LGBTQ

Red, White & Royal Blue has garnered a devoted following for its sweet portrayal of same-sex love. (Prime Video) August 2023 was officially TV season for the gays: Not only did we get the second series of Heartstopper, but the film adaptation of the 2019 LGBTQ+ novel Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston finally arrived on Prime Video. The story centres on Alex (played in the film by Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the US president, and Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), a British prince. But when the pair,...

If you listen to some campaigners and newspaper columnists, trans people are trying to ‘erase’ womanhood by replacing words such as ‘breastfeeding’ with ‘chestfeeding’. But this is a false, and damaging, narrative. Simply put, chestfeeding is a word predominantly used by some trans men, non-binary people and gender non-conforming people to describe the act of feeding their children with milk made by their own bodies. Many wrongly assume that lactation is possible only for cisgender women, but, in reality, many trans and gender-diverse people can breastfeed – or chestfeed –...

When Hex Coles woke up and discovered that their skin had turned yellow all over, they knew instantly something was very wrong. Hex, now 26, was a university student on the cusp of adulthood – but all of a sudden, they were spending much of their time in hospital, where doctors desperately tried to find out what was wrong with them.  They were originally diagnosed with liver failure, but additional tests revealed that they had aplastic anaemia. It’s a rare, serious health condition that occurs when the body stops producing...

More Proud Boys have been sentenced over the US Capitol riots in 2021. (Getty Images) Two additional members of far-right neo-Nazi group the Proud Boys have been jailed for their involvement in the 2021 US Capitol riot. Forty-six-year-old Dominic Pezzola and 32-year-old Ethan Nordean were convicted of charges relating to the right-wing insurrection of the US capitol on 6 January 2021, with both sentenced to serve 10 years or more in prison. Pezolla, who was convicted of assaulting officers and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in...

Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Harrods and father of Dodi Al Fayed, who was killed in a car accident with Princess Diana, has died at 94. (Getty Images) Mohamed Al Fayed, the former owner of luxury department store Harrods and father of Dodi Al Fayed, who was killed in a car accident alongside Princess Diana, has died at the age of 94. The Egyptian-born businessman passed away on Wednesday (30 August). His family say he died “peacefully of old age”. Al Fayed was best known for being a prolific...

Justin Trudeau is the first world leader to join a season of Drag Race. (CRAVE/WORLD OF WONDER) Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is set to become first world leader to sashay into the Drag Race werkroom later this month.  The Liberal Party politician will make the extra special guest appearance, meeting the queens in the upcoming Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs the World season, set to premiere this month. In the official trailer for the season, which dropped today, Brooke Lynn Hytes introduces Trudeau to the queens in the werkroom,...

Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane don't shy away from sex scenes in Bros. (Universal) Bros nearly featured a giant, $30,000 ‘butt rig’ that was used to shoot a sex scene for the romantic comedy. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane and director Nichols Stoller explained how they approached the sex scenes in the film. The groundbreaking gay sex scene comes as a big step in Bobby (Eichner) and Aaron’s (Macfarlane) relationship, with comedic layers added as Bobby tried to be as ‘masc’ as possible, having seen Aaron gazing at...

Suella Braverman. (Getty) The Manston detention centre crisis is the latest in a long list of failures on asylum, with LGBTQ+ refugees among those at risk. But Suella Braverman is only making things worse, writes the Green Party’s migrant and refugee support spokesperson Benali Hamdache. Manston Detention Centre is designed to hold a maximum of 1,600 people for 24 hours at a time. It is meant to quickly process people before they are sent to somewhere more suitable. Instead 4,000 people are being held in the centre for weeks on...

Hope the intersex kitten. (Cats Protection) An adorable intersex kitten, born with a condition so rare there is no name for it, is looking for a home. Hope is 15 weeks old and was born with no internal or external sex organs. They were admitted into the care of Cats Protection‘s Warrington Adoption Centre in Tyneside, and workers noticed that Hope had no external genitalia. After they underwent investigations, it was confirmed that they had no internal reproductive organs either. Hope is 15 weeks old. (Cats Protection) Cats Protection’s senior field veterinary...

Linus Karp as the queer princess in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story. (Supplied) A new play pays homage to Princess Diana’s legacy of LGBTQ+ allyship. The late Princess of Wales remains a cornerstone of queer culture 25 years after her death for many reasons, not least her genuinely trailblazing HIV and AIDS activism. Her story is one that’s been pulled apart and retold countless times, with varying degrees of historical accuracy and success. One of the latest, Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, does away with the history books entirely, creating...

The US elections have seen LGBTQ+ politicians elected at federal and state levels. (Getty) Numerous LGBTQ+ candidates have smashed the rainbow ceiling and won seats in the 2022 US elections. Counting is still underway in the tense midterm elections, with Americans watching with bated breath to find out whether Republicans or Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Votes are also being counted in the race for state legislatures and governor seats, among others. On Wednesday morning (9 November), it was too close to call...