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Viewers spotted that the pro-trans slogan had been digitally removed from the House of the Dragon actor's rehearsal top. The BBC points to its rules on branding and slogans; critics aren't buying it.
For LGBTQ+ History Month: Sarajevo Open Centre's free, 274-page History of Queer Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina digs through archives, folk songs and old newspapers to show queer lives from Ottoman Sarajevo to the first activists. Here are five stories worth knowing.
Simon Stone's Elsinore, with Andrew Scott as the gay Chariots of Fire star who played Hamlet while dying of AIDS, got a standing ovation at the BFI London Film Festival. Scott's message: 'The shame doesn't lie with us.'
Albania's queer film festival opened at Tirana's University of Arts with 19 films and 19 international guests, and runs until October 25. The bigger story is where it's going: 11 towns beyond the capital.
Czech Television says budget cuts mean no Czech entry, and no broadcast, for next May's contest in Bulgaria. It joins Ireland and the Netherlands on the sidelines, while Canada gets ready for its debut.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who founded Childline in 1986, has died aged 86. Beyond That's Life and her assisted dying campaign, she put coming out and trans lives on daytime TV long before it was easy, and built a helpline that still answers young LGBTQ+ people today.
The One Tree Hill star and the two-time World Cup winner married quietly in upstate New York in summer 2025, with Harris's kids picking the flowers. Bush's memoir is out October 27. Harris's reason for going public: 'the visibility piece matters.'
'Living in Colors' follows five queer flatmates in Lagos. The national film board blocked its premiere and vowed to get it off YouTube. Episodes vanished after two days, and some returned on September 13. Here's what happened, and why it matters.
The producers behind the gay hockey romance have launched the Irina Foundation, named after Ilya's late mother, to fund sports and arts programs for LGBTQIA2S+ and underserved communities in Canada and the US.
The world's richest short film prize for LGBTQ+ stories celebrates its 20th edition in Cardiff with 35 shorts from 22 countries, a record 16 features, Desert Hearts with Donna Deitch in person, and an online festival for UK viewers.
Balkan Pride season ran from June to Belgrade's march on 5 September. Here is what to read now that the sound systems have been packed away — six ex-Yugoslav queer books you can actually get hold of in translation.
Portugal's longest-running LGBTQ+ film festival returns to Cinema São Jorge from September 18 to 26, opening with Ira Sachs' The Man I Love. Tickets go on sale today.
Tom Thailand 2026 gives masculine-presenting lesbians and trans men a national stage that pageant culture has never made room for — judged on character and conduct, not just appearance.
The Prishtina Queer Festival opens September 6 for its second edition, pairing Kosovar queer film, music, and book launches with a curated slate of Portuguese short films — a small but pointed act of cross-border solidarity.
Collins came out in a 2013 Sports Illustrated essay and kept playing — a quiet, deliberate act of courage that changed what was possible for gay athletes in men's pro sports. He died this week after an eight-month fight with brain cancer.
The Queen of Country Music died Tuesday in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer. For decades, she used her platform to tell LGBTQ+ people they belonged — and meant it.
Queer Wave 2026 runs September 18-27 at NiMAC, bringing ten days of queer cinema, performance and community events to a country still building out its LGBTQ+ rights framework.
The Grammy-winning singer confirmed the engagement to The New York Times, three years into a relationship that's already inspired a Met Gala look and an entire album.
For the first time in 52 years, women are playing professional baseball in the US. Nearly a third of the inaugural roster is openly LGBTQ+, and that's not a footnote — it's the culture of the sport.
GLAAD's newly rebranded 'Where We Are in Film' study finds queer representation in major studio releases falling for the third straight year, dropping to 20.4% of films. The trans erasure is total.
Netflix wraps its gentle queer teen phenomenon with a feature-length finale this Friday, arriving days after Alice Oseman published the sixth and final graphic novel. Here's why the low-drama ending is the point.
At a surprise Grindr-hosted Pride concert in Times Square, Madonna previewed her upcoming album Confessions II — and gave fans a collective heart attack by swinging a leg over the stage barrier.
The Tatiana Maslany–led dark comedy from David J. Rosen drops its first two episodes on Apple TV today, May 20. Two openly queer leading men — Murray Bartlett and Brandon Flynn — are doing some of the most interesting work in their careers, and the show is treating sex work like a job rather than a punchline.
Dara's 'Bangaranga' gave Bulgaria its first-ever Eurovision win on Saturday in Vienna. The 2027 contest will head to Sofia — a city in a country ranked 40th of 49 on Europe's Rainbow Map and where an anti-LGBT 'propaganda' law is still on the books.
Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen took the trophy with Liekinheitin. The EBU's controversial flag rule — performers limited to the national flag, audiences allowed Pride and Palestinian flags — survived the night, but the optics tell a more complicated story.
Twenty-one feature films are competing for the 16th Queer Palm, and seven of the 22 films in the Official Competition feature LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Almodóvar, Lukas Dhont, Ira Sachs, and Jane Schoenbrun all bring new work to the Croisette.
The European Broadcasting Union's contested 2025 ban on Pride flags for performers and delegations carries into Vienna's Eurovision week. Spectators get a more permissive list — and a fire-safety asterisk. Here's what to expect when the contest opens May 12.
From a trans neo-noir to a fat queer story collection to a lesbian gothic set in a 1928 boarding school — spring 2026 is stacked with queer literature that defies easy categorization.
From a queer Marine drama to an Apple TV+ queer comedy with a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 2025 delivered remarkable queer storytelling. Here's our roundup, plus the GLAAD Award winners and what's ahead in 2026.
