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Liverpool Museums go online for LGBT+ History Month

National Museums Liverpool (NML) is to celebrate this February’s LGBT+ history month with a major series of online exhibitions revealing the untold histories and lived experiences of LGBT+ people in the city.…

Biden issues “most substantive, wide-ranging” LGBTQ+ executive order

The Human Rights Campaign has praised President Joe Biden for introducing what it describes as “the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order concerning sexual orientation and gender identity ever issued by a United…

Joe Exotic: “too innocent and too gay” for Trump pardon

Reality star Joe Exotic, who is currently serving a 22-year jail sentence for 17 charges of animal abuse and 2 charges of attempted murder for hire of his rival Big Cat Rescue…

A Passion for Equality

Joanne Monck is an Advisor on LGBTQ+ matters and hate crime and works with Sussex police on LGBTQ+ and trans awareness. She has just been awarded an OBE for Services to Transgender…

A group of gay professional footballers is planning to come out in May.

According to the Preussiche Allgemeine Zeitung, the professional footballers will come out as gay in 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia. This is also the Friday before the final weekend of…

Apologise to all LGBTs, says top police officer

Northumbria’s Chief Constable, Vanessa Jardine, has made a formal apology to the LGBT+ community She is also urging all Chief Constables to do the same: to say sorry for past homophobic witch-hunts…

Priscilla back on the Road

A sequel to cult camp hit The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert is set to hit the screens. Talking to The Guardian, director Stephan Elliott said that it was the…

Latvia signs in the EU’s first openly gay head of state

Former foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics has become the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation. Rinkevics, was sworn in as Latvia’s president on Saturday in Riga. Rinkevics, 49,…

A Strange Loop

Smash hit musical A Strange Loop has arrived in London. It’s about being black, fat and queer and RuPaul called it above and beyond brilliant and Billy Porter said it’s one of…

Adam for Pride in London

Adam Lambert will headline this year’s Pride in London on 1 July in Trafalgar Square In a major coup, Pride in London have enlisted gay megastar as the main act on the…

I Do at Chelsea Flower Show

The Chelsea Flower Show has just hosted its first wedding. And it’s a gay wedding. Award-winning garden designer Manoj Malde married Clive Gilmour on Monday 22 May, in a garden that Manoj…

Lesbians and bi women at greater risk of heart disease

Lesbians and bisexual women are at greater risk of heart disease then their heterosexual counterparts, new findings have shown. The survey was conducted with 169,434 individuals in 21 cities in France. It…

An abominable showman

Abomination is a new opera starring Northern Ireland’s most famous drag queen. Cary Gee meets up with Matt Cavan to discuss homophobia, the art of drag, living with HIV, and life in…

Review: Aladdin Sane Live at the Royal Festival Hall

Given the schizophrenic nature of Bowie’s follow-up to Ziggy Stardust, it is perhaps fitting that this live tribute, orchestrated by the Nu Civilisation Orchestra to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its release,…

Drag Race winner to star in Doctor Who

RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon is to join the cast of Doctor Who. The star who won the fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the seventh season of RuPaul’s Drag…

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility

The International Transgender Day of Visibility occurs every 31 March. It aims to celebrate the lives of transgender and non-binary people the world over and to raise awareness of the discrimination many…