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2 min read Two sporting teams from opposite sides of the globe are coming together to celebrate WorldPride in Sydney. The Sydney Swans Australian rules football team are joining forces with the Los Angeles Rams National football league team for Sydney WorldPride.

2 min read A pride street party that is the culmination of a four-month statewide festival named Victoria’s Pride has been held in one of Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs today.

2 min read Sydney’s famous ‘gaybourhood’ streets are set to come alive with street dining, free performances and celebrations at Sydney WorldPride’s festival hub, Pride Villages.

2 min read Get ready to roar with delight as Jurassic Lounge the Pride Edition takes over the Australian Museum in Sydney this February. Presented in partnership with Pride Amplified as part of Sydney WorldPride, the prehistoric party promises a night filled with comedy, community and science that will celebrate the queer heroes of STEAM.

< 1 min read As the Mr Gay Pride Australia competition heads toward its 2022 finale this weekend at Rainbow on the Plains Festival in Hay NSW, nine judges have been announced to help select this year’s winner.

< 1 min read Five years ago, the Polish couple Jakub Kwieciński and Dawid Mycek got married in Portugal. Since then, they have been fighting for the marriage to be recognized in their home country and now Poland’s Supreme Court has given recognition to the fight.

< 1 min read Sweden’s Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding) and his buddy Simon (Omar Rudberg) are back together, or are they? The trailer for the second season of the Swedish TV smash the Young Royals, a gay version of the tale of a prince and a charming servant…in this case, a classmate, was released yesterday.

2 min read A horrific video of the execution of a gay man in Afghanistan has been sent to the victim’s Mother. Reports in Pink News have suggested an activist from a local LGBT activist group, 22-year-old Hamed Saburi from Kabul, was kidnapped by Taliban extremists back in August.

4 min read It has been 1272 days since the last Mr Gay Pride Australia was crowned, but now, after being cancelled due to the pandemic, finalists for the next competition have finally been announced.

< 1 min read The road in front of a gay pub that was the scene of a terrorist attack in June has been painted in rainbow colours.

2 min read A British comedian, that is releasing a new tell-all book this week, has claimed he was raped in a New Zealand gay sauna and the attacker ‘thanked’ him afterwards.

2 min read The online fandom world is awash with angst after Kit Connor from the Netflix breakout hit Heartstopper appeared to quit social media platform Twitter overnight. The 18-year-old played Nick Nelson in the coming-of-age comedy about Charlie Spring (played by Joe Locke), who falls in love with his classmate Nick while attending secondary school.

< 1 min read Gay and bisexual men are being urged to attend a virtual monkeypox forum with Australia’s deputy chief medical officer and a leading sexual health specialist as the community rallies to prevent transmission.

2 min read Liverpool has been named as the Host City of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, following a competitive bidding process by cities across England.

2 min read Openly gay pop sensation Lil Nas X has pleaded with his fans to “stop using poppers” during one of his concerts on his Long Live Montero Tour.

< 1 min read The leather and fetish community have wiped off the Covid pandemic and gathered in their thousands for the annual Folsom Europe festival in Berlin’s gay quarter.

6 min read Well, you have been calling for it all year so it’s finally here. As we return to racing after the Northern Hemisphere’s summer break it’s time to give you Gay Nation’s Hottest Formula One Drivers of 2022.

2 min read Harry Styles spoke to Rolling Stone about his career, relationships with women, acceptance of his sexuality, and also talked about his role in My Policeman, a new feature film that will premiere in theatres in October. As Harry Styles said, the film is not only about a gay couple, but above all about love.

2 min read After three gruelling days of matches in oppressive heat and humid weather conditions, British, American, and Canadian clubs dominated the 2022 Bingham Cup held in Ottawa Canada. 1350 international athletes participated in the World’s largest amateur rugby union tournament which saw a celebration of respect, competition, diversity, and inclusivity: a true Canadian affair.

< 1 min read The largest amateur rugby union tournament in the world, The Bingham Cup, kicks off this week in Ottawa Canada with players from more than 20 countries taking the field in the competition’s 10th edition.

2 min read Mr Gay World 2022 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from 9 to 16 October 2022. In the wake of the lifting of international Covid-19 restrictions, this will be the first time in three years that Mr Gay World will be presented as an in-person event.

2 min read Amidst the storm that has erupted from the refusal by seven National Rugby League (NRL) players to refuse to play a game of football while wearing a rainbow jersey, Australia’s leading LGBTQ+ sport organisation has reminded everyone that Pride rounds and jerseys still make a difference.

3 min read In less than eight months more than 500,000 people will descend on Sydney Australia for World Pride 2023 and today the major events and ticket sales have been announced on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

< 1 min read The news we’ve all been waiting for, the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Downunder will premiere globally on Saturday 30 July 2022.

< 1 min read German airline Lufthansa has taken Pride month to the next level decking out one of their Airbus A320neo aircraft with a rainbow seating display and renaming the ship “Lovehansa”. The plane from Europe’s second-largest airline will be used on special destinations throughout Europe during the northern hemisphere summer.

2 min read Australian actress Rebel Wilson has confirmed that she is in a relationship with clothing brand founder Ramona Agruma. In addition to sharing the heartwarming news, the Senior Year star, 42, included a sweet snapshot of the pair cuddled up close and smiling.

2 min read Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Fighter Jeff Molina has responded to the vitriol fired at him by social media trolls after wearing UFC’s Pride Month shorts in a victorious fight on the weekend.

2 min read Former Empire star and convicted criminal Jussie Smollett who was previously sentenced to five months in prison for staging a homophobic attack is returning to the world of entertainment with his directorial debut, B-Boy Blues.

2 min read A school captain who was asked to give a commencement speech in front of the entire school in Florida USA was told he couldn’t say the word gay otherwise his microphone would be cut off.

< 1 min read After a whirlwind premiere season and a second season that whizzed by, Love, Victor is about to take its final curtain as the final season gets set to be unleashed on June 15.