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February 17, 2020

Jameela Jamil reveals the important reason why she’s blocked Piers Morgan

Jameela Jamil announced that she’s blocked Piers Morgan on Twitter for the sake of her young followers. The Good Place actor has been embroiled in a war of words with Morgan in recent days, after the Good Morning Britain host accused her of “virtue-signalling victimhood-craving”. Their argument continued...

February 17, 2020

Elton John vows to continue farewell tour after pneumonia forces him to abandon show

Despite a bout with pneumonia, Sir Elton John is still standing – and promoters have insisted that his tour will continue after he was forced to abandon a show mid-concert. The singer, 73, is currently embarking on the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which is intended to be his retirement tour. However, Sir Elton’s...

February 17, 2020

Non-binary singer Sam Smith is worried they’ll be ‘misgendered till the day I die’

Non-binary singer Sam Smith said they’re worried they’ll be misgendered forever. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 released Friday, the 27-year-old said that they know their fans will get their pronouns wrong at times. Smith said: “What’s hard is people changing their...

February 16, 2020

Elton John cuts gig short with tearful on-stage announcement about his health

Sir Elton John has broken down in tears and cut short a New Zealand gig to be escorted off stage by medics. The singer, 72, revealed that he had been diagnosed the same day with walking pneumonia. An emotional Elton broke down in tears at the piano mid-way through the gig and told the crowd: … Continued The post...

February 16, 2020

Labour’s Lisa Nandy dismisses ‘offensive’ suggestion she’s anti-gay after coming out swinging for trans rights

Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy has dismissed claims that she’s anti-gay as “daft and offensive”, pointing to her record of supporting LGBT+ rights. This includes her signing, this week, 12 pledges in support of transgender people published by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights. The Times reported...

February 16, 2020

Olympian Gus Kenworthy makes history by winning freestyle gold for Team Great Britain

Gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy has made history by winning his first gold medal competing for Great Britain. Kenworthy won a gold medal at the Calgary Snow Rodeo in Canada, in his first halfpipe World Cup competition in more than two years. The 28-year-old skier, who switched allegiances in December 2019 when he left the US...

February 16, 2020

Rugby fans ordered to remove Pride flags at disgraced Israel Folau’s Catalans Dragons debut

Rugby League fans were asked to remove rainbow Pride flags as disgraced rugby player Israel Folau made his Rugby League debut yesterday. The player – who was sacked from the New South Wales Waratahs and Australia’s national team last year after claiming that “hell awaits” gay people – signed a new deal last month, to play...

February 16, 2020

Boris Johnson’s new equalities minister abstained from same-sex marriage vote and thinks homophobia in Friends is fine

Boris Johnson’s new junior minister for equalities, Kemi Badenoch, abstained on the extension of same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland. Badenoch has also criticised young people for having a “puritanical” approach to sexual harassment. Johnson handed Badenoch, 40, the role on Friday (February 14). She has...

February 15, 2020

Gay reverend Richard Coles received a surprise Valentine’s Day card from his late partner

Reverend Richard Coles has revealed that he received a touching Valentine’s Day card from his late partner, two months after he died. Appearing on Radio 2 Breakfast Show‘s “Pause For Thought” segment, Coles told host Zoe Ball that he had been surprised to receive a Valentine’s Day card, given...

February 15, 2020

Queer icons Kim Petras and Sam Smith both released sad bangers for Valentine’s Day and we’re here for it

Queer icons Kim Petras and Sam Smith both released anti-Valentine’s Day sad bangers, and we are here for it. Pop princess Petras has perfected the art of sad bangers, but her new track ‘Reminds Me’ tops them all. The german singer premiered the song live in Amsterdam last month, but says it’s so sad...