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I've had conversations with people who I've known, loved, and trusted, and still do, who thought, you know, your career would do better if you didn't go outside holding your girlfriend's hand. And I was like, 'So, you want me to live a partial life. And you want me to uphold and perpetuate and sustain a system that excludes people.' And I just can't do that.

At the time, she told US Weekly, "I loved the idea of how all these guys always are stealing other guys' girls and I was like, 'There's no female anthem for a girl stealing another guy's girl,' so she went ahead and made one. The single's visuals brought a story to that idea, following suburban teen friends Coley and Sonya as they realize they have deeper feelings for each other, despite the fact that the latter has a boyfriend."

The scene was chaotic and joyful, with several young kids running around and scattering croissant crumbs on our sofa while their parents attempted adult conversation over mimosas. Inevitably, the moment arrived when a child knocked over a drink on our coffee table. It was an old West Elm design with a panel on top and a storage area underneath. The spilled beverage was dripping into the seams, so a crowd of parents rushed to open the table and mop up the liquid pooling within.

"We came up with the idea that we would make an amazing dream team," Garcia says.

"It's an outrage," says Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal. "But it's an outrage upon another outrage because we know that this administration seems very comfortable in attacking religious, ethnic, and other minorities, including the LGBTQ population."

During those 10 years, her students have created 63 new articles and edited 588 others, adding 332,000 words and more than 3,000 citations across pages that have collectively been viewed more than 900 million times. "As a professor, I am really proud of the impact my students are having to make sure that Wikipedia reflects the diversity of the world," Rodríguez told PinkNews.

The museum devoted to the alphabet soup of sexualities has had a revamp of its displays and turned a small museum into a cramped one. It's always been a small space, with one main room and a second, smaller temporary exhibition space, but they've added two more glass cases in the middle of the main room, turning a wide rectangle into a corridor.

German football referee Pascal Kaiser was attacked over the weekend, his lawyer told local media on Monday. Kaiser was admitted to the hospital due to an assault. He also posted a photo of his bruised face on Instagram. The attack took place in front of Kaiser's Cologne home, with three unidentified men attacking him after he had gone out for a cigarette.

In July 2024, the 50-year-old came out as gay on Instagram, uploading a photo of himself and his partner Etienne Bousquet-Cassagne, 36, looking at a sunset. The pictured was captioned: "The most beautiful thing in life is when you have the right partner by your side with whom you can share everything." On Sunday (8 February), German outlet Bild reported that Schumacher and Bousquet-Cassagne are planning to tie the knot during a three-day event in Saint-Tropez this May.

I have my own moral code, my own moral imperative, that I have to answer to at the end of the day, as a wife and mother, and I believe in my ability and responsibility to do this, and that's why I'm here,

The organizers of Disney Gay Days - the unofficial annual fan event where LGBTQ+ people visit the Disney World theme park in Orlando, Florida - cancelled this year's event, scheduled for the first weekend in June (which was to be the event's 35th anniversary), according to a public Facebook post published Sunday. "Changes to our host hotel agreement, the loss of key sponsorship support, and broader challenges currently impacting LGBTQIA+ events nationwide made it impossible to deliver the experience our community deserves," organizers wrote.

Every year, brands reportedly drop millions of dollars on ads with famous faces for a coveted commercial spot during the Super Bowl, which felt especially uninspired & dystopian this time around, in our opinion. (Anyone catch that creepy Ring security system ad about lost dogs? Um, police-state much?) But leave it to language-learning app Duolingo to make the biggest impression on game day for a fraction of the cost, with not a famous face to be found-just one famous body!

HE SAID YES! 🌈💍 The moment queer football fan Pascal proposed to his boyfriend before a Bundesliga game. Pascal Kaiser came out three years ago. He is also an Amateur referee and a huge fan of Bundesliga side Cologne. pic.twitter.com/fx3FdfTIw2- DW Sports (@dw_sports) February 2, 2026

Legal experts at Good Law Project revealed in a Saturday (7 February) report that deaths by suicide among trans youngsters surged to 22 in England between 2021 and 2022. The number is nearly six times higher than reported deaths in 2020-21, according to its freedom of information (FOI) data, with at least four trans and non-binary young people in 2020-21. Comparatively, the number of reported deaths went down by one between 2019-20 and 2020-21.

