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March 27, 2020

Brighton Pride is still planning to go ahead in 18 weeks’ time, despite calls for it to be cancelled

The organisers of Brighton Pride are still hoping the event will go ahead, despite growing calls for it to be cancelled due to the current health crisis. The huge festival attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year and is an essential charity fundraising event for the city, bringing approximately £20 million to the...

March 27, 2020

Muslim leaders of Ghana blame coronavirus on ‘transgender and lesbianism’. Again

The Muslim Mission of Ghana has used national prayers during coronavirus lockdown to blame the pandemic on “transgender and lesbianism”. People in Ghana undertook two days of fasting and praying this week, on Wednesday and Thursday, at the insistence of Ghana’s president and the chief imam. While this was...

March 27, 2020

Celebrating 30 years of Madonna’s Vogue, the song that thrust queer culture into the mainstream

Margo Marshall is a trained classical dancer known for her explosive moves, seductive lip-syncs and glamorous androgynous looks. She has performed on the BAFTAs, MTV Music Video Awards, The Graham Norton Show, Mighty Hoopla, Brooklyn’s BUSHWIG Festival, Robyn’s “Honey” Music Video and headlined The...

March 27, 2020

Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and people are making the same point about Princess Diana

Boris Johnson, prime minister of Britain, has tested positive for coronavirus and is suffering mild symptoms, the government said Friday morning. He is the first leader of a major Western country known to have contracted the virus, and countless people are making the same point about the late Princess Diana in the midst of...

March 27, 2020

Gay nurse with asthma dies after contracting coronavirus due to a lack of protective equipment

“I’m OK,” gay nurse Kious Kelly told his sister March 18, “don’t tell mum and dad. They’ll worry.” These were his last words. Kelly has become a headline dreaded by New Yorkers – front-line healthcare providers especially – the first state nurse to die of coronavirus....

March 27, 2020

Sex work must be decriminalised to help women thrown into ‘hidden crisis’ by coronavirus, say English Collective of Prostitutes

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown sex workers into a “hidden crisis” that means sex work must immediately be decriminalised, the English Collective of Prostitutes has said. Millions of British people are facing uncertainty and loss of work because of the global health crisis, and the English Collective of...

March 27, 2020

Diplo pays respect to queer artists for changing the way music exists: ‘It’s challenging for straight men’

DJ and music producer Diplo has paid tribute to the “fearlessness” of queer musicians through the ages, whose risk-taking has “changed the way that music exists”. The sexually ambiguous super-producer discussed queer influence on mainstream music in an interview for May’s issue of Attitude...

March 27, 2020

Troye Sivan shares hilarious story of being catfished by a fake Greta Thunberg

In decades to come, there might be a chance that you tell future generations in front of the campfire in the ruins of our civilisation of the time top-tier twink Troye Sivan was catfished by Russian hackers pretending to be climate catastrophe activist Greta Thunberg. Speaking in his home while in self-isolation amid the...

March 27, 2020

Kathy Griffin hospitalised with ‘unbearably painful’ coronavirus symptoms and still couldn’t get tested

Kathy Griffin might have been exposed to the coronavirus. Or she might not have. The comic was not tested. Griffin revealed in a tweet Thursday that she checked into a hospital after experiencing “unbearably painful” symptoms, but clinicians were unable to test her due to current Centre for Disease Control...

March 26, 2020

The UK’s first-ever dedicated LGBT TV channel, OUTtv, is launching next week

The UK’s first-ever TV channel dedicated to LGBT+ series, movies and documentaries, OUTtv, is launching next week on April 1. According to its website, OUTtv “presents movies with an edgy twist from award-winning titles, through to indie features and acclaimed shorts”. It will also show “inspiring...