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Hot Octopuss have a dedicated page for queer, trans and non binary customers. (Envato) Hot Octopuss is the sex toy retailer making products more accessible to LGBT+ people. Major sex toy retailers have thousands of products available but the sections online and in-store are usually catered to a straight, cis audience and can feel inaccessible to LGBT+ customers. They sell ranges that can be used by every body, but as an LGBT+ person it can be difficult to filter down results that are specific for you as items are put...

Graham Norton. (Samir Hussein/WireImage) Graham Norton drunk emailed Drag Race producers begging them for a job when he heard a UK version of the contest was in the works. The legendary broadcaster made the admission in an interview with The Guardian, telling the newspaper that he is “pathetically proud” to be a judge on Drag Race UK and that he has been “a fan for years”. “It’s the only job I ever went a-looking for,” Graham Norton said. “When I heard the show was coming over here, I must’ve been a bit drunk because I...

Prancer, a chihuahua described as a "haunted Victorian child in the body of a small dog", has been adopted by Ariel Davis, who said he reminded her of her old dog. (Instagram/@prancerthechihuahua) Prancer, the “demonic” chihuahua who went viral after his foster carer revealed his “man-hating, child-hating” nature, has found his forever home with a nice, single lesbian. Animal foster carer Tyfanee Fortuna from New Jersey posted a brutally honest but hilarious adoption ad for the two-year-old chihuahua, who she described as a “13 pound rage machine”. She said Prancer...

Jonathan Bennett and Jaymes Vaughan. (jaymesv/instagram) Jonathan Bennett has shared the adorable story of how he first met his fiancé Jaymes Vaughan. The actor, who played love interest Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls, told The Knot about the incredible moment he first laid eyes on his husband-to-be. The couple met for the first time when Jonathan Bennett turned up to be interviewed by Jaymes Vaughan in a Los Angeles mall for Celebrity Page. Bennett confessed that he had never heard of Vaughan before meeting him, but it was love at first sight when he...

A Connecticut lawsuit that sought to stip trans teens of the right to compete in school sports has been scrapped by a federal judge. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A US federal judge binned a cruel Connecticut lawsuit that sought to ban trans girls from competing in high school sports on Sunday (25 April). The 2020 suit saw a band of cisgender students claim that they face “unfair competition” from two trans teens competing in track and field events alongside them. The plaintiffs sought to scrap guidelines from the state’s...

Roshaante Anderson, an intersex man, spoke to UNILAD's Minutes With Series about what it was like to find out he was intersex when he was aged 11. (YouTube/Roshaante Anderson) Intersex activist Roshaante Anderson wants people in the LGBT+ community and allies to remember there’s an “I” in the acronym, and there are voices that need to be heard. Anderson, who is an intersex man, told UNILAD‘s Minutes With series that he didn’t find out he was intersex until he was 11-years-old. He told UNILAD that he was raised as a girl...

Romeo Nguase has died by suicide after claiming asylum in the UK (Facebook/@Ladsfchull) An asylum seeker who came to Britain to escape anti-LGBT+ hate died by suicide after being forced to live in poor conditions, his family say. Romeo Nguase, 22, fled family abuse in Namibia three years ago to claim asylum in the UK where he would be free to “be a bisexual man”. Humberside Police found him dead at his home on Pendrill Street, Hull on the morning of 16 April. It is understood that he took his...

After being slain, Paula Midge's home was sent on fire by her alleged killer. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) Paula Migeon, a 50-year-old trans woman, was murdered and her home set on fire to conceal the crime. Firefighters rushed to Migeon’s home in Reims, France on 7 April where they found the apartment ablaze. As the flames razed the complex, Migeon body was found in the bathroom entrance. She had been stabbed 14 times in her throat and neck and the fire, investigators concluded, was accelerated with household cleaning products. A 27-year-old man was...

Alabama governor Kay Ivey is presented with an award at the Alabama 7A State Championship game on 4 December 2019 at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Republican Alabama governor Kay Ivey has signed legislation banning trans athletes from competing on teams matching their gender identities – turning a nightmare into reality. Ivey signed House Bill 391 into law on Friday (23 April) afternoon, according to CNN. The bill states: “A public K-12 school may not allow a biological female to participate on...

A man has described his humiliation after gym staff complained about his Tom of Finland bag. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A gay man was left “humiliated” after taking a Tom of Finland bag to a gym in Adelaide, South Australia, only to receive complaints from pearl-clutching gym-goers. Jeff Trahair explained to the Star Observer, a decades-old LGBT+ news outlet, how he fashioned a bag made out of a shower curtain covered in the buff, gritty graphite prints by the Finnish illustrator. But while the illustrations themselves were “very PG”, Trahair...

Kehlani. (Instagram/ Kehlani) Kehlani shared her coming out story on TikTok, and said that none of her family were surprised when she came out as a lesbian. Earlier this month, an Instagram Live clip was circulated on social media in the singer she said she “finally knows” she is a lesbian. Now Kehlani, who is “on the non-binary scale”, has told her lesbian coming out story in a TikTok. She said: “I’m just going to f**king say it, because everyone keeps bringing it up today… Well, it’s f**king true. I am gay,...

Neil Cleal, 25, spat on a trans woman before punching her to the ground. (Hampshire Constabulary) A man who, in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic last year, spat on a trans woman’s face has been jailed for 19 months and two weeks. In the Southhampton, England, attack described by authorities as “abhorrent”, Neil Cleal lobbed anti-trans abuse at a trans woman in her 50s on 21 July 2020. Cleal kicked her front gate down on Ludlow Road and beelined towards her, spitting on her face before punching her in...

People march at London's first-ever Trans Pride, 2019. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) London Trans Pride has announced that a peaceful protest will go ahead this year in the capital with a confirmed June date. On 26 June, trans and intersex people and their allies will “celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries”, the organisers said in a statement. Organisers also called out the “abhorrent double standard” of attacks on healthcare for trans youth in the UK while intersex genital mutilation surgeries...

A trans woman was refused the COVID-19 vaccine. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A trans woman in Oklahoma was denied the life-saving coronavirus vaccine because she had a “mismatched” identity document. The resident, who has not been named, was turned away by the Logan County Health Department because her name did not match what was written on her ID card. She sought to explain this administrative snag to healthcare officials – she was waiting on the paperwork, she claimed – but the department still refused, KOCO5 News reported. Frustrated, the...