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May 17, 2013
Uma Thurman to play anti-gay activist Anita Bryant

‘The Times of Harvey Milk’ director Rob Epstein will co-direct biopic ‘Anita’, with plans for the film being shown at Cannes

Hollywood actress Uma Thurman is set to play anti-gay rights activist Anita Bryant in a biopic.

Bryant was a 70’s singer, beauty queen and celebrity spokesperson for orange juice. She was named Good Housekeeping’s ‘Most Admired Woman in America’ three years in a row.

In 1997, Bryant’s celebrity career collapsed when her anti-gay activist past was revealed. The mother from Florida successfully campaigned to stop gays from teaching or adopting a child in the state.

May 14, 2013
Gwyneth Paltrow: I wear so much makeup, I’m literally a transvestite

Iron Man 3 actress compares herself to drag queen icon RuPaul when she says she is not the 'world's most beautiful woman'

Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has said she wears so much makeup, she is ‘literally a transvestite’.

The World’s Most Beautiful Woman (according to People magazine) compared herself to drag queen icon RuPaul.

Speaking to USA Today, she was asked how she could look so fresh after partying the night away for the punk-themed Met Gala.

May 7, 2013
Queen Helen Mirren says sorry for hushing gay drummers, promotes their festival

British actress, who was performing as Queen Elizabeth II at the time, ran out of a theater and told drummers to 'shut the f*** up'

Dame Helen Mirren has apologized for telling off a troupe of gay drummers while she was dressed as the Queen.

She has also decided to offer a further olive branch by promoting their music festival for them.

The British actress, who was performing as Queen Elizabeth II at the time in The Audience, stormed out of the Gielgud theater in London at the weekend to tell the drumming crew outside to ‘Shut the fuck up’.

But now, Mirren has worn a top with a handwritten message promoting As One In The Park, a gay music festival planned for 26 May.

April 30, 2013
Drag queen musical Kinky Boots leads Tony nominations

Cyndi Lauper written musical based on the 2005 British film receives 13 nods from the Tony awards

Kinky Boots, an inspirational musical about a struggling shoemaker and his drag queen business partner, is leading the Tony nominations.

The show has received 13 nominations for the US theater awards including Best Musical, Book and Musical Score.

Among the highly praised this year is Matilda the Musical with 12 nominations and Pippin received 10.

Check out the full list of nominations below:

April 25, 2013
Community’s Gillian Jacobs, Gossip Girls’ Leighton Meester to star in gay marriage film

Actresses starring in comedy about a straight girl who promises her lesbian friend to not get married until gay marriage is legal

Community’s Gillian Jacobs and Gossip Girls’ Leighton Meester has started filming their new film about same-sex marriage.

In The Life Partner, Jacobs plays a woman who drunkenly promises her lesbian best friend she will not get hitched until gay marriage is legal.

But when her boyfriend, played by The OC actor and Meester’s real life boyfriend Adam Brody, proposes, things get complicated.

Canadian actress Simone Bailley has been tweeting pictures from the set since they started filming on 21 April.

April 16, 2013
'Girls' actress stars in lesbian wedding advert

In a new bridal advert, Jemima Kirke shows her support for marriage equality

British actress Jemima Kirke, who stars alongside friend Lena Durham in the Emmy award-winning sitcom Girls, has appeared in a lesbian wedding advert.

The London-born actress is seen pictured kissing another woman as part of the bridal company Stone Fox Bride’s spring campaign, SheWired reports.

Both brides appear in the campaign wearing floor-length white wedding dresses described as ‘not puffy or fluffy’ on the alternative bridal company’s website.

April 15, 2013
Simon Cowell 'might dabble' at being gay, says Britain's Got Talent's Amanda

British actress says the music mogul might give being gay a try after he refuses to flirt with her

British actress Amanda Holden has said Simon Cowell may have a 'dabble' at being gay.

Holden, who judges alongside the music mogul on Britain's Got Talent, said Cowell is currently single but he is not looking for a relationship.

‘I don’t think he’s gay but I’ve got a really good radar,’ she told The Sun.

‘I’ve known people were gay before they knew they were gay.

April 14, 2013
Bisexual actress Drew Barrymore to host GLAAD Media Awards

This year’s GLAAD awards to include guests like gay icon Betty White and a performance by recording artist Kelly Rowland.

Actress Drew Barrymore is set to host the annual awards for the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a watchdog group that promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.

Barrymore, who in 2010 was honored with GLAAD’s Vanguard Award, will host an evening to honor various branches in media for their representation of the LGBT community.

Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Rowland will perform at the awards for guests to include Leonardo DiCaprio, Betty White, Chris Evans, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Bomer and Naya Rivera to name a few.

April 8, 2013
Aussie teen actress thanks lesbian mums in awards speech

16 year-old actress Brenna Harding has thanked her lesbian mums in a teary speech after winning the Most Popular New Female Talent award at Australia’s annual Logies television awards

16 year-old Australian actress Brenna Harding has thanked her lesbian mothers in a tearful acceptance speech at the annual Logies television awards.

Harding won the Most Popular New Female Talent award category for her role in the TV remake of director Bruce Beresford’s classic  coming of age film Puberty Blues and the novel of the same name, set in the late 1970’s, which began screening on Australia’s Channel Ten last year.

Harding told the audience that she had been incredibly lucky to have been raised in such a supportive environment.

April 2, 2013
Ronald Reagan's son compares gay marriage to 'polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder'

Michael Reagan uses slippery slope argument once used against interracial marriage

The eldest son of Ronald Reagan comes out swinging against gay marriage in a column today using the same slippery slope argument that was also used in the 1960s against interracial marriage.

April 2, 2013
Sandra Bernhard officiates gay wedding ceremony

Lesbian comic said she was so 'inspired' after hosting the event for the New York gay power couple

Lesbian comic and actress Sandra Bernhard officiated at a gay wedding ceremony on Saturday (30 March). 

Georgi Balinov and Bradford Shellhammer were married at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau last week, and then had a nondenominational ceremony at the Russian Tea Room in New York at the weekend.

March 30, 2013
Were Elizabeth Taylor and gay actor Montgomery Clift lovers?

Debbie Reynolds writes in new book it 'was obvious he and Elizabeth had been intimate'

Movie icons Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift played lovers in the classic 1951 film A Place in the Sun.

The film was the beginning of a close off-screen friendship between the closeted gay man and the movie queen that may have been closer than people realized.

'Even though Monty had boyfriends as well as girlfriends, it was obvious that he and Elizabeth had been intimate,' actress Debbie Reynolds writes in her new memoir Unsinkable.

March 25, 2013
Ellen and Portia treated like royalty on Australian tour

Ellen show rolls into Melbourne after making a splash in Sydney

Popular American talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia are being treated like royalty on their Australia tour - with airline Qantas laying on personalized treatment and Victoria state premier Denis Napthine holding a black tie dinner in their honor tomorrow night.

The couple arrived in Melbourne today and were greeted by dedicated fans wearing Ellen t'shirts and displaying banners outside their hotel.

March 18, 2013
Bisexual actress Lindsay Lohan sentenced to jail and rehab

Troubled tabloid magnent pleads guilty to lying to police about car crash

It was not a good morning for Lindsay Lohan.

She missed a cross-country flight, she got glitter bombed, then got sentenced to jail by a judge.

The bisexual actress pleaded guilty today to charges that she lied to police about a car accident she was involved with last summer in Malibu, California, during the filming of the TV movie Liz & Dick.

Lohan, whose early films included Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, told officers that she was not driving the Porsche that rear-ended a truck on Pacific Coast Highway last June.

March 11, 2013
Murder She Wrote star says men's sex obsession turns women into lesbians

Iconic actress Angela Lansbury said that many women have 'given up' on men and turn lesbians because of a lack of good men

Actress Angela Lansbury, famous for her role in the Murder She Wrote TV show, said that some women have been so frustrated with men's sex obsession that they turn to women instead and become lesbians.

The American TV show, Murder She Wrote, was a hit  from 1984 to 1996 landing Lansbury with many awards for her role, including Member of British Empire (CBE).

March 8, 2013
TV icon Valerie Harper, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, is longtime gay ally

Her famous TV character of Rhoda Morganstern resonates with gay fans

Valerie Harper, an American television icon with legions of gay fans, has announced that she has brain cancer and could have as little as three months to live.

The 73-year-old actress, best known for her portrayal of Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spinoff series Rhoda, got the diagnosis on 15 January but has only just gone public in People magazine.

March 6, 2013
Kristin Chenoweth on Oscars, Wicked movie, and why marriage equality needs to hurry up

Gay Star News chats to the Emmy and Tony award-winning star about her upcoming shows in the UK

While Kristin Chenoweth is as Christian as they come, that does not mean she’s anti-gay.

In fact, this LGBT ally believes people who use the Bible for hate is the complete opposite of what Jesus taught.

