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.
Video game culture tends to cater toward cis-het bros, many of whom post whiny complaints on social media when their games feature LGBTQ inclusion or use homophobic language in their gameplay. (Remember the gamer who offered a "But I'm from London" explanation to excuse the slur he dropped?) But lately, many video games - and not even ones with overt queer and trans inclusion - are showing more colors of the rainbow in their pixels and polygons.
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.
"Why [are] D*n*ld Tr*mp, Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice protecting this person," asked TikToker Harry Sisson a few days ago, referring to the blacked-out address on an especially incriminating email citing a "fun night" with Epstein's "littlest girl." Since the start of the file rollout in late December, the DOJ has claimed that redactions are in place to help protect the privacy of Epstein's many victims.
Transphobic billionaire author J.K. Rowling has encouraged random people in the United Kingdom to photograph people in women's restrooms just in case they are transgender. Her advice is likely to result in the public harassment of cisgender women who don't fit people's preconceived notions of how a cis woman "should" look - such harassment has occurred many times in the past.
Administration health officials praised a statement released Tuesday by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) that advises against conducting "gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery" on people under the age of 19, even though such procedures are rarely conducted on minors. The ASPS based its statement on two recent reports from the U.K. and the U.S. that were widely criticized by transgender healthcare advocates as being biased.
But the most startling event was the couples competition, which featured a pair of male skaters, dressed in camouflage, with tape over their mouths in an "X"-a direct protest against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The couple who followed them-two shirtless men, around the same height, alternately lifting each other up and rolling over each other with playful, affectionate aggression-struck me as equally political, suggesting not just what was banned but what was possible.
[Joel] Skating is probably the best feeling ever. It is like a mix of flying and effortlessness and all of the best experiences that you want as a human, but you can't, because we have gravity. [Christian] I would say my favorite thing about skating is the sense of freedom that you can't find anywhere else.
A Professional Standards Department report, obtained by the BBC, found failures in how Hertfordshire Police handled the case, including the decision to treat Gough's passing as a sudden death rather than investigating it as criminal blackmail, despite links to other cases of suspected blackmail involving victims targeted on Grindr. According to the BBC, there were multiple cases of suspected blackmail via Grindr in Gough's local area. At least four were linked to the same group of people, who are still at large.
Garrard Conley was enrolled in the now defunct Love in Action conversion therapy program in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 19. He was sent there by his parents after a classmate disclosed his sexual orientation to them following an assault. Conley grew up in a deeply religious family in rural Arkansas. He says he had to attend the program or face rejection from his family, and he ultimately agreed to enter the program.
Another Sundance Film Festival has come & gone, but this time, as the red carpets get rolled up and we put our snow boots back in storage, we're also saying goodbye to Park City, Utah, the fest's historic home since it was founded over 40 years ago by the late Robert Redford. And though its new location in Boulder, Colorado promises to take the annual celebration of independent cinema to a state decidedly
Moscow resident David Gevondyan, who is 22 years old, was given a fine for his post on European social media site VK. In his appeal, Gevondyan argued that he had not violated the law and that Queen's outfit choices did not constitute 'LGBT Propaganda'. According to Verstka, the court rejected his argument, noting that Gevondyan's page also showed photos of men kissing and men dressed in miniskirts. He was fined an undisclosed amount for all of the images.
Labey stars as Rex Gallagher, a former gang member and the son of Fraser Black (Jesse Birdsall) and the late Grace Black (Tamara Wall). Rex has not been the nicest person to the residents of Hollyoaks but is trying to make amends whilst also processing his grief over Grace's death. As part of a new storyline, Rex was seen admiring his mother's clothes and put on her lipstick.
'I started crying,' Azar told me one afternoon last summer, as we sat on the sun-drenched porch of Gifford, overlooking the brick courtyard. Guests popped over to bid him hello, and he gently directed them over the lobby bar for a moment of respite from the heat. He continued the story: 'I was like, 'This is actually why I'm doing this.'
The Pride event took place on January 31, where the Fife Flyers were competing against the Guildford Flames. The team wore the Pride jerseys during their warm-up, but changed into their regular uniform for the game. In a post on their social media, the Fife Flyers said the decision to switch their uniforms before the game was to respect the 'diversity of background and personal beliefs' on the team.
New data has shown that one in six children that died by suicide in England between April 2019 and March 2025 were part of the LGBTQ+ community. Out of the 647 children that died by suicide during that time period, 107 were LGBTQ+ and 46 were transgender. The figures were obtained by QueerAF via a Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database.
