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March 26, 2013
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Freezing at Festival Hall, we talk about the films we watched in LLGFF, attending the French Anti Marriage Equality rally.

Freezing at Festival Hall, we talk about the films we watched in LLGFF, attending the French Anti Marriage Equality rally.

Amy does SmithsFest, Margaret Cho cries, and Lucio goes to a vigil for Lucy Meadows.

Plus all the GayStarNews.

March 26, 2013
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Freezing at Festival Hall, we talk about the films we watched in LLGFF, attending the French Anti Marriage Equality rally.

Freezing at Festival Hall, we talk about the films we watched in LLGFF, attending the French Anti Marriage Equality rally.

Amy does SmithsFest, Margaret Cho cries, and Lucio goes to a vigil for Lucy Meadows.

Plus all the GayStarNews.

March 22, 2013
Margaret Cho says she 'cried when I heard that Michelle Shocked hates gays'

Comic was big fan of singer who went on anti-gay rant during concert

Gay icon Margaret Cho had been a longtime fan of Michelle Shocked so she has taken news of the singer's anti-gay rant in San Francisco this week especially hard.

'I cried again when I heard that Michelle Shocked hates gays,' Cho writes in an essay for xojane.com. 'I thought I was safe with her.'

March 22, 2013
Margaret Cho says she 'cried when I heard that Michelle Shocked hates gays'

Comic was big fan of singer who went on anti-gay rant during concert

Gay icon Margaret Cho had been a longtime fan of Michelle Shocked so she has taken news of the singer's anti-gay rant in San Francisco this week especially hard.

'I cried again when I heard that Michelle Shocked hates gays,' Cho writes in an essay for xojane.com. 'I thought I was safe with her.'

March 21, 2013
'Fag hag' dissected in new documentary about straight women who are friends with gay men

The creator of a new film about the iconic relationship between gay men and straight women talks to Gay Star News

What is it that attracts gay men and some straight women into such intense friendships? Is it genetic? Or is it a pheromone? Or do the women have a problem with relationships with straight men?

Gay Star News talks to Monica Davidson, the creator of a new film about the 'fag hag' called Handbag.

Davidson discovered that she is one link in four generations of women in her family who befriend gay men and her film explores these heartwarming friendships and tests out some theories on what is the source of this special relationship.

December 6, 2012
Three lesbians in Grammy showdown with Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton

Ellen DeGeneres, Rachel Maddow and Janis Ian all nominated in Best Spoken Word Album category

R&B and Hip-Hop singer Frank Ocean may have got the most attention of the openly gay Grammy nominees announced on Thursday (5 November) evening.

But he's not the only LGBT nominee this year.

Gay musician Dave Koz was nominated in the Best Pop Instrumental Album for his Live at the Blue Note Tokyo album and bisexual actress and comedienne Margaret Cho is a nominee in the Best Comedy Album category for Cho Dependent: Live in Concert.

November 27, 2012
Sydney Mardi Gras: what to expect at Australia's largest gay event

Huge parties, gay pride marches, a month-long festival and more

Over 30 years since Australia's largest pride event was met with police batons and prosecutions, Sydney Mardi Gras will return next year for its biggest event yet.

Running between 8 February and 4 March, Sydney Mardi Gras will play host to a wide variety of events and activities, and is expecting guests in their thousands.

Gay Star News, official global news supporter for the event, looks at what will be happening.

November 27, 2012
Sydney Mardi Gras: what to expect at Australia's largest gay event

Huge parties, gay pride marches, a month-long festival and more

Over 30 years since Australia's largest pride event was met with police batons and prosecutions, Sydney Mardi Gras will return next year for its biggest event yet.

Running between 8 February and 4 March, Sydney Mardi Gras will play host to a wide variety of events and activities, and is expecting guests in their thousands.

Gay Star News, official global news supporter for the event, looks at what will be happening.

October 31, 2012
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This week the iconic Margaret Cho chats with David Mills backstage about shopping for handbags and bumping into Tracey Emin. 

This week the iconic Margaret Cho chats with David Mills backstage about shopping for handbags and bumping into Tracey Emin.

