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He closed the door, cutting off the connection between himself and the monotone drudgery he desperately wanted to leave behind. Heart racing, he secured the lock, knowing the one responsible for his heartbeat was waiting. Knowing the one that gave him a purpose to rise out of bed in the morning was waiting. Riley spent eight hours waiting for him, and that was eight hours too many. The second their lives tore them apart for the day, time became one...

Last weekend was a long weekend here in NZ (Queens Birthday I think). Because of the work that Mike does he was working pretty hard late last week and on the weekend but on Saturday Mike called me and asked me if I wanted to head six hours north to Hamner Springs for a couple of nights. Hamner Springs is well, it is a place where there are some natural springs. It's a pretty funky little town that is only...

Last weekend was a long weekend here in NZ (Queens Birthday I think). Because of the work that Mike does he was working pretty hard late last week and on the weekend but on Saturday Mike called me and asked me if I wanted to head six hours north to Hamner Springs for a couple of nights. Hamner Springs is well, it is a place where there are some natural springs. It's a pretty funky little town that is only...

Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black took to social media this weekend to vent his frustration after getting turned away from a diving event where husband Tom Daley was competing. Daley and Black, who married in 2017, welcomed their first child, Robert, last year. This past weekend, Black took young Robert to the London Aquatic Centre to see Daley dive. Venue officials claim they refused to let Black enter because he had his son in a stroller. Black disputes this claim. Black wasted...

A Canadian teen is making us all swoon with the story he posted to Reddit recently, a story of young queer love very much requited. “I am so giddy and excited and don’t have any friends really to share this with,” he says in the post. The 17-year-old from Canada explains that his parents are immigrants from Chile and “pretty Catholic,” and that he’s “so far in the closet I’d need a rescue team of 30 professionals to get me...

History is being made in the world of telenovelas. Univision has announced that they are going to launch the first primetime telenovela with a gay couple as its lead characters, according to We Are Mitu. The new show will be in Spanish and be called El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca or The Heart is Never Wrong. It will be a spinoff of the Mexican telenovela Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia or My Husband Has More Family. The show’s story will follow the...

Wils is singing a different tune these days: The Singaporean pop star, born Willie Tay and previously known as Willtay, publicly came out as gay with his new single, “Open Up Babe.” According to The Rainbow Times, Wils is the first openly gay Chinese singer. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwp7ev3gNfW/?utm_source=ig_embed “About two years ago, I was trying to write a couple of songs, and I just felt like I couldn’t be myself, being in the closet,” Wils explains in a new Billboard interview. “I felt...

His Christian pastor brother still says, “I want the best for him. I just don’t support the gay lifestyle.” In an interview with The Washington Post, Chasten Buttigieg, the 29-year-old husband of out gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, revealed that his brothers both rejected him when he came out as gay. He ended up being homeless and working at a Starbucks just to afford health insurance before he eventually went on a life-changing date with Pete. Chasten was born the third...

The restaurant owner took objection to the two men holding hands and refused to serve them - local LGBTI rights group have organized a protest A gay couple in Mexico captured footage of a restaurant owner refusing them service. Rubén Veliz, 29, and Edwin Contreras, 27, had gone to dine at Pozole Y Tacos (#1200-B Coloniza Colinas de San Jerónimo), Monterrey, Nuevo León, at around 5pm on Sunday (28 April). Veliz tells Gay Star News he has visited the establishment several...

The new issue of TIME Magazine features Democratic presidential contender Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, with the caption “First Family: The unlikely, untested and unprecedented campaign of Mayor Pete Buttigieg.” The Buttigieg’s are the first gay couple to pose for the cover of the magazine since a 2013 issue that focused on marriage equality. Although it’s early in the Democratic primary season – there hasn’t even been a debate yet – folks are finding themselves drawn to one candidate or...

Here come the grooms! The first ever wedding took place at the annual gathering known as White Party in Palm Springs over the weekend. Rossano Milani & Daniele Taddei, who hail from Italy, exchanged vows in front of hundreds of spectators who got to witness the beautiful moment. The now married couple traded in the traditional tuxes used at most weddings for something a bit more revealing. They only sported a pair of colorful shorts, shades, and nothing else. The guy...

LGBTQ history was made on television last night, though it’s shadowed by real-life events. This past Wednesday (April 24), fans of Empire witnessed the first black gay wedding on primetime television. The episode titled “Never Doubt I Love” showed popular character Jamal, played by the controversial Jussie Smollett, and his fiancé Kai, played by Sense8’s Toby Onwumere, getting married. As noted by fellow Empire star Gabourey Sidibe, this scene was very important. “Tonight, #Empire will give life to a monumental love story...

A Singaporean pop singer has come out as gay. Willie Tay was considered a rising star in the Singaporean music scene just a year or two ago. But, his sexuality created a hurdle in his ascent to fame. Earlier this year, Tay decided to tell his family, friends, and record label about his sexuality. The latter didn’t handle the news well. As he told Billboard, “It was terrifying, because before I came out to my label, I was worried about losing my...

It seems odd that Wife Swap could strike a blow for progress, but apparently it has: the Paramount network has announced the show will feature its first-ever episode featuring gay African-American dads. Terrell and Jarius Joseph, both age 26, will participate in an upcoming broadcast that sees the couple “swap” families with a heterosexual, ultra-religious couple and their eight children. The Josephs have two kids of their own, Ashton and Aria, born in 2017. The family resides in Atlanta. “It was...