archiveJanuary 2022

Tributes have been paid to student Harvey Parker, whose body was recovered from the River Thames. (Just Giving) Tributes are pouring in for Harvey Parker, a beloved friend, family member and “phenomenal” musician, after their body was discovered in the River Thames. The 20-year-old had been missing for three weeks...

Ahead of the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 premiere, the first 10 minutes of the new episode have been released on YouTube. The sneak peek introduces queens Alyssa Hunter, Bosco, Kornbread ‘The Snack’ Jeté, Willow Pill, Kerri Colby, June Jambalaya and Orion Story. The contestants stand around after their distinctive grand entrances,...

Sven Lehmann (Photo by Christoph Soeder / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPH SOEDER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Germany has appointed Sven Lehmann its first-ever commissioner for the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity. Green Party politician, Sven Lehmann, will be overseeing a national LGBT+ strategy in his new position, which...

Tilda Swinton attends the Cannes Film Festival, 2021(Getty for Kering/ Vittorio Zunino Celotto) Tilda Swinton has described spending her 20s in a “queer environment”, and said that she identified as queer “like a queer fish”. In 1986 Swinton worked with gay filmmaker Derek Jarman for the first time when she...

Nikita Dragun attends the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on 26 January 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty) Trans YouTuber and beauty influencer Nikita Dragun is part of the cast of new Netflix reality soap series Hype House. Hype House is a reality series...

Hands behind prison yard bars. (Envato/Stock image) A trans woman currently incarcerated in Texas could become the first American to receive gender-affirming surgery while in federal prison. Cristina Iglesias, 47, is a trans woman who has been incarcerated in Texas’ Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for 27 years. Iglesias made...

Paris Jackson attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2021. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Queer musician, model and actor Paris Jackson has declared that she “wants to be a Marvel hero – or a supervillain”. Speaking to Variety Jackson, who stars in the new Hulu coming-of-age movie Sex Appeal, revealed that she’s a lifelong Marvel...

Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists,...