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Elton John’s Rocketman and Ellen Degeneres have been big winners at 2020 Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. In the first of two big awards, Elton John and his best friend Bernie Taupin won a Golden Globe for the movie’s title track (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again. In accepting the

For the mayor of a small midwestern city, Pete Buttigieg sure is a fundraising machine. He raised almost $25 million dollars for his presidential campaign in the second quarter of the year, raking in more money than any of his competitors, including former Vice President Joe Biden. Now Buttigieg has tapped into a rich vein of money: Hollywood donors. Apparently the combination of Buttigieg’s smarts and his historic campaign as the first major gay presidential candidate is enough to make...

A Trump administration lawyer who is in charge of a civil rights division had multiple run-ins with the law for his aggressive protests for Christian conservative causes and harassment of women. Matt Bowman is a Christian conservative extremist, and he also happens to be one of the top lawyers in Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. Mother Jones reports that he was arrested multiple times from 1996 to 2002 for harassing women while protesting hospitals where he...

Pose on Tuesday scored six Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.Actor Billy Porter received an acting nomination for his portrayal of Pray Tell on the series, marking the first time an openly gay black man has been nominated for an Emmy.Pose explores New York's vibrant ball scene of the 1980s. It features television's largest cast of transgender actors in series regular roles and the largest LGBTQ cast ever for a scripted series, according to FX. It was recently renewed for a...

Sean HayesContinuing his staggering fundraising haul, out-gay Democratic Presidential Candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg will hold a Los Angeles fundraiser July 25 hosted by Sean Hayes and Ellen DeGeneres. Kevin MacLellan, Chairman of Global and International distribution for NBCUniversal, will lend his Hancock Park home for the fundraiser. Tickets for the dinner run anywhere from $500 to $2,800 per person. In addition to DeGeneres & Hayes, comedienne Chelsea Handler, actor Jason Bateman and actress Portia Di Rossi–wife of DeGeneres–will also attend...

A new poll found that LGBTQ are actually pretty fine with just about anyone showing up at Pride, despite controversies around police officers, kinksters, families, and corporations. A poll of 801 LGBTQ people conducted by Whitman Insight Strategies and Buzzfeed News found that the community overwhelmingly supports just about everyone going to Pride. When asked about police officers marching in Pride parades, only 10% of people said “No.” 79% said “yes” and the rest didn’t give an answer. Corporations have also been...

Ellen kicked off Pride Month today with a really gay episode. The episode was so gay it didn’t even make sense, but it didn’t have to. First, she introduced a segment about parents sending kids to camp. Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” – a song that RuPaul once referred to as a “drag queen classic” – started to play to introduce the segment, and Ellen started lipsyncing. Then a drag queen came out from backstage and lipsynced with Ellen. The segment...

Wanda Sykes filled in for Ellen yesterday, and she opened the show with a friendly “Hello, white ladies.” Sykes is an actress and comedian, known for her stand-up and her roles in Blackish, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The New Adventures of Old Christine. She’s also a lesbian and is married to a woman. In her opening segment, she said that she’s glad to be on The Ellen Degeneres Show without being asked “personal questions” by Ellen, like “How are you?” Sykes did...

During a recent interview with David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres revealed she experienced sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. In a conversation taped for Letterman’s Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,  DeGeneres explained how her stepfather used her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis as an excuse to fondle her. She was only in her mid-teens at the time. “He told me when she was out of town that he’d felt a lump in her breast and needed to feel my breasts because...

Ellen Degeneres talked about her stepfather’s sexual abuse in an interview. Ellen was talking to David Letterman on his Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction when she brought up her stepfather, who assaulted her when she was a teenager. She said that when she was around 15-years-old, the “very bad man” felt her breasts. “He told me when she was out of town that he’d felt a lump in breast and needed to feel my breasts because he didn’t...

Ellen announced that her show has been renewed for another three years. On The Ellen Degeneres Show yesterday, Ellen said that she has been doing her daytime talkshow for 16 years now, or 3000 episodes. “I don’t remember them but I’m told it was enjoyable,” she quipped. She said that her show is like a relationship and sometimes you need to take a break after 16 years. “But I don’t, you’re stuck with me, because I just signed for three more years,” Ellen...

All the good feelings Seth Owen, the gay valedictorian from Florida whose parents kicked him out, recently appeared on Ellen. His story first surfaced in August and quickly went viral. His parents found out he was gay when he was a sophomore in high school and subsequently sent him to conversion therapy. When he asked his parents if he could stop attending church, they gave him a choice: go to church or leave. Owen ended up leaving and staying with friends. Despite 4.16...

As we wrap up our recovery from our NYE celebrations, here's one more of our big stories of 2017. Ellen gave us a lot of great things to love this year, but this one was the biggest hit she gave Instinct. Now this is heartwarming! Former Iraqi soldiers, Nayyef and Btoo, are the subject of the recent documentary film, Out of Iraq. The film chronicles the history of their relationship, starting with when they fell in love during the Iraq war, to...

Sam Smith confirmed he is in a relationship (though, he didn’t specifically name 13 Reasons Why actor Brandon Flynn whom we suspect is the boy in question). The singer is making the rounds to promote his upcoming album The Thrill of it All and it seems that joy is radiating in Smith as he talked about his relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. The comedian and talk show host asked Smith: ”You’re not single right now anymore, right?" and he replied "No, I’m not.” “Which...