< 1 min read The largest amateur rugby union tournament in the world, The Bingham Cup, kicks off this week in Ottawa Canada with players from more than 20 countries taking the field in the competition’s 10th edition.
< 1 min read The largest amateur rugby union tournament in the world, The Bingham Cup, kicks off this week in Ottawa Canada with players from more than 20 countries taking the field in the competition’s 10th edition.
2 min read Mr Gay World 2022 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from 9 to 16 October 2022. In the wake of the lifting of international Covid-19 restrictions, this will be the first time in three years that Mr Gay World will be presented as an in-person event.
2 min read Amidst the storm that has erupted from the refusal by seven National Rugby League (NRL) players to refuse to play a game of football while wearing a rainbow jersey, Australia’s leading LGBTQ+ sport organisation has reminded everyone that Pride rounds and jerseys still make a difference.
3 min read In less than eight months more than 500,000 people will descend on Sydney Australia for World Pride 2023 and today the major events and ticket sales have been announced on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
< 1 min read The news we’ve all been waiting for, the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Downunder will premiere globally on Saturday 30 July 2022.
< 1 min read German airline Lufthansa has taken Pride month to the next level decking out one of their Airbus A320neo aircraft with a rainbow seating display and renaming the ship “Lovehansa”. The plane from Europe’s second-largest airline will be used on special destinations throughout Europe during the northern hemisphere summer.
2 min read Australian actress Rebel Wilson has confirmed that she is in a relationship with clothing brand founder Ramona Agruma. In addition to sharing the heartwarming news, the Senior Year star, 42, included a sweet snapshot of the pair cuddled up close and smiling.
2 min read Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Fighter Jeff Molina has responded to the vitriol fired at him by social media trolls after wearing UFC’s Pride Month shorts in a victorious fight on the weekend.
2 min read Former Empire star and convicted criminal Jussie Smollett who was previously sentenced to five months in prison for staging a homophobic attack is returning to the world of entertainment with his directorial debut, B-Boy Blues.
2 min read A school captain who was asked to give a commencement speech in front of the entire school in Florida USA was told he couldn’t say the word gay otherwise his microphone would be cut off.
< 1 min read After a whirlwind premiere season and a second season that whizzed by, Love, Victor is about to take its final curtain as the final season gets set to be unleashed on June 15.
< 1 min read The curtain has been pulled back on the reimagined new series of Queer As Folk as the first trailer has been dropped by US streamer Peacock. Relocating from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, the new series explores the lives of a diverse community of LGBTQ+ individuals whose lives are altered following a tragedy.
3 min read Funding has been committed to help establish a long-awaited Australian LGBTIQA+ museum to be based in Sydney.
3 min read In a plot twist that not even TV’s break out hit Ted Lasso has tackled (pardon the pun), 17-year-old Jake Daniels has become the first UK male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay and has been praised for his bravery by everyone, including Josh Cavallo, the Australian player whose […]
3 min read After Covid-19 forced the cancellation of Mr Gay Pride Australia 2020 and 2021, the competition will be returning in 2022, joining forces with the Rainbow on the Plains Festival in Hay, New South Wales, where the finale will be hosted in November.
3 min read Kalush Orchestra have won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine with their song ‘Stefania’. After the jury scores were tabulated, the United Kingdom’s entry Space Man by Sam Ryder was leading the pack with 283 points, with Sweden and Spain close behind with 258 and 231 points.
2 min read Seven months before the opening of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the president of the Norwegian football federation has raised her voice to denounce the lack of security guarantees for LGBTQI+ people.
2 min read The Sydney Cricket Ground was awash in a vibrant display of pride and self-expression on Saturday night as the iconic Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade united LGBTQIA+ communities from all over Australia.
< 1 min read One of the key figures behind the horrific Chechnyan “gay purge” has been killed in action while assisting invading Russian forces in Ukraine. Magomed Tushayev, who was one of the top military advisors for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, helping to oversee a horrendous “purge” of LGBTQ+ people since 2017, was reportedly killed by Ukrainian forces.
< 1 min read LGBTQ+ activists across social media are calling for followers to share an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin in drag to showcase support for Ukraine and their rainbow community amid the invasion of their nation.
2 min read Sheldon Riley will represent Australia at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin after being crowned the winner of the Australian Eurovision competition at the live final on the Gold Coast.
3 min read With fears of a full-on Russian invasion of Ukraine growing every day, Oksana Solonska from KyivPride speaks with Matt Fistonich about what it’s like being LGBTQ+ in Ukraine, what effects a Russian takeover could have, and how Kiwis can help queer Ukrainians amid this geopolitical crisis.
< 1 min read Multiple episodes of the hit television series Friends have been removed or censored by Chinese streaming services due to LGBTQ+ characters and storylines.
< 1 min read The nation of Iran has reportedly executed two men following six years of imprisonment after they were convicted under Iran’s anti-gay laws. According to the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA), Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi are said to have been executed in the Maragheh prison in northwestern Iran following their arrests over six years ago.
2 min read The New Zealand National Party has confirmed that it will allow its MPs to vote with their conscience on the proposed ban on conversion therapy in Aotearoa.
3 min read Mental health is one of the biggest issues affecting the rainbow community across the globe and now the current Mr Gay New Zealand is rolling his sleeves up and leading a project to tackle the problem head-on.
3 min read A famous US baseball team that had once traded a player to another team because he refused to marry a woman, will later this month allow two gay men to marry in the middle of their pitching mount, repairing the sports fractured relationship with the LGBTQ community.
2 min read Footballer Josh Cavallo, currently the only professional playing in a professional football league in the world, has hit out at spectator homophobic abuse and also the failure of Instagram to do more to eliminate abuse from its platform.
2 min read RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under season two is scheduled to commence filming on Thursday in Auckland, the home of the first season where local star Kita Mean took out the title.
2 min read An Aussie amateur gay porn star Alec McGeary has avoided jail time after he was found with hundreds of files showing disturbing sexual abuse of children — including on a 3yo boy.
2 min read Despite uncertainty around the upcoming presidential elections, Chile has taken a major progressive step forward and voted to legalise same-sex marriage.
< 1 min read Married at First Sight Australia has decided to axe a contestant from the show following homophobic and misogynistic outbursts on his social media. The man at the centre of the controversy, Simon Blackburn, was featured in the teaser trailer for the show’s upcoming season.
2 min read Joseph Maldonado-Passage, best known as Joe Exotic – Tiger King, has been transferred to a federal medical facility in North Carolina following his recent diagnosis of prostate cancer. According to attorney John M.
2 min read Former Australian Rules Football coach Dani Laidley has returned to her former club and spoken for the first time at an event celebrating the club’s debt-free status, the first in more than a generation.
2 min read Harry Styles has helped one of his fans come out to her mother in the middle of his concert during the Milwaukee leg of Styles’ Love On Tour concert series. Standing near the stage holding a sign that read, “My mom is in Section 201.
2 min read Louw Breytenbach representing South Africa has been crowned Mr Gay World 2021 and has vowed to be visible and accountable to the LGBTIQ+ community and not just another “cover boy”.