The latest Spider-Man game for PlayStation 4 has been earning high praise from fans for not only its attention to detail, but also for its efforts to be more inclusive. The game is set in Spidey’s beloved Manhattan and features Pride flags, a diverse…
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Scenes of joy as India finally decriminalises gay sex
In a landmark decision for LGBTQ rights and the community in India, the country’s highest court has decriminalised gay sex.
Five Supreme Court judges struck down the colonial-era Section 377 on Thursday, a ban on gay sex that was rarely applied to co…
Same-sex couple paints their house rainbow to troll their homophobic neighbors
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This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.
Love trumps hate — and so does a good layer of paint.
Lisa Licata and Sherry Lau are a same-sex couple living in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. For years, they’ve claimed that their homophobic neighbors, Ron Makay and Iolanda Wieczorkowski, have taunted them with hateful slurs, even going so far as to shoot their dog with an air rifleThe neighbor denies the latter allegation, though Makay has been charged by police with animal cruelty.
After the slurs first intensified, Licata and Lau decided to paint their fence rainbow in proud defiance. That didn’t stop the neighbors from complaining. Read more…
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If you’re a member of the LGBTQ community, chances are you’ve been asked the same questions over and over. Did someone or something make you gay? What does transgender even mean? Why do there have to be so many pronouns?
It’s exhausting, especially b…
The UK is getting its first bisexual+ dating show and it’s honestly about time
Move over, Love Island.
A new dating show is coming to town and we can only hope it’s going to be as refreshing as it sounds.
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While dating shows on TV are always drama filled and generally fun to …
Queer barbers on Instagram make the internet a kinder, hotter place
This is Ode To…, a weekly column where we share the stuff we’re really into in hopes that you’ll be really into it, too.
If you were a gender creative kid growing up in the ’90s, you had exactly zero places to go for style inspiration.
Sure, K.D. L…
All the best queer memes inspired by Nintendo
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Facts: ChuChu is smolgender. Kirby is agender and panromantic. The two are madly in love.
That’s according to Tumblr, which still maintains one of the internet’s largest de facto libraries of queer Nintendo memes. There are, to put it roughly, zillions of them. Perhaps more than any other gaming system, Nintendo is particularly (if unconsciously) adept at generating queer and trans characters and memes. Few of these characters are “out,” per sé — there’s a lot of projecting going on — but that doesn’t make them any less meaningful to the queer community.
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Lena Waithe buzzed off her hair, and it’s for the best reason
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Hair is personal, political, and a pain in the ass.
Lena Waithe, Mattress of None writer and queer icon understands this well. The actress recently revealed to Variety the reason why she buzzed her hair, despite what it supposedly says about her femininity.
“I felt like I was holding onto a piece of femininity that would make the world feel comfortable with who I am,” Waithe told Variety. “I thought for a long time, ‘Oh, if I cut my hair, I’ll be a stud — in the gay world, there’s a lot of categories — I’ll be a stud or I’ll be a butch,’ and I’ve always thought, ‘Well, no, I’m not that, I’m still soft,’ and I said, ’Oh, I gotta put that down, ’cause that’s something that’s outside of me.’” Read more…
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View More Lena Waithe buzzed off her hair, and it’s for the best reasonOne year after Trump tweeted he’d ban transgender troops, the fight to stop him continues
One year ago, President Trump used Twitter to announce a ban on transgender troops. Today, the fight to protect transgender service people is still very much alive.
LGBTQ civil rights organizations and activists across social media are using the hash…
The internet champions man hospitalized after encounter with large penis
Over the past few weeks, the LGBTQ community has inducted a couple of new icons and faces into the Gay Hall of Fame. But for every vogueing Hermione, there comes someone who really pushes their queerness to its absolute limits.
Take Fredy Alan…
Activists create hidden Pride flag in Russia to protest anti-LGBTQ laws
It’s illegal to display the Pride flag in Russia, but these activists found a way around that in the form of a secret flag made from football jerseys.
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‘Dancing Hermione’ casually stupefies everyone at Pride
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The brightest (and fiercest) witch of her age is back.
Performer Kelsey Ellison reprised her viral “dancing Hermione” outfit for a magic moment during Saturday’s Pride event in London.
The YouTube personality and self-proclaimed Harry Potter enthusiast gained fame when she appeared at MCM London’s ComicCon, stupefying all with a casually fierce dance while dressed up as Hermione Granger.
On Saturday, she brought the magic to Pride in London, voguing her way through her celebrated routine, backpack and all, and finishing with a casual split — all in a casually steamy summer temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). Read more…
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