Caitlyn Jenner backs Dave Chappelle’s transgender stance: ‘He’s 100% right’

Spencer, while DeBose has earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her portrayal of Anita in the remake of West Side Story.Two openly LGBTQ+ actors being nominated in acting categories in the same year has prompted praise and joy from fans.Stewart identifies as openly queer, telling InStyle in 2020: "Living in this world, being a queer person, there are things that hurt constantly."While many fans have pointed out on social media that if DeBose wins in her category, she will be the first queer woman of color to take the prize.The stars join only a handful of other openly LGBTQ+ actors who have received a nomination in an acting category at the Oscars.Ian McKellen, who is gay, was nominated for his role in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 20 years ago.Two queer-identifying actors who have been nominated for Oscars since then are Lady Gaga and Angelina Jolie, who are both bisexual.Jeremy Blacklow, director of entertainment media at GLAAD said many actors are not out when they are nominated because "LGBTQ+ actors have long faced blatant employment discrimination and have felt forced to hide their sexual orientation and/or gender identity if they hoped to work at all."He added to Vanity Fair: "Once they come out, lesbian, gay, and bisexual actors have rarely been considered for straight leading roles and they haven't been cast for leading lesbian, gay, or bisexual roles either."Fans of both stars have been reacting to their nominations today."With Ariana DeBose & Kristen Stewart this year we have two queer icons nominated for acting Academy Awards!" reads one tweet.With Ariana DeBose & Kristen Stewart this year we have two queer icons nominated for acting Academy Awards!

News of Love, Victor’s upcoming third season being its last has sparked a passionate response online from fans.

Adele declared her love for “being a female artist” as she took home the gender-neutral award for Artist of the Year at the Brits.

Gemma Collins has shared a first look at her upcoming moving documentary where she opens up for the very first time about her painful battle with self-harm. The Channel 4 programme, which will air on Wednesday 16 February, sees Gemma going on a personal journey, as she tells her loved ones how she secretly struggled for two decades.

TikTok has updated its community guidelines to ban an array of anti-LGBTQ+ content, including deadnaming transgender people.

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An extreme Christian sect is being probed for spreading gay hate and anti-vaxx propaganda among its followers.

Heather Dubrow, 53, is sharing more intimate details about her family’s story, and this time, it involves her other daughter: 15-year-old Kat. One year after her eldest daughter, Max, 18, came out as bisexual, her younger daughter Kat is also sharing some news: she’s a lesbian.

In the midst of Black History Month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday delayed a vote on whether to reappoint a Black lesbian to her seat on the city's juvenile probation commission. The decision was shadowed by her role in the campaign to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

Joe Biden is defending LGBTQ students by slamming the "Don't Say Gay" bill proposed by Florida Republicans.The legislation, coined as the "Don't Say Gay" bill by naysayers, seeks to ban the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms. The Republican-led Senate Education Committee gave initial approval of the controversial proposal in a 6-3 vote Tuesday despite condemnation from activist groups.Biden took to Twitter promising LGBTQ students he would stand up for them."I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community — especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill — to know that you are loved and accepted just as you are.

“Yeah. Almost every night for the last two weeks.”One of her eyebrows went up. The movement looked rehearsed, like a trick she’d learned in medical school meant to convey the proper level of concern.

press release described her as “a leading authority in international development policy with over 30 years of experience in the multi-disciplinary field that includes finance, technology, and the environment.”Wong has said she was inspired by the late Congressman John Lewis, a longtime civil rights leader. Lewis, she wrote in a Facebook post last year, “taught me about making good trouble but necessary trouble.” She accompanied Lewis on his annual visits to Selma, Ala., where he was beaten by police during a 1965 voting rights demonstration, and videotaped his appearances.Wong is founder of the Conference on APA Leadership, which encourages young Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders to pursue careers in public service. The LGBTQ Victory Institute, which advocated for Wong’s nomination and confirmation, issued a laudatory statement Tuesday.

The Advocate. “I’ve always been a big kid growing up, and I was always happy.”It wasn’t until others started pointing out his “imperfections” that the actor, beloved for his role as Guillermo de la Cruz in the hit FX series What We Do In The Shadows, even began to question if he was beautiful.

star Heather Dubrow is opening up about her family's journey when it comes to her children freely expressing their sexual identities with their parents' support. In a new interview with, the 53-year-old reality star shares that her 15-year-old daughter, Kat, has come out as a lesbian.

Heather Dubrow’s daughter Kat is coming out to the world.

Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill into law late last month that repeals the statute that criminalizes sexual penetration while infected with a venereal disease or HIV under certain circumstances.

Kleefeld Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach, which has undergone an ambitious renovation and expansion, will open next month with exhibits by two important and influential abstract artists: Linda Besemer, who identifies as queer, and Mark Bradford, who identifies as gay.

After months of working behind the scenes with UltraViolet & GLAAD, TikTok unveils updated user policy to impede harassment, disinformation, misogyny, Anti-LGBTQ+ Hatred, Misgendering, disordered eating content, etc.In an announcement today, the video-focused social media platform TikTok released an updated user policy now expressly featuring limitations on ‘misogyny’ and anti-discrimination protections for transgender people, including a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming. TikTok also announced they will start to remove the promotion of disordered eating content, conversion therapy programs, etc.TikTok implemented the changes after campaigns by UltraViolet, GLAAD, and other groups urged the platform to start taking more responsibility for algorithmic issues and protecting users.“TikTok has become a little safer for women, girls, LGBQ, and trans people today,” said Bridget Todd, Communications Director at UltraViolet, a national gender justice advocacy group.

The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. Between now and February 20, we’ll spotlight some of the inspiring LGBTQ athletes vying for gold.French ice dancing duo Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but a wardrobe malfunction kept them from reaching the top of the podium when the clasp holding Papadakis’s dress together came undone.Still, the partners managed an impressive silver medal, and now they’re back to compete in Beijing in what we assume will be fully-sealed costumes.Cizeron is a seven-time French National Champion and four-time World Champion who made history by winning the European Championships five times in a row.Born in France, Cizeron relocated to Canada in 2014 at age 20 to continue his skating training, though still competed under the French flag in skating events.In 2020, he came out on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia by sharing a photo with his boyfriend on Instagram.“I wanted to share this publicly because it was world day against homophobia and transphobia,” he told Têtu.

updating its community guidelines to make the video-sharing app a safer place for its queer people and women by banning misgendering, deadnaming, and misogyny, as well as conversion therapy from its platform, which has more than 1 billion monthly users.This move follows months of work and advocacy by UltraViolet, a U.S.-based gender justice advocacy group, along with LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization GLAAD.According to Cormac Keenan, TikTok’s head of trust and safety, these changes to the community guidelines were put in place to “further support the well-being of [the] community and the integrity of [the] platform.”While TikTok says that such content was prohibited on the app, Keenan notes that the company has “heard from creators and civil society organizations that it’s important to be explicit in our Community Guidelines.”Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and CEO, told the New York Daily News that she hopes this move by TikTok will inspire other social media apps to make similar changes. “[It] sends a message that other platforms which claim to prioritize LGBTQ safety should follow suit with substantive actions like these,” she said.Making social media apps like TikTok safer spaces for LGBTQ+ people should be a priority as it’s “a public health and safety issue,” explained Ellis, because, as GLAAD’s 2021 Social Media Safety report shows, queer people are “in the crossfire, and [are] experiencing real-world harm.”Changing the guidelines is a step in the right direction.

published earlier this week in the journal, Science.Though the newly identified “VB variant” is easier to transmit and does indeed attack the immune system at a faster rate than other strains, researchers believe that the variant has actually been around since the 1990 but primariliy localized to the Netherlands region. In addition, despite the strain’s aggressive nature, it is still easily controlled by current HIV medications.The strain was discovered while researchers were looking at data and blood samples from people living with HIV in Europe and Uganda who are participating in a study called the BEEHIVE project.

Penrith Christian School has listed transgender identity and same-sex attraction alongside “abusive relationships” as behaviours “not acceptable to God” in a statement attached to its enrolment application. Trigger Warning: This story has details of homophobic and transphobic statements, 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.The Sydney private school’s principal, Tracey Deal, has defended the homophobic and transphobic Statement of Faith, which states that “Adultery, same-sex attraction, transgender identity, premarital sex, sexual acts between members of the same sex and abusive relationships, are all examples of relationships and behaviours which are not acceptable to God.According to the Guardian, in a letter to parents, Deal called the controversy a misunderstanding and said the media has “misinterpreted a small part of the Statement of Faith and inferred mistreatment of students.”Other parts of the Statement of Faith discuss “divine healing for the body” and “everlasting punishment of the wicked (in the sense of eternal torment).”Back in 2013, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Penrith Christian School was forced to review its Statement of Faith after it came to light that it called homosexuality an “abomination unto God, a perversion of the natural order and not to be entered into.” The school had responded then that the “policy was now under review, according to Christian Schools Australia, which says the wording has been ‘misunderstood’ and that gay and lesbian students are treated with care”.Good to see Penrith Christian School now re-thinking their

LONDON: Bitcoin donations have soared to Ukrainian volunteer and hacking groups, some of which have supplied equipment to government forces, according to a report showing such groups received more than US$550,000 worth of cryptocurrency in 2021.