On the night of her 60th birthday, Sally Goldner climbed on to the top rope of the wrestling ring, to the roars of the crowd, and launched herself on to her competitors with a missile dropkick. The crowd roared. For a second, she was completely airborne, before landing on her opponents. Wow, I'm doing this,' she thought. Exhilarating. I couldn't think of anything I'd rather be doing on my birthday.

After performing on Friday (6 February) in the Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance event, Canada's Paul Poirier and Piper Gilles' routine circulated around the internet filling multiple feeds. The pair danced to a mash up of RuPaul's "Supermodel (You Better Work)" and Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy". And when we say it's stunning, it's stunning! The program is full of death defying twirls, lifts, and jumps. There's some hairography and even a bit of voguing before the routine closes as RuPaul demands: "You better work."

In a post shared to the app's website, Grindr announced that it would become an AI-first company, which it says means "a faster, smarter, more personalised app that helps you connect with less effort and makes every conversation count". Powered by gAI™, Grindr's own AI stack, EDGE is embedded across the entire user journey of the app. New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations

Get to know and be friends with other gays," said one. "Meaningful, genuine, healthy romantic relationships come from friendship. Not from passionate s*xual encounters with strangers. And focus on your health, your style, hobbies, mental clarity through expunging all the toxins built up from ... mistreatment in your childhood.

Greg Kelly, an anchor on the right-wing Newsmax media outlet, said he will not watch the NFL Super Bowl game this Sunday, and that the game's logo looks "a little bit LGBT queer-ish" to him. "The colors, a little bit. I'm sorry. I think it is," Kelly said in a Thursday broadcast, according to Media Matters. "And that's whatever. I think it has nothing to do with football. Straight, gay, whatever. Why is that, kind of, in big ways, explicit ways and subliminal ways, it always seems to be a thing?"

The mother of a transgender child has said she was forced to home-school him after the government's controversial sex education guidance posed "safeguarding concerns". The seven-year-old trans boy was reportedly removed from public education after being subjected to "inhuman" statements about his gender identity during lessons. Speaking exclusively to PinkNews, the parent, who wished to remain anonymous, said she received "zero support" from staff at the school despite making numerous complaints about safeguarding concerns.

Evans, 46, and Tomas, 36, welcomed podcast host Jon Dean to a rental property they recently stayed in while in Cardiff (Evans is originally from Wales, while Tomas is Spanish). In their 48-minute conversation, they discussed meeting, their relationship in terms of the time they spend together, their ex-boyfriends, and their decision to start a business together. The men co-found and run the clothing and lifestyle brand, BDXY.

I just replayed my whole life - 16 years of pain and struggling in the closet - and I just thought to myself, 'What is the big deal?' I didn't have any social media at the time, just my private Facebook which had my football boys on it and I thought, 'Do you know what - I am just going to make a wee post.' Then I fell asleep, when I woke up it was an explosion of notifications, all the media outlets picked it up.

A portion of a memo that Barry's sent to instructors last year about how to handle ICE is being shared across Reddit and social media. The snippet lists seven instructions, including remaining calm, stopping the class and staying at the podium. "Do not take responsibility for anybody other than yourself," it directs. The document goes on to say the studio leader will handle communication with ICE and clients.

It might sound like a potentially familiar narrative: a queer coming-of-age story, charted across one single heat-crazed summer in the 70s. From its very first paragraphs, however, this debut novel feels different. Madeleine Dunnigan immediately takes us inside the head of her rather scary protagonist, and makes his adventures in teenage lust and self-awareness as involving as they are immediate. The writing is constantly surprising, as unafraid of sensuality as it is of the story's repeated eruptions of brutality.