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
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
Don Lemon eviscerated Lindsey Graham after he publicly criticised Donald Trump, but was seen with him just days later. (Dimitrios Kambouris/MANDEL NGAN/Getty) Don Lemon has absolutely eviscerated anti-LGBT+ Republican Lindsey Graham for pandering to Donald Trump – and it is truly a read for the ages. Graham publicly condemned Trump after the president encouraged a
The first episode sees Elizabeth Hurley join RuPaul, Michelle and Graham. (BBC) Wondering what time Drag Race UK season two is out? Want to know how to watch it from the US? Well, racers, start your engines, because the wait is almost over. After leaks, delays and the small matter of a global pandemic, RuPaul
Jake Gyllenhaal starred in Brokeback Mountain with the late Heath Ledger. (Focus Features) In 1992, a young Will Smith picked up his mobile phone to ring a friend, Denzel Washington, and asked for career advice. Smith was set to star in his first major film role, playing a gay con man in Six Degrees of
Robin Morgan-Bentley shared a list of the worst things people have said to him since becoming a father. (Stock image from Envato Elements) A gay man has shared a list of the top 10 bizarre, offensive things people have said to him and his husband since they became dads. Robin Morgan-Bentley shared the list on
Demi Lovato (L) is set to perform at Celebrating America, a cross-network television special celebrating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ inauguration. (Getty) Demi Lovato said she was rendered “speechless” when asked to perform at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ inauguration. In an Instagram post uploaded Wednesday (13 January), the “Sorry, Not Sorry” singer announced she
Teaching kids about LGBT+ sex and relationships at home is important, whether or not they are learning about it at school. (Envato) As the UK enters another national lockdown, the pandemic is continuing to cause disruption to many children, particularly when it comes to LGBT-inclusive sex and relationships education. Last week, Boris Johnson announced that
Vice president Mike Pence. (Getty/J. Scott Applewhite) Indiana, the home-state of vice-president Mike Pence, could be next in line to ban traumatising conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in a groundbreaking move. JD Ford and Sue Errington, two Indiana Democrats, have introduced bills that would outlaw the dangerous practice in the state. If passed, the bills would
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
Julio Lancellotti shared photos of himself with trans women on Instagram. (Instagram) A priest has won praise from his followers after he delivered a powerful message of love and solidarity with trans people. Father Julio Lancellotti, a Catholic priest from Sao Paulo, Brazil, shared photos of himself with transgender women on Thursday (7 January) and
Poland could clash with the European Union over its new funding rulebook (Omar Marques/Getty) A new clause in EU funding rules could see Poland facing further financial restrictions if it continues attacking LGBT+ rights, an official has confirmed. After years of negotiations, the EU has agreed on a structural funds rulebook which lays out the
Arnold Schwarzenegger pictured in 2015 in London, England. (Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty/ Paramount) As Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers a scathing takedown of Donald Trump and the US Capitol riots, it’s easy to paint the Terminator as a liberal hero. But that’s not how many LGBT+ people remember him. The former actor, bodybuilder and politician has had quite
Outgoing president Donald Trump was hit with a permanent Twitter ban. (Getty/ Tasos Katopodis) A cake analogy has beautifully shut down Republicans who are claiming that Donald Trump was unfairly banned from Twitter. The lame duck US president’s @RealDonaldTrump account was initially suspended from Twitter on Wednesday (6 January) after the social media platform decided
Hunter Schafer at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. (Matt Winkelmeyer/VF20/WireImage) When HBO’s Euphoria landed on our screens in 2019, it did that rare thing that a good show is wont to do: made the entire cast famous, almost overnight, and none more so than Hunter Schafer. It was the 21-year-old’s first-ever acting role, and
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
The first episode sees Elizabeth Hurley join RuPaul, Michelle and Graham. (BBC) We’ve seen the Drag Race UK season two opener and believe us – it couldn’t come at a better time. You don’t need us to tell you 2021 has, so far, been every bit as horrific as the-year-that-shall-not-be-named. And, frankly, a new season
Donald Trump Jr, son of Donald Trump, speaks during a Republican National Committee Rally at Dalton Regional Airport 4 January, 2021 in Dalton, Georgia. (Getty/ Alex Wong) Donald Trump Jr has claimed his dad should not have been permanently suspended from Twitter because he hasn’t “killed homosexuals”. The lame duck US president’s @RealDonaldTrump account was
Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) diagnoses were at a record high in 2019, and almost all of those cases were gay and bisexual men. (Envato) Cases of the STI lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) have been soaring among gay and bisexual men in England, suggesting queer men are taking more sexual risks. LGV is a sexually transmitted infection that
A trans woman must pay for her own children to be relocated to live with their other parent abroad. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) An Ontario, Canada, court has ruled that a trans woman must pay the travel costs for her two children to move in with their mother in Washington, US. Increasingly isolated from
Donald Trump Jr smiles to the camera as his father watches footage of his supporters at a rally. (Screen captures via Twitter) In what is the latest but certainly not the last moment of Trumpian horror, a video of Donald Trump, his family and closest allies partying and dancing to “Gloria” by Laura Branigan hours
Former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla) As a stunned America reacted to the violent storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump white supremacist mob, just one thing was certain – Richard Grenell would lie about it all. Ripping pages straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, Grenell continued to spew wily
Jim Parsons. (Frazer Harrison/Getty) Jim Parsons has gracefully waded into the long-simmering debate over whether straight, cisgender actors should play LGBT+ people in film and television. Parsons, 47, reflected in an interview with the Los Angeles Times newspaper on his role in The Boys in the Band, the Netflix flick with an all-queer cast that centred
House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Win McNamee/Getty) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has cited pressuring pharmaceutical giant Gilead to bring down the cost of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, as one of her biggest achievements in her first term in Congress. The New York congressperson reflected on her career after her January 2019 nomination in a Twitter video. “During committee
Transgender people and their supporters march during London’s second Trans Pride in September, 2020. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Gender dysphoria can be a hard one to explain to cisgender people. How do you understand something that you don’t experience? While cisgender people understanding dysphoria may not be the most pressing issue facing trans and
Trans politician Addison Perry-Franks. (Facebook) Addison Perry-Franks, a talented filmmaker and steadfast trans Texan Democrat who sought a career in politics to combat transphobia, has died. She was 39. Her wife, Lacey Franks, confirmed her death in a Facebook post 1 January. “The love of my life has passed away today,” she wrote. “I don’t
Georgia Democratic senators elect Rev Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. (Getty) The Georgia election results means the Republicans have just lost control of the US Senate, in an incredible victory for LGBT+ rights in America. After ABC called the second Georgia run-off in favour of Jon Ossoff, Georgia has swung blue and with it handed
Kelly Loeffler. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Voters in Georgia were targeted with a blitz of anti-trans adverts before the crucial Senate run-off elections, which could shift the balance of power in the US Senate from Republican to Democrat. There has been record-level turnout for the two crucial run-off elections, state election officials
Owner John McAffrey describes the bizarre moment his staff found his bar bespattered with blueberries. (Screen captures via OKC) A queer bar in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been targeted by an anonymous homophobe who has vandalised the site across two nights. But it’s the bizarre ways in which the bar has been defaced that has
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