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
Almost five years after a nineteen-year-old gay student was found dead in a King's Cross hotel basement, the Metropolitan Police has reopened its investigation and apologised to his family. For Ed Cornes's mother, and for a community that has heard the Met apologise before,
Labour has finally published its draft bill to ban conversion practices, eight years after a Conservative prime minister first promised one. It is the right thing to do, and it arrives from a government that has spent its time in office entrenching almost every Tory position on trans people it
Wayne Briggs, the cabinet member responsible for children's services in Warwickshire, has refused to apologise after a leaked email branded the Pride movement a dangerous ideology and worse. He is refusing to step down, and his party leader is standing behind him. The man who oversees children'
The Queen of Pop has finally confirmed that her long-gestating Universal film, once titled Who's That Girl and set to star Julia Garner, is dead. For the men who grew up worshipping her in the clubs, the consolation could hardly be sweeter. For the better part of
The Moloko singer has reopened a three-year argument about dissent and belonging by telling her followers that trans activists are not wanted at her shows. There is a grim familiarity to the way a Róisín Murphy controversy now unfolds, a rhythm of post, uproar, clarification and consequence that has
There are two Andy Burnhams, and the distance between them tells you almost everything about the kind of leader he would be. The first is the man who stood up at Manchester Pride and said, without hedging, that he supports trans rights and wants that on the record. The second
The morning after Makerfield, it was hard not to feel the old flutter. A working-class town that the entire commentariat had quietly written off to Reform looked the hard right in the eye and chose the man from Leigh instead, and for a few hours the British left permitted
Paul Mescal Speaks Out On Trans Rights For The First Time Ahead Of London Trans+ Pride Irish actor Paul Mescal has publicly spoken out in support of trans rights for the first time, joining a growing list of artists, activists and public figures backing this year's London Trans+
