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Jonathan Van Ness shares ode to their pets for ‘teaching me how to love myself’

Anyone who keeps up with Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness will know that they are a parent to a menagerie of gorgeous pets.  And now the grooming expert, who is non-binary and uses he/she/they pronouns, has shared a wholesome ode to their pets for “teaching me how to love myself”. The star is parent to three […]

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Sam Smith’s Proms performance will be ‘appropriate’ after ‘Satanic’ backlash

Fans can kiss goodbye to Sam Smith’s raunchy on-stage moments – at least, for now – as the BBC has vowed the singer’s upcoming Proms performance will be “entirely appropriate”.  Smith was announced as a headliner for this year’s BBC Proms on 2 August under the pop programme. However, the broadcasting company was forced to […]

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Who should be crowned winner of Drag Race season 16?

And then there were three. RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 has named its top three queens, but who deserves to walk away with the crown? We’ve broken down the each of the queens’ challenge successes, track records, social media numbers and story arcs. After 14 episodes, not including a still-to-come lip-sync for the gods, the […]

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Why Taylor Swift named one of her new songs after a possibly bisexual 1920s star

Taylor Swift thrilled her fans during her acceptance speech at the 2024 Grammys by announcing that she will soon be releasing a new album, The Tortured Poets Department – and one of the tracks, “Clara Bow”, has caught people’s attention. What’s more a surprising track list inclusion has caught a lot of eyes – the […]

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‘Plane Jane is the reality TV villain Drag Race has long been missing’

Plane Jane has made it to the top three of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 by sheer charisma, uniqueness, nerve, talent – and the embodiment of that acronym. And the show has been all the better for it. We freely admit that Sapphira Cristál or Nymphia Wind should probably take home the crown. Their storylines […]

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Melissa Barrera addresses Scream 7 exit: ‘I felt so lonely and scared’

Melissa Barrera has spoken about her exit from Scream 7 last year. Barrera starred as new character Sam Carpenter in 2022’s “soft-reboot” of the series, simply titled Scream, as well as in 2023’s similarly well-received follow-up, Scream VI. However, Barrera made a shock departure in late 2023 after reportedly being dropped by Scream production company Spyglass over comments […]

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Baby Reindeer star on playing Richard Gadd’s real-life trans partner

Nava Mau, the breakout star of chilling new Netflix mini-series Baby Reindeer, has reflected on the responsibility she felt playing a real-life trans person. Trans actress Mau plays Teri, an American therapist, in Richard Gadd’s critically acclaimed drama based on his real experience of being physically and virtually stalked by a mentally ill woman. Gadd […]

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Reading and Leeds Festival announce new acts for its 2024 lineup

Reading and Leeds Festival have announced more artists that are joining its 2024 lineup – and this is how to get tickets. FLO, Teddy Swims and Kid Kapichi are among the new acts confirmed for the 2024 edition of Reading and Leeds Festival. The festival will take place on 23-25 August at Leeds’ Bramham Park […]

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OJ Simpson’s father was reportedly a gay drag queen

It has been reported that the father of disgraced NFL star OJ Simpson, who has died at the age of 76, was a gay man who performed as a drag queen in San Francisco. Simpson, a former American Football star, broadcaster and actor had been battling prostate cancer and died yesterday (10 April), a family […]

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Trans actress Nava Mau stars in new Netflix stalker drama Baby Reindeer

New Netflix mini-series Baby Reindeer, featuring up-and-coming trans actress Nava Mau as Teri, looks set to be one of the most-talked about TV shows of the month. Based on real events, the Netflix drama tells the chilling story of Scottish comedian Richard Gadd being harassed by a middle-aged woman he meets at the pub where […]

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Drag Race star announces return to drag after two-year hiatus

RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Kameron Michaels has announced her return to drag after two years away. As fellow Drag Race Morgan McMichaels famously said when entering the All Stars 3 werk room: “I look pretty good for a dead bitch.” The same, it seems, can be said for Kameron Michaels, who finished as a runner-up […]

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‘Trans people will always exist – and the Cass report doesn’t change that’

The much-anticipated Cass report has finally been published, bringing with it a host of anti-trans naysayers predicting what they call ‘gender ideology’ is going the way of the dodo. On top of the interim review published by Dr Hilary Cass in 2022, the report, which was commissioned in 2020, makes several recommendations for how trans […]

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Queer Eye newcomer Jeremiah Brent insists there’s ‘no drama’ with cast

Queer Eye’s newest cast member, Jeremiah Brent, has said there’s “no drama” with anyone else on the show, despite speculation of fractures and fallouts following Bobby Berk’s departure.  In January, Berk spilled the tea on a “situation” between him and co-star Tan France, stating the pair “became like siblings – and siblings are always going […]

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Trans TikTok star Jesse Sullivan expecting first child with Francesca Farago

Too Hot to Handle star Francesca Farago and fiancé Jesse Sullivan have announced that they are expecting their first child. Reality TV and YouTube star Francesca Farago took to Instagram to reveal that she and fiancé Jesse Sullivan were expecting a baby together, after the heartbreak of a failed earlier IVF attempt.  “We wanted to […]

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Fantastic Four branded ‘woke’ after Julia Garner cast as female Silver Surfer

Julia Garner’s comic-book accurate casting as a female version of Marvel’s Silver Surfer in the latest film version of The Fantastic Four is already incurring the ire of internet misogynists. Marvel’s superhero quarter first hit the big screen in 2005 – featuring Chris Evans topless and literally-smoking – but despite a sequel in 2007 sequel […]

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Glass Animals announce 2024 tour dates: tickets, presale info and more

Glass Animals have announced details of a 2024 headline world tour – and this is how to get tickets. The group will embark on the Human Musical Group Sensations: Tour of Earth across the US, Canada and Europe. Fans can get their hands on tickets from 10am local time on 11 April via ticketmaster.com and […]

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Hunter Schafer stars in tense and terrifying Cuckoo trailer

Euphoria star Hunter Schafer comes alive in the bloody and brutal trailer for her first feature film, the queer, psychological horror Cuckoo. The 25-year-old actress stars in Tilman Singer’s “bonkers” new film as Gretchen, a teenage girl who reluctantly moves to a mountainous resort in Germany, with her estranged father Luis (Marton Csokas), his second […]

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Drag Race UK’s Tia Kofi shuts down haters ahead of finale

Drag Race UK vs the World star Tia Kofi has responded to a deluge of online criticism over her run to the final of the competition. It would be fair to say that since her first venture into the werk room walls, on season two of Drag Race UK, Tia Kofi (the artist formerly known […]

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First look at Hunter Schafer in new Emma Stone film Kinds of Kindness

The first trailer for Emma Stone’s latest film has dropped and it shows trans Euphoria star Hunter Shafer in one of her biggest roles to date. Kinds of Kindness is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, best known for his recent black comedy Poor Things, for which Stone won this year’s best actress Oscar. He’s also directed […]

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Harry Potter star slams Miriam Margolyes for ‘terrible’ remarks about fans

A Harry Potter actor is unhappy that fellow Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes recently told adult fans of the fantasy film series to “grow up”. Lesbian acting legend Margolyes played Professor Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, but it’s safe to say […]

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