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If the phenomenon that is RuPaul’s Drag Race was going to spawn some children of it’s own, consider The Boulet Brothers-Dragula as the child that ran away to join the circus. Since it’s inception three years ago, Dragula has morphed into a darkly glorious competition series for queens who truly feel that they are outside the realm of what some would consider “normal” drag. For every fresh faced debutante like Alyssa Edwards, there is an Ursula Major, and for every...

Google employees were told that they can’t protest Google’s policies if they march with the company in a Pride parade. An internal memo was obtained by The Verge that said that Google employees who planned to march with the company in the upcoming San Francisco Pride parade would be punished if they wore clothing that protested the company or otherwise made a statement against Google or its policies. The company has come under scrutiny this past month for its harassment and...

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki struggled to explain the company’s ever-shifting position in responding to journalist Carlos Maza’s harassment by right-winger Steven Crowder. Two weeks ago Maza released a trove of video of Crowder referring to him as “an anchor baby, a lispy queer, a Mexican,” among other racist and homophobic slurs. Maza alleges that the harassment went on for two years before he reported it to YouTube. Initially, the video hosting site declined to do anything about the videos, saying...

YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki offered a non-apology to LGBTQ people who have experienced harassment and hate speech on the video-sharing platform in the wake of attention being drawn to Steven Crowder’s hate speech. Rightwing vlogger Steven Crowder has repeatedly targeted gay latino journalist Carlos Maza of Vox with homophobic hate speech. Maza put together a compilation of some of Crowder’s recent attacks that drew a lot of attention two weeks ago on Twitter: Since I started working at Vox, Steven Crowder...

Today, YouTube basically said that homophobic hate speech targeted towards a specific individual doesn’t violate its terms of service. Its decision seemingly contradicts its own policies and supposed support of LGBTQ content creators. Also today, YouTube announced its plan to remove Nazis, Holocaust deniers and other extremists from its platform, but even its guidelines on that seem a little unclear. The video sharing platform came under increased scrutiny this week after gay Latinx Vox journalist Carlos Maza posted a viral Twitter...

YouTube has continued to muck up its own attempts to regulate hate speech on its platform with two recent developments. First, it said today that users can make hateful, even homophobic statements targeting a single individual as long as the statements are part of a larger argument. Second, the company’s recent efforts to ban extremists has included demonetizing videos of journalists who make their money covering racism and white supremacists. These developments come after yesterday’s decision by YouTube to allow right-wing...

(photos courtesy of Michael Fullem/Rogers & Cowen)Fifty years after the historic Stonewall uprising, YouTube personality Raymond Braun teamed up with Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk, The Celluloid Closet) to travel to diverse communities across the U.S. for an unflinching look at LGBTQ Pride in America. The result of their efforts is the new documentary from YouTube Originals, State of Pride. Braun’s cross-country road trip takes him to big cities and rural towns where he...

Gamer Markiplier asked his 16million+ followers to donate to Human Rights Campaign in the US A California-based YouTube star has raised a staggering $130,000 (€122,000) for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) after appealing to his followers to donate. Markiplier, real name Mark Fischbach, launched his GoFundMe page on Monday. In just a few hours he smashed the $100,000 (€93,700) target. Announcing its launch at the start of the week, the 27-year-old said in a statement, ‘Today we stand by our LGBTQ+ friends...

The video's creator now wants people around the world to share it in protest of Russia's 'gay propaganda' laws The man behind a YouTube video that feature same-sex kisses is ‘sad’ they have been banned in Russia. Roman Bashinsky launched his social justice channel Bashinsky Time (BT) to help promote tolerance in Russia and has more than 438,000 subscribers. A recent series of videos featured a blindfolded person kissing a range of people. Those blindfolded did not know the identity of the...

Blake Mitchell has had quite the amazing 2018. He went on a book tour to promote his debut work called His Own Way Out, was named one of the 10 Most Influential Gay Porn Stars of the 2010's by one of Instinct Magazine's contributing writers, released a self-help video and made some interesting suggestions about Ariana Grande's former flame Pete Davidson's d**k size. Now he's ending the year on a high note by debuting his super cute new boyfriend for...

Youtube has released its official LGBTQ Pride video for 2018 and haters flooded it. The video features several LGBTQ celebrities such as Olympian Adam Rippon, singers Janelle Monae and Hayley Kiyoko, Youtuber Tyler Oakley, and more. The message behind the video is Pride and the creation of LGBTQ content in many mediums. That said, haters flooded the video to give it over 113,000 dislikes. In addition, several comments held negative words like, “This is trash,” or “I lost braincells watching this rubbish.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnGPAYvve1A On...

YouTuber twins Luc and Cooper Coyle came out to their mum in an adorable video – and her reaction was heartwarming. The 19-year-old duo decided to both reveal that they are gay in a phone call to their mum, which they uploaded in a video on YouTube, and also used the moment to come out to their fans. In the video, the pair – who have 36,000 subscribers – explain to viewers: “As you guys know, Luc and I are both...

Not Appropriate For YouTube! By now you must know YouTube Vlogger, Davey Wavey. Whether you choose to admit your like or desire for him or not, Wavey has been one of the faces of LGBTQ Vloggers with his good looks and constant creation of digital content. He’s the first I can recall that made his way into the LGBTQ media and is a celebrity in his own right. Anything with his name on it brings an army of followers and...

Miss our Drag Race react videos? This is the beginning of our react series of Game of Thrones SPOILERS: Games Of Thrones is back on our screens for its penultimate season. A record 16.1 million viewers tuned in to the premiere, making it the most viewed in the show’s history. The episode saw the return of fan favorite Arya Stark, who finally got revenge for the murder of her mother and brother. We also saw mother of dragons Daenerys Targaryen cross the sea...