Bette Midler is single-handedly tanking ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ with her tweets and OMFG what a disaster

I was scrolling through psychotherapy memes on Instagram a few years ago when Hannah popped up in my friend requests. We each had new last names and new looks. I had decided that since I had to wear wigs anyway (as an ultra-Orthodox Jew), they may as well be blonde instead of my natural dull brown.

It's about a group of four girls — Tiff, Mac, Erin, and KJ — who, in 1988, stumble upon a war between time travelers during their morning paper route and wind up getting stuck in 2019. just adopted these 4 very unhinged children they're coming home with me tonight #papergirlsEpisode 1 of Paper Girls absolutely nailed how quickly 12 year old girls will bond and conspire to fuck shit up.

Openly trans actor and Batgirl star Ivory Aquino shared a heartwarming message to co-star Leslie Grace after the film’s cancellation.

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Machine Gun Kelly is responding to a vandal who defaced one of his tour buses in Nebraska on Thursday morning with a homophobic slur and vulgar images.

Pose star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in Chicago this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart in the long-running musical.Ross, 41, whose credits also include American Horror Story: 1984, will start an eight-week run beginning September 12 at the Ambassador Theatre.She will join a Broadway opening its arms to transgender actors. Glowing:Pose star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in Chicago this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie HartIn 2018, Ru Paul´s Drag Race star Peppermint became the first openly trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway, starring in the Go-Go´s jukebox musical Head Over Heels.This spring, L Morgan Lee made history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated and go on to win a Tony Award for her work as a featured actress in the musical A Strange Loop.

sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of smuggling drugs with criminal intent. The center for the Phoenix Mercury, Griner was arrested at a Russian airport in February, when she arrived in the country to play for one of its basketball teams during the WNBA off-season. There were vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage; cannabis is illegal in Russia.She has testified that she brought the substance in by accident and that she did not intend to break any laws.

MTGLive online broadcast and she played a clip from the August 3, 2022 White House press briefing where Jean-Pierre was asked about the baby formula shortage. She responded that the Biden administration can “understand what parents are going through — caregivers, moms and dads, you know, grandparents.  And we have — we have done — we have done — you know, we have done the work, and we’ll continue to do the work to make sure that families have safe baby formula so that they can feed their kids.”“She claims they’re doing the work every day,” Greene said sarcastically.

A Tasmania-based lesbian woman and supporter of the anti-trans group LGB Alliance, is raising funds to take her battle to ban trans women and men from her drag shows, to the High Court. Trigger Warning: This story discusses comments against the transgender community, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.Jessica Hoyle has raised over $3,300, since she launched her campaign on a fundraising platform last month. Last year, Hoyle failed in her bid to get an exemption from the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner to hold her “female-only event” and now plans to take her fight to the High Court.

‘Something Rotten’ at Theatre Frisco. (Courtesy photo)

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series creator has addressed if Joshua Bassett’s character will be getting a queer romance.

Angelica Ross is making her Broadway debut next month and it will be historic!

Machine Gun Kelly is responding to a vandal who defaced one of his tour buses in Nebraska on Thursday morning with a homophobic slur and vulgar images.Kelly's caravan includes a number of different tour busses — each a different color — and after a performance Wednesday night one of them was vandalized with the words «Rap devil f*****» on one side, and a large, crude depiction of a phallus on the other side.The graffiti was recorded by a passerby, who claimed she got into an argument with Kelly's security while filming the bus.Kelly himself took to his Instagram story to share a message with whoever tagged the bus, which he recorded while lying in bed in his hotel room.«You're so dumb,» Kelly expressed. «You spray-painted a bus thinking it was my bus.

Machine Gun Kelly addressed a vandal who spray-paintedhomophobic graffiti on one of his tour buses in a series of Instagram Stories.The rocker, 32, is currently on tour in Omaha, Nebraska, and woke up on Thursday morning to one of his buses being defaced on both sides, with one side reading, 'RAP DEVIL F*****' and the other having an image of anejaculating penis.However, while addressing the situation, Megan Fox'sfiancé revealed it wasn't his personal bus that got vandalized: 'You're so dumb. You spray painted a bus thinking it was my bus.

