Lauri Hussar, the newly elected president of Estonia, has suggested a change in law could be introduced within weeks.

Pride has always been a protest. But that doesn't mean it can't also be funny

From pop sensations to pensioners, models to movie stars, 17 LGBTQ+ pioneers, aged 19 to 90, share stories of style, self-discovery and expression in British Vogue’s July 2023 issue.

“There is – despite the chip, chip, chip of the news cycle, the screaming indignities of social media, the disturbing ineptitude in scores of our public officials – a great deal of joy still to be found in the world. I promise.”

Research has found women over the age of 65 are amongst the most sexually fluid groups in the UK, challenging long-held ideas about fluidity.

We all know LGBTQ+ history didn’t start with the gay liberation movement in the ’60s and ’70s. And while certain politicians would rather erase us from text books, queer folks have been around since the dawn of civilization.

Now, a new series aims to share “the gayest stories never told,” giving us all the tea on the super queer lessons we weren’t taught in schools.

When the feelgood movie made him an Oscar-nominated star, the strain of hiding who he was almost forced him to quit acting. He explains how opening up about being gay, then trans, saved his life

Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical and J. Harrison Ghee Best Lead Actor.
Newell’s and Ghee’s nominations alone made history for nonbinary performers. They chose to be nominated in the male category, but some other nonbinary actors have withdrawn from competition because of the gendered categories. & Juliet‘s Justin David Sullivan did so this season, and Asia Kate Dillon made the same decision after appearing in Macbeth last season.

Garth Brooks’ new Nashville bar and honky-tonk Friends in Low Places is opening this summer — and the country star is sharing that everyone is welcome… except assholes.

“I want it to be a place you feel safe in. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said about his new business. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this: if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”

On Friday (9 June), the Nordic country joined Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Germany, France, Malta and New Zealand in banning harmful conversion practices.

Not a single representative voted against the bill, proposed by Viðreisnar parliamentary party chair and Reform Party MP Hanna Katrín Friðriksson, with 53 voting ‘yes’ and three abstaining.

Friðriksson has previously said that conversion practices are “based purely on ignorance and reactionary ideas” and have “no place in our society”, according to the Reykjavik Grapevine.

Lennie James will portray the "complicated love story" of Bernadine Evaristo's closeted gay protagonist in the BBC's Mr Loverman adaptation.

Remembering Anita Cornwell, the fearless pioneer who shattered barriers as a Black lesbian writer, activist, and feminist. Her legacy lives on in her groundbreaking work.