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November 28, 2019

Stephen Fry shares fact-checking election video about Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn

As the world of politics becomes increasingly tangled in the build up to the election, Stephen Fry has entered the fray to help separate fact from fiction. The actor, comedian and writer isn’t one to keep his views to himself, and has become known for his fact-check videos which challenge common misconceptions with...

November 28, 2019

Three teenage boys plead guilty to threatening same-sex couple after they refused to perform sex act

Three teenage boys have pleaded guilty to threatening a same-sex couple on a bus after they refused to perform a sexual act for them in London, England. Earlier this year, a photograph of the couple covered in blood, their faces visibly distressed, leapt onto headlines and front-pages across the world. Their names were...

November 28, 2019

Madonna wants to ‘make a song about chickens’ with Lil Nas X

Madonna wants you to get ready for a Madame X-Lil Nas X crossover. Lil Nas X was in the audience for the iconoclast’s Madame X concert in LA when she walked over and made a beeline for his beer. “That looks so thirst-quenching, may I have a sip,” she asked, before grabbing the bottle. “Have …...

November 28, 2019

Lesbian woman has a defiant message for her homophobic family after emotional engagement to her girlfriend

Buckle your seatbelts and grab your tissue box (scratch that, make it boxes) as a queer woman’s engagement post has gone viral for being as romantic as it is a damning statement to her “homophobic” family. Kate and her fiancé Brooke announced on a post so poetic that it should become its own anthology...

November 28, 2019

Pete Buttigieg personally phones up journalist who called him a ‘lying motherf**ker’

Gay US presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg personally phoned up a journalist who called him a “lying motherf**ker” this week. Michael Harriot wrote a piece for The Root with the headline “Pete Puttigieg is a lying MF” on Monday, 25 November, and Buttigieg called him within 24 hours to talk about...

November 28, 2019

Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price likens growing up as the gay son of a Welsh miner to the film Pride

Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price, the first openly gay leader of a major UK party, has spoken of his struggle to come out as gay in a Welsh working class community in the 80s. Price was born in Carmarthen, a small town in south Wales. He likened his upbringing to the film Pride, based on the true … Continued The post...

November 28, 2019

Professional troll and sometimes-singer Lady Gaga is at it again, sparking hysteria by tweeting about ‘spatchcock’

Is Lady Gaga launching a new album? A cook book? An operatic rumination on Thanksgiving’s colonial origins? Fans of the ‘John Wayne’ singer were left asking all of these questions and more after she tweeted a single word on Thursday morning: “Spatchcock.” Spatchcock — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga)...

November 28, 2019

Gay man with Down’s syndrome wins army of fans after starring in ‘hugely life-affirming’ documentary

Viewers have fallen in love with a gay man with Down’s syndrome who began to explore his sexuality on the Channel 4 documentary Home Free. The documentary, which has been described as “hugely life-affirming, warm and non-patronising”, followed people with learning disabilities as they leave home for the...

November 28, 2019

Four teenagers due in court over ‘violent homophobic attack’ on same-sex couple that shocked the world

Four teenage boys are set to go on trial accused of targeting two queer women in a suspected homophobic and misogynistic attack that shocked the UK. Authorities arrested the teens shortly after the attack on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm, the Evening Standard reported. Earlier this year, a...

November 28, 2019

BBC defends decision to dedicate 57 minutes to ‘detransitioners’ despite ‘unverified claims’

Two flagship BBC programmes dedicated themselves to the subject of people who ‘detransition’ this week – to the vigorous approval of anti-trans organisations. The stories of ‘detransitioners’ were the focus of BBC Two’s Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 on 26 November. Altogether,...