When Sparrows Point resident David Marshall adopted his son in 2017, it’s unlikely that he knew just how much of an impact he was going to make.In November 2020, Marshall was hosting a casual Facebook Live and telling the story of how he adopted young Josiah. The response he received made him realize that what he’d done was actually pretty remarkable.“I told my adoption journey on Facebook Live and I got an amazing response,” Marshall told CBS Baltimore.

BERLÍN — A finales de julio, cuando me quedé en casa y escuché al director general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declarar que la viruela del mono era una emergencia de salud pública de importancia internacional, muchos de mis amigos habían salido a celebrar el Día Internacional del Orgullo LGBT. La decisión de confirmar una emergencia unos dos meses después de un brote global era la correcta. Pero se sentía demasiado tardía.

unfortunate cost-cutting measures and the fact the they continue to give a platform to hateful rhetoric disguised as “comedy,” they’ve also offered up plenty of original programming centered on LGBTQ stories and characters.To name a few: Heartstopper became one of Netflix’s most buzzed about hits, Stranger Things is finally exploring one character’s coming out, Uncoupled has a middle-aged gay man front and center, and First Kill put a sapphic spin on Romeo & Juliet with its Buffy-esque First Kill.Alas, it was just this week that Netflix put a stake through the heart of First Kill fans, canceling the lesbian vampire teen romance after only one season. While showrunner Felicia D.

Road to the Runway premieres this Friday. This new docuseries will follow the journey of twenty trans fashion models competing for a contract in this year’s annual Slay Model search.Slay Model Management opened in 2016 as the world’s first and only agency to exclusively represent transgender models, according to a news release.

LOVE Island star Tasha Ghouri's DAD has slammed her co-star Jacques O'Neill as he wades into the ongoing show 'bullying' row. The professional rugby player has come under fire for mocking Tasha, 24, in a private Instagram story that was leaked by fans.

Local businesswoman and conservative nutjob Tudor Dixon clinched the GOP nomination for governor in Michigan this week, winning nearly every county in her state. She will now face off against incumbent Democratic Gov.

film festivals now behind us, a new inductee into the billion-dollar box office club, and Oscar prognosticators beginning to buzz, the BuzzFeed Streaming Team took this opportunity to compile some of our favorite movie titles to land in theaters and streaming (so far).Some themes that emerged: strong ensemble casts, dystopian near-futures, midlife crises, and insisting (*nails on a chalkboard sound*) "you must see it on the big screen." Also, FWIW, Jenny Slate, Colin Farrell, and Zoë Kravitz popped up in two or more films on this list. Congrats to them. Before you read our full list below, please note we only considered titles that had wide releases at the time of writing.

UK Black Pride has shared more information regarding this year’s festivities and its sponsors.

From left: Inna, Oleh, and Yevhen MakarenkoThe mother of a family accused of beating a gay man so badly that he was blinded now says her she never even met the victim.Inna and Yevhen Makarenko and their sons Oleh and Pavel are charged with attempted murder, battery, and kidnapping in the attack, which police say occurred August 6, 2021, at the victim’s home in Pompano Beach, Fla. The first three were arrested by Broward County authorities in March and charged in April, and Pavel Makarenko was arrested later in New York.

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. In a recent scene, Bassett’s character, Ricky, briefly talks with EJ (played by Matt Cornett) suggesting they might star as male leads in the camp’s Frozen remake. He then goes on to propose that the characters could be “Friends? Enemies? Lovers?”  The Disney+ hit's showrunner, Tim Federle, opened up in an interview with Digital Spy and addressed fans’ theories surrounding the character's sexuality.“One of the joys of a long-running show is that you get to explore all facets and all aspects of all of these characters,” he said.

First Dates star Fred Sirieix was beaming with pride after his daughter Andrea, 17, proved victorious at the Commonwealth Games. Andrea is competing in her first Games for England, which are currently being held in Birmingham, and performed in the Women’s Diving 10m Platform final.The teenage diver came out on top in the preliminary round, and further secured first place in the final five dives. Earlier today, Thursday 4 August, Andrea competed alongside another 11 contestants, after coming out in first place against 14 divers in the preliminary rounds.

