Chechnya brothers fleeing anti-LGBTQ+ persecution sentenced to jail

Pop sensation Charli XCX revealed that her newest LP, Crash, was dedicated to Trans icon and close friend SOPHIE. The late Scottish producer had collaborated with her since 2015 and was involved in several of her major projects, such as Vroom and Pop 2. In an interview promoting Crash’s release, the artist stated that SOPHIE […]

letter announcing his veto that while “politically, it would be much easier and better for me to simply sign the bill,” he chose to veto it because he “tried to do what I feel is the right thing regardless of the consequences.”“I believe in fairness and protecting the integrity of women’s sports,” Cox said in his letter. “…Unfortunately, HB11 has several fundamental flaws and should be reconsidered.

The Advocate’s staffers are wrapping our Entertainment issue. But there are distractions. Big ones.The Ukrainian people are fearlessly fighting a Russian invasion ordered by antigay tyrant Vladimir Putin.

Disney employees all over America walked out of work in protest of its response to Florida’s highly controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.

de facto medical intervention.It is also entirely inconsistent with constitutional and legal precedent. As one of us notes in a recent AEI report, the Supreme Court has explained that "our jurisprudence historically has reflected Western civilization concepts of the family as a unit with broad parental authority over minor children." In another case the Court declared that the "primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition." Generally, government officials can't override or even "review such parental decisions." While the courts have recognized limited rights for minors that can supersede parental objections, the Supreme Court has also stated that "the constitutional rights of children cannot be equated with those of adults," due to children's "inability to make critical decisions in an informed, mature manner" and the "importance of the parental role in child rearing." Thus, "Parental notice and consent are qualifications that typically may be imposed...on a minor's right to make important decisions."The dramatic shift away from this traditional moral and constitutional precedent has nothing to do with a dispassionate or scientific analysis of the human good.

Actrice en presentatrice Raven-Symoneneacute; en de andere castleden van serie Ravenenrsquo;s Home hebben dinsdag het werk neergelegd in protest tegen de omstreden enlsquo;Donenrsquo;t Say Gayenrsquo;-wetgeving in Florida.

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BANGKOK: Thailand has issued rules to ban digital assets from being used to pay for goods and services from Apr 1, the market regulator said on Wednesday (Mar 23).

Cassie Randolph is opening up about her ex-boyfriend Colton Underwood.

via surrogate in November 2018, in addition to Dwyane's three kids — Zaire, 20; Zaya, 14; and Xavier, 8 — from previous relationships, and his 20-year-old nephew, Dahveon.I could not agree more.Anywho."Now it's our job to one, go out and get information, to reach out to every relationship that we have," Dwyane told Ellen DeGeneres in 2020. "My wife reached out to everybody on the cast of Pose.

Gabrielle Union admits she's a "daily" BuzzFeed reader. "I'm into all of it," Gabrielle told me during a recent Zoom call to discuss her latest movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, now streaming on Disney+. "This was a real treat," she said by the end of our interview. So, now’s your turn.

Note: This post contains mentions of suicide.A woman holds a poster of Britney Spears with her mouth taped shut as fans and supporters gather outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 2021.For most of Britney Spears' 13-year conservatorship, almost no one was saying "Free Britney."Until a couple years ago, the common line of thinking was that placing the pop icon under a conservatorship in 2008 saved not only her career, but also her life. Only Spears' most devoted fans (or "stans") rang the alarm that perhaps she was being exploited, discussing the possibility in online forums between debates about the hidden gems in Spears' consequential discography (my two cents: 2011's "How I Roll" is fizzy perfection).In 2020, though, something shifted.

this year's nominees. Tennis parents, Shakespearean murderers, Irish pops and grans, gay cowboys, and The Ricardos are all in the mix. And while this year will potentially be a return to form after last year's scaled-back ceremony, there could still be plenty of firsts. For starters, there are 10 Best Picture contenders for the first time in a while, and eight categories being punted to the commercial breaks.

Lily Collins arrives for an early morning interview at CBS Studios in New York City on Tuesday (March 22).

Gallery: ‘It's been my passion, but I didn’t have the feet. ' Did you know these stars all trained in ballet? (BANG Showbiz)The 'Emily in Paris' star explained that she was treated the same as her co-stars. She told 'CBS Mornings': "He treats everyone the same, and there were very few of us in the cast so we all had a very intimate, collaborative experience that sometimes I would forget that it was my Charlie as opposed to Charlie-my-director.

Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York — which to this day still provides comprehensive services for LGBTQ+ youth — I would not have known about the medical care I was able to receive from the Montefiore Medical Center’s Adolescent AIDS Program in the Bronx. I will always be grateful to Dr.

Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have barred young transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports, becoming the second Republican governor in two days to reject such legislation. Republican legislators, however, plan to override the veto on Friday, State Senator J.

Obergefell v. Hodges, the historic LGBTQ rights victory that secured marriage rights in all 50 states, at Jackson’s confirmation hearing today.

