Compagnia Bellanda arrive at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Il canto dell'assiolo, a duet about power, tenderness and relationships that come without an instruction manual. It is not a queer show, and yet it speaks directly to anyone who has ever had to make one up as they
Harrison Sweeney's Final Queen sounds like a dare and plays like a love letter, and underneath the fake blood it is making a serious case for queer survival. Outcast World caught up with him at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. There is a particular kind of Edinburgh pitch that
Pete Hegseth's appearance alongside Republican congressman Zach Nunn descends into slur-laden rhetoric as he sets out his vision for a purged Pentagon Pete Hegseth cannot help himself. Appearing at the Iowa State Fair on Monday alongside Republican congressman Zach Nunn, who is fighting for re-election in
The regulator is examining a July broadcast in which a guest linked Pride to bestiality and paedophilia, and a June programme in which another guest linked gay men to the sexual abuse of children. Neither case is new. That is rather the point. Ofcom has opened two standards investigations into
Lindsey Graham died at his home in Washington on the night of Saturday 11 July, aged seventy one, of an aortic dissection brought on by hardened arteries, hours after returning from his tenth wartime visit to Kyiv and a day before he was due on Meet the Press. The tributes
Ariana Grande has spoken directly to fans about her decision to step back from public life once her Eternal Sunshine Tour wraps, addressing the announcement from the stage at Chicago's United Center just hours after her publicist confirmed the news. The move follows weeks of intense commentary about
Five transgender federal employees have launched a proposed class action lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging a policy that has quietly stripped gender-affirming care from the health insurance plans covering federal workers, retirees, US Postal Service employees and their families. The case, filed in the US District Court for
Superdrug has become the first UK high street retailer to sell doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, a year on from Britain becoming one of the first countries in the world to issue formal guidance on it. The pills cost from £10.99. At a sexual health clinic they cost nothing Superdrug
Liverpool is to honour The Vivienne with a permanent life-size statue at the junction of Victoria Street and Stanley Street, planted at the entrance to the country's first officially recognised gay quarter and facing back into it, watching the doors that James Lee Williams walked through at
At around half past eight last night, Diana Ross walked onto the main stage at Preston Park and half a million people's weekends arrived at the moment they had always been building towards. Somewhere in that ninety minutes she sang I'm Coming Out, a song written
The UK High Court has cleared the way for the NHS (national health service) PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial to begin recruiting, after a judge refused a legal challenge brought by gender-critical campaigners seeking to halt it. Mr Justice Chamberlain delivered the ruling on Friday 31 July, throwing out an
There is a particular kind of gig that only makes sense if you know the story that came before it, and RAYE headlining Brighton Pride On The Park on Saturday night was that gig in its purest form. To the half a million people who poured into Preston Park across
