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April 5, 2022

Banks announces 2022 UK tour: dates, presale info and how to get tickets

Banks has announced a headline UK tour for 2022 – and tickets go on sale soon. The artist will tour across the country this September in support of her upcoming album, Serpentina. It’ll kick off at London’s Roundhouse before heading to Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. Fans can get their hands on...

April 5, 2022

Drag Race fans declare Spanish spin-off greatest in herstory after mind-blowing episode

RuPaul’s Drag Race fans have been left with their jaws on the floor after mind-blowing performances by queens on season two of the Spanish spin-off. The talent show is a time-honoured challenge within the global drag franchise, allowing queens to showcase their amazing talents in live performances. But the Drag Race...

April 5, 2022

Channel 4 being privatised could mean the end of shows like It’s a Sin, viewers point out

Fans are concerned that groundbreaking queer shows like It’s a Sin could end up on the cutting room floor in the wake of government plans to privatise Channel 4. Culture secretary Nadine Dorries announced the Tory government’s plans to privatise Channel 4 on Sunday (3 March), claiming that “government...

April 5, 2022

Equalities watchdog’s trans guidance ‘contradicts true meaning of equality’, experts warn

Britain’s equalities watchdog has denied claims that it is encouraging single-sex services to “blanket ban” trans people – though experts say otherwise. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission on Monday (4 April) issued new guidelines to separate and single-sex service providers. LGBT+ campaign groups...

April 5, 2022

Budapest Pride declares ‘Hungary is not open to hate’ after Orbán’s election victory

Despite Viktor Orbán winning re-election in Hungary, Budapest Pride refuses to be defeated. Using anti-LGBT+ hate and propaganda as some of the cornerstones of his campaign, Viktor Orbán and his right-wing party, Fidesz, secured a fourth term in Sunday’s (3 April) general election. The Fidesz government has become...

April 5, 2022

Tory MP accuses LGBT+ conversion therapy ban supporters of ‘virtue signalling BS’

Tory MP Mark Jenkinson has called opposition to Boris Johnson’s plan to exclude trans people from a forthcoming conversion therapy ban “virtue-signalling BS”. Quoting a tweet explaining that Stonewall and more than 80 groups have pulled out of the government’s flagship LGBT+ conference due to the...

April 5, 2022

Top LGBT+ adviser quits Tory government over ‘damaging’ stance on trans conversion therapy

April 5, 2022

Tory government’s flagship LGBT+ conference left in tatters as even more groups pull out

The British government’s landmark LGBT+ conference has been thrown into jeopardy as at least 120 groups have pulled out. Described as the “first-ever global LGBT conference in London” by the government, Safe To Be Me: A Global Equalities Conference, is to be held in June to coincide with the 50th...

April 5, 2022

Andrew Garfield wore a trans flag pin to the GLAAD Awards and his fans are obsessed

April 5, 2022

World’s first LGBT+ head of state elected in San Marino, one of the oldest nations on earth

The microstate of San Marino has just elected an openly gay head of state, becoming the first country in the world to do so. Paolo Rondelli, 58, was elected one of two “captains regent” of San Marino, one of the world’s oldest and smallest republics which has just 34,000 inhabitants. He was elected on 1...