While many know Chenoweth from television appearances in shows such as Glee, The West Wing and Pushing Daisies, this sweet-as-apple-pie actress is a singer at heart.

She originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, a musical celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.

March 1, 2013
German PR professional says he lost his job in China after complaints his 'lifestyle' was unacceptable

Stefan Susbauer says he lost his job doing PR for Mercedes-Benz because a Chinese executive had a problem with his 'lifestyle'

A gay German PR expert working in Beijing was devastated and humiliated when he lost his job allegedly because his client at Mercedes-Benz found his 'lifestyle' (sexuality) 'unacceptable'.

Stefan Susbauer started working for German PR agency OSK in Beijing as China general manager in June 2011.

Susbauer said OSK told him last year he could no longer work for them because a Chinese executive at Daimler AG (who own Mercedes-Benz) had a problem with his 'lifestyle', claims which have been unsubstantiated. 

March 1, 2013
Mixing humor with heart, Ellen DeGeneres posts unofficial Prop 8 brief

'In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “We’re here, we’re queer, get over it"'

Ellen DeGeneres is weighing into Supreme Court Prop 8 and DOMA cases her way by mixing her trademark humor with heart.

The lesbian talk show host, married to actress Portia de Rossi since 2008, wrote a blog post sharing her feelings rather than filing an official 'friend of the court brief.'

'I’ve never filed a brief to the Supreme Court, so I thought I would post mine here,' she writes. 'I’m sure someone will tweet it to them.'

February 28, 2013
Ellen opens up about tough times on Australian talk show

Ellen DeGeneres says she was broke and had no job offers for three years after she came out in 1997

Ellen DeGeneres showed her serious side to Australian talk show host Tracy Grimshaw in an interview broadcast on Monday night.

The usually light-hearted TV presenter and actress talked frankly about the dip in her career after she came out publicly in 1997.

Soon after she came out on The Oprah Winfrey Show, DeGeneres' sit com Ellen was cancelled.

February 25, 2013
No gay winners but Oscars show still considered by many to be gayest in history

Gay icons Barbra Streisand, Adele and Shirley Bassey perform and show includes tribute to Hollywood musicals with Jennifer Hudson

At one point during Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, host Seth MacFarlane said the crowd: 'We're concerned tonight's show isn't gay enough yet.'

He then introduced the cast of Chicago, the 2002 film musical with a huge gay fan base, to present the award for best original song to gay icon Adele.

February 20, 2013
Glee star Jane Lynch is heading to Broadway

TV's Sue Sylvester to play even more villainous Miss Hannigan in Annie

Jane Lynch has already shown, week after week on TV's Glee, that she can play the queen of mean just about better than anybody.

The lesbian actress has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of Glee's acid-tongue faculty member Sue Sylvester.

It was announced Wednesday (20 February) that Lynch will now be spreading her mean act to the Broadway stage in the musical Annie in the role of evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan.

February 11, 2013
NFL's Chris Kluwe gets standing ovation at Family Equality Council event in Los Angeles

'I say live your own life however you want to live it, I say love who you want'

Stars like Darren Criss, Andrew Rannells and the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills got all the red carpet attention Saturday (9 February) at the Family Equality Council's awards dinner in Los Angeles as honoree Chris Kluwe slipped by virtually unnoticed.

But by the end of evening, everyone was talking about NFL player Kluwe whose visibility as an LGBT activist grew exponentially last September when he blasted Maryland Assembly Delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. in a withering, profanity-laced letter.

February 2, 2013
Ellen DeGeneres gives wife Portia de Rossi a funny and moving TV birthday tribute

'The last eight years of my life have been the happiest, best years of my life'

Actress Portia de Rossi of Arrested Development and Ally McBeal fame turned 40 this week and wife Ellen DeGeneres had a television surprise for her.

With a little bit of help from guest Sean Hayes and a series of wigs, DeGeneres re-enacted de Rossi's life story on her daytime talk show - from her birth in Australia to the couple's 2008 wedding.

February 1, 2013
Concerns of 'lipstick lesbians' in the UK revealed

Stilettos, a new group for femme lesbians in the UK, reveals concerns of their members

A new group dedicated to 'lipstick lesbians' has revealed the issues that women in the femme lesbian community in the UK face.

Research by Stilettos, a group dedicated to femme lesbians, shows that its 200 members often don't go to gay venues because they feel they are under-represented there and are sometimes refused entry.

Other issues Stilettos' members expressed are: