Articles by Hilary Mitchell

Ricky Wilson pictured on the Michael McIntyre show in a trans rights t-shirt, worn under a plaid shirt

Culture
Feb 04 2024

Kaiser Chiefs star praised for wearing trans rights T-shirt on Michael McIntyre show: “icon behaviour”

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, who has been floated as a vice president candidate for Donald Trump, wears a black outfit as she speaks to people off camera

News
Feb 03 2024

Transgender advocacy group sues South Dakota for discrimination – and wins $300,000

Catherine O'Hara poses in front of a rainbow background

Culture
Feb 03 2024

Schitt’s Creek star Catherine O’Hara is joining The Last of Us cast

Image shows Roberta Kaplan onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit 2018 at Ritz Carlton Hotel on October 2, 2018 in Laguna Niguel, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune)

News
Feb 03 2024

Lesbian E Jean Carroll lawyer says Trump used ‘teenage boy’ version of C-word against her

Image shows Brianna Ghey's killers alongside a picture of the murdered teen

News
Feb 03 2024

Family of Brianna Ghey’s killer breaks silence: “The last 12 months have been beyond our worst nightmares”

Rapper Central Cee performs on day 2 of Reading Festival 2023 at Richfield Avenue in Reading, England. He is wearing a grey sweatshirt and a black beanie hat. (Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

Culture
Feb 02 2024

Is Central Cee’s song ‘Doja’ homophobic? The truth behind the viral TikTok track

Image shows crowds about the HMT Empire Windrush

News
Feb 02 2024

Why is Black History Month celebrated in February in the US but in October in the UK?

Image shows red Sesame Street puppet Elmo sitting on some steps with a superimposed caption that reads: Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?

News
Jan 31 2024

Elmo asked ‘how is everyone doing?’ on X. He quickly became the world’s therapist

Christian pastor dropped by radio network, Alistair Begg, addresses the crowd from a stage in his sermon on Sunday (28 January) he is an older man wearing a dark blue sweater over a buttoned up shirt.

News
Jan 31 2024

Pastor axed for telling grandmother to attend LGBTQ+ wedding refuses to ‘repent’

Image shows the cover of the gender-sensitive language toolkit on the left, and a couple kissing while wearing an EU flag on the right

News
Jan 29 2024

The right-wing’s latest manufactured outrage? An EU inclusive language toolkit from 2019

News
Jan 26 2024

Bigots are now raging about a four-year-old reboot of Animaniacs, because of course they are

Taylor Swift performs at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009 in New York City.

News
Jan 26 2024

Fans fight back as ‘disgusting’ Taylor Swift deepfake images shared online

Nicola Sturgeon

News
Jan 26 2024

No, Nicola Sturgeon didn’t call Liz Truss ‘as much use as a marzipan dildo’

Image shows transgender TV star Amiyah Scott, she is Black and has rainbow coloured hair.

Culture
Jan 24 2024

Star’s Amiyah Scott is a bona fide trans trailblazer – why isn’t she better known?

Photo shows a screengrab from the 2023 film Barbie with Margot Robbie standing in between two arguing men (both Kens)

News
Jan 24 2024

Fans rage at Barbie Oscars ‘snub’: ‘ya’ll disrespect these incredible women’s work like that?’

Celebrity
Dec 23 2023

Stormy Daniels says her new job is the best – even though she ‘doesn’t get to have an orgasm’

Nigella Lawson poses with some delicious festive treats as part of her Amsterdam-set Christmas cookery special.

Celebrity
Dec 22 2023

Nigella Lawson revealed her drag name in her Christmas special – and the internet is going wild

Olivia Colman as the Queen standing on the steps of the palace with Prince Philip behind her, in a duck-egg blue pussy-bow and pillbox hat

TV
Nov 13 2023

The Crown’s top five most savage moments that’ll make you say ‘yass Queen’

Birmingham Pride parade and Adam Carver

UK
May 27 2023

Drag queen expertly shuts down anti-LGBTQ+ protester at Birmingham Pride parade: ‘The only sin is you spreading hate’

Turkey LGBT rights pride protest

World
Mar 08 2022

LGBT+ people are facing a dire situation in Turkey. This is how it got so bad, and why you should care

Santa kissing his boyfriend

News
Nov 23 2021

Santa gets a boyfriend in tear-jerking Christmas advert celebrating queer love

Kamala Harris communications director

News
Nov 19 2021

What’s really going on with Kamala Harris, and is racism and sexism to blame – as Jen Psaki claims?

Berlin High School pupils staging a protest after a transgender teen was allegedly assaulted

News
Nov 16 2021

Furious students protest after trans teen ‘attacked in bathroom by classmate’

Rupaul Christmas movie

Culture
Nov 03 2021

RuPaul is making a Christmas movie with Drag Race stars – and its going to sleigh the house down

Ghanaian singer Angel Maxine and her mother Araba Forson

News
Oct 18 2021

Proud mother of trans woman vows to march naked to parliament if anti-LGBT+ bill passes in Ghana

Drag Race UK girl groups

News
Oct 15 2021

Cheesy chips and chest bumps: The funniest tweets and memes from this week’s Drag Race UK

Bretman Rock on the cover of Playboy

News
Oct 04 2021

Playboy breaks new ground with first gay male cover star Bretman Rock: ‘I’m a Playboy bunny, duh’

Elektra Fence Drag Race UK

Culture
Oct 01 2021

Snapchat, spiders and cow s**t: The funniest tweets and memes from this week’s Drag Race UK

Victoria Scone was given a 'Star Buy' sticker

News
Sep 30 2021

Drag Race UK’s Victoria Scone powerfully opens up about bulimia fight after ‘shady’ weight comment

PinkNews Futures

News
Sep 28 2021

How PinkNews Futures helps LGBT+ jobseekers: ‘I got a job during a pandemic from this careers fair’

Charity Kase RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Culture
Sep 23 2021

Slipknot, rejected kale and camp cows: the funniest tweets and memes from this week’s Drag Race UK

Drag Race UK season three lineup

Culture
Sep 23 2021

Everything you need to know about Drag Race UK season three including start date and how to watch

Lil Nas X performs Jolene on Radio 1 Live Lounge

Culture
Sep 22 2021

Lil Nas X’s ‘beautifully sad’ cover of Dolly Parton banger will give you chills

Jo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater gave an emotional speech in parliament

News
Sep 10 2021

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater pays tribute to ‘caring’ sister Jo Cox in emotional Commons speech

Lady Gaga Chromatica cover

Culture
Jun 03 2021

Lady Gaga casually ruins Pride Month by postponing The Chromatica Ball to 2022

Drag Race Down Under cast

Culture
Apr 09 2021

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under: Everything we know about the spin-off so far including premiere date

Demi Lovato overdose

News
Mar 31 2021

Demi Lovato went back to her rapists to ‘try to take power back’: ‘It didn’t fix anything’

Jessica Walter: 11 of Lucille Bluth's most savage put downs and one-liners

Culture
Mar 26 2021

11 of Lucille Bluth’s most savage put downs in memory of iconic shade queen Jessica Walter

Trans Day of Visibility 2021

News
Mar 23 2021

Trans Day of Visibility 2021: Everything you need to know about the event including how to take part

TV
Mar 19 2021

Wham, Lord of the Rings and Victorian orphans: the funniest reactions to the Drag Race UK finale