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May 16, 2013

Is also donating part of the proceeds from pre-sale of his new album to the Human Rights Campaign

Matthew Morrison once had to awkwardly come out as straight to a magazine writer who assumed he was gay.

But that doesn't mean the Glee star is not a fully supportive of LGBT equality. Earlier today, he  released new video for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in which he speaks out for gay marriage.

HRC, the largest LGBT advocacy organization in the US, got Morrison to take part in its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign which also recently featured Hillary Clinton, among others.

May 1, 2013

British comic reveals the wise words of advice she gave to a man spouting homophobic slurs on a late night train

British-Iranian comic Shappi Khorsandi has revealed the wise words of advice she gave to an anti-gay bigot on a late train this weekend.

‘On Saturday night, as I got off a train, I whispered ‘you LOVE cock’ in to the ear of a drunk twat shouting homophobic bile…’ she tweeted today (1 May).

Khorsandi admitted it was a 'stupid risk' and advised people to donate to Stonewall's Equality Walk in Brighton on 5 May.

April 22, 2013

Famed author Bret Easton Ellis goes to Twitter and charges he was banned from GLAAD ceremony

Writer Bret Easton Ellis and GLAAD are feuding.

The author of Less than Zero and American Psycho went to Twitter and claimed he was banned from the LGBT organization's weekend ceremony.

April 18, 2013

South Florida Gay News staff at odds after featuring Lambert

A public war of words has emerged among the staff at the South Florida Gay News after it featured an interview with Adam Lambert that was so popular it crashed the paper's website.

Publisher Norm Kent wrote in a column this week that the story was done while he was on leave and seeing it 'made my partner and me puke.'

April 17, 2013

Beautiful Thing writer, whose play and film defined coming out in UK under Thatcher’s anti-gay law Section 28, attacks ‘fawners’

Writer Jonathan Harvey, whose play and film Beautiful Thing defined coming out in Britain under Section 28, has Tweeted against Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral.

Thatcher’s Conservative government introduced Section 28 to the UK in 1988. It effectively stopped teachers from talking about being lesbian, gay or bisexual to their pupils in schools.

Writing on Twitter today (17 April) Harvey states: ‘Young gay men fawning over Thatcher clearly have no knowledge of gay history.’

April 12, 2013

ITV has released the first trailer for Vicious, a comedy from the writer and creator of Will & Grace

The trailer for the eagerly awaited Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi comedy Vicious was revealed today (12 April).

The two knighted British actors star as ageing partners Freddie (McKellen), a retired actor, and Stuart (Jacobi), a former barman.

With a script by Will & Grace writer Gary Janetti, the show also stars Misfits actor Iwan Rheon and Frances De La Tour, who plays the couple’s best friend Violet.

April 11, 2013

Batgirl writer Gail Simone says the time is right for a transgender superhero, teasing it could happen very soon

DC Comics has revealed what they claim to be the first transgender character in mainstream comic books.

In Batgirl #19, on sale from now in both print and digital formats, Alysia Yoeh came out to her roommate main character Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) as a bisexual trans woman.

Speaking to Wired, Batgirl writer Gail Simone, said comic books fans inspired her to create the civilian character.

April 2, 2013

Chairman of the Estonian Writers’ Union, broadcaster and poet Karl Martin Sinijärv has called for the legal recognition of same-sex relationships in the former Soviet state in response to comments from a homophobic MP

A leading Estonian intellectual has called for the legal recognition of same-sex relationship and says it could even be useful to recognize non-sexual dependent relationships between heterosexual friends.

Chairman of the Estonian Writers’ Union and poet Karl Martin Sinijärv made the call in response to comments from IRL party MP Erki Nool that homosexuals should be avoided and given medical treatment.

March 22, 2013

'What do we do now?  Both our sons are gay.' 'We don’t do anything.  We let em be gay and if some kid calls em a faggot we go to their house and raise hell with the parents like normal'

While the dad who posted the letter to his gay son may be up for Parent of the Year, he might just have some competition.

Two guys, described as ‘construction worker types’, were recorded chatting about their gay sons on a New York City subway.

Posted on SoLetsTalkAboutThis.com by writer Ravi D’Angelo, he claimed he overheard the two middle-aged white men looking like ‘you’d expect to see on a building site’ starting to talk about their families.

March 19, 2013

O’Brien spent 50 years of his life suppressing transgender feelings. Now he takes the female hormone estrogen but doesn’t want sex reassignment surgery

Rocky Horror Show writer Richard O'Brien has said he is now 30% woman after taking female hormone estrogen for 10 years.

He says he has long struggled with transgender feelings but did not act on them until later in life. His brother’s reaction to hearing O’Brien, at six-and-a-half years old, wanting to be a ‘fairy princess’ caused him to shut down and ignore his feelings for 50 years.

Speaking to the BBC, O’Brien said ‘you can’t just put the lid on things and pretend they don’t exist’ and began to take estrogen a decade ago.

March 18, 2013

Republicans, the New Yorker magazine, gay marriage and some humor go a long way

The New Yorker magazine has fun with Republicans and gay marriage. Using the real story of Senator Rob Portman's announcement that he now is a supporter of gay marriage, writer Andy Borowitz creates an alternative (joke) world where Republicans have decided not to talk to their children.

March 11, 2013

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).

February 16, 2013

After DC Comics comes under fire for a writer's anti-gay comments, gay author David Gerrold volunteers to write a story for a future issue

A gay writer has petitioned to author the new Adventures of Superman.

