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June 3, 2022

Drag Race fans left furious as All Stars 7 queen ‘robbed’ once again: ‘She never misses’

Drag Race is on to a winner with All Stars 7 – but one queen continues to be overlooked. After delivering a hat-trick with the Ru-mix, Snatch Game and ball challenges, All Stars 7 continued to build its case for best-ever status in episode four. After two seasons in which the improv challenge was swapped …...

June 3, 2022

Pop punk sensation NOAHFINNCE explains why he simply laughs off transphobes

Pop punk star NOAHFINNCE talks LGBTQ+ representation in music and tackling transphobia with humour From the recent success of Olivia Rodrigo to the return of icons Avril Lavigne and Paramore, the pop-punk revival has well and truly arrived. Noah Adams, otherwise known as new punk-pop prince NOAHFINNCE, has a theory as to...

June 3, 2022

Drag Race UK’s Vanity Milan ‘honoured’ to play part in Queen’s jubilee

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Vanity Milan has said that she feels ‘blessed’ to be participating in the Queen’s platinum jubilee pageant. The south London queen rose to fame after competing on the third season of the iconic drag competition, serving “unapologetic Blackness” with a dose of fierce looks that landed...

June 3, 2022

US Marines celebrate Pride with rainbow bullets. Yes, really

The US Marine Corps is facing considerable backlash from all sides after an LGBTQ+ Pride tweet that featured rainbow-tipped bullets. The Marine Corps marked the first day of Pride Month on Wednesday (June 1) by proclaiming its support for LGBTQ+ marines. “Throughout June, the USMC takes pride in recognising and...

June 3, 2022

Gay mayor wants to show queer people they can achieve anything after historic appointment

The first openly gay mayor of Sandwell has grand plans to make his community a better place for LGBTQ+ folk. Richard Jones was appointed mayor of Sandwell, near Birmingham, on Tuesday (24 May). He’s the youngest and first openly gay man elected to the role, and his partner is the first gay man to serve …...

June 3, 2022

Taliban using monkeypox as an ‘excuse’ to ’round up’ and arrest LGBTQ+ Afghans

The Taliban is using monkeypox as an “excuse” to harass and detain LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan. Two gay men who live in Kabul told PinkNews that the Taliban’s persecution of LGBTQ+ people has been ramping up ever since monkeypox started being detected in Europe. The virus – which is usually found in...

June 3, 2022

Man stabbed by frenzied homophobe in suspected hate crime on first day of Pride Month

A man has been stabbed in New York City on the first day of Pride month, in what is believed to have been a homophobic hate crime. According to the New York Post, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said the 1 June attack took place on a train in the early hours of the … Continued The post Man stabbed by frenzied...

June 2, 2022

Colton Haynes almost lost Teen Wolf role because of topless gay magazine shoot

Teen Wolf star Colton Haynes has revealed that he almost wasn’t cast in the MTV teen drama after execs found out he’d been in a gay magazine shoot. Despite his character being canonically queer in the show, Haynes revealed in his new memoir, Miss Memory Lane, that the head of MTV at the time didn’t want to hire him...

June 2, 2022

Lynda Carter shuts down bigots by explaining exactly why Wonder Woman ‘is a queer icon’

Lynda Carter kicked off her Pride Month with a bang by explaining just why Wonder Woman is such a queer icon. The actor, ally and all-round icon took to Twitter to wish her followers a happy Pride on June 1. “So excited to celebrate with all my LGBTQIA+ friends and fans,” Carter wrote in the tweet, …...

June 2, 2022

Nancy Reagan, who turned her back on the AIDS crisis, honoured by White House on first day of Pride

The LGBTQ+ community and allies are up in arms after the White House kicked off Pride Month by announcing a new postal stamp honouring former first lady Nancy Reagan. As the world celebrated the first day of Pride Month, the White House decided to announce that it will be unveiling a new postal stamp to honour the …...