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  • Cher’s New Album Is Finished

    Pop juggernaut Cher has confirmed that her first album since 2001’s Living Proof is finally ready.

    Taking to twitter yesterday, Cher told her 1.4m followers that she had finished her album.

    The album which is still unnamed, has caused much speculation on social networks as fans have tried to decipher Cher’s many tweets about her new material.

    So far it has been reported that, Lady Gaga, P!nk and Timberland have all collaborated with Cher for the latest output and that it is expected to drop this summer.

    In tweets sent on the 21st Cher confirmed yet another star who has lent vocal talent to the project; openly gay Scissor Sister front-man Jake Spears.

    Cher wrote on the micro-blogging site: ‘Played Jason (Jake shears) my cd before he sang on track. He said”it’s fkng amazing!”Gotta LOVE THAT! He SOUNDS SO COOL on Song, He’s Adorable!

    Cher has topped the charts with her albums and singles for 6 six consecutive decades. According to Wikipedia, Cher has amassed a whopping 73 singles, with four of them reaching number 1. She has also reportedly sold over 100m records.

    The first single ‘Woman’s World’ is due for release in June.

  • INTERVIEW: Ceri Dupree

    Drag sensation returns to the Curve in Leicester in the hit 70s and 80s musical _Hot Stuff_ with all the old favourite characters, that fabulous bum and Margaret Thatcher, Ding Dong! Meet Ceri Dupree, the lady is not for turning. (more…)

  • New Zealand MP Gives Powerful Speech On Gay Marriage

    New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson has delivered a powerful speech following the legalisation of gay marriage in the country.

    Watch the video here of MP Williamson attacking any far fetched ideas that gay marriage would doom New Zealand in an amusing yet powerful speech.

    ‘We are not declaring nuclear war on a foreign state, we are not bringing a virus in that could wipe out our agriculture sector forever, we are allowing two people who love each other to have that recognised and I can’t see what’s wrong with that.’

    ‘I also sir had a Catholic priest tell me that I was supporting an unnatural act. I found that quite interesting coming from someone who’s taken an oath of celibacy for his entire life.’

    Watch The Full Speech Here: Gay Marriage Speech By NZ MP

  • Gay Marriage Now Legal In New Zealand

    Early reports are coming through that Gay Marriage is now legal in New Zealand.

    Reports coming through from Twitter reveal that politicians voted 77 for marriage equality and 44 against.

    According to @MarriageEquality on Twitter, New Zealand is the 13th country in the world to legalise gay marriage.

    Gay marriage is legal the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay

    The bill introduces marriage equality for all regardless of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.

    Meanwhile the hash tag #MarriageEquality overshadowed Margaret Thatcher’s hash tag #thatcherfuneral on Twitter. The former prime minister of the United Kingdom has her funeral today in London after dying a week ago from a stoke.

    Margaret Thatcher was known for her divisive leadership and in terms of gay rights was the country’s premier, when the first anti-gay law in 100 years was enacted in the form of Section 28, which forbade the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools in the UK.

  • DUNCAN JAMES | “Bi Now, Gay Later”

    Duncan James made headlines in 2009 when he publicly came out as Bisexual, in an interview with the News Of The World, now it’s on his own terms as he talks to GT.

    Talking to GT Duncan James said,
    “I was 22 when I had my first gay experience…I’d become really good friends with this guy and then I looked at him dancing on stage one night and I realised I really liked him. A couple of months later we hooked up. But afterwards I had massive amounts of guilt; almost like wishing it’d never happened.”

    Although Duncan is still sexually attracted to women, he admits his gay side is more prevalent. “I sill enjoy having sex with girls, I find women attractive. But over the years it’s been less and less relationships with girls. So I understand that saying, ‘Bi now, gay later’. But it’s 2013 and there’s nothing wrong in being open with your sexuality.”

    With rivals like One Direction and The Wanted it’s going to take more than The Big Reunion to get back on top!

    “Take That did the most amazing comeback ever but it’s gone a bit quiet for them and JLS are taking a break, One Direction and The wanted are doing massively well in the US. But there aren’t a lot of boybands around in the UK right now, so we think there’s a big gap and it’s a great time for us to come back.”

    Duncan on Eurovision

    “As a country we don’t take it seriously and some said it was career suicide because it’s so political…But on the back of Eurovision we didn’t even have a second single or album. It was like a big whoopee cushion that deflated.”

    GT is out now if you want to see a semi naked Duncan James – ooo er!

  • Eurovision Unveils Butterfly Logo

    We’re gearing up here at TGUK HQ for Eurovision 2013. With Bonnie burning up in the wings we’re sure this year’s contest will be fair, fun and fabulously Swedish.

    Eurovision 2013

    Ok sarcasm aside about the fair bit, we’re quite taken with this year’s logo, which takes the shape of a rather beautiful butterfly.

