LGBTQ

Video footage showed the moment a cruise sank as rescue boats scrambled to save passengers from drowning. (Screen captures via Twitter/@fitnessgayz) As Mexico’s coronavirus caseloads soar, a queer party boat packed with some 60 people sank to the depths of the ocean Friday afternoon (31 December). Startling mobile phone footage uploaded to social media showed the moment blue waves engulfed the PV Delice Party Cruise catamaran. Crew and partygoers trying to stay afloat bob along in life vests around the keeped over boat, some clinging to or frantically flagging the attention...

Celine Dion and Celine Dion. (Twitter/ ThomasDodd1 and Getty/ Frazer Harrison) A 30-year-old gay man from Staffordshire drank so much one night during the festive period that he legally changed his name to Celine Dion. On 30 December, the man formerly known as Thomas Dodd posted a photo on Twitter of a pile of paper work and wrote: “Tier 4 is the least of my worries – I’ve just got home to some post. “Apparently at some point over Christmas I’ve had one too many vinos and legally changed my...

The circuit party was attended by 2,000 shirtless, maskless men. (G1) A circuit party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was shut down by police and firefighters after thousands of maskless men attended as the city’s COVID cases soar. The Festa Revolution gay circuit party took place on Tuesday (29 December) at Faro Beach Club in the city’s Leblon district, on the same day that coronavirus deaths in Rio de Janeiro alone reached more than 14,600. Around 2,000 people were packed on the dance floor and partying without masks when police burst...

Devika Akka was one of two trans woman elected in India. (Twitter) Two transgender women have won local elections in their villages in India in an incredible history-making moment. Both women were elected to the gram panchayat – a form of local government operating in villages in India – on Wednesday (30 December), Devika Akka, a transgender woman, was elected in Ward 7 of the Saligrama panchayat, while a woman known as Sudha won the election in Kallahalli. Speaking to local media about her win, Devika, 46, said her priority would...

The poster for Forbidden Love in Heaven. (Ran Yinxiao_ A simple film about a gay couple who adopt a homeless child, Forbidden Love in Heaven has become something almost unthinkable for LGBT+ filmmakers and moviegoers in China: a hit. In a nation where acceptance of same-sex couples is progressing at a less-than-glacial rate, Chinese filmmakers have long been censored and nettled by authorities’ inability to acknowledge that LGBT+ people even exist. But 19-year-old filmmaker Ran Yinxiao sought to challenge the industry with his film, Forbidden Love in Heaven, released on local streaming platforms...

Megan Barton-Hanson attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2020 at Royal Albert Hall. (Getty/ Jeff Spicer) Bisexual Love Island star Megan Barton-Hanson has revealed the “mortifying” homophobic comments she received from her brother’s girlfriend when she began dating women. Barton-Hanson came out publicly as bisexual last year when she appeared on Celebs Go Dating, and went on a date with The Only Way is Essex star Demi Sims. The two reportedly had a brief relationship before breaking up. But this month, Barton-Hanson invited Sims to be a guest on...

Stornoway Harbour, Western Isles. (Getty/ Tim Graham) Councillors in the Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland, have rejected LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education in favour of Roman Catholic teaching. The Western Isles council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, overwhelmingly voted this month in favour Roman Catholic teaching materials to be used in lessons on relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP), according to The Guardian. The Catholic church teaches that sex is only acceptable in a heterosexual marriage. The vote reportedly came after Church of Scotland ministers complained about LGBT-inclusive teaching backed...

Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock, shares a joke with Jeremy Hunt as they travel on the constituency's battle bus on 21 April 21, 2015. (Rob Stothard/Getty) Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price has decided to become a defender of lesbians, while also trying to defend her vote against same-sex marriage. When anti-trans lobby group LGB Alliance received blistering backlash for claiming comedian and activist Eddie Izzard had “caused offence” to lesbians by using she/her pronouns, Doyle-Price was quick to agree. She responded: “Being a straight man who likes to cross dress is...

Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. (CBS2) A transgender woman was shot dead on Christmas Day in what her friends believe was a hate crime incident, before she was misgendered by police in death. Friends and family of Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. The 25-year-old was found dead in an incident initially reported as a...

Police have released a CCTV photo of people they would like to speak to in connection with the attack on Anthony Crumbley. (GoFundMe and Boston Police Department) A gay Black man in Boston, Massachusetts, who was stabbed and left in a coma for four days, is living in fear knowing his attackers are still “out there”. Anthony Crumbley was walking home from a bar in South Boston at about 10.45 pm on 18 December when he was attacked, according to CBS Boston. The 25-year-old said: “The two males and a...

The patient uploaded a photo of the nurse's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) strewn across the floor of the hospital bathroom. (Envato) A nurse at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, is under investigation after having gay sex with a COVID-19 patient in a hospital toilet. On Friday (25 December), the gay sex between the nurse and COVID-19 patient was revealed after the patient posted about it on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation, according to Indonesia Expat. This was accompanied by a photo of the nurse’s Personal Protective...

Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle had their Instagram account removed for "violating" rules, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong. (Instagram) A gay couple are devastated after their hugely popular Instagram account was shut down for “violating” rules – but they still don’t know what they’re supposed to have done wrong. Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle have been sharing their lives with fans for years through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...