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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A man holds a rainbow flag after taking part in the Pride Run in Shanghai on June 17, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty) Transgender people in China are buying hormones on the “grey market” because of the difficulties of obtaining them legally. In China, being transgender is classed as a mental illness, and trans people must be diagnosed
Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. (CBS2) A transgender woman was shot dead on Christmas Day in what her friends believe was a hate crime incident, before she was misgendered by police in death. Friends and family of
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
Elliot Page thanked fans for their “love and support” after he came out as transgender in December 2020. (Instagram/Rich Polk/Getty) A 75-year-old grandmother has thanked Elliot Page for coming out, which has helped her own trans granddaughter to “live openly with freedom”. Maryann Durmer, who describes herself as a “white, heterosexual cisgender woman who was
Police have released a CCTV photo of people they would like to speak to in connection with the attack on Anthony Crumbley. (GoFundMe and Boston Police Department) A gay Black man in Boston, Massachusetts, who was stabbed and left in a coma for four days, is living in fear knowing his attackers are still “out
The patient uploaded a photo of the nurse’s Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) strewn across the floor of the hospital bathroom. (Envato) A nurse at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, is under investigation after having gay sex with a COVID-19 patient in a hospital toilet. On Friday (25 December), the gay sex between the nurse
The LGB Alliance is an ‘abusive and sinister’ group, says gay SNP MP John Nicolson The “abusive and sinister” anti-trans lobby group LGB Alliance should “under no circumstances” be granted charitable status, says gay MP John Nicolson. The LGB Alliance launched in October 2019 and promptly faced a blistering backlash from the wider LGBT+ community
Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle had their Instagram account removed for “violating” rules, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong. (Instagram) A gay couple are devastated after their hugely popular Instagram account was shut down for “violating” rules – but they still don’t know
Colton Stankowski was asked to leave a women’s clothing store when she told an employe that she was shopping for herself. (Envato Elements) A trans woman from Calgary, Canada, was told she was making shoppers “uncomfortable” in a women’s clothing store and was asked to leave – and now she’s fighting back. Colton Stankowski opened
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
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
Marcus Bachmann. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Donald Trump appointed Tuesday (22 December) Marcus Bachmann, an anti-gay counsellor who once referred to gay people as “barbarians“, to an advisory post as the US president scrambles to entrench key allies in top positions. The husband of Michele Bachman, who was once dubbed “America’s biggest homophobe“, has been repeatedly
George Michael (R) and Fadi Fawaz. (JJ/ROCHAS/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) George Michael’s ex, who four years ago rung the emergency services upon finding the pop star dead Christmas Day, was found by authorities Tuesday morning (22 December) breaking into his home. Local law enforcement discovered Fadi Fawaz, 47, entering the £5 million townhouse, reportedly screaming as police
A gay couple who have been together for more than two decades offered up a striking rebuttal to the homophobic refrain that being gay is a phase. Kurt English and Nick Cardello shared a pair of eerily similar photos on Twitter taken 24 years apart, showing them blissfully in love at Washington Pride in 1993, and
David in the center of the proposal flash mob. (YouTube/Yuval David) Flash mob proposals have been done to death over the past decade – but this one will warm your cold, gay heart. Actor Yuval David shared the incredible surprise proposal he received from his boyfriend Mark McDermott. The couple were out having brunch in Manhattan with
Dean McCullough was selected to present on BBC Radio 1 this Christmas season. (BBC/Provided) When Gaydio DJ Dean McCullough revealed he was to join BBC Radio 1 over the Christmas and New Year’s period, he was showered with love and support from family and friends – but one reaction in particular was “bittersweet”. McCullough will be known
Alan Turing was a gay man, a scientist and a war hero. (Getty) Boris Johnson’s last-minute Brexit deal has scrapped the Erasmus exchange programme and replaced it with a new scheme named for the gay WWII hero, Alan Turing. The prime minister announced on Thursday (24 December) that the UK had reached a trade deal
‘Tiger King’ star Joe Exotic was jailed for trying to have an animal rights activist murdered. (Facebook) Joe Exotic has hastily withdrawn his lawsuit against the US Department of Justice after learning that his request for a pardon has actually been seen by the president. As he faces a 22-year stint in federal prison, the
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
Zachary Quinto is to produce and star in a new audio drama podcast shedding light on Harvard University’s attempts to purge gay students. The Boys in the Band star is set to delve back into queer culture with upcoming scripted podcast series Secret Court, which tells the true story of a purge of gay students
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
Member of the European Parliament Jozsef Szajer gives a speech to launch the campaign of the right-wing Fidesz ruling party ahead of the European Parliament elections on April 5, 2019 in Budapest. (PETER KOHALMI/AFP via Getty) The organiser behind a so-called “daddy orgy” in Brussels, Belgium, attended by an anti-LGBT+ Hungarian lawmaker has filed a
Conservative radio host and minister E.W. Jackson An evangelical radio host has warned Georgians that it would be spitting in the face of Jesus to vote for pro-LGBT+ candidates. American Family Radio host and minister E.W. Jackson made the claim ahead of January’s Senate run-off elections in Georgia, which are set to decide the balance
Beyoncé and Alexandra Burke’s iconic performance on the X Factor (YouTube/Dingledoodie) Alexandra Burke and Beyoncé “blagged” their iconic “Listen” duet, the X Factor winner has revealed in a new interview. Appearing on Angela Scanlon’s BBC series, The Noughties, Burke recalled how the earth-shattering duet came about, revealing that Simon Cowell called her the day before the
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
Mike Tyson (L) and Boosie Badazz. (Screen captures via YouTube) Apparently, Mike Tyson isn’t the only punching powerhouse in the family – he had to stop his daughter from knocking out a transphobic rapper who appeared on his podcast. Indeed, Tyson’s daughter flew from New York City to Los Angeles, California, to confront Boosie Badazz
When straight cisgender people travel, they think about the sun, spending money and which tourist spots to hit first. But travelling as queer person means having to think about homophobia, and about the more than 70 countries in the world where homosexuality is illegal. Travelling as a Black person means having to think about the
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
A father hired a hitman to break his son’s fingers simply because he was gay. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A father has been sentenced to two years in prison for hiring an assassin to break the fingers of his gay son simply because “he loves another man”. The 75-year-old retiree paid a hitman €2,500
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