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Gay Star News FEATURE
“Justice For Heklina!”: Protesters Demand Answers From Met Police Over Drag Legend’s Death
Heklina’s close friends Ana Matronic, Trixxie Carr and Peaches Christ led the protest against the Met Police’s investigation into her death.
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Catherine McGann’s Photos Are A Love Letter To Queer New York Nightlife
For 16 years, Catherine McGann was the photographer for notorious New York nightlife columnist Michael Musto. But she has her own stories to tell.
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Keir Starmer On Why He Publicly Got Tested For HIV – Exclusive
Keir Starmer talks to Gay Star News after making history as the first serving Prime Minister to publicly get tested for HIV.
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OPINION: Pop Culture Needs To Stop Glamorising Drugs
Why is pop culture obsessed with drugs and alcohol? Director Joseph Wilson asks for more nuance in how substance-use is portrayed.
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The Pink Triangle Is So Much More Than A Symbol Of Hate
Resistance and activism reclaimed this symbol from hate. Now we need it more than ever.
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Drag Race UK: Exit Interviews With The Cast Of Season 6 – Watch
Drag Race UK’s sixth season might be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t relive the chaos by watching our exit interviews with the queens.
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Keir Starmer On Why He Publicly Got Tested For HIV – Exclusive
Keir Starmer talks to Gay Star News after making history as the first serving Prime Minister to publicly get tested for HIV.
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Don’t Let A Hateful Minority Distract You From Mourning The Vivienne
Let’s protect our peace by not engaging with those trying to distract us from our grief over one of the LGBTQ+ community’s brightest stars.
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REVIEW: ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ at the National Theatre
This play would fall flat on its face if it didn’t feel totally silly. But that’s not an issue here.
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72 Hours In Malta, Europe’s Best Country For LGBTQ+ People
Looking for your next LGBTQ+ destination? Here’s everything you need to know about visiting Malta during Pride season.
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Shorts
Sculptor Nick Hornby opens up about his “nuclear midlife crisis”
Agony Guncles
Mighty Hoopla? I hardly know her! Ella Vaday has more on the latest queer stories
Drag News
What IS the most Nonbinary name you can think of?
Vox Pops
We chat with the cast of BBC3’s I Kissed a Girl, meet the iconic Demi
The One That Got Away
Meet living sculpture and activist Daniel Lismore!
Our Friends And Neighbours
Sub and Dom in Da Bungalow
Agony Guncles
IRELAND
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Spill the LGBTea: Róisín Ní Haicéid of Banríon
Let’s spill the LGBTea with Róisín Ní Haicéid, from the Dublin based indie-rock quartet, banríon.
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How Camp Are The Irish Festival Line-Ups?
You can expect to see plenty of tents this festival season but just how camp are our line-ups in Ireland this summer?
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The Science-Fiction Thriller That Delves Into The Idea Of Curing Mental Illness With The Assistance Of AI
I Wouldn’t Mind Control is a multimedia theatre piece, a psychological science-fiction thriller about delving into the mind and curing mental illness with the assistance of AI.
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How Camp Are The Irish Festival Line-Ups?
You can expect to see plenty of tents this festival season but just how camp are our line-ups in Ireland this summer?
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What It Means To Celebrate Pride in Ireland
My biggest blunder, aside from my Englishness, was only getting one photo from that night…
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Spill the LGBTea: Róisín Ní Haicéid of Banríon
Let’s spill the LGBTea with Róisín Ní Haicéid, from the Dublin based indie-rock quartet, banríon.
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Pride In Ireland 2024: When Is Pride In Your County?
These are the events for everyone up and down the country looking to celebrate Pride this year.
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Videos
The Pitch: Jake Williamson
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Our Friends And Neighbours!
Gay footballer Zander Murray’s first interview since retiring – toxic masculinity, allyship and The Sims!
Our Friends and Neighbours!
Digital Hacktivist Kit Bacon
Crystal Interview
‘The Tories Have Waged War On The LGBTQ+ Community’
This is Queer Love
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Celebrating Otamere Guobadia’s poetry debut collection
This Is… Queer Love
Let’s go to The Divine with Barbs
Let’s Go Outside!
Meet designer and illustrator Mundo Moo
Our Friends And Neighbours!
“My promise to [the LGBTQ+] community is we’re going to carry on supporting you.”
Mayor Sadiq Khan
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Don’t Let A Hateful Minority Distract You From Mourning The Vivienne
Let’s protect our peace by not engaging with those trying to distract us from our grief over one of the LGBTQ+ community’s brightest stars.
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Edward II: Queer Rebellion Leads To Political Breakdown In The RSC’s Latest Production
This is not a soft and luxurious Gay romance. It’s a dark and bloody exploration of Queer rebellion.
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Cherry Cherry Lady! These Are Predicted To Be 2025’s Biggest Aesthetic Trends
Good news for anyone that got fish tats during the great tinned sardine trend of 2023.
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Why 00s Villains Speidi Are Finally Getting Their Props, 15 Years Late
At the hour they need it most, they finally get to be America’s sweethearts.
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Drag Race UK: Exit Interviews With The Cast Of Season 6 – Watch
Drag Race UK’s sixth season might be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t relive the chaos by watching our exit interviews with the queens.
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Why Are Supermarkets Competing To Be Camp Now?
There are only three kinds of people who share a supermarket advert. 1) Racists who call non-white people round a dinner table “woke nonsense”. 2) People who cry at John Lewis Christmas adverts. 3). Twitter Gays.
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Why The World Can’t Stop Looking At Chappell Roan
Britney, Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette – the world always gawps at a princess that’s struggling. Can a drag queen from the midwest break that cycle?
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The Femme Bisexuals Dating Nerd Men Phenomenon Explained
And also an investigation into whether The Dare is actually hot.
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