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Baga Chipz and The Vivienne threw some major shade on Roast Battle

“Can we get a zoom in on these toes please? She’s filming the sequel to Cliffhanger!” Comedy Central’s popular series Roast Battle UK returned on Monday (20 January) night, and featured a major shade-slinging match between some familiar queer faces. The episode saw The Vivienne and Baga Chipz, who you’ll no doubt recognise from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, take on Glamrou and Crystal, stars of drag super group Denim, in a face-off to end all face-offs. “Baga is actually still in the closet. She’s a Tory,” joked Crystal. “But honestly Baga,…

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Sasha Velour’s lip-sync extravaganza shows fans what Drag Race couldn’t

“I think it can be really transcendent to face pain through the art of drag.” This March, Sasha Velour will be returning to the UK with their one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, a 90-minute extravaganza that combines drag, live theatre, visual art, magic, personal storytelling and a reenactment of the iconic So Emotional lip-sync. The tour, which they created and directed themselves, has garnered widespread critical acclaim and praise from stars such as Troye Sivan, Allie X, Willam, Courtney Act, Alyssa Edwards, Peppermint, Shea Coulee and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Later this…

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Netflix comedy Bonding has been renewed for season 2

It’s good news for fans of Bonding. Loosely based on the experience of creator Rightor Doyle, the Netflix dark comedy follows psychiatry student-slash-dominatrix Tiff (Zoe Levin) who enlists her gay best friend from high school, Peter (Brendan Scannell) to be her assistant. Throughout the course of the series, Peter comes to terms with his sexuality and his newfound venture into sadomasochism, while Tiff attempts to balance her career with her… clients. Deadline have confirmed that streaming giant Netflix have ordered an eight-episode second season of the short-form show, with production…

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You star James Scully says his character is “not straight”

“I think Forty would have sex with whoever he decided he wanted to have sex with.” You star James Scully has denied that his character on the Netflix series is heterosexual. The 27-year-old actor, who previously starred as the lead in the short-lived Heathers reboot, made his debut in season two of the psychological thriller as the twin brother of Joe Goldberg’s (Penn Badgley) new love interest Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). Forty’s sexuality is never established in the series, and because he embarks on a relationship with Candace Stone (Ambyr Childers),…

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Watch a clip from new gay rom-com movie The Thing About Harry

A clip from gay rom-com The Thing About Harry has been released, and it looks adorable. Grey’s Anatomy actor (and former Gay Times Magazine cover star) Jake Borelli will star as Sam, described as a “handsome, funny, neurotic, intelligent young gay man who combines a scathing wit with an overly idealistic worldview”. Set to premiere on Freeform on 15 February, the movie will follow Sam as he embarks on a road trip to attend an engagement party in his small hometown in Missouri, where he faced bullying for coming out…

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Ryan Murphy to be honoured with the Vito Russo Award at GLAAD Media Awards

The award is given to an LGBTQ person who has made a significant difference in accelerating LGBTQ acceptance. Pose and American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy is set to be honoured with the Vito Russo Award at the upcoming GLAAD Media Awards event. In a press release, GLAAD explained: “The Vito Russo Award is presented to an openly LGBTQ media professional who has made a significant difference in accelerating LGBTQ acceptance. “The Award is named after Vito Russo, a founder of GLAAD and celebrated ACT UP activist, who pushed open…

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Katya Jones wants a female same-sex couple to be the first on Strictly Come Dancing

And she’s volunteered to be the professional. Strictly pro Katya Jones has said she wants the first same-sex couple on Strictly Come Dancing to be two women, and has volunteered to be the professional in the relationship. The dancer, who is known for putting creative and challenging moves in her performances, told the Sunday Mirror: “I would love to dance with a woman on the show. “I think creatively it would be really ­interesting and I love coming up with new ideas for stuff. So on that side I think…

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Utah’s governor blocks HIV-prevention scheme over “sexual innuendos”

Condom packaging displayed slogans like ‘Explore Utah’s caves’ or Toss the jello salad.’ The governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, has stopped a HIV-prevention scheme because he did not “approve of” the packaging of condoms with sexual innuendos. Up to 100,000 condoms were set to be distributed the Utah Department of Health’s Prevention and Care Program as part of the state’s The H is for Human campaign. Love Communications was hired to brand the condom packages with puns and sex-positive messages. One of the package was labelled ‘SL,UT’ a reference to…

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Netflix series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts includes cute coming out moment

DJ Benson comes out in the sixth episode of the series. New Netflix animated show Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts has provided audiences with some LGBTQ representation in an adorable scene in which main character DJ Benson confesses his sexuality. Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts is an all-ages show by Radford Sechrist, based on his 2015 webcomic series, called Kipo. The series follows Kipo and a group of friends searching for her father in a post-apocalyptic urban wasteland. Throughout the series, Kipo, played by Karen Fukuhara…

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Tim Chadwick opens up about mental health, sexuality and new single Sore Thumb

Tim Chadwick is back with another sad banger. The Irish singer is kicking off 2020 with a new single called Sore Thumb, a sombre track with a powerful chorus that tackles anxiety, the insecurities of being an outcast and the search for validation. Those feelings are all-too-familiar for people in the LGBTQ community, many of whom spend their teenage years (and sometimes adulthood) hiding their true identities and trying to fit in with a heteronormative society. “I was afraid that if I did come out – and this is pure…

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