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August 21, 2019

Lana Wachowski is making history as the first openly trans director of a blockbuster

Lana Wachowski is blazing a trail with The Matrix 4, as she becomes the first openly trans person to helm a major Hollywood blockbuster. After months of speculation, it was announced this week that Lana Wachowski will write and direct a brand new instalment in dystopian franchise. With the first three films in the series...

August 21, 2019

LGBT teacher explains why she doesn’t blame other teachers for not coming out at school

A LGBT+ teacher has explained why she doesn’t blame other teachers for not wanting to come out at school.. Iesha Small, a former assistant head and maths teacher at a secondary school, said in the Guardian that at the beginning of her teaching career she was out to other staff, but not students. She wrote: …...

August 21, 2019

Sam Smith shares powerful words of advice following most challenging year yet

British singer Sam Smith has opened up in a vulnerable Instagram post, declaring that he is finally “enough” after 18 months of therapy. The ‘How Do You Sleep?’ singer, who was forced to cancel tour dates earlier this year due to poor mental health, shared the candid post with his 13 million Instagram...

August 21, 2019

The Great Scottish Run will offer third gender option, but non-binary athletes can’t win prizes

The Great Scottish Run will this year offer a third gender option for competitors, and is reportedly the first major race in the UK to do so. But non-binary athletes will not be able to place in overall rankings. According to the Telegraph, organisers have added the option to race entry forms, where before the …...

August 21, 2019

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK queen Baga Chipz wants you to know she’s ‘not a Tory’

It didn’t take long for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK to find its first conflama, with some fans turning on Baga Chipz just hours after she was announced as part of the line-up. Baga Chipz was forced to defend herself after it emerged she authored a pro-Tory op-ed ahead of the 2017 general election. Writing for …...

August 21, 2019

Australian medical body denies claim it will run inquiry into treatment of trans kids

The professional body for doctors in Australia has firmly rejected a claim by a News Corp paper that it will run an inquiry into the medical treatment of trans kids. The Australian published an article on August 17 that said the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) had been commissioned by health minister Greg...

August 21, 2019

Demi Lovato joins the cast of Will Ferrell’s Eurovison

Demi Lovato has announced that she will be joining the cast of Netflix’s new comedy film Eurovision. The singer, whose 27th birthday coincided with the announcement, revealed the news on Instagram via a video of Will Ferrell. In the video, Ferrell, who co-wrote the film with Andrew Steele, says: “We want to make a...

August 21, 2019

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK queens tease who they might impersonate for Snatch Game

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has finally let the kitty-cat out of the bag by announcing its line-up of queens. But the question we’re all gagging over remains, who will we see in the Snatch Game? Ever since the BBC announced it would be bringing Drag Race to UK shores, fans have worked themselves into a …...

August 21, 2019

Transgender troops can sue Pentagon over Trump’s ban, judge rules

Men and women who have been barred from serving in the US military because of their transgender status can move forward with a lawsuit attempting to overturn the Trump administration’s transgender troops ban. A federal judge in Maryland ruled on August 20 that the court challenge against the Pentagon’s policy...

August 21, 2019

The internet has a lot of thoughts on the line-up for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

It just wouldn’t be a new series of RuPaul’s Drag Race without the internet throwing shade, would it? The BBC has finally announced which 10 queens will enter the werk room for the first time in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Among the queens competing to become Britain’s first drag superstar are Baga...