Lauren Pazienza, a 26-year-old events planner from Queens, has turned herself in to authorities in the shoving death of 87-year-old vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern in NYC's Chelsea neighborhood earlier this month.

Lil Nas X returned to social media last week after taking a three month break, and he wasted no time getting down to the business of thirst.“I’m so happy i’m back on the internet. I missed me so much,” the 22-year-old musician joked.i’m so happy i’m back on the internet.

Associated Press 03/22/2022 04:45 PM EDT Link CopiedSALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a ban on transgender students playing girls’ sports on Tuesday, becoming the second Republican governor to overrule state lawmakers who have taken on youth sports in a broader culture war over how Americans view gender and sexuality.Cox joins Indiana Gov.

After Cassie Randolph surprised fans with an appearance on the Bachelor season finale earlier this month, she joined Kaitlyn Bristowe for a candid interview about her reality past — and her off-camera future.

did so on Monday.Cox said in a letter to the Republican leaders of the state Senate and House explaining his veto that he believed the bill was changed too much in the final hours before the vote without necessary input from the public."Finally, there is one more important reason for this veto," Cox wrote toward the end of his letter. "I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism.

Kelly Clarkson has set the record straight on the news that she planned to change her name. The singer had reportedly filed documents in February to legally change her name, 20 years after she first found fame on American Idol. PHOTOS: Inside Kelly Clarkson's jaw-dropping $5.4m LA mega-mansion She has been requesting to be known legally as Kelly Brianne, her first and middle names.

Five Rings to Rule Them All podcast, where she expressed a wish to have seen her name on Outsports’ list of out Olympians. “That article came out, and I was scrolling all the way to the rugby section and I was hoping I was on this list,” she said. “That would be easy.

It’s been a challenging couple of weeks for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Lingering side effects from a COVID-19 breakthrough infection earlier this year have caused her to cancel several public appearances as she continues to recover from the virus.“It’s taken three weeks and still can’t get shot of it,” Camilla, who is triple vaccinated, told Hello! earlier this month. “Probably my voice might suddenly go, and I might start coughing and spluttering.”So that sucks.

Pour a tall cosmopolitan, kids, because HBO Max just announced And Just Like That will return for Season 2.And Just Like That continues the story of Sex and the City, catching up with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her friends more than 15 years after the original series ended. The first season of the show snagged large ratings for HBO Max, with the streamer labeling it the platform’s most successful show to date.Critics and audiences, however, felt differently.Related: All the backstage drama that made us wonder, is ‘And Just Like That’ actually cursed?The series invited wide backlash even before filming began with the announcement that the popular character Samantha (played in Sex and the City by Kim Cattrall) would not appear in the show.

Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana vetoed a bill on Monday that would have banned transgender girls from competing in school-sanctioned girls’ sports, taking a sharply different approach to the issue than 11 fellow Republican governors who have signed similar measures into law in recent years. Mr.

‘Female Force: Dolly Parton 2 The Sequel.’ (Images courtesy TidalWave Comics)

actor Steven Seagal continues to grow. Newly unearthed audio recordings feature the 67-year-old actor boasting about working for the CIA.

Obergefell v. Hodges decision created a new right that is not in the U.S.

In an interview with the Sunday World, Trans actress Rebecca Root spoke about how playing one of the protagonists in BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl changed her life completely. Before that role, she said, finding work in the entertainment industry had been a struggle. Rebecca Root is a British Trans actor with Irish heritage, […]

Jonathan Bennett, best known as the male lead in Mean Girls, married his long-term partner in a beautiful beachside ceremony at the Union Riviera Maya Hotel in Mexico. He got engaged to his now-husband, TV host Jaymes Vaughan, in 2020 during a beautiful proposal captured on Instagram in which Bennett admits he “ugly cried”. The […]

study conducted by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has revealed the staggering impact the swath of new and proposed laws banning trans youth from receiving gender-confirming medical care will have if passed. Specifically, more than one-third of trans youth in America — 58,200 of an estimated 150,000 kids aged 13 to 17 — are currently at risk of losing access to life-saving care.As of March 2022, 15 states have either banned access to or are considering laws that would restrict or prevent trans and non-binary youths from receiving gender-affirming care.In 2021, the Arkansas legislature put a ban in place on gender-affirming care impacting nearly 1,500 trans youths in the state.

On March 7, the Court of Rome in Italy recognised a person’s gender identity as non-binary for the first time in the history of the country. The sentence is of utmost importance, as it sets a historic precedent and paves the way for the future of non-binary people’s rights in Italy. The ruling comes after […]

Gay Project has announced that they are launching the first-ever Drag School in Ireland. The 10-week course was created in partnership with Cork Pride, Cork ETB, and St.

