Steve Grand’s escape from six-figure debt, George Michael’s lover’s hacked Twitter, Mariah Carey’s NYE performance, Tom Daley and more: the biggest international LGBT news in today’s Cuppán Gay

• Taiwan’s President, Tasi Ing-wen, declared gay marriage has moved from “conflict” to “dialogue”. “We are in the same situation right now and we are turning to dialogue,” Tsai said. (Pink News)

• Fadi Fawaz, George Michael’s lover, has had his Twitter account hacked and closed. A series of tweets from Fawaz’s account alleged that George Michael took his own life on Christmas day after several unsuccessful attempts in the past. “I did not send those tweets,” Fawaz said. (Towleroad)

• Mariah Carey’s NYE performance was marred with technical glitches which saw the artist not sing. A malfunctioning earpiece caused Mariah Carey to cut her performance short at Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest. Mariah handled the mishap in her stride tweeting “Shit happens…Have a happy and healthy new year everybody!…Here’s to making more headlines in 2017.” Check out the performance below. (E Online)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fg2zIw5qZY

• A trans man in China won a landmark case against his wrongful dismissal. Chen was illegally fired after a week working at a  medical clinic in south-west China, a court ruled. The man was awarded a month’s salary for the dismissal. (The Guardian)

• A petition to stop gospel singer Kim Burrell from performing with Pharrell Williams on the Ellen DeGeneres Show has been made owing to her calling LGBT people “perverted”. The star of upcoming movie Hidden Figures said in a viral sermon: “That sin nature, that perverted homosexual spirit is the spirit of delusion and confusion and it has cast a stain on the body of Christ.” (Change)

• Tom Daley hadn’t seen Milk until after he started dating its writer. It took Tom Daley two month’s of dating Dustin Lance Black to watch the Oscar winning screenwriter’s movie, Milk, which he was made watch during a train ride in the UK. (Youtube)

• 2016 was a transformative year for gay singer Steve Grand since he took control of his life, got sober and got out of six-figure debt. “It’s been a year since I’ve taken a sip of alcohol, puffed on a cigarette, stumbled out of a club, or woke up and didn’t know where I was,” the artist posted on Instagram. (Instagram)

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That’s it for today’s Cuppán Gay.