gaynation.co - 349 Showbiz News and Updates

2 min read Readers are invited to travel virtually to São Paulo in Brazil and get to know a cross-section of local gay, bi, queer, and trans men through intimate photography and personal storytelling in the latest Elska project.

2 min read For the first time in history, a rainbow flag was raised aboard a Norwegian warship on the weekend as the annual Bergen Pride Parade moved from land to the water due to Covid-19 with the first-ever boat pride parade.

2 min read In recognition of Pride Month, a world-renowned Christian school in South Africa has flown the rainbow flag from the top of the school’s bell tower. St John’s College in Johannesburg is a world-class Christian, African school founded in 1898 and for the second year running the school has raised the rainbow flag.

3 min read Danish tennis player Holger Rune has caused an uproar and forced the ATP Tour to open an investigation into homophobic expletives that the 18-year-old player screamed during a semi-final match in Biella, Italy.

3 min read He’s back, well Israel Folau could be back playing rugby league on the Gold Coast in Australia next weekend, but on the homophobic posts that had him sacked from Australia Rugby two years ago he is unapologetic, “I Believe What the Bible Says”.

< 1 min read Just in time for Pride Month, Disney has released the first trailer for Love, Victor season two ahead of next month’s premiere. It feels like it has been forever since Love, Victor Season 1 ended and left us on the cliffhanger of Victor coming out to his parents.

2 min read For the first time globally in either the Bachelor or Bachelorette TV franchise, the cast will be mixed gender after an Australian bisexual youth worker was cast as the latest star of The Bachelorette.

2 min read A singer’s emotionally powerful original performance in a talent show audition, singing about his experiences of coming out as gay and self-acceptance, has left the show’s judges floored and in tears.

6 min read The 2021 Formula One season kicks off at Bahrain’s International Circuit in Sakhir this weekend and it will see a whole new group of drivers that will join those that survived the great cull and movement in 2020.

2 min read The Namibian government is refusing to recognise a same-sex couple as legal which has left newborn twin girls to be cruelly separated from their father and brother.

2 min read A gay man has been left unconscious and lying in a pool of his own blood following a vicious homophobic attack in an inner-city suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

2 min read In what seems to be from a scene out of “Groundhog Day” and following backlash from all circles that the New Zealand Government isn’t moving fast enough in banning conversion therapy, including the fact that National, Green and Labour parties have all agreed to the ban, the NZ Minister of Justice has again reaffirmed the […]

2 min read Virgin Australia is taking fabulous to new heights, announcing it will operate a Pride Flight from Brisbane to Sydney on Friday 5 March, ahead of the country’s largest annual gay and lesbian celebration.

2 min read As rumours and unofficial sources continue to be leaking information about RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, Drag Race fan site “Not Today Satan” have released their list of ten drag queens that they believe will be the cast of season one.

2 min read After a three week public campaign and an intense two days of challenges, Bharat Mahajan was announced as the winner of Mr Gay New Zealand 2021 on stage at the Ending HIV Big Gay Out just before Auckland was sent into a level three lockdown on Sunday.

2 min read On my return to Auckland, the City of Sails, after a decade away in the windy city of Wellington, I’ve unwittingly studied the culture change since 1998 when I entered my first Gay Bar, “Legends”, on K road.

2 min read “When the working day is done. You know gays, they want to have fun”.

3 min read Have you ever been made to feel inferior within the queer community based on other people’s perceptions of you? Have you been seen as less desirable because you’re a person of colour in the queer community? Has someone based your attractiveness on your body type? A universal topic through the queer community is certain perceptions […]

2 min read A special edition Pride Stamp has been developed by New Zealand Post to celebrate the country’s Pride Month which will be held under no Covid-19 restrictions this year due to the country’s ability to keep the virus under control.

2 min read Following an expected backlash and ‘shitstorm’ that would come with Israel Folau returning to rugby league in Sydney, the St George Illawarra Dragons have decided to pull out of discussions to sign the player before the issue was to be discussed by the NRL.

2 min read Australia’s National Rugby League Chairman is on a collision course with one of their franchise clubs after the St George Dragons requested to include Israel Folau in their 2021 squad and see him return to Australian sport for the first time since his disgraced sacking over homophobic statements in 2019.

2 min read Auckland and Brisbane have failed to progress their bids for the 2026 Gay Games as the shortlist has been reduced to just three cities. The shortlisted host cities are Guadalajara, Mexico, Munich, Germany, and Valencia, Spain.

2 min read A record-breaking 767 companies achieved a top-score for LGBTQ-inclusive workplace policies despite an arduous year for businesses, stakeholders, and customers during 2020.

2 min read Founder of the Mature Age Gay group in Sydney, Steven Ostrow has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2021 Australia Day honours. Ostrow was awarded the OAM for service to the LGBTIQ community, and to the performing arts.

2 min read The son of a former Nigerian presidential advisor who is vehemently opposed to homosexuality has come out as gay on social media and Dad is not happy.

< 1 min read US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Monday that will lift the Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

2 min read As reported by Gay Nation over the last four weeks, RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under is now under production in Auckland, New Zealand and RuPaul will host the series alongside co-judge and Drag Race veteran Michelle Visage.

2 min read Just a few weeks into 2021 at least 10 anti-transgender bills have been introduced across seven different states by Republican lawmakers. According to reports, the majority of the Republican-sponsored bills target gender-affirming healthcare and trans youth, including redefining “child abuse” to include parents who support their trans kids.

2 min read Former Australia’s Got Talent Winner and The Voice contestant Jack Vidgen has opened up on the latest edition of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here saying he was worried about coming out as gay because he thought it was seen as “dirty, disturbed and perverted”.

2 min read A gay man from the US state of Kentucky has recounted his horrifying experience to “cure” his homosexuality in so-called ‘conversion therapy’ sessions. In an op-ed written for The River City News, Curtis Galloway described his traumatising conversion therapy experience saying the supposed treatment left him with “permanent mental and emotional scars”.

< 1 min read Start your engines ladies… RuPaul has landed in Auckland, New Zealand to start 14 days of quarantine at a local hotel before the beginning of filming for Drag Race Australia.

2 min read A US teen has found himself being supported by over 200,000 people after he was suspended from his Texas school for wearing nail polish. 17-year-old Trevor Wilkinson, a senior at Clyde High School in Clyde, Texas, found himself at the centre of controversy after he returned from Thanksgiving break with his nails painted.

2 min read A lawyer working to advance the rights of the LGBTIQ+ legal community has won the 2020 Australian Young Lawyer Award. Queensland lawyer Dean Clifford-Jones founded Pride in Law in 2017, which advocates for tolerance and equality across the legal profession.

2 min read The first Pride Round in New Zealand cricket history will be held next month when the Northern Districts Cricket Association host matches against Auckland highlighting the association’s commitment to ensuring cricket is ‘a game for all New Zealanders’.

3 min read The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations has warmly welcomed an announcement by the Federal Government, on World AIDS Day, that every person living in Australia with HIV will have access to life-saving antiretroviral medicine, regardless of Medicare eligibility.

2 min read New Zealand’s openly gay Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has shown his support on social media toward a school in the Nation’s Capital that has been sent into lockdown following a “credible threat” to the LGBT+ student community.