Laverne Cox is Rocky Horror’s new Frank-N-Furter
In a potentially brilliant casting move, Laverne Cox has scooped the iconic role of “transsexual” Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The original camp stage show and 1975 film continue to be cult crowd-pleasers around the world, with the role of the bisexual fishnet-stockinged homicidal Frank-N-Furter, most famously played by […]
Really? Mugabe wins Chinese ‘Nobel Peace Prize’
In a slap in the face to Zimbabwe’s LGBT community, China has awarded President Robert Mugabe its equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 91-year-old proudly homophobic leader was announced as the recipient of the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize this week. The award was created in response to the Norwegian Nobel Committee selecting Chinese dissident […]
Olympic skier and extreme sports star comes out as gay
American freestyle skier and extreme sports hero Gus Kenworthy has told the world that he’s gay, and that he’s tired of lying about who he is. Kenworthy, 24, won the silver medal in the Men’s Freestyle Skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. On Thursday, the British-born athlete came out in an […]