LGBTQ Entertainment News

Pride in Santiago, Chile, 2021. (AFP via Getty/ MARTIN BERNETTI) The lower house of the congress of Chile has approved same-sex unions, bringing the South American country another step closer marriage equality. Chile legalised civil partnerships for same-sex couples in 2015, but the move did not grant them all of the rights enjoyed by opposite-sex married
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Waylon Smithers finds love with his new boyfriend Michael De Graaf, a billionaire fashion mogul, in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. (20th Television/The Simpsons) A writer on The Simpsons has explained how he worked with his gay son to make Smithers a “three-dimensional gay character”. As viewers of the long-running animated series will know, The
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Laganja Estranja. (Supplied) Bonafide stoner queen Laganja Estranja is more than just meme royalty. The last few years have seen the RuPaul’s Drag Race star release a string of pop bangers, campaign tirelessly for the legalisation of marijuana and reintroduce herself to the world as a proud trans woman. Throughout all the chaos, she even
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Theresa Manzella. (Montana State Legislature) A Republican lawmaker has said that LGBT+ people who are beaten up are receiving the “normal consequences” of their “choices”. Montana state senator Theresa Manzella made the remarks Wednesday (17 November) during an event defending a minister accused of anti-LGBT+ hate speech. According to TV station KPVI, Brandon Huber, lead
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The mob dragged them outside a bar to beat her. (Screen capture via Twitter) A violent mob sexually assaulted, beat and humiliated an intersex person for several hours all while filming it in Yaoundé, Cameroon. In the capital city, Sara (not her real name) was hospitalised after suffering multiple hematomas across her body. Her injuries
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Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the MTV VMA 2000 Stage at Radio City Music Hall. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) Britney Spears has dragged Christina Aguilera for “refusing” to speak up after she was freed from her conservatorship. After being finally freed from the restraints of her almost 14-year-long conservatorship earlier this month, an emboldened Britney has
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A queer bookshop has launched an initiative to send copies of a trans history book to MPs across the country to give them a “comprehensive knowledge” on the trans community. Queer Lit, Manchester’s longest running independent gay bookshop, sent “hundreds of copies” of Trans Britain by Christine Burns to MPs on Wednesday. The books, which
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A florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding has now settled with the couple after a sprawling legal battle that reached the US Supreme Court. Barronelle Stutzman, 77, from Washington State announced the settlement on Thursday (18 November), paying $5,000 (around £3,700) to Robert Ingersoll, eight years after she refused to provide flowers
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Wendy Stuart and Steven Bloomer-Teague will be hosting TriVersity Talk this Thursday at 7 PM ET with featured guests Kym Dorsey, Simone Kraus, Juli Grey-Owens and Fran Sisco. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is
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Rosie Duffield clashes with Ellie Mae O’Hagan. (BBC) Labour MP Rosie Duffield was confronted over her calling trans women “male-bodied people” on a BBC Politics segment. Duffield, who has been MP for Canterbury since 2017, repeatedly called trans women “male-bodied people” on the show, and argued against the inclusion of trans women in single sex
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Wendy Stuart will be a featured performer at Freak Out: “Aluta Continua”, A Fundraiser For LGBTQ Refugee Relief on Thursday, November 18, 2021 from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Stonewall Inn. A group of NYC artists, performers and activists are putting on a show to help raise relief funds for LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers in
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A group of LGBT+ barristers have spoken out after an “anti-trans” lawyer was announced for a panel discussion on conversion therapy. The Twitter account @LGBTQBarristers posted an unsigned letter to express “profound disappointment” at the inclusion of speaker Naomi Cunningham at the inaugural Middle Temple LGBTQ+ Forum on Tuesday. The letter is said to represent over
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