LGBTQ Entertainment News

The Boots Black Friday sale features beauty, fragrance and skincare products. (Boots.com) Boots has launched its Black Friday sale early, with deals on beauty, skincare and fragrances. Customers don’t have to wait until 26 November to get deals at Boots this Black Friday, as they’ve kicked off their discounts already. There’s up to 50 percent
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Badr Baabou, a human rights defender, was battered by cops in Tunisia. (Damj Association for Justice and Equality) Two police officers brutally beat one of Tunisia’s top LGBT+ rights activists in an attack campaigners warn captures the country’s descent into “repression”. Badr Baabou, a human rights defender and head of the Damj Association for Justice
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Haaz Sleiman attends Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” premiere in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/WireImage) It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally happening – the Marvel Cinematic Universe is getting its first-ever gay superhero in a movie. LGBT+ comic fans have been screaming out for more representation within the MCU for years, and
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One of Lady Gaga’s biggest hits is actually an ode to bisexuality. At a recent performance of her Las Vegas residency, Jazz & Piano, Gaga revisited one of her favourite stories from her early career. “Poker Face”, the star has confirmed on multiple occasions, is about “poker facing with your sexuality”. Specifically, she told Jonathan Ross
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Britain’s equalities minister Liz Truss leaves Downing Street. (BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images) The Conservative government has finally announced proposed plans for its conversion therapy ban – with religious forms of the discredited practice to remain legal. More than three years after ministers promised to outlaw conversion therapy in England and Wales, a public consultation is
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Gwyneth Paltrow, snatched. (Instagram/Getty) Thanks to Kim Kardashian, Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow has finally learned what “snatched the house down” means. Paltrow was introduced to the word “snatched” by her daughter and videographer, Apple Martin, after Kardashian sent her items from her Skims x Fendi collab. In the video, Paltrow showed her fans the bright
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Dana Zzyym has been fighting for an X gender passport since 2015. (Twitter) The United States has issued the country’s first-ever passport with an X gender marker, allowing non-binary Americans to “live with greater dignity and respect”. On Wednesday, the US State Department announced that the first passport with an X gender marker has been
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Some local families think the high school play was cancelled after pastor Jeff Lyle “complained about a gay character”. (Facebook/ Jeff Lyle) An Ohio school play has been cancelled just one month before opening after a local pastor “complained about a gay character”. According to local news station WCPO, Hillsboro High School in Ohio was planning
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Olly Alexander explains to THT why the government must fund the HIV Action Plan. (Screen capture via Twitter) Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to increase crucial HIV funding ahead of the autumn budget. More than 1,000 days after the government committed to ending Britain’s HIV epidemic by 2030, activists are still waiting for the government to
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The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, has urged for “tolerance” as parliament considers a backbitingly anti-LGBT+ law. The “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021” has fuelled fear among queer Ghanaians, wary of how a country that already sees their existence as a crime wants to make things even worse.
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