Day: June 19, 2026

Fox News host Jesse Watters has sparked backlash after joking that fudge was “too gay” for US Vice President JD Vance during a bizarre on-air segment marking National Fudge Day. At the end of an episode of The Five, Watters presented Vance with a pickle cake instead of fudge. “I was gonna do fudge [cake], […]

A man convicted over an assault on a gay couple has been released from custody after successfully appealing his sentence, in a case that has also drawn attention over his alleged links to the Islamic State. Yaqoob Benshabir, 20, whose uncle was Khaled Sharrouf, one of Australia’s most notorious IS members, pleaded guilty over an […]

Police in Idaho say they are unable to charge a man accused of assaulting a gay couple with a hate crime because of a loophole in the state’s law. Pedro Villareal was arrested after reports that he shouted anti-gay slurs at Eric Reed and Juan Olvera outside a restaurant, before allegedly chasing them to nearby […]

From Talk to Me to Leviticus, the rising Australian actor steps from breakout horror success into queer genre cinema’s next frontier There is a special kind of excitement that comes with watching a young performer find the role that proves exactly what they are capable of. For Australian actor Joe Bird, that moment began with […]