David Archuleta talks of struggle to replace feelings of shame with pride

Sean Cody star and gay adult film performer Randy aka Jason Pacheco has died at the age of 33, days after he told fans that he had been hospitalised for kidney problems, reported Queerty. A fan favourite, Randy was one of the most prolific performers for Sean Cody, having reportedly filmed over 53 gay sex scenes for the studio. Randy joined the studio in 2013  after responding to a Craigslist ad offering $2,000 for a solo film. In a 2018 interview, Randy, who was straight, said he was initially “nervous” filming the gay sex scenes. “But then, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

Het hoofd van de informatiecommissie van het Russische parlement stelt een algeheel verbod voor op de verspreiding van enlsquo;homopropagandaenrsquo;, ongeacht de leeftijd van de doelgroep. In Rusland is een wetswijziging in de maak die openlijk spreken en schrijven over homoseksualiteit voor alle doelgroepen verbiedt.

In the theater news of the week, Lea Michele has been announced to take over the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on Broadway this September. Lord, help that cast and crew.From Glee to Spring Awakening to The Mayor to Scream Queens, the actress has seemingly made enemies in nearly every production she’s ever been a part of.We all remember when her Glee co-star Samantha Ware aired the star’s awful behavior to the world in 2020 — including her threatening to “sh*t in [Samantha’s] wig” — and how name after name subsequently came out to share their own horror stories with Michele.Apparently, the casting team over at Funny Girl didn’t remember quite as well.As Michele’s curtain open draws nearer, here are five celebs who definitely won’t be seeing her Funny Girl debut:Ware shared the story that finally broke the dam on the open secret of her co-star’s Diva-dom.

By Tommaso ArmstrongSocial platforms and dating apps play a large part in the modern queer experience. They’re spaces where we queer people can interact with friends, express ourselves, meet new people and connect to the community.

What Is a Woman? that has been making the social media rounds. Walsh recently tweeted in disgust at singer Macy Gray for walking back the harmful comments about trans women in a recent interview with Piers Morgan. After initially suggesting that trans women aren’t women in her in that interview, Gray has since said that trans women are who they are.“I think it takes a lot of courage to be yourself, to go out in the world and be honest about who you are.

3 million people without electricity.Curran suggested there was a deep connection between Hurricane Maria and Pulse that “hit on a very similar wound,” noting that similar communities were impacted by the events and there was a great deal of neglect in the wake of both tragedies. Feliciano echoed this similarity through her instinct to help out when her community is in need that was activated during both events.

Bridgerton‘s Jonathan Bailey will be joining the previously announced Matt Bomer in the upcoming historical fiction miniseries, Fellow Travelers.But wait, there’s more: The two hunky gay actors will be playing lovers! All aboard!Truly, we’re sold on that information alone, but Fellow Travelers sounds like a fascinating story—one with an unfortunate relevance to today’s world.Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are going to play lovers in a new Showtime series…I am going to need so much time to mentally, emotionally, and spiritually prepare for THAThttps://t.co/ZmeMJpnnlx pic.twitter.com/TFsUO052qQ— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) July 11, 2022Adapted from author Thomas Mallon’s 2008 novel of the same name, the series is described as both a “love story and political thriller” set in 1950s Washington, D.C. Bomer stars as Hawkins Fuller, a charismatic political operative who largely keeps to himself.

Thania Garcia Bad Bunny’s latest release tops the Billboard 200 album chart for the second week in a row, and earns its fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 overall. More impressive that that, perhaps, though, is the fact that “Un Verano Sin Ti” has now become the first album in six years to rack up more than 100,000 equivalent album units in each of its first nine weeks of release.The last album to score at least 100,000 units for this many weeks right out of the box? Drake’s 2016 release “Views,” which managed that many for its first 10 weeks… a mark Bad Bunny could well surpass with just a couple more weeks of massive consumption.For the week ending July 7, “Un Verano Sin Ti” earned 111,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., down just a very modest 4% from the week before, according to Billboard via Luminate.

