LGBTQ

Britney Spears and her partner Sam Asghari. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Britney Spears fans across the globe are screaming, shouting and celebrating till the world ends after the pop star announced she is pregnant with her third child. Taking to – where else? – Instagram, the …Baby One More Time hitmaker revealed that she had been gaining weight and decided to take a pregnancy test. “So I got a pregnancy test… and uhhhhh well… I am having a baby,” she wrote. “Obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting...

Emeli Sande at the Ivor Novello Awards 2021 in London (Getty/Eamonn M. McCormack) Emeli Sandé has claimed that working in the music gave her “a feeling” that she shouldn’t come out publicly. The “Next to Me” singer came out on 1 April and revealed she is in love with a woman whom she believes is “the one for life”. In a new interview over the weekend at National Student Pride, the “My Kind of Love” hitmaker stressed that while no exact words were said to her about the matter, she...

Emma Watson was interviewed by Paris Lee for Vogue in 2020. (Screen capture via YouTube/Vogue) Harry Potter star Emma Watson has been praised for being an “example of true feminism” after her interview with Paris Lees resurfaced. With her usual grace and composure, Watson told the trans journalist in an interview with Vogue that she was more than “comfortable” with Lees using the women’s toilets. In fact, she stressed at the time, it’s not even up for debate. During the 2020 interview, Lees asked the 31-year-old a question so much...

Gentleman Jack is set in the 19th century. (BBC One) When Gentleman Jack first landed on screens in 2019, viewers were instantly drawn in by the incredible true story of Anne Lister – who is known as “the first modern lesbian”. Born on 3 April 1791, Lister famously wrote secret diaries – which were later decoded – about her lesbian relationships, travelling the world and her upper-class life at Shibden Hall. After her story was brought to life by celebrated TV writer and producer Sally Wainwright, fans across the world...

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has long been an LGBT+ ally. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images) London mayor Sadiq Khan has come out swinging for trans rights amid Boris Johnson’s repeated potshots against them. On Saturday afternoon (9 April), the Labour politician joined local council candidates in Higham Hill, a suburb in the northeast borough of Waltham Forest. He joined the likes of Kira Lewis, who’s hoping to become Waltham Forest Council’s first trans, non-binary councillor, for a campaign even with grassroots campaign group Labour Doorstep. “I have the privilege of representing...

AIDS research. (Getty/ Ted Horowitz) People in Zimbabwe will no longer face prison for transmitting HIV. Section 79 of Zimbabwe’s criminal code made it illegal to transmit HIV to a partner, either knowingly or unknowingly. Those convicted could be punished with up to 20 years in prison. According to aidsmap, 16 people were arrested or prosecuted under the law between October 2015 and December 2018. The law was focused on making bride prices, paid by the groom to his future in-law, mandatory, but contained a clause stripping penalties for HIV...

Jerrod Carmichael opens up about his family's reaction to his coming out in his new HBO special Rothaniel. (Michael Hickey/WireImage) Jerrod Carmichael has opened up about talking to his mum for the first time since the release of his HBO special Rothaniel, in which he came out publicly as gay. Carmichael came out publicly as gay in his candid special Rothaniel, which aired on 1 April. In the special, Carmichael discussed his father’s infidelity and said he felt “like a liar” because he hadn’t told anyone his “secret” – that he is...

Caitlyn Jenner doubles down on opposition to trans women in sports (Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images) Caitlyn Jenner has doubled down her support for Florida’s reviled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law as LGBT+ activists and allies continue to speak out against the controversial legislation. The Olympic gold medalist shared her views on Fox Business as part of her new role as a Fox News contributor, arguing that she did want a “math teacher” to teach her kids about gender identity. “I am a big supporter of Ron DeSantis and what he’s...

George M Johnson is the author of All Boys Aren't Blue. (Penguin) LGBT+ authors have dominated a list of most-banned books in the United States, a study by PEN America has found. PEN America tracked bans involving titles by 874 different authors in school libraries and classrooms in the United States from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The most-banned book was Gender Queer: A Memoir, which recounts Maia Kobabe’s “aching journey toward reconciliation with being non-binary and asexual”. It was banned 30 separate times. Banned 21 times was All Boys Aren’t...

Britney refuses to pay her mother's £460,000 legal fees from conservatorship battle (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) Britney Spears has asked judges to deny a request that she pay more than $600,000 (£460,000) for her mother’s legal fees. The colossal sum was amassed during the singer’s conservatorship battle, the PA news agency has found.  From 2008 to 2021, Britney lived within the confines of a court-mandated conservatorship mostly managed by her father, Jamie Spears. The complex legal arrangement stripped Britney of a say over her career decisions, finances and contraception, among other...

Star Wars heroes Finn and Poe were famously not gay. (Disney) A new Lego Star Wars game appears to give Finn and Poe Dameron the happy queer ending fans have longed for. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has seemingly confirmed the ‘FinnPoe’ ship – a romance between John Boyega’s stormtrooper-turned-rebel character Finn and X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, played by Oscar Isaac. Although the duo had obvious sexual tension in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, their relationship never went further than friendship. Many fans – and the films’ cast – called for...

Boris Johnson spoke while visiting a hospital. (Getty) Boris Johnson has defended his decision to leave trans people out of a ban on conversion therapy. The prime minster said on Wednesday (6 April): “We will have a ban on gay conversion therapy, which to me is utterly abhorrent.  “But there are complexities and sensitivities when you move from the area of sexuality to the question of gender. There, I’m afraid, there are things that I think still need to be worked out.” He said he was “sorry we haven’t been...

Florida representative Randy Fine says he will introduce legislation to ban gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth in the state. (YouTube/WPTV News - FL Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast) A Florida Republican has vowed to introduce legislation next session that would criminalise gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state.  State representative Randy Fine said in a post on social media on Monday (4 April) that he would “shepherd legislation” that would make it illegal for parents and doctors to provide gender-affirming healthcare to trans children.  He said the bill, which...

Tory MP says opposing conversion therapy is 'virtue-signalling BS' (GB News/screenshot) 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 decision, Jenkinson claimed that MPs criticising the Tory government’s move are simply “pursuing those warm, fuzzy feelings”. Safe To Be Me has been billed by the government as the UK’s first ever global LGBT+...