LGBTQ

Harley Quinn showrunners promise they are "never going" to break up Harley and Poison Ivy in the HBO Max animated series. (YouTube/HBO Max) Harley Quinn showrunners have vowed that Harley and Poison Ivy “will never break up” as long as they’re in charge of the HBO Max series. Patrick Schumacker, showrunner on the animated show, explained during an interview with AV Club that the series won’t feature a Harley and the Joker romance, despite some whines from fans. Instead, Schumacker said the focus was all on the notorious villain’s relation with Poison Ivy....

Jinkx Monsoon filmed the moment she found out she had won. (Screen captures via Twitter) Jinkx Monsoon found out she won RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars in the most adorable way possible. Monsoon and fellow Drag Race alum BenDeLaCreme took a break from their Australia tour to tune into Friday’s (29 July) season seven finale. In order to keep who wins an ironclad secret, Drag Race producers film multiple versions of the ending with each queen reacting to winning the crown without knowing if they’ve actually won. The true finale...

Kemi Badenoch speaks during Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate on 17 July. (ITV via Getty/ Jonathan Hordle) Liz Truss “empowered” Kemi Badenoch to push back against trans rights during her time in government, the former equalities minister has claimed. Writing in The Sunday Times on Sunday (31 July), Badenoch detailed how she sought to hear from “both sides of the debate” during her time in the Government Equalities Office (GEO) – but she couldn’t have done it without Truss. “I could not have done anything without being empowered by my...

Jaelene Daniels of North Carolina Courage. (Bryan Byerly/ISI Photos/Getty Images). North Carolina Courage defender Jaelene Daniels missed her team’s National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) game because her team celebrated LGBTQ+ Pride. On Friday (29 July), Daniels declined to play a match between Courage and Washington Spirit as she was required to wear a rainbow jersey. The game took place as part of Courage’s Pride Night celebrations, originally scheduled for June to coincide with Pride Month but was postponed due to coronavirus protocols. The festival was in partnership with two queer...

Brittney Griner faces nearly a decade in jail. (The Washington Post via Getty Images) US secretary of state Antony Blinken says he has cranked up the pressure on Russia for a potential prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner. During a news conference in Washington Friday (29 July), Blinken said he had a “frank and direct conversation” with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov earlier that day. He said: “I pressed the Kremlin to accept the substantial proposal that we put forth on the release of Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner.” Blinken...

Protesters at the San Francisco Federal Building demand that the federal government respond quickly to the recent San Francisco monkeypox outbreak. (The Washington Post via Getty/ Marlena Sloss) San Francisco has declared a state of emergency, with the city in “desperate need of vaccines” as monkeypox cases skyrocket. The US has seen around 4,600 confirmed cases of monkeypox across the country. Of these cases, 261 have been detected in San Francisco, representing around 30 per cent of all cases in California. On Thursday (28 July), San Francisco mayor London Breed...

Kelis called out Beyoncé for not asking for permission to use her song Get Along. (Credit: Getty Images) Kelis has called out Beyoncé for “theft” claiming that the superstar has no “integrity” or “soul” for sampling her song without approval. Beyoncé’s new album RENAISSANCE was released today (29 July) at midnight to the delight of fans. The song in the middle of this kafuffle is track five on RENAISSANCE called ‘Energy’ that samples Kelis’ 2000 song ‘Get Along With You” from her album Kaleidascope. The songwriters credited on RENAISSANCE are the...

Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute annual summit. (YouTube) Donald Trump has suggested he will run for president in 2024 while on an anti-trans rant, describing LGBTQ+ rights as “social decay”. Trump made the comments in a speech at the first annual summit of the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing Republican non-profit, on Tuesday (26 July). In an erratic rant, he referred to LGBTQ-inclusive education and healthcare for trans folk, and said: “Federal, state, and local government should aggressively enforce existing statutes to stop the perverted...

As Americans struggle to obtain the monkeypox vaccine, some queer men are travelling abroad to ensure they're protected. (Marlena Sloss for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Some queer men are driving thousands of miles from the US to Canada to get a jab of the monkeypox vaccine. With cases of the once-rare virus in the US toppling more than 4,600, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Infection, gay and bisexual men continue to be disproportionately impacted. But the struggle over the limited number of monkeypox vaccines is...

A fourth person thought to have been 'cured' from HIV has been announced. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) For the fourth time since the global epidemic began, a person appears to have been “cured” of HIV. The 66-year-old man, named the “City of Hope patient” after the Californian centre he was treated in, has been in remission from HIV for 17 months. Having lived with the virus since the 1980s, the patient underwent a risky treatment for his leukaemia that coincidentally eradicated HIV from his body. He no longer takes...

Joe Biden is seeking to free Viktor Bout (L) to ensure Brittney Griner's freedom. (Getty Images) The Joe Biden administration has offered to exchange convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout as part of a deal to release detained basketball star Brittney Griner. Queer WNBA star Griner is on trial for drug charges that could land her in prison for a decade after she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. While Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death”, is currently serving 25 years in federal prison for conspiring to sell...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during the America First Agenda Summit, at the Marriott Marquis hotel July 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Ted Cruz’s attempts to be funny have flopped once again after he announced his pronouns as “kiss my ass”. During a talk at the far-right organisation Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, the Texas Republican made an apparent attempt at humour after discussing a conversation he had with a student. “I talked to a student recently, at one of our woke college campuses,...

Joe Rogan. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Joe Rogan has denied he’s a Republican, insisting he is a “bleeding heart liberal” who backs marriage equality. The motormouthed presenter fought back against claims he’s a “secret conservative” on a 23 July episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. He cited the Republican Party’s opposition to issues such as marriage equality as reason enough why he’s not a card-carrying member. Speaking with comedian Andrew Schulz, Rogan said: “It’s not just abortion rights but now they’re going after gay marriage too, which is so strange to me....

Marjorie Taylor Greene urged Republicans to embrace 'Christian nationalism'. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Marjorie Taylor Greene has casually said that being a “Christian nationalist” is a “good thing” because of course she did. Greene, a far-right conspiracy theorist who represents Georgia, made the remarks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on 23 July in Tampa, Florida. Speaking about how her critics have branded her a “Christian nationalist”, Green said the Republican Party should embrace the label. “That’s not a bad word,” Greene told the crowd at the Tampa Convention...