The famous high-street department store is selling these Aubergine bauble tree decorations and we’re dying.
The cheeky hanging (we’re not sure if it’s to the left or to right) decorations are currently being listed on the John Lewis website and are retailing at £8.
The aubergine has long been associated with a certain part of the male anatomy and has become a staple part of sexting on social media and hook up apps like Grindr.
However, it appears that the designers of the hanging decoration have either ignored this connection, completely ignorant of its day-to-day use – or are very very savvy people.
Apparently, it’s all part of John Lewis’s “Garden Retreat” decoration pack, which the website suggests “surrounding yourself in nature can ease the mind”.
Well quite.
Alongside your Aubergine, you could hang their Corn, Asparagus or Avocado bauble…
Police in London are looking to speak to five suspects after four victims were sprayed with a corrosive substance in an alleged homophobic assault outside a KFC in Brixton.
The attack happened back in January 2019, but following a Crimewatch appeal, Police have released footage of the men they are looking to speak to in connection with the incident.
In total, four people were assaulted with what is thought to be a corrosive substance spray. Detectives are treating the incidents as linked.
The footage, taken from a KFC on Brixton Road, SW9, shows five males police would like to speak to in connection with both incidents.
According to police reports, the attacks happened on Saturday, 19 January, with the first taking place at around 04:00hrs inside a KFC where a corrosive spray was used on two male victims.
The second attack happened just 20 minutes later at a bus stop close to the KFC where the CCTV footage was taken.
The two 22-year-old victims told police at the scene that they had been sprayed by an unknown noxious substance, thought to be a type of pepper spray, in what appears to be a hate crime attack.
Detectives from the South Area Command Unit are continuing to appeal for both victims of the first incident to make themselves known to police to give their account of the assault, and assist with enquiries.
Suspect [1] is described as a black male, wearing a black beanie, grey tracksuit, with dark elbow patches and a gilet-type jacket.
The second suspect [2] is described as a light-skinned black male with a ‘chin strap’ beard and of a tall muscular build.
The third male [3] is a black male who had his hood up, the top had white scribbles on it.
Another suspect [4] was seen wearing a dark navy tracksuit with multiple white stripes on the legs.
The final suspect [5] was a black male and of a larger build than the other men, with curly, short hair, green tracksuit trousers and a black puffa-style jacket.
Detective Constable Amy Cross, of Lambeth CID, the lead investigator on this case, said, “This was a completely unprovoked and targeted attack on at least two members of the public, with a further two victims not yet in contact with police.
“Both the attack and the homophobic motivation of this assault are abhorrent, and I appeal to anyone with any information that could assist the investigation to come forward.”
Anyone with information is asked to conduct Lambeth CID by dialling 101 and quoting reference CAD 1206/19JAN19.
Global star Adam Lambert has released some epic new music… and we’re so here for it.
The 6 track EP opens with his glam-funk hit, “Superpower”, which was released as a single earlier this month and has already amassed over a million plays on Spotify.
Of the EP, he said: “I’ve followed my instincts and intuition more than ever with Velvet, leaninginto truly musical influences from the 70s, early 80s and contemporary pop. It honors what made me want to be a musician in the first place.”
Tomorrow (28th September), Adam will perform with Queen headlining Global Citizen Festival. After completing a huge sold out North American tour with the band, it was recently announced that Queen + Adam Lambert will embark on a colossal UK and European tour in the spring/summer of 2020, to include five dates at London’s’ O2 Arena.
‘VELVET: Side A’ comes four years after the release of Adam Lambert’s last album ‘The Original High’, which reached the Top 3 in the US and Top 10 in the UK and took his overall worldwide sales to over 3 million units. His previous album ‘Trespassing’ was the first album by an OUT artist to hit number 1 on the US Billboard chart. Adam has been touring as the lead singer of Queen (Queen + Adam Lambert) since 2012, including two huge world arena tours which sold out in minutes and gained critical acclaim. In between touring the world with Queen, Adam has been exploring the world of film and TV with a cameo in Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody as well as voicing character ‘Emperor Maximus’ in animated-live action hybrid movie Playmobil: The Movie.
The Special star spoke out about how many TV networks just couldn’t get their heads around a TV show where the main character was both gay and disabled.
Speaking at the University of Washington, out actor, Ryan O’Connell, the creator and star of Netflix’s Special spoke about how he almost gave up pitching the show after years and years of hearing “No!”.
He said, “I went out with my gay mafia and pitched it to all these networks, “It was four years of like no, no, and f*ck no.”
“There were so many times where I was like ‘f*ck this, I wanna quit.’”
That was until Netflix “just bought it” revealed the star.
