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2 months ago | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Conor Clark |Jack Guinness |Helen Meriel Thomas |Daniel Harding
The UK Supreme Court today (16 April) delivered its landmark verdict that a woman should be defined by “biological sex” in the Equality Act, leaving LGBTQ+ rights campaigners deeply concerned over the ramifications this could have for Trans people.
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2 months ago | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Helen Meriel Thomas |Jack Guinness |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
Concern is growing for two LGBTQ+ activists who have reportedly been imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan. According to the Afghan LGBTQ+ nonprofit Roshaniya, Lesbian woman Maryam Ravish, 19, and Trans woman Maeve Alcina Pieescu, 23, were arrested while trying to board a Mahan Airlines flight to Tehran from Kabul on March 20th, with Maryam’s partner Parwen Hussaini.
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2 months ago | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Conor Clark |Jack Guinness |Helen Meriel Thomas |Daniel Harding
Almost two years have passed since news broke that one of the world’s most famous drag queens had passed away, yet major questions about what happened to her remain unanswered. Heklina (Steven Grygelko), was found dead by close friend Peaches Christ on 3 April 2023 at the flat the two of them were renting in Soho, London – though a cause of death is yet to be confirmed, and the Met Police took until January 2025 to release CCTV of potential suspects.
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Helen Meriel Thomas |Jack Guinness |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
Edward II is a play which considers the question: what would happen if the King of England was in love with a demon twunk? The RSC’s new adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s classic historical play tells the tragic true story of King Edward II, whose love of “favourite” Piers Gaveston led to a political breakdown between himself and his magnates.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Conor Clark |Jack Guinness |Helen Meriel Thomas |Daniel Harding
Up to 10.8 million more people could be infected with HIV globally by 2030 as a result of aid cuts made by Donald Trump and Keir Starmer. Modelling published in the Lancet HIV medical journal on 26 March says that a decade of progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS could be lost, unless the funding can be found elsewhere.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Helen Meriel Thomas |Jack Guinness |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
“Not to toot my own horn, but I actually did those pictures before Paris is Burning came out,” says the woman I’m speaking to over Zoom. She has thick-rimmed green glasses and straightened dark pink hair, framed by baby pink money pieces. It’s been 24 years since Catherine McGann left The Village Voice newspaper, but you can tell she’s still a punk-rock art school kid at heart.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Jack Guinness |Helen Meriel Thomas |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
When I first moved to London in 2009, Time Out’s LGBTQ+ section was explicitly centered around nightlife. There was literally nothing else for us to do than to go out and fuel our relationships with alcohol and drugs. Our culture was boxed into a life of addiction. 16 years later, just this month in fact, a news segment aired on ITV about chemsex drugs, highlighting the heartbreaking death of 27-year-old ‘Tahir’ who was found dead after several days of heavy drug abuse.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Helen Meriel Thomas |Jack Guinness |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
Luxury LGBTQ+ event organisers Joyeux Bordel are launching a new supper club in London, and the inaugural theme is “guilty pleasures.”The first Joyeux Bordel supper club will take place on March 26 at The Table Cafe in Southwark St.Masterchef finalist Gaston Savina has designed the three course “guilty pleasures” dinner, which will be served up with bottomless wine, interactive entertainment and a “make your own dessert” competition.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Helen Meriel Thomas |Jack Guinness |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
Welcome back BFI Flare, we’ve missed you. ❤️Europe’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival kicks off today, with a huge program of beautiful, moving, and thought-provoking films about Queer lives.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
gaystarnews.co.uk | Helen Meriel Thomas |Jack Guinness |Daniel Harding |Conor Clark
Earlier this week, Donald Trump posted a Washington Times article titled “Army Recruitment Ads Look Quite Different Under Trump” on Truth Social. The thumbnail showed a crossed-out upside-down pink triangle – the same one used by Nazis during WWII to identify and murder LGBTQ+ people. This triggered a great deal of anxiety for Queer people. Though Trump hadn’t directly shared the image itself, sharing the link felt like an statement of endorsement for systematic homophobia and transphobia.
