Here’s our round-up of today’s top international queer stories in today’s Cuppán Gay
- Will & Grace cast are going to reunite after 10 years off the air. The stars of the hit TV show which ran from 1996-2006 got back together on the 25th September, with Debra Messing posting a photo of all four of them hugging on Twitter. The stars appear to have been filming in an apartment that looks like Will and Grace’s apartment from the TV series. (EW)
- The world’s first sex toy for trans men is here. The new sex toy is specifically designed from SilaSkinfor FTM people to “mimic the feel of a tongue” creating a suction effect to help stimulate the enlarged clitoris which can often arise following testosterone therapy. (GSN)
- AfterEllen website shut down by corporate owners for not being profitable enough. Established in 2002, the website AfterEllen produced content for lesbian and bisexual women. However, 14 years after going live, the website’s owners have decided to close it after realising that it wasn’t as profitable as moms and fashion. (Engadget)
- A new short film exams toxic masculinity and homophobia in America. A male voice narrates all the things that society expects of men and the masculine compared to what society prescribes for women. Beneath the narration, a hyper-masculine frat boy engages in typically male behaviour. Check the short film out below. (Mic)
- LGBT Journalists and media professionals write an open letter to Out magazine following their publishing of a piece about Milo Yiannopoulos. What these journalists are calling a glamorising piece about the right-wing Twitter troll Yiannopoulos has led them to critique Out for giving the sexist, racist “supervillian“. (Think Progress)
- Police in Uganda shut down LGBT Pride parades in two locations. Following a Ugandan Minister saying they were staging illegal activities. Police rounded up participants and took them into questioning, as homosexual acts are considered against the order of nature according to Ugandan law. (Towleroad)
- An Australian heterosexual woman who manages an LGBT festival received abuse because she wasn’t a member of the LGBT community. The manager of Feast Festival in Adelaide has been harassed when people discovered she was heterosexual. (Queerty)
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