Georgia Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker has an impressive list of accomplishments. The Heisman Trophy-winning former pro football player is also an experienced mixed martial artist, and he even competed as an Olympic bobsledder in the ’92 Games.

It seems like the closet is part of the job description for many teachers–even outside the “Don’t Say Gay” wasteland of the U.S. school system.A Catholic school Drama teacher in Perth, Australia found himself as a subject in a viral game of “Guess Who” that cost him his job.The TikTok series in question featured “clues” in each video to indicate who they were about; one such video included the coat of arms for this teacher’s school, the “comedy and tragedy” theater masks, and a muscled torso next to a Pride flag.Related: This gay high school music teacher was blackmailed and outed; his school responded horribly“I was victim to students making a TikTok about me that effectively was outing me,” the teacher explains to The West Australian.“Being gay and working in a Catholic school, the scriptures and the Church believe homosexuality is wrong and that teachers may be dismissed from their role due to religious grounds.”The official statement from a Catholic Education West Australia spokesperson failed to address this specific situation, though they assured that “the safety and well being of all students and staff are central to our processes and practices.”“Appropriate online behaviour continues to be an educational and pastoral focus with clear policies and procedures if student conduct does not meet the high standards expected,” the statement continued.That being said, it’s unclear whether this instance of publicly outing a teacher is even being investigated.Related: A teacher was fired for helping a bullied, queer teen. Now his students are raising hell.Queer teachers in the United States are currently facing similar roadblocks, even in completely secular public schools, with multiple accounts of teachers being

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Some revelations that emerged: Workplace TV is back in a big way, scammer shows are here to stay (and we're choosing to find peace in that), and intergenerational trauma is great fodder for comedies, docuseries, and sweeping, dramatic epics alike. As for which streamers we championed most? There was Peacock, with its string of exceptional, underrated comedies, Apple TV+ with its expensive-looking, Emmys-bound dramas, and Paramount+ with its reality TV. However, it was HBO Max and Hulu that ultimately landed the most spots for the first half of 2022.

A transgender man in Ohio says he was using the women’s restroom in a Preble County campground—which he was advised to do because he was assigned female at birth—when a group of men savagely beat him and was later arrested.

Emily Longeretta Since the Season 24 premiere of “Big Brother,” both fans and former contestants on the CBS reality show have come forward, speaking out against the treatment of Taylor Hale by other houseguests.Many members of Season 23’s “The Cookout” alliance — the first all-Black alliance to make it to the final six — took to Twitter to share their disgust over the multiple comments made behind Hale’s back by Paloma Aguilar and other houseguests. Hale has been referred to as “aggressive,” and some have assumed she will have a temper tantrum if she doesn’t get her away.

WABC reports. The station bleeped out the specific slurs.“The men were just infuriated with my existence,” Vuitton said. One of them, he said, picked up a long stick and began swinging it at them.

After narrowly winning the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania Senate during a hard-fought primary, Mehmet Oz’s campaign appears to be… on pause? Possibly over? It’s unclear.Related: Dr. Oz has grocery store meltdown while buying ingredients for crudité, blames Biden for $6 salsaBasically, the TV doctor has just stopped campaigning.

A transgender woman is suing the owner of a Chick-fil-A franchise in Georgia for firing her over her gender identity and ignoring repeated reports of sexual harassment.Several incidents of less-than-holy behavior took place at a location in downtown Decatur, according to the lawsuit. While Aaron White was training to be that Chick-fil-A location’s director of operations in 2021, a co-worker sexually harassed her by uttering inappropriate and lewd remarks.On the first day of training, fellow trainee Sammy Canady allegedly harassed White by saying in front of others, “I would eat your ass and p***y”, “On God, I will f**k the s**t out of you”, “I’ll buck that horse” and “I’ll ride that horse till it buck.” In the lawsuit, White claims her shift leader told her to speak to the franchise owner, Joe Engert, when she complained about the incident.After White went to Engert and informed him she was transgender, he told her “it should be an honor that with [her] being a transgender woman that someone liked her enough to hit on her,” according to the suit.Following Engert’s exchange with the alleged harasser, people began taunting White with homophobic remarks, and some employees misgendered her, she reports.Engert allegedly terminated White for tardiness and abruptly walking off her shift, according to White, who also alleges false termination by him. In her claim, White claims that other people of her level were late and were not fired and that her early departure was not an issue because it had been pre-approved.

