Dustin Lance Black reportedly calls cops after brawl in London gay bar

A man has pleaded guilty to possession of the pistol that killed queer journalist Lyra McKee.Derry resident Niall Sheerin, 29, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing the firearm used to shoot and kill McKee during the 2019 riots in Derry, Northern Ireland, according to the Guardian.McKee had been working as an independent reporter covering the violence.Sheerin admitted to authorities that he had the gun from September 2018 until June 2020. McKee was shot dead on April 18, 2019, while reporting on the riots in the Creggan area of Derry.The pistol used in the shooting was later found abandoned in plastic bags behind a telephone pole, the BBC reports. Ballistics testing revealed the same gun was used in five separate shootings within the past two years, McKee’s being the latest.The New Irish Republican Army later took responsibility for McKee’s death, saying that they deployed their militia members in response to British forces in the area.

Drag legends The Boulet Brothers and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, this week announced a new spin-off series, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans.

Casa Ruby, the Washington, D.C., LGBTQ+ organization beset by a variety of financial troubles, should be dissolved, and there is also evidence of “potential criminal misconduct” there, says a report from the foundation appointed to be its receiver.The nonprofit had provided housing and social services to D.C.’s most vulnerable LGBTQ+ residents — youth, transgender people, people of color, and others — since its founding in 2012. However, last year it lost a city grant due to mismanagement of funds.

Costa Mesa is officially trademarked as the “City of the Arts,” which is evident in the breezy Southern California’s town’s plentiful collection of public art. Sadly, one of the area’s most beautiful and beloved murals was vandalized earlier this week.The mural, which is a colorful portrait of country music legend and queer icon Dolly Parton, covers a large wall on the exterior of Strut, a popular LGBTQ+ nightclub known for its dazzling drag and cabaret shows and inclusive vibes.In 2021, the club’s owner, Luke Nero, commissioned local artist David Gilmore to create the work as a response to Parton’s funding of COVID-19 vaccine research.

A post shared by Mike Imamura (@mikeimamura68)“The character I played was a dandy,” Conrad told interviewers for a TV oral history project of his “Wild Wild West” character. “His clothes were too tight, for one.

Legislation seeking to codify same-sex marriage may be cued up as soon as this week in the U.S. Senate after lawmakers returned from August recess, although reaching the 60-vote threshold to end a filibuster is unassured.

Chucky said it’s “gonna give the gays everything they want.”Yes, the beloved horror icon is back in an all-new batch of episodes, picking right back up where we left off and continuing the murderous rampage of your friendly neighborhood doll possessed by a serial killer.After successfully foiling Chucky’s evil plan to invade children’s hospitals across the country, teen heroes Jake (Zackary Arthur), Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) take the blame and are shipped off to a Catholic boarding school for troubled youth called Incarnate Lord. The institution’s strict, religious rules prove a challenge to the budding romance between Jake and Devon, but that’s just one of their problems, as Chucky is hot on their heels and out for revenge.Related: ‘Chucky’ series’ same-sex teen kiss is all sorts of adorableOf course, Chucky’s got his own baggage to deal with, including his ex-wife and mortal enemy, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), and the return of their genderfluid child, Glen/da, a fan-favorite character first introduced in 2004’s Seed Of Chucky.

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Those signing up for the mass participation event at the upcoming London Marathon will be able to register as non-binary for the first time.

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In simple terms, digital money can be defined as a form of currency that uses computer networks to make payments. Breathless media coverage of the future potential of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has made digital money a hot topic.

Singer-songwriter Chadwick Johnson, whose album Unbreakable drops September 16, has just released the music video for the title track:

During a radio interview, the Prime Minister of Malta, Robert Abela, confirmed that free gender-affirming surgery is part of their LGBTQ+ rights reform. To date, the government has legalised marriage equality, criminalised conversion therapy, added non-binary as a gender option on official documents and more. On One Radio, Abela discussed the promise of free gender-affirming […]

A private Christian university in Washington that admits to discriminating against LGBTQ+ job applicants is being sued by dozens of current and former students, faculty, and staff.Seattle Pacific University has been under investigation by the state since May after Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson received multiple complaints from students, staff, and faculty regarding the hiring policies at SPU. In June, the university responded to an inquiry from Ferguson by filing a suit in federal court requesting protection from the Washington state investigation due to its exemption as a religious institution.

Musician Tommy Lee has already proven he’s not camera shy, and apparently he has a lot more to share with the world… for a fee.The Mötley Crüe drummer announced he’s launching an OnlyFans page during the group’s final reunion performance in Las Vegas for their Stadium tour.The move comes one month after Lee shirked Instagram’s nudity rules and posted a full-frontal photo. It remained up for several hours before the app removed it — it’s still on Twitter if you’re one of the few people who hasn’t seen it. But we understand if you’d like to keep it that way.Related: 8 male celebs on OnlyFans you can following right nowHe later provided the messy context to a crowd of fans in San Antonio, Texas, attributing his overshare to being on a “mother f*cking bender.”“A couple of weeks ago, we had like a two-week break off the tour, and I went on a mother f*cking bender, bro,” Lee, 59, said.

