The Afrikaans word “Moffie” is South Africa’s answer to “faggot”: an anti-gay slur used liberally and illiberally across the country’s tangle of languages, in casual playground teasing or brutal bigoted assault alike. If it sounds ineffectively soft and silly on the tongue, trust that it […]
Pioneering gay sitcom Grace and Frankie is set to come to a dignified end after seven seasons, having earned the distinction of being Netflix’s longest-running show. Stars Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda confirmed in a statement alongside the show’s creators that the show would be drawing to […]
Kristen Stewart says she was told to hide her sexuality to further her career. While the actress – who has dated both men and women including Robert Pattinson and Stella Maxwell – has received praise for being open about her sexuality, she told Harper’s Bazaar […]
Troye Sivan fired back at a New Zealand-based journalist after an interview in which he was asked about his preferred sexual position appeared in print. The article, which is in the September issue of Auckland’s Express magazine, features rapid-fire questions in which the pop star offers his candid thoughts […]
Don’t worry, everyone: The Beatles are OK with gay people. Asked by Parade magazine about their manager, Brian Epstein, Ringo had nothing but supportive things to say. “I had known a lot of gay men” he told the magazine. “It didn’t matter to us. We were lads […]
It’s no secret that superheroes have always been a little gay. The tights, the hulking muscles, the secret powers always threatening to come to light — it’s a veritable field day for queer academics. Give Batman an eager young sidekick and you’ve practically got a rom-com. Which […]
IT: Chapter Two is coming to theatres on 6 September and we’re preparing our bodies to be petrified all over again. The horror sequel is almost three hours long and will see the Losers Club return to defeat Pennywise once and for all. If you’re already familiar with […]
In what has become an era of sudden political outspokenness for Taylor Swift, the singer continued speaking out Monday night, this time during her performance at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. During her first televised performance since she released her seventh studio album, Lover, last week, […]
Hunky Oscar-nominee Andrew Garfield says he has gone to “gay heaven” after filming an appearance on RuPaul‘s Drag Race UK. Garfield dropped in among the judges for the inaugural season of the popular reality show, along with RuPaul, Michelle Visage and comedian Alan Carr. In the first clip released from the […]
Antonio Banderas told a story about how a drag queen saved his life. He said that it happened in 1976, when he would have been around 16-years-old. He was riding his motorcycle and he ran into a ditch. “And the front wheel of my motorbike […]
