Michael Baggs
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LGBTQ+ journalist. Prev: News editor @PinkNews , Senior @BBCNewsbeat journalist He/him 🏳️🌈 Email: michaelbaggs @gmail .com
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Gays, don’t forget to disconnect your phone from your family’s Bluetooth speaker when you go upstairs later
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Watching Drag Race UK season 2 vs Watching Drag Race US season 13
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Lived in London more than 10 years. Today I pressed the button on a tube door when it came into the station so I guess I have to leave the city forever now
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I don't think I'll ever get bored of the time a Women's Institute dressed up in pirate fancy dress to meet a man who got kidnapped in Somalia and held at gunpoint for 47 days
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The greatest
#XFactor
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She’d been turned down at an American Idol audition a few years before
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LGB Alliance (and its founders) are the only charity to have instigated Twitter pile-ons on me and many other LGBTQ+ people, resulting in a deluge of hate and abuse to the point of having to shut down my account. They don't speak for me and they don't support LGB people either
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I’ve been thinking about this video for about 48 hours now
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One more thing: it’s a pity the BBC wasn’t as strict on staff social media when a senior journalist was tweeting anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ+ content day and night, 24 hours a day, engaging in pile-ons against junior members of staff and cracking jokes about agreeing with the Nazis
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The world's most famous children's author, 'guffawing' at the idea of an LGBTQ+ person being bullied online
@simonjedge
@MichaelBaggs
I just guffawed so loudly and unexpectedly I might have pulled something.
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Remember when Dan Wootton was just that guy who *checks notes* rated women's breasts out of ten in The Sun
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Got some new tattoos this week and I’m really into them
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I'm old enough to remember when LGBTQ+ BBC staff were banned from going to Pride marches if they were 'a protest' and not 'a party'
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Trinity K Bonet: I helped someone change their mind about taking their own life.
Eureka: I pooped myself doing the splits.
RuPaul: That was a beautiful story Eureka, congratulations.
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If you think 'cis' is a slur, you've clearly never had a bunch of lads scream 'fucking f****ts' at you and your partner out the window of a Nissan Micra as it speeds past
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Well, that’s enough internet for today, because it’s not going to get better than this 🤷🏼♂️
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Seriously when I'm out of tier 4, have a gym routine again, get my diet sorted, can sleep without medication, fit into my jeans, have the energy to socialise, stop feeling sad about everything and get back to my skincare routine it is OVER for you all
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It takes a lot to shock me from certain columnists, but comments on the weekend about young trans people using suicide as a means 'to get their way' and claims that suicidal people don't talk about what they're going through? Yeah, that'll shock me
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Straight people in my mentions telling me how much they support LGB Alliance:
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Having a bunch of kids yell “faggot” at you from their bikes is a good reminder that your liberal London bubble is exactly that, a bubble, and that homophobia still exists, even for white, masculine-presenting, cis-gender men like me
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This is making me think long and hard about the photo I took on the weekend in a Barbie cinema box with my bum out and where I really am in my life rn
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That’s it? That’s… it? After years of dodging the ‘what have you actually done for LGB people?’ question, this vile group drop this divisive garbage, and at a time when lgbtq+ people are literally being attacked on UK streets for who they are, THIS is their priority?
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Tonight I got white-wine drunk with my mum + dad, I talked to them for the first time ever about how happy I am to be gay, we chatted about homophobia, trans rights, equality and diversity. And it was honestly the nicest evening
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Imagine if Heidi N Closet actually won this season of Drag Race. Imagine if someone was crowned because they were kind, warm, funny, had heart and stood up to bullies. That would be a good thing to see in 2020, wouldn't it
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I am so confused why Jessie J is a contestant on a Chinese talent show now
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Hands up if you were bullied at school for your sexuality
(Those bullies knew before I did, TBH)
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LGB Alliance contribute nothing to the lives of any LGB people other than a cruel obsession with trans people. Communicating with them is impossible due to their one-track mind.
