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Enter Heated Rivalry (Saturday 10 January, 9pm, Sky Atlantic), a Canadian queer romp so hot it threatens to scorch the ice it skates upon. Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are star players from Montreal and Moscow respectively, mysteriously drawn to each other on the rink, in the full glare of the media. Well, not that mysteriously. The co-leads get down to business almost immediately, with a not-quite meet cute in a shower room.

Eli Erlick's journey "starts with my story being a trans girl who came out in 2003 - before we were supposed to have existed, according to the mainstream media right now," she tells PinkNews. A couple of years ago, frustrated with the "erasure of trans history" and continued anti-trans narratives, she began writing a history book. It spotlights underreported trans stories from 1850 to 1950, including some experiences that "haven't been told in 120 years".

In response, Williams said he didn't think there was an easy answer, noting "there are straight women, there are trans women, there are gay women, like queer women" who are fans. However, in the clip initially shared by Quinn, Williams says: "There are straight women, there are gay women, like queer women," with "trans women" edited out. On 3 January, the Quinn X account responded to a user who called out the edit.

'Rebel Dykes' is a retrospective term to describe a raucous, unapologetic community of activist, sex-positive lesbians who lived on the very fringes of society in 1980s London - many of them squatting in areas such as Brixton and Peckham - and who ran riot through both the decade and city. The group's origins can be traced back to the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp of the early 1980s, which itself was a liberating feminist space and a place to explore sapphic sexuality.

In this episode: coming out. Academia can think of itself as an area that can ask the difficult questions. Science, after all, is all about getting to the bottom of things, seeking an understanding of the world around us in all its complexity. But when it comes to the complexity of researchers themselves, academia can often struggle to have the tough conversations.

"My son came out as trans six months ago and his father hasn't looked at him since. Just walks past him in the hallway like he's invisible," the mother wrote in a post published by the X user @crazyvibes_1. "My boy is 17, sleeping on our couch because his dad changed the locks on his bedroom door, said he won't have 'that confusion' under his roof."

The bill, modeled on Russia's ban on LGBTQ+ speech, included fines and jail time for people found to have spread pro-LGBTQ+ messages in the media (including education and advertising materials) or on social media. The bill bans "the use of media, literature, entertainment, and other events that promote non-traditional sexual relations and pedophilia," linking LGBTQ+ identities with child sex abuse, an old negative stereotype used to drum up support for homophobia.

Dr Luke Brunning, lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds, said of the findings: "For some, heteroflexible will describe accurately how they experience attraction or typically behave. For others, it might be more of a promise-to-self, something they want to look into further, explore, or which they hope they will be in a position to experience in the future." Dr Brunning added that the flexibility could be viewed "negatively" as a "deviation" from the heterosexual standard, especially for men who may "suffer extensive bi-erasure" or be "unable to accept they are 'actually gay'".

Oddo completed his novitiate, wrote a doctoral dissertation, and entered the priesthood in the wake of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, often known as Vatican II, which met between 1962 and 1965. Vatican II ushered in dramatic, liberal changes to the Catholic Church, including allowing Masses to be said in vernacular languages instead of Latin and embracing ecumenism, or dialog with other Christian faiths.

In a 25-page sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday, Corado's lawyer, Pleasant S. Brodnax III, asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden to impose a time-served sentence rather than incarceration, citing her lack of prior criminal history, decades of LGBTQ+ advocacy, and what the filing describes as the uniquely severe and dangerous conditions transgender women now face in federal custody, under the Trump administration.

Related: Federal HR office sets deadline for government-wide purge of transgender and nonbinary inclusion OPM sent a letter to insurance carriers last year saying that as of 2026, "chemical and surgical modification of an individual's sex traits through medical interventions (to include 'gender transition"' services) will no longer be covered under the FEHB or PSHB Programs. There is a narrow exception for people who are mid-treatment.

I have never been more self-assured in life than I am now at 38. Every relationship in my lifefeels more secure with each waking day. I make more choices for myself now than I ever have,and I care far less about pleasing others than I ever did. But I still regularly pretend to be someone else - possibly even daily. Like Stephen, my formative years were spent playing a completely different character.

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons modification, uploaded to the site GameBanana on Saturday (4 January), gives the cartoon Shih Tzu larger breasts and buttocks as well as a thinner waist. Activist and author Parker Molloy highlighted the fan-made addon in a seemingly bewildered post on BlueSky, asking: "Why, though?" Her post received such significant backlash, including a flurry of transphobic death threats, that Molloy not only deleted the post, but her entire Bluesky account.

The bill's passage came despite urgent calls from international rights groups - including Access Now, Civil Rights Defenders, Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Partnership for Human Rights, and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee - for lawmakers to reject the legislation, saying it would "blatantly violate" Kazakhstan's human rights commitments.

I see nothing positive to be gained by punishing your daughter and your 6- and 8-year-old grandchildren, who have offered viable alternatives, because their father is uncomfortable with your sexual orientation. Let your daughter visit and bring the children. Foster a strong relationship with all of them. If you succeed, your narrow-minded son-in-law may find himself increasingly marginalized.

Everyone at the London Stadium as well as millions around the world saw the criticism, abuse and ridicule Slaven Bilic was subjected to last Friday night as we recorded a superb win over West Ham [then managed by Bilic]. What they didn't witness was that same man standing outside the Brighton dressing room afterwards, waiting for each and every one of our players and coaches to offer congratulations and a warm handshake.

Tributes have poured in for RuPaul's Drag Race UK star The Vivienne, one year on from her death. On Saturday (3 January), monuments across Liverpool and the north west were lit up green to honour the drag star, whose real name was James Lee Williams, in reference to her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End and UK tour production of the Wizard of Oz.

I have everything I once believed would make life feel whole: a loving family, dependable friends, financial stability, my own apartment, and a car that starts every morning. My closets hold more clothes and shoes than I need. The fridge is full. These are countless people can only dream of. And yet, I am lonely. Nationwide, that loneliness is not unusual. A from 2022 showed nearly 40% of adults experience moderate to severe loneliness. Proof that material comfort doesn't guarantee emotional connection.

"Part of the beauty of psychedelics is that they loosen our fixed notions of ourselves in the world," said Jae Sevelius, a licensed clinical psychologist and behavioral health researcher at Columbia University.

A new study reveals religious and faith-driven homophobic attitudes are depriving HIV-positive Ugandans of care, and impeding progress toward eradicating the epidemic. LGBTQ+ people living with HIV in Uganda already face heightened risk due to limited inclusive services and government-sanctioned homophobia. The Anti-Homosexuality Act, or so-called "Kill the Gays" law, passed in 2023, prescribes long prison terms and even the death penalty in some circumstances for same-sex relations.