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October 18, 2019

There are more tanning salons where gay men live, according to study, and they might be causing skin cancer

Researchers in the US have discovered that there are more tanning salons in neighbourhoods with high numbers of gay men – and that this could be raising skin cancer rates. For the study, researchers looked at data of households where there were male same-sex couples across 4,091 census tracts, NBC News reports. They then...

October 18, 2019

Ariana Grande fans had a fiercely queer surprise for singer during her last European Sweetener show

On the last UK date of the Sweetener tour, Ariana Grande was surprised by fans who organised to wave rainbow flags during her final songs. The ‘Into You’ singer has a very large LGBT+ fan base, she regularly calls out homophobia, publicly supports her gay brother Frankie and also played at Manchester Pride earlier this...

October 18, 2019

Bridesmaids and Last Christmas director says ‘male humour’ always, always leads to homophobia

Bridesmaids director Paul Feig has said that male humour always devolves into “homophobia, punching and name-calling”. The director made the comments in an interview with The Guardian ahead of the release of his new film Last Christmas, which stars Emilia Clarke and is set for release on 15 November. In the interview, the...

October 18, 2019

Trans people share their feelings of loss at not experiencing childhood as their true gender

Trans people are sharing their feelings of loss at having come out later in life in a moving thread on Twitter. “How many trans people, especially those who started transition as adults (doubly so if older than I), feel a lost youth? Missed on a childhood that matched with your real gender, wish you didn’t...

October 18, 2019

Woman asks the internet if she’s an a**hole for telling her transgender ex to dress more ‘appropriately’

October 18, 2019

Schools U-turn on trans bathroom policy after staff and students receive death threats

Schools in Georgia have reversed a trans-inclusive bathroom policy after staff and students received death threats. The new trans-inclusive policy allowed trans students to use the bathroom that aligned with their gender identity. But on October 16, the school board said that due to “many serious safety...

October 18, 2019

The Mormon church wants you to know they think it’s OK to put young queer people through traumatising conversion therapy

The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon church, has said that is opposes a proposed ban on conversion therapy for minors in Utah. In February the Mormon Church, which dominates politics in Utah, agreed not to resist the bill, which includes some religious freedom protections for...

October 18, 2019

Vinegar Strokes on diversity in Drag Race, tips from Bianca Del Rio and why she’s so glad that TFL dress was axed

Vinegar Strokes was the third queen to sashay away from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK last night. She used her background as a West End performer – with Michelle Visage and Bianca Del Rio in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – to delight in last week’s Downton Draggy. She sent wigs – and Gothy Kendoll – flying in …...

October 18, 2019

Birmingham court hears of shocking ways Muslim extremists ‘inflamed tensions’ around LGBT lessons debate

The lead Muslim protester against LGBT-inclusive lessons allegedly “inflamed tensions” by inviting a controversial imam, who falsely claimed schools were teaching anal sex, paedophilia and ‘transgenderism’, to take part in the demonstrations. A High Court hearing to determine whether to uphold an...

October 18, 2019

The Sugababes are back with new music and it’s all the internet can talk about today

The three original Sugababes have reunited to cover Sweet Female Attitude’s 2000 hit single ‘Flowers’, and the internet has gone into meltdown. It’s been six long years since they reformed and dropped the single ‘Flatline’, but Mutya, Keisha and Siobhán are finally back with new music....