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Harry Styles is not Mick Jagger

Kendall Jenner’s ex, Harry Styles has been sending out mixed messages. A song on his new album has lyrics that refer to ‘messing about’ with boys and girls – and fans are losing their minds.

In 2013, Harry denied that he was bi – but that hasn’t stopped shippers from insisting these lyrics prove that Harry has left One Direction and is now exploring two directions. Now, I’d love to see more high-profile bi role models, but I don’t think this is true.

Harry should be free to just be himself – and not the millennials’ Number One Mick Jagger impersonator.

Kendall Jenner is a breeder

Remember when Kim Kardashian ‘borrowed’ heavy contouring make-up techniques from drag queens? Pretty soon, every hunzo in town wanted to look like a drag queen. Recently, they even made RuPaul admit that girls can actually be drag queens if they want.

I’m all for equal opportunities but now it seems straight girls are coming for that other big LGBT+ movement: Coming Out.

Kendall Jenner has hit headlines for ‘coming out’ as heterosexual in a ridiculous Vanity Fair interview. So inspiring. Thanks to Kendall’s bravery, millions of young people will grow up in a world where they’ll feel it’s ok to be straight.

Katy Perry kissed a boy, and he didn’t like it

Katy Perry is a judge in the new series of American Idol, but things haven’t got offto a very classy start. One of the hopefuls from episode one was a religious young man who was saving his first kiss for his first relationship.

Somehow Katy thought that, during the audition, it would be fun to plant a surprise smacker on the fella’s lips, without his permission. Like most of her last album, that was a bad idea. If Harvey Weinstein taught us anything, it was that you can’t use your power over people in the entertainment industry to force them to do stuffthey don’t want to.

You might have kissed a girl and liked it, Katy, but now I’m beginning to wonder whether she liked it too.

Taylor Swi is a gay porn addict

Eagle-eyed observers have noticed that a gay porn actor got a part in the video for Taylor Swift’s new song, ‘Delicate’. I have so many questions… Like, how much porn are you watching if you’d recognise a porn actor with all his clothes on? And are these porn addicts stanning for Taylor Swift in their spare time too? Who are these gays?

It’s no wonder that heterosexuals struggle to get their heads around queer culture. Doesn’t stop them trying to appropriate it, though.

Leo Varadkar can’t get the spin right

Poor Leo Varadkar can’t seem to get the spin right these days. The more he tries to convince us that he’s something new and different, the more he convinces us that it’s the same old story.

Leo messed up his big Paddy’s Day moment in America by telling the one about how he helped to stop a wind farm being built near Trump’s luxury hotel in Co. Clare.

Politicians using their clout to interfere in the planning process is nothing new, but you’d think that they’d know not to publicly brag about it.

And we’ve heard the story of the sycophantic guy who helps the delusional old man fight windmills before too. It’s called Don Quixote. ght windmills before too.

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