Authoritarian dictator Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, was invited to speak to CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. On Thursday he delivered an anti-LGBTQ attack on same-sex marriage and same-sex families, echoing the false “groomer” claims increasingly prevalent on the right by demanding same-sex couples must “leave our kids alone.”

Johnny Depp, who she said explained it to her "in the simplest terms."The actress recounted the story during an interview on SiriusXM's Andy Cohen Live show to promote the new season of the Showtime drama Yellowjackets and Wednesday, Netflix's coming spinoff series of The Addams Family. She explained to Cohen the talk with Depp occurred after an incident on the set of the 1990 drama Mermaids when she was only 9 years old."There was something going on on-set and someone was not being nice to someone else," Ricci said.

Attention Little Montsters! Lady Gaga has confirmed her casting in the upcoming Joker sequel. 

executive order signed Thursday immediately suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren. He appointed Judge Susan Lopez, who he just appointed to the bench in December, to fill his role.“Prosecutors have a duty to enforce the law, not pick and choose which laws they agree with,” DeSantis said.

Sierra Magazine, the outlook beyond then is even bleaker if the Antarctic ice sheets collapse due to global warming.Related: Rare footage of Fire Island gay wedding offers a peek at pre-Stonewall era LGBTQ lifeThe Army Corps of Engineers is currently engaged in a $1.7 billion project to address the urgent issues threatening the island’s beaches, dunes and homes. But Sierra writer Jimmy Tobias notes that, “in the long run they may only delay the inevitable—the eventual loss of Fire Island as a place fit for human habitation.”The island’s rare grove of holly trees, the sunken forest, is already disappearing fast.

Gemma Collins has shared her epic hair transformation with her fans and tells them that she is a "new woman".The former Towie star, 41, showed off her glamorous new look on social media after heading to her favourite hair salon. Wearing huge sunglasses and tossing her head to and fro, Gemma could not help but to indulge in the "therapeutic" moment. Adding a full head of long, wavy blonde extensions that had been attached to her naturally short locks, the body-positive advocate told her 2.2 million Instagram followers of how she had been feeling under the weather lately.

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READ MORE: Angus Deayton slams BBC comedy chiefs for being 'terrified of offending retired colonels'“I’m not going to start digging it all up again.”He added he was “resigned” to never setting the record straight, despite it making him miserable.Angus said: “It’s not something I’m particularly happy about, but I’ve had 20 years to get used to it.”He said “the words annus horribilis didn’t really cover half of it” when he was the focus of drug and sex allegations in the summer of 2002.The actor, who is currently playing fed-up widower Mitch in BBC Radio 4 sitcom Alone, said he no longer watched Have I Got News For You.He added he’s now single after splitting from TV writer Lise Mayer, 64, but insisted he is “very happy”.Angus also hosted Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2008 and was a regular cast member of One Foot in the Grave from 1990 until 2000.

Bette Midler’s controversial comments many have deemed ‘transphobic’.Hocus Pocus actress Midler, 76, had come under fire for wading into a debate about the word ‘women’, after tweeting: ‘WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!’She went on: ‘They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!’After intense backlash to her comments, which came amid Macy Gray’s controversial appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Midler today clarified her tweet and insisted there was no intention of anything exclusionary or transphobic in what she said.Fans responded to suggest her phrasing could be seen to be transphobic, while Martin chimed in to share meaningful insight into the conversation.Feel Good star Martin, 35, who identifies as trans/non-binary, said they had been receiving messages about Midler’s tweet and wanted to share some thoughts ‘in case this is useful to you if you have people in your own life – older feminist icons even – who are perplexed and threatened by inclusive language’.They wrote in a lengthy statement: ‘These figure heads, like Bette Midler, fought hard for women’s rights and they’re upset when, in the context of reproductive rights, they read phrases like “people with uteruses”. They feel reduced and negated and confused.‘I would say to them: Nobody is negating the fact that people assigned female at birth have a unique struggle against an oppressive patriarchy.

