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January 24, 2020

Prince Charles denies throwing royal shade at ‘homophobe’ Mike Pence, despite evidence to the contrary

Prince Charles has denied snubbing anti-gay US vice president Mike Pence at a Holocaust memorial event after a video appeared to show just that. The first-in-line to the throne was greeting world leaders at the event in Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 23 when he appeared to...

January 24, 2020

‘Disturbing’ propaganda comparing LGBT people to Nazis is completely legal, lawyers say

A pamphlet which compares LGBT+ people to Nazis is being distributed in a suburb of Adelaide, Australia, but lawyers say that while it’s “disturbing”, it’s not illegal. The leaflet, which has a picture of a baby on the front with a communist flag in one hand and a Pride flag in the other, repeatedly...

January 24, 2020

Lil Nas X says he’s ‘too busy’ for a boyfriend, and the sound you’re hearing is a million queer hearts breaking

Lil Nas X said that he’s too busy for a relationship, much to the disappointment of pretty much every queer person alive. The “Old Town Road” rapper made history by coming out as gay last year while atop the Billboard chart, but his success has come at a cost. “I have met a lot of …...

January 24, 2020

Halsey accidentally called for another 9/11 while trying to shade a review of her new album

Singer-songwriter and bisexual icon Halsey apologised profusely after unintentionally calling for a second 9/11. Halsey suffered one of the worst Twitter blunders in recent memory when she tried to throw shade at Pitchfork over a middling review of her new album. The infamously pop-averse site gave Maniac a 6.5, citing...

January 24, 2020

Bisexual Olympian reveals some athletes won’t even shake his hand since he came out

Bisexual Olympic hopeful Jack Woolley has revealed that some of his opponents won’t shake his hand since he came out. The Irish athlete revealed that he was bisexual in 2016 on RTÉ’s Road to Rio documentary when he was just 17-years-old. Four years on, he has become the first Irish person to qualify for the...

January 24, 2020

Drag Race royalty Detox challenges RuPaul to ‘put your money where your mouth is’ and start casting trans queens

Detox called out the ‘conscious exclusion’ of trans queens in the Drag Race season 12 cast. The two-time runner-up accused Drag Race of feigning inclusivity with its newest cast, which once again is devoid of openly trans contestants. “Enough with the feigned inclusivity. Time to start putting your money...

January 24, 2020

Man sentenced to life in prison for stabbing transgender wife to death and hitting her with a hammer

A man has been sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of his transgender wife Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien. Mark Steele-Knudslien entered his guilty plea in Berkshire Superior Court, Massachusetts, yesterday (January 23). He was handed a life sentence with the possibility of...

January 24, 2020

Taylor Swift speaks candidly about struggles with her body image and coming out for LGBT rights

Taylor Swift has opened up about the body image struggles she faced earlier in her career, and why she finally decided to start talking politics. Swift spoke candidly as she gears up for the release of her new documentary, Miss Americana. During the Netflix film, the ‘Lover’ singer is heard saying: “It’s not...

January 23, 2020

This is how you can help a twice-tortured gay Christian from Iran who’s facing deportation

Supporters of a gay Christian asylum seeker from Iran currently locked up in an immigration detention centre in the UK are calling on the Home Office to release him immediately. Madhi is a gay Christian man who has twice been tortured in Iran, a country where gay sex is a crime punishable by death. The …...

January 23, 2020

The Drag Race season 12 cast has finally been RuVealed and they are everything

The Drag Race season 12 cast is finally here, with 13 brand-new queens ready to compete for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar. RuPaul has asked 13 brand new queens “to pledge allegiance to the drag” for Drag Race season 12. A mix of fashion, pageant, comedy and campy queens, the Drag Race season...