LGBTQ

Waylon Smithers finds love with his new boyfriend Michael De Graaf, a billionaire fashion mogul, in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. (20th Television/The Simpsons) A writer on The Simpsons has explained how he worked with his gay son to make Smithers a “three-dimensional gay character”. As viewers of the long-running animated series will know, The Simpsons has a long history of joking about Smithers’ sexuality – but that all started to change in 2016, when the character officially came out. Recently, the show proved that it’s committed to making Smithers even...

Space NK's Black Friday sale is expected to feature brands Charlotte Tilbury and Drunk Elephant. Space NK has revealed details about its Black Friday 2021 sale – and it starts very soon. The week-long sale is a chance for shoppers to get their hands on discounted premium beauty products. The Black Friday sale will kick off on 23 November and run until Cyber Monday at spacenk.com. This article contains affiliate links, PinkNews may earn revenue if you click through and purchase products through the links. The featured products are being...

Theresa Manzella. (Montana State Legislature) A Republican lawmaker has said that LGBT+ people who are beaten up are receiving the “normal consequences” of their “choices”. Montana state senator Theresa Manzella made the remarks Wednesday (17 November) during an event defending a minister accused of anti-LGBT+ hate speech. According to TV station KPVI, Brandon Huber, lead pastor of Clinton Community Church, is facing an ethics complaint for “hate speech” after he said a food bank’s Pride fliers go against “biblical doctrine”. The Missoula Organization of Realtors will hold a hearing 2...

Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton is pictured in the pits during the third practice session ahead of the Qatari Formula One Grand Prix. (ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images) Lewis Hamilton, the Formula One champion, will wear his intersex-inclusive Progress Pride flag helmet at next month’s Saudi Arabian Gran Prix. The British motor racing driver, the only Black driver in the series’ history, made a small but stunning show of solidarity at this weekend’s Qatar Pride Prix by donning the helmet. With the words “We Stand Together” ribboning around it, the...

Lady Gaga (L) and Britney Spears. (Getty Images) Britney Spears showed her appreciation for Lady Gaga after the House of Gucci star celebrated the end of her conservatorship. Gaga, 35, shared her words of support for Britney, 39, Thursday evening (18 November) as she walked the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of the Ridley Scott flick. Freshly freed from her conservatorship, Britney shared a short clip of the actor telling ET Canada: “The way that was treated in the business was really wrong. “And the way women are...

Harry Styles accepts his award for British Single during The BRIT Awards 2021 (Getty) Since the singer launched his solo career in 2017, Harry Styles has continued to toe the fine line of gender with his sartorial choices: especially his nails. From donning bold printed suits onstage to stepping out in an iconic sheer ensemble at the 2019 Met Gala to dragging it up as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz at his latest Harryween show, Harry has shown that fashion has no gender – and that you can look...

A queer bookshop has launched an initiative to send copies of a trans history book to MPs across the country to give them a “comprehensive knowledge” on the trans community. Queer Lit, Manchester’s longest running independent gay bookshop, sent “hundreds of copies” of Trans Britain by Christine Burns to MPs on Wednesday. The books, which have now been sent to MPs, were all donated at cost price by customers. “Today we have sent out hundreds of copies of Trans Britain by Christine Burns to MPs all over the country to...

Russian rapper Dava and Filipp Kirkorov surrounded by muscular men. (Screen capture via Instagram/@fkirkorov) A Russian television channel has been fined for so-called “gay propaganda” after its guests wore gender-flipping garbs. The Muz-TV awards, one of the country’s top showbiz events, ruffled Russian officials’ feathers when two singers pulled up in a white convertible with dozens of buff, shirtless men trailing them. A male beauty blogger at one point wore a voluminous black gown while a TikTok icon donned a half-dress, half-tuxedo. Apparently, two men arriving to a show together and...

Rosie Duffield clashes with Ellie Mae O'Hagan. (BBC) Labour MP Rosie Duffield was confronted over her calling trans women “male-bodied people” on a BBC Politics segment. Duffield, who has been MP for Canterbury since 2017, repeatedly called trans women “male-bodied people” on the show, and argued against the inclusion of trans women in single sex spaces such as women’s prisons and hospital wards.  Speaking on BBC Politics, she said: “If you are a woman, who has been abused all of your life and ended up in prison, you may not feel...

A man made homophobic remarks before swinging at the victim. (British Transport Police) Police are investigating after a man was knocked unconscious for challenging another man’s homophobic remarks. The victim was walking through York railway station when a throng of men targeted him in the concourse, British Transport Police (BTP) said. One of the men lobbed vile homophobic insults at the victim before striking him at around 8:30pm on 9 October.  “The victim challenged the man,” a police spokesperson told The York Press, “who responded by punching the victim in...

Lady Gaga in House of Gucci. (IMDb) An eye-opening video has revealed just how close to the mark Gaga’s Patrizia Reggiani was to the real deal. Gaga’s Italian accent in the new Ridley Scott film has been the topic of much conversation in recent weeks after she revealed that she spoke in it for nine months as part of her method acting. The latest to weigh in was Francesca De Martini, who worked on the House of Gucci set coaching Salma Hayek with her own Naples accent. “I feel bad saying...

RuPaul. (BBC) RuPaul’s Drag Race fans have been roasting RuPaul over a knockoff holiday ornament that’s the stuff of Christmas nightmares. Just in time for Christmas, the world has been gifted with a terrifying decoration that’s allegedly supposed to look like RuPaul. We can sort of see the resemblance. Maybe it’s RuPaul after she’s done her own make-up? Unauthorized Crap. #RuinedChristmas https://t.co/7tiapURwBC — RuPaul (@RuPaul) November 15, 2021 With its crooked mouth and three sets of eyebrows, Ru is not happy with the misshapen Christmas decoration, calling it “unauthorised crap” on Twitter....

A group of LGBT+ barristers have spoken out after an “anti-trans” lawyer was announced for a panel discussion on conversion therapy. The Twitter account @LGBTQBarristers posted an unsigned letter to express “profound disappointment” at the inclusion of speaker Naomi Cunningham at the inaugural Middle Temple LGBTQ+ Forum on Tuesday. The letter is said to represent over 100 barristers, pupils and students. The LGBTQ+ Forum, a queer group within Middle Temple, a society of English barristers, made changes on Thursday evening (11 November) to the event to include two previously unannounced speakers....

This week, the House of Lords will debate an amendment which would force trans people into the wrong prisons. The proposed amendment to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 would create a clause titled “sex-specific incarceration for violent and sexual offenders”. The change would mean that any trans person convicted, or even suspected, of a violent or sexual crime, must “be treated with respect to housing on the prison estate by reference to the sex registered at their birth”. The Trans Legal Project explained: “This would mean that even a trans woman...