    So where’s the idea from? Well the lovely peeps at Eurovision.TV have said:

    ‘Eurovision Song Contest is a shared project. It unites millions of people. In the east, west, north and south. Beyond all the glitter, there is a thought. A big idea that is 100% relevant for Public Service. It’s about togetherness, diversity and happiness. Eurovision Song Contest might appear as a trivial matter. But a trivial matter that engages over one hundred million people of all ages in more than 40 countries all over the world. And today science knows that sometimes small matters can start powerful and big movements. This phenomenon is called ”The Butterfly Effect”. A flap from one butterfly can – at least in theory – start a hurricane. Butterflies have one common name, but exist in thousands of different shapes and colours. Just like the Eurovision Song Contest, one strong identity with a rich national diversitiesy [sic]. Working together, we can achieve anything – We are one.

    Ah, isn’t it beautiful!!

    So Eurovision is just over a month away, what will you be doing for it?

  • 5 More Grindr Fails

    We love these. In fact we can’t get enough of the words people will use to get a little bit of grinding in their life.

    Grindr doesn’t have spell check, so make sure you carry an Oxford Dictionary around with you at all times. Don’t want to look stupid do we?

    You’re right the economy does suck right now.

    The old romantic approach eh? How’s that working out for you?

    Letting him down gently. Do you get the feeling he was setting this one up for a fall with the leading question: ‘Ever play in the park’

    Another one on a Grindr Loop…

  • GMFA Faces Uncertain Future After Funding Cuts

    GMFA Faces Uncertain Future After Funding Cuts

    As Sexual Health becomes the focus of a new programme on Channel 4 tonight, one of UK’s leading gay health charities, GMFA looks set to be losing its funding, leaving it with an uncertain future.

    Pinknews is reporting that GMFA, which was founded in 1992, will no longer receive funding for its London HIV Information Services after being notified that funding had been cut from the Pan-London HIV Prevention Programme, which is funded by the NHS.

    Services affected will be GMFA’s websites and the sex and health magazine, FS – as well as Terrence Higgins Trust press advertising campaigns.

    GMFA’s Head of Programmes, Matthew Hodson, said:

    “I am genuinely shocked and appalled by these decisions. I fail to understand the thinking behind it. There are more gay men living with HIV in London than anywhere else in the UK, and the numbers continue to rise.

    “Considering the size of London’s gay population, there is an urgent need for broad based campaigns and information resources, which are able to reach 1,000s of men. All of the work that is continuing to be funded can at best only reach a fraction of London’s gay population, and these cuts comes at a time when the need to raise awareness is higher than ever.”

    Cary James, Head of Health Improvement Programmes at Terrence Higgins Trust, said:

    “This kind of large-scale cut to HIV prevention is always risky, but in areas of high prevalence it is positively short-sighted. The capital has by far the highest level of HIV in the UK. Cutting prevention services here will lead to an increase in new infections, each of which incurs a lifetime treatment cost to the NHS of anywhere up to £350,000. We are doing everything we can to fill the gaps, but without sustained investment in city-wide prevention work we and our partner organisations will be fighting with one arm tied behind our back.”

    The cuts come at a time where new HIV infections amongst gay men are at an all time high. Higher than the levels recorded in the 1980s.

    56 Dean Street, The Gay UK’s official sexual health partners are the focus of a brand new programme tonight on Channel 4. The documentary follows the team at London’s busiest sexual health clinic.

  • Matt Damon Looks Hot For New Film Elysium

    42-Year-Old actor, Matt Damon looks hot as Entertainment Weekly unveils semi-naked pictures from new movie Elysium.

    Matt Damon has certainly hit the gym of late – displaying his rock hard abs in the forthcoming sci-fi movie Elysium.

    Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, about his character Max, Matt said: “We wanted him to look a certain way so I had to keep up a workout regimen,”

    This was made even more necessary by the addition of the “hulk-suit,” a technologically advanced exoskeleton that makes Damon’s character stronger and faster. While the rig is meant to enhance Max’s physical capabilities, in real life, it meant Damon had to work out even more. “It’s kind of like wearing one of those old Bo Jackson weight vests,” says Damon. “It’s really insidious trying to carry extra weight even if you’re in shape. You just really need a pretty strong core or you can get injured pretty easily, particularly at my age.”

    Elysium, a cerebral sci-fi action film from Neill Blomkamp, the man behind 2009′s extra-terrestrial apartheid hit District 9 is out this August

  • NEWS: Calvin Klein Underwear Model Travis Goes Topless Again

    Travis Fimmel who rose to fame in the early nougties for his underwear and Crave shoot for Calvin Klein has taken his top off again, this time for the History channel.

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  • News: Two In Stooshe Come Out As Gay

    Two Members of Stooshe Come Out.

    Two members of all-girl band Stooshe have officially come out this morning on Gaydio, During ‘Your Gayest Moments’ on Chris and Emma’s morning show.

    During the segment, Chris Holliday said to Courtney Rumbold, who is already out, “You wanted to be the only gay in the band.’

    Which was greeted by one of the girls saying,

    ‘She’s not’ and Alexandra Buggs came out on the radio station.

    Emma asked whether the girls were looking for love the Stooshe girls replied that they weren’t but happy with their relationship status!

    Stooshe became popular after their song ‘Blackheart’ reached number 4 in 2012.

    Gaydio is one of the UK’s biggest gay-focused radio station, which broadcasts daily from Manchester.

    TheGayUK called Stooshe’s label to confirm the story, however they have yet to respond.