Celebrated Figures We Have Lost In 2022 — So Far

“There was a lot of genuineness in our show, a chemistry that was unmistakable and real,” says Barry Williams. “We had these soft messages to share with our audiences. And I think they stuck.”Williams is talking about his years as Greg, the eldest of the Brady siblings on the classic sitcom, The Brady Bunch, which ran for five seasons on ABC, from 1969 to 1975.

Performing as part of the unmissable Lesbian Lives Conference, poet Julie Goo shares how the Irish language has helped her work reach new depths and how poetry helps her make sense of things. Born and bred in Cork City, Julie Goo has always been involved in the arts in some shape, but for an art […]

Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to suggest the threat of violence is "exactly how we need to stand up" against trans and non-binary people in society.Speaking on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars show on February 20, Greene criticized reports that biologically male counselors who use they/them pronouns at a science camp in California shared a cabin with fifth-grade girls, as well as transgender woman competing in sporting events.Greene described the reports that the non-binary counselors at the Camp Pali in San Bernardino slept in the same cabin as the school girls as "evil" before suggesting her husband would have attacked the counselors if her children were at the camp."First off, if I was a parent and my fifth-grade daughter had to sleep and showered in some kind of cabin at some summer camp that I paid money to send my child to, and there was a man calling himself a woman sleeping in her cabin, showering with her, that guy would, he'd be in jail. He would be in jail," Greene said."Well, first off, my husband would've beat him into the ground, and then he'd be in jail.

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, compared medical procedures for young transgender people to “child abuse”.

Rachel Green is easily one of the most-referenced nineties beauty muses. From the earlier seasons’ layered cut that’s still nicknamed “The Rachel” to the long, sleek style of the early noughties, Jennifer Aniston’s was a head of hair that many women wanted to channel – and arguably still do. So it’s really no surprise that last year’s Love Island winner Millie Court seemed to channel Rachel on the red carpet this week.The 25 year old attended the ASOS Beauty Awards with a layered shaggy hairdo that was very reminiscent of the signature style of Jen An’s most famous character.

The global LGBTQ+ community has been reacting to the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow initially launched the attack under the guise of a peacekeeping mission, but today, Thursday, February 24, it has been confirmed that this is “a full-scale invasion”. Speaking on Russian TV, Putin declared that any allies of Ukraine who interfere with the […]

Members of Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community are fearful of what the future may hold for them if Russia takes over the country.

Rising British-Asian queer creative Seeva has released his emotional new single Twenty-Two from his upcoming EP Afterthoughts.

Spiderman actor Tom Holland disagree about whether superhero movies are "real cinema," "real art." Scorsese says they aren't. Holland says they are.No matter who's right, the First Amendment ensures Scorsese and Holland can follow their own lead. Scorsese can direct The Irishman over Spiderman.

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Greg Abbott, signed a letter stating that a number of gender-affirming procedures in children are considered to be child abuse under Texas law.In a letter signed on Tuesday, Abbott told Jaime Masters, commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, that the state's Office of the Attorney General held the opinion that "a number of so-called 'sex change' procedures constitute child abuse under existing Texas law."Abbott then directed the department to "conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas."The White House criticized the move, with a spokesperson describing it as an "attack on loving parents who seek medical care for their transgender children," according to a statement to ABC News.The Texas Family Code defines a "child" as a person under the age of 18.Gender-affirming care is a wide umbrella term referring to medical or social care designed to help affirm someone's gender identity—their internal experience of gender as a male, female, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to decline and warm weather starts to peek through the wintry gray, promising flashes of normal life have begun to reappear in New York City. On Staten Island, that means the return of the local St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Gemma Collins stepped out in style to attend her friend’s brunch event, wearing a figure-hugging outfit and embracing her weight loss and natural beauty with little to no makeup as she supported her pal.The reality television star looked incredible as she attended the Women's Health Wellness Brunch in London.The event was hosted by actress and former Hollyoaks star Davinia Taylor in celebration of her wellness journey. Taylor, who played Jude Cunningham in the long-running soap, became an advocate for healthy living when she found sobriety after being “extremely unhealthy, near death unhealthy".At the brunch, Gemma wore her signature blonde locks in a smooth blow dry as they cascaded down her shoulders and framed her face.

