LGBTQ

Megan Barton-Hanson attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2020 at Royal Albert Hall. (Getty/ Jeff Spicer) Bisexual Love Island star Megan Barton-Hanson has revealed the “mortifying” homophobic comments she received from her brother’s girlfriend when she began dating women. Barton-Hanson came out publicly as bisexual last year when she appeared on Celebs Go Dating, and went on a date with The Only Way is Essex star Demi Sims. The two reportedly had a brief relationship before breaking up. But this month, Barton-Hanson invited Sims to be a guest on...

Stornoway Harbour, Western Isles. (Getty/ Tim Graham) Councillors in the Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland, have rejected LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education in favour of Roman Catholic teaching. The Western Isles council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, overwhelmingly voted this month in favour Roman Catholic teaching materials to be used in lessons on relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP), according to The Guardian. The Catholic church teaches that sex is only acceptable in a heterosexual marriage. The vote reportedly came after Church of Scotland ministers complained about LGBT-inclusive teaching backed...

Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock, shares a joke with Jeremy Hunt as they travel on the constituency's battle bus on 21 April 21, 2015. (Rob Stothard/Getty) Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price has decided to become a defender of lesbians, while also trying to defend her vote against same-sex marriage. When anti-trans lobby group LGB Alliance received blistering backlash for claiming comedian and activist Eddie Izzard had “caused offence” to lesbians by using she/her pronouns, Doyle-Price was quick to agree. She responded: “Being a straight man who likes to cross dress is...

Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. (CBS2) A transgender woman was shot dead on Christmas Day in what her friends believe was a hate crime incident, before she was misgendered by police in death. Friends and family of Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. The 25-year-old was found dead in an incident initially reported as a...

Police have released a CCTV photo of people they would like to speak to in connection with the attack on Anthony Crumbley. (GoFundMe and Boston Police Department) A gay Black man in Boston, Massachusetts, who was stabbed and left in a coma for four days, is living in fear knowing his attackers are still “out there”. Anthony Crumbley was walking home from a bar in South Boston at about 10.45 pm on 18 December when he was attacked, according to CBS Boston. The 25-year-old said: “The two males and a...

The patient uploaded a photo of the nurse's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) strewn across the floor of the hospital bathroom. (Envato) A nurse at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, is under investigation after having gay sex with a COVID-19 patient in a hospital toilet. On Friday (25 December), the gay sex between the nurse and COVID-19 patient was revealed after the patient posted about it on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation, according to Indonesia Expat. This was accompanied by a photo of the nurse’s Personal Protective...

Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle had their Instagram account removed for "violating" rules, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong. (Instagram) A gay couple are devastated after their hugely popular Instagram account was shut down for “violating” rules – but they still don’t know what they’re supposed to have done wrong. Matthew Olshefski – better known as the shirtless violinist – and his husband Paul Castle have been sharing their lives with fans for years through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...

Colton Stankowski was asked to leave a women's clothing store when she told an employe that she was shopping for herself. (Envato Elements) A trans woman from Calgary, Canada, was told she was making shoppers “uncomfortable” in a women’s clothing store and was asked to leave – and now she’s fighting back. Colton Stankowski opened up about the traumatising ordeal in an interview with 666CityNews – and revealed how she has since worked to turn the upsetting moment into a positive experience with the help of TikTok. Stankowski told the news outlet...

Ellen DeGeneres. (Steve Granitz/WireImage) In what might be the purest and most wholesome thing to occur during this well and truly cursed year, a closeted teen was gifted Ellen DeGeneres merchandise by her parents to let her know “it’s OK to be lesbian.” Sophie opened up her presents Friday (25 December) to find her parents had bought her The Ellen DeGeneres Show wares, which included a festive-themed t-shirt and a pair of socks threaded with the words “be kind” on them. Yes, what you’re feeling right now is called serotonin....

Marcus Bachmann. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Donald Trump appointed Tuesday (22 December) Marcus Bachmann, an anti-gay counsellor who once referred to gay people as “barbarians“, to an advisory post as the US president scrambles to entrench key allies in top positions. The husband of Michele Bachman, who was once dubbed “America’s biggest homophobe“, has been repeatedly accused of practising conversion therapy at his so-called Christian counselling clinic in Minnesota. But the White House released a list of people appointed by Trump to “key” positions in the administration, with one being Marcus’...

A gay couple who have been together for more than two decades offered up a striking rebuttal to the homophobic refrain that being gay is a phase. Kurt English and Nick Cardello shared a pair of eerily similar photos on Twitter taken 24 years apart, showing them blissfully in love at Washington Pride in 1993, and at the same march in 2017. The photos went viral on Twitter with the caption: “It’s just a phase,” garnering 600,000 likes and more than 150,000 retweets. Nick, a photographer, told PinkNews in 2017 that the...

HJ Farr and Deity Blair in A Very Queer Holiday. (YouTube) Christmas can be a tough time of year for LGBT+ people, and the lack of representation in films traditionally watched over the festive period is only one of the reasons. Family rejection, having to go back into the closet, having mental health issues exacerbated by Christmas stress, being around alcohol or spending the time alone can all be difficult, and that’s before you throw in the small matter of a pandemic. For those going to see their biological families,...