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April 25, 2022

Britney Spears announces she’s giving up Instagram ‘for a little while’

Britney Spears has confirmed she’ll be taking a break from social media, weeks after revealing she’s expecting her first child with Sam Asghari. Ever since she was freed from her 13-year conservatorship last year, Instagram has been the pop superstar’s main source of communication with her fans. However,...

April 25, 2022

Drag Race UK winner Krystal Versace announces solo headline tour: dates, tickets and more

Drag Race UK winner Krystal Versace has announced a headline UK tour – and tickets go on sale soon. The season three winner and fashion queen will perform three dates in Brighton, London and Manchester this summer. Entitled ‘The Next World’ tour, she’ll bring a show “filled with fantasy and...

April 25, 2022

Police officer seduced gay rape survivor he was supposed to be helping

A serving British police officer inappropriately seduced a gay sexual assault survivor – and the officer’s identity was obscured by officials to protect him from “harm”. Gareth (not his real name) told PinkNews that he was seduced by a member of the Sussex Police’s Sexual Offences Investigation...

April 25, 2022

Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen in French election – but far-right threat remains

Emmanuel Macron has again defeated Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential race, to the relief of the LGBT+ community. On Sunday (24 April) Macron became the first French leader to be re-elected in two decades, taking 58.54 per cent of the vote to Le Pen’s 41.46 per cent and securing his place in the Elysée for...

April 25, 2022

Jodie Comer ‘whisked from theatre’ after ‘worrying’ fan sparks security scare

Jodie Comer was reportedly involved in a “security scare” due to “worrying” fan behaviour after her one-person show, Prima Facie. The Killing Eve star, 29, made her West End debut this spring with the critically praised adaption of the play by Australian playwright Suzie Miller. Comer had so far...

April 25, 2022

Gay couple tie knot in British Antarctic Territory’s first same-sex wedding

The first same-sex wedding has taken place in the British Antarctic Territory, on board the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Polar research ship crew members Stephen Carpenter, from Caerphilly, and Eric Bourne, from Rochford, Essex became the first same-sex couple to wed in the British Antarctic Territory, atop the boat in...

April 24, 2022

Cruel Florida governor Ron DeSantis signs ‘Stop WOKE Act’ all but ‘censoring’ LGBT+ issues

Florida’s cruel crackdown on LGBT+ rights has deepened after governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill all but censoring queer topics in schools and workplaces. On top of the reviled ‘Don’t Say Gay‘ bill that blocks educators from discussing LGBT+ identities in K-12 schools, DeSantis signed the...

April 24, 2022

Non-binary lesbian ‘raped and murdered by six men’

In a grisly attack that has appalled Kenya, a non-binary lesbian reportedly was raped and murdered by six men in their home. Sheila Lumumba, a 25-year-old hospitality worker, was found dead in their home in Karatina, a town in Nyeri County, earlier this week, LGBT+ groups and activists and BBC Africa reported. K24TV said...

April 24, 2022

Joe Biden has had enough of the GOP attacking Disney: ‘Christ, they’re going after Mickey’

US president Joe Biden has thrashed Republicans obsessed with attacking the Walt Disney Company amid the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. Biden told a Democratic fundraiser on Thursday (21 April) that the GOP has swung so deeply to the far-right, so much so that even the family-friendly animators have become a...

April 24, 2022

Trans woman strapped to chair and electrocuted in ‘barbaric’ attempt to make her cis

A trans woman has opened up about her horrific experiences of conversion therapy in wake of the UK government’s reviled U-turn that will see LGB conversion therapy banned but trans conversion therapy remain legal. Carolyn Mercer, 74, spoke to the Metro.co.uk about her experience of being strapped to a chair and given...