Patrick Kelleher

1 day ago | thepinknews.com | Patrick Kelleher

Cate Blanchett turned 56 yesterday (14 May 2025), if you can believe it: she doesn’t look a day over 40. Sapphics everywhere no doubt held elaborate Cate Blanchett Day parties to celebrate their beloved queen. But why is Cate Blanchett such a lesbian icon, despite not actually being a lesbian? To find out why she has been welcomed into the arms of queer women across the globe, we have to start with her Oscar-winning performance of a repressed lesbian woman.

4 days ago | thepinknews.com | Patrick Kelleher

As we swiftly approach Eurovision 2025, it’s easy to forget that just three short years ago, the contest was rocked by scandal when it emerged that juries in six countries had apparently been fixing their votes. At the semi-final stage, the jury votes from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino were scrapped due to “irregular voting patterns”. That incident led to a sudden, seismic shift in the Eurovision Song Contest.

2 months ago | thepinknews.com | Patrick Kelleher

It’s St Patrick’s Day today, and we at PinkNews can’t resist an opportunity to find an LGBTQ+ angle about, well, pretty much anything: so we’re proud to announce that we have done so yet again. St Patrick was many things – a Christian missionary, an “Apostle of Ireland” – but one thing he most definitely was not was a sucker of nipples, according to his own writings.

2 months ago | thepinknews.com | Patrick Kelleher

This week, news emerged that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the state of Colorado’s ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. SCOTUSblog reported on Monday (10 March) that the court will hear a challenge to the Colorado law prohibiting mental health counselors from practicing the widely criticised form of therapy.

2 months ago | thepinknews.com | Patrick Kelleher

At the 78th Academy Awards ceremony in 2005, trailblazing LGBTQ+ movie Brokeback Mountain made history when it garnered three Oscars from eight nominations. It was a seismic moment for LGBTQ+ cinema at the Oscars, Hollywood’s most glitzy, glamorous night of the year. Up until that point, films that celebrated the beauty and complexity of the queer experience had largely been ignored, bar a few notable exceptions. Brokeback Mountain thrust queer cinema into the mainstream in a spectacular fashion.