Special
Speaking about the unique quality of Special, which is a TV show about a gay man who also has a disability, (O’Connell himself has cerebral palsy), he explained,
“I think disability is not discussed. There are so many conversations about being gay. These chairs are gay. I don’t think people know how to talk about [disability].”
“For the first time in 28 years of my life, I was being who I was, and I wasn’t lying about something,” he said. “It was always either being gay or being disabled, and I was finally just me” he added.
A Twitter user, who describes herself as Jesus loving and a having a BA in English and Bible decided to show her enormous bigotry and lack of understanding by posting a tweet in which she said gay sex caused “significant bodily pain and torture”.
In the tweet, which has been commented on over 600 times, Lisa Bedrick wrote,
“Homosexuality is not loving, it’s one person causing another person significant bodily pain and torture.
“A male penis was Never meant to be inserted into the anus, and it leads to tons of health issues if or when it is.
Well it took no time for Twitter react and it had one basic message for Lisa.
“You’re doing it wrong”
At time of publishing the tweet has been commented on over 650 times and retweeted just 20, meaning that Lisa has been severleyratio’d on the platform.
Many of those who responded to Ms Bedrick told her that she had “no idea” what she was on about, while others criticised her for her homophobic tweet.
One user told her, “The opening line of your bio tell me that ever word that tumbles out of your deluded mouth, powered by a closed and indoctrinated mind needs to be treated with the contempt it deserves.”
The opening line of your bio tell me that ever word that tumbles out of your deluded mouth, powered by a closed and indoctrinated mind needs to be treated with the contempt it deserves.
The man who was responsible for bringing the world Whitney Houston opened up to Rolling Stone about what bisexuality meant to him.
He said,
“I don’t look upon it as the signal event in my life, but there was
no way I was going to do an autobiography and not include the fact that
only in middle age, after two failed marriages, would I look beyond
gender for a relationship.
I embraced bisexuality, which is the most misunderstood term in
sexual identity. I never felt it was understood by much of the straight
or gay community. You had to be either gay or straight — there was no
in-between. I just opened myself up to the person rather than to the
gender.
I’ve read how, as some in the younger generation try to find their sexual identity, it doesn’t make any difference which gender it is until they locate the person.
Data has revealed that Whitney, ABBA and The Weather Girls top the list of the 10 top songs played at gay weddings.
This data comes from events company Eventopedia, who analysed thousands of songs from Spotify data across all playlists including the terms “gay wedding 2019” and “LGBT wedding” in order to find the most frequently featured and therefore most popular songs for gay weddings in 2019.
The number one spot went to “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston, which appeared most often across 2019 Spotify gay wedding playlists and has over 371 million streams on Spotify itself.
The full results are below:
Rank
Song
Artist
Released
Spotify streams
1
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston
1987
371M
2
Dancing Queen
ABBA
1976
300M
3
It’s Raining Men
The Weather Girls
1983
108M
4
Uptown Funk
Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson
2014
1.0B
5
Dreams
Fleetwood Mac
1977
298M
6
September
Earth, Wind & Fire
1978
526M
7
Best of My Love
The Emotions
1977
62M
8
Born This Way
Lady Gaga
2011
178M
9
I’m Coming Out
Diana Ross
1980
87M
10
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
Shania Twain
1997
161M
What makes the ideal song for LGBT weddings in 2019?
In contrast, the average perfect first dance song 2019 was released around 2003, far later than the 80s theme of the gay wedding songs. The average song tempo at 112 was also less than gay wedding playlists, as was the length sitting at 3:42 – a whole 24 seconds less.
If we look at average stats of the top 10 gay wedding songs for this year, we can see the average release date is 1988, the average length is 4:06 and the tempo is 120.
The top 10 first dance songs 2019 are listed below:
Rank
Song
Artist
Released
Spotify streams
1
All Of Me
John Legend
2013
997M
2
Can’t Help Falling in Love
Elvis
1969
229M
3
Die A Happy Man
Thomas Rhett
2015
276M
4
Let’s Stay Together
Al Green
1972
190M
5
Say You Won’t Let Go
James Arthur
2016
1.2B
6
A Thousand Years
Christina Perri
2011
554M
7
Make You Feel My Love
Adele
2008
426M
8
Better Together
Jack Johnson
2005
304M
9
Just the Way You Are
Bruno Mars
2010
618M
10
Latch (acoustic)
Sam Smith
2013
38M
What makes the ideal song for LGBT weddings in 2019?
If we look at average stats of the top 10 gay wedding songs for this year, we can see the average release date is 1988, the average length is 4:06 and the tempo is 120.
The research also looked at the top first dance songs used at weddings across the board for 2019 by looking through all playlists on Spotify which included the terms “first dance 2019” to find the most frequently featured songs.
