LGBTQ

Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider. (Twitter/ Jeopardy!) Reigning Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has once again made history as the first woman to ever surpass $1 million in earnings. Schneider, the affable wiseacre and engineering manager from Dayton, Ohio, already has sufficient bragging rights from her nearly two-month-long streak on the syndicated game show. She is already the highest-earning female contestant and the woman with the longest winning streak – as well the first openly trans contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. But on Friday (7 January), Schneider broke the $1...

Britney Spears radiates "free woman energy" in a series of liberating nude photos. (Getty/Jamie McCarthy/Instagram/@britneyspears) Britney Spears celebrated her “free woman energy” by posting liberated selfies and sipping on her first glass of wine in 13 years. The pop icon took to Instagram Thursay (6 January) and opened up about the freedoms she has enjoyed since her conservatorship ended, including being able to just enjoy a glass of wine. In a series of Notes app screenshots posted to Instagram, Britney Spears described a wholesome and “magical” night out at an...

Che and Miranda in And Just Like That... (HBO) And Just Like That… star Sara Ramirez didn’t join the Sex and the City reboot to represent a community. In a series where Big died on a Peloton, Miranda bordered on Karen-hood and Carrie peed in a bottle, Che Diaz has somehow become the biggest talking point of And Just Like That… They’ve divided Sex and the City fans with their stand-up, terrible (let’s face it) podcast, and perhaps most of all, their odd insistence on full-naming themself at every given...

Titus Low. (Instagram) Only Fans star Titus Low Kaide, 22, was arrested by Singaporean police and charged with “transmitting obscene materials”. Low was charged with two counts of transmitting obscene materials via electronic means during an appearance in district court on 30 December.  According to The Straits Times, police received reports Low has “transmitted images and videos of his private parts”. He’s believed to be the first person arrested and charged over OnlyFans in Singapore, where the possession, distribution, or sale of pornographic material is outlawed (it’s not illegal to stream porn,...

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 and was last seen leaving the LGBT+ Heaven nightclub by Charing Cross in the early morning hours of 17 December. The Met Police confirmed on Thursday (6 January) that a body recovered from the River Thames that of Harvey Parker....

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, ribbing one another. Bosco’s polka dot demonic outfit provokes a description from Alyssa of her as “an angry Minnie Mouse”. Willow Pill’s blonde hair and Y2K-reminiscent look land her comparisons to icon Paris Hilton. However, her white flip flops have...

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 he took up on Wednesday (5 January). Lehmann has been a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2017. Alongside fellow lawmaker, Ulle Schauws, he spent three years from 2018 as spokesperson for queer policy and social policy within...

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 was cast in the film Caravaggio, and through him she found a film family in London’s 1980s queer scene. She told the Irish Times that at the time she lived in a squat in World’s End, Chelsea, and became a committed activist,...

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 prison officials aware that she was transgender when she was first sent to prison, in 1994, and has been working to access gender affirmation surgery since 2016. Just last year, after she launched legal action against the BOP, she was...

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 that gives an inside look at the lives of some of the internet’s biggest influencers. The show delves into their work, friendships, personal lives and the conflicts they experience as they live together in a multi-million dollar Los Angeles mansion....

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 fan, and would love to join the MCU some day. “I want to be a superhero or a supervillain,” she said. “I grew up reading the comics with my brothers. Every time a new Marvel film comes out, we go...

Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness and author JK Rowling (Getty/Roy Rochlin/Cindy Ord) Jonathan Van Ness has accused JK Rowling of “constant transphobic cherry picked vitriol” after the author came under fire once again. The Harry Potter author was criticised after she commented on reports of Police Scotland chief saying the force would not misgender trans people accused of rape with respect to a proposed self-ID law. “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman,” Rowling wrote on Sunday (12 December), with...

Sareh, 28, was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for "supporting homosexuality”, according to the Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network (6Rang). (YouTube/6rangIran) An Iranian lesbian potentially faces the death penalty after she was arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) for “supporting homosexuality”. Sareh, a 28-year-old woman who lived and worked in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, was arrested by the IRGC on 27 October while she was attempting to flee across the border into Turkey, according to a report by the Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network (6Rang). The...

Modibodi has launched two new seam free, leak-proof styles. Modibodi has launched two new seam free, leak-proof underwear styles, and the brand are offering a code for money off, too. The Australian brand has released the new range to protect you from periods, bladder leaks and VPL. The eco-friendly styles, the ‘Recycled Seamfree Hi-Leg Cheeky’ and ‘Recycled Seamfree Thong’ are both crafted from 73 percent pre-consumer recycled nylon. They have a smooth finish which is invisible under everything from leotards and activewear to your favourite bodycon outfits. The planet-friendly underwear...