency Village Theatre on December 10, 2019 in Westwood, California. (Steve Granitz/WireImage) Margot Robbie wants her character in the new Pirates of the Caribbean film to be LGBT+, according to a Hollywood insider. Robbie confirmed she was starring in the film back in June. She promised “lots of girl
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FKA twigs (L) and Shia LaBeouf. (Getty) FKA twigs is suing her former boyfriend Shia LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault and emotional distress after he, she claimed in a lawsuit, knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease. Their relationship was rumbled by “relentless abuse”, the musician claimed in a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles
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Zach Rance (R) and Frankie J Grande. (Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) US Big Brother star Zach Rance has come out as bisexual and revealed that he once hooked-up with castmate Frankie Grande. During a virtual mental health event on the With Love, Alexa YouTube channel, the 30-year-old reality television personality opened up about how he is attracted to
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