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The Australian debate show Q+A was targeted for its pro-LGBT+ coverage (YouTube/Sky News Australia) A charity worker has been sentenced after threatening to kill the staff of an Australian talkshow that supported LGBT+ people. David William Wonnocott, 47, pled guilty to making threats to kill the employees behind ABC’s panel debate show Q+A over its supportive coverage of the LGBT+ community. He specifically singled out Q+A staff on a public forum saying: “QnA should be shut down, you c**ts. Keep supporting the LGBT community and I will kill you all.” When...

Activists say Russian drag competition 'Royal Cobras' removed all mentions of the LGBT+ community from its programme. (YouTube/НАСТЯ ИВЛЕЕВА) An unofficial adaption of RuPaul’s Drag Race has launched in Russia, but it’s removed everything queer from the show. Royal Cobras is hosted by Russian TV presenter and social media star Nastya Ivleeva. The Russian show has all the trappings of the Drag Race franchise including wonderful costumes, comedic performances and lip-sync battles. But it lacks any acknowledgement of the LGBT+ community, which is intricately linked to drag culture. Activist Nikita...

Stonewall marching in London Pride in 2015. (Niklas Halle'n/AFP/Getty) Politicians and senior LGBT+ figures have rushed to defend Stonewall in the wake of a BBC “investigation” into the charity. On Friday (15 October), the BBC published an article headlined Stonewall’s influence on BBC and Ofcom revealed“. Based on a 10-part investigative podcast by the Stephen Nolan programme released on Wednesday (13 October), its purported revelations are that Ofcom continues to submit information to the charity’s Workplace Equality Index program, despite having exited its Diversity Champions Scheme; and that the BBC’s...

Phillip Luhl and Guillermo Delgado are fighting for Namibian citizenship for their three children (Instagram/@phillipluehl) The High Court of Namibia has granted citizenship to the son of a gay couple after a long, arduous fight. Namibian Phillip Luhl and his Mexican husband, Guillermo Delgado, fought for years to have their son Yona Luhl-Delgado recognised as a legal Namibian citizen. Yona was born via surrogacy in South Africa in 2019 but Namibian authorities initially refused to accept the birth certificate, insisting on a DNA test to prove a biological link to...

George Takei attends PFLAG Gives Thanks: Celebrating Inclusion in the Workplace on 18 November 2019 in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty for PFLAG) George Takei threw epic shade at his former onscreen captain William Shatner before aiming Superman actor Dean Cain. Takei opened up to Page Six about his thoughts on Shatner’s excursion into the atmosphere on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule. He snarked about Shatner’s decision to travel to space at his age, referring to the actor as “not the fittest specimen”. “He’s boldly going where other people have...

Tom Daley reacts after winning gold in the Men's Platform Final during the British National Diving Cup 2019 on 3 February 2019 in Plymouth, England. (Getty/Harry Trump) Tom Daley said stories of “beatings, kidnappings and torture of gay people” played a part in his decision to avoid a 2014 diving competition in Russia. In his new memoir Coming Up For Air, Daley recalled backing down from the competition partly because he was “nervous about the reaction” to him coming out publicly in a YouTube video a year earlier. “As well...

Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Taiwo Owatemi, said she is "highly critical" of anti-trans charity LGB Alliance. (Official portrait) Labour’s new shadow minister for women and equalities, Taiwo Owatemi, has issued a damning letter against the LGB Alliance. Owatemi, who was appointed to the shadow equalities brief three weeks ago, wrote a letter condemning the pressure group while backing the “peaceful protests” of LGBT+ students against the employment of anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock. Calls from LGBT+ students for the University of Sussex to fire Stock, a philosophy professor, over...

Timothée Chalamet cements his status as Prince of Twinks (Twitter/@RealChalamet/ @_ARTSARTSARTS) The fan who leaked unofficial set footage of Timothée Chalamet’s Willy Wonka shared his first impressions of the Twonka (twink Wonka) awaiting us in cinemas. Chalamet stan Art Doherty, 21, couldn’t believe their luck when they spotted the prequel musical Wonka being filmed on their doorstep in Lyme Regis, Dorset on Tuesday. Doherty inadvertently found themselves with a front row seat to the action as a fully-costumed Chalamet was driven through the set on top of a truck, a jaunty...

A counter-terrorism probe was launched for a trans police officer’s safety after she was targeted with around “two million hate comments” online. After serving with the West Midlands Police for 19 years PC Skye Morden found the courage to come out as trans in 2020. She was fully supported by her colleagues in the police, but nothing could have prepared her for the torrent of online abuse. It all started when Morden wrote an article about her experience coming out as trans in the police, and some of the hardships...

Donald Trump and Mike Pence at a Tennessee "MAGA" rally (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty) Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency has been linked to a surge in “extreme mental distress” among America’s LGBT+ community. A report for the December issue of the journal Economics and Human Biology found that “extreme mental distress” – categorised as 30 days or more of distress – rose by four per cent from 2015 to Trump’s final year as US president, according to NBC News. The gap between LGBT+ and non-LGBT+ Americans also widened in that time frame, going from...

Jon Kent, aka Superman, is officially bisexual. (DC Comics) The news of DC’s bisexual Superman has delighted many die-hard comic book fans, but conservative commentators are finding it hard to bear. DC Comics announced yesterday (11 October) that Jon Kent, the firstborn son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, will take over the mantle of Superman after his father’s departure from Earth – and he’ll be in a relationship with a man. The story will be revealed in the 9 November issue Superman: Son of Kal-El #5, which will see...

Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden reacts during the first half against the Chicago Bears on 10 October 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Getty/Ethan Miller) Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned after emails emerged in which he used homophobic, misogynistic and racist language. The New York Times reported Gruden used homophobic and misogynistic language in numerous emails between 2011 and 2018. In one of them, Gruden called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “f****t” and “clueless anti-football p***y”. He also criticised Goodell for supposedly pressuring the St Louis Rams...

Dave Chappelle. (Getty/ Sean Rayford) Netflix has “suspended” a trans employee who spoke out against Dave Chappelle’s new special, The Closer. In Chappelle’s latest comedy special, which premiered on Netflix on 5 October, he makes explicit jokes about trans women’s genitals and defends DaBaby and JK Rowling, before declaring himself “Team TERF“. The next day, Terra Field, a trans senior software engineer at Netflix took to Twitter to hit out at the special, in a thread that went viral with almost 14,000 retweets to date. She said: “I work at Netflix. Yesterday...

ASOS have partnered with TTYA to create an inclusive shoe collaboration. All styles are available in size 4-13UK (6-15US). ASOS is teaming up with Taller Than Your Average London to launch an inclusive footwear collection. It sees the online fashion giant collaborate with TTYA London’s founder, Irene Agbontaen to offer customers the broadest range of womenswear shoe sizes that ASOS has ever stocked. The ASOS x TTYA London collection will be released on 11 October and it will be available from asos.com. This article contains affiliate links, PinkNews may earn...