AP REPORT: Texas AG office in growing disarray under Paxton

Måneskin have announced details for their highly-anticipated third studio album.

Cary Alan Johnson — an HIV-positive author, activist, Africanist, and founder of several charitable groups — recounts his sexual and personal awakening ifour decades ago in New York City, in the days right before AIDS, in his new memoir Desire Lines. Read a juicy excerpt here:When it comes to getting screwed, Zogby says you’ve gotta want it. According to Zogby, if you can weather those initial moments of searing intensity (I literally saw stars the first time), then the pain of penetration transforms into a singular and exquisite pleasure.

(CNN) – The four people hurt in an apparent gas leak on Monday at Los Angeles International Airport were all airport employees, according to an update provided by the Los Angeles Fire DepartmentThe condition of the most severely sickened victim has been upgraded from grave to critical following the incident.A woman and three men were working in or near a utility room “when a popping sound was heard, and the apparent release of Carbon Dioxide vapor took place,” the LAFD report said.The most seriously injured man, described as being in his 50s, was found not breathing and without a pulse inside the utility room. CPR was immediately performed and advanced life support given by emergency responders as he was taken to a nearby hospital, the fire department shared.“LAFD Hazardous Materials experts have closely examined the area with sophisticated instruments, and discovered only trace residue of Carbon Dioxide remaining within the utility room,” said the LAFD.Portable fans are being used to further ventilate the immediate area.All other terminals and flights are operating normally, according to a tweet from LAX airport.The terminal was cleared of passengers due to a hazardous materials investigation, the airport tweeted earlier on Monday.The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for United Airlines as a result of the emergency.

The Kroger supermarket chain has settled a lawsuit via a consent decree with two former employees in Arkansas who claimed they were fired for refusing to wear aprons with a rainbow heart which they felt violated their religious beliefs.The two believed the heart was in support of the LGBTQ+ community. On Thursday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the Kroger Limited Partnership I agreed to pay $180,000 to former employees Trudy Rickerd, then 57, and Brenda Lawson, then 72, in return for dropping their suit. Both employees were subsequently disciplined and fired in 2019, although Kroger maintains they were not terminated in retaliation for their actions.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wants all Americans, regardless of gender, to embrace parental leave as the norm and to understand that while it's time away from one's employment, it's not a vacation.Buttigieg appeared on CNN's Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? over the weekend to discuss his life as transportation secretary in the Biden-Harris administration.The two discussed the scope of his department's responsibilities, Buttigieg's riding to work on a bicycle, his excitement for infrastructure projects, Elon Musk and Tesla electric vehicles, and other related matters.But Buttigieg became the most animated when the topic switched to Republican criticism of his taking parental leave when he and his husband, Chasten, welcomed their twin infants into the world.In August of 2021, Buttigieg took a two-month break from his daily office responsibilities and focused on his growing family. At the time, Republicans, including Colorado's Rep. Lauren Boebert, criticized the new father for spending time with his family, going so far as to make a homophobic attack."The guy was gone.

Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane have revealed the hilarious “premise” for a potential Bros sequel.

The UK’s new equalities minister Kemi Badenock has halted work on banning ‘conversion therapy’.

Within 72 hours of acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted a baseless conspiracy theory involving Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, who suffered severe injuries during a violent attack on Friday.The wealthiest man in the world took to his social media platform on Sunday morning to spread disinformation about the 82-year-old who had been beaten in the head with a hammer by an intruder. In response to a tweet Hillary Clinton sent out about how David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi, spread far-right conspiracy theories, Musk responded, "There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye," and included a link to a false article that claimed Paul Pelosi and a male sex worker had been in a drunken quarrel.The article appeared in the Santa Monica Observer, an outlet that has proven itself to be unreliable at best. For example, in 2016, the paper claimed that Hillary Clinton had died on September 11 and had been replaced by a body double.Musk's tweet, posted at 8:15 a.m.

