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  • LGBTQ+ News Today: Pride Poppy Row, Patrick Stewart Tributes and More

    LGBTQ+ News Today: Pride Poppy Row, Patrick Stewart Tributes and More

    LGBTQ+ News Today: Pride Poppy Row, Patrick Stewart Tributes and More

    31 October 2026

    From controversy over a rainbow poppy to a push for LGBTQ+ rights across the Commonwealth, here are four stories making headlines.

    1. Royal British Legion defends Pride poppy following Reform UK criticism

    The Royal British Legion has defended its LGBTQ+ Pride poppy after Reform UK councillor Joseph Boam accused the charity of politicising remembrance.

    Boam, a Leicestershire county councillor, criticised the badge as “woke virtue signalling”.

    The charity responded that the badge recognises LGBTQ+ Armed Forces personnel, particularly those who experienced discrimination before the ban on openly gay military personnel was lifted in 2000.

    Read the full story at PinkNews

    2. Ian McKellen pays emotional tribute to Patrick Stewart

    Sir Ian McKellen has paid tribute to his longtime friend and fellow actor Sir Patrick Stewart, who died on 28 October aged 86.

    Stewart, best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men, was also a prominent LGBTQ+ ally.

    McKellen remembered their decades-long friendship, describing Stewart as someone he could depend upon, admire and love.

    The pair became close friends through their acting careers and were widely celebrated for their affectionate public friendship.

    Read the full story at Queerty

    3. MPs call for LGBTQ+ equality across Commonwealth nations

    Liberal Democrat MP Ben Maguire is urging the UK government to challenge laws criminalising homosexuality across the Commonwealth.

    Consensual same-sex relationships remain illegal in 29 of the organisation’s 56 member countries, with some imposing severe prison sentences or even the death penalty.

    Maguire has tabled a parliamentary motion and organised a cross-party letter ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which begins on 1 November.

    The initiative calls for greater diplomatic pressure on countries that continue to criminalise same-sex relationships.

    Read the full story at Attitude

    4. New documentary follows gay couple fighting for their future

    A new documentary, We Had A Plan, tells the story of Paul and Daniel, a gay Filipino couple who spent more than a decade living and working in Amsterdam.

    After saving money to build a future together, they returned to the Philippines, where their relationship and plans for a new life faced significant challenges.

    The film explores love, migration, financial pressures and the difficulties experienced by same-sex couples in countries where their relationships lack legal recognition.

    Read the full story at Queerty

    TheGayUK.com | LGBTQ+ News Roundup | 31 October 2026

  • Patrick Stewart As A Woman Is Slightly Amazing

    Patrick Stewart As A Woman Is Slightly Amazing

    Sir Patrick Stewart looks incredible all done up in drag. 

    CREDIT: Joe Seer/Bigstock
    CREDIT: Joe Seer/Bigstock

    Veteran actor Patrick Stewart got all did up… and looks incredibly distinguished. In fact some people on Twitter have compared him to Helen Mirren – to be honest we can’t see it, however we can see Terence Stamp in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert.

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    He wore a bright pink frock and layers of jewels to promote his new show while  Blunt Talk in Los Angeles.

     

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    Jacki Weaver, Elvis Mitchell and Adrian Scarborough joined the 75-year-old actor at the event.

    The series, starring Sir Patrick follows Walter Blunt when he moves to Los Angeles to host a nightly cable news show.

  • Sir Patrick Stewart Shows Off His Hot Bod

    Sir Patrick Stewart has proved that age is no barrier to a great body at the age of 75.

    Celebrating his Golden Globe nomination actor and LGBT rights activist Sir Patrick, 75, showed off his body and his incredible muscle tone wearing nothing but some pink shorts and pink aquasocks.

    Just look at those guns!

  • Sir Patrick Stewart Supports Anti-Gay Marriage Bakers

    Long time very vocal ally of the gay community Sir Patrick Stewart shocked many of his fans the other night during an interview on BBC’s Newsnight by publicly supporting the Northern Ireland anti-gay marriage bakers.

    Gay rights activist Gareth Lee had commissioned Ashers Baking Co., a Christian-owned bakery in Northern Ireland, to make a cake that was decorated with “Support Gay Marriage’ which they refused to do, quoting their religious beliefs. So Lee sued them and won the case, and the bakery now plans to appeal the decision.

    Later on Facebook Sir Patrick wrote:

    “As part of my advocacy for Amnesty International, I gave an interview on a number of subjects related to human rights, civil rights and freedom of speech. During the interview, I was asked about the Irish bakers who refused to put a message on a cake which supported marriage equality, because of their beliefs. In my view, this particular matter was not about discrimination, but rather personal freedoms and what constitutes them, including the freedom to object. Both equality and freedom of speech are fundamental rights—and this case underscores how we need to ensure one isn’t compromised in the pursuit of the other.

    “I know many disagree with my sentiments, including the courts. I respect and understand their position, especially in this important climate where the tides of prejudices and inequality are (thankfully) turning. What I cannot respect is that some have conflated my position on this single matter to assume I’m anti-equality or that I share the personal beliefs of the bakers. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be further from the truth. I have long championed the rights of the LGBT community, because equality should not only be, as the people of Ireland powerfully showed the world, universally embraced, but treasured.”

    Sir Patrick’s last movie role was in Match when he played a gay dance professor.

  • Ian McKellen And Patrick Stewart Talk Gay Rights On Channel 4 News

    Tonight on Channel 4 News Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen Talk Gay Rights, Bromance and UKIP.

    Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen talk gay rights, bromance and UKIP with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News from 7PM.

    On her blog Newman revealed:

    ‘If the film deals with the wisdom of age, it’s as much about mankind’s persecution of minorities – the mutants, as Sir Ian freely recognises.

    “When Bryan Singer [the X-Men director] asked me to be in these films he sold it to me on just this point: as a gay man you can identify with mutants – people who have talents [but] are despised by society as they’re different…

    “In many areas of the world being gay is still a mutancy which is clearly not tolerated in some societies. You can be put to death for your sexuality. Not in this country. We have advanced – it’s been one of the great joys of my life – since these films have been made.”

    So what does he make of the Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s declaration over the weekend that most British people over 70 are “uncomfortable” with homosexuality?

    “He hasn’t talked to this over-70-year-old or this one,” he says, gesturing at Sir Patrick. “Farage needs to get out more…Gay people come and get married. The story is over.’

  • Captain Patrick Stewart Is Not Gay

    The actor, which we like to refer to as golden voice Sir Patrick Stewart has laughed off being mistakenly OUTED after congratulating Ellen Page after she came out.

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