Toby Heelis, Founder of Eventopedia said, “Weddings are often the most significant event of people’s lives, and having the right music to accompany it is just as important. The first dance is a defining moment so making sure we choose the perfect soundtrack is paramount, as is ensuring the balance between being emotional and not being overly cringey.”
Chester Pride has awarded pop icon Hazell Dean the Icon Of Pride award.
The “Who’s Leaving Who” singer Hazell Dean was awarded the Icon Of Pride award by Chester Pride over the weekend for her continued support of Pride across the UK. According to the singer, who had numerous hits during the 80s, she has performed at over 150 pride events since 1983.
Speaking about the award Hazell wrote, “Headliners come and go and many of us who have been playing our part for so many years are overlooked that’s why this award means so much to me”.
During her set at this year’s Chester Pride, Hazell sang her hits, “Who’s Leaving Who”, “Searchin’”, “Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)” and “Turn It Into Love” which she dedicated to the on-going struggles faced by the LGBT+ community.
Hazell has been a stalwart supporter of the LGBT+ community, with her hits proving to be huge hits at gay clubs during the 80s, 90s and beyond.
A “total bottom” explained that his world didn’t end when his hook up pulled a simple trick move.
In a world of labels, how absolute are the labels top and bottom? Well, one “total bottom” on Reddit revealed that he actually had a great time when the roles were unexpectedly reversed when his hook up switched things up.
User HardTomHardy, who considers himselfan exclusive bottom, who said that he’s submissive and a bit “kinky”, described a “good shock” when his hook up shook up the bedroom antics after returning from the bathroom for a second round.
HardTomHardy wrote that the second time around, his hook up tied his hands together and blindfolded him and was getting down to some oral business when “the next thing I feel is the tightest grip ever-expanding down the length of my shaft. It took me a second to realize that I was in him and I loved it. He took the blindfold and f*cked himself on my dick like a pro.”
“Honestly, it blew my mind”
(C) BIGSTOCK
He went on to explain, “I didn’t have to do anything except when the orgasm him I bucked into him uncontrollably. Honestly, it blew my mind. I never thought I would get to feel this, that my dick would bring me and someone else to orgasm.”
He was quick to add, “And before people say he violated me, nope don’t even go there. If I had said to stop he would. And no his ass is not self-lubricated. He prepped himself in the bathroom and used a small buttplug“.
Users responded, on the whole, positively to the story, with one adding, “It’s largely psychological, IMO. A healthy, functioning dick will respond to the right stimulation, as long as you don’t let your mind get in the way”, while another wrote, “I’ve always felt that guys who pigeonhole themselves into only one position or the other just haven’t been with the right partner. Versatility is the spice of life”.
Another encouraged, “Maybe from here on out your [sic] Vers. Sounds like you loved being inside him so why stop?”
Yes hunties, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK will be available to watch in the US.
Set your alarms for the 3rd October 2019 because the US is about to get a British invasion of the drag kind.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Drag Race UK is going to be available to stream in the US as well as in the UK, so American fans of the show will be able to get their fill of British drag talent.
The show, which was made using British drag queens but uses the same format as the US, will be streamed at the same time both in the UK and US.
The show will premier on the WOW Presents Plus streaming platform, at 3 PM on the 3rd of October.
The UK version will be shown on the BBC iPlayer only, which means you will have to have a British TV license in order to watch the series unless of course, you go to a viewing party!
It’s not know if RuPaul’s Drag Race UK will be available to stream on the Netflix service in the future, like its American counterpart.
The first episode stars the guest judges, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, alongside RuPaul and Michelle Visage.
Other judges confirmed for the season include Ginger Spice – Geri, Twiggy, Cheryl, Andrew Garfield and Maisie Williams.
Katy Perry has been dragged by people on social media after calling her range of shoes “sissy”.
Katy Perry has come under fire by some on social media after users assumed that she had called a rainbow flag-inspired design of shoes “sissy”.
However, it turns out that the range of shoes, which retails for $89.00 on the singer’s website, doesn’t just come in the rainbow style, but a range of colours – and the name, well, it turns out that’s actually how the “Roar” singer refers to her sister – not as suggested by some, a reference to the anti-gay slur, sissy.
Most of the drama was caused when one eagle-eyed Twitter user questioned why Katy Perry had named the rainbow-inspired shoe “The Sissy”, stating, “Katy Perry named her LGBT flag colored shoe “The Sissy”. WTF @katyperry”
Katy Perry named her LGBT flag colored shoe "The Sissy".
Speaking about the design on TV, Katy said, “It’s called the Sissy, not because you become a sissy if you wear it, it’s dedicated to my sister”.
The rainbow style shoe did not make an appearance on the show, but other versions of the design did feature.
here is Katy saying it is named after her sister and talking about all of the different versions of it. nice try though, Bethany. pic.twitter.com/kBq5Nt0n93
