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The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce opened applications today (Wednesday, Jan. 25) for the NGLCC Community Impact Grant Program, a program designed to support LGBTQ-owned restaurants and bars through $1.5 million in grant money. The program is funded by a grant from the Grubhub Community Fund, and grants to businesses grants are expected to range from $10,000 to $25,000.

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Scotland's Justice Secretary has refused to intervene to ensure that a transgender woman convicted of raping two women while she was a man is not held in a women’s prison.

Pope Francis, whose tenure has been marked by a kinder and gentler approach than his predecessor, reiterated Catholic church doctrine that homosexuality is a “sin” but not a “crime,” urged local bishops to welcome LGBTQ people into the church, and called for an end to anti-LGBTQ laws and discrimination.

Those aged between 16 and 24 are more than twice as likely to identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community compared with the general population, according to new data from the 2021 Census.

Ra’Jah O’Hara says her Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs the World win feels “correct”.

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Nearly one in five LGBTQ+ people have experienced so-called ‘conversion’ practices in the UK, a new study from Galop, the UK’s leading anti-abuse charity for LGBTQ+ people, has found.

Pope Francis has spoken out against “unjust” laws that criminalise homosexuality, instead referring to it as a “sin”.

The highly-anticipated biopic chronicling the career of Madonna has been scrapped.

The Unfriend is a ridiculous premise for a show – when we read the overview we knew we absolutely had to check it out. In a nutshell, a British couple make a new American friend while on a cruise; they stay in touch and after a while they invite their new friend to stay at theirs while she’s visiting London. In the interim, they discover the worst possible secret to find out about a potential house guest – it seems she’s a suspected serial killer. This is further complicated by the fact that our British couple are just too reserved and polite to ask their guest to leave. Over the course of two hours, we watch as they navigate this precarious social dilemma.

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'Emily's a cover girl!'Lily Collins took to Instagram on Tuesday to share photos of her magazine cover from filming the Emmy-nominated hit series Emily In Paris.The actress, 33 - who travels and films around the world with her rescue dog - recently reprised her role as Emily Cooper in season three of the Netflix romantic comedy that started streaming last month.  Cover girl: Lily Collins, 33, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share photos of her magazine cover from filming the Emmy-nominated hit series Emily In ParisThe star of the 2012 film Stuck In Love wrote in her caption: 'Art imitating life or life imitating art? Emily’s a cover girl!…'  The daughter of rock star Phil Collins wore an eccentric and bright outfit as she posed with the magazine she covered as her character on the show.In the snaps with the magazine, she sported a metallic gold trench coat.  While filming: The daughter of rock star Phil Collins wore an eccentric and bright outfit as she posed with the magazine she covered as her character on the show Underneath the bold outerwear, she wore a bright orange top with black polkadot buttons.She paired the look with colorful and diamond-patterned shorts with a black belt cinched around her waist.The To The Bone actress wore a pair of simple black booties with the eye-catching outfit.

“As we navigate the 88th Texas Legislative Session one thing is apparent,” Equality Texas announced in a press release. “Anti-LGBTQ+ extremist politicians are prioritizing hate instead of common-sense legislation to improve the lives of Texans.”

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Embattled congressman George Santos made the mistake of trying to read Drag Race winner Trixie Mattel on Twitter.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is the film to beat at this year’s 95th Academy Awards.

Dozens gathered outside Lambeth Palace on 23 January to demand equality for LGBTQ+ people in the Church of England.

Tyler Posey says Teen Wolf allowed him to not be “ashamed” of his sexuality.

Headie One claim's the UK's hottest Trending track of the week with Martin's Sofa.

th Street before gentrification. As a longtime resident explains, “The S&M bars, the hookers, the meatpackers. That’s what was down here.” Yes, it really was home to meatpacking plants by day, before sex workers took over at night.

Michael Strahan was in Los Angeles on Monday morning as to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.The 51-year-old NFL star-turned-journalist beamed as he was accompanied by his family for the momentous occasion.The retired Giants star looked typically handsome in a dark blue patterned three-piece suit. Big day! Michael Strahan was in Los Angeles on Monday morning as to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameStrahan's star was presented by Terry Crews, 54, who is also a former football player who built an entertainment career.The two men smiled for photos together on the event's red carpet, with Crews looking dapper as he also donned a dark suit.

“Mutt” makes its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Radical religious-right activist Mat Staver appeared on an episode of the “Liberty Pastors” program last week and urged administrators at Christian schools to implement policies denying children of same-sex couples the right to attend.

Like most teenagers, Heather (non-binary actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez), a social misfit who lives in a rural town in northern Canada, has a strict midnight curfew to adhere to. But unlike other teenagers, staying out for longer has a much more dangerous effect on her.

A youth pastor, a high school teacher and football coach and an operations director for a large hospital network were among the 46 men arrested in a massive sex sting operation Jan. 12-13 at the Hilton at Southlake Town Square and a Hyatt near Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, according to a report just published by Dallas Morning News reporter Sarah Bahari.

From getting stuck in the Upside Down to being possessed by the Mind Flayer, Will Byers has been through it on Stranger Things. But in season 4 of the Netflix hit, his self-discovery became the focal point when his feelings for best friend Mike Wheeler became more apparent.