Gay dating app Grindr had made it safer for Olympic athletes to cruise for hookups during the 2022 Games in Beijing.

Revry, the first global LGBTQ+ network, celebrates 10 Days of Valentine’s Brought To You By McDonald’s, a carefully curated selection of love stories from around the world and across the spectrum.These love stories center a diversity of themes and identities from the Asian American, Muslim, African American, Trans, and other LGBTQ+ communities, and feature stars like Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Morgan Fairchild, Nicole Sullivan, Leslie Jordan, Caroline Rhea, and more.Revry is led by a diverse group of founders, and their entire library with over 5,000 curated LGBTQ+ titles including LGBTQ-focused series, news, and exclusive programming is available on free live TV.You can access Revry’s extensive library on connected TV, Smart TV, OTT, and mobile platforms like Samsung, Vizio, Roku, Apple, and more.Keep scrolling to see the complete lineup for 10 Days of Valentine’s Brought To You By McDonald’s exclusively on Revry. Eat with Me (Tuesday, February 8, at 6:00 p.m. PST)Emma and her estranged gay son face adversity together and use their love of food to connect where words fail. Naz & Malik (Tuesday, February 8, at 6:00 p.m.

Dave Chappelle has urged his supporters ‘not to worry’ about him as he faces backlash and being ‘cancelled’ for his ‘anti-LGBT’ jokes.  Fresh off the back of his Netflix special The Closer, Chappelle, 48, hosted the premiere of his Untitled documentary at Leicester Square’s Cineworld in London on Sunday evening. Stars such as Alesha Dixon, Dizzee Rascal, Love Island’s Josh Denzel and Mike Boateng, Krept & Konan, Ne-Yo, Richard Blackwood and Zeze Millz were in attendance to watch the comedian’s film about his string of stand-up shows that took place in Ohio during the pandemic last year. Chappelle made a special appearance himself at the end of the screening and discussed the events of the past week following the release of his latest

the co-CEO Ted Sarandos’s defense of Dave Chappelle’s stand-up special, The Closer.The comic has been widely criticised by many viewers and LGBTQ+ organisations for defending J.K. Rowling’s views on trans women by declaring that he’s ‘team TERF’, and joked that you should avoid upsetting the community by talking about rapper DaBaby’s remarks about HIV during his set at a music festival.In turn, the trans employee resource group within Netflix is organising a demonstration after Netflix refused to remove the stand-up form its service despite many of its users threatening to boycott.The leader of the group wrote to staff (via The Verge): ‘Trans Lives Matter.

Even though nobody asked her, failed gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner has decided to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle’s transphobic comedy special on Netflix.Yesterday, Jenner took to Twitter to voice her support for the comedian, writing: “Dave Chappelle is 100% right. This isn’t about the LGBTQ movement.

Netflix comedy special, The Closer.Netflix employees staged a walkout last week in protest of the company's support for the comedian and its decision to leave the special on the streaming platform, as well as the treatment of employees who are transgender. In a video posted on Instagram on Monday, Chappelle said he was willing to meet with his critics, but wouldn't be "bending" to their demands.Dave Chappelle is 100% right.

Dave Chappelle is once again expressing defiance after briefly bending to the criticism he received for mocking trans people in his latest Netflix special, resulting in several LGBTQ and civil rights groups issues statements and an employee walkout at Netflix.After a rep for the comic told TMZ last week, “Dave stands by his art: No more jokes about transgenders until we can all laugh together. The streets are talking and Dave is listening.

For the last couple of weeks, the controversy that surrounded the Dave Chappelle comedy special, “The Closer,” seemed positioned as a fight between Netflix and the LGBTQ community, specifically those that work at the streaming service. This is because Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos seemed to be the bad guy, releasing statements that were tone deaf, at best, and insulting/offensive, at worst.

Dave Chappelle responded to the controversy over his Netflix standup special “The Closer” — which has been criticized as promoting bigotry toward transgender people — by posting a five-minute video clip to Instagram on Monday in which he denied that he had been invited to speak to transgender employees of the streaming service and refused. “That is not true,” he said in the video, which was taken during a weekend performance in Nashville.

