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March 5, 2020

Even Sam Smith’s mum sometimes struggles to remember to use their pronouns

Queer icon Sam Smith has revealed that even their mum struggles to remember to use their pronouns. The British Dancing with a Stranger singer, currently in Australia after their first-ever performance at Sydney’s Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras and afraid to return home because of coronavirus, made the comments on...

March 5, 2020

Boris Johnson tried to heap praise on Kate Bush yet somehow still managed to hit a bum note

Boris Johnson has listed Kate Bush as one of five women who inspire him, but he wasn’t exactly full of praise for the legendary English songstress. The prime minister picked five women who inspire him to mark International Women’s Day, and, to the surprise of fans everywhere, Kate Bush was one of them. Johnson...

March 5, 2020

Trans teen who waited three years for puberty blockers reveals devastating impact of being denied the treatment

A 17-year-old trans girl has spoken out about the heartbreaking impact of being forced to go through male puberty because she wasn’t given access to puberty blockers. Sonja, a college student in the West Midlands, told the i that missing out on puberty blockers left her feeling self-conscious, uncomfortable, on the...

March 5, 2020

Twitter is trialing disappearing tweets called ‘Fleets’ and bottoms everywhere are making the same joke

The internet has rallied around Twitter’s gay intern, who’s been in “I told you so” mode for 24 hours after Twitter trialled ‘Fleets’. “Fleets” are a potential new feature on Twitter that will allow some tweets to disappear after 24 hours, similar to an Instagram Story....

March 5, 2020

Katy Perry reveals she’s pregnant with fiancé Orlando Bloom’s child in beautiful ballad

Katy Perry has revealed that she is pregnant in the music video for her new song “Never Worn White”, and said a new album is on the way. The pop star made the big news public in the final shot of the music video where she is filmed standing in side profile cradling her baby … Continued The post Katy...

March 5, 2020

Lady Gaga just announced her Chromatica tour and the sound you hear is a thousand gays screaming

Lady Gaga spun her likely pink-coloured globe and picked the six places where she will travel to for the tour of true religious significance that is The Chromatica Ball tour. Fans desperately squinted on Twitter Thursday morning to see if their hometowns were part of the Blessed Six where the multi-award winning artist,...

March 5, 2020

Hundreds of feminists write to The Guardian rejecting argument that trans rights threaten women

More than 200 feminists have written to British newspaper The Guardian rejecting the argument that transgender rights are a threat to women. The letter was organised in response to Monday’s column by The Guardian writer Suzanne Moore: “Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced.” A...

March 4, 2020

US detention centre ignored trans immigrants’ desperate pleas for medical attention, inspection reveals

Hundreds of requests for medical attention from transgender immigrants have been ignored by a detention centre, a federal inspection revealed. The Cibola County Correctional Centre in New Mexico is the only detention centre dedicated to housing transgender immigrants. Internal reports described to Reuters reveal the...

March 4, 2020

Transgender teen sent home from school dance in floods of tears for wearing girls’ clothes

A mother is furious after a school counsellor pulled her 13-year-old transgender daughter out of a dance, accusing her of wearing a “costume” of girls’ clothes. Charissa Mehojah’s daughter went to a Valentine’s Day dance at Rice Creek School in Port Wentworth wearing a black blouse, eye shadow, black...

March 4, 2020

Republican senator makes insipid joke about Pete Buttigieg being penetrated by Joe Biden

A Republican lawmaker has become a lightning rod for criticism after the 68-year-old boomer implied that Pete Buttigieg is “used to” being sexually assaulted by men like Joe Biden. Buttigieg, a smalltown Indiana mayor, barreled from obscurity into one of the potential front-runner of the race to unseat US...