“I just want to say this in case this is useful to you if you have people in your own life – older feminist icons even – who are perplexed and threatened by inclusive language.Those figures, like Better Midler, fought hard for women’s rights and they’re upset when, in the context of reproductive rights, they read phrases like ‘people with uteruses.’They feel reduced and negated and confused. I would say to them: Nobody is negating the fact that people assigned female at birth have a unique struggle against an oppressive patriarchy.

Bette Midler has responded to the backlash she received for posting a controversial tweet claiming that women are being erased.

Mae Martin has shared a compassionate message on Instagram in response to Bette Midler’s recent controversial tweets.

tweeted, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!”That tweet prompted tens of thousands of replies. Many said Midler was falling for anti-trans arguments about the erasure of women. Others highlighted the importance of using language that’s more inclusive of trans and non-binary people.Related: Bette Midler criticizes trans-friendly terms such as “birthing people”Yesterday, reacting to the furor, Midler tried to put her comments in a greater context.

Bette Midler has been met with criticism on social media after tweeting about the “erasure” of women in wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.On Sunday (July 3), the actress, singer and comedian appeared to reference the new ruling on abortion laws in a tweet that has been described by many as transphobic.Her post read: “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!”“The far right and the far left have found the one thing they can agree on: Women don’t count.”Midler’s words soon came under fire, receiving over 20,000 replies (at time of writing), with many accusing her of excluding transgender individuals who also need abortion care.The actress was subsequently described as a “TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) by some, while others threatened to boycott the upcoming Hocus Pocus sequel on Disney+, in which Midler reprises her role as Winifred Sanderson the witch.WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) July 4, 2022Summing up the issue with Midler’s tweet, cosmology author Katie Mack wrote: “The term ‘pregnant people’ includes pregnant women & also people who are pregnant but are not women.

Gray, who also has a substantial LGBTQ+ following, made trans-exclusionary comments Monday on Piers Morgan Uncensored, which airs on Fox’s subscription channel Fox Nation.She claimed to support trans rights, as did the often-transphobic host. But when he brought up the issue of trans women competing with cisgender women in sports, Gray said, “I will say this, and everyone’s gonna hate me, but as a woman, just because you go change your parts doesn’t make you a woman, sorry. … I know that for a fact.” Morgan had also opposed including trans women in women’s sports, saying they were “born to obvious physical superior bodies.” Actually, although a few trans women have achieved elite status in women’s athletics, such as swimmer Lia Thomas, they do not dominate women’s sports by any means.“Being a little girl is a whole epic book, you know?” Gray added.

Sent to a kid who asked what it meant to be a good citizen, circa 1970. (Image via Joel Lipton)

tweeted, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!”It’s not clear what prompted the tweet. However, on Sunday the New York Times published an opinion piece that touched on the same subject.

Beloved actor Bette Midler has sparked backlash after publishing a seemingly anti-Trans tweet. Queer and ally fans have been left disappointed by the Hocus Pocus star who criticised inclusive language in a post published on Monday, July 4. “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and […]

sequel Hocus Pocus 2, got thousands of people talking within hours of sending her tweet. The original post by the 76-year-old performer started off in all caps."WOMEN OF THE WORLD!" She wrote to her 2.1 million followers on Monday afternoon, "We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don't call us 'women' anymore; they call us 'birthing people' or 'menstruators,' and even 'people with vaginas.'"Midler continued: "Don't let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!"The comments sparked mass debate in the comments section and across Twitter with tens of thousands of people commenting on and retweeting other comments.WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!"Midler goes full Rowling," wrote journalist Jon Levine, comparing Midler to the author of the Harry Potter books J.K.

Bette Midler fans are calling on the Hocus Pocus star to not “buy into the rhetoric” that women’s rights are at odds with trans equality.

The Sanderson Sisters are back in Hocus Pocus 2. After years of teasing their return, the witches are back to dish out their kooky and campy version of mayhem in this sequel to a perennial Halloween classic. 29 years later, the Black Flame Candle burns bright again, consequently resurrecting the Sanderson sisters who are looking to enact their decades-long revenge.

Disney Plus has finally – we repeat, FINALLY – unleashed the first official trailer for the long-awaited sequel to Hocus Pocus.