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The new judges panel on America’s Got Talent was a shake up for the smash summer show, but this week’s patented (and consistency tear-jerking” Golden Buzzer moment) just might have given birth to a brand new Broadway star.  As his mother tells the story she took Luke to see his first Broadway show and “something sparked”. From seeing Wicked, The Lion King and Kinky Boots (the last one a total of eight times) there is nothing about Broadway that Luke...

Other patrons witness the discrimination When a couple at a restaurant openly discriminates against their lesbian waitress, other patrons decide they’re not having it. This is exactly the scenario a recent episode of ABC’s What Would You Do? series posed. Inspired by a real-life event where a lesbian server received no tip due to her pride tattoo, the segment asks whether or not bystanders would intervene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfBktuMXV00 Both the couple discriminating and the waitress are played by actors. For the waitress, it’s an especially...

A big win for Frank Ocean today. We first reported back in February that the talented R&B singer was being sued by his estranged father, Calvin Cooksey, for $14.5 million dollars for defamation of character. This was largely in part due to a post that Frank made on his Tumblr back in 2016, when he recalled his father dragging him out of a diner after calling their transgendered waitress a "faggot". Here's an excerpt from that post: “Many are annoyed by our...