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These Amazon Prime Day beauty deals are loved by celebrities. Amazon Prime Day 2022 is officially happening with discounts on thousands of products. Although it’s the perfect time to get yourself a deal, there’s also a lot of offers to look through. As part of the online sale, which takes place between 12-13 July, you can get some bargains on makeup, skincare and hair products. If you’re after some discounted beauty products – that are also celebrity-approved – then we’ve got a list of some of the best available. From...

Penny Mordaunt believes trans women aren't "identical" to her as she is a "woman in every cell of my body". (YouTube/LBC) Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt has said that she never supported plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. Mordaunt served as equalities minister under Theresa May across 2018 and 2019, and during that time oversaw a public consultation on reforms to the GRA which were ultimately abandoned by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. It was government policy at the time to seek to demedicalise the GRA, a move would...

Lea Michele (L) was accused of making Samantha Marie Ware's life a 'living hell' by the Glee star. (Rebecca Sapp/WireImage for The Recording Academy/Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images) Glee star Samantha Ware has spoken out after Lea Michele was cast in the lead role of Funny Girl. Ware famously accused Michele of making her time on Glee “a living hell” in 2020, with a number of cast mates backing her at the time. “Yes, I’m online today. Yes, I see y’all,” Ware tweeted after Michele was announced to be replacing Beanie Feldstein in Broadway’s Funny...

Gay rights activists march in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg May 1, 2013. (OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty) Russia lawmakers have proposed extending the country’s existing “gay propaganda” law to include people of all ages later this year.  The existing legislation was signed by Vladimir Putin in 2013 and banned any “promotion” of “non-traditional sexual relationships” among minors. Anyone found guilty under the law can be sentenced to heavy fines or imprisonment. The hateful measure has been used to clamp down on LGBTQ+ advocates, prevent kids from accessing inclusive literature and stop minors from watching LGBTQ-themed...

British prime minister Boris Johnson's resignation has called into question the future of LGBTQ+ rights. (Vudi Xhymshiti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Tory leadership candidates are following in Boris Johnson’s anti-trans footsteps in a desperate bid to emerge victorious as his successor. Elsewhere, monkeypox is continuing its spread across the world – and experts are concerned governments haven’t learned any lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. It might seem like there’s a lot going on in the world, but don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Here are five things you should...

Lewis Hamilton has condemning the harassment. (CHRISTIAN BRUNA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Lewis Hamilton has condemned the wave of sexist, racist and homophobic harassment Formula One (F1) fans faced during the Austrian Grand Prix. At the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Styria, around 105,000 people gathered to watch the nail-biting races on Saturday (8 July). But a raft of reports on social media has emerged of punters making misogynistic remarks, inappropriately touching women, taking photographs of fans without their consent and even lifting up their clothing. Others claimed to hear homophobic slurs and...

Britney Spears. (Getty/Angela Weiss/AFP) Britney Spears has passionately blasted the string of documentaries about her life that have left her “humiliated”. From The New York Times‘ Framing Britney Spears to Netflix’s Britney vs Spears, the personal anguish of Spears has become the subject of a raft of documentaries, often focusing on her suffocating conservatorship and her fractured family. The 40-year-old has never been shy about not being a fan of her life being broken down into a two-hour programme. But she made it even clearer in a since-deleted Instagram post...

Heartstopper star Yasmin Finney spoke at London Trans+ Pride. (Screen capture via Twitter/PinkNews) Yasmin Finney was among more than a thousand frustrated yet joyful LGBTQ+ people protesting against the Tory government’s increasing attacks against trans people. For London Trans+ Pride on Saturday (9 July), protesters marched from the historic Wellington Arch by Hyde Park down to Soho Square in the heart of the capital’s queer district. Demonstrators triumphantly held up high signs reading “Trans Lives are Sacred”, “Take Down the Cis-Tem” and “Gender? I barely know her!”. Others chanted “LGB with the...

Governor Tom Wolf has vetoed the Pennsylvania's latest anti-trans sports bill. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for ByHeart) Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has vetoed a “discriminatory, unnecessary and harmful” anti-trans sports ban. On Friday (8 July), Wolf refused to sign House Bill 972 which would have barred trans girls from participating in girls and women’s athletics at publicly-funded schools and at any institution where students or teams compete against public schools. HB 972 was passed in April by the House of Representatives with a 115-84 vote before gliding through the Senate. It would have...

Sam Mbatha was murdered his trial will be held at High Court. (Credit: Twitter) The murder case of a gay South African man is set to be transferred to the High Court where the four suspects will stand for trial. A year after the murder of gay activist Sam Mbatha, suspects Arthur Khoza, 19, Thato Masetla, 22, Junior Modise, 21, and Mahlatsi Nkuna, 21, will finally answer for their alleged crimes in the High Court, in the North West, on 26 July. On 17 June 2021, the burnt body of...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a request for a transgender woman to change her name. (Credit: Getty Images) The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against a trans woman’s request to change her name as she is a registered sex offender and people on the sex offender registry cannot change their names. On Thursday (7 July) the conservative majority Wisconsin Supreme Court vote came to a 4-3 decision, consistent with the rulings of two lower courts, which rejected the woman’s request change her name and remove her from the sex offenders registry....

Emma Corrin has opened up about their gender journey. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) Emma Corrin has opened up about the “intense pressure” they feel to justify their non-binary identity. The 26-year-old, known for their role as Princess Diana in Netflix’s The Crown, quietly came out as non-binary in 2021 by updating their pronouns on Instagram to she/they. Now gracing the cover of Vogue‘s August issue, Corrin opened up about their gender identity – and how it’s something they’re still navigating. “In my mind, gender just isn’t something that feels fixed,”...

G-A-Y bar in London. (Getty/Leon Neal) Jeremy Joseph has said he will announce his plans for the future of G-A-Y and Heaven after suggesting he could close them permanently. On 12 June, Joseph temporarily shut down his G-A-Y clubs while he went on holiday, to “protect our mental health to have a true break“. While he said they would reopen a week later, he told Virgin Radio that he didn’t know what “the future holds at the moment” and said he might ‘close and sell up’. Now it seems that he may have an...

Michelle O'Neill speaking at the PinkNews Belfast Summer Reception 2022. (Darren Kidd) First minister-designate of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill has urged the DUP to form a new executive in a bid to advance LGBTQ+ rights. Sinn Féin’s vice president reissued her plea during a panel discussion at the PinkNews Summer Reception in Belfast on Wednesday evening (6 July) in Stormont.  O’Neill was joined on the panel by DUP MLA Pam Cameron, Alliance MLA Eóin Tennyson, UUP leader Doug Beattie and SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole.  During the discussion, Michelle O’Neill said the...