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The UK is set to announce who will succeed Theresa May as the Conservative Party leader on Tuesday. You can follow updates as the story unfolds in the live blog below. Source

Based on Robert James Waller’s bestselling 1992 novel – and subsequent film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County tells the story of Francesca, an Italian woman who has moved to the USA with her American husband Bud to raise a family. While Bud and the children are away at the Iowa state fair, a National Geographic photographer, Robert, stops at the house to ask directions; he has been tasked with taking photos of...

Black Mirror might return to the world of San Junipero, according to creator Charlie Brooker. The episode, which aired during the show’s third season, told the story of Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis) and Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), two women who fall in love in a town called San Junipero, a simulated reality the elderly can inhabit. It was critically-acclaimed for the chemistry between its two leads, and for the surprisingly uplifting tone in a series usually plagued by tragedy. It won two Emmy...

“It’s a lot of things,” she says, speaking to us on the phone from Los Angeles where she’s in her car on her way to her next appointment. Angelica’s not complaining at all though, adding that she loves being “booked and busy” – and following her standout performance in Pose, we suspect it’s going to be that way for some time yet. We are living in a golden age of television and at its centre Pose is a drama shining...

“It’s a lot of things,” she says, speaking to us on the phone from Los Angeles where she’s in her car on her way to her next appointment. Angelica’s not complaining at all though, adding that she loves being “booked and busy” – and following her standout performance in Pose, we suspect it’s going to be that way for some time yet. We are living in a golden age of television and at its centre Pose is a drama shining...

After months of anticipation, we finally know when Marvel’s upcoming Black Widow solo film will be set. Over the weekend, the cast of the highly-anticipated blockbuster appeared at Comic-Con in San Diego and confirmed that the Scarlett Johansson vehicle will take place in Budapest between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. It comes as no surprise to fans that Black Widow will be a prequel considering the character – SPOILER ALERT! – sacrificed herself in Avengers: Endgame to save...

A new exhibition in the Harvey Milk Terminal 1 of San Francisco Airport (SFO) is set to honour the politician, who was America’s first-ever LGBTQ elected official. Harvey Milk was first elected in 1977 as a city supervisor. During this time he was able to get a bill passed that banned anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the fields of public accommodations, housing and employment. However, in 1978, both he and the Mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, were assassinated by former city supervisor...

Iran has seized a foreign tanker with 12 crew accused of smuggling fuel in the Gulf, state television quoted Iran's Revolutionary Guards as saying on Thursday. "A foreign vessel smuggling one million litres of fuel in the Lark Island of the Persian Gulf has been seized," the station said. The vessel was towed on Sunday after a distress call and was later seized for fuel smuggling, it added. Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as...

On a stormy afternoon in November, employees at Grindr’s in-house digital magazine, Into, were on edge. They’d just left an emergency staff meeting at the company’s West Hollywood headquarters where they had been told the LGBTQ news outlet was about to publish one of the most explosive stories in its 15-month history. The topic: a Facebook post in which Scott Chen, the president of the gay dating and hookup app, wrote that marriage should be “between a...

Earlier this month, award-winning documentary filmmakers Jac Nunns and Angie West launched their LGBTQ-only streaming service for short films, dedicated to entertain and educate viewers on the richness of queer culture. Queer Bee’s aim is to showcase LGBTQ stories that would otherwise go underrepresented. Yes, we’ve been treated to Oscar nominated dramas over the past decade such as Call Me By Your Name, Moonlight and Carol, but there’s still a significant lack of mainstream movies that represent the entire community. “QueerBee...

(Reuters) - An attorney for former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks denied on Friday that she was involved in discussions during the 2016 presidential campaign about a hush-money payment to a porn star who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with President Donald Trump. Her lawyer, Robert Trout, issued a statement a day after newly unsealed FBI documents raised new questions about Hicks’ June 19 testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Hicks,...

Molly Snee for BuzzFeed News In the epilogue of Lisa Taddeo’s new book, Three Women, Taddeo recounts the last bit of advice her mother ever gave her: “Don’t let them see you happy.”“Who?” Taddeo asks.“Everyone,” says her mother. She’s tired. She’s on her deathbed. “Other women, mostly.”Three Women, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller this week, is a sprawling nonfiction account of three “ordinary” women’s...

Being Out is a feature that looks at LGBTQ people in sports who have come out since Outsports first published in 1999. Today: Basketball coach Layne Ingram. Every trans person has their own journey, but for Layne Ingram, his athletic success on his high school girls basketball team and the University of Michigan women’s team made his coming out much more public. “How do I respond to the lady in the mall from the church I grew up in?” Ingram asks...

It’s been 12 years since Equus last graced the West End stage, with the 2007 production causing a flurry of media excitement, starring Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role during the height of his Harry Potter fame. Time may not have been kind to Peter Shaffer’s 1973 work – the language seems laboured in places, while the psychology feels dated and full of clichés – but this version, with director Ned Bennett at the reins, has breathed new life...