bill, which sailed through the Republican-led legislature on largely party-line votes, would have required public K-12 schools and colleges to designate sports as male, female, or coed. For female-designated sports, athletes would only be allowed to participate if they were assigned female at birth.The bill is silent on male-designated sports, presumably allowing transgender males and cisgender females to participate on boys’ teams, such as football team, in cases where there is not a team specifically designated for girls.

The newly-created DE&I Grant Committee at the TEGNA Foundation, sponsored by the media company TEGNA Inc., has put out a call for proposals for LGBTQ-focused grant proposals.

Related: House Democrats support more gender-neutral bathrooms on Capitol Hill“I was using the bathroom, and she just started shouting,” Ruiz told Ohio Fox affiliate WXIX. “She was like, ‘Who the [expletive] is in here?’ And I replied, ‘I am.’ My girlfriend replied, ‘I am as well.’ She was like, ‘No man should be in this bathroom. Like, if you’re a man you need to use a man’s bathroom.’”Ruiz explained to the woman that he is transgender and had been told to use the women’s bathroom by the campground’s owner.

so into monologuing right now.On the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7, herstory was made when Ru announced that the week’s winning queens—[spoiler!] Jinkx Monsoon and Monét X Change—would compete in a “spoken word” Lip Sync For Your Legacy for the first time ever, opening up a gag-worthy new world of opportunities, 13+ years into the franchise’s run.Related: Why ‘Drag Race All-Stars 7’ is THE season to watchInstead of the requisite modern pop bop or classic gay anthem, the queens were asked to prepare a lip-sync to Dixie Carter’s iconic monologue from a 1986 episode of Designing Women dubbed “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia.”What followed was something fresh and exciting for Drag Race—a whole new avenue for these legendary legends to show off what makes them so, well, legendary—as Jinkx and Monét went big, bold, and had a ball mouthing along to Carter’s Julia Sugarbaker dropping some pageant knowledge on her rival, Marjorie Lee Winnick (Pamela Bowen).Watch the queens hilariously ham it up below:So, how did this spoken-word lip-sync experiment go over? Well, the second it ended, 12,000 people jumped to their feet for sixteen and one-half minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation, as flames illuminated Jinkx and Monét’s tear-stained faces!Related: The 10 best lip-syncs from ‘Drag Race’ Season 14 rankedMonologuing and lip-syncing along to notable video clips and audio cues has long been a part of live drag, and the Designing Women scene has a special reverence within the community.

In 2020, under President Donald Trump’s Internal Revenue Service, an anti-LGBTQ hate group whose leader had “open door” access to the Oval Office was quietly and quickly allowed to change its tax status to become a church. That designation, as ProPublica reports Monday, “comes with the ability for an organization to shield itself from financial scrutiny.”

MassLive reports. It’s the future home of the Pryde, which will include 74 units of mixed-income housing. Other messages included “Die slow,” “Your fairy tale is over,” and “There are 2 genders.”By Sunday afternoon, however, those messages had been covered with LGBTQ-supportive ones, and dozens of people demonstrated at the site in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community.“The words are so hateful.

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Another Tweet highlighting Grindr‘s less-constructive elements has Gay Twitter™ in a tizzy.Any regular user of the gay social app (or even ones who just open it at 1am on the occasional Saturday night) knows conversations can be a mixed bag.

Related: Tributes paid as Jean Paul Gaultier presents his final fashion show

Prepare to get “Fancy” this fall, y’all.

ABOVE: When Polaroids look this good, you're set on that shoot turning out.

