gaynation.co - 351 Showbiz News and Updates

< 1 min read The curtain has been pulled back on the reimagined new series of Queer As Folk as the first trailer has been dropped by US streamer Peacock. Relocating from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, the new series explores the lives of a diverse community of LGBTQ+ individuals whose lives are altered following a tragedy.

3 min read Funding has been committed to help establish a long-awaited Australian LGBTIQA+ museum to be based in Sydney.

3 min read In a plot twist that not even TV’s break out hit Ted Lasso has tackled (pardon the pun), 17-year-old Jake Daniels has become the first UK male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay and has been praised for his bravery by everyone, including Josh Cavallo, the Australian player whose […]

3 min read After Covid-19 forced the cancellation of Mr Gay Pride Australia 2020 and 2021, the competition will be returning in 2022, joining forces with the Rainbow on the Plains Festival in Hay, New South Wales, where the finale will be hosted in November.

3 min read Kalush Orchestra have won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine with their song ‘Stefania’. After the jury scores were tabulated, the United Kingdom’s entry Space Man by Sam Ryder was leading the pack with 283 points, with Sweden and Spain close behind with 258 and 231 points.

2 min read Seven months before the opening of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the president of the Norwegian football federation has raised her voice to denounce the lack of security guarantees for LGBTQI+ people.

2 min read The Sydney Cricket Ground was awash in a vibrant display of pride and self-expression on Saturday night as the iconic Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade united LGBTQIA+ communities from all over Australia.

< 1 min read One of the key figures behind the horrific Chechnyan “gay purge” has been killed in action while assisting invading Russian forces in Ukraine.  Magomed Tushayev, who was one of the top military advisors for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, helping to oversee a horrendous “purge” of LGBTQ+ people since 2017, was reportedly killed by Ukrainian forces.

< 1 min read LGBTQ+ activists across social media are calling for followers to share an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin in drag to showcase support for Ukraine and their rainbow community amid the invasion of their nation.

2 min read Sheldon Riley will represent Australia at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin after being crowned the winner of the Australian Eurovision competition at the live final on the Gold Coast.

3 min read With fears of a full-on Russian invasion of Ukraine growing every day, Oksana Solonska from KyivPride speaks with Matt Fistonich about what it’s like being LGBTQ+ in Ukraine, what effects a Russian takeover could have, and how Kiwis can help queer Ukrainians amid this geopolitical crisis.

< 1 min read Multiple episodes of the hit television series Friends have been removed or censored by Chinese streaming services due to LGBTQ+ characters and storylines.

< 1 min read The nation of Iran has reportedly executed two men following six years of imprisonment after they were convicted under Iran’s anti-gay laws. According to the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA), Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi are said to have been executed in the Maragheh prison in northwestern Iran following their arrests over six years ago.

2 min read The New Zealand National Party has confirmed that it will allow its MPs to vote with their conscience on the proposed ban on conversion therapy in Aotearoa.

3 min read Mental health is one of the biggest issues affecting the rainbow community across the globe and now the current Mr Gay New Zealand is rolling his sleeves up and leading a project to tackle the problem head-on.

3 min read A famous US baseball team that had once traded a player to another team because he refused to marry a woman, will later this month allow two gay men to marry in the middle of their pitching mount, repairing the sports fractured relationship with the LGBTQ community.

2 min read Footballer Josh Cavallo, currently the only professional playing in a professional football league in the world, has hit out at spectator homophobic abuse and also the failure of Instagram to do more to eliminate abuse from its platform.

2 min read RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under season two is scheduled to commence filming on Thursday in Auckland, the home of the first season where local star Kita Mean took out the title.

2 min read An Aussie amateur gay porn star Alec McGeary has avoided jail time after he was found with hundreds of files showing disturbing sexual abuse of children — including on a 3yo boy.

2 min read Despite uncertainty around the upcoming presidential elections, Chile has taken a major progressive step forward and voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

< 1 min read Married at First Sight Australia has decided to axe a contestant from the show following homophobic and misogynistic outbursts on his social media. The man at the centre of the controversy, Simon Blackburn, was featured in the teaser trailer for the show’s upcoming season.

2 min read Joseph Maldonado-Passage, best known as Joe Exotic – Tiger King, has been transferred to a federal medical facility in North Carolina following his recent diagnosis of prostate cancer. According to attorney John M.

2 min read Former Australian Rules Football coach Dani Laidley has returned to her former club and spoken for the first time at an event celebrating the club’s debt-free status, the first in more than a generation.

2 min read Harry Styles has helped one of his fans come out to her mother in the middle of his concert during the Milwaukee leg of Styles’ Love On Tour concert series. Standing near the stage holding a sign that read, “My mom is in Section 201.

2 min read Louw Breytenbach representing South Africa has been crowned Mr Gay World 2021 and has vowed to be visible and accountable to the LGBTIQ+ community and not just another “cover boy”.

< 1 min read In a three year deal that is certain to push much-needed funds into the coffers of Mardi Gras organisers, multinational financial services corporation American Express has signed an exclusive deal with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to become the exclusive principal partner. The deal will also see them partner Sydney World Pride 2023.

2 min read Delegates have been announced and public voting has commenced for Mr Gay World 2020 with the competition getting underway this coming Saturday. Delegates from across the globe will take part in all aspects of the competition virtually including pre-recorded pieces from all delegates as well as visuals from areas across South Africa.

2 min read Lil Nas X has finally had the baby, the Montero baby that he has been spruiking for some weeks and wow what a bang this little baby is having already.

2 min read The Russell T. Davies British LGBTQ drama series “Queer as Folk,” is getting another American reboot and some of the reimagined cast have been announced by the American broadcaster NBC Universal.

2 min read Lil Nas X has been busy of late preparing for his debut album, dropping a trailer and talking about his sexual preferences, this week it’s a brand new album cover.