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May 15, 2013
Austria wants festival lovers to paint its lakes pink

Austria's premier gay festival returns equipped with after-parties and boat rides

Pink Lake festival is back for all European gay festival lovers from 29 August - 1 September.

The beautiful Lake Woerthersee will once again be decked out with pride events from all around the world – bringing members of all LGBT communities together for a weekend of fun and frolics to end the long hot European summer.

April 10, 2013
Let’s get wet again and join the 6th annual Woerthersee Pink Lake Festival!

Gay Star News today announces (10 April 2013) our media partnership with the Pink Lake Festival 2013

LGBT people from across Europe and beyond will plunge into to the beautiful lake high in Austria’s mountains for the festival from 29 August to 1 September.

Talking place in Velden, at lake Woerthersee, the friendly festival attracts hundreds of guests in speedos and bikinis, swimming, relaxing and partying in the picturesque town.

Following the success of our partnership in 2012, Gay Star News has again dived into being a media partner this year, providing global coverage before, during and after the event.

January 25, 2013
Nazi pink triangle reappears in Paris men's fashion week

The latest men's line by French fashion brand Mugler features the upside-down pink triangle used to identify homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps

This year's Paris Fashion Week saw a reappearance of a former Nazi symbol in a trendy fashion label's menswear presentation.

French fashion brand Bugler incorporated into its latest men's line the inverted pink triangle, a badge originally sewn onto the garments of convicted homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps.

Reclaimed as a symbol of gay pride since the 1970s, the pink triangle used in Mugler's latest men's collection was the only dash of color along highlighter green and neon blue in a predominantly monochromatic collection. 

December 24, 2012
An Easy-Bake Christmas gift

As Easy-Bake Ovens finally market themselves at boys, Bob Witeck says marketers are starting to see the rewards, not the risks, in targeting LGBT consumers

Thanks, in part, to an online petition started this fall by a 13-year-old New Jersey girl, the global toymaker Hasbro recently discovered that many little boys like cooking and the always-popular Easy-Bake Ovens. Isn’t it time, she asked, that Hasbro started including boys like her little brother in their advertising and no longer limit their ovens to the colors pink and purple?

October 4, 2012
Why Pink loves her lesbian and bisexual female fans

'I’ve had a lot of my gay boys around, but my gay girls are my rootstalk'

By the way she looks and acts, singer Pink says she 'should' be gay but just isn't. But her lesbian and bisexual female fans do mean the world to her.

'They’ve been the most loyal part of what I do,' she tells The Advocate in an interview out this week. 'They’ve been my most loyal friends, to be honest. I’ve had a lot of my gay boys around, but my gay girls are my rootstalk. They’re my honesty in an ocean of bullshit.'

September 26, 2012
The dawning of a Pink Season in Hong Kong

From this Saturday and until the beginning of December, Hong Kong turns a rose hue with dozens of events celebrating ‘pink power’

Pink Season will have it all: Mr Gay Hong Kong, Asia’s largest LGBT film festival, art, theatre, parties and a gay day at Disneyland, but not, thanks to a break-down of co-operation within the community, a parade.

After some on-off years Hong Kong Pride Parade is scheduled back on for the 10 November, but parade organizers are not working with Pink Season any more. They recently announced that they did not want to be included in the listings for Pink Season, so what would have been a key event in the series is going it alone.

August 28, 2012
Newly out Frank Ocean to perform at MTV VMAs

R&B singer is nominated for Best New Artist award alongside One Direction and Carly Rae Jepson

Newly out RnB star Frank Ocean will perform at next month’s MTV Video Music Awards.

MTV News has confirmed the musician will join performers including Pink, Rihanna and Taylor Swift.

Ocean is also in contention for the Best New Artist award alongside One Direction, The Wanted, Carly Rae Jepson, and fun.

August 9, 2012
Madonna supports gay rights in St Petersburg with pink wristbands

Madonna has announced on her Facebook page that pink wristbands will be given out during her concert in St Petersburg to support LGBT rights in Russia

Pink wristbands will be available during Madonna’s concert in St Petersburg today (9 August), to show support for the city’s persecuted LGBT community.

August 8, 2012
Escape to the sun and take to the water with Pink Lake

It’s just two weeks to go to the international LGBT Pink Lake festival in Austria’s beautiful mountains – and the last chance to book

Gay Star News is getting ready for the fifth annual Pink Lake and we are hoping the promise of non-stop parties, sunshine and crystal clear waters will make you want to join us.

We’ll be heading into the mountains of southern Austria from 23 to 26 August for an extended weekend by the 17km long Lake Woerthersee, next to the borders of Italy and Slovenia.

Weather forecasters promise sun-fueled 30C temperatures on land and, even more surprisingly, 26C warmth in the water.

