Professional basketball player Layshia Clarendon has announced their retirement from the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Clarendon is the first openly transgender and non-binary player in the league, though there are currently 42 out and proud LGBTQ+ players across 12 teams for the 2024 season. They announced their retirement on Instagram, writing: “The lesson I’ve […]
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A cast member opened up about being part of the LGBTQ+ community during the first episode of Survivor 47. So, it turns out Barack Obama’s gay former speechwriter, Jon Lovett, isn’t the only LGBTQ+ cast member of the new season. Reality show Survivor involves contestants vying for a $1,000,000 (£753,000) prize while trapped in an […]
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RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage has joined the cast of a new BBC comedy series. The LGBTQ+ favourite will feature in the BBC Three’s Smoggie Queens, which is described as an “out and out comedy”, focusing on a group of friends who “are fiercely proud of their north eastern town of Middlesbrough and their […]
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Members of a gang used Grindr to target members of the gay community before violently assaulting and robbing them, Birmingham Crown Court has heard. And on Tuesday (17 September), Demalji Hadza, 21, Abubaker Alezawy, 21, Ali Hassan, 20, Wasiim Omar, 24, and Mohammed Sharif, 22, were convicted of conspiring to commit robbery. The group staged […]
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Viewers of Ryan Murphy’s latest true-crime series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, are divided over the portrayal of the two brothers’ relationship. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story fictionalises the true story of the Beverly Hills brothers who shot and killed their parents, José and Kitty, one evening in August 1989. It’s […]
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