Tag: gays

When Alfredo Garcia III checked into Chicago’s Seasons Hospice MacNeal Inpatient Center on July 18, he was dying of stage IV liver cancer and had Hodgkin’s lymphoma spreading through his lymphatic system. Bryan Pottow, director of the hospice, asked Garcia his dying wishes. He wished to marry his boyfriend of five years and “the love of his life,” Erwin Sigueroa. The two had been lifelong friends growing up together in the Little Village neighborhood. So Pottow helped organize the wedding. Although the...

Iqra – played by actress Priya Davdra – will come out as gay in a storyline this summer, after it’s revealed that she’s been sending flirtatious messages to other women. A source told The Sun: “Iqra has been fighting to keep her sexuality quiet, but eventually the truth will emerge.” The character won’t be the show’s first gay Muslim, but she will be the first Muslim lesbian. It was announced earlier this year that Eastenders would introduce a queer bar in...

“Faggots.” It was mumbled just quietly enough that only I could hear it. Although it was not directed at me, it still felt like a slap to the face. The slur was uttered by my doubles partner to demean our opponents, in response to being annoyed by them. This summer, I am on multiple USTA teams for the tennis club where I am coaching. For a recent match, one of...

That’s the concept here; a bard who decides to add a little West End sparkle to some of his most celebrated works. We’re treated to Richard III belting out jaunty show tunes while dropping into the splits; the history plays are recounted as a Hamilton-style rap; and the witches from Macbeth appear as you’ve never seen them before. It’s a cute idea that’s here backed up by some serious skill and talent. Guy Hughes is an entertainingly Shakespeare – all...

A dying Tennessee man’s final wish will not be honored. Jessie Goodman says his dying father’s last wish is to have his funeral held at his childhood church, Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Goodman, a hairstylist who is engaged to Brandon Smitty, told WTCV that when church leadership found out the gay couple would be involved in the funeral service, the pastor and some of its members refused to be a part of the funeral. “As long as I was...

Australian Simon Dunn is an athletic jack-of-all-trades whose name has frequently graced the online pages of Outsports. He’s someone who has worn a number of titles throughout his career in the sports world: Former bobsledder and his country’s first out gay man to compete in the sport. Rugby player who isn’t shy about trolling homophobic colleagues by publicly kissing his boyfriend after wins. Owner of more social media accounts than shirts. ...

Last night on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen referenced a brand new movie (Dolemite Is My Name) that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess (a guest with Orange Is The New Black actress Laverne Cox) had just completed with comedic icon Eddie Murphy, and the reaction from Burgess did not go according to plan, to say the least. After Cohen referenced Murphy’s well documented and beyond problematic relationship with the LGBT community, Burgess became visibly agitated and...

An Orthodox bishop has made the startling claim that if a pregnant woman has anal sex, the baby will be gay. The Most Reverend Metropolitan Neophytos (Masouras) of Morfou of the Church of Cyprus has posted a video to YouTube that surpasses “ridiculous” and heads straight into “batshit crazy” territory quickly. A lack of spirituality creates gay people, the bishop says, and it’s the parents’ fault for passing on “the sickness of homosexuality.” And if a pregnant woman has “abnormal sexual contact,” like...

British beauty expert Chris has gone from styling his mothers hair in his living room to working with some of the biggest names in show business, including Katy Perry, Ariana Grande and none other than Kim Kardashian West, who he calls his “hair muse”. That’s why we just to get the two of them in conversation together, where they discussed the inspiration behind some of Kim’s best looks, having the whole world watching your style choices, and even Chris’...

Tennessee state Rep. Bill Sanderson — a “family values” Republican — abruptly resigned on Tuesday night after a state political blog accused him of “openly soliciting sex” and sending “sexually explicit messages and pictures to men almost 40 years his junior.” “The Dog and Pony Show,” a local political site by Cari Wade Gervin, claimed to have caught anti-LGBTQ lawmaker on the gay dating and hookup app Grindr. According to Gervin’s newsletter: Since he took office in 2011, Tennessee state Rep....

Paras Griffin / Getty Images “There’s been plenty of speculation about this hot young r&b star’s sexuality, but most of it has been drowned out by the adoration by fans and famous alike,” wrote the gossip site Bossip in 2012. “After keeping folks guessing in 2011, this soul singer will answer any questions about which team he’s swinging for with his upcoming musical release.”This was a...

Each week, Outsports stops the clock for an instant reply of the week that was. It’s our way of memorializing the glorious victories, the ignominious defeats, and the players and personalities who made them, lived them or just couldn’t avoid them. We realize our roster may differ from yours, and we welcome your comments, contributions and critiques. We read them all! Details on how to reach us are below, after our look at the week’s winners and losers. Winner: Odell Beckham,...

Peace TV faces a ban from the UK after a presenter claimed that gay people were “worse than animals.” The complaint arose from a segment called The Valley of the Homosexuals. Ofcom has ruled that four of the station’s programmes have breached its rules on hate speech, offence, abusive treatment and incitement to crime. Powers given to Ofcom means that it could take the station off air for the breaches, if deemed severe enough, but it could also impose a lesser...

A gay couple, James Derek Mize and Jonathan Daniel Gregg are suing the US State Department, after it rejected their daughter’s application for citizenship. Mize was born in the US and Gregg was born in the UK. They married in London, but have lived in the US for several years now. Their daughter, Simone, was born through surrogacy in Huntingdon, in the UK. Due to Simone being the child of an American couple, the State Department should’ve automatically given her citizenship,...