LGBTQ Entertainment News

Pride Parade in London, 2019. (Getty) More adults identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than ever before, with one in 12 young people saying they are LGB, according to new official figures. Eight per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds described themselves as LGB in the 2020 Annual Population Survey, it was revealed for the first

Cricketer Steve Davies is the first and only English male pro to come out as gay. (Alex Davidson/Getty) Gay cricket coach and activist Sam Schofield has criticised the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for “letting down” the LGBTQ+ community. After Jake Daniels became England’s first pro male footballer to come out as gay in

Zander Moricz gave a powerful speech against ‘Don’t Say Gay’, without saying “gay”. (YouTube/ Liz Ballard) A gay Florida student gave an incredible graduation speech about his fight against the state’s horrific ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation – without saying gay. ‘Don’t Say Gay’, signed into law by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in March, forbids discussion of

Ricky Gervais resorted to tired anti-trans jokes in his new Netflix special. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) It takes Ricky Gervais less than two minutes to crack cheap jokes about trans people in his new Netflix special. The comic opens Ricky Gervais: SuperNature, which was released on Netflix on Tuesday (24 May), with a 15-minute-long segment about trans

Tory MP Crispin Blunt and former Tory Imran Ahmad Khan, who remains MP for Wakefield. (Getty/Parliament) Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has yet again defended disgraced ex-colleague Imran Ahmad Khan after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teen boy, claiming Khan “did not get a fair trial”. Disgraced ex-Tory MP Khan, 48, was found

The stages of monkeypox. (UK Health Security Agency) Monkeypox is continuing to spread across the UK and Europe, while the number of people forcibly displaced by conflict has surpassed 100 million for the first time. Elsewhere, Ellen DeGeneres is preparing to bow out from her world famous talkshow and footballer Jake Daniels continues to be

ILGA Europe’s 2022 Rainbow Map and Index. (ILGA Europe) The annual Rainbow Map ranking has placed Malta as the best nation for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe for the seventh year in a row, while the UK’s score continues to plummet. ILGA Europe’s Rainbow Map and Index has ranked European countries on the basis of their “legal

Riot police formed a blockade around the students, before arresting them one by one. (Twitter/ budirenisi) A Pride parade at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, was violently broken up by authorities, with dozens of students arrested by riot police. LGBTQ+ people face increasing persecution in Turkey, and in 2015, Instanbul Pride was banned for the first time.

Pride parade in Padua, Italy, 2021. (NurPhoto via Getty/ Massimo Bertolini) A 16-year-old in Italy was beaten so severely by his own uncle that he broke four ribs, all for having a rainbow scarf on his bag, rights groups have said. On 17 May, which was also International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), the

British journalist and author Shon Faye. (Paul Samuel White) Author and journalist Shon Faye has outlined why, in the simplest of terms, trans liberation is the right step forward. In an interview with Now Then Magazine, Faye explains the reasons behind writing her book The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice and why trans liberation

A lesbian couple have been separated by Congolese border officials all because they posted TikTok videos of themselves hugging and kissing. (Screen captures via TikTok)) A lesbian couple says they have been persecuted by the Democratic Republic of Congo because they shared a TikTok video of them hugging and kissing. One half of the couple

Dr Yashica Robinson expertly shut down Republican representative Dan Bishop’s irrelevant question. (C-SPAN) A Republican congressman asked the tired and loaded question “what is a woman” at a hearing on abortion access, and it backfired beautifully. A House Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion rights was held on Wednesday (18 May) in light of this month’s

Boris Johnson’s government was criticised by Roderic O’Gorman for its handling of conversion therapy. (Getty/Facebook) Ireland will ban conversion therapy for all LGBTQ+ people and will swerve the UK’s approach of excluding trans people, a government minister has said. Roderic O’Gorman, minister for children and equality, said the government intends to ban the practice, and

Christina Pushaw, press secretary for governor Ron DeSantis, has been mocked online after falling for a fake “homophobic dog” story. (Twitter/@ChristinaPushaw/Instagram/@whitney_chewston) Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary has been ridiculed on social media after she tweeted a fake news story about a ‘homophobic’ dog.  On Monday (16 May), Christina Pushaw tweeted a screenshot of a

The Royal Mint is celebrating a huge milestone of Pride in the UK with the first-ever LGBTQ+ official UK coin. (Royal Mint) A new 50p coin featuring the colours of the Progress Pride LGBTQ+ flag has been unveiled. The Royal Mint is celebrating 50 years of Pride in the UK with the coin, announced on

Senator Cynthia Lummis apologised after she was booed for remarking there are only “two sexes” during a speech at the University of Wyoming. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty) Wyoming senator Cynthia Lummis has apologised after she was booed for commenting about the “existence of two sexes” during a graduation speech. Lummis came under fire