The most LGBTQ+-friendly countries have been ranked. (Getty) Trans advocates have discovered the friendliest cities for LGBTQ+ travel lovers; unsurprisingly, London hasn’t even made the top 10 on the list. Trans prosthetic experts at Emisil conducted a study to discover the best LGBTQ+-friendly cities across the globe for queer travellers. The team took worldwide marriage
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The Foreign Travel Office has issued a new warning. (Getty) You might be starting to organise your hot girl summer plans, but the Foreign Office has issued a new travel warning to LGBTQ+ holidaymakers visiting Greece. Despite Greece recently legalising same-sex marriage and adoption – becoming the first country with a Christian Orthodox majority to
LGBTQ+ witches are taking over TikTok, and we love to see it. (Getty and TikTok/@starrmakesstuff) While scrolling through TikTok, have you ever stumbled upon Witchtok? Specifically, Lesbian Witchtok? In this corner of the internet, sapphics from all walks of life gather for witchy activities and share their craft – including spells and potions, tarot readings, crystal
The MAFS star has spoken about her love-life. (@natarai/Instagram) Married At First Sight Australia’s Natalie Parham has spoken about new love on the horizon, admitting she’s “speaking to someone special”. If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the entirety of the reality series, Parham was married to Collins Christian, who came under scrutiny from
The law allows public officials to refuse to marry anyone at their discretion. (Stock image/Getty) Public officials in Tennessee are now able to refuse to marry anyone at their discretion for any reason, sparking concern for gay couples applying for a marriage license. Republican Governor Bill Lee signed House Bill 878 into law on 21
Some terms are often exclusively used by the Black community. (Getty) Imagine being out on a date and they tell you that they’re a “baby dyke”, or a “chapstick lesbian” – would you know what that means? What if they start saying that they’re “femme” or “butch” or that they’re a “stud” or a “stem”?
Golden retriever lesbians are said to be a masculine lesbian who is actually happy and smiles around the people who she loves”. (Rosie Turner/Getty) Sometimes it feels like there’s a thousand new terms cropping up every day to explain personality traits, experiences, and dating history, and the only way to understand them is to carry
Twenty two-year-old, New Brunswick-based Drew Hudson was six the first time he watched 2004’s pop culture phenomenon Mean Girls. When he’d stay at his mum’s apartment, her neighbour would always put on movies that he “definitely wasn’t supposed to watch, because I was way too young,” he tells PinkNews. Out of all of them, Mean
Survivor 41 winner Erika Casupanan joked that she attempted the viral grape-eating New Year’s Eve challenge in hopes of getting a boyfriend – only to realise she’s a lesbian. (Survivor 41) Survivor winner Erika Casupanan has come out as a lesbian in a funny New Year’s Eve post on social media. Casupanan won viewers’ hearts when
Lyra McKee was shot dead while observing riots in Derry. (PH) A man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing the gun police believe was used to kill journalist Lyra McKee. Niall Sheerin, 29, from Derry, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possession of the pistol between 11 September 2018 and
Elana Dykewomon was a celebrated author, writer, and playwright. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images) Celebrated lesbian author and activist Elana Dykewomon has died at the age of 72 of cancer. The trailblazing writer died on Sunday (7 August) in Oakland, California. Her brother David Nachman told the Mendocino Beacon that Dykewomon
Tammy Baldwin (L) spoke to Marco Rubio (R) after hearing him say voting on same-sex marriage protections was a “stupid waste of time”. (Getty/Anna Moneymaker/Anna Rose Layden-Pool) Out senator Tammy Baldwin confronted Marco Rubio in an elevator after he said voting on a bill to protect same-sex marriage was a “stupid waste of time”. Rubio,
Maria Thattil, former Miss Universe Australia was told she was too pretty to be a lesbian. (Credit: Maria Thattil: Instagram) Miss Universe Australia 2020, Maria Thattil, revealed that a stranger rudely interrupted her date and told her she was “too pretty” to be a lesbian. Thattil, who came out as bisexual on I’m a Celebrity…
A kaleidoscopic array of people have come out in 2021. (PinkNews) 2021 is, at long, long last, coming to an end. Nearly two years into a drawn-out pandemic that has left the world exhausted and ready to hibernate, we’re about to say goodbye to a year that, to be honest, felt about a decade long.