The way this conversation escalated was wild
LGB Alliance (and its founders) are the only charity to have instigated Twitter pile-ons on me and many other LGBTQ+ people, resulting in a deluge of hate and abuse to the point of having to shut down my account. They don't speak for me and they don't support LGB people either
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After over four years freelancing and on various contracts, I was made permanent staff at
@BBCNewsbeat
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More about Gaga and Liza, less about Will and Chris, pls ❤️❤️❤️
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I now only aspire to one day having the same level of chill as Kay Longstaff
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Life now is just consuming massive daily trauma and then saying “right I’m off to bed”
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Catherine Tate was as drunk as all the gays watching and I love that for us
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Hey
@dragraceukbbc
. Just wanna say thanks for honestly making an awful year so much better. Hope you know how happy you’ve made people. x
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Mighty Hoopla: Alexandra Burke was a true joy, Bimini ended her set with “fuck the LGB Alliance”, United Kingdolls was worth the wait and Cheryl Cole dropped all the hits AND Nicola Roberts showed up on stage
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EasyJet staff checking another group onto a Mykonos flight
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I’m in a straight pub that’s just played the entire 17minute MacArthur Park suite by Donna Summer and every moment was wasted on 99% of the people here
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Well there’s ‘drunk’ and then there’s DMing a popstar to say thank you for changing your life at 4am in the morning 🙈
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Remember when Ed Sheeran told GQ he saw Adele as his only real competition? 🤔🤔🤔
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Do any other journalists worry about how closely their mental health is tied to their work? Like, if I've not produced something I'm proud of for a while I feel I'm entirely useless but as soon as I publish something I think is good, I'm happy with everything again 🤷♂️
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Went on a date yesterday. Gonna guess I wasn’t the man of his dreams
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A stranger gave me a compliment in the gym today and it just reminded me that men don’t say nice things to other men very often and I had no idea how to respond but let me tell you I am glowing on the inside right now
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Gina G was my landlady when I first moved to London. Had to ring her about plumbing and things
Get that
#FridayFeeling
with this massive summer tune from 1996!
🇬🇧 Gina G's Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit filled dancefloors across Europe, Australia, and the USA and it's easy to see why!
#Eurovision
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#ESCSummerOfLove
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SOME WORK NEWS: This week I started at
@PinkNews
as its News Editor, after freelancing for the past month with its very brilliant editorial team.
Get in touch with stories, press releases or just to say hi. New email address in bio.
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Me during the morning VS. me at lunch VS. me during the rest of the day
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A reminder that behind every happy, confident, sorted LGBTQ+ person you see on social media or IRL are years, if not more, of trauma as they had to (mostly) work out who they are in isolation and secrecy.
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Where did you listen to Norman Fucking Rockwell this weekend, huh?
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I'm looking for LGBTQ+ stories that Newsbeat should be covering in 2020.
- Young people making a difference to the LGBTQ+ community
- Initiatives to improve the lives of young LGBTQ+ people
- Personal experiences that could make a BBC story
- And so on
DMs open/Email in header
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It’s A Sin is the most powerful TV I’ve ever seen. As a gay man it’s impossible to watch it and not see the faces of your own friends, family and loved ones in all those actors. Had to pace myself, emotionally, but finally finished and I’m totally empty. All the awards pls, all
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PITCH: The Purge, but for 24 hours journalists are able to tweet about which celebrities are horrible people and there'd be no professional consequences
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This morning I laid in bed looking at the PureGym app until there were enough people in my local gym for me to say "well I don't feel comfortable going now" and sacked it off for another day
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but having a gym-fit body doesn’t make you any better at sex.
(PS. Be nicer to people online)
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A guy I dated once said to me "I could never get serious with you, your Instagram just embarasses me so much" and I still think about that
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A reminder that the world's most famous children's author finds Twitter abuse very very funny
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Look, I’m not saying it’s down to me that Little Mix won that Brit Award but this year was the first time I was on the voting panel, so...
#BRITs
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If I’d had someone as talented, successful and gay as Lil Nas X to look up to as a kid, damn, it would’ve shaved years off my self-loathing and inner turmoil.
So, go stream Montero and be very, very gay today please
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One of the best things about The Traitors was that Claudia never felt like 'a presenter'. She felt like part of the show, and was on as much of a journey and enjoyed the experience just as much as every contestant. Also Matt I am free next week so call me now it's finished
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One of the worst things that happened to me in lockdown was when I tweeted about my neighbour’s untidy balcony. 12 hours and 25k likes later, he was out there cleaning it and I am sorry to that man because he definitely saw the tweet
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I wrote this four year years ago. It comes around every year. It will haunt me until the day I die
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I would like to spend Christmas 2021 with my beautiful new boyfriend... who I have around (rough estimate) 10/11 months to meet, persuade to date me and then convince him to give up his own Christmas plans
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Don’t own an England flag, the closest thing I could find was the Le Creuset over glove, so that'll have to do
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Honestly I’d watch a cookery programme called ‘Helena Bakes Whatever The Fuck She Wants’ every 👏🏻 single 👏🏻 week
#bakeoff
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Christmas as a child: PRESENTS!!!
