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May 16, 2022

Bitter Russian journalist suggests blowing up Eurovision after Ukraine victory

Russian journalist Yuliya Vityazeva took to social media following Ukraine’s Eurovision win with a bizarre and bitter post. Ukrainian rap and folk band, Kalush Orchestra, won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday as participants put on a powerful display of solidarity with the country, which has been devastated by the...

May 16, 2022

Kehlani announces 2022 UK and Ireland tour: dates, tickets and presale info

Kehlani has announced a headline UK and Ireland tour – and tickets go on sale soon. The singer-songwriter will perform dates in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham in December 2022. It’ll mark some of the their biggest headline shows ever in the UK and Ireland and is in support of their third studio...

May 16, 2022

Drag Race royalty announced as judge of new Philippines spin-off

Drag Race Philippines is sashaying onto screens with Jiggly Caliente confirmed as a permanent judge. The spin-off will launch on 17 August, almost a year to the day after RuPaul first announced Drag Race was heading to the Philippines. With the Drag Race Philippines release date announcement came the Ru-veal that season...

May 16, 2022

Peter Tatchell accuses the Queen of ‘deliberately snubbing LGBTQ+ people’ after jubilee invite

LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell has refused an invite to the Queen’s jubilee celebrations, saying that the monarch has “ignored” LGBTQ+ issues “for seven decades”. Tatchell, a lifelong republican, was invited to attend the Queen’s platinum jubilee pageant outside Buckingham Palace as...

May 16, 2022

5 essential things you need to know this week: Eurovision, LGBTQ+ refugees and Buffalo shooting

The fallout surrounding the Supreme Court’s leaked Roe v Wade ruling is ongoing, while the war in Ukraine continues to cause death and destruction this week. In addition to that, Black people in Buffalo, New York, are trying to make sense of a mass shooting which saw a self-confessed white supremacist killing 10...

May 15, 2022

Margaret Thatcher statue egged by protester just hours after unveiling

A £300,000 memorial to former anti-LGBTQ+ British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was egged and booed at within two hours of its unveiling. To little ceremony or applause, the granite statue of the “Iron Lady” and Tory Tyrant was lowered in her hometown of Grantham, Lincolnshire 7am Sunday morning (15 May). It...

May 15, 2022

Rachel Riley thinks JK Rowling is ‘attacked’ for trans views because she criticised Jeremy Corbyn

British television presenter Rachel Riley has said that criticism against JK Rowling’s anti-trans views stems from the author speaking out “against Jeremy Corbyn”. Riley, who co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown, was asked by The Sunday Times, of course, about the Harry Potter author....

May 15, 2022

Heartstopper stars Joe Locke and Kit Connor share their dream cast for season two

Heartstopper stars have shared their dream cast for a potential season two, and Joe Locke said he wants queer cult icon Jennifer Coolidge to play his “cool” grandma. The LGBTQ+ Netflix series has earned near-global praise from fans and critics for its joyful depiction of the lives of queer characters, featuring...

May 15, 2022

Ukraine’s president Zelensky insists Eurovision will be held in war-torn city Mariupol

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to one day host the Eurovision Song Contest after the nation soared to first place. On Saturday night (14 May), Europe and beyond delivered a stunning show of solidarity with the war-torn country as viewers overwhelmingly voted for Ukraine’s act, Kalush...

May 15, 2022

Fans gush with pride after ‘legend’ Sam Ryder smashed Eurovision for UK and made history

Sam Ryder ended decades of humiliation for the UK as he finished second in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest – and fans were as stunned as they were happy. For 20 years, the UK has had to get used to two things: being on the right side of the leader board and the sound of … Continued The post Fans gush with pride...