Olympic gold medallist and former boxer Nicola Adams has announced the birth of her first child, a baby boy, with girlfriend Ella Baig. 

OUT Georgia Business Alliance, the only LGBTQ and allied chamber of commerce in Georgia, is hosting the 2022 LGBTQ Business Summit and Expo virtually and in-person at Truist Park this week on July 13 and 14.

Reforming the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA) is ‘very important’ to a majority of LGBTQ+ people, a joint survey from GAY TIMES and Channel 4 News has found.

It’s almost mid-July but the Irish LGBTQ+ community is not done celebrating Pride this year. So don’t despair if you’ve missed all the other Pride celebrations that painted Ireland in rainbow colours until now, this week is equally packed with amazing events. We’ve compiled a practical list for you, so read on and find out […]

Paul Ryan has kept a relatively low profile since quitting Congress in 2019 to join the board of directors of Fox Corporation, where he reportedly earns an annual salary of almost $350,000.But in journalist Mark Leibovich’s new book Thank You for Your Servitude, the former Speaker of the House is trying to rebrand himself from the Donald Trump sycophant/slimeball/opportunist we all know him as into a proud American patriot who watched in horror as the MAGA militia stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.I'll be voting for @realDonaldTrump this fall.

The adult film performer known as Randy on Sean Cody sadly died on Saturday at the age of 33.Just last week, Randy launched a GoFundMe after being hospitalized with kidney problems, though an exact cause of death has not been publicly shared.Adult site Str8Up (link work-unfriendly) reports his GoFundMe read:Hello, I am in need of help for when I recover from my injury. I woke up deathly ill and finally went to the hospital and my kidney function was at 21% amongst a couple other issues but the kidneys being the most serious. I am feeling better.

Mary Trump appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to offer her latest hot take on the January 6 hearings and why she’s fairly confident her crazy uncle Donald is “terrified” right now.“To say that Donald is terrified is accurate and also an understatement,” Mary said on MSNBC’s The Katie Phang Show over the weekend.“I think this might be the first time in his entire life that even he can’t deny the walls may indeed be closing in. The amount of evidence that we see coming out of these committee hearings is overwhelming.”Related: Mary Trump just threw ice cold water on the “Mike Pence is a hero” storylineMary added that the witnesses who have begun coming out of the woodwork to speak with the committee are increasingly important in terms of the access they had to Trump in the days leading up to and immediately following January 6, most notably former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who met with the panel for over eight hours on Friday.Cipollone’s testimony will be presented to the public in upcoming hearings, which resume tomorrow.

Reddit post shared on the Am I The A**hole page, user u/Separate_Recipe explained that since his twin boys were seven he had kissed them on the forehead as they watched TV together and that it was one way they had forged strong father-son bonds with one another.The dad added he and his current wife—with who he now shares a 4-year-old daughter —married three years ago and that she saw him kiss his sons on the forehead multiple times.He added: "My kids are no longer living with us because they left for college, but they come to see me every now and then."My boys are 20 now but they still like to put their heads on my chest while I wrap my arms around them, they do it every time they visit and I'm watching TV."The dad then revealed his son Liam came out as gay two weeks ago and introduced him to his boyfriend and that he recently arrived back home for the first time since doing so.He continued: "My son visited me again last Wednesday (since he was here two weeks ago, so the first time 'officially out'). I was watching 'Red' with my daughter (she was on my left) then my son Liam arrived, he was tired and sat on my right, put his head on my shoulder while I wrap my arm around him, then I kissed his forehead and said, 'good to have you back buddy.'"We went to sleep and the next day my wife told me that it made her feel uncomfortable (me hugging and kissing my son) and asked me not to do it again.

