Tag: same-sex love

"Love is freedom. Freedom is love.” Jussie Smollet’s character might still be stirring up drama on Fox’s Empire, but in his new music video there is nothing but peace and love. The video is for Smollet’s new single, “Freedom,” but the out actor-singer never appears in the clip. Instead the video focuses on Cynthia Erivo (from The Color Purple revival on Broadway) and Tika Sumpter (Southside With You) who play a lesbian couple in love. The video cuts between the two women...

YouTuber Bradley Birkholz reflects on the hateful comments he got about identifying as a side When I admitted to the world that I didn’t much care for anal sex – I didn’t expect quite such a hateful backlash. I recently wrote for Gay Star News about how I identify as a side. It’s someone who either doesn’t engage in anal at all, or just isn’t bothered by it. But, I was surprised by how controversial my sex life was to readers and...

And fans are not happy Disney has cut a gay kiss from Descendants 2. The film, which features the children of classic Disney villains, is under major fire from fans for cutting a very important scene. Harry Hook, the son of Captain Hook, and Gil, the son of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, kissed in the original cut. While straight couples got together in the sequel, like Dove Cameron’s Mal and Mitchel Hope’s Ben, it turns out Disney might not have been...

Award-winning band The xx has celebrated same-sex love in its new music video. The various same-sex couples featured in the video for Say Something Loving are seen kissing, embracing and dancing. The group, who won the Mercury Prize for their debut album, xx, includes LGBT members Romy Madley Croft – who got engaged earlier this year – and Oliver Sim. On its Facebook page, the group’s members wrote that for their latest release, they wanted “to celebrate our hometown and revisit some...

The story of two gay men that met during Iraq war and fell in love with each other is now available in a documentary titled Out of Iraq, and you can watch the trailer below. The two men met in 2004. Nayyef Hrebid and Betu Allami were both involved in the Iraq war. Nayeyef was a translator for U.S. militia and Betu a soldier with the Iraqi Army. They met during a mission involving the reclaim of Ramadi General Hospital that had...