Beyoncé's Appreciation of Black Queer Culture Sets Her Apart

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DAVID WEBB | Contributing Writerdavidwaynewebb@yahoo.com GUN BARREL CITY — For three decades, a gay nightclub featuring drag show

Dickie Weaver, right, with friends Bill Nelson, Terry Tebedo and Mike Anglin skiing in Breckinridge in 1980. (Photo courtesy of Mike Anglin)

Tyler Johnston, right, comforts his friend Joshua Thurman at a makeshift memorial near Club Q, Sunday, Nov. 20. Thurman was inside the nightclub when a gunman walked in and opened fire the night before. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)

RICH LOPEZ | Staff writerrich@dallasvoice.com Actor/comedian/singer/advocate and icon Sandr

TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com In 2019, according to the U.S. government’s HIV website HIV.gov, there were an estimated 34,800 new HIV infections

An investigation into claims about Dominic Raab's conduct has been expanded to include a third formal complaint, Downing Street said.

CHRIS Moyles has slammed Matt Hancock in a scathing rant after hitting back as he hit back at bullying claims. After becoming the most recent celeb to get the boot from I’m A Celebrity last night, the 48-year-old radio DJ spoke about his time on the show in a cat with Radio X.

People gather around a memorial Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, for the victims of Saturday’s fatal shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)

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Meet Cleopatra, the queen of cat condo! Actually, she is a somewhat timid little kitty who is hoping for the perfect home while she waits at the SPCA of Texas. Cleopatra is almost 4 years old and weighs a mere 7 pounds. She is covered in a regal black coat with big yellow eyes. She was seized from an animal cruelty case back in May, so her starting out point in life was a little shaky. Her ideal home will be calm and serene while she adjusts to the new environment. Rambunctious kiddos can be very frightening for her, so a home with children over 12 who can be respectful of a cat’s needs is best.

DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com “I wish I could be an animator,” second-grade student Arturo said to me at the press

< 1 min read As the Mr Gay Pride Australia competition heads toward its 2022 finale this weekend at Rainbow on the Plains Festival in Hay NSW, nine judges have been announced to help select this year’s winner.

We’re fans of The Old Vic’s staging of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – we originally caught Jack Thorne’s production back in 2019 (although it had already played for a couple of runs previously) and we’re glad to have it back this festive season. It gives us everything we want from a Christmas show – a heartwarming tale, carols, bells, and if you’re lucky you’ll be able to snaffle a mince pie from one of the actors before the show starts. It’s performed in the round and lit by dozens of lanterns hanging overhead – it all adds up to a rather special and wonderfully festive evening.

Queen of the Universe winner Grag Queen has released Future Is Queer, the fierce anthem for GAY TIMES Honours sponsored by Meta Quest.

After releasing her first-ever album as an independent artist, Tove Lo tells GAY TIMES that she finally feels “creatively free”.

A “rainbow wave” that lifted record numbers of LGBTQ+ candidates to victory in the US midterms is a promising sign of growing acceptance, but tough legislative fights still lie ahead in many Republican-controlled states, rights campaigners said.

Adidas has confirmed that it will launch an investigation into allegations of misconduct that have been made against Kanye West by people who worked on the rapper’s long-running Yeezy joint venture with the sportswear brand.That joint venture was cancelled recently when West’s flurry of controversial interviews and statements made the alliance untenable, but – former employees say – Adidas bosses were previously willing to turn a blind eye to their superstar business partner’s bad behaviour.Those former employees have expressed their grievances in a letter to Adidas bosses which has been seen by Rolling Stone.In it they say that Adidas staff members who came into contact with West via the Yeezy JV had to deal with “years of verbal abuse, vulgar tirades and bullying attacks”, but management – although aware of this behaviour – “turned their moral compass off” and ignored that conduct, because, you know, that’s just “Kanye being Kanye”.Rolling Stone reports: “Behind the scenes, [West] did more than test the boundaries of professionalism. Former Yeezy and Adidas staffers and creative collaborators claim that he played pornography to Yeezy staff in meetings; discussed porn and showed an intimate photograph of Kim Kardashian in job interviews; and showed an explicit video and photos of Kardashian as well as his own sex tapes to Yeezy team members”.Meanwhile, the letter from the former employees states: “[West] has, in years past, exploded at women in the room with offensive remarks, and would resort to sexually disturbing references when providing design feedback.

NOBLESVILLE, Indiana (WISH) -- Bones found in the 1990s on Fox Hallow Farms in Westfield are linked to Herb Baumeister, the man largely considered Indiana’s most prolific serial killer.In 1996, authorities found only 11 DNA profiles among the bones and identified eight of the men.Now, that total of DNA profiles could rise to about 25 men with new testing of the bones.Jeff Jellison, who takes office in January as the new Hamilton County coroner, said DNA technology has advanced, and it is time to identify the rest of the men.“The search produced more than probably 10,000 bones and bone fragments,” Jellison said. “We believe there are as many as 25 individuals that were recovered from that property.

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Members of the Lost Souls Rugby Football Club are known as champions on the field and off. And one of the reasons for that is their dedication to community service, including their annual holiday toy drive, benefitting the children at Adelfa Callejo Elementary School. This year the players will be accepting donations from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Round-Up Saloon, 3912 Cedar Springs Road. Those who want to help make the holidays merrier for the children can bring unwrapped gifts to the Round-Up at that time.

