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December 1, 2019

Gay organist unceremoniously fired from the church after marrying his partner

A gay organist has reportedly been fired from playing in two Irish churches after he married his same-sex partner. The organist – who has chosen to remain anonymous – was “removed” from his post Drumcliffe Parish Church and a sister church in Munninane, both in Co Sligo, according to Church Times. He claimed that he...

December 1, 2019

Drag Race’s The Vivienne slams X Factor for appearing to pay all performers except the drag queens

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne has slammed the X Factor for not offering to pay her for a performance until she called them out on it. The Vivienne alleged that she and Baga Chipz were asked to perform on X Factor: Celebrity on Saturday for free, while all the other performers were paid. …...

December 1, 2019

‘Anti-trans’ artist threatening legal action after university postponed her fine-art workshops

An artist whose workshops were postponed by Oxford Brookes university after the LGBT+ society condemned her views as “trans-exclusionary” is threatening legal action. Rachel Ara was due to hold fine art workshops and give a talk to Oxford Brookes students on November 19, but announced that morning via Twitter...

December 1, 2019

Green Party’s Alexandra Phillips: Stamp out HIV stigma by electing politicians who ‘genuinely care’ about LGBT issues

Alexandra Phillips is a Green Party MEP, mayor of Brighton and Hove, a proud member of the LGBT+ community, and has formerly worked at the Terrence Higgins Trust. Alexandra Phillips: Today, our community is coming together across the world to remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS, and to raise awareness for...

December 1, 2019

Boris Johnson wants you to ‘fight’ HIV despite not including a single commitment to PrEP in Tory manifesto

Boris Johnson is urging people to ‘fight’ against the stigma of HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day, while not including a single commitment to PrEP in the Tory manifesto. PrEP stands for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and is considered the most effective protection against HIV transmission. If taken correctly it is more than...

December 1, 2019

Kids get substitute teacher escorted from school after she told boy not to be thankful for his two gay dads

A substitute teacher was removed from a Utah school after she went on a ten-minute homophobic rant at a boy who said he was thankful to be adopted by his two gay dads. The teacher was working at Deerfield Elementary in Cedar Hills, Utah in the week before Thanksgiving. She asked a class of fifth … Continued The post...

December 1, 2019

BBC bosses are searching for a Drag Race queen to compete in next year’s Strictly Come Dancing

BBC bosses are in talks about introducing a drag queen in next year’s season of Strictly Come Dancing to help audiences accept more LGBT+ diversity on the show. Producers are said to be keen to hire a queen from RuPaul’s Drag Race, with the three finalists Baga Chipz, The Vivienne and Divina De Campo expected to...

November 30, 2019

There aren’t enough stars in the universe to put on this review of Burgerz by Travis Alabanza at London’s Southbank

At the end of their show, Burgerz, Travis Alabanza asks an audience member to throw a burger at them. The person, who volunteered to go on stage to hold Travis’s hands but was not expecting this, balls their own hands into fists and clutches them to their chest. Shaking their head, “no”, they return to...

November 30, 2019

Actor Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars, uses both male and female pronouns

Billy Dee Williams, the actor best known for playing Lando Calrissian in Star Wars, has revealed that he is embracing gender fluidity by using both he/him and she/her pronouns. Williams, 82, will be reprising his role as Calrissian for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in December. Ahead of his return to the franchise, he...

November 30, 2019

‘World’s first’ festival for women, trans and non-binary people set to return despite being ruled discriminatory against cis men

Statement, billed as the “world’s first major music festival for women, non-binary and transgender people,” will return almost two years after it was labelled discriminatory for excluding cis men. The two-day festival was formally condemned by the Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman in 2018 because of its...