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2 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Tennis star Daria Kasatkina has capped off her first grand slam as an Australian by proposing to her Olympian partner Natalia Zabiiako. The world No. 17 switched allegiances from Russia to Australia earlier this year. Daria was effectively exiled from her home country after coming out as gay and publicly opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine. The tennis star is now a permanent resident of Australia, and on this week bowed out of the French Open in Paris.
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2 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Australian author Holden Sheppard has said he’s been blown away by the response to his highly-anticipated new novel King of Dirt, which came out this week. The gay Western Australian-based author’s 2019 debut novel Invisible Boys was adapted for TV earlier this year. Now his new book King Of Dirt is out, and it’s a “gritty, heartfelt gay coming-of-age story” is set in the world of FIFO workers and tradies in Western Australia.
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3 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Australian drag artist Art Simone has gone viral after she realised she can pull off an incredible Dom Dolla impersonation.
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3 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Queensland husbands Samuel Leighton-Dore and Bradley Tennant have teamed up with the producers of Bluey to develop a new queer animated sitcom, and they’re pitching it overseas this week. Co-creators Samuel and Bradley as well as the animation team from Brisbane’s Ludo Studio are developing the show and have unveiled a proof of concept teaser trailer (watch below).
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3 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears is making his film debut in gay biker drama Pillion, acting alongside co-star Alexander Skarsgard and a very realistic prosthetic. Jake is back on tour with the legendary pop group, and also has a role in the new British film which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
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3 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Australian researchers have discovered a new way to force HIV out of hiding within cells, in what they describe as a new potential pathway to clear the virus from the body. Scientists have long struggled to find a “cure” for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to its ability to hide from the body’s immune defences and lay dormant within white blood cells. But researchers from Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity have reported an exciting new breakthrough.
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3 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Actor Ncuti Gatwa has farewelled Doctor Who after two seasons on the British sci-fi series, and in a huge cliffhanger appears to regenerate into a face Whovians have seen before. A regeneration was heavily rumoured ahead of the series finale, and at the end of the latest episode the 15th Doctor (Gatwa) bid farewell to companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) before he returned to the TARDIS and regenerated… into Billie Piper.
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3 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
More than a hundred people joined a snap protest on the street outside Brisbane’s The Wickham against the LGBTQIA+ venue’s hosting of a private event for a local Zionist organisation. Around 150 people braved wet weather in Brisbane on Saturday night to join the peaceful protest rally to oppose a Zionist Council of Queensland event inside and Israel’s war on Gaza, chanting “No Pride In Genocide” from the footpath.
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4 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
Meet the kings! The world’s first drag king competition series, King of Drag, has revealed the cast of its highly anticipated inaugural season. The show, which joins the ranks of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Dragula, starts on June 22 on US LGBTQ+ streaming service Revry. Drag king Murray Hill is hosting. Now, the new competition series has officially revealed the 10 contestants battling it out for the coveted crown.
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4 weeks ago | 
qnews.com.au | Jordan Hirst
The Gold Coast’s Pride Month celebrations begin on Sunday with a Pride Walk along the beach at Labrador. Drag performer Cady DeVille, a.k.a. Coast local Dustin Lowrey, is hosting the Pride Walk tomorrow morning (June 1) to launch the region’s new-look celebrations all month. It’s one of several new events locals have organised this month after the sad cancellation of Surfers Paradise’s popular Gold Coast Pride Festival.