MrMan's latest crush is athletic and muscular and has long locks and a beard that make him look like a romance novel coverman. We are talking about the incredibly sexy Brock O’Hurn ...

It seems bizarre to carry on while the largest war action in Europe since WWII is underway. But I suppose there is nothing else to do. Here is a sweet piece of escapism.

Steve Bannon, former advisor to ex-President Donald Trump, said Americans should support "anti-woke" Russian President Vladimir Putin because of Putin's long history of anti-LGBTQ politics.Bannon praised Putin several hours before the Russian leader launched an invasion of Ukraine. His commendation followed accolades for Putin from Trump and other conservatives."Putin ain't woke.

Why is it so difficult to find the best lesbian movies? Historically, portrayals of lesbians and same-sex relationships in American films were extremely limited due to the Hays Code. The Hays Code, enacted in response to the wild and roaring 20s, was a set of moral standards dictating what was appropriate and inappropriate to show in movies. These rules censored everything from nudity and profanity to inferences of sexual “perversion” and portrayals of interracial relationships.

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Cody Lynch, pictured left, special events coordinator for Legacy Cares, accepted a $1,300 donation from Snooze A.M. Eatery’s assistant manager Ayanna Moore today (Wednesday, Feb. 23) on behalf of Legacy.

Troye Sivan is one talented dude (to put it mildly). So we caught up with him ahead of the release of his new movie Three Months — where he plays a rebel teen, Caleb, who is exposed to HIV and has to wait through the summer to find out his results."Unfortunately, look at my phone. I put it on the other side of the room so that I don't, but then I just get up and walk to it.""I went through two phases — both are absolute trash, by the way.

A brand new LGBT+ Music Festival is coming to Portugal this summer from July 1st-3rd 2022. Put together by the Apollon Group in partnership with MTV and Attitude Magazine, the festival will be 72 hours of non-stop fun honoring the LGBT+ community.

federal officials recently visited sites across the Mississippi Delta associated with Emmett Till’s life and death to gather local input on the creation of a national park dedicated to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. He should not be forgotten.The initial federal hate-crimes legislation was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson as far back as 1968; yet there was little execution of the law since it had many loopholes, and many states and municipalities were unwilling to bring hate-crimes charges, some because the charges can be difficult to prove, and for others a glaring lack of interest in pursuing them.In 2009, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

Gov. Greg Abbott told state health agencies in Texas on Tuesday that medical treatments provided to transgender adolescents, widely considered to be the standard of care in medicine, should be classified as “child abuse” under existing state law. His statements, made in a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, followed an opinion on Friday by Attorney General Ken Paxton that said providing medical treatments like puberty-suppressing drugs and hormones to transgender teenagers should be investigated as child abuse.

Greg Abbott has become the target of death threats on social media as news of his order to have the parents of trans children investigated for child abuse hit the trending page of Twitter, prompting an outcry from users.A Tuesday letter sent from Abbott to the state's Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), saw the Republican governor demand that the agency look into parents who have supported gender-affirming procedures for their children.The letter read that reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers and hormone treatments violated state law and amounted to "child abuse," adding that doctors, nurses, and teachers held a responsibility to report parents who violate this law.Outrage around this measure sparked violate comments from Twitter users, with one person stating "[I] will personally beat [G]reg [A]bbot to death. [I] do not care that [I] live in a different country [I] will personally fly to [T]exas and beat the ever loving s**t out of him."i will personally beat greg abbot to deathi do not care that i live in a different country i will personally fly to texas and beat the ever loving shit out of himA separate user tweeted, "'Vote out Greg Abbott!' b**ch we need to KILL him." Another user wrote, "[M]fs in [T]exas are so stupid, all u gotta do is kill Greg Abbott." Other tweets, including one where a user wrote "I'm going to kill the governor of Texas" have since been taken down."Vote out Greg Abbott!" bitch we need to KILL him.mfs in texas are so stupid, all u gotta do is kill greg abbottThough actual surgery is rarely used, some trans children do use puberty blockers, a measure that medical professionals report to be "completely reversible," The Texas Tribune wrote.