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(CNN) – The death toll has risen to 134 after a suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat on Sunday, as authorities revealed the structure had only recently reopened following repairs.Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi said Monday some 200 people are estimated to have been on the bridge in the town of Morbi when it collapsed into the river below on Sunday evening. A cable at one end appears to have snapped, he added.The state of Gujarat has lodged a criminal complaint against the agency that was handling the maintenance of the 750-foot-long bridge, which was built in the 19th century and reopened last week after renovations, he said.Photos from the scene Monday showed people gathering on the bank of the river Machchhu beside the mangled metal walkway, which hung at a sharp angle into the water, where rescue workers in inflatable dinghies searched for survivors.A five-person special investigation committee has been established to investigate the incident, Sanghavi said, amid an ongoing search and rescue operation by hundreds of personnel from state and national disaster relief teams and the Indian military.Speaking at a news conference in the early hours of Monday, Sanghavi did not say how many people are missing, but social media video showed dozens in the water following the collapse of the bridge.TV footage showed people holding the cables and remains of the bridge as emergency teams tried to reach them, Reuters reported.

BBC Three has announced a second season of Wreck.

Brazil’s far-right, homophobic president Jair Bolsonaro has been defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential election. 

(CNN) – Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife district in South Korea’s capital Seoul, are busy with partygoers and tourists. Now it's the site of one of the country's worst disasters.On Saturday night, tens of thousands of people flooded into the area in central Seoul to celebrate Halloween – but panic erupted as the crowds swelled, with some witnesses saying it became hard to breathe and impossible to move.More than 150 people were killed in the crush, with dozens more injured.

SINGAPORE: Cryptocurrency exchanges licensed to operate in Singapore must comply with financial sanctions against Russia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday (Oct 31), after research found that pro-Russia groups have raised millions of dollars in crypto donations to support Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Former Real Housewives of Orange County star Alexis Bellino introduced fans to her 15-year-old trans son, Miles.

HBO Max’s live-action Green Lantern series will no longer follow openly gay hero Alan Scott.

It comes after Shirley Ballas was dressed as The Addams Family’s Gomez Addams on Saturday night’s show.She was wearing the character’s signature pinstriped suit and bow tie.The judge had her hair slicked back as she gripped onto the iconic cane accessory.She said: “I’m short lol 5 2 inches @CraigRevHorwood is very very tall.” (sic)@MadameMargi wrote: “Craig is very tall wearing 6inch stilettos.So what.“Shirley is a natural beauty & a delightfully refreshing personality on this show.“Love Shirley Ballas.The only judge who can dance ballroom to the highest standard.” (sic)It follows as fans went wild in seeing Craig Revel Horwood dressed in drag on Saturday's Strictly, for which he was also wearing four inch heels.@Ariadne_reviews penned: “Obsessed with how good this is  #scd #strictly,” alongside a snap of Craig in his Halloween effects.The user added: “Also, it's just great to have drag on one of the biggest shows on television.”@Stellamnew said: “Love Craig - so talented and looks amazing tonight!“He was in drag for the first half of his brilliant one-man show and some folk didn’t realise it was him as he was so convincing. "Wonderful!”Craig’s outfit was a drag rendition of The Addams Family’s Morticia.He was introduced by hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly onto the stage.Craig looked unrecognisable as he walked down the steps in a long black dress and even longer black hair.

A Thai trans activist and business tycoon has bought the long-running Miss Universe Organisation in a landmark deal. 

Bros director Nicholas Stoller has opened up about making a potential sequel to the hit film.

Australia’s men’s national football team have condemned Qatar for its human rights record ahead of the highly anticipated World Cup.

It turns out the craving for skintight clothing is not a new development, and a museum in Iceland has the creepiest pair of pants ever made as proof.The director of the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft located in Hólmavík admitted to Newsweek the pants now on display at the famed museum are a replica of a real 17th-century pair of slacks made from human skin (except for the naughty bits between the legs, which were the creation of someone’s well-endowed imagination), but the practice was at one time very much real and steeped in Icelandic culture. Anna Björg Þórarinsdóttir told Newsweek that Icelandic folklore is replete with tales of the pants and how the wearer of the skintight skinny slacks would be the beneficiary of good luck, but with a very large catch.“A coin must be stolen from a poor widow, either at Christmas, Easter, or Whitsunday [a Christian festival on the seventh Sunday after Easter] and kept in the scrotum,” Þórarinsdóttir explained to Newsweek.

