LGBTQ

Tamisha Iman, who was featured on RuPaul's Drag Race season 13, revealed she will be starting the Tamisha Iman Network to host pansel discussions with queens. (YouTube/WOWPresents) Drag Race star Tamisha Iman promised to spill hot tea about Monét X Change, but instead announced she’d be launching The Tamisha Iman Network. The drama started after Tamisha Iman took issue with Monét X Change’s critiques of her throughout her season of Drag Race, and she gave notice on Saturday (1 May) that she would be reading Monet the following Tuesday. Tamisha said she...

Alex Salmond claims his reported remarks about the SNP being captured by “loony tune transgender warriors” are inaccurate, insisting those were not his “exact words”. The Alba party leader and former first minister of Scotland is alleged to have made the comment to Scottish broadcaster Jim Spence, who reported it in The Courier on Tuesday (4 May). “If you’d told me seven years ago that the party that I once led would be captured by around a hundred loony tune transgender warriors I’d have laughed at you,” Salmond purportedly said....

Patrick O'Connell. (Thomas McGovern/Getty images) Patrick O’Connell, a venerable AIDS activist who sought to smash stigma with awareness campaigns such as the iconic red ribbon, has died. O’Connell passed away aged 67 of AIDS-related causes, his brother Barry confirmed to The New York Times. Living with AIDS for 40 years, he spent much of his life fronting campaigns to better educate the public about what it means to live with HIV/AIDS. The son of a wire lather and secretary, O’Connell was born 12 April, 1953, in post-war New York City....

Trans woman Zashy Zuley del Cid was murdered in the streets of San Miguel, El Salvador (Facebook) El Salvador’s LGBT+ community is mourning the loss of a fearless trans woman and activist who was murdered from a gunshot to the back. Zashy Zuley del Cid was killed in the early hours of 24 April in an area of San Miguel where sex workers are known to gather, according to the advocacy group COMCAVIS Trans. She was an active member of the city’s transgender community and had worked with the grassroots...

Returnal. (Sony) The first run of Returnal on PS5 didn’t last long. The crash of a spaceship on an alien planet. A swift attack by tentacled creatures. A fumble of buttons. Die. Repeat. The second run, thankfully, went a little better. Selene, the game’s protagonist, wakes up repeatedly after each death, doomed to repeat the same cycle of crashing her spaceship on Atropos, exploring its randomly generating labyrinth, and battling hordes of shrieking enemies. Returnal is many things. It’s a third-person PS5 shooter with the structure of a roguelike. It’s...

Iris Santos (L) and Natalia Smüt. (Houston Police Department/Instagram) Two trans women were slain on the same day in the US, raising the spectre of a spree of violence that shows no signs of stopping this year. Iris Santos, a Latinx trans woman, and Natalia Smüt, a “firecracker” of a drag performer who dazzled audiences with her lip-syncing prowess, were separated by some 2,000 miles. But on 23 April, both their lives were tragically cut short. Santos, 22, was sitting at a picnic table in Houston, Texas, when an individual...

LGBT+ activists protest against police abuse in Honduras in 2009 (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/ Getty) A top human rights court could be about to make legal history by forcing Honduras to address its horrifying wave of violence against trans women. International LGBT+ advocates are waiting anxiously for the verdict of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which monitors human rights in the western hemisphere. The top tribunal was prompted to intervene last year in Honduras, the country with world’s highest rate of trans homicides. Experts put the average life expectancy of transgender...

Members of the LGBT+ community march in the Pride parade in Durban, South Africa, in 2018. (AFP via Getty/ RAJESH JANTILAL) A suspect has been arrested in connection to a gay man who was left bruised and battered after being stabbed with a bottle in Sasolburg, South Africa. Segakweng Kimora Magoma was allegedly attacked at a bar in the sprawling industrial city by a gang of homophobic men who began taunting him on 24 April. “Within a few minutes, about five or six men already were there,” he told TimesLive,...

Janet Mock on the red carpet for Pose. (Rich Fury/Getty Images) In an explosive rant that reportedly left colleagues and bosses scorched, Pose writer Janet Mock tore into Hollywood for its treatment of trans talent. Mock, who also served as the director and executive producer of the iconic FX drama, launched into a 15-minute-long speech at the premiere party for Pose season three Thursday night (29 April). Careening off script, the 38-year-old ignited tinderbox issues of pay, authentic representation in the media and even infidelity. Questioning why the network isn’t...

Miitopia. (Nintendo) A demo has been released for forthcoming Switch RPG Miitopia, but it’s the character creator that’s taking the internet by storm. Characters in the RPG are made up of player created Mii characters, first introduced on Nintendo’s Wii console. It means you can customise the entire story with party members, and even villains, based on your own creations. The demo itself gives an early taste of what’s to come in the story and turn-based battles, plus your progress carries over into the full game once it’s released on...

Former vice president Mike Pence speaks at an event sponsored by the Palmetto Family organization on 29 April 2021 in Columbia, South Carolina. The address was his first since the end of his vice presidency. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Former vice president Mike Pence vowed in his first speech since leaving office to “push back” on the “far-left agenda” that he believes is wrong for America. Pence spoke at an event for the Palmetto Family Council – a far-right, anti-LGBT+ conservative Christian organisation – in South Carolina on Thursday...

Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche. (HECTOR MATA/AFP via Getty) Anne Heche has said her ex-girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres didn’t want her to “dress sexy” when they attended the Golden Globes together in 1998. The Another World actress dated DeGeneres between 1997 and 2000, and she’s finally opening up about what her time with the lesbian icon was like. In a TikTok video posted on Wednesday (28 April), Heche reviewed some of her past red carpet looks – including the dress she wore to the 1998 Golden Globes. Showing a photo of herself wearing...

Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto pictured on May 30, 2018 in New York City (Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) Zachary Quinto and Jim Parsons reflected on what it means to be gay in the modern era after voicing two historic gay icons, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. After starring in Ryan Murphy’s remake of The Boys In the Band, the actors are delving into the lives of the gay literary giants in the documentary Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation. Speaking to Attitude, the pair explored Capote and Williams’ rare status as out gay...

Edwin Poots is being tipped as the next leader of the DUP. (YouTube) DUP politician Edwin Poots is being tipped as a potential successor to Arlene Foster after she announced that she was stepping down. The former health minister has a long history of opposing LGBT+ rights, but he is already being named by political pundits as a potential future leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Edwin Poots, who has also served as both minister of the environment, is a “young earth creationist” who doesn’t believe in evolution. Throughout his...