LGBTQ Entertainment News

The Reddit user’s Thanksgiving coming out moment didn’t quite go to plan. (Envato) Spending time with family during the holiday season can be difficult as a queer person, especially if you’re still closeted, but one Reddit user has told a Thanksgiving coming out story with a surprising twist. Reddit user MysteriousR551 shared a post to
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Lifelong campaigner for human rights Archbishop Desmond Tutu. (UN Free & Equal) Archbishop Desmond Tutu has compared anti-LGBT+ laws and violence to apartheid, insisting that he opposes them with the “same passion”. The 90-year-old Archbishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent his life campaigning for human rights. He was a major opponent of South
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Dave Chappelle. (Getty/Eamonn M. McCormack) Dave Chappelle clashed with students at his former high school who called him a “childish bigot” with a brittle ego. After making cruel jabs against trans people in his latest Netflix special, The Closer, Chappelle has become a lightning rod for criticism. Instead of apologising, he has instead leaned hard
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The three party alliance set to lead Germany, made up of SPD chancellor-elect Olaf Scholz, FDP leader Christian Lindner, and Annalene Baerbock and Robert Habeck, co-leaders of the Greens Party. (Getty/ Michele Tantussi) The chancellor-elect of Germany, Olaf Scholz of the centre-left SDP, and his coalition parties unveiled pledges for sweeping reforms to LGBT+ rights. The
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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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