We hear from gay travel blogger LeBigJay about gay Shanghai, along with all the GayStarNews and it's the last week to enter our competition to win a 2 night stay in a stylish London hotel thanks to World Rainbow Hotels.

Plus Amy gets abuse in Trafalgar Sq and Baylen becomes emotional in the cinema. 

October 31, 2012
HomoLAB 63

This week the iconic Margaret Cho chats with David Mills backstage about shopping for handbags and bumping into Tracey Emin. 

This week the iconic Margaret Cho chats with David Mills backstage about shopping for handbags and bumping into Tracey Emin.

We hear from gay travel blogger LeBigJay about gay Shanghai, along with all the GayStarNews and it's the last week to enter our competition to win a 2 night stay in a stylish London hotel thanks to World Rainbow Hotels.

Plus Amy gets abuse in Trafalgar Sq and Baylen becomes emotional in the cinema. 

October 18, 2012
Major US sports leagues and celebs to go purple in show of support for LGBT youth

This week's Spirit Day to combat bullying getting unprecedented support

Just two years after the first Spirit Day took place, unprecedented support from the worlds of sports and entertainment is shaping up for the day to 'go purple' as a statement against LGBT bullying.

Observance of the day is on Friday (19 October) and participating will be the National Basketball Association (NBA) / Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS) and NASCAR's diversity program.

August 21, 2012
Gays mourn the passing of legendary comic Phyllis Diller at age of 95

Diller: 'My  first audience were gay people because they have a great sense of humor'

Just a month after her 95th birthday,  legendary comic Phyllis Diller died on Monday (20 August) at home in Los Angeles surrounded by her family.

Diller began working as a stand-up comic in the 1950s and is credited with paving the way for the likes of Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr and Margaret Cho, among others.

Diller had a gay following from the beginning.

'My first audience were gay people because they have a great sense of humor,' she once said. 'They love comedy and they love to laugh. How do you think they got the word gay put on them?'

August 17, 2012
AIDS stole from us but love can give us new life

Comedian Margaret Cho reflects on how the AIDS era gave the LGBT community strength and why we now deserve marriage equality

Each year World AIDS Day falls on 1 December, and on that day and most days really, I think about AIDS, and what the disease has taken from me. A lot. It has taken a lot from me. More than I can think about sometimes, more than I want to remember. More than anything should take from a person.

August 17, 2012
Gay marriage shows our love is real, says Margaret Cho

American comedian and campaigner argues that centuries of persecution are drawing to a close and LGBT people will achieve equal rights

Gay marriage is ‘an acknowledgment from the government, from society, from the world that our love is real,’ comedian Margaret Cho has argued.

Writing exclusively for Gay Star News today, Cho explains how her young life in San Francisco was marked by the 80s HIV crisis and talks of the sadness she felt as the gay community there was decimated by AIDS.

August 17, 2012
Gay marriage shows our love is real, says Margaret Cho

American comedian and campaigner argues that centuries of persecution are drawing to a close and LGBT people will achieve equal rights

Gay marriage is ‘an acknowledgment from the government, from society, from the world that our love is real,’ comedian Margaret Cho has argued.

Writing exclusively for Gay Star News today, Cho explains how her young life in San Francisco was marked by the 80s HIV crisis and talks of the sadness she felt as the gay community there was decimated by AIDS.

February 6, 2012
Meet the HomoLAB podcast team

GSN is partnering up with three supercool DJs to bring you the HomoLAB gay news and culture podcast each week

We always dreamed of having a podcast when we were planning Gay Star News but thought it would be months and months before we could deliver one.

Then the guys from HomoLAB started chatting to us and suggested we worked together. So Gay Star News is now proud to be bringing you the HomoLAB podcast each week.

February 1, 2012
'It Gets Better' special set to air on MTV and Logo

Dan Savage to anchor with guests Zachary Quinto, Chaz Bono and more

MTV and its sister network Logo are preparing an It Gets Better special to air on Feb. 21.

It will be hosted by syndicated columnist Dan Savage.

The one-hour special, which will air on both channels, will focus on the struggles of three LGBT youth.

It is an outgrowth of the It Gets Better video project launched by Savage in 2010 which has resulted more than 30,000 videos of encouragement for LGBT youth facing harassment.