Queer News and Journalism

The Doodler Killer - A True Crime Fifty years after a man with a drawing pad lured gay men to the edge of San Francisco and killed them, the detective who thinks he knows who did it can’t make anyone say so. A true crime podcast. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

The seventieth Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna under one of the largest security operations modern Austria has mounted: a robot dog, an FBI cyber task force on call from New York, and a 1.5-kilometre no-fly ring drawn around three points in the city. We report from inside the perimeter. In today's podcast, we cut through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for...

When a German neo-Nazi changed his legal gender to dodge prison, he handed the European far right a weapon no amount of speechmaking could have produced. His arrest at a Czech border village last week has placed the consequences before a judge in Plzeň — and an entire trans community before a gathering backlash. In today's podcast, we cut through the week's noise with incisive analysis exc...

On 12 April, Hungarians go to the polls in what Politico has called the EU’s most consequential election of 2026: a vote that will determine whether Viktor Orbán’s sixteen-year experiment in dismantling democracy, capturing the media and criminalising queer visibility inside a European Union member state can be reversed by a ballot. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep...

The EU is looking to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands as a new continental leader. Donald Trump’s war is made for television. Rob Jetten’s Europe is not. That is the point. We bring you essential queer news and journalism.

AI agents are rewriting the rules of knowledge work. Most queer Europeans have not been told the rules have changed. In today's podcast, we discuss the digital skills of queer GenZ. We bring you essential queer news nd journalism.

In today's podcast, we cut through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast we cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news and investigations. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast, our host discusses the Anthropic case and the war the Trump administration started against the AI company.  We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www...

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating ⁠ here ⁠ . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at...

In today's podcast, we discuss the latest investigative report of Taylor Abbot on the dark developments of the case of the referee Pascal Kaiser. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today’s podcast, we discuss the investigative report behind the new book  The Gay Furry Hackers: How They Changed Activism , written by Dr Raz Ion. We bring you essential queer news and reportage every week. To help keep our journalism free for everyone, please consider donating here. Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45.eu .

n today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential news — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www. GAY45...

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss. We bring you essential queer journalism — every Wednesday. To help keep our journalism free for everybody, consider donating here . Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism...

This week: Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content. Kazakhstan postpones a vote on its contested LGBTQ+ "propaganda" ban. Pornhub reports surging demand for trans and "femboy" content despite the rising anti-trans climate. Turkey's First Lady issues another broadside against the LGBTIQ+ community. And a World Cup match between Iran and Eg...

This week: In Russia , Roblox has been banned over allegations that it promotes “extremist” LGBTQ+ content. In the United Kingdom, trans women have been barred from attending the Labour Party ’s women’s conference in 2026. In the United States, Donald Trump has instructed prison inspectors to stop tracking anti-LGBTQ+ sexual assaults in prisons, while former President Joe Biden has received an LGB...

This week: In Austria , a historian re-examines a lesbian painter who loved women and admired Hitler ; in the United States, the government drops recognition of World AIDS Day ; Rob Jetten , the future gay prime minister of the Netherlands, has been awarded the Thorbecke Prize ; in the United Kingdom, Northern Pride — the charity that runs Newcastle Pride in the north-east of England — has announc...

This week: European Commission launches legal action against Slovakia over constitutional limits on LGBTQ+ rights; in the United States, advocacy groups condemn the State Department for removing LGBTQ+ abuses from its rights report; European Commission validates anti-conversion-therapy petition ; in Chile , the runoff election puts LGBTQ+ rights at a crossroads ; actor Udo Kier , cult star of Fass...

This week: BBC sparks one of the biggest media scandals of the century; Tijuana , Mexico, becomes a refuge for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers despite U.S. politics; Berlin’s trans sex-worker network marks a decade amid renewed fears of a prostitution ban; Vienna opens its first shared home for queer senior citizens — and much more. We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. Each week, our podcast...

This week: In Vienna counsellors deny helping neo-Nazi with alleged fraudulent gender change, in UK BBC director steppes down due Trump’s alleged accusations, in China Apple pulls two gay dating apps after regulator’s order, in the US Supreme Court declines bid to revisit same-sex marriage ruling — and Much More We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday. Each week, our podcast offers a c...