David Gerrold, a self-confessed Superman aficianado, has volunteered on Facebook to write the Superman comic after an online petition to remove a current anti-gay writer has gone viral.

Gerrold wrote: 'I see that you have hired a writer for Superman who has written strongly of his opposition to equal rights for LGBT people. And I see that there is an online petition protesting that move.

February 12, 2013

Orson Scott Card, the writer of Ender's Game, has said marriage equality would lead to the end of civilization

Fans are protesting against DC Comics for hiring an anti-gay writer to pen Superman.

Orson Scott Card, author of the Ender’s Game sci-fi series, will write a new series of comics for DC’s Adventures of Superman to be published in April.

AllOut has now started a petition, urging DC to fire Card.

It states: ‘He’s written publicly that he believes marriage equality would lead to the end of civilization. He’s also on the board of a notorious anti-equality organization [National Organization for Marriage].

February 6, 2013

John Scalzi has raised up to $50,000 for LGBT and civil rights charities in his 'Counteract a Bigot Drive'

An American author has responded to internet trolls by pledging $5 to gay and civil rights charities every time he receives abuse.

Award-winning science fiction writer John Scalzi has raised over $50,000 (£32,000, €37,000) by today (6 February).

Trolls attacked the author for a pro-choice satirical blogpost from last year in which Scalzi adopted the persona of a rapist. One troll, which Scalzi affectionately calls 'the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit', took particular issue.

February 6, 2013

Matt More, a ‘gay cure’ advocate, who blogs about how Christ saved him from the ‘sin of homosexuality’, was recently discovered on gay hookup app Grindr

Matt Moore, a blogger for the Christian Post, who writes extensively about he was ‘cured’ from ‘sinful homosexuality’ by turning to Christ, has been recently caught using gay hookup app Grindr.

January 25, 2013

The fictional lawman hero with the power to deal out instant justice is seen possibly kissing a man in a gay club in a future issue

Futuristic comic book hero and lawman Judge Dredd has got fans furious as the writers suggest he might be gay.

The latest edition of the comic 2000 AD, set in 2135, is titled Closet and deals with coming out as gay.

When the first page was released online, it showed a figure that looks like Dredd kissing a youth in a gay club.

Some fans have become so hostile to the idea they have threatened to burn the comic if the masculine hero is revealed to be homosexual.

Writer Rob Williams has continued to tease the idea of the character being gay.

January 22, 2013

The Harry Potter star on American men, gay sex scenes and new film Kill Your Darlings

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe has joked about Englishmen being seen as gay while filming for his new role as American beat poet Allen Gisberg in Kill Your Darlings.

On acting and living in America, Radcliffe told Out Magazine: 'I was talking to someone about this and I said, "Why is it that when people meet English men in America they automatically think they're gay?"

January 18, 2013

Burchill anti-trans rant sparks protests at the Observer and Telegraph newspapers against media hate speech

The mainstream British media's hate of trans people has been sharply exposed in the last few weeks and the community is hitting back.

Sick of lazy media misrepresentation, vilification and outright hate speech, trans people and allies in the UK have, over the last two weeks, become visible.

January 14, 2013

Former equalities minister Lynne Featherstone calls for Julie Burchill and Observer editor to be fired over transphobic article

Former equalities minister Lynne Featherstone has called for Observer editor John Mulholland and writer Julie Burchill to be sacked following the publication of a transphobic column.

'Julie Burchill rant against transgender community is absolutely disgusting – a bigoted vomit for which the Observer should sack her', tweeted the International Development Minister.

After her initial comment, the Liberal Democrat MP tweeted: 'If this was a different group I think there would be even more outrage sadly'.

January 10, 2013

Gay writer Tony Kushner nominated for screenplay for Lincoln

While such best picture nominees as Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook and Life of Pi dominate the major categories of Academy Award nominations announced this morning (10 January), LGBT movie fans had particular reason to cheer with the AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague getting a nod in the documentary category.

The movie, directed by David France, tells the story of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and gives viewers a front-row seat to the epic day-to-day battles that ultimately resulted in AIDS no longer being a death sentence.

January 9, 2013

Pulitzer-winning writer for Angels in America nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay in the British film awards

Lincoln writer Tony Kushner is nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award.

Often seen as the British version of the Academy Awards, the gay American writer has got a nod in the Adapted Screenplay category.

Lincoln, a biopic about the USA’s 16th president starring Daniel Day-Lewis, led the awards with 10 nominations.

January 7, 2013

Gay British actor praises master of wit Oscar Wilde as starting the gay movement

Gay British actor Rupert Everett said writer Oscar Wilde, who died in disgrace in Paris in 1900, is his personal Jesus during an interview broadcast on the BBC yesterday.

'He fills me with the same compassion that Jesus fills other people with,' said Everett, who is is currently playing Wilde in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss.

'As a gay person he's really the beginning of the gay movement in public,' said Everett to interviewer Andrew Marr.

January 4, 2013

Rob James-Collier wondered if character was still gay after first season - turns out he most certainly is

With the third season of Downton Abbey set to make its debut in the US on Sunday (6 January), OUT magazine is featuring the actor who plays the series' gay footman-turned valet on its February cover.

Rob James-Collier assures fans that Thomas Barrow, whose sexuality was muted during season two, will be as gay as ever moving forward.