The Courier-Journal of Louisville reports. Herron, like Meeks a Democrat, beat Republican Judy Martin Stallard by 1,959 votes to 119 in the Louisville-based district. She will be sworn in shortly.Herron was previously a policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorTroye Sivan remembers that first time he got tested for HIV. “I was in a new relationship and I wanted to have sex,” he recalls on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “We both went and got tested and once we were all clear, it was all good to go.”He also remembers learning about the virus that causes AIDS while growing up in Australia.

Joe Tom Easley, the gay rights activist and lawyer who worked to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and whose 2003 wedding was among the first same-sex unions announced in The New York Times, died on Feb. 13 at a hospital in Miami Beach. He was 81.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week approved putting a charter amendment on the June ballot that would change the rules for the city recall elections. We think the proposal is undemocratic in principle, particularly because, in the event that an officeholder is recalled, the candidates appointed by the mayor would be prohibited from running for the seat themselves in the next election.District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin came up with the proposed amendment.

South Los Angeles resident Jamaal Gulledge is aiming to be California's first gay Black state senator. But the first-time candidate faces an uphill climb in raising enough money to get his name and message out to voters.Gulledge is seeking the open 28th Senate District seat that represents West and South Los Angeles as well as Culver City, Mar Vista, Palms, and Ladera Heights.

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases rose in San Francisco in 2021, according to a year-end report released by the city's Department of Public Health.Dr. Stephanie Cohen, a straight ally who is the medical director of DPH's City Clinic in the South of Market neighborhood, told the Bay Area Reporter that "the impact of COVID-19 on sexual health services" led to statistics that were probably lower than the real rate of community infections."In 2021, we fortunately saw an increase in engagement with sexual health services," Cohen said.

Ryan Murphy and director Andrew Rossi have teamed up to create an intimate six-part series for Netflix about the life of Andy Warhol, using the iconic pop artist’s own posthumously published diaries.Per Netflix:Beginning with his childhood in Pittsburgh, the series traces Warhol’s almost unbelievably diverse journey fluidly moving between mediums and through eras as an artist —both revered and reviled — director, publisher, TV producer, scene maker, celebrity and much more. While he was a larger than life figure, Warhol was intensely private regarding his personal life.

Rosie O’Donnell has issued an apology for her first attempt at apologizing to Priyanka Chopra following an awkward encounter with her and her husband Nick Jonas.O’Donnell initially posted a TikTok video over the weekend, recounting her run-in with Chopra and Jonas at Nobu restaurant in Malibu.In that first post, the comedian said embarrassed herself (and her son, his girlfriend, and Fran Drescher) when she approached the famous couple for a chat.O’Donnell explained: “I just embarrassed my son and his girlfriend Theresa and Fran Drescher because seated next to us in Malibu Nobu was Nick Jonas and his wife, someone Chopra.“Which I always assumed was Deepak Chopra’s daughter, so when I said ‘hi Nick Jonas you were great in Kingdom and hi I know your dad’, she goes ‘you do? Who’s my dad?’“I said Deepak, and she said ‘no and Chopra is a common name.’ I felt so embarrassed, didn’t you think Nick Jonas was married to Deepak Chopra’s daughter, am I the only one who thought that?“To Nick Jonas I apologize, and to the Chopra wife, I apologize too.”nick jonas at nobu #sunday ? original sound – Rosie ODonnell Comments started pouring in criticizing O’Donnell for referring to Priyanka as both “someone Chopra” and “the Chopra wife,” which prompted O’Donnell to post a followup video.In the second video, she said: “Good morning everybody, I was reading the comments about Nick Jonas and his wife Priyanka Chopra, who I mistakenly thought was Deepak’s daughter, and people thought she was rude, she wasn’t rude it was just awkward.“I’m sure she gets sick of that, I’m sure I’m not the only one.

