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October 18, 2019

Is the Statue of Liberty a 300-foot drag queen? According to this documentary, she might well be

A new documentary tracing the Statue of Liberty’s history has resurfaced an old rumour: that Lady Liberty might be hiding a secret underneath her green gown. The Statue of Liberty has watched proudly over New York City for more than 130 years, but the truth of her origins eludes historians to this day. For decades...

October 18, 2019

Couple start brawl in peaceful village pub after being banned for sending ‘homophobic’ messages

A couple that started a bar brawl in a peaceful village pub after being banned for sending “homophobic” messages to a member of staff have been given suspended sentences. According to CheshireLive, William Finney, 47, and Aimee Gee, 36, appeared in Cheshire Magistrates Court on October 17. Finney was originally...

October 18, 2019

UK’s first Chick-fil-A is set to close after immense pressure from LGBT rights groups. It’s been open eight whole days

Chick-fil-A opened its first UK branch in Reading, Berkshire just last week – but the fast-food restaurant is already set to close after facing sustained pressure from LGBT+ activists. The fast food chain – which is one of the biggest in the United States – has attracted significant controversy over the years for its...

October 18, 2019

The internet has found lookalikes for all the Drag Race UK queens and we’re calling shade

With the seven remaining Drag Race UK contestants fast approaching national treasure status, the internet has played its very own version of Snatch Game by finding lookalikes for each queen. As Drag Race UK approaches its halfway point, next week’s episode will show the queens tackling the legendary Snatch Game. Each...

October 18, 2019

Groundbreaking new campaign encourages South Asian gay and bisexual men to get tested for HIV

A new campaign from the Gay Men’s Health Project (GMFA) is encouraging gay and bisexual men from South Asian communities to get tested for HIV. The campaign is called Me. Him. Us. and follows in the footsteps of an earlier campaign of the same name which encouraged black men to get tested. Me. Him. Us. …...

October 18, 2019

A website for straight men is being dragged to hell and back after mistakenly tweeting a Grindr conversation

A website aimed at straight men is being dragged spectacularly on Twitter after it shared a screenshot of a Grindr chat and assumed it was between straight and cisgender people. The screenshot – which was shared by Men’s Humor – showed an exchange between two people on the popular gay hook-up app in which one …...

October 18, 2019

Irish church elder says he was ‘bullied’ and ‘dehumanised’ for being gay and married to a man

Steven Smyrl, an elder in the Irish Presbyterian Church who was dismissed from his position for being gay, has lost his appeal, and said the church “bullied” and “dehumanised” him. The genealogist, 53, was dismissed as an elder at Christ Church Sandymount in Dublin last month over his marriage to...

October 18, 2019

Dawson’s Creek star Kerr Smith kisses and tells all on iconic moment in gay history

Dawson’s Creek actor Kerr Smith has opened up about what it was like to be part of that iconic gay kiss on the hit show. Smith’s character Jack came out over the course of two episodes in 1998 and shared a kiss with another man. It was the first kiss between two men on US … Continued The post Dawson’s Creek...

October 18, 2019

Drag Race UK’s Snatch Game is almost here and the internet is already shook

Drag Race UK is about to unleash the Snatch Game onto the BBC and the internet is beside itself with excitement. After a sewing challenge which shook up the rankings and sent a fan favourite home, the trailer for next week’s Drag Race UK Ru-vealed that the wait for Snatch Game is almost over. A … Continued The...

October 18, 2019

Piers Morgan wouldn’t speak to the person who tried to get him sacked from Good Morning Britain. So we did

On October 13, PinkNews reported that thousands of people were calling for ITV to fire Piers Morgan for his “dehumanising” treatment of trans people. The petition was started by Twitter user @hotboykennedy – musician Liam Austen – and had at that point been signed by a little more than 6,000 people. Five days...