Ruthie Berman was in her 40s when she kissed her best friend, Connie Kurtz, for the first time. This was the 1970s, both married to men, both mothers, both members of the same, small Jewish community in Brooklyn. But Berman felt something she realized she'd never felt before: she was falling head-over-heels in love.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been slammed after she mocked a typo issued by South Wales police official Twitter account following a homophobic killing in Cardiff last year.The best-selling children's author, 56, mocked the police department which saw them mistake virtue signalling for "virtual signalling" in error.In view of her 13.9 million Twitter followers, Rowling pointed out the error in a recent tweet, which was met with fury from social media users."Like virtue signalling, but for people who aren’t really a***d."The author's post comes after the Welsh police department shared their LGBT+ outreach efforts near the site of a homophobic hate crime.Following Rowling's post, social media users flocked to the comments to weigh in on her tweet.@gracepetrie replied: "I don’t want to assume that this tweet is as badly motivated as it seems, so could you clarify that you’re not actually mocking the police for promoting the safety of the LGBT community in an area where a man was recently homophobically murdered."@AlGordon1980 added: "As a writer, do you do any research or is it just whatever falls out of your head first?"However, @RyanSpires8 fired back: "And how would she have known about the link to the Bute Park incident from the initial tweet? She was responding to it at face value like most of us do! As always people are using 'reaching' techniques to concoct faux outrage." (sic)While @CeilNoyle replied to the author: "Not that you'll care, and not that anyone should have to justify anything to you, but here's the context.""Virtual signalling.

Mykki Blanco first burst onto the scene just over a decade ago, they’ve added exciting elements of artistry and anarchy to the world of hip hop. Throughout their career, Blanco been open about their sexuality, gender identity journey, and about living with HIV. And through the years, watching this uniquely brilliant artist grow and evolve has been fascinating to behold.That evolution continues with Blanco’s latest single and video, Family Ties, which released today.

a photo of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas went viral. In it, a smiling Thomas stands on a podium, having won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division I Championship. Her opponents—all biologically female—stand together on the other end in what many interpret as a show of solidarity.The photo was like a Rorschach test: To some, it symbolized a grave injustice to girls' and women's sports.

Ron DeSantis is refusing to recognize transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' NCAA win last week and said the state is choosing to honor runner-up and Sarasota-native Emma Weyant as the winner of the 500-yard freestyle instead.On Tuesday, the governor issued a proclamation declaring Weyant as the "rightful winner" of the race, saying that the NCAA's decision to allow the University of Pennsylvania's Thomas to compete and win "erode opportunities for women athletes and perpetuate a fraud against women athletes."Thomas made history on Thursday as the first known transgender athlete to win a division one national championship after beating Weyant by 1.75 seconds.Weyant, who is a freshman at the University of Virginia, swam her fastest career time during the championship and the third-fastest time in UVA history, according to the college."By allowing men to compete in women's sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud," DeSantis tweeted.

There’s more to the Midwest than cold winters and deep-dish pizza. Take Michigan for example. Among its beautiful beaches, and rolling sand dunes, you’ll find a hidden gem—Saugatuck.Tucked away on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, you’ll find this little “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” city boasting a population of around 800 people.

Using homophobic slurs and dropping “gay” as an insult is never OK, even in the case of tyrannical world leaders.Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia President Vladimir Putin has drawn condemnation from leaders around the globe. U.S.

Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas, speaks at a rally protesting Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-trans directive to DFPS. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

Kevin Spacey can’t seem to catch a break. A New York judge just ruled that sealed depositions in an arbitration suit related to the actor’s behavior on the House of Cards set are fair game in an ongoing sexual assault lawsuit against him.The two-time Oscar-winner saw his career crumble in 2017 when a series of former co-stars, students, and associates accused him of sexual misconduct.

The planned full day walkout at Disney today over the company’s fumbled response to Florida’s discrimatory “Don’t Say Gay” bill has seen an outpouring of support for the  LGBTQ+ community from some leading divisions in the House of Mouse’s empire

Disney's woes, Rachel Zegler has publicly expressed her disappointment that she wasn't invited to attend the Oscars, despite playing the lead in the nominated movie West Side Story.In an effort to quell the backlash it faced for the lack of response to Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill, Disney+ issued a public statement on Tuesday confirming it stands by its LGBTQIA+ employees, colleagues, families, storytellers and fans.All of this comes just a few days before the 94th Academy Awards, which is hosted on the Disney-owned network ABC. Between the likes of West Side Story, Nightmare Alley, Encanto and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Walt Disney Company has 23 nominations this year.The Disney Do Better Walkout issued a public letter explaining its reasons for being frustrated with the company.

A local Chechen court on Tuesday jailed queer siblings Salekh Magamadov (21) and Ismail Isaev (19) to almost a decade behind bars after finding them guilty of “complicity with illegal armed formations”.The siblings had first come to the notice of authorities in 2019 after an officer found an LGBTQI Pride flag on Ismail’s phone. Chechen authorities had detained Salekh and Ismail last year, after the siblings tried to flee persecution. “Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev must be immediately and unconditionally released,” said Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, in a statement released prior to the sentencing.