LGBTQ

Roblox. (Roblox) An undercover Roblox player has infiltrated the White House press corps, in a ruse that lasted for months. The fake reporter, named Kacey Montagu, posed as a writer for fictional news outlet White House News and created multiple Twitter accounts, which are followed by top White House officials and journalists. Montagu was able to attend COVID-19 response Zoom briefings, their physical absence explained by social distancing protocols. Four times their questions were posed to President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki. But who is Kacey Montagu? “I love...

Uche Maduagwu. (Instagram/@uchemaduagwu) Uche Maduagwu, a rising star in Nollywood and a social media prankster, revealed Monday (19 April) that he lied about being gay. The Nigerian actor said earlier year that he was “proudly gay“. At the time, he urged his nearly 89,000 followers to live their truths while calling on US president Joe Biden to challenge Nigeria’s “inhuman laws against law-abiding homosexuals”. “Appreciate others and share only love,” he said in the since-deleted post. Three months later, Maduagwu rowed back in a candid Instagram post. He stressed that he...

Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster holds a press conference after touring the province's largest COVID-19 vaccination centre on 29 March 2021 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) Politicians in Northern Ireland will debate a motion calling for a ban on the tortuous practice of conversion therapy “in all its forms” in the country. The motion was proposed for debate on Tuesday (20 April) by Ulster Unionist assembly members (MLAs) Doug Beattie and John Stewart. It calls on Stormont to “reject the harmful practice widely referred to as...

Phillip Lühl and his twin daughters in South Africa. (Instagram/@phillipluehl) A top Namibian court rejected Monday (19 April) a gay couple’s plea to return home with their twin daughters, born in South Africa through surrogacy. In a case that threw the republic’s decades-old restrictions on LGBT+ people into question, Phillip Lühl and his husband Guillermo Delgado have fought the government to bring their children, Maya and Paula, to Windhoek. Lühl is currently stuck in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the newborns. Delgado is in Windhoek with the couple’s two-year-old son – they...

Years & Years singer Olly Alexander says he wants to play a “messed-up, gay superhero” in an interview with the Official Big Top 40. (Twitter/@BigTop40). Olly Alexander wants to play a “messed-up, gay superhero” for his next acting role after the success of It’s A Sin. The Years & Years singer spoke to the Official Big Top 40 after his new single “Starstruck” entered the UK top 10, and conversation soon turned to his role in Russel T Davies’ seminal AIDS drama It’s A Sin. Olly Alexander played the series’ main...

Chandler in Friends. (NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal) A longstanding and oft-repeated urban legend is that Chandler was originally supposed to be gay in Friends until Matthew Perry was cast in the role. Speculation was rampant even back in the early years of the show, prompting Friends co-creator David Crane to give this quote to The Advocate in 1996. “We didn’t go into this determined that Chandler would be straight,” Crane said at the time. “If we had cast a different actor – who was gay – there was the option that we would have taken the character...

Jeffree Star and Daniel Lucas were taken to hospital after the car accident. (Twitter/ JeffreeStar) Jeffree Star has been left in ‘excruciating pain’ after flipping his Rolls Royce in a ‘severe’ car accident with his best friend. The controversial makeup blogger was on a drive with best friend Daniel Lucas in Natrona County, Wyoming, when the car hit black ice. On Friday (16 April), a representative for Starr posted a photo of the pair in hospital on his Twitter account, and wrote: “A few hours ago Jeffree and Daniel were...

Rebekah in the ACLU video "Meet the girl who lawmakers want to ban from playing sports". (YouTube/Human Rights Campaign) A 14-year-old girl who plays field hockey at school has told lawmakers considering anti-trans bills that she just wants to play sports with her friends. In a three-minute Human Rights Campaign video, Rebekah says sports are simply “something that I really like doing”. “I’m so much more than trans. That doesn’t make me less of a girl, doesn’t make me less of a human, either. I’m just me!” she says. The...

Angel Olsen performs at Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on 11 February, 2020. (Redferns / Robin Little) Singer songwriter Angel Olsen has come out as gay, introducing her partner to the world in a beautiful Instagram post. Olsen, known for her incredible voice and emotional tone which frequently brings fans to tears, recently announced a new box set titled “Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories”, which combines her two most recent albums, “All Mirrors” and “Whole New Mess”, with bonus photos, sketches and an unreleased track. But just as exciting to her fans,...

Liberty University is suing Jerry Falwell Jr for $10 million, claiming he withheld scandalous information from trustees while negotiating a new contract for himself. Falwell, a key Trump ally and one of the most powerful figures in the evangelical movement, was removed as head of the powerful private Christian university in August after he and his wife were accused of pursuing an improper relationship with a 20-year-old pool boy. The scandal continues after the university filed a lawsuit in Lynchburg, Virginia on Thursday (15 April) alleging breach of contract and fiduciary duty while he was in...

Abbie Chatfield admitted it's taken her a long time to come to terms with her sexuality. (@AbbieChatfield/Instagram) The Bachelor star Abbie Chatfield has said she now identifies as queer instead of bisexual after having a “revelation”. Chatfield came out as bisexual after competing on Bachelor in Paradise in 2020, but revealed in an Instagram story that her identity continues to evolve. Speaking on Thursday (15 April), Chatfield announced: “I no longer go as ‘bisexual’, I’m now ‘queer’. “I had a revelation when I was with Rowdie Walden on the weekend so just...

Nathaniel "SpokGoane" Mbele was stabbed to death on 2 April. (Twitter) A beloved gay man has been stabbed to death in South Africa, prompting an outpouring of grief from the LGBT+ community and desperate calls for hate crime laws to finally be passed. According to MambaOnline, Nathaniel Mbele, known as Spokgoane, was found dead on 2 April having been stabbed in the chest in Tshirela, near the city of Vanderbijlpark. Spokgoane was from Bophelong, a township near Vanderbijlpark, was last seen at a tavern with his friends, before leaving without telling them...

Mae Martin. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) Mae Martin has come out as non-binary in a heartfelt Instagram post. The star and co-writer of Netflix’s Feel Good opened up about their gender and announced their pronouns are they/them – they “don’t mind” she/her as well, they added. Martin is very much still on a personal journey when it comes to their gender, they said, but, proudly wearing a binder for a new photoshoot, they’re ready to be more open about who they are to the world. “The way I feel about my...

Mason “mason” Venne. (Dreamhack) Twitch has banned streamer and former professional Dota 2 player Mason “mason” Venne for allegedly using a homophobic slur on stream. He was playing the popular Dota 2 and commented on a teammate’s item choice, saying “I think the Aghs is a pretty terrible choice.” “Aghs” here refers to the item Aghanim’s Scepter in the game. He followed this by saying he was “never a fan of the Aghs”, except his words got mixed up. He immediately noted his mistake saying “I think I just said...