LGBTQ

Gwyneth Paltrow sells a candle named 'This Smells Like My Vagina'. (Getty) A Gwyneth Paltrow “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle has exploded in a woman’s living room, causing vagina-scented “inferno”. Paltrow’s brand Goop famously released a candle named “This Smells Like My Vagina” in January 2020. The website, home of strange, overpriced and in some cases questionable “wellness” products, described the scent as “geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette seed to put us in mind of fantasy, seduction, and a sophisticated warmth”. Jody...

Production begins this week for RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under. (Instagram/ michellevisage) RuPaul’s Drag Race is officially going Down Under, and RuPaul and Michelle Visage have already been confirmed as judges. An Australian spin-off was first announced in August 2019, when ITV’s Australian production arm confirmed that it has secured the local rights for the show. Rumours began swirling that the show would be filming soon, after it was reported that RuPaul was quarantining in Auckland, New Zealand.  Now, RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under has officially been announced by production company World...

Yoga is one of the most popular exercises for both keeping both body and mind healthy, and the good news is that it comes in a variety of options, like bikram yoga, hatha yoga, ashtanga yoga, and even hot yoga, where people exercise under humid conditions. Yoga can help your flexibility, as well as helping you burn calories and lose weight. It’s a new year and many people will be looking to keep fit in alternative ways to joining a gym, including exercises than can be taken up from the...

Star Trek: Discovery‘s LGBT+ crew just grew a little bigger as actor Mary Wiseman confirms she is “queer and proud”. Wiseman, a powerhouse actor who plays fan-favourite Ensign Tilly, revealed that she has loved “people of all genders” in a recent interview with StarTrek.com. That small detail almost wasn’t published as the Zoom call’s audio cut out just as Wiseman started to say “I’m not straight”. Some shrewd lip-reading prompted writer Dawn Ennis to follow up with Wiseman, who happily confirmed it in a Twitter DM. “I did say this!...

Since gaining fame on ’The Big Bang Theory’, Jim Parsons has starred in a number of dramas about the LGBT+ community. (Paul Archuleta/Getty) Jim Parsons revealed he “didn’t have to worry about appearing gay” and got a taste “of freedom” playing a woman in a Charles Busch play. He told the LA Times about the defining experience at school: “When I was studying theatre at school, I wasn’t worried about coming out. “I was more concerned that at a small level, I would always seem gay in every role that I...

Surprise surprise, traits of toxic masculinity are more likely to be found in Trump fans (Envato) An entirely predictable study has found that Americans who support traditional stereotypes of toxic masculinity are more likely to back Donald Trump. A team from Penn State University found a correlation between belief in “hegemonic masculinity” – the notion that men should be strong, tough and dominant – and voting for Trump. Of the 2,007 participants the researchers recruited, those who held outdated ideals of manhood were more likely to vote for and have...

Avery in Transhood. (HBO) New documentary Transhood is that very rare thing: a piece of media about young trans people that actually platforms young trans people and their lives. Released in October by HBO, the documentary is the culmination of five year’s of filming in Kansas City. Directed by Sharon Liese and executive produced by Kimberly Reed, who is trans, the tender documentary follows four families with a trans or gender non-conforming kid. Jay, Avery, Leena, and Phoenix were aged four, seven, 12 and 15 when filming began on Transhood....

Dominque Jackson plays Elektra in Pose. (FX) The number of queer characters on television dropped slightly in 2020, despite the fact that LGBT+ shows “dominated the conversation”. The findings were released in GLAAD’s latest Where We Are on TV report, released on Thursday (14 January). Of the 773 series regular characters scheduled to appear on broadcast scripted primetime television this season, 70 (9.1 per cent) are LGBT+, the report found. This was a drop from the previous year, when queer characters accounted for 10.2 per cent of series regular characters. There are...

Is Brie Larson gay? It seems the Captain Marvel star spent hours pondering exactly this when she was a child, according to her latest YouTube video. On Thursday (14 January), Larson posted a video on her YouTube channel in which she took online quizzes about herself. For the final quiz of the video – “Which lesser known Brie Larson character are you?” – the Captain Marvel star gave one answer that fans are convinced is a hint she could have, at least at one point, thought she was gay. The...

Don Lemon eviscerated Lindsey Graham after he publicly criticised Donald Trump, but was seen with him just days later. (Dimitrios Kambouris/MANDEL NGAN/Getty) Don Lemon has absolutely eviscerated anti-LGBT+ Republican Lindsey Graham for pandering to Donald Trump – and it is truly a read for the ages. Graham publicly condemned Trump after the president encouraged a violent mob of white supremacists to storm the Capitol, saying: “All I can say is, count me out. Enough is enough.” But it appears that the South Carolina senator’s words were just for show, as...

South Korean chatbot Lee Luda. (Twitter/ wuju131) Lee Luda, a South Korean AI chatbot, has been pulled from Facebook after started saying it “really hated” lesbians because they’re “creepy”. The chatbot was incredibly popular, according to The Guardian, attracting 750,000 users in its first 20 days since its launch on 23 December, 2020. But it has now been suspended after it started attacking minorities. Lee Luda was developed by the Seoul-based Scatter Lab, and takes the form of a 20-year-old female university student who is able to chat with users...

Robin Morgan-Bentley shared a list of the worst things people have said to him since becoming a father. (Stock image from Envato Elements) A gay man has shared a list of the top 10 bizarre, offensive things people have said to him and his husband since they became dads. Robin Morgan-Bentley shared the list on Twitter, highlighting the discriminatory attitudes queer parents often face in their everyday lives. “Top 10 things actual people have said to me and my husband this year, as new gay dads,” Morgan-Bentley wrote. Some of...

President Donald Trump walks to the White House residence on January 12 (Getty/Drew Angerer) A court has shot down Donald Trump‘s sweeping new immigration rules that would make it significantly harder for LGBT+ people to claim asylum. The Department of Homeland Security had issued drastically revised guidance for asylum procedures in December, laying out a controversial procedure for turning away people seeking asylum without a fair hearing. Human rights campaigners warned the proposed changes would “eviscerate” the asylum process, and “radically change long-established definitions and standards under US asylum law,...