Australia’s first women’s sports bar The Ladies League has made the “heavy” decision not to re-open its doors in 2025. The Ladies League in Darlinghurst, Sydney first launched in August 2024 on the ever-busy Oxford Street, but it announced it would be closing for good on New Year’s Day (1 January 2025). The Ladies League […]
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Congratulations might be in order! Chloë Grace Moretz has hinted that she is engaged to her girlfriend Kate Harrison after the pair sported matching rings. The 27-year-old actress came out as gay in November 2024 during an endorsement post for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and confirmed her long-term relationship with model Harrison. Moretz took […]
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JK Rowling has declared that there is no such thing as trans children. The Harry Potter author, who is well-known for her contentious views on trans rights, made the statement on X/Twitter, in response to someone saying they wished she would “use [her] immense power for good” and that her “hateful focus on trans kids […]
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A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld a $5 million (close to £4 million) verdict against president-elect Donald Trump for sexually abusing and defaming writer E Jean Carroll. The three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals announced its decision on Monday (30 December). The judges rejected Trump’s arguments for a new […]
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Texas governor Greg Abbott responded to the death of Jimmy Carter by sending condolences to his wife… who died last year. The Democratic former US president died at the age of 100 on Sunday (29 December), prompting Abbott to offer “prayers and deepest condolences” to former Rosalynn Carter, but she had just over a year […]
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The Oxford Literary Festival has been criticised for advertising a heterosexual, cis, gender-critical campaigner as part of its LGBTQ+ line-up. Helen Joyce, the author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality and a director at gender-critical campaigning organisation Sex Matters, is slated to appear at the festival, sponsored by The Telegraph, on 2 April 2025. During […]
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Users across social media have responded to recent claims that trans children don’t exist, with an innovative study that showed, not only do they obviously exist, but that accessing gender-affirming care can potentially be life-saving. The Australian report, published in 2023 – the first randomised controlled study of its kind – showed that trans and […]
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Queer music fans’ favourite Sophie Ellis-Bextor and gay star Jake Shears will welcome in 2025 in style with a New Year’s Eve performance on BBC One. On the back of a successful year, thanks to Saltburn sending her 2001 track “Murder on the Dancefloor” flying back up the charts, the queen of the Kitchen Disco […]
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