Drag Race star Irene Dubois is standing behind her infamous talent show performance.

Kerri Colby, the Oprah of drag? It feels correct!

Dominic Arnall, the Chief Executive of Just Like Us, is leaving the LGBTQ+ charity after three years.

Simon Dunn has tragically passed away.

A new Fox News report indicates the network's obsession with the lives of same-sex couples. Despite having its own paternity policy, the network continues to paint Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg's life as a gay married father as problematic.Under the headline, "Buttigieg avoided calls, public appearances on paternity leave, FOIA documents show," the right-wing network positioned the secretary as somehow having hidden his work attendance."Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg avoided some phone calls and requests for public appearances while he was on paternity leave in 2021, according to internal documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act," the outlet wrote.Buttigieg has been transparent about his belief that paternity leave is just as important as maternity leave and encourages all employers to provide the benefit to their employees.He and his husband, Chasten, welcomed their twins in August 2021.

A gay couple in Mexico were sitting near a church when a woman accosted them, spraying “holy” water on the pair while berating them verbally. The ordeal was caught on video by one of the men and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times online.Leonardo Hernandez and his partner were hugging near a church in Toluca — which is located around 50 miles west of Mexico City — when a woman accused them of tainting children with immorality, NBC News reports.“Get out right now! I’m going to call the police,” she yelled as she sprayed the couple and made the sign of the cross. The confrontation has been viewed about 400,000 times on TikTok since the video was posted over the weekend.After the woman sprays them with the water, she pulls out a cell phone and says she's calling the police.Incredibly animated, the woman asserts that the couple was trespassing on the church’s private property. “They are not from here,” she tells the person on the other end of the line, who Hernandez told NBC News was an officer.

The former palace staffers that accused Meghan Markle of bullying are sticking by their statments!

A school board meeting in Idaho to consider an LGBTQ-supportive policy devolved into chaos Monday night after a state senator threatened board members with litigation.The Caldwell School Board presented a draft of the policy for public comment. It uses language from the Idaho School Boards Association and is one of 22 policies under consideration, Idaho Ed News reports.

Paula Vogel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning lesbian playwright, warns that a Florida school district's decision to cancel a production of one of her plays is a slippery slope to dangerous censorship.Students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, a Jacksonville area magnet school, say they are experiencing anti-LGBTQ+ censorship ten months after Florida's Parental Rights in Education — also known as the "don't say gay" law — passed.As the school's theater troupe prepared to put on Paula Vogel's acclaimed 2015 play Indecent Duval County Public Schools board members blocked the performance, calling it "not age appropriate."The play deals with the fallout surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which got shut down on Broadway in 1923 and resulted in the producer and cast members being arrested and convicted on obscenity charges. The performance was deemed obscene at the time because it involved a same-sex relationship."From what we've been told, they say that it's the adult sexual content in the show," 17-year-old Madeline Scotti tells The Advocate.

An award-winning book about the true story of a same-sex penguin couple raising a chick has been banned by a Florida school district in response to the state’s “don’t say gay” law.The 2005 book And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell was one of three books reportedly removed from the libraries and classrooms of the Lake County School District in central Florida. The other books removed were Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss and In Our Mother’s House by Patricia Polacco. According to Popular Information, the board said the titles were “administratively removed due to content regarding sexual orientation/gender identification prohibited in HB 1557,” otherwise known as the Parental Rights in Education Act — the so-called "don't say gay" law.While the book does not contain any discussion of same-sex sexual relations or instruction, it does tell the real-life story of two male chinstrap penguins who cohabitate and raised a penguin chick together.“At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others,” publisher Simon & Schuster says on its website.

Five people have been detained in Kenya in connection to the murder of LGBTQ+ rights activist Edwin Chiloba. His body was found last week mutilated and stuffed in a metal box.Authorities say they are investigating whether the murder came out of a love triangle involving Chiloba, Voice of America reports.

Transgender people in Scotland will have to apply for a UK gender recognition certificate in order to be recognised outside of the country under changes expected to be made by ministers.

After allegations came to light accusing conservative activist Matt Schlapp of groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker’s failed senatorial campaign, the former football star’s queer son tore into the conservative political activist, calling out his alleged hypocrisy.“So last night it came out that Matt Schlapp, a big-time conservative who preaches about family values and is married with five children, has been trying to cheat on his wife with men,” Christian Walker, 23, said in a TikTok video on Saturday.A man who worked for the elder Walker’s campaign claims Schlapp made “sustained” and “unwanted” sexual contact with him on October 19, when he was driving Schlapp back from a bar in Atlanta.Schlapp, 55, allegedly groped the staffer’s genitals unwantedly during a car ride and later invited the man to his hotel room. The staffer documented his distress with the situation at the time in recorded videos, NBC News and The Daily Beast, the first outlet to break the news, report.In addition to being the chair of the American Conservative Union, Schlapp also serves as a leader in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

A professor with more than forty years of employment and tenure at a Christian university in Oklahoma has sued the school for firing him over a gay guest speaker he had invited to speak to his class. The guest speaker, a former adjunct professor, is included in the lawsuit.Michael O’Keefe and Scott Hale filed an Oklahoma County District Court complaint alleging university administrators had stained their reputations.

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