50 SHADES STAR WOWS IN SHIRTLESS PICS
Jamie Dornan, who’s landed the role of Christian Grey in the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey, has shown off his physique for Interview magazine. Surprisingly, the sizzling 32-year-old Northern Irish actor – who posed in his underwear for photographers Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott – revealed that he’s not happy with his body. […]
BRITISH ROYALS IGNORE ANTI-GAY HOTEL BOYCOTT
The Duchess of Cambridge and Princes William and Harry have ignored an international boycott of hotels owned by the anti-gay Sultan of Brunei. The Dorchester Collection hotel chain is being boycotted by human rights groups and a number of public figures, including business magnate Richard Branson and American Vogue’s Anna Wintour, after the sultan imposed a new […]
POLICE ARREST MOSCOW PRIDE ACTIVISTS
Efforts to hold gay Pride events in Moscow have once again been stymied by the authorities, reports the Moscow Times. On Saturday, around 30 activists took part in two Pride rallies. One was held in front of the Moscow mayor’s office and another in Gorky Park. A car with two people waving rainbow flag from its sun […]
ANTI-GAY GROUP: SEND BACK HARVEY MILK STAMP!
The fundamentalist Christian American Family Association (AFA) is up in arms over the issuing of a stamp commemorating the late gay rights icon Harvey Milk. The stamp was launched at the White House by the United States Postal Service on 22 May, which would have been Milk’s 84th birthday. Last week, the outraged AFA offensively […]
MELISSA ETHERIDGE MARRIES PARTNER
Openly lesbian American rock and blues singer Melissa Etheridge has tied the knot. On Saturday, Etheridge married her partner Linda Wallem at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California. The two women, who were born on the same day, had both turned 53 two days earlier. Wallem is an actress, writer and producer and the […]
ANTI-GAY UGANDAN MINISTER SET FOR TOP UN POST
There’s growing anger that Uganda’s Foreign Minister, Sam K. Kutesa, will this month become the head of the UN General Assembly. Critics have pointed out that Kutesa, who has also been accused of corruption, represents his country’s repressive administration, led by President Museveni, which earlier this year enacted the appalling Anti-Homosexuality Act. He has defended […]
OBAMA PROCLAIMS JUNE LGBT PRIDE MONTH
President Barack Obama has once again proclaimed the month of June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, noting that it has been 45 years since the Stonewall Riots ignited the LGBT rights movement. In an official Presidential Proclamation on Friday, he celebrated recent advances in American LGBT equality, such as the wave of same-sex […]
NIGERIAN SENATOR WARNS OF ‘OPPRESSION’ BY GAYS
A senior Nigerian senator has absurdly claimed that gay people are aiming to “oppress” and “blackmail” the rest of society. According to the Daily Trust, Senate Majority Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has urged Nigerians to “not succumb to blackmail of minority advocates and supporters of same-sex marriage to allow such union[s] in the country.” In […]
OLYMPIC ATHLETE COMES OUT AS GAY
A young Canadian Olympic luger has expressed his relief at coming out as a proudly gay man. Nineteen-year-old John Fennell, who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, spoke to the Calgary Herald about the strain of trying to hide his identity from the world. “It’s suffocating,” Fennell said. “You have to play this […]
GEORGE MICHAEL RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
It’s been revealed that British singer George Michael was recently rushed to hospital by ambulance after he collapsed. The Daily Mail reported that Michael had spent several day in hospital after a friend called emergency services from the star’s London home last week. Paramedics spent four hours at the house before moving him to the […]