Three days after one of his alleged victims died, a California suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing at a Long Beach gay bar has been arrested.Local police arrested Michael Smalls, 56, on Tuesday, according to a news release.Smalls has been accused of stabbing Christopher Finley, 28, to death at the Mineshaft bar on Friday night.Finley was killed after he and another man had an argument with Smalls outside of the bar, according to police. The altercation got physical, police said, before Smalls pulled out a knife and stabbed the two in the upper body.Finley died about eight hours after medical personnel took him to the hospital despite initial police reports that his injuries were not life-threatening.A verified GoFundMe revealed that the other victim was Finley's partner, identified as Jacob Touchstone.Authorities said the couple was involved in an altercation with a taser-wielding man outside the bar before the altercation with Smalls.

What it's about: This illustrated history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League tells the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in the first-ever women's league beginning in 1941. With beautiful illustrations and firsthand stories told by the women who played in the league, this book is a one-of-a-kind resource that proves once and for all that the women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League really were in a league of their own.How it compares: With stories directly from actual players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league, this book gives A League of Their Own fans a look into the reality of the league the show is based on, as well as the history of the league itself.

CBS Sports’ Beyond Limits returns with three new episodes including one featuring OJ Jenkins, our local LGBTQ community women’s football champion. The episode airs on Saturday, Sept 17 at 1 p.m. Central Time on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

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website, writer-director-star Vera Drew asked audiences to “stay tuned and stay with me.”“I have no clue how today goes and my team wants me to say nothing of course so I’ll stay vague…but whatever happens in the next few hours, I want you to know…if you’ve been waiting and aching to watch our movie, ur going to get to soon,” she wrote on Twitter. “Stay tuned and stay with me.

Enoch Burke has commenced a legal bid against his employer Wilson’s Hospital School, following events that stemmed from his refusal of acknowledging a Transgender student’s identity. The Westmeath teacher represented himself before the High Court in Dublin today, September 14, with Justice Eileen Roberts overseeing proceedings. Justice Conor Dignam adjourned an injunction sought by Mr […]

Related: DJ Wayne G talks about skin cancer diagnosis and a plea to other gay menReynolds and McElhenney are co-chairmen of the Welsh soccer club, Wrexham FC. They’re both 45 and decided it was a good time to start screening themselves for colon cancer.Reynolds bet McElhenney that if his friend learned Welsh, he would allow himself to be filmed.

Manori Ravindran International Editor The director of “The People’s Joker,” a queer coming-of-age movie set in the Batman universe, has pulled the movie from the Toronto International Film Festival over alleged “rights issues.” Helmed by Los Angeles-based director Vera Drew, the mixed-media movie follows an aspiring clown (played by Drew) struggling with her gender identity while dreaming of being cast in a TV sketch show among a cast of Jokers and Harlequins. An official synopsis from TIFF reads: “With comedy criminalized in Gotham City, the show is the only government-sanctioned space for funny people, but only those who will toe the party line. Disillusioned by a botched audition, Vera partners with a birdlike slacker to found their own alternative comedy troupe, attracting not only a rogues’ gallery of would-be comics, but also the ire of a fascistic caped crusader.”

Andy Cohen.Shepherd is currently promoting her new daytime chat show, Sherri. This led to an appearance earlier this week on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.Cohen asked her who she felt closest to from her days as a host on The View. Shepherd said she considered all her colleagues friends and stayed in touch with “Everybody… not Meghan, but everybody else.”Related: Meghan McCain uses gay best friend to show that, contrary to popular belief, she DOES have friendsCohen then spoke with McCain, 37, yesterday on his SiriusXM show.

September 13, 2022Brian Stelter is the former chief media correspondent for CNN. He recently took up a new position at Harvard University.Related: Bad news for Lauren Boebert and her husbandBoebert’s apparent criticism of higher education chimes with others on the MAGA end of the Republican Party.

Calling all Practical Magic fans! Street 66 has announced a new bimonthly spiritual event: Tarot Tuesdays. Whether you’re a die-hard spiritualist or someone just looking for something spooky in the run-up to Halloween, this event is definitely for you. Yesterday, September 13 was the official launch of the event. It will run every second Tuesday […]

My Policeman made its Toronto International Film Festival debut on 11 September and received lots of buzz due to its star-studded cast.

Vampire Academy stars Rhian Blundell and Mia McKenna-Bruce speak with GAY TIMES about the new series, playing LGBTQ+ roles and their characters “sexually charged” romance.

GAY TIMES teamed up with London’s most well-known LGBTQ+ sexual health clinics to show you how easy it is to get checked.

