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November 5, 2019

Drag Race UK’s Frock Destroyers are set to break the top 20 as fans petition for them to compete in Eurovision

Considering the UK tumbled to the bottom of the board this year, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK fans are now signing by the thousands a petition to have the Frock Destroyers represent the nation at next year’s Eurovision. Baga Chipz, Blu Hydrangea and Divina de Campo may very well become the stars of the singing contest...

November 5, 2019

Straight actress sets a date after refusing to wed until same-sex marriage was legalised in Northern Ireland

Hollyoaks actress Bronagh Waugh has finally set a date to legally marry after vowing not to wed until same-sex marriage was legalised in Northern Ireland. Although not a part of the LGBT+ community, she has tirelessly campaigned for marriage equality at home in Northern Ireland and decided to wait to have her own wedding...

November 5, 2019

Straight actress sets a date after refusing to wed until same-sex marriage was legalised in Northern Ireland

November 5, 2019

Trisha Paytas made thousands from her ‘coming out as trans’ video even though she denied she would profit from it

American media personality and YouTuber Trisha Paytas made $8,000 in ad revenue from a controversial video in which she came out as transgender, despite repeatedly claiming that she had not made money off of it. The Celebrity Big Brother star’s YouTube video, ‘I am transgender (female to male)’, was...

November 5, 2019

Emma Watson now identifies as ‘self-partnered’ rather than single

Ahead of her 30th birthday, Emma Watson has coined her own term for being single by describing herself as “self-partnered”. The actor – whose birthday is in April – described the pressures of entering the third decade of her life and the “influx of subliminal messaging” about what you should have...

November 5, 2019

Man ‘threatened to kill’ a trans woman for using the women’s locker room in Planet Fitness

A man ‘threatened to kill’ a trans woman for using the women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness gym, so she got injunction against him, court documents show. At the gym in New Hampshire, US, Marc Bernier repeatedly made threats towards a trans gym patron earlier this year. As a result, the Hillsborough...

November 5, 2019

Brit Awards won’t have gender-neutral categories in 2020 and will maintain ‘best female artist’ and ‘best male artist’

Brit Awards bosses will not be introducing a gender-neutral “best artist” category for the 2020 awards, despite one artist likely to be considered for those categories – Sam Smith – identifying as non-binary. Smith, 27, came out as non-binary earlier this year and in September requested that the media and...

November 5, 2019

Birth coach resigns from national industry organisation Doula UK for using ‘transphobic dogwhistle’

A birth coach who used a ‘transphobic dogwhistle’ on Facebook has resigned from Doula UK after an investigation found her comments breached its equality and diversity guidelines. After a four-month investigation sparked by complaints about her comments, Lindsay McCarthy-Calvert, 45, was asked by the national...

November 5, 2019

Sir Ian McKellen claims he’ll be ‘long dead’ before Brexit actually happens

Esteemed actor and LGBT+ icon Sir Ian McKellen has said he thinks he’ll be “long dead” before Brexit actually happens. McKellen compared the repeated extensions on the Brexit deadline, currently set as January 31 2020, to a terrible game of chess. The 80-year-old told PA: “I did think the other day,...

November 5, 2019

Trans author Juno Roche explains why they’re no longer using the word ‘woman’

Trans author Juno Roche shares why they “no longer feel the need to use the word woman”. This is far from a detransitioning story but a deeper exploration of what gender means to them. Roche now goes by they/them pronouns and is embracing just using the word ‘trans’ with no additional qualifier such as ‘woman’ …...