LGBTQ Entertainment News

Taylor Swift. (Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic) Taylor Swift’s re-recorded Red is winning rave reviews, a decade after the songs were first heard. But there’s a long, bitter backstory to its release. In November 2020, Taylor Swift confirmed the news that music manager Scooter Braun had sold her back catalogue to an investment fund in a deal thought to
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Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Andrew Garfield has said he was “pressured” to apologise for wanting Spider-Man to “explore” being bisexual, so that “bigots” would buy tickets. Garfield, who starred as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2012 and 2014 respectively, made the comments in an interview with The Independent. 
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The BBC’s logo. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty) The BBC’s decision to exit Stonewall’s workplace diversity scheme was “inevitable” because anti-trans staff members have the ear of senior management, according to a BBC employee. There was outcry on Wednesday (10 November) when the BBC announced that it was quitting Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme, a scheme that helps workplaces
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Jennifer Coolidge in the trailer for Single All The Way. (Netflix) The trailer for Netflix’s gay Christmas film Single All The Way is finally here – and it features Jennifer Coolidge screaming “Grindr”. Single All The Way follows best friends Peter (Ugly Betty‘s Michael Urie) and Nick (Philemon Chambers) as they return to Peter’s family home for the
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Lady Gaga attends the British premiere Of House of Gucci. (Samir Hussein/WireImage) Lady Gaga said she “suffered” playing Patrizia Reggiani as the “camp” yet “messy” House of Gucci finally premiered in London, England. The “Stupid Love” hitmaker was joined by the likes of Drag Race UK‘s Bimini Bon Boulash and Salma Hayek at the Odeon Luxe
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Virginia queer couple Nicole Lovewine (left) and Detra Brown (right). (Facebook/ Pookie Lovewine) A queer couple killed in a Virginia mass shooting while trying to protect their daughter have been remembered as “loving” and a “big part of the community”. Nicole Lovewine, 45, known to friends and family as “Pookie”, and her partner Detra Brown,
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An anti-trans pressure campaign claims that sharing pronouns is ‘regressive, sexist and homophobic’ (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty) Anti-trans activists are attempting to pressure companies to ban pronouns in staff email signatures through anonymous letter-writing. An email template is currently circulating in “gender critical” circles on Mumsnet, Substack, Facebook and Twitter. Purportedly first sent to a law firm,
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The Robert Dyas Christmas advert has been baffling audiences for five years (Twitter) It’s that time of year again – the gay Robert Dyas Christmas advert is once again doing the rounds, which means the festive season has officially begun. The advert, which was first released in 2015, shows staff and customers in a Robert
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Billy Porter has apologised to Harry Styles. (YouTube/ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) Billy Porter has apologised for his criticism of Harry Styles’ Vogue cover, explaining: “This is not about you… it’s about the systems of oppression.” Last month, Porter called out American Vogue featuring Styles as its first male to wear a dress on
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Star Trek: Prodigy is introducing a new generation of kids to the utopian values of Starfleet with a refreshingly diverse cast, including a non-binary main character. The animated Star Trek kids’ series premiered on Paramount+ last week with a star-studded voice cast including Ella Purnell, Brett Gray, Rylee Alazraqui, Angus Imrie and Jason Mantzoukas. The
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Queer rabbis Becca Walker (left) and Ariella Rosen (right).(YouTube/ Women’s League for Conservative Judaism) Two queer, female Conservative rabbis have tied the knot, in a historic first for the Conservative Judaism movement. Conservative Judaism is the second-largest denomination of Jewish people in North America, and over the last two decades it has become increasingly inclusive
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Mariah Carey in “Fall in Love at Christmas”. (Screen capture via YouTube) Mariah Carey has officially killed Halloween and done vocal runs over it as she released a brand-new Christmas single. At midnight Friday (5 November), Carey, who actually invented the annual tradition of Christmas so she could release “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in
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Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci. (YouTube/ MGM) Lady Gaga got so into her House of Gucci character Patrizia Reggiani, heir to the leather goods fortune, she thought she killed someone. The “Stupid Love” hitmaker opened up about her challenging experience filming the upcoming movie which charts the turbulent marriage and divorce
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Rikkey Outumurro. (Facebook) Rikkey Outumuro, a beloved community leader, fearless drag icon and decades-long activist, has died. She was 39. Otherwise known by her drag stage name as Tru Starlet, Outumuro fatally shot in Centralia, Washington, Saturday evening (30 October) by her 28-year-old boyfriend. Cristopher Allen Gaudreau told Centralia police officers that he and Outumuro,
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Lynne Spears (L) and Britney Spears. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) Britney Spears’ mother, Lynne Spears, has officially asked for her piece of the singer as well. The 66-year-old author filed a petition Monday (1 November) requesting that her daughter’s estate pay her attorneys’ fees in the strained battle over Britney’s conservatorship. Lynne has never had a formal
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People walk past an Axis Bank in Kolkata, India. (Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A queer couple in India were left humiliated after trying to open a joint account, only for bank tellers to refuse them. Axis Bank marked the third anniversary of India decriminalising gay sex by rolling out its “Come As You Are” campaign, ostensibly
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