Sareh, 28, was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for “supporting homosexuality”, according to the Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network (6Rang). (YouTube/6rangIran) An Iranian lesbian potentially faces the death penalty after she was arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) for “supporting homosexuality”. Sareh, a 28-year-old woman who lived and worked in the
Protesters outside Parliament during the End Queer and Trans Hate Campaign in Cape Town, South Africa (Brenton Geach/Gallo/Getty) South Africa’s LGBT+ community are demanding justice for a lesbian whose alleged murderer gloated about removing a “curse” from her family. Sisanda Gumede, 28, was stabbed in the Umbumbulu area, south of Durban, on Sunday evening (26
Nigerian lesbian couple, Amara and Olayinka, have bravely tied the knot with a heartwarming post on social media despite the country’s fervent anti-LGBT+ laws. (Instagram/@the_amarion) A brave lesbian couple has symbolically tied the knot with a heartwarming post on social media despite Nigeria’s fervent anti-LGBT+ laws. LGBT+ activist and YouTuber Amara shared a series of
Emily Frood has been flooded with love and support since announcing their plans for Edinburgh’s first lesbian bar. (Supplied/Emily Frood) A trans student has been flooded with an “outpouring of love and support” after announcing she’s quitting university to open Edinburgh’s first lesbian bar. The capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh has a population of around
Oscars nominees Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman in The Favourite. (Twentieth Century Fox) The 2018 Oscar-winning period film The Favourite follows the intimate relationships between Queen Anne and two of her ladies-in-waiting – but was Queen Anne really a lesbian? The monarch ruled England, Scotland and Ireland from 1702 until 1707 when England and Scotland
A lesbian who was cut out of her mother’s will has described the pain of being alienated by her entire family, simply because of her sexuality. Writing to The Oregonian, the anonymous Texan woman asks the Dear Annie advice column for help navigating a bitter family feud. She begins by explaining that she is now estranged
Podcaster, screenwriter, queer lifestyle writer and loud, proud lesbian Jennifer Lynae Lee has been getting off to male gay porn since her teenage years – and she’s convinced other lesbians do the same for a number of very important reasons. For PinkNews, she explains why. I hold my breath. I listen with my left ear
Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock, shares a joke with Jeremy Hunt as they travel on the constituency’s battle bus on 21 April 21, 2015. (Rob Stothard/Getty) Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price has decided to become a defender of lesbians, while also trying to defend her vote against same-sex marriage. When anti-trans lobby group LGB Alliance received
Geraldine, played by Frances de la Tour, was cast to play a lesbian partner in Love Actually. (Love Actually) The heartbreaking lesbian storyline that was cut from Love Actually is making the rounds again, just in time for you cry into your Christmas wrapping paper. The 2003 festive favourite is endlessly repeated on TV at
Braunwyn Windham-Burke came out as gay in an interview with GLAAD (Noel Vasquez/Getty) Real Housewives of Orange County star Braunwyn Windham-Burke has come out as a lesbian, saying it took her 42 years speak openly about her sexuality. Windham-Burke came out in an interview with GLAAD on Wednesday (2 December), where she revealed that she has never
Netflix has released a trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a new film starring Viola Davis as pioneering queer blues singer Ma Rainey. Rainey, widely known as the mother of the blues, forged a lucrative early career in the 1920s while peppering her songs with references to her sexuality, more than 40 years before the Stonewall
Ellen Page at the “Tales of the City” New York premiere. (Dia Dipasupil/WireImage) Ellen Page has explained that she’s “sick and tired” of having to feel “fortunate” to be a lesbian with an acting career. Speaking to Stylist, the Umbrella Academy star said: “I’m so sick and tired of saying: ‘I’m so fortunate to be
US softball star Haylie McCleney has spoken publicly about her sexuality for the first time as she shares the happy news of her engagement to fiancé Kylee Hanson. The Team USA athlete revealed she’s been in a relationship with fellow softball player Hanson since they were 17, and their love story reads like a fairytale.
Paris Jackson is set to play Jesus Christ in the new film. More than 277,000 people have signed a petition to stop Paris Jackson playing a lesbian ‘gender-bending’ Jesus in new film Habit. The queer actor, musician and daughter of Michael Jackson is set to take on the role of Jesus Christ in the upcoming
Dynasia Clark graduated on Tuesday from Lamar High School in Darlington County, South Carolina – but was barred from the ceremony (WPDE) A lesbian high school graduate has said she was prevented from taking part in her graduation ceremony because she did not wear a dress. Dynasia Clark graduated on Tuesday from Lamar High School
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