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The United Nations (UN) is stepping up its efforts to tackle anti-LGBTQ+ violence and discrimination within its member states. On Thursday, July 7, the UN Human Rights Council adopted four resolutions, resulting in the renewal of the mandate of the independent expert on protection from violence and discrimination related to sexual orientation and gender identity […]

Former Disney Channel star Dan Benson has set up an OnlyFans account in order to raise funds for the LGBTQ+ community. The actor and model took to Twitter saying: “I’ll be using this new found resurgence to fight for and support the LGBTQ communities that deserve so much better from this country.” The 34-year-old is […]

Two weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark case Roe v Wade in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on July 8 to protect access to reproductive health care.  Democrats have pressured Biden in recent weeks to secure rights to such care, especially the […]

Setting the record straight. Derek Jeter finally addressed the longstanding rumor that he gave gift bags to women after having one-night stands with them in the ’90s.

Journal Inquirer. Town Manager John Elsesser said that while police were not called this time, that would not be the case next time.

After Justice Brett Kavanaugh fled abortion rights protesters outside a restaurant in D.C. on Wednesday, Chasten Buttigieg shared his viewpoints via Twitter on Friday, leading to Secretary Pete Buttigieg defending his husband's words on Fox News Sunday."Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions," Chasten Buttigieg wrote, alluding to Kavanaugh's recent vote to overturn Roe v.

The Color Purple and had relocated to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of fame.That fame was to arrive the following year when he successfully auctioned for the ninth season of American Idol and ended up in the Top 24 before being eliminated.He’s since appeared in more Broadway shows and released several albums.  A post shared by TODRICK (@todrick)In the accompanying caption, Hall offers advice to his younger self about the life changes he will experience.“On January 14, 2008, I uploaded my first video to YouTube. This is it! A Texas boy with a dream of setting the world on fire.

Mama Bears,” an LGBTQ+ documentary about the journeys of two conservative, Christian mothers who became advocates for the queer community, debuted its trailer Monday, Variety can exclusively reveal. The film, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year, will play at Outfest and Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival later this summer.“Mama Bears” follows Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two mothers of LGBTQ+ children, and Tammi Terrell Morris, a young African American lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance represents the importance of caring and accepting mothers.

transgender man who says a campground owner told him to use the women's bathroom on the site says he was beaten up by a group of men and arrested after a dispute with other guests over his presence there.Noah Ruiz, who still has female body parts but identifies as a man, had tried to use the ladies' room at the campground in Preble County, Ohio, but a woman using the bathroom became upset he was in there because he is a man.The 20-year-old told local news channel Fox 19: "I was using the bathroom, and she just started shouting. She was like, 'Who the f*** is in here?' And I replied, 'I am.' My girlfriend replied, 'I am as well.' She was like, 'No man should be in this bathroom.

[Kenya’s capital].”She explains that civil wars had only exacerbated the problem of HIV in the country, and could have possibly been the origin of the virus in the area.“The first cases of HIV were actually recorded or reported in Uganda, in a town called Rakhi — tents near the border with Tanzania,” she says. “And it really devastated our country because we’d just come through a series of civil wars. And actually, I think they trace the way the virus spread to some troops that had come in to help depose one of the dictators, so the route it followed into the country was associated with that.”She adds that, even though she had not been raised in Uganda, she felt the ripple effect of HIV through her Ugandan loved ones.“It was very, very devastating….

The Golden Girls could be coming to our screens.Golden Girls 3033 gives our four, favorite, Miami-based seniors a sci-fi twist.The five-minute pilot has been made by Mike Hollingsworth, who has previously worked as the supervising director on BoJack Horseman, as well as Tuca & Bertie and Inside Job, among others.Hollingsworth shared the pilot with IndieWire and explained the concept.Related: “Golden Girls” casting director just spilled some tea on Betty White and we refuse to believe itHe uses the original scripts and audio as a starting point but adds plenty of visual gags and humor. Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Dorothy (Bea Arthur), Rose (Betty White), and Sophia (Estelle Getty) all still live in Miami, but having discovered the fountain of youth, it’s now the year 3033.Check out the five-minute pilot below.On the show’s origin, Hollingsworth said he began to get tired of having to fulfill other people’s creative demands and wanted to come up with some of his own ideas.“Out of frustration, I just started coming up with the craziest ideas, like the most ridiculous concepts,” Hollingsworth said.