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Maddy Morphosis is the first ever cis straight man to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race. (WOW) Maddy Morphosis, the first straight, cis man to appear on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has spoken out following criticism of his casting. News that Maddy would compete on the upcoming 14th season of Drag Race was met with some criticism, with some raising concerns about people from outside of the LGBT+ community entering drag spaces.  In response, the performer opened about her own experiences in drag, explaining what led her to performing in the drag scene....

A substitute teacher broke out into a Britney Spears song for no actual reason. (Screen capture via FOX59/Getty Images) A substitute teacher was given the boot after breaking into a full-blown rendition of a Britney Spears classic in school. At the Bowie High School in Austin, an unidentified teacher was filmed by his students breaking out into a rendition of “Toxic” – complete with a light show. Because, after all, it’s Britney, b***h. In video footage, the teacher, who must be protected at all costs, sits behind a computer monitor...

Placard saying "Protect Trans kids" during the Trans march on the streets of Toronto during the Pride Month. (LightRocket via Getty/ Anatoliy Cherkasov/SOPA Images) Schools have been warned to protect student privacy after an attempt by a “gender critical” group in New Zealand to compile information on trans school kids. According to Stuff, an email addressed to “all intermediate and secondary schools” was brought to the attention of New Zealand’s Ministry of Education by schools. It describes being transgender as a “new trend”, and asks for information from schools on...

Bronze medallist Italy's Irma Testa poses on the podium with her medal. (AFP via Getty/ Pool/ LUIS ROBAYO) Boxer Irma Testa, who took home a bronze medal for Italy at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has come out as queer. Testa, 23, won a bronze medal in the women’s featherweight category at this year’s summer Olympics, after previously competing in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The boxer, who also won gold at the 2019 European Championships, explained in an interview with Vanity Fair Italia that her Olympic success gave her the...

British transport police say the attack was "homophobically aggravated". (AFP via Getty/ JOHN D MCHUGH) A queer man has said no one stepped in to help him when he was beaten and called a “f****t” in a “homophobic” attack on a London tube. Alan Hunter, a retail worker from south east London, was on the Jubilee line on his way home from a Steps concert at the O2 Arena on 27 November when the incident occurred, according to the Press Association. He said he asked a woman and her friends to...

Ben Raymond, co-founder of the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action. (BBC) The co-founder and “head of propaganda” for the anti-LGBT+ neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action has been jailed after promoting “extreme racial violence” to young people. In 2013, Ben Raymond, 32, co-founded National Action, a neo-Nazi group described as “virulently racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic” by the Home Office. He later became “head of propaganda” for the group, which was banned in 2016 under the Terrorism Act 2000, making it the first far-right group to be proscribed since the Second World War....

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Courts Building at the start of his trial. (Getty/ Scott Olson) Jussie Smollett’s defence has argued at trial that the man the actor says attacked him was a former lover who masturbated with him in a gay bathhouse. Smollett is on trial for allegedly staging a hate crime hoax against himself, and has been charged with six felony disorderly conduct charges. On Thursday (2 December), his defence questioned the prosecution’s star witnesses, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, brothers who had worked on Empire as extras,...

Team GB's Tom Daley poses with bronze medal after the ceremony for the men's 10m platform final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on 7 August 2021. (Getty/Clive Rose) The head of the Commonwealth Games is “happy” to meet with Tom Daley to discuss his concerns about countries that discriminate against the LGBT+ community. Homosexuality is still illegal in 36 of the 72 nations and territories that will be in Birmingham for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, the Guardian reported. Tom Daley called on countries in the Commonwealth to “push some...

Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-tier professional footballer in the world, has revealed his brother had never seen him smiling as big before his historic coming. Speaking to Attitude, as he appears on the cover of the magazine’s latest issue – topping the sport category in the annual Attitude 101 list – Cavallo opened up about how he hid his sexuality from even his closest friends and family. “I am really close to my brother, Christian. But I did not even tell him about what I was going through,”...

Cardi B basically said what we were all thinking when she clapped back at yet another debate about gender roles for young children. After several parents shared pictures of their young sons playing with kitchen sets, as made popular by YouTube star Ryan Kaji, people couldn’t resist making unwarranted comments about the image projecting “wrong ideals”. When one proud mother shared a picture of her son whipping up a play pretend feast in his “kitchen”, the discussion about whether kitchen sets for boys are “gay” reared its head once again....

There's plenty of queer Christmas tree decorations you can get. (Etsy) It’s finally December, which means it’s time to “get festive”, in the words of queen Mariah Carey. And what better way to get into the Christmas spirit than putting your tree up, while Mariah plays in the background. Well, you could also be decorating the tree with queer Christmas ornaments to make the yuletide gay. We’re not talking about that unofficial, botched RuPaul tree hanging, which she hilariously called “unauthorized crap”, we mean rainbow-infused, queer decorations. From baubles featuring...

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961 - 1997) visiting patients suffering from AIDS at the Hospital Universidade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 25th April 1991. (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images) A friend of the first person in the UK to die of AIDS has called the moment Princess Diana hugged a HIV-infected patient as ‘momentous’. John Eaddie was named as the UK’s first AIDS victim following a recent investigation by ITV’s Tonight. His friend Ken Dee appeared on Good Morning Britain in November to talk about his...

Comedy series Harlem is one of the big releases on Amazon Prime Video this December. (YouTube) Amazon has unveiled the films and TV series joining Prime Video UK in December 2021. From Amazon originals to new series, there’s plenty of content to binge during the winter months. The films and shows will all be available to stream for free as part of a Prime Video subscription, which costs £7.99 per month or £79.99 per year and comes with a 30-day free trial. This article contains affiliate links, PinkNews may earn...

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Courts Building on 29 November, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty/ Scott Olson) On the first day of Jussie Smollett’s trial for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself, his lawyer told the court he “is a real victim” of a “real crime”. On Monday (29 November), Smollett’s trial began at the Leighton Criminal Court in Chicago, Illinois. He is accused of six felony disorderly conduct charges over the alleged hoax, which could carry a prison sentence of three years, but the former...