July 24, 2012
Hollywood hottie Adam Garcia to judge trans beauty pageant

Miss SInk The Pink contest returns to London's East End for more trashy cult fun with a celebrity judging panel

The annual pageant for transgender beauties is back in London's East End and this year Hollywood star Adam Garcia will be helping weed out the Beautiful Things from the Coyote Uglies.

Started by polysexual party promoters Sink The Pink, the event in the UK capital's Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on 28 July will see five contestants from around the world competing for the title of Miss Sink The Pink and a fish-net stocking's worth of exciting prizes.

July 18, 2012
Join us at Austria’s Pink Lake

The hills will be alive with the sound of LGBT travellers as Austria’s picturesque town of Velden hosts the international Pink Lake festival this August

Thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender travelers and their friends will be painting an Austrian lake pink this summer in a unique four-day summer holiday event.

Pink Lake, which is supported by Gay Star News this year, is a long weekend of costume balls and boat parties on the stunning Lake Woerthersee, nestled between Slovakia and Italy.

We asked Jeff Wahl, one of the organizers, to tell us all about it.

What is Pink Lake?

July 6, 2012
Olympic torch turns pink for Reading gay rights procession

A former Reading Pride chairwoman is hoping to persuade the town to let her carry a pink Olympic Torch

A lesbian is hoping to persuade her English town to use a pink Olympic torch to raise awareness of gay rights.

Lorna McArdle, 43, will be Reading's first torchbearer on 10 July as it makes it way around British towns and cities, local newspaper Get Reading reports.

She hopes a sea of pink clothing and decorations will greet the flame when it comes to southern English borough.

McArdle, former chairwoman of Reading Pride, says her aim is to help bring a new diversity and acceptance of sexuality within the community of Reading.

July 2, 2012
15,000 light-up for Singapore’s Pink Dot

Biggest crowd ever gather in support of LGBT love at Singapore's fourth Pink Dot

The first Pink Dot held after-dark in Singapore has been hailed a great success with 15,000 gathering on Saturday night to show support for the LGBT community.

The only outdoor LGBT event in the city-state where homosexual sex is still illegal saw a 600% increase from the 2,500 who came together at the first Pink Dot in 2009.

The Pink Dot was formed by pink lights from flash lights and mobile phones using cellophane, as the crowd sang along to Cyndi Lauper's True Colors.

June 27, 2012
Lighting-up for gay love in Singapore

This Saturday is Singapore’s Pink Dot, the only openly LGBT outdoor event all year in the city-state

‘Singapore remains one of the few - if not only - developed country in the world where homosexuality (specifically consensual sex between two men) remains illegal, and there remains tight control in local media over positive representation of homosexuality,’ says Paerin Choa, spokesperson for Singapore’s Pink Dot.

It is that unique position, and the fact that public protest is illegal in Singapore apart from at Speaker’s Corner in Hong Lim Park, that makes Pink Dot an unusual LGBT pride event.

June 22, 2012
Ginuinely in love with Pink Gin

Edgerton Pink Gin brings out the best in British summer with new cocktail English Rose

Britain has a lot going on this summer.

There’s the Summer Olympics, the Diamond Jubilee, and London will also pay host to World Pride, a global celebration of gay rights everywhere.

Thankfully, the summer months means it is gin season, and we are ‘ginuinely’ in love with Edgerton Pink Gin.

Boasting 14 exotic flavors and distilled to 47%, Edgerton Original Pink is a complex, adaptable and unique tasting gin that represents the best of British style.

June 14, 2012
Google and Barclays support Singapore’s Pink Dot

High-profile corporate sponsors build prominence of Singapore’s only LGBT pride event

Google and Barclays have both announced that they will support Pink Dot on 30 June at Speaker’s Corner in Hong Lim Park, the only place in Singapore where public protest is allowed.

Google is a major employer in Singapore and its LGBT employee network (who call themselves the ‘gayglers’) contacted Pink Dot last year. The search engine then sponsored the event’s main stage.

March 29, 2012
Rick Santorum stops boy from using pink bowling ball

Candidate tells boy in Wisconsin: 'Friends don’t let friends use pink balls'

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, whose campaign has included extensive anti-gay rhetoric, stopped a boy from using a pink bowling ball at a Wisconsin bowling ally on Wednesday (28 March).

'You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We're not gonna let you do that. Not on camera,' Santorum told the boy. 'Friends don’t let friends use pink balls.'

Santorum's comments were quickly tweeted by Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.

March 7, 2012
Call the fashion police, the Bad Taste Ball is back

Sink The Pink's tongue-in-cheek London party night, the Bad Taste Ball, promises to be trashier and brasher

Get ready to commit a few fashion faux pas because London's Bad Taste Ball is back.

Started last year by polysexual party promoters Sink The Pink, the event in the UK capital's Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on 24 March promises uninhibited fun, as well as cabaret and drag performances from some of the city's top artistes, including Jonny Woo and Ma Butcher.