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April 4, 2020

Laganja Estranja admits coronavirus has ‘greatly impacted her career’ – but she won’t be defeated by lockdown

Drag Race star Laganja Estranja is one of countless queer performers who’ve taken a financial hit due to coronavirus. With queer venues closed and Pride events cancelled across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on drag queens and other queer creatives who depend on performing to make a living....

April 4, 2020

Gigi Goode just came out as gender fluid on Drag Race

Gigi Goode opened up about her gender fluidity in the Drag Race season 12 werk room, explaining that she feels like “both and neither”. Gigi spoke candidly about her gender identity while reviewing her Snatch Game performance. The Drag Race star admitted to feeling nervous about her character, Maria the Robot,...

April 4, 2020

Not content with saving pop music, Dua Lipa is now rallying behind sex workers

Queer ally Dua Lipa, not content with saving everyone stuck at home because of coronavirus by releasing Future Nostalgia early, has now rallied behind sex workers. Future Nostalgia had already leaked online when Dua Lipa posted a tearful Instagram Live video, saying she was releasing it early and hoped it would make people...

April 4, 2020

Best-selling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson publicly comes out as gay

The beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson has come out as gay at the age of 74, revealing that she’s been living “very happily” with her partner of 18 years. The novelist has never spoken publicly about her sexuality before now, but chose to do so as she announced a new gay love story in the...

April 4, 2020

Henrietta Robinson, an LGBT icon known as ‘Grand Lady of Miami Beach’ has died from coronavirus

A trans woman known as ‘Grand Lady of Miami Beach’ has died of coronavirus, marking yet another LGBT+ leader lost to the disease. Henrietta Robinson, 79, was a renowned figure in the LGBT+ community and was celebrated as one of the first transgender people to live openly in Florida. She recently underwent hernia surgery...

April 4, 2020

Keir Starmer wins Labour Party leadership with overwhelming majority. Here’s where he stands on LGBT+ rights

For Keir Starmer, LGBT+ rights are a crucial part of Labour politics, and of his approach to the party leadership. The new Labour leader was announced as Sir Keir Starmer on Saturday (April 4), after the MP won 56.2 percent of votes to beat Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy in the party’s leadership election. The...

April 4, 2020

Jewish radio station apologises for claims that coronavirus is a ‘designer drug’ to eradicate gays before Messiah comes

A Jewish radio station has apologised for broadcasting a rabbi who claimed coronavirus is a “designer drug” sent from God to eradicate gay people. The Jewish-Australian radio station J-AIR said it “unreservedly apologises” for airing the comments, which were made on the Tamar Yonah Show, a...

April 3, 2020

Drag Race royalty Aja and Honey Davenport want their sisters to speak out for trans queens and queens of colour

Drag Race stars Aja and Honey Davenport spoke to PinkNews about their new single, the challenges that come with being a queer performer of colour, and Drag Race’s big diversity issue. It’s well-established that the Drag Race fandom has a race problem. Since RuPaul catapulted the art form out of the club scene and...

April 3, 2020

Franklin Graham claimed his coronavirus hospital would never discriminate. This gay man says it already has

Anti-gay evangelist Franklin Graham’s promises that his new coronavirus field hospital wouldn’t discriminate against LGBT+ patients have already been broken, according to a gay man who tried to volunteer. The makeshift hospital, which appeared on Tuesday, being run by the anti-LGBT+ reverend consists of 68 beds...

April 3, 2020

America’s forgotten first LGBT+ elected official, three years before Harvey Milk, wants more queer people to run for office

Forty-one years ago yesterday, on April 2, 1974, out lesbian Kathy Kozachenko made history as the first openly gay person elected to political office in the US. Three years before Harvey Milk, the more well-known gay-rights advocate commonly given the accolade of “first elected openly gay elected official”,...