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January 29, 2020

Seminal dragtastic French farce La Cage aux Folles [The Play] is debuting in English for the very first time

Bringing home the parents to meet your new fiancé is terrifying, especially when they lean a little on the conservative side. But it might be ever so slightly scarier when your dad is the manager of a queer nightclub, and his boyfriend is the star attraction of club’s drag show. Opening to the limousine-littered...

January 29, 2020

Queer rights pioneer Michael Cashman was raped so often he thought it was just something that happened to gay men

Stonewall co-founder Michael Cashman candidly revealed that he was raped so regularly growing up that he thought it was just “what happened to gay men”. Speaking to The Guardian, the peer opened up about how his childhood in East London and performing in plays was mired by trauma. Cashman, 69, now years removed...

January 29, 2020

Homophobic woman pepper sprays gay man for the ‘crime’ of holding hands with his boyfriend

A gay man was left needing hospital treatment when a woman became so enraged at the sight of him holding hands with another man that she pepper sprayed him at point blank range. The attack occurred at around 8pm on January 26 as the young man, Edgar Aragall, was travelling home on the Barcelona subway …...

January 29, 2020

Rugby player set to face off against Israel Folau says his ‘homophobia’ is a failure of the modern world

Rugby player Jon Wilkin has spoken out after disgraced star Israel Folau was hired by a new team. Folau was sacked from the New South Wales Waratahs and Australia’s national team last year after claiming that “hell awaits” gay people – but signed a new deal to play for France-based RFL team Catalans...

January 29, 2020

Ricky Gervais denies Caitlyn Jenner ‘snubbed’ him over anti-trans jokes and why can’t he let us have anything nice

Caitlyn Jenner reportedly snubbed Rickey Gervais at the National Television Awards last night following the comedian’s track record of anti-trans jokes. The pair have a well-documented and turbulent relationship over Gervais deadnaming and mocking the trans TV personality in 2016. When Jenner, 70, bumped into the...

January 29, 2020

London’s iconic Heaven nightclub granted protected status from property developers

London’s famed Heaven nightclub has been granted a special protected status. The Charing Cross gay nightclub, which has been in operation for 41 years, is the latest LGBT+ venue to be granted ‘Asset of Community Value’ status to protect it from being sold to prospective property developers. The protected...

January 29, 2020

Republican politician compares doctors saving the lives of trans kids to Nazis

A Republican politician who wants to make it illegal to provide gender-related healthcare to trans teens has compared doctors who treat transgender children to Nazis. Fred Deutsch, who is sponsoring the South Dakota bill that would send doctors to jail for giving puberty-blocking medication to trans teens, made the...

January 29, 2020

Piers Morgan apologises for anti-gay article attacking EastEnders over ‘yuppie poofs’

Piers Morgan once wrote an article decrying “yuppie poofs” on EastEnders. The outspoken Good Morning Britain presenter and penguin enthusiast‘s past as a tabloid journalist has come back to haunt him this week in more ways than one. A G2 profile of Stonewall co-founder and former EastEnders star Lord...

January 29, 2020

Yet another UK arena is considering cancelling an appearance by hate preacher Franklin Graham

Franklin Graham is facing the possibility that the first leg of his UK tour will be cancelled, as Glasgow becomes the latest city to review its plan to host him. An event with the US hate preacher has already been cancelled in Liverpool, after the venue said his views were “incompatible with our values”. Graham...

January 29, 2020

Neighbours turn a trans woman’s house into a defiant rainbow after vicious transphobes cut her cat in half

For years, a trans woman had been quietly dealing with the abuse a neighbour pelted her with, until the person killed and cut her cat in half. All for hoisting an Pride flag outside her house. Angelina Bouros, based in New York, US, discovered her cat Rambo’s body ditched behind her shed. An incident that …...