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Members of the kink and fetish scene are set to take over the Irish capital for the highly-anticipated Dublin Leather Weekend 2025. The fourth event of its kind, it will take place from January 24 to 26 and will see the coronation of the new Mr Dublin Leather and Puppy Ireland.

The Chambers Bar building on Washington Street, Cork, has gone on sale, over a year after its closure in September 2023. Once a cornerstone of Cork’s queer nightlife, Chambers had served as one of the city’s premier LGBTQ+ bars for 18 years before its sudden shutdown.

A post shared by Alex Mohajer (@alexmohajer)Alex Mohajer was running for city council in his hometown before he suspended his campaign to boost the Democratic presidential ticket. But now, the out Iranian-American is serving his home in a different capacity. Mohajer was appointed this week as a commissioner for Irvine, California, the Orange County municipality where he was raised by a single mom who immigrated to the U.S.

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TikTok campaigner after they used a "loophole" to have their gender listed as female when they had been born male.James Rose, who identifies as non-binary and uses she/they pronouns, announced they had succeeded in acquiring a driving license that identified them as female in a TikTok post. However, on Tuesday, a popular conservative X account shared a letter addressed to them from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) saying the license was no longer valid.Newsweek contacted James Rose, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the FLHSMV for comment on Thursday via online contact form, email and telephone respectively outside of regular office hours.Conservative controlled Florida has passed a number of laws impacting on the transgender community in recent years including a ban of "classroom discussion" around gender identity and prohibiting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for transgender children, though this was later ruled unconstitutional.The debate over transgender rights, and whether these clash with women's rights, has become extremely heated in recent years with Donald Trump pledging to speak for "you" rather than "they/them" during the recent presidential election campaign.Rose, who goes by @jamesissmiling on TikTok where they have over 520,000 followers, posted a since-deleted video on the platform claiming they had succeeded in getting a driving license that described them as female.They said: "I just got my gender changed on my driving license in the free f****** state of Florida, my God Ron DeSantis would be screaming right now if he knew this."Rose continued: "You're not even supposed to be able to do this in this state.

@XEng.Our goal is to maximize unregretted user-seconds. Too much negativity is being pushed that technically grows user time, but not unregretted user time.Musk seems to have realized that unmoderated political content, trolls and sh*t-posting are driving users to other platforms. Or at the very least, they’re regretting opening up X.Of course, despite his own call for “entertaining” content, Musk has continued to relentlessly post attacks on the British government.

As we move toward Jan. 20, when Donald Trump and his acolytes complete their takeover of the government, we really have no idea what will happen. Trump and his co-president, Elon Musk, lie with impunity. It’s hard to tell if they believe their own lies.

The nominations for the 2025 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards have been announced, with LGBTQ+ stars and stories taking centre stage. Wicked leads the charge with five nominations.

LGBTQ Global originally published this commentary. The Washington Blade is republishing it with permission.