Christmas as a young adult: PARTIES!!!
Christmas now: Please god just let my life just stop for a few days
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As Drag Race viewers, we’ve been blessed and lucky to have seen and experienced someone like Tamisha Iman
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It would be nice to be able to hold hands with another man, in London, in 2021, in Pride Month, without having a gang of kids yell “gay” at you (not an insult, just a fact) but there you go 🤷🏼♂️
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For the first year in my life, I have no interest in Christmas, no Christmas spirit, nothing. I can therefore only assume I'll meet a handsome local next week, when I visit family in Wales, who'll show me the true meaning of the season and then we'll open a little shop
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Jacinda Ardern just upped the stakes when it comes to self care. Normalise walking away from a situation that no longer works for you, no matter how much you’ve invested in it
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I’ll never forget the NHS nurse I saw at university when I caught my first STI.
She listened to my symptoms, looked at me, looked at my notes, looked back at me and said: “I know your mum. I was the midwife who delivered you 18 years ago.”
#NHSat70
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I wrote about my favourite thing in 2020
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When I worked at the BBC, someone put in a complaint about me, because I had liked a tweet which said 'fuck the Daily Mail'.
I don't work at the BBC any more, so I'd just like to say for myself: Fuck the Daily Mail
of course because why would it be the man’s fault for committing murder
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As a former BBC employee who was treated horribly by the company in my final months there by its archaic HR systems… I’m loving all this, ngl
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I just don’t want Drag Race UK to end. Bring everyone back, all of them, and let it run another ten weeks
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After nine months working from home, going into an office seems like such a crazy idea.
Imagine getting up earlier, paying for uncomfortable travel there and back, probably paying more for food while you're there AND getting home much later. It really doesn't make sense
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She's coming
.
@MariahCarey
's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has re-entered the global Spotify chart at
#116
with 882K streams on November 1 (
#63
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Sure, Drag Race UK was an absolute joy but you know what’s even better? Seeing how happy it’s made everyone on my twitter timeline. Honestly it’s not looked like this round here for a whole damn year
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FWIW, when I was a music journalist I interviewed A LOT of people, and the nicest, friendliest and funniest of all of them was Kelly Clarkson. Hands down. No one else came close
Kelly Clarkson CASUALLY doing iconic 90s R&B… I don’t know a better girl
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This is my last day working for the BBC and
@BBCNewsbeat
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All my friends (every single one, myself included) has an Aesop soap dispenser filled with supermarket handwash in their bathroom. And I love that we all, just once, wanted to be fancy
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Anyway, I wear XXL t-shirts now I guess. Thanks 2020 🤷🏼♂️
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Anyway my mum said their lives were better and their minds more open because they had a gay son, I said they’d never brought me up to be anything other than kind and respectful. My mum said she was proud of me and that was real nice
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I just really love how happy he is
“I had the best nights sleep knowing I could finally be myself ”
Australian footballer tells
#BBCBreakfast
he’s ‘never smiled this much’ after coming out as the world's only current openly gay male top-flight professional player.
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I'm old enough to remember when LGB Alliance tweeted to compare LGBTQ+ individuals to people who have sex with animals
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She’s an absolute angel. Just wish I hadn’t sweated so much 🤷🏼♂️
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Sometimes it’s hard to know whether it was a good a date or you just had four pints 🤷🏼♂️
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And for LGBT History Month next year, maybe I'll write about Pride.
Either way, this piece was a pleasure to write and I learned an awful lot working on it
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I hope Sarah Harding knew how many lives she made better and happier because of her time and music with Girls Aloud
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It's never a 'one off'.
My ex beat me up. When we broke up, three other men got in touch to say he'd attacked them, violently, when they were in a relationship with him
On
#bbcqt
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown points out “Stanley Johnson was a wife beater”
Fiona Bruce helpfully explains “he broke his wife’s nose, she was hospitalised”
“ it did happen, BUT it was a one off”
What a defence - only occasional domestic violence 🤔
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Doing some work on a BBC job application thing today because of the internal reshuffle, and looking back at some of the things I've produced over the past year or so and some of it's proper great. I'm starting to think I'm actually quite good at my job after all...
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Anyone else feel like they were actually, finally getting their shit together before all this happened?
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