For the first time, U.S. regulators have officially authorized a condom to be used for anal sex, not just vaginal sex. The decision, announced by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, has long been sought by sexual health experts, who said it could encourage more people who engage in anal sex to use condoms to protect themselves against H.I.V.

Getting to Zero Activist Academy will host a symposium to provide education about the national movement to decriminalize sex work entitled, “Decrimpact” on Saturday, February 26 from 11am-2:30 p.m. ET.

A post shared by Priyanjul Johari • // (@141.269)As Bollywood continues to follow Hollywood’s trend toward embracing more queer-inclusive stories, a gay Indian couple has taken to the internet to describe their harrowing experience seeing a new romantic comedy.Badhai Do has secured strong buzz thanks to its inclusion of LGBTQ characters. The film tells the story of a so-called “lavender wedding,” that is, a marriage between a lesbian and gay man for the purposes of social acceptance and obligation.So far, the movie has earned praise for the performances of its two leads, Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar, as well as for its blending of drama and humor.Boyfriends Agniva and Priyanjul Johari decided to see the film together, but they ended up having an experience they didn’t expect.

That’s a rhetorical question, but you’ll be able to answer it if you join more than 2000 guys and girls at the 20th anniversary of Elevation Mammoth Gay Ski Week from March 16-20th, 2022.  You’ll have fun (read: sexy, silly, adventurous fun in the outdoors and indoors) figuring out the answer.  After all, Daddies are “in” right now.Speaking of Daddies, LA event producer Tom Whitman put his love of producing big gay events together with his lifelong love of skiing and snowboarding and remixed the two to create the first Elevation in Mammoth exactly two decades ago.  Since then, he has added Elevation Utah and Elevation Tremblant to the family.  (Breaking news…he’s thinking about adding another location next year.  Keep it on the DL…or not.)Mammoth is one of our favorite mountains in the US, for a lot of reasons, but partially because size does matter, no matter what anyone tells you.  As Ski Magazine said in 2022 “Mammoth Mountain is BIG…hosting an amazing range of terrain and snow, Mammoth aims to please skiers of all types…it’s no surprise it earns the #3 spot for Terrain.”Almost as large as Mammoth, the Elevation Utah event has grown incredibly over the last 12 years, and takes Park City by gay storm each February.  The baby sister of the family, Elevation Tremblant, is on a timeout this year due to COVID, but we look forward to her return in 2023.The Elevation Gay Ski Weeks have become the gold standard of gay getaways, and are now the largest series of gay ski events in the world.  Their legendary status is due, in large part, to Whitman’s uncanny ability to be always dependable but never predictable.Whether you attend Elevation Mammoth (the friendly Cal-centric snowboarder and ski-bro heaven with bluebird spring

Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and Attorney General Ken Paxton

A woman in New York City who has no detectable HIV after undergoing a new type of stem cell transplant may represent another rare cure, researchers reported February 15 at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.The woman, who has leukemia, received a combination of umbilical cord blood cells with a rare mutation that blocks HIV entry and partially matched adult stem cells from a relative. She stopped antiretroviral therapy three years after the transplant, and 14 months later her viral load remains undetectable.

A court has stopped, for now, Russia's attempt to shut down the parent organization to the country's largest LGBTQ organization.Russia's Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit February 8 against the Sphere Foundation, the parent organization of the Russian LGBT Network, in the Kuibyshev Court of St. Petersburg, according to the St.

