Katie Salmon attends the House of Mea show during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer collections 2017 on 18 September 2016. (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images) Love Island star Katie Salmon has rebuked recent allegations that her kiss with the late Sophie Gratton was “manipulated” by producers. Salmon appeared in the 2016 season of the British
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Stephen Knott (L) and Alastair Bruce (R) married in Edinburgh. (Twitter) An army general has shared details of his poignant wedding to his partner of 20 years on social media, telling his followers that “love is constant”. Army Major General Alastair Bruce married Stephen Knott at St John’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh on Saturday (3 July)
Sarah Teather has apologised for voting against same-sex marriage. (Dan Kitwood/Getty) Former Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather has apologised for voting against same-sex marriage in 2013. Parliament voted in favour of the same-sex marriage bill in 2013, paving the way for queer people to marry their partners in March of the following year. While the
Corpse Husband / Britney Spears. (Twitter / Getty) YouTube streamer Corpse Husband has come out in support of the #FreeBritney movement. The streamer was responding to a tweet from Elon Musk that simply said “Free Britney”. so true honestly — Corpse Husband (@Corpse_Husband) July 5, 2021 Musk, CEO of Tesla and one of the richest
Darren Kennedy was called a “f****t” on Camden Street in Dublin. (Instagram) Gay television presenter Darren Kennedy has called out “everyday homophobia” after he was called a “f****t” on Camden Street in Dublin. Kennedy opened up about the shocking incident in a video posted to Instagram on Sunday (4 July) in which he told his
Laurel Hubbard. (Dan Mullan/Getty Images) A petition calling for trans people to be excluded from the Olympics has racked up more than 24,000 signatures in a fresh blow to LGBT+ athletes. The petition, launched on Change.org by somebody calling themselves “Defend Women’s Sport”, claims that trans women “are taking [cis] women’s places on sports teams”.
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing
Alaska and Willam are touring across the UK with their Race Chaser live show. (Instagram) Drag Race alums Alaska and Willam are taking their popular podcast – Race Chaser – across the UK with a live tour. The duo will record a Race Chaser episode live on stage, spill some tea with special guests as well
After an Arkansas mother put up a Progress Pride flag on her home, she received an adorable note from a queer youth. (Stephanie Robertson/Instagram) A mother has received an adorable handwritten note from an LGBT+ youth all for hanging a Progress Pride flag outside her home in Paris, Arkansas all Pride Month-long. At a time
The UK has made legal leaps and bounds when it comes to LGBT+ rights – but the fight is in no way over. (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images) Karen Holden, LGBT+ lawyer and founder of A City Law Firm, writes for PinkNews about the legal leaps and bounds the UK has made in the last three decades. It
For the most part, we may not be able to visit actual music festivals this summer: but pop music is currently thriving virtually in video games. The Sims 4 is just the latest in a long line of games to offer a digital music experience, and it’ll be a world away from Glastonbury. From 29
Britney Spears. (James Devaney/WireImage) Britney Spears reportedly dialled 911 to “report herself as a victim of conservatorship abuse”, according to an explosive The New Yorker investigation. In the latest dizzying twist in the saga of Britney’s conservatorship, the 39-year-old singer is understood to have phoned the police the day before her bombshell court testimony. Since 2008
Rainbow flag inside the stadium during the UEFA Euro 2020: Round of 16 match between Netherlands and Czech Republic. (Andre Weening/BSR Agency/Getty Images) Volkswagen has claimed that UEFA blocked the company from using rainbow-coloured banners on advertising boards at the Euro 2020 quarter-finals in Russia and Azerbaijan. The auto-maker, a years-long sponsor of the football
Britney Spears (L) and Jamie Lynn Spears (R). (Getty Images) Jamie Lynn Spears has asked fans to “stop with the death threats” towards her and her family following Britney’s bombshell court hearing. Jamie Lynn, 30, has faced off against days-long backlash from fans of the “Toxic” hitmaker for not speaking out over her sister’s 13-year-long
Minecraft. (Microsoft) Popular Minecraft streamer Dream has raised $140,000 this Pride Month for The Trevor Project, but has nevertheless been hit by a backlash for a perceived lack of streams. The Twitch streamer is known for courting controversy; accused of both racism and queerbaiting in the past, so this fundraising came as welcome news –