A scandal-hit youth charity has seen members resign over safety concerns and bullying.

Russia has taken steps to extend the country’s archaic ‘gay propaganda’ law to all adults. 

Russia has taken steps to extend the country’s archaic ‘gay propaganda’ law to all adults. 

In a blow to trans rights, a Florida medical board committee has moved forward with a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth. 

In a blow to trans rights, the Florida Board of Medicine has moved forward with their ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth. 

Ryan Murphy has addressed the ongoing controversy surrounding his Netflix series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

World of Wonder has revealed that Michelle Visage will replace RuPaul as host of the upcoming episode of Drag Race UK.

(CNN) – At least 59 people were killed during an incident at Halloween festivities in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood Saturday night, according to the Yongsan Fire Department chief.At least 150 others were also injured, the chief added.The cause of the deaths was not immediately provided but the chief said many people fell amid the Halloween festivities, resulting in casualties.Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that people suffered from “cardiac arrest,” attributing fire authorities. Emergency officials received at least 81 people in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood reporting “difficulty breathing.”Authorities have yet to provide exact details on the cause of the incident.Police closed off the area and social media videos showed people lying in the streets and on stretchers as first responders rendered aid.The fire chief said that a total of 848 emergency response forces have been dispatched, including 364 firefighters and 400 police officials.South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sent a disaster medical assistance team to the Halloween incident, according to the presidential office.The president also ordered authorities to secure emergency beds in hospitals nearby and to implement swift rescue operations and treatment, presidential spokesman Lee Jae-Myung said in a briefing.Yoon was in an emergency meeting regarding the situation, the office said in a statement.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

Cuando me gradué de la universidad en Portland, Oregón, hace ocho años, soñaba con tomar mi especialidad en español, mi espíritu de aventura y mudarme al extranjero, donde de inmediato tendría un amante gay que me presentaría nuevos idiomas, comidas y sexo. En vez de eso, regresé a vivir a mi pueblo natal, en Saint Paul, Minnesota, y me instalé en el departamento de mi abuela irlandesa en un asilo católico, donde ella y yo apenas hablábamos y donde ella, al menos, no comía. A los 90 años, después de haber vivido una vida larga y saludable, había decidido morir de hambre, y yo había decidido, a petición de mi madre, estar ahí con ella.

Nonbinary contestant Rowan Ward has claimed a spot in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions with a win in the Second Chance Tournament.The Tournament of Champions brings together all the top winners of the previous season. This year, for the first time, Jeopardy! reserved two spots in the Tournament of Champions for winners of the Second Chance Tournament, televised over the past two weeks.

GEMMA Collins looked incredible tonight as she had a sexy makeover for Halloween. The GC slipped her shrinking figure into a black leather catsuit and corset and headed to the Kiss Haunted House Party at Wembley Arena with her fiancé Rami Hawash. She swapped her blonde locks for a white wig and covered her face with a bunny mask complete with big ears.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg spoke to a group of Democratic supporters at a campaign stop in Wisconsin Friday in the final days of this election cycle."When it comes to the actual issues, most Americans are already with us," Buttigieg said to an animated crowd.Buttigieg campaigned on behalf of Lt. Gov.

Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter, and LGBTQ+ and other civil rights groups are worried this means more hate speech on the platform.The $44 billion deal closed Thursday night, and Musk, the world’s richest man, has assumed the title of “chief twit.” He has said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump, and he wants to allow a variety of viewpoints on the platform — but progressive advocates say he will likely allow hateful content.“Despite his claim that he wanted to buy Twitter to ‘help humanity,’ Elon Musk has a record of posting and defending harmful anti-LGBTQ content as well as content that harms other marginalized communities,” said a statement released Friday by GLAAD. “GLAAD remains deeply concerned about the safety of LGBTQ people on Twitter and we join other organizations that are now questioning Twitter’s future policies and actions against extremist content.”Twitter’s moderation wasn’t great under the previous ownership, and it undoubtedly will be looser under Musk, Cathy Renna, communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, told The Advocate.

