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RuPaul is rebooting the classic TV game show Lingo as Wordle continues to delight and frustrate the world. Lingo, which first aired in the US in 1987, saw two teams attempting to guess five letter words, one letter at a time. Sound familiar? The gameplay is similar to Wordle, the viral game recently acquired by The New York Times. American TV network CBS has announced its plans to reboot Lingo, with Drag Race’s very own Rupaul Charles as the host. According to Deadline, CBS has been developing a prime time reboot of...

Students walk across the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. (Getty/George Frey) The US Department of Education has dismissed an investigation into how LGBT+ students are treated at Brigham Young University (BYU). The university is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church. BYU’s main campus is in Provo, Utah, and the school also has satellite branches in Idaho and Hawaii. The department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) said in a letter that it was dismissing a complaint against BYU...

Vixen, a superhero in DC Comics, has come out as queer and shared that she is dating another woman in a recent comic book. (DC Comics) An iconic DC superhero has come out as queer and revealed that she is in a relationship with another woman. Vixen, a model and animal-rights activist slash superhero, has come out in a recent issue of Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour. The comic book series – created by Tee Franklin, Matt Sarin and Marissa Louise – is a spin-off of the Harley...

Adele attends The BRIT Awards 2022 at The O2 Arena on 8 February 2022 in London, England. (Samir Hussein/WireImage ) Adele has vowed that her postponed Las Vegas residency is “absolutely 100 per cent happening this year” as she has “plans” for next year. Last month, Adele shared on Instagram that she had made the heartbreaking decision to postpone her Las Vegas residency just a day before the opening show. She told fans that the show had been “absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID”. The Grammy-winning artist elaborated more...

A group of students allegedly assaulted a transgender teen after a basketball game between North Attleboro and Foxboro high schools. (YouTube/CBS Boston) Massachusetts police are investigating after a trans student was attacked after a high school basketball game. The teen – who attends North Attleboro High School in North Attleborough, Massachusetts – was allegedly assaulted after a basketball game between North Attleboro and Foxboro on Tuesday (8 February), WBZ 4 CBS Boston reported. According to the outlet, there was a verbal altercation during the game between students. The argument later...

Grindr on an Apple iPhone. (Getty/MARTIN BUREAU) A group of three women reached levels of queendom never thought possible for looking for a new flatmate with “masculine energy” by advertising on Grindr. People in Birmingham, England, logging onto Grindr, the world’s most popular queer dating app, may have seen a pretty unusual sight in the tiled torsos. Cliodhna Heffernan, from the West Midlands city, had set up a profile on the app with a photograph of her and her two flatmates earlier this month after struggling to find interest on SpareRoom,...

Either Euphoria stars Hunter Schafer and Dominic Fike have confirmed that they are dating, or they’re the internet’s biggest trolls. Weeks after the co-stars were first spotted holdings hands during several outings together, Dominic Fike shared a photo of him kissing Hunter Schafer on Instagram Friday (11 February). The 26-year-old musician captioned the snap: “Happy birthday happy birthday”. Dominic and Hunter are officially dating I will cry they're so CUTTTTEEEEE pic.twitter.com/8McT7sHPkn — lorraine (@rainoverthemoon) February 11, 2022 For Euphoria fans who have been enjoying the chemistry between Schafer’s Jules and Fike’s Elliot,...

Polish president Andrzej Duda. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) A “disastrous” bill that will “punish” LGBT+ youth by curbing access to teaching on queer issues has been passed by Poland’s lower house of parliament. In yet another attempt by the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) to stoke hostility against LGBT+ people, lawmakers rammed a bill through the Sejm, the lower house, that increases the government’s control over schools on Wednesday (9 February). Rallying around calls to “protect children,” PiS MPs unexpectedly sprung the vote for the law more...

Baroness Kishwer Falkner. (Parliament) The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has considered plans to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces without a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), leaked guidance has shown. An “unpublished guidance pack dated from the end of 2021” was leaked to Vice World News, the latest in a string of revelations relating to anti-trans sentiment within the EHRC, the UK’s equalities watchdog. The documents showed that the EHRC, which says it works to “promote and uphold equality and human rights ideals and laws across England, Scotland and Wales”, has been working...

Republicans in South Dakota rejected a bill that would ban trans students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.(Ana Fernandez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) South Dakota lawmakers have killed a bill that would have banned trans students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. House Bill 1005 (HB 1005) passed in the House State Affairs committee in January on a 7-5 vote, and it was quickly pushed through the House in a 38-29 vote earlier this month. But on Tuesday (8 February), nearly all seven members of the...

Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider. (Twitter/ Jeopardy!) Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider has decided it’s time to say goodbye to her 9-5 after her historic run on the game show. Schneider won the hearts of Jeopardy! fans during her incredible 40-game run which saw her land the record for the second-longest streak in the program’s history. On Tuesday (8 February) the 42-year-old revealed her decision to step away from her day job as a software engineering manager. “Some of you may have heard, but I quit my day job yesterday!” she wrote...

Republican Florida state senator and Baptist funeral director Dennis Baxley said discussing LGBT+ issues was "social engineering". (Florida Senate) The Florida Senate education committee has passed SB 1834, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would ban discussions about LGBT+ identities in the classroom. The bill, introduced by Republican state senator and Baptist funeral director Dennis Baxley, would prevent teachers in Florida schools “from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels”, or at any level if the discussion is “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”....

Florida governor Ron DeSantis said it's “entirely inappropriate” for schools to have conversations with students about LGBT+ identities. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) Viciously anti-LGBT+ Florida governor Ron DeSantis has seemingly backed a bill that would ban discussions about LGBT+ identities in the classroom. The Republican governor said during an appearance in Miami that it was “entirely inappropriate” for teachers and school officials to have conversations with students about their gender identity or sexual orientation. He also claimed that there have been “instances” in some schools where children have been...

The new and equally fab Fab Five. (Netflix) Streaming giant Netflix has dropped the seriously dazzling first look at Queer Eye Germany with an all-new Fab Five and they’re, well, pretty fab. The German spin-off of the American reboot of the original 200 Bravo show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, will see the Fab Five go global in March. In partnership with ITV Germany, Queer Five Germany will see the show’s experts work with members of the public to help turn their life around. The trailer, released Monday (7...