gaynation.co - 351 Showbiz News and Updates

< 1 min read The final trailer for the Marvel project, The Eternals, has dropped and will set a new twist on the cinematic universe, thanks in part to the appearance of the first full-fledged gay superhero.

2 min read Openly Bisexual Irish Olympian Jack Woolley has been left battered and requiring facial reconstructive surgery after he was attacked by a gang of 12 people during a night out with friends in Dublin.

2 min read The responsibility for providing suicide prevention support for people in the LGBTQ+ communities frequently falls on peers with little or no mental health training, a recent study has revealed.

2 min read Although he never felt like he needed to ‘come out’ the High School Musical: The Musical star Joshua Bassett has revealed he experienced homophobia for the first time ever after he came out publicly.

2 min read The New Zealand weightlifter did not make the podium, after failing to advance to the final, but Laurel Hubbard has made history by becoming the first openly transgender athlete to compete in an individual event at the Summer Olympics.

2 min read It has taken 13 years, four Olympic Games and countless hours of training and competing but in a major boilover, Tom Daley and his diving partner Matty Lee have won a gold medal in the 10 metre Men’s Synchronised Platform Final in Tokyo over defending champions China by just one point.

3 min read Australian singer, songwriter and actor Nicholas Hamilton has used his social media to encourage people to get vaccinated after he has been struck down with the delta variant of Covid-19 on his return to Los Angeles in the past few weeks.

2 min read After an increase in reports of deaths and hospitalizations with issues such as severe headaches, breathing difficulties and brain death, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised consumers not to purchase nitrate “poppers”.

2 min read British billionaire Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space aboard his VSS Unity spacecraft and took with him a photo of his mother and wore a rainbow flag ribbon pin in memory of the Pulse Nightclub victims.

2 min read In a social media story that we couldn’t resist sharing, openly gay actor Colton Haynes has taken a trip down memory lane with an Instagram post opening up about years of feeling guilty and ashamed of his sexuality in the process.

2 min read Former Married At First Sight (MAFS) Australia contestant Liam Cooper, who launched a scathing attack on media outlets that claimed he was dating former MAFS New Zealand star Samuel Levi who he stood next to on a red carpet, has today announced the two are now dating.

2 min read Victoria is now home to Australia’s first purpose-built community hub for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) communities, with the opening of the landmark Victorian Pride Centre.

2 min read Dozens of LGBT university students in China have had their WeChat accounts deleted suggesting the account had received complaints about the social media content.

< 1 min read Once you’ve finished catching up with the new series of Love, Victor and Elite, then this new Scandinavian production called Young Royals could be your next addiction.

< 1 min read Lil Nas X has been working hard since the weekend to counter the trolls who have been criticising his kiss of a dancer at the end of his performance at the BET Awards, and now he’s asking his fans to chill out and stop going after Madonna.

2 min read A rainbow star painted on the surface of the Turku Theatre Bridge, on the southwest coast of Finland, has been vandalised only hours after the artwork had been completed.

2 min read UK Drag Queen Victoria Scone is rumoured to be the first-ever cis gender female to ever be cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race. The Welsh Hyper Queen along with 11 other UK queens, disappeared from social media on February 23 this year which was the date that filming was rumoured to have commenced in London.

2 min read A non-binary third gender category other than male or female will be allowed on all US Passports after an announcement by the US Secretary of State today.  In a statement, the Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the department was moving towards adding a gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons applying for […]

2 min read Saturday Night Live (SNL) star Kate McKinnon, veteran actor Dennis Quaid and Hedwig and the Angry Inch star John Cameron Mitchell will star in the upcoming TV show about ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic and filming is expected to get underway in Brisbane, Australia in coming weeks.

2 min read A non-binary third gender category other than male or female will be allowed on all US Passports after an announcement by the US Secretary of State today.  In a statement, the Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the department was moving towards adding a gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons applying for […]

< 1 min read Lil Nas X has been working hard since the weekend to counter the trolls who have been criticising his kiss of a dancer at the end of his performance at the BET Awards, and now he’s asking his fans to chill out and stop going after Madonna.

2 min read Saturday Night Live (SNL) star Kate McKinnon, veteran actor Dennis Quaid and Hedwig and the Angry Inch star John Cameron Mitchell will star in the upcoming TV show about ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic and filming is expected to get underway in Brisbane, Australia in coming weeks.

2 min read In a social media story that we couldn’t resist sharing, openly gay actor Colton Haynes has taken a trip down memory lane with an Instagram post opening up about years of feeling guilty and ashamed of his sexuality in the process.

2 min read Anyone who watched the final of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under this weekend and saw the announcement of Kiwi Queen Kita Mean winning the inaugural title would’ve thought the celebration was authentic and heartfelt, but as with most recorded reality shows these days, four scenarios were filmed for the winner’s announcement so it wasn’t until […]

< 1 min read Fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar is investigating Lucia Alarcón, editor-in-chief of the Mexican version of the magazine and part-time cousin of former Mexican labour minister Javier Lozano. Lucia Alarcón tweeted “Jesus is changing lives!” and published a video in which representatives of the LGBT community were allegedly undergoing conversion therapy.

2 min read Australian politicians are being lobbied to spend an additional $212 million ($53 million a year over four years) of public money in an attempt to reach HIV elimination at some point in 2025.

2 min read Readers are invited to travel virtually to São Paulo in Brazil and get to know a cross-section of local gay, bi, queer, and trans men through intimate photography and personal storytelling in the latest Elska project.

2 min read For the first time in history, a rainbow flag was raised aboard a Norwegian warship on the weekend as the annual Bergen Pride Parade moved from land to the water due to Covid-19 with the first-ever boat pride parade.

2 min read In recognition of Pride Month, a world-renowned Christian school in South Africa has flown the rainbow flag from the top of the school’s bell tower. St John’s College in Johannesburg is a world-class Christian, African school founded in 1898 and for the second year running the school has raised the rainbow flag.

3 min read Danish tennis player Holger Rune has caused an uproar and forced the ATP Tour to open an investigation into homophobic expletives that the 18-year-old player screamed during a semi-final match in Biella, Italy.