Articles by Matilda Davies

Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose hugging

TV
Dec 11 2020

The Prom’s Ariana DeBose used ‘all the pressures’ of growing up queer to tell a lesbian love story the right way

US President-elect Joe Biden praised Nancy Pelosi

US
Dec 11 2020

More than 100 LGBT+ congresspeople urge Joe Biden to make good on his diverse cabinet pledge

UK
Dec 10 2020

Stonewall founder Simon Fanshawe ‘doesn’t get’ how a married mixed-sex couple can identify as queer

Julia Hoggett wearing a suit against a white backdrop

Business
Dec 09 2020

London Stock Exchange names first-ever out gay CEO in its 300 year history

US
Dec 05 2020

Forcing trans people to submit medical proof for a passport ruled unconstitutional by federal judge

Sport
Dec 02 2020

WWE legend Pat Patterson, who became wrestling’s ‘first gay superstar’ after 50 years hiding his truth, has died

Music
Dec 02 2020

Rina Sawayama says ‘famous people advocating for being TERFs’ is ‘a really eye-opening moment’

Gay panic defence Australia

World
Dec 02 2020

Abhorrent ‘gay panic’ defence abolished in Australia as final state outlaws heinous practice

Elliot Page

TV
Dec 02 2020

Elliot Page will continue playing Vanya Hargreeves in Umbrella Academy with no changes to character’s gender

Germany: Health insurers toughen rules for gender affirmation surgeries

Trans
Nov 27 2020

Leaked report into German health insurance imposes tough new rules for trans people and erases non-binary people completely

China Pride run same-sex marriage LGBT economy

World
Nov 27 2020

China’s LGBT+ community demands to be counted after a lifetime of erasure

Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies

Religion
Nov 27 2020

Christian archbishop hits out at church for ‘dishonouring God’ by acknowledging same-sex marriage

A person looks at the Grindr app in the App Store on an iPhone.

News
Nov 25 2020

Jeffery Dahmer-obsessive ‘slashed Grindr hook-up’s wrist and strangled him till he blacked out’

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer stands at a podium in a coat. A blurred serviceman is seen in the foreground.

News
Nov 25 2020

Queer soldiers unfairly dismissed for their sexuality win compensation from German government

Sanna Marin is smiling in front of EU flags.

World
Nov 25 2020

Finland’s feminist prime minister Sanna Marin comes out swinging for trans people’s right to self-identify