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December 17, 2019

Gay Saudi journalists both freed from Australian detention after ‘powerful’ LGBT community rallied round them

The two gay Saudi journalists who sought asylum in Australia have both finally been freed after one was forced to remain alone in a detention centre due to a ‘clerical error’ by a government official. The two men, known by pseudonyms Sultan and Nassar, fled Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is illegal and...

December 17, 2019

Tim, the gay professor from The Circle, has released a bizarre LGBT Christmas song

Tim Wilson, the eccentric, gay professor from Channel 4’s reality show The Circle, has released a bizarre LGBT+ Christmas song “in the hope of making the Christmas charts”. The Circle saw contestants living in isolation in an apartment complex, never meeting in person and interacting through an online...

December 17, 2019

Cornwall deemed one of the most transphobic places in UK, but its LGBT+ community say otherwise

December 17, 2019

Anti-gay church leader arrested after ‘offering to pay men on Grindr for sex’

An elder at a church that preaches against homosexuality has been arrested after allegedly offering to pay for sex on Grindr. Barry Cole Poyner, one of three elders at Kirksville Church of Christ in Missouri, has been charged with patronising prostitution, according to the Kirksville Daily Express. According to police...

December 17, 2019

An army of female codebreakers is working to transcribe the diaries of Gentleman Jack’s Anne Lister

More than a hundred mostly female codebreakers have joined forces to transcribe the diaries of the famous Halifax landowner Anne Lister, who is known as “the first modern lesbian.” Born in 1791, Lister was a prolific diarist who wrote from the age of 15 until her death in 1840. Her extraordinary life has become...

December 17, 2019

Anti-LGBT activists are naturally furious with Hallmark Channel for U-turn over lesbian wedding ads

Anti-LGBT activists have declared a boycott of the Hallmark Channel, after it decided to reinstate adverts featuring a lesbian wedding. The US TV channel banned adverts from weddings platform Zola featuring a same-sex couple last week, claiming they were “divisive” after a targeted activist campaign from One...

December 17, 2019

Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne got married at Heaven nightclub

Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne has become part of the first couple to tie the knot in London’s Heaven nightclub. PinkNews had reported earlier this year that the famous gay nightclub had been granted permission to become a wedding venue ahead of its 40th anniversary. The club has now put the license to use …...

December 16, 2019

Marvel’s first openly gay superhero has finally been revealed in new trailer for The Eternals

After leaving fans guessing for months, the first openly gay Marvel superhero has been revealed in the trailer for The Eternals. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that there would be an openly gay superhero at the D23 Expo in California in August, but did not confirm the name of the character or the actor...

December 16, 2019

Bisexual woman receives problematic advice after asking how to break up with her boyfriend

A bisexual woman consulted an agony aunt on how to break up with her boyfriend who she just sees as a friend, and the advice she received was questionable. She wrote to sex and relationship expert Jessica Leoni through the website Female First. The anonymous woman said: “I’ve identified as bisexual now for a while,...

December 16, 2019

Non-binary person creates festive safe space for young trans people after hearing ‘awful Christmas stories from trans siblings’

A Trans Winter Wonderland event for young transgender people in London will take place on December 21, supported by a crowdfunding campaign that has raised almost £1,000. Li Benedetti, a Black Brazilian non-binary person and LGBT+ activist based in London, set up Trans Winter Wonderland after encountering “awful...