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December 18, 2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker makes history with gay kiss

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker features the first gay kiss in the franchise’s history, it has been revealed. In the wake of the film’s New York premiere, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that director JJ Abrams had made good on his promise of LGBT+ representation in the film, which is the ninth entry in the...

December 18, 2019

Charlize Theron tells everyone to respect her transgender daughter’s pronouns

Charlize Theron has urged people to use the right pronouns for her transgender daughter. The Bombshell actress spoke out in April to clarify that she has “two beautiful daughters”, after her eldest child, seven, came out as transgender. In an interview with PrideSource on Monday, Theron explained that while she...

December 17, 2019

Dolly Parton could be about to replace statue of Ku Klux Klan leader in southern state and, honestly, it’s gay rights

In today’s edition of ‘x said gay rights!’, a Ku Klux Klan statue in an American state may be replaced by singer and LGBT+ icon Dolly Parton. Gay, and we cannot stress this enough, honestly, we really can’t, rights! Since 1978, the Tennessee Capitol building has honoured the white supremacist hate...

December 17, 2019

Uh, Liam Payne says he’s ‘the Antichrist’ version of Harry Styles and we honestly don’t know how to react

Former One Direction member Liam Payne described himself as “the Antichrist version” of Harry Styles and basically the entire internet is sufficiently weirded out. In an interview with The Face, Payne explained that he would have no clue what to say to his former bandmate, who just recently dropped his...

December 17, 2019

Elizabeth Warren launches investigation into FOSTA/SESTA on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Senator Elizabeth Warren and representatives Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee have launched an investigation into FOSTA/SESTA on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. FOSTA/SESTA are the anti-sex-trafficking bills pushed by Ivanka Trump and applauded by Hollywood celebrities like Amy Schumer that passed with...

December 17, 2019

Watch the moment a gay man surprises his boyfriend with a tear-jerking Love Actually proposal

Here’s a check-list for reading this article: tissues, tissues and more tissues. A gay man surprised his partner with a Love Actually themed proposal and we are officially crying until the end of time itself. And don’t worry, he said yes! Recreating the iconic Richard Curtis classic, CJ Ewens hoisted himself...

December 17, 2019

New estimates show one in five offences in New Zealand could be hate crimes

Around one in five offences committed in New Zealand could be classified as hate crimes, according to new estimates, but data isn’t being collected. The New Zealand Ministry of Justice’s “Highly Victimised People” report was based on results from 8,000 participants in the New Zealand Crime and...

December 17, 2019

Scientists are baffled about a ‘female’ skeleton found in a male-only Greek mountain despite the fact that trans people literally exist

Scientists are apparently struggling to work out why a “female” skeleton was found in a “male-only” Greek mountain despite the literal fact that trans people exist. In the unwanted sequel to ‘Two ancient Roman skeletons holding hands that can’t possibly be gay’, the bones of an...

December 17, 2019

Netflix’s queer disability comedy Special is officially returning for a second season

Thank the gay gods, Ryan O’Connell’s amazing Netflix comedy Special has officially been renewed for an eight-episode second season. The Emmy-nominated comedy will continue to be 15 minutes in length, despite O’Connell previously stating that he wanted to expand to the more traditional half-hour running...

December 17, 2019

The government is actually offering to pay people to live near homophobic hate group Westboro Baptist Church

The local government of Topeka, Kansas, is paying people to move there. The catch? Your neighbours will be the homophobic “God hates fags” Westboro Baptist Church. The Westboro Baptist Church was the focus of Louis Theroux’s documentary The Most Hated Family in America, and became infamous for picketing...