LGBTQ

Trixie Mattel's Trixie Cosmetics is available exclusively at Glam Raider in Australia and New Zealand. Oh honey! Trixie Mattel’s beauty brand, Trixie Cosmetics has launched exclusively via a cult beauty store in Australia. Fans of the Drag Race icon who live Down Under can get their hands on the popular products at Glam Raider. From blush to bronzer and eyelashes to lip gloss, fans can create some iconic looks using Trixie Cosmetics products. The Trixie Cosmetics range is now available to shop exclusively in Australia and New Zealand at glamraider.com....

J K Rowling was tricked by Russian pranksters. ( Credit: Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) JK Rowling was fooled by two Russian pranksters who had her believe she was on video call with Ukraine president Vlodymyr Zelensky. Popular Russian prankster duo Vovan and Lexus posted a video of their call with JK Rowling, who appears to believe she is speaking with the Ukranian president. ‘Zelensky’ cannot be seen on the Zoom call, while Rowling leaves her camera on. In the video, the pretenders ask Rowling questions pertaining to all things Harry Potter,...

Stock photo of a baby. (Envato) A lawsuit filed on behalf of the six-year-old daughter of a same-sex male couple, born via a surrogate mother, to have her biological father named on her birth certificate has been ruled inadmissible. The case, which went to the European Court of Human Rights, involved the girl’s dads, one of whom is the biological father, the surrogate who birthed her along with her husband, and an anonymous egg donor. The girl lives with her biological father, known to the court as A, and his...

Zarah Sultana blasts Tories' "anti-trans, anti-refugee, anti-worker" rhetoric (@zarahsultana/Twitter) Labour MP Zarah Sultana has blasted the Tory party’s “disgraceful” anti-trans, anti-refugee and anti-worker rhetoric in an impassioned speech to parliament. Speaking on Wednesday (22 June) in support of the UK-wide rail strikes, Sultana explained that these policies are linked in their “attempt to divide our communities, and distract us from its failure to serve the British people”. Sultana, 28, explained that she had attended a demonstration against the government’s Rwanda deportation policy just after hearing the debate on trans conversion therapy...

A wedding cake featuring two gay couples. (Getty) A Reddit user came out to his homophobic family at his sister’s wedding and the internet has nothing but love and support for him. The 29-year-old man, u/UserMempsh, got candid on the popular subreddit r/AmITheA**hole and asked if he should have come out at his sister’s wedding, after a stream of incessant homophobic comments plagued him throughout the event from various family members. He said in the post that he has three sisters Michelle, 36, Julia, 35, and Annie, 22, and it...

Tory MP Nick Fletcher. (Screen capture via Twitter) Tory MP Nick Fletcher has doubled down on his anti-trans view that trans kids are “going through a phase” after circulating a private letter to schools. On Friday (17 June) it was reported that the MP for Don Valley called on headteachers in the area to clarify their positions on trans pupils, sharing his own anti-trans views in a letter. “I believe that quite simply boys are boys and girls are girls,” the letter, obtained by the BBC, said. Fletcher added that...

Gay and bisexual men at high risk of contracting monkeypox are to be offered vaccines against the virus as cases soar in the UK. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has recommended the smallpox vaccine Imvanex be administered, which has been shown to be effective against monkeypox. Although the virus is not sexually transmitted, or exclusive to LGBTQ+ men, the UKHSA has said that UK data has found higher levels of monkeypox within “the sexual networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men”. Dr Mary Ramsay,...

One of the last remaining barriers blocking British armed forces personnel living with HIV from serving has been scrapped. (photo by Jenny Matthews/In Pictures via Getty Images Images) The British Armed Forces has finally lifted a ban on people living with HIV joining the army, though restrictions on PrEP remain. From Tuesday (21 June), serving personnel living with HIV who are receiving effective treatment will be recognised as fully fit to serve and be able to deploy overseas. Service members will need to be receiving treatment that suppresses their viral...

Warner Bros 'set to drop Ezra Miller' after assault allegations (Han Myung-Gu/WireImage) DC bosses reportedly plan to drop Ezra Miller after they were arrested for assault on two separate occasions and accused of harassment. Miller has reportedly been the subject of two protection orders granted in recent weeks. The first saw them accused of using “violence, intimidation, fear, paranoia” and “drugs” to “hold sway” over an 18-year-old. The second was filed by a mother who claims Miller brandished a gun in front of her 12-year-old. Amid these and other scandals,...

Turkish Coast Guard members intervene a boat carrying refugees, who were trying to go to Greek Islands, after being caught by the Turkish coast guards. (Suleyman Elcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty) On World Refugee Day, we question why things are getting worse for asylum seekers – particularly for LGBTQ+ refugees. Increasingly, governments are pursuing hardline approaches that leave asylum seekers out in the cold – there was outcry when Britain’s Home Office announced that it would send refugees who arrive via the English Channel to Rwanda, but the UK is not alone in...

Keke Palmer, who stars as Izzy Hawthorne in Lightyear, says the film's LGBTQ+ representation is "progress". (Neil Mockford/FilmMagic/YouTube/Pixar/Disney) Lightyear star Keke Palmer has applauded the animated film’s LGBTQ+ representation for “depicting life and love the way that exists” in the world. The actor voices Izzy Hawthorne, who becomes a close ally of accomplished Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans), in the Toy Story spin-off. Izzy is the granddaughter of Commander Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), and the film features a same-sex kiss between Alisha and her wife.  Palmer told the i that she thought the inclusion...

Dame Kelly Holmes felt like she was "going to explode with excitement" after coming out publicly as gay. (Mike Marsland/WireImage) British Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes has said she can “finally breathe” after she comes out publicly as gay.  The Olympic gold medallist told the Sunday Mirror that she first realised she was gay at the age of 17 after a fellow female soldier kissed her. But she said a fear of being prosecuted at a time when LGBTQ+ soldiers were banned from the pre-2000 military ban forced her to stay silent.  However, Holmes...

Michael Peterson has criticised HBO Max's true crime series The Staircase for being "homophobic". (YouTube/This Morning/HBO Max) Michael Peterson has blasted the HBO Max series The Staircase as “homophobic” for its “fabricated” depiction of his life and bisexuality.  The true-crime drama series stars Colin Firth as Peterson, a novelist whose wife Kathleen (Toni Collette) was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home in 2001. Peterson became the prime suspect in what became a murder case and was convicted of his wife’s murder in 2003.  He was granted a...

A woman has opened up about coming out in her 50s. (Getty) A trans woman who came out aged 55 has shared her story to inspire older people who are still in the closet. Angela Traill, now 58, shared her inspiring story in an article for Metro published Monday (June 13). Though she didn’t came out as a trans woman until she was 55, she first realised around the age of 10 that she “wasn’t feeling how was supposed to feel”. “I was assigned male at birth but the older I...