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The TasPride Summer Festival is back for 2025, running from February 1 to March 2. Tasmania’s premier LGBTIQ+ cultural festival will bring together the community in a month-long celebration of love, diversity, and queer culture. With a jam-packed line-up of performances, queer history, dance parties, family-friendly events, and much more, this year’s festival promises to be…
Buganda, the traditional kingdom on which modern Uganda is based, happily lived under the rule of bisexual Kabaka Mwanga II before the imposition of colonial rule by the British. The Kingdom of Buganda dated from the 13th century and comprised much of central and southern modern-day Uganda including the capital Kampala. The Kabakas (kings) enjoyed…
Thanks to ValerieAnn Angelina Jolie (‘Maria’), Demi Moore (‘The Substance’), Mikey Madison (‘Anora’), Tilda Swinton (‘The Room Next Door’), Zendaya (‘Challengers, Dune: Part Two’) and Zoe Saldaña (‘Emilia Pérez’) join The Hollywood Reporter for the Actress Roundtable.
A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine provides new insights into female sexual attraction, revealing a striking discrepancy between implicit and explicit measures of gynephilia—the sexual preference for women. Scientists discovered that while only a small percentage of participants explicitly identified as non-heterosexual, implicit measures found that a majority of women exhibited…
The new video reimagines what it was like behind the scenes for the now iconic original 1973 visual, starring Cara Delevingne as Elton. Elton John unveils a brand new video for his Triple Platinum-certified Christmas classic, “Step Into Christmas,” available to watch now. The new video reimagines what it was like behind the scenes for…
Winning look: Accepting her ground-breaking British Fashion Council Model of the Year award, American transgender model Alex Consani (above) expressed gratitude to herparents for supporting both her modelling aspirations and a transition that began in early childhood Is fashion a force for good? A pioneering transgender woman has been named Model of the Year. Some…
People in the LGBTQIA+ community are more likely to fall victim to crime than the average Dutch person. Last year, 10 percent of lesbian, gay, bi-plus, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people were victims of violence, compared to 6 percent of the rest of the Dutch population. People from the LGBTQIA+ community were twice as…
Stephen welcomes actress/comedian Kate McKinnon. It’s time for plugging her book ‘The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science‘ at Stephen Colbert. DOWNLOAD
Article originates from 2022 Joan Armatrading is one of the most hard-working singer-songwriters of her generation, having released 19 albums in nearly 50 years. Famous for her reclusive nature, little is known about Joan’s private life, as she prefers her music to do the talking for her. She is the subject of a new documentary…
“There would be no [‘Y.M.C.A.’] song without Jacques Morali,” former member David Hodo wrote in a Facebook post A former Village People member has responded to the band’s founder denying that ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is a “gay anthem”. Earlier this week (December 3), it was reported that Victor Willis, who is still active in the group as…
BERLIN (Reuters) -Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of traditional family values and ordinary people. The 45-year-old is raising two sons with a Sri Lankan-born woman, a filmmaker, and speaks fluent Mandarin, having…
US pop star Jojo Siwa was her usual, quirky self, stepping out on the pink carpet in a truly eye popping outfit. The 21 year old, who was gearing up for a performance at the awards, made quite the impression in a colourful top that evoked a vision of a carnival The 21-year-old made quite…
The ruling government’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention has only worsened the environment of impunity November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. As women across the world took to the streets to mark the day, similar scenes were also witnessed in Turkey. As in previous years, bans…
Two transgender candidates are contesting Nepal’s local by-elections for the first time, hoping to push for political representation among sexual and gender minorities in the Himalayan nation. Nepal has some of South Asia’s most progressive laws on LGBTQ rights. But no one from the community has held public office since 2008, when an openly gay…
Cara Delevingne at L’Oreal Paris’s Annual Women of Worth Celebration Event in LA at November 21 2024 With kind thanks to OLYMPIQUE1234
MSNBC is going through some tough times, and it appears that even the network’s biggest talents aren’t immune. Rachel Maddow, one of the network’s biggest names, even took a paycut, trimming her salary by $5 million. Following the news that Rachel’s salary had been trimmed by $5 million, many wanted to know what the starting…
Raya and the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran has publicly come out as queer. The 35-year-old talent announced the exciting news during a recent Vanity Fair feature for her film The Wedding Banquet – which is a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer romantic comedy of the same name. “I haven’t said this publicly…
Red Hot founder John Carlin, project leaders Dust Reid and Massima Bell, and artists Asher White, Perfume Genius, Kara Jackson, and L’Rain discuss the making of the organization’s new, 46-song, 100-artist compilation and how the project’s perspective, truth, and breadth might change the behavior of a world that has demonized its most brilliant and marginalized…
Mean Girls co-stars Lindsay Lohan and Lacey Chabert reunited on Watch What Happens Live!, where they recreated one of the scenes from the 2004 hit film. Lindsay reprised her role as Cady Heron, Lacey as her role of Gretchen Wieners, and Andy Cohen taking on Rachel McAdams‘ Regina George. Lindsay began, “Having lunch with the…
In late October, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association (ILGA) suspended the membership of the Israeli LGBTQ association Aguda. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Jewish activists have faced hostility from the Western LGBTQ community. Western groups have been visibly present at pro-Palestinian marches,…