Eduardo Leite, one of Brazil’s leading politicians, has come out as gay (Facebook/Eduardo Leite) A Brazilian governor and possible presidential candidate has come out as gay, making waves in a country governed by “proud homophobe” Jair Bolsonaro. Eduardo Leite, the governor of the southern Rio Grande do Sul state, made the announcement in an interview
UK Black Pride 2019. (Quintina Valero/Getty) UK Black Pride returns for 2021 this weekend, celebrating Black and brown queer communities with a weekend of “Love and Rage”. Europe’s biggest celebration for LGBT+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern-descent was born out of sheer necessity, more than a decade-and-a-half ago. In 2004,
DUP deputy leader Paula Bradley apologised for comments made by her party colleagues about the LGBT+ community. (PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty) Paula Bradley, deputy leader of the DUP, has apologised for “atrocious” comments made about LGBT+ people by members of her own party. The DUP has a long history of opposing LGBT+ rights, while numerous
Disney Plus is home to series including High School Musical: The Series and Loki and films Luca and Cruella. (YouTube/Disney+) Following on from its huge Prime Day event, Amazon is launching a new deal that will give you a free Disney Plus subscription for six whole months. This deal is a pretty big, er, deal,
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed the anti-trans sports bill into law. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) The parents of a 13-year-old girl have launched a federal lawsuit to challenge Florida’s reviled ban on trans girls taking part in school sports. Mounted by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBT+ advocacy groups in the US,
IKEA has released a new line of loveseats inspired by ten different LGBT+ flags. This includes couch designed after the bisexual flag, trans flag and others. (IKEA Canada) A divisive set of IKEA Pride sofas has sent LGBT+ Twitter into a collective frenzy. IKEA unveiled a collection of 10 “loveseats” inspired by the flags of
The Methodist Church has voted for marriage equality. (Envato) The Methodist Church has voted to allow same-sex marriage, and will now define marriage as between “two people”, rather than between “one man and one woman”. In 2019, the Marriage and Relationships Task Group presented a report to the church’s annual conference, titled “God in Love Unites
Maya Forstater’s ‘gender critical’ views are protected by equalities law. (Barney Cokeliss/@BCokeliss) Maya Forstater’s former employer will “dispute her version of events” relating to her contract not being renewed, after she espoused “gender critical” beliefs, at an Employment Tribunal. Forstater was a tax researcher whose employment contract at the Centre for Global Development (CGD) was
Kataluna Enriquez. (Instagram) A trans woman has been crowned Miss Nevada USA for the first time in the pageant’s 69-year-long history. At the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa in Las Vegas on Sunday (27 June), Kataluna Enriquez became the first openly trans Miss Nevada winner, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The 27-year-old had
Boris Johnson. (Christopher Furlong/WPA Pool /Getty) At a Downing Street Pride reception hosted by Boris Johnson, the prime minister will be told by experts, yet again, that he must urgently ban conversion therapy in the UK. Amnesty International UK said it would tell the prime minister that he must ban the dangerous and debunked practice “without
An image of the first Yeovil Pride in 2019. (Len Copeland/Provided) LGBT+ Pride isn’t just for city folk. Pride is for all, as grassroots organisers from towns and islands told PinkNews. In the summer of 2019, around 200 people marched through Yeovil, South Somerset in the town’s first ever Pride march. Given the months of
The first-ever LGBT+ Pride parade was held in Malawi. (Malawi Human Rights Commission/Twitter) Braving the threat of persecution, dozens of queer people packed the streets of the capital of Malawi for the country’s first-ever Pride parade Saturday (26 June). Organised by the Nyasa Rainbow Alliance, some 50 LGBT+ people marched through the streets of Lilongwe
Divina de Campo spoke out against the graffiti on Instagram. (Instagram) Divina De Campo explained exactly why we still need Pride after a mural of them in Manchester’s Gay Village was vandalised with the word “dirty”. Manchester’s LGBT+ community was left in shock over the weekend when murals of Alan Turing, Divina De Campo and
Lil Nas X performs onstage at the BET Awards 2021 at Microsoft Theater on 27 June 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET) Lil Nas X stole the BET Awards (and a kiss from a dancer) with his most epic “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” performance to date. The
Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore “Lucky” Lucanio leaving the court in New York on June 18, 1936 (Apic/Getty Images) The legendary Stonewall Inn will forever be remembered as the birthplace of LGBT+ rights – but the Mafia’s role in the story is lesser known, and far more murky. You might think the Italian mob and gay
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