Berlin Pride attack: what we know A van and machete attack on Christopher Street Day has left one woman dead and 29 people injured. The suspect has been shot dead by police. These are the confirmed facts. The attack * The attack happened shortly before 10pm on Saturday 25 July, during
The Chancellor has promised the perpetrator will face the full force of the law, but his words land in a country where queer people were already asking hard questions about how much protection they can count on. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has condemned the deadly attack on Berlin's
A manhunt is under way in the German capital after a vehicle attack on Christopher Street Day, one of the largest Pride celebrations in Europe. One woman has been killed and at least sixteen people injured after a van was driven into a crowd near the closing celebrations of Berlin
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
Mercury has spent three weeks moonwalking through Cancer, both sides of the Atlantic have been hotter than a Berghain dark room, and Madonna just played a football match. "I delayed signing a radio contract because of Mercury retrograde... This month proved me right" Graeme Smith, who once made
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