The Seattle Times reports.Fahlberg had returned to his hometown of Spokane from London after the death of his husband, Michael Rittiman, from cancer in 2018. Fahlberg had lived in Europe for 17 years.When he joined Amazon, he told the Times, “I literally got, ‘Here’s your computer, do your job.’ From the very beginning, it was a very negative experience.”He tried befriending his supervisor, a woman who was new in Spokane.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFritz Peters, a post-WWII literary heavyweight and unsung LGBTQ icon, will see his work adapted into feature films and repopulated on bookshelves.Production label Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment has acquired movie and publishing rights to novels and memoirs by Peters, who lived as a commercial author beloved by glitterati like Gore Vidal. His work included themes of mental illness, homosexuality and spiritual growth in the ’50s and ’60s.

Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzelsperger says that an organised collective coming out of gay footballers could help ‘take the pressure off’ individuals.Ex-Germany international Hitzelsperger came out as gay after ending his playing career in 2013 following a short stint with Everton, and his idea has been inspired by a similar movement in the Catholic Church in Germany.The #OutInChurch movement saw 125 priests, religious personnel and other staff members come out as a group last week, in a move designed to allow each individual to make their sexuality clear in public without having to deal with the pressure and media scrutiny of doing so alone.Hitzelsperger was 31 when he told he the world about his sexuality, having been advised against doing so when he originally wanted to as a Wolfsburg player a couple of years previously. In doing so, Hitzelsperger became the first German player and first former Premier League player to come out.In 2014, Hitzelsperger said: ‘It really helped me to see that other professional sports people were acknowledging their sexuality.

Gemma Collins appeared fresh-faced as she displayed her makeup free complexion at an event, after the star received praise for her recent self-harm documentary.The former TOWIE star, 41, wore a black jumper with frilled sleeves and leggings as she attended a wellness brunch on Wednesday with former Hollyoaks actress Davinia Taylor and other celebs. Gemma arrived at the event with a pair of dark, oversized sunglasses but soon took them off to reveal a make-up free look.

Netflix series The Andy Warhol Diaries sets out to illuminate the man behind the mystery through interviews with friends, collaborators, fans, and by means of his own words from his diaries.The series comes from executive producer Ryan Murphy and director Andrew Rossi. “This breathtakingly expansive, six-part portrait of a legend chronicles the remarkable life of Andy Warhol from the intimate vantage point offered by the artist’s own posthumously published diaries.

A Non-Agency, which describes itself on LinkedIn as "a curated creative collective consultancy of technology, content, fabrication, audio & visual, spatial and experiential design entrepreneurs."The company is hosting a "Palm Springs escape" in California this March. A Non-Agency's second showroom social (following a sucessful 2021 launch of the concept in Miami, Florida), the event provides travelers a unique comingling  opportunity with a curated group of some of the hottest local designers, artists, craftspeople, and wellness experts.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed state agencies to carry out investigations into the use of gender-affirming care for transgender youth, following an opinion issued last Friday from the state attorney general that the treatments constitute a form of “child abuse.”The Republican governor referenced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s opinion, which states gender-affirming treatments like gender reassignment surgery and puberty-blocking meds “can legally constitute child abuse under several provisions” of state law, in a letter sent Tuesday to the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).The agency, Abbott wrote in his letter, “is responsible for protecting children from abuse.” In a tweet, he added that it will “refer for prosecution any such abuse.”A spokesperson for the DFPS told the Dallas Morning News that it “will follow Texas law as explained [by Paxton’s opinion].”Abbott added that doctors, nurses, teachers and the general public are obliged to report such “child abuse,” and that failure to do so is a punishable crime.The move is the latest attack on trans youth in Texas. Last October, Abbott signed a law banning transgender girls from playing on female sports teams in public schools.

On the heels of the news that she’s been fired from her own talk show, embattled TV host Wendy Williams is reportedly considering legal action as a result of producers replacing her. On top of that, her publicist is raising questions about whether the TV icon is in control of her own social media accounts.Thus far, 2022 has not been kind to Williams.

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