Hey y’all. Hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving, and I hope you had fun if you ventured out for a Black Friday sale. I know some people love that shit, but the thought of an overcrowded store with grown folks acting like shop-hungry cannibals freaks me out. No thank you!

Robin has finally shared a kiss with his boyfriend, Bernard, on the cover for the upcoming Tim Drake: Robin issue.

Robin has finally shared a kiss with his boyfriend, Bernard, on the cover for the upcoming Tim Drake: Robin issue.

When it's my turn to say what I'm grateful for this Thanksgiving, I'm tempted to say that it's Nancy Pelosi, and here's why...Back in 1987, when Nancy Pelosi first came to Congress, my boss at the time, who was one of her new colleagues, had quite a crush on her. In fact, I distinctly recall being at one of the famous receptions that were held for members of Congress each night — there could be three or four in one evening — when my boss spied Pelosi entering the room.“Ooh, there’s Nancy Pelosi,” he said with a twinkle in his eye.

Spoilers ahead for the grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season four. 

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SINGAPORE: Up until the moment that FTX started collapsing, the consensus view was that everything was generally fine with the crypto exchange, with former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried a star of the corporate world.

Attention Euphoria fans! A German iteration of the show has been officially confirmed.

An anti-LGBTQ activist who lost her write-in campaign this month for a county clerk position in Utah previously resigned as a teacher over misconduct involving her relationships with students.

I'M A Celebrity fans have slammed the show producers and accused them of bullying Matt Hancock after his recent trial. The former Health Secretary - who has mentioned his dyslexia on the show - was tasked with solving an anagram on last night's show. Controversial MP Matt, 44, was joined by rugby ace Mike Tindall for the challenge to win snacks for camp last night.

Het is in Rusland voortaan verboden voor iedereen om lhbti-denkbeelden uit te dragen. De straf: een fikse boete, en voor buitenlanders zelfs celstraf.

(CNN) -- Russia's lower house of parliament passed in the third reading amendments to a law on so-called "LGBT propaganda" on Thursday, expanding liability to all ages.The discriminatory law proposes to ban all Russians from promoting or "praising" homosexual relationships or publicly suggesting that they are "normal."The original version of the law adopted in 2013 banned "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" among minors. The new iteration would apply the law to adults as well.Individuals who spread or attempt to distribute what the bill calls "LGBT propaganda" will be fined up to 400,000 roubles ($6,600).

Russia’s lower house of parliament passed a law expanding its ban on so-called ‘LGBT propaganda’ to all adults.

GEMMA Collins looked incredible as she posed in a ski suit in the Austrian Alps yesterday. The 41-year-old jetted off to film her latest TV show at the start of the week and has been keeping fans up to date with her amazing outfits.

SHE may be the queen of reality TV but now Gemma Collins has set her sights on a brand new career path. The Essex star, 41, has revealed that she plans to quit reality TV in a bid to become a film star. Gemma - who shot to fame on Towie and who landed her own show Diva Forever - said she has big ambitions of becoming a Hollywood actress.

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SINGAPORE: The police are investigating Singapore-based crypto lender Hodlnaut and its directors for suspected cheating and fraud offences.

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The father of the accused Club Q shooter has expressed relief that his child isn’t gay.Aaron Brink, the father of Anderson Lee Aldrich, gave a homophobia-filled interview to San Diego TV station KFMB. Brink, 48, who has worked as a porn star and mixed martial arts fighter and coach, said he wondered what his offspring was doing in a gay bar. Aldrich, 22, is accused of killing five people and injuring nearly 20 at the Colorado Springs nightclub Saturday night.When Brink heard from Aldrich’s defense attorney Sunday, “they started telling me about the incident, a shooting involving multiple people,” Brink said told the station Tuesday.

Like many, I woke up Sunday morning to the horrific, gut-wrenching news of yet another mass shooting — this time at Club Q in Colorado. A pit hardened in my stomach as I learned of the hate-fueled attack on my own community, in a place I used to go to feel safe as a young,queer college student living in Colorado Springs.Sadly, the feeling was all too familiar — it was the same one I felt after the tragedy at Pulse nightclub in Orlando: My achy queer heart spilling over in every direction with grief, with rage, with bewilderment, and more than anything, with love for my LGBTQ+ community.I went to Colorado College in Colorado Springs, a city where, as in many other places, there were forces — including radical antigay extremism — that made it challenging to be queer.

 (CNN) -- People take strange things on planes -- that's nothing new. And the suitcase checked for a journey from New York JFK to Orlando, Florida, on November 16 certainly contained some oddities.

GEMMA Collins has opened up about the terrifying moment she was robbed during a holiday abroad. The 41-year-old was in Mexico when she discovered her hotel room has ben ransacked while she was on a night out.

The Heritage Foundation, an anti-LGBTQ think tank, is reportedly spending $1.3 to air an anti-LGBTQ ad on TV and online during Thanksgiving weekend.

Ky Schevers, who once was a poster child for the “detransition” movement, now says she regrets embracing that.Schevers, assigned female at birth, came to identify as a trangender man and took testosterone to transition. She eventually stopped the treatment and spoke out about detransitioning. But then she saw that anti-trans bigotry was rampant among those who championed detransitioning, she recently told ABC News.“I never liked people who call transitioning mutilation or call trans bodies mutilated.