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August 19, 2019

Actor Antonio Banderas says he ‘owes his life’ to a drag queen

Antonio Banderas has dramatically revealed that a drag queen once saved his life. The Spanish actor said he was driving a motorbike in 1976 when he got into a serious accident. “The front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom! I hit a car and my head hit the tank,” he told … Continued The...

August 19, 2019

The Palestinian Authority just banned all LGBT activities in the West Bank

The Palestinian Authority has banned all LGBT+ groups from carrying out activities in the West Bank. The ban came after Al-Qaws, a group for sexual and gender diversity that supports LGBT+ Palestinians, planned to hold a meeting for members at the end of August. Explaining the decision to ban Al-Qaws from operating in...

August 19, 2019

Songs of Praise aired its ground-breaking same-sex wedding episode – and the internet loved it

The BBC’s Songs of Praise broke new ground on Sunday by broadcasting its first-ever same-sex wedding, much to the delight of the LGBT+ community. This week’s episode of the long-running faith show featured the wedding of Jamie Wallace and Ian McDowall, two gay men from Scotland. Cameras followed the couple as...

August 19, 2019

Man disrupts drag queen story hour, says audience will be ‘cast into lake of fire’

A man interrupted a drag queen story hour event on the day before Pride week in Ottawa to tell the audience they would be “cast into a lake of fire”. Drag queen Adrianna Exposée was reading stories to children at Westcliffe Community Center on August 17 when the man burst in shouting, but she stood …...

August 19, 2019

Police chief apologises for causing ‘unacceptable harm’ to LGBT community

The chief commissioner of Australia’s Victoria Police has issued a landmark apology to the LGBT+ community. Graham Ashton addressed the community and LGBT+ police officers as he apologised for the historic enforcement of anti-gay laws. “There have clearly been times when police actions caused unnecessary and...

August 18, 2019

Judge Rinder warns celebrities against using sexuality to ‘help their career’

Celebrity barrister Robert Rinder – who is perhaps best known for being the eponymous figure in ITV reality show Judge Rinder – has warned those in the limelight against using their sexuality to “help their career.” In an op-ed for the Evening Standard, the television personality said that he...

August 18, 2019

London council saves gay fetish club from redevelopment for the best reason

Tower Hamlets council has saved the UK’s last remaining gay fetish club by blocking plans to have it redeveloped it into a 12-storey apartment block. According to The Guardian, the local authority ultimately decided that getting rid of the long-running bar – and subsequently turning it into a 46-flat complex...

August 18, 2019

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson comes out as gay in moving op-ed

Jim Watson, the Mayor of Ottawa, Canada has come out as gay. In an emotional op-ed published by the Ottawa Citizen, the 58-year-old opened up about the struggles he has faced with coming to terms with his sexuality, from being bullied at school to finding it difficult to confide in friends due to his family …...

August 18, 2019

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson comes out as gay in moving op-ed

August 18, 2019

Billy Porter: Pose is changing roles for black gay men for the better

American Horror Story: Apocalypse actor Billy Porter has opened up about how Pose is expanding the kind of narratives we see for black gay men onscreen. Joining showrunner Ryan Murphy for an hour-long conversation at New York cultural and community centre 92Y on Tuesday 13 August, the Emmy-nominated star explained that...