LGBTQ

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...

Sawyer Fredericks performs onstage at the United Talent Agency Showcase during the IEBA 2015 Conference on 12 October 2015. (Jason Davis/Getty for IEBA) The Voice season eight winner Sawyer Fredericks has come out as bisexual in a candid, heartfelt post on social media. The blues singer-songwriter, who won The Voice at just the age of 16, came out in a statement shared on Instagram. Fredericks, now 22, posted a casual photo of himself wearing a rainbow tie-dyed shirt with his trademark long hair loose around his shoulders. The singer began...

India's parliament is trying to change the GAY airport code for Gaya airport. (Envato) Gaya airport in New Delhi, India, is desperate to lose its GAY airport code because of its status as a holy city, with a parliamentary panel branding it “inappropriate”. In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Gaya is the place where where Rama, Sita and Lakshmana went to give an offering to Dasharath, and is a major Hindu pilgrimage site. Gaya is also a holy city for the religions of Jainism and Buddhism, with the Mahabodhi Temple, a world heritage site, said to...

Police are hoping the public can identify the suspect, who allegedly attacked a trans girl in Brooklyn, New York. (ABC7 New York) Police are searching for a young man thought to be a teenager, who punched a 15-year-old trans girl in the face outside a New York high school. According to ABC7 New York, the young girl was assaulted on 18 January, outside W H Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School in Brooklyn. The suspect reportedly made transphobic remarks during the attack, in which he punched the 15-year-old in...