One phone, one video, fifteen thousand complaints - Liam Rondi Listen to Liam Rondi talk exclusively to OUTCAST WORLD There is a particular kind of British television moment that passes almost without friction, in which something is said about gay people that would once have ended a career, and the programme
Graeme Smith writes: New community-led research finds that 28 per cent of LGBTQ+ drug users surveyed in London have lost at least one loved one to a drug-related death in the past five years. I am one of them, and this is the story I spent eleven years
Before a gay bar becomes a place you miss, it can be the place where you first discover what your life might look like. For Fatt Butcher, that discovery included a first visit to Birmingham’s Nightingale, meeting people who worked in nightlife, and kissing a stranger on a dance
The OnlyFans creator denies homophobia after a livestream exchange sparked criticism — and a debate about what queer audiences should expect from the people they support. OnlyFans creator Jake Andrich, known online as Jakipz, has reportedly lost his TikTok account following a backlash over his comments about LGBTQ+ people. According to
Listen to the interview A statistic stopped Derek Murphy in his tracks: on some London AIDS wards, he was told, half the patients were Irish. His new play opens a much bigger story — of queer exile, lesbian care, institutional cruelty and the chosen families that refused to let people face
Some patients of the Welsh Gender Service found out that their operations had been called off while they were already in hospital preparing for them, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has confirmed, in the clearest account yet of how last week's pause on gender affirming surgery was
Patients of the Welsh Gender Service have been told that referrals for gender affirming surgery, assessments for surgery and operations that had already been scheduled are all paused with immediate effect, following an instruction from the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee to Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, which runs
The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed in full in Scotland for the first time this autumn, going on show at Tramway in Glasgow from 12 September to 4 October, with free admission throughout and a programme of talks, screenings and workshops running alongside it. The exhibition will place
Manchester's Pride opened Friday at the start of the August bank holiday weekend, in the Gay Village, which is where it began in 1985, and it does so under a different name, a different legal structure and a substantially reduced budget. Manchester Village Pride runs from Friday 28
Police in Michigan have opened a death investigation into the adult performer Christian Styles, whose real name was Zachary Christian Jaghab, and who died on 20 August at the age of 29. An autopsy is being carried out by the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office, and until it
There is a moment, roughly halfway through his conversation with Outcast World, when Joey Jennings describes himself as a passenger in his own car, panicking, while somebody else steers. Asked who is driving, he answers without hesitating: the wise self, with young Joey sitting on his lap, and a great
Ministers have turned down a petition, backed by more than 26,000 people and public figures including Russell Tovey and Boy George, for a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28, while acknowledging the law did lasting harm. The UK government has rejected a call from the Section 28
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
