Andy Burnham's first cabinet was always going to be read as a statement of intent, and buried within Monday's procession of familiar faces through the black door was an appointment that deserves more scrutiny than the news cycle will give it. Wes Streeting, who walked out
Crystal Methyd has been crowned the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 11, ending one of the most eventful seasons in the franchise's history with a finale that delivered drama, disco and a lip-sync gauntlet worthy of the Hall of Fame. The Missouri queen,
Troye Sivan has a new era on the way, and he has announced it in the most Troye Sivan manner imaginable: a social media post in which the Australian pop star wears nothing but a lace thong and a leather trench coat, captioned with a single word, "Soon"
Donald Trump has used another White House address to attack transgender Americans, folding his familiar fixation on trans people in sport into a rambling speech that also pushed election conspiracy theories and demanded Congress pass voting legislation that would disproportionately disenfranchise trans voters. Speaking from the East Room on Thursday
Nicky Campbell has apologised to colleagues at BBC Radio 5 Live after using a homophobic slur during a private editorial meeting, in an episode that has left staff divided and raised uncomfortable questions about what still passes for acceptable language behind closed doors at the corporation. The 65-year-old
When Heartstopper arrived on Netflix in the spring of 2022, it was greeted as something close to a miracle, and in a sense it was one. Here was a queer teen romance with no dead boyfriend, no predatory older man, no third-act tragedy waiting in the wings to punish
There is a particular vocabulary that attends the death of a queer venue, and it is worth paying attention to it, because the words are always so careful. Nobody is ever evicted. Nothing is ever taken. The bar simply reaches the end of its lease, as though a lease were
Saudi Arabia would like LGBTQ+ football fans to know that they will be welcome at the 2034 World Cup. It would also like them to know, though it phrases this part rather more quietly, that homosexuality remains a criminal offence in the kingdom, punishable in certain circumstances by death, and
Ofcom has now logged more than 9,300 complaints about a single edition of Alex Armstrong Tonight, the GB News programme that marked the weekend of Pride in London by staging a debate about whether Pride is suitable for children, during which a guest managed to reach for bestiality and
The Welsh singer, who died this week at 75, never set out to be a gay icon. She became one anyway, by doing the thing queer audiences have always recognised and rewarded: feeling everything, at full volume, without a flicker of apology. Somewhere tonight, in a basement bar in Soho
If your dating life has suddenly imploded, your situationship has started replying after six months of silence, your phone has decided now is the perfect time to stop working and every group chat seems to be on the verge of civil war, there is only one explanation according to queer
A new gay dating app promised something better than Grindr. Within a week of launch it stood accused of luring men onto the platform with AI-generated boyfriends who never existed. To understand how we got here, you have to go back to the beginnings for online dating. There is