Following the brutal attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband, Paul, on Friday morning, Caitlyn Jenner felt it imperative to weigh in.Speaking on Fox News, where she's a contributor, Jenner insinuated the Speaker and her husband didn't have adequate security to repel such an attack. Paul Pelosi is now recovering after a 42-year-old man burst into his San Francisco home and attacked him with a hammer; he was allegedly looking for the Speaker, who was not home at the time.Jenner quickly pivoted to casting blame on everyone from President Biden to San Francisco itself, which she called a "violent city" and referred to a crime wave in the U.S., though crime remains significantly lower throughout the nation's cities than at its apex 30 years ago.

Throughout his campaign for Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin embraced the rhetoric of “parental rights,” allowing it to guide his campaign’s position on key issues, including mask mandates and diversity efforts in our K-12 system.To be clear, there is a dire need to ensure that parents have a voice in our education. The disregarded mental health concerns, failure to appropriately implement accommodations for disabled students, and lackluster equity responses during the COVID-19 pandemic made clear the school systems were largely ill-equipped to handle community concerns.

The first time I heard the term “lipstick lesbian” was when Amanda Bearse, a costar on one of Fox's most iconic programs, Married ... With Children, came out as a lesbian in 1993.If you were around in 1993 — or old enough to vote in that year, let’s say — you know that at that time the words gay or lesbian, to the uninitiated and/or naive, were usually dumbed down to stereotypes. Lesbians were “butch” and "manly," and gay men were “limp-wristed” and "queer." There were other words, of course, that were much harsher.

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(CNN) -- The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and an acquaintance told CNN that he seemed "out of touch with reality."David DePape, 42, was identified by police Friday as the suspect in the assault on Paul Pelosi at the speaker's San Francisco home.Two of DePape's relatives told CNN that DePape is estranged from his family, and confirmed that the Facebook account -- which was taken down by the social media company on Friday -- belonged to him.His stepfather, Gene DePape, said David DePape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, and left Canada about 20 years ago to pursue a relationship that brought him to California."I really don't know what to think," the suspect's uncle, Mark DePape, said of his nephew's alleged attack on Pelosi. "Hopefully it's a scam.

The truth is that speaking about menopause is a taboo topic. Although 80 percent of individuals assigned female at birth will face hot flashes and night sweats that come with menopause, the topic is still rarely discussed.

An advocacy group in Denver is bringing attention to domestic violence as an ongoing issue. Men and LGBTQ+ people have been calling for help in more significant numbers since the pandemic began, according to the group.SafeHouse Denver is hoping to snap the stigma of speaking out for anyone who is a victim of domestic violence. According to its website, the group is the only agency in the city and county of Denver that offers comprehensive domestic violence services to the victims of domestic abuse.The most common perception of domestic violence is that it is specific to women with cis-male partners.While SafeHouse Denver reports an increase in the number of men and people who identify as LGBTQ+, only 5 percent of their clients are males, and 13 percent are LGBTQ+, according to Denver Fox affiliate KDVR.According to the CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 44 percent of lesbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to 35 percent of straight women.LGBTQ+ members reported high rates of intimate partner violence, according to the 2013 CDC study.

Billy: "We thought that name was funny, and also a way to acknowledge the cis white gay male experience at Stonewall. It's not written in "stone", but I think it’s generally acknowledged that Stonewall was a riot started by trans women of colour, so that was our way of conveying that reality."Luke: "There are three times in the movie where Bobby is specifically aware of his cis white male privilege.

Singer-songwriter Tom Walker made Scotland proud with his performance at the Pride of Britain Awards.

A Texas judge ruled that the Biden Administration’s workplace protections for LGBTQ+ people – specifically trans and non-binary employees – were “unlawful.”

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that employers in the state can ignore portions of the Biden administration’s guidance on equal treatment of LGBTQ+ workers, particularly as it regards transgender ones.U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by Donald Trump, ruled this week that guidance on implementing the Bostock v. Clayton County ruling from the U.S.