LGBTQ

Madonna attends a screening of the film "The Beatles Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years" in London on 15 September 2016 (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images) Madonna has clapped back at a pro-gun ‘Karen’ activist after the singer called for increased gun control in the US. The undeniable queen of pop posted on Monday (12 April) about the “130 mass shootings” that have happened in the US thus far. She said the “tragedy” is “all the more tragic” because there is a solution – “it’s called gun...

Edward Walpole, the son of prime minister Robert Walpole, was accused of sodomy by a gang. Bands of extortioners targeted men – including the son of a prime minister – and extorted them for cash in the 17th and 18th centuries, researchers have discovered. Middlesex University London found that there was a “trend” of gangs of three to five people who prowled London’s cruising spots, coercing men into compromising positions before giving them an ultimatum: Pay us money, or we turn you in. The threat was made all the more...

Bruce McArthur, a landscaper, killed eight men with ties to Toronto's gay village. (Facebook) A woman has recalled the shocking moment she realised gay Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur had buried seven men in her flowerbeds. McArthur was arrested in 2018, and found guilty of killing and dismembering eight men between 2010 and 2017, after luring them from Toronto’s Gay Village. The 69-year-old later staged photos with some of the corpses, dressing them up in fur coats and putting cigars in their mouths. Karen Fraser and her husband Ron Smith had...

Leslie Jordan in his new sitcom Call Me Kat. (FOX via Getty) Will & Grace star and queer legend Leslie Jordan has explained that he can’t go to gay clubs anymore because he’s too famous. Jordan, best known for playing Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace and later starring in American Horror Story, reached new heights of fame during the coronavirus pandemic, when he became an unexpected Instagram sensation. Speaking to NME, he said: “People think I’m an overnight success, but I’ve been doing this for 40 years now. “In the past...

Tony Perkins, President of the Family Researcil Council, said Joe Biden's trans inclusion initiatives are from 'the pit of hell'. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) In an unsurprising development, a cluster of right-wing groups that actively campaign for anti-trans bills are also backing voter suppression and anti-vaccine conspiracies. New restrictions that could see tougher limits on early voter registration and voting by mail are now “at the heart of the right’s strategy to keep donors and voters engaged as Trump fades from public view and leaves a void in the Republican Party...

Sebastian Lletget during the Italy v USA International Friendly in 2018 in Belgium. (Pier Marco Tacca/Getty) Major League Soccer has launched an investigation into LA Galaxy’s Sebastian Lletget over a homophobic slur in a video he posted to Instagram. The 28-year-old, who began his career at West Ham before returning to the US in 2015, admitted he “messed up” in sharing the video on Friday (9 April). In the clip Lletget approaches his teammate Julian Araujo from behind, slaps him on the neck and calls him by the Spanish slur...

Pete Buttigieg joked that he still has all his fingers after meeting Joe Biden's dog, Major. (Screen capture via TMZ/Getty Images) For Pete Buttigieg, there’s only one man in the White House who he’d ever call a good boy, put a leash on and let him lick his face: Joe Biden’s dog, Major. Buttigieg spoke to TMZ‘s Harvey Levin about Biden’s beloved German Shepard, the first shelter dog in history to live at the White House, after the pooch bit two people in a single month. Asked whether Buttigieg has ever been...

Uzbek LGBT+ activist Miraziz Bazarov sustained serious injuries (Twitter/Agnieszka Pikulicka @Aga_Pik) The Uzbek LGBT+ community say they’ve been driven underground in fear of homophobic backlash after a vicious attack on a prominent blogger and his supporters. Miraziz Bazarov remains hospitalised with serious injuries, which he sustained in a savage beating by three masked men with a baseball bat on 28 March. The blogger is a vocal critic of President Mirziyoyev and had called for LGBT+ gatherings at holy sites in protest against the criminalisation of same-sex relationships in Uzbekistan. An...

Baga Chipz performs onstage at RuPaul's DragCon UK presented by World Of Wonder at Olympia London on 19 January 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for World Of Wonder Productions) Drag Race UK star Baga Chipz has been told to ‘burn in hell’ for sending her condolences to the Queen after the death of Prince Philip. Condolences have been pouring in for the British Royal Family after the death of Prince Philip on Friday (9 April) morning. Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died aged...

Leslie Jordan attends the Fox Winter TCA at The Fig House on 6 February 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Gay legend and actor Leslie Jordan has said he would be on board for a Will & Grace musical “in a minute” if the opportunity ever came up. Jordan played Beverley Leslie, a pretentious, sexually ambiguous rival of Karen Walker. The character traded witty insults with Walker across the 17 episodes in which he appeared in gay sitcom. Jordan even won an Emmy Award for Outstanding...

Krystyna Pawlowicz (Polish jurist, university lecturer and political figure) at Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament) in Warsaw, Poland on 19 March 2018 (Photo by Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Krystyna Pawlowicz, a top court justice in Poland, has been condemned for publicising personal information about a 10-year-old trans girl on Twitter. On Tuesday (6 April), Pawlowicz, a justice on the Constitutional Tribunal, tweeted about the case of a school director in the town of Podkowa Lesna, near Warsaw, who had instructed teachers to respect the wishes of a...

Failed congressional candidate and Trump-supporter Angela Stanton-King has exploded in a hate-filled tirade against her trans daughter and Dr Phil. Stanton-King previously spent two years in prison over federal conspiracy charges for her role in a car theft ring but was pardoned by Donald Trump in February 2020. She then tried to challenge the late John Lewis for his seat in the Georgia House of Representatives. But she was ultimately unsuccessful. Earlier this year, Stanton-King denigrated her daughter for coming out as trans in a series of tweets, according to...

Hundreds of LGBT+ advocates convened in Washington DC in 2019 in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court hearings that could legalize workplace discrimination, primarily against LGBT people, on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender presentation. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Three North Carolina Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force teachers to out any trans or gender non-conforming child to their parents. Senate Bill 514 would make it illegal for any “government agents” to not “immediately” inform the parents or legal guardians...

US vice president Mike Pence speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the US Department of Education 8 July 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Former vice president Mike Pence is launching a political group to promote “traditional conservative values” and defend Trump policies. Pence has remained fairly under the radar since leaving the White House in January. His most high-profile move thus far had been joining the anti-LGBT+ conservative think tank Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow. Now, it appears that...