LGBTQ

Shakina Nayfack arrives for the HBO's Official Golden Globes After Party on 5 January 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) Difficult People star Shakina Nayfack has announced that she has ‘claimed’ non-binary as part of her identity in a moving post on social media. Nayfack wrote on social media that her pronouns “are still she/her” before adding “they works too if that’s what the discourse requires”. The actor, who played Lola on the Hulu series Difficult People, wrote said she “always felt” like non-binary was...

Rina Sawayama attends The BRIT Awards 2021 at The O2 Arena on 11 May 2021 in London, England. (Photo by JMEnternational/JMEnternational for BRIT Awards/Getty Images) Pansexual pop icon Rina Sawayama is going to star alongside Keanu Reeves in the upcoming instalment to his action-packed John Wick franchise. Deadline reported Sawayama has been cast in John Wick: Chapter 4, but her role in the movie is being kept secret. The film is being directed by Chad Stahelski, who also directed the first John Wick movie. Stahelski said in a statement to Deadline...

Kay Tobin Lahusen, a pioneering LGBT+ rights activist and photojournalist, has died after a brief illness at the age of 91. (Photo provided by Mark Segal/YouTube/Harbinger Media) Kay Tobin Lahusen, a pioneering LGBT+ rights activist and photojournalist, has died after a brief illness at the age of 91. Lahusen, who was the first openly gay American woman photojournalist, died Wednesday (26 May) in hospice care at Chester County Hospital outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Lahusen had contracted an infection when she sadly passed away. Lahusen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...

Patrisse Cullors. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Teen Vogue) Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, one of the largest social and political movements in the history of the US, is to step down from the foundation. Cullors, a high-decibel LGBT+ rights activist, said Friday (28 May) would be her last day at the helm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation after six years. “I’ve created the infrastructure and the support, and the necessary bones and foundation, so that I can leave,” Cullors told the Associated Press news agency....

Members of Biarritz Olympique sporting Grindr-sponsored uniforms. (Biarritz Olympique/Grindr/Twitter) Grindr has hooked up with a top rugby team to design a versatile jersey set – all the while making sports more inclusive. The queer dating app announced on its Twitter page Wednesday (26 May) as the new sponsor for French professional rugby club Biarritz Olympique. In the app’s iconic black and yellow colour scheme, alongside a red and white colourway, the jerseys will be worn by the French Pro Division Two team in the 2021/22 season. And, of course, the app’s logo...

Seth Rogen. (Amy Sussman/FilmMagic) Seth Rogen has hit out against comedians who whine about so-called “cancel culture” to accept that some jokes just age terribly. Or, you know, were never exactly funny in the first place. The 39-year-old actor and filmmaker told talk show Good Morning Britain on Tuesday (25 May) that he has long since accepted that not all jokes will stand the test of time. Some stand-up comedians, he said, seem almost relentless in refusing to accept that times have changed – and cry cancel culture when faced with...

A zoo in Guangzhou, China, has been accused of homophobia after two women were barred from buying a “couples ticket”. In an incident that captures the longstanding discrimination LGBT+ face in the republic, Chimelong Safari Park reportedly refused to recognise a lesbian couple’s relationship. Leslie Song, 29, explained on Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media websites, that she and her girlfriend visited the safari park on Friday (21 May). The pair had booked tickets in advance on Ctrip, a Chinese travel agency. But on arrival, staff allegedly refused...

Lauren Boebert has been elected to Congress. (EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty) A Republican lawmaker is being skewered online for a bizarre and abrupt broadside against people sharing their pronouns. Colorado representative Lauren Boebert, a deeply hard-right gun activist, is part of a small but high-decibel bloc of GOP firebrands that tout pro-Donald Trump QAnon conspiracies – notching upsets on both sides. So it came as no surprise when Boebert, whose Twitter header is a photograph of a gun holster, decided on Tuesday night (25 May) to tweet, for whatever reason: “My pronoun...

Stock photo of police officers. (Envato Elements) Avon and Somerset Police are looking for witnesses after a woman in her 20s was violently attacked in a homophobic attack in Yeovil. The woman, has not been named, was walking towards the Pen Mill trading estate on the Lyde Road at around 1am on Monday (24 May) when three men started hurling homophobic abuse at her. The men then chased her onto Vale Road where they violently assaulted her until she lost consciousness. She called a friend who alerted police after she...

A sign for an inclusive restroom. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) In a defiant stand, Nashville’s top prosecutor has refused to enforce a “hateful” Tennessee law that demands businesses post signs saying trans people can use their bathrooms. The grotesque bill, among a raft of anti-trans bills that have deeply curtailed trans rights, was signed by governor Bill Lee last week. Making the state the first to force businesses and government facilities to signpost if they allow trans folk to use the correct bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms. But the bill...

Are you a fan of breakfast and being gay? Then Kellogg's has the cereal for you (Kellogg's) Another day, another right-wing boycott – and the latest lucky multinational conglomerate to be targeted by angry evangelicals is Kellogg’s. Last month the company launched a Pride-themed glittery breakfast cereal, “Together with Pride,” in support of the LGBT+ advocacy group GLAAD. And as surely as the turning of the tides and the UK losing Eurovision, the right-wing evangelicals can always be relied upon to kick their toys out of the pram. “Kellogg’s is...

Nona Conner. (Facebook) Nona Moselle Conner, a trans woman who tirelessly fought for sex workers and became a towering and magnetic LGBT+ activist in Washington DC, has died. She was 37. Her death was confirmed by local community leaders on a GoFundMe page raising money for her memorial. Conner’s cause of death has not been confirmed by officials, but there has been no known evidence of foul play, they said. “This past Thursday we lost our beloved sister, Nona Moselle,” the fundraiser read. “Nona was a community leader, advocate, mother, and...

The woman in the infamous queer meme has finally revealed herself. (Twitter) You’ve already seen the meme: A young woman, seemingly alone and adrift, surrounded by countless towering, half-naked and leather-clad men. It’s a meme that, to many, captures that all-too-familiar sense of being an outsider, aggressively single or how you are the one truly unique gay person in this world because you don’t watch Eurovision. Finally, the icon pictured in the image has come forward for the first time – and she really doesn’t mind being a meme. On...

Rose and Rosie's baby is due in June, 2021. (Emma McHarrie PR) Queer YouTubers Rose and Rosie have revealed the struggles – and benefits – of starting a family during a global pandemic. Rose, who is a lesbian, and Rosie, who is bisexual, have been married since 2015, and had started discussing children between 2018 and 2019, they told PinkNews. The couple began the physical process of having a baby in January, 2020, just as the very first case of COVID-19 was detected in the UK, when Rose was inseminated. Tragically,...