Netflix employee who was fired for allegedly leaking sensitive information has revealed that they do not want Dave Chappelle's controversial comedy special, The Closer, to be taken down by the streaming giant.Former Netflix program manager B.

The Australian comedian has been embroiled in the Chappelle Netflix controversy and singled out by the stand-up in his response to backlash over his recent special, The Closer.In a new stand-up set, Chappelle said that he will not be "summoned" following criticism for transphobic jokes in Netflix special.The five-minute video, posted to Instagram, shows the 48-year-old comedian speaking to the transgender community directly, saying that he's open to a conversation—but under certain conditions.One of those conditions in a tongue-in-cheek jab at Gadsby who has labeled some of Chappelle's jokes as "hate speech.""And if you want to meet with me, I am more than willing to, but I have some conditions.

Netflix special The Closer.The furor over some of his comments in the stand-up show has been raging for weeks now even prompting a walkout from Netflix employees.In the special, Chappelle declares himself "team TERF" (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and makes a number of transphobic jokes.The comedian has taken to Instagram to address the situation in a video addressed to the transgender community, in which he discusses the criticism of his special and doubles down on his stance."To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me.

Netflix special The Closer.In a five-minute video posted on Instagram, Chappelle revealed the impact that the backlash had on the release of his new documentary, Untitled. Speaking to the transgender community directly, the 48-year-old comedian said he's open to a conversation—but under certain conditions.A post shared by Dave Chappelle (@davechappelle)"I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me.

Dave Chappelle has spoken out about the controversy over his Netflix special "The Closer" in a new stand-up video, saying that he is willing to meet with transgender Netflix employees or other members of the trans community, but won’t bend "to anybody’s demands." In the video, Chappelle remained unapologetic about the special — which was accused of containing transphobic and homophobic remarks and led to a walkout at Netflix — saying: "I said what I said." "It’s been said in the press that I was invited to speak to the transgender employees of Netflix and I refused.That is not true — if they had invited me I would have accepted it, although I am confused about what we would be speaking about," Chappelle said in the video.

Dave Chappelle is opening up about the recent controversy surrounding his Netflix special, .The 48-year-old comedian took to Instagram to share his reaction to the recent protests and Netflix employee walkouts that have occurred since the comments he made in his special. The controversy began when hit Netflix earlier this month.

Dave Chappelle is speaking out about the controversy surrounding his latest comedy special.

Bill Maher has never been shy about expressing some often-unpopular opinions, and he continued that tradition on Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher”.

Wednesday’s walkout, has denied doing so.“It's a very strange position to be in because I never really expected myself to be here,” Pagels-Minor told The Advocate. They said they’re usually helping people from the wings, not being in the thick of it themselves.That’s all changed.The controversy began with Dave Chappelle’s latest special on Netflix, The Closer.

For whatever reason, Jon Stewart has decided to weigh in on the Dave Chappelle Netflix controversy and–surprise!–he’s coming to the transphobic comedian’s defense.“He’s one of my favorite people on the planet,” Stewart told TMZ yesterday, “and he’s just a good, decent… You know, if there is any miscommunication, I’m sure that–I love that dude, like as a person.

Dave Chappelle is willing to talk. After Netflix employees staged a walk-out in reaction to comments in the 48-year-old comedian’s recent special, “The Closer”, his rep tells ET that he is open to speaking to those who work at the streaming giant that are upset by his jokes.

Dave Chappelle is willing to talk. After Netflix employees staged a walk-out in reaction to comments in the 48-year-old comedian's recent special,, his rep tells ET that he is open to speaking to those who work at the streaming giant that are upset by his jokes.«Dave stands by his art. Both sides of the street are talking, and Dave is listening.

THE Umbrella Academy's Elliot Page has shown his support towards Netflix staff who took part in the Stand Up in Solidarity rally on Wednesday in Los Angeles. TV personality Ashlee Marie Preston led the protest after comedian Dave Chappelle made transphobic comments in his latest special The Closer.

stated that he believed the special “doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.”"It is our purpose that we hold these places accountable," says Neverending Nina at the #NetflixWalkout. "How can you house queer narratives, queer movies and all the things that uplift us, but then turn around and provide space to harm us?" https://t.co/OsrDv4QD1O pic.twitter.com/ra6Qb5ogHHIn a statement issued ahead of the protest, a Netflix spokesperson said the company would “respect the decision” of employees who participate in the walkout.

Two weeks after The Closer debuted on Netflix, members of the Netflix employee resource group Trans* and their allies took a “day of rest”.

Two weeks after The Closer debuted on Netflix, members of the Netflix employee resource group Trans* and their allies took a “day of rest”.