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January 15, 2020

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is directing a groundbreaking lesbian Broadway show produced by Ellen DeGeneres

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon will soon direct a 40th anniversary revival of the trailblazing lesbian play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, on Broadway. As well as Nixon, who is bisexual, the show is backed by an all-female producing team that includes two lesbian power couples – Ellen DeGeneres and her wife...

January 15, 2020

Man dies after battle with AIDS after not knowing for years he was HIV-positive

January 15, 2020

The L Word: Generation Q has just been renewed for a second season

The LGBT+ community has collectively breathed a sigh of relief as the The L Word: Generation Q has been renewed for a second season. The reboot of the original recently returned to screens, bringing back original characters Bette (Jennifer Beals), Alice (Leisha Hailey) and Shane (Katherine Moennig), alongside a swathe of...

January 15, 2020

Trump campaign hires homophobic lawyer who called the Stonewall riots ‘a celebration of sin’

Conservative anti-LGBT+ lawyer Jenna Ellis has been hired by the campaign to re-elect US president Donald Trump. Ellis, who has regularly appeared on Fox News, has a long history of making anti-LGBT+ comments. These include promoting gay conversion therapy, saying gay and bisexual men have higher rates of HIV because of...

January 15, 2020

Teenage girl expelled from Christian school after celebrating her birthday with a rainbow cake

A teenage girl has allegedly been expelled from a school in Louisville, Kentucky because she celebrated her birthday with a rainbow cake. The girl – whose name has not been released – is, according to her mother, not even LGBT+. They simply ordered a birthday cake in “assorted colours”. Her mother Kimberly Alford told The...

January 15, 2020

Far-right activist tries to shame queer man for giving out ‘free blow jobs’ in bizarre ‘homophobic’ rant

A conservative pundit asked a queer student and his friend why he was “giving free blow jobs” at a campus party. Their response? “Communism!” Kaitlin Bennett – known as “the Kent State gun girl” after she posed with a rifle in her graduation photos – confronted two students about their...

January 15, 2020

Stephen King says he would ‘never consider diversity in matters of art’ following Oscars fallout

Author Stephen King has said that he would “never consider diversity in matters of art” when he casts his votes for the Academy Awards. The nominees for the 2020 Oscars were announced earlier this week, prompting backlash as people of colour, women and LGBT+ people were once again left out in the cold. But King …...

January 14, 2020

Black Lives Matter activists storm Pete Buttigieg campaign rally to challenge his record on race

Pete Buttigieg was interrupted during a campaign rally by Black Lives Matter supporters who questioned his record as South Bend mayor. Buttigieg was speaking at in Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday (January 12) when demonstrators wearing Black Lives Matter shirts began heckling him with concerns about his past actions. One person...

January 14, 2020

Gay Republican claims Democrats support Sharia law and beheading gay people in bizarre rant

The Broward County Log Cabin Republicans’ president accused Democrats Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib of supporting Sharia law and the executions of LGBT+ people in a bizarre, conspiracy-laden rant. Andrew Brett also proclaimed Donald Trump an LGBT+ ally and invoked Hitler in a tangent about gun rights during his speech...