Gay News Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

“We know that you’re a homosexual, we’ve been following you.”Trigger Warning: This story has details of suicidal ideation and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.This is what Yvonne Sillett,  a former Australian soldier and cipher operator, was told during a 1988 interrogation into her sexuality in relation to her security clearance. The royal commission is gathering evidence from ADF members who have had suicidal ideation or from surviving family members of those who have died.  Describing her interrogation, Sillett said that “after several hours of this questioning they said they would be taking the matter further and that, based on my sexuality, I could no longer be in Signal Corps as I’d be open to blackmail, and that they were downgrading my security clearance which was needed to do that job. They told me I’d never instruct women again.”According to The Guardian, during her interrogation, she was asked to give up the names of other homosexual military personnel but she refused to do so.With the help of a partner at the time, Sillett was able to “pull through.

Slate advice podcast How to Do It signed ‘Coming Up Short’. A thirty-year-old heterosexual (don’t know if that is a determining factor) complained that after he got out of hospital after contracting COVID in July last year he suffered some erectile dysfunction, which got better with medical attention.Unfortunately, he was left with a lasting problem.“My penis has shrunk. Before I got sick, I was above average.

Max Appenroth, a trans activist and diversity consultant has been named  Mr Gay Germany for 2021. Appenroth, 35, won the title Monday at Cologne’s Queer Christmas  market, Heavenue Cologne, and is the first trans man to win the title.  Appenroth won over six other contestants who were vying for the title. “This is just such a big symbolic effect for the trans community. I as a trans  person, as the first Mr.

Former out gay Socceroo player, Stephen Laybutt, 44, texted Ian Pavey, 67, a was a patient at St Vincent’s Hospital where he was working in its rehabilitation unit. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the message said, “Hey mate it’s Steve from St Vincent’s. I want to investigate if I could give you a kidney.

Remember the Tom of Finland rip-offs? And the triple-fold-out cute twink with a big bow wrapped around his (always) enormous donger, the proud-to-be-gay ones that used some form of variation of the rainbow colours, the bears, leathermen, the bitchy queens, and of course, the butt with the candle or fairy-light deeply ensconced therein?Classic messages accompanying photos ranged from a big penis (“I hope this present fits”), naked men cuddling (“A perfect fit…you and I”), a naked butt (“Dear

Steve Bronski, one-third of the influential British synth-pop band and gay pop pioneers  Bronski Beat, has passed away at the age of 61. No cause of death  was released. Bandmate Jimmy Somerville posted on social media, “Sad to hear Steve Bronski has  died.

Sydney’s first gay and lesbian radio program Gaywaves has been inducted into NFSA Sounds of Australia for 2021.The ground-breaking LGBTQIA+ radio show was one of 10 sound recordings, which also included the National Apology to the Stolen Generations and the most successful Australian song of the 2010s added to the collection.Gaywaves first aired November 1979, at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in Australia, and aired their final show in 2005.Prue Borthwick.

Now living near Monaco and working in high-end real estate and villa rentals, Jameson refers back to the extensive diaries he kept during this time – required just to be able to sort through all the craziness happening in the moment, to write his tell-all book.James Farn“And then there are the supposedly straight men who pop in for a Lucky At Lunch Special…”Farn tells of his experiences after looking back at this period in his life, with the forced time off during the pandemic compelling him to

Actor Colton Haynes, in a provocative and disturbing self-penned  essay for New York magazine, is exposing Hollywood’s dark and  seamy side, and the emotional abuse he suffered in his quest for  stardom.  “Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer,” writes Haynes,  in Losing a Teenage Dream.

 Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson recently named 51-year-old Lina Axelsson Kihlblom as the country’s new Schools Minister. Kihblom is the first transgender government minister in not only Sweden but all of Scandinavia.“This is a huge and exciting task and I’m ready to take it on,” Kihblom said at a press conference on last week.Before her entry into politics, Kihlblom was known for achieving a great deal of success through her work as a principal.

Like the chameleon in his iconic ‘80s hit, Boy George has changed style many times during his decades-long career. Unlike a chameleon, he has never blended into the background, but rather stood out in splendid relief.

Shaun Resnik, a 44-year-old Melburnian, is believed to be the first single man in Victoria, to receive approval to have a child via surrogacy. The naturopath and mind coach has wanted to have children since the age of 30. “I always knew I would love to be a dad; I just didn’t know how I was going to go about becoming a dad,” Resnik, who came out as a gay man when he was 24, told Star Observer. Shaun Resnik with his baby’s surrogate mum Clara.

All Boys Aren’t Blue, the critically acclaimed young adult memoir by  George M.

A group of neo-Nazis attacked a gay bar in Ukraine on Tuesday night by breaking windows and yelling “white power” and “death to faggots.” Warning: This story has details of a homophobic attack on a gay venue and use of anti-gay slurs and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The attack was captured on closed circuit cameras outside the bar.

Colton Underwood, the former star of the US franchise of The Bachelor, who came out as gay in April 2021, has a release date set for his upcoming  Netflix docu-series Coming Out Colton. The six-episode series will premiere on December 3 and follows Underwood as he embarks on his journey as a newly Out gay man. Underwood, who is dating political strategist Jordan C Brown, 38, told  GMA’s Roberts, ”I’m still nervous, but yeah, It’s been a journey for sure.

Today, December 1, marks World AIDS Day. A week ago today, on November 24, was the 30th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death, due to AIDS-related complications. The Queen lead singer was 45-years-old when he passed away.

Today, December 1, marks World AIDS Day. A week ago today, on November 24, was the 30th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death, due to AIDS-related complications. The Queen lead singer was 45-years-old when he passed away.

Wakefield Poole, a trailblazer in gay pornographic filmmaking, died on October 27, 2021. Poole was 85. Poole is best known for his landmark 1971 film Boys in the Sand, which  was the first gay pornographic film to be reviewed by Variety, the film  industry’s leading trade publication.

Melbourne-based gay activists Antony McManus and his husband Ron van Houwelingen are well known for their fight for marriage equality and getting married to each other 19 times over the three decades that they have been together.

Warning: This story has details of violent, homophobic assault and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.“I’m not fucking gay”, is what Stephen Taylor, a 24-year-old from Liverpool screamed at his victim while stabbing him 12 times with a knife, apparently as a reaction to being rejected when he asked the victim to perform a sex act.The night

We’ve had a lot of people come out this year from Josh Cavallo to Superman and Lois’ son, but Santa Claus coming out as gay in a Norwegian postal service ad might not have been on many people’s Bingo cards.For their 2021 Christmas advertisement campaign, Posten Norge have released a four minute love story titled ‘When Harry Met Santa’ which shows Father Christmas (or should we say Daddy Christmas) kissing another man.Our story begins with a hunky and shirtless Harry discovering Santa in his

Defence Minister Peter Dutton won his defamation case against an unemployed gay refugee activist who had referred to him as a “rape apologist” on social mediaA Federal Court indicated that it would order gay refugee activist Shane Bazzi to pay $35,000 as damages to Dutton. The minister had sued Bazzi over a tweet published on February 25, that said:  “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist.”Bazzi, a prominent voice during the 2017 national Marriage equality vote, who is presently unemployed had raised

A district court in Perth on Friday sentenced a 26-year-old man to six and a half years imprisonment for his role in  two separate incidents of bashing and robbing of gay men. Warning: This story has details and visuals of a homophobic attack and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.Tyler Dean Borinelli had lured the two men – Perth residents