Tag: London

Three men are in trouble for getting freaky while taking public transport. According to the Sun, a man, his boyfriend, and a third man have gone to court after they tried to have sex on a London Underground train. 24-year-old Nicholas Mullan and 35-year-old George Mason were apparently filming themselves on February 19, 2018 as they engaged in sexual activities while on the Northern Line train between Leicester Square and Waterloo. At some point, a third man joined in. The gay couple...

Three thugs are in some deep trouble and the odds are stacked against them. According to Metro News, a gay couple was attacked by a group of men. The victims, aged 28 and 31, were holding hands when they were attacked in the afternoon on New Year’s Day. The two men suffered facial injuries and bruising after being attacked in the South Bank area of London. That said, the injuries were minor and don’t warrant hospital treatment. According to DailyMail, London police...

'If I could meet the guy I would apologize. I didn't mean to go out there to distress him like that.' A London bus driver has issued an apology for making a video of himself mocking a man wearing high heels. TFL confirmed to Gay Star News they are investigating the incident. The driver, who works in Merton, asked GSN to not name him to ‘protect his family’. Bus driver makes video that goes viral He told us the incident happened a couple weeks ago...

Who knew that a simple trip through an airport could mean so much to the LGBTQ community? Heathrow Airport has embraced the colors of the rainbow in celebration of Pride in London and commissioned a unique interpretation of the iconic flag, created with the help of 6,000 passengers’ kisses. Populated by staff and passengers the flag will now fly above Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal until the end of July. The unveiling of the flag is part of a week-long celebration...

A London airport is waving a rainbow flag that’s made of kisses. Heathrow Airport in London is proudly waving a rainbow flag up in the skies. The fun part is that that colors of the flag are made by the kisses of 6,000 former passengers. In order to celebrate Pride in London this upcoming weekend, the airport offered passengers colorful lipstick. The passengers then applied the rainbow of colors and kissed a large white cloth (or used a stamp if they...

London police have released a video of an altercation that happened in March in order to help find their culprit. Around 4 am on March 25, former army soldier Lee Wardle was taking a bus towards Clapham Junction. It was during this ride that he overheard a man having an obnoxiously loud conversation on his phone. As he told the Evening Standard: “A guy was sat on the top deck just in front of me having a really loud, obnoxious conversation using...

"It didn't stop us for a single second," says store manager Uli Lenart. Vandals targeted at landmark LGBT bookstore in the U.K., smashing the shop’s windows early Sunday morning. Gay’s The Word has been a London mainstay for nearly 40 years and the staff say the incident hasn’t deterred them. “We see it for what it was,” manager Uli Lenart told The Bookseller. “We immediately boarded it up and then got a new window put in. It didn’t stop us ...

For his first solo headline show at London’s O2 Arena, Harry Styles made a colourful and empowering splash. The former One Direction star managed to turn his 12,000-strong audience in a huge, shimmering, Pride flag, as the colours of the rainbow twinkled across the venue. Before the show, a group of fans known as the Rainbow London Project gave the crowd rainbow tickets that they could attach to the flash on their smartphone cameras. The colours were distributed throughout the audience so...

The model and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant features in a new photoshoot for the well-known UK bathhouse Former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Austin Armacost has just shot an advertising campaign for a London gay sauna. Pleasuredrome sauna is based in Waterloo, London. It is one of London’s longest running and best-known gay saunas. However, it appears that model and former reality contestant Austin’s shoot appeared on Pleasuredrome’s Facebook page. Austin Armacost new face of London gay sauna In a post on Thursday, Austin...

Circa Soho will be unveiling Hungerford House on Embankment later this spring The owner of popular gay bar Circa in London, UK, has announced the brand’s expansion. In addition to Circa Soho on Frith Street, a new late-night club will throw open its doors later this spring. The original Circa opened in May 2011. The forthcoming opening bucks the recent trend in the UK capital, which has seen dozens of LGBTI venues close. Approximately 50% of its venues have disappeared over...

Digital billboards are going up this week A gay couple took out the top spot of a photo competition and will feature on 50 billboards around London. Scott Hamilton submitted a photo to the Love in London competition of him and his partner snuggling on the couch. Aptly titled Snuggle, Hamilton took the photo using a self-timer camera. He was one of 700 entrants in the charity competition, which launched on Valentine’s Day and ran for three weeks. Hamilton said: ‘This competition was...

Though he decried England's "mass fornication," Umar Haque had been searching for transgender sex workers. A British supporter of Islamic State has been found guilty of planning numerous terror attacks in London, including violent assaults on gay bars and public monuments. Umar Haque, 25, was an Islamic studies teacher at a private school and worked at a mosque, both in East London, where he attempted to turn students into a “child army” to carry out attacks. Haque, 25, kept a notebook...

Dive in with the Gay and Lesbian Underwater Group First established in the 1990s, London’s Gay and Lesbian Underwater Group — GLUG — is a SCUBA diving club for the LGBT community, organising dive trips in the UK and around the world. We caught up with Alan Kan, membership coordinator for the club, to find out if we had what it takes to dive deep with GLUG. Why is there a need for a specific LGBTI underwater club — why not just join the existing clubs that are...

A gay man has been left too scared to leave his home after he was beaten in a homophobic attack outside of a London nightclub. Gordon Maxwell was attacked outside of Troxy, a club in East London last month, and was left needing reconstructive surgery. He also lost a sense of smell through one nostril and suffered permanent nerve damage in other parts of his face. Maxwell, who was wearing a dress at the time of the attack in Tower Hamlets, believes...