LGBTQ news and entertainment
Some news items you might have missed:
• New York Times: Make sure you watch the 2025 Tony Awards tonight on CBS at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. There’s also the pre-show streaming on Pluto at 6:40 pm ET/3:40 pm PT.
• Boy Culture: A new art exhibition – Cruising in the Shadows: Uncovering Secret LGBTQ+ Culture in New York City – explores NYC’s gay cruising past. Continue reading “2025 Tony Awards Tonight On CBS + Simone Biles Takes Down Transphobe + More”
The 2025 WorldPride Parade is happening today in Washington, D.C.
You can watch all the shiny happy people get their Pride on live via the network feeds below. Happy Pride! Continue reading “Watch: 2025 WorldPride Parade In Washington D.C. Live”
Some news items you might have missed:
• Billboard Magazine: Check out this list of ‘The 100 Greatest LGBTQ+ Anthems of All Time.’ While it’s impossible to define exactly what makes a song “gay,” this list definitely isn’t straight.
• JoeMyGod: Plastic surgery to create chiseled, masculine jawlines has become very popular among MAGA men in Washington, D.C. Sounds kinda like gender-affirming care to me, no? Continue reading “100 Greatest LGBTQ Anthems + MAGA Men Want Chiseled Chins + More”
Some news items you might have missed: • Gayety: Out Spanish pop star Pablo Alborán is joining the cast of Netflix’s hit Spanish-language medical drama Breathless (Respira) for its highly anticipated second season. • New Music: Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo announces her second album, I Forgive You, will be released June 6. Her new single “Worst of Me” drops this Friday, April 11, on all music streaming services. Continue reading “Pablo Alborán Joins Medical Drama ‘Breathless’ + More News”
Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winner and 3x Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo will headline the WorldPride 2025 Saturday night Street Festival and Concert on the Capitol Stage following the parade. The FREE two-day event will feature a dynamic mix of local artists, DJs, and performers alongside the biggest names in entertainment and will culminate in the Closing Ceremony event. Continue reading “Cynthia Erivo To Headline Free WorldPride DC 2025 Concert”
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC was scheduled to perform a concert with the National Symphony Orchestra on May 21 as part of this year’s WorldPride 2025 program of events at the Kennedy Center. World Pride, held every two years, aims to bring together a program of events to “celebrate, educate, support and inspire.” The concert was to have been the orchestral premiere of John Bucchino’s choral work A Peacock Among Pigeons, a piece about embracing one’s uniqueness. But the event has now been removed from the Kennedy Center schedule. No doubt due to Donald Trump’s takeover of KC last week. Continue reading “WorldPride 2025 Concert At Kennedy Center Cancelled”
Maluma on Miami Beach (via Instagram)
Sign welcoming Qantas passengers for Pride Flight, Hugh Sheridan during the flight
Members of the Cuban delegation WorldPride 2017 parade in Madrid (photo: Malopez 21, via Wikimedia)
WorldPride will head ‘down under’ in 2023 as Sydney, Australia, has won its bid to host the biennial LGBTQ+ celebration. Choosing between Sydney, Montreal, and Houston, members of the worldwide InterPride network of Pride organizations gave Sydney 60% of the vote.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Sydney has won our bid to host WorldPride 2023! 🏳️🌈🌏
Members of the worldwide InterPride network of Pride organisations voted between Sydney, Montreal and Houston as the host city for WorldPride 2023. We won with 60% of the vote. ❤️ WE THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! pic.twitter.com/kEViSaqMt0 — Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras (@sydneymardigras) October 20, 2019
This is the moment Sydney found out we won the vote for #WorldPride2023 host city! 🏳️🌈🌏 pic.twitter.com/XNiRUdgBem
— Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras (@sydneymardigras) October 20, 2019
Congratulations @SydneyMardiGras on your successful bid to bring #WorldPride to Australia.
We can’t wait to invite the world to Sydney in 2023! 🌈 pic.twitter.com/tSIdLIRUsu — Clover Moore (@CloverMoore) October 20, 2019
Me this morning when my colleagues asked me how I feel about Sydney winning the World Pride 2023 bid 🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/xgLf088mjb
— Casey Conway (@caseyconway_) October 20, 2019
#WorldPrideNYC Thank you to all of our incredible volunteers this year who made WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50, “Millions Of Moments” to remember. pic.twitter.com/GUs1Hr0JME
— New York City Pride (@NYCPride) August 2, 2019