Yesterday, September 13, activist group ACT UP Dublin was informed of plans for the impending closure of two sexual health clinics in the Northeast. All clinical sexual health services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda and Louth County Hospital Dundalk will be closed. This closure comes during a nationwide increase in rates of HIV […]

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly signed a commencement order this morning introducing free contraception for women in Ireland between the ages of 17 and 25. “This morning I’ve signed the commencement order for the #FreeContraception scheme for women aged 17-25. A historic day for women’s health in Ireland.” The Minister also stated that the new […]

It was early on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, when the first rumbles came across the pond about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s health. “Keep calm and carry on” kicked in until her children arrived in Scotland. Nothing screams imminent death in Britain more than the arrival of close family.

The Wanda Alston Foundation, which a D.C. Superior Court judge named last month as the city’s receiver for the LGBTQ community services center Casa Ruby, issued a preliminary finding in an interim report filed in court on Tuesday, Sept. 13, declaring that “Casa Ruby should be dissolved in an orderly manner pursuant to D.C. Code.”

Joseph C. “Joey” Phalin, who worked from 2002 to 2021 as a bartender at the 17th Street gay bars Cobalt and JR.’s and who became a beloved figure to his customers and friends near Dupont Circle, died unexpectedly on Sept. 8 in Rochester, N.Y., where he had moved last year, according to a social media post by his brother, James Phalin.

A trans boy has been outed at a school in Israel resulting in anti-trans protests by parents and threats of school transfers. The third grader attends Morsheth Naria school in Givat Shmuel. Trigger Warning: This story discusses transphobic conduct, 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.In an interview with Ono News, a parent said, “The administration knew about the story and probably most of the teachers did too, but it dropped on the parents like lightning on a clear day.”According to JewishPress, 17 transphobic parents of third graders threatened to pull their children from school.“We, the majority of third-grade parents, are not ready to contain the phenomenon and accept the damage to our spiritual character and the emotional damage that our children are going through and will go through in the future.”“We need your help in this fight to stand firm on the way our children are educated, and our insistence that we are not ready to apologize for our way of life and our desire to educate our children according to our will.”In response religious LGBTQ Group, Havruta tweeted, “In the service of transphobia and under the auspices of the hate lobby, there is a demonstration in Givat Shmuel against a religious trans boy.

The 2022 EuroPride Parade due to take place in Belgrade on Saturday, September 17, has been banned by Serbian police as of September 13. However, Belgrade Pride, organisers of the event, are determined to make the march go ahead as scheduled. Updating followers on Twitter, the organisation explained: “The Serbian Police banned this year’s EuroPride […]

READ MORE: Buffalo Bills receiver Isaiah McKenzie does baby gender reveal live during NFL opener The NBA found that Sarver had used the N-word at least five times after "recounting the statements of others". The report also concluded that the 60-year-old, worth up to £700m ($800m), "engaged in instances of inequitable conduct toward female employees, made sex-related comments in the workplace, made inappropriate comments about the physical appearance of female employees and other women, and on several occasions engaged in inappropriate physical conduct toward male employees.”Law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz handled the investigation and the NBA said that there were interviews with 320 people, including current and former employees of the Phoenix Suns and Sarver.

Lady Morgana says she’s “forever grateful” for her time on the first season of Drag Race Philippines.

Serbian police have officially banned the EuroPride march route due to mass anti-LGBTQ+ protests and apparent “security concerns”.

Chicago icon and legend Gloria Allen, 76, who lived in an LGBTQ-friendly senior residence, died June 13 of respiratory failure.An advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, Allen “transitioned before Stonewall and the word transgender even existed,” says her friend Luchina Fisher, who is also the writer and director of Mama Gloria, a documentary about Allen.Confident about her identity from early on, Allen says in the documentary, “When I came out of my mother’s womb, I was out.”“The only time I entered a closet was to get me an outfit and a pair of pumps,” she adds. Allen grew up in the Bronzeville section of Chicago and later became part of the South Side’s legendary drag ball scene.

killed three people and injured a fourth outside a Chicago gay bar earlier this month.Tavis Dunbar, 34, was taken into police custody on Aug. 22 and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree attempted murder, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a news conference on Tuesday, which was shared on Facebook. Brown claimed an investigation showed Dunbar “intentionally struck multiple pedestrians” when he plowed his car into a crowd of people gathered outside the Jeffery Pub, a Black-owned gay club on Chicago’s South Side, around 5 a.m.

A gay former marine is being hailed as a hero for his timely intervention that averted a tragedy after an agitated man brought a grenade into a popular gay bar in Florida. The tense moments were captured on the bar’s closed circuit camera TV videos. The incident occurred on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, around 9.26 pm, when a man walked into Corners Pub in Wilton Manors, Florida, and placed a grenade on the bar counter. Bartender Joseph Shakespeare told local news station  WPLG that the the man said he had guns in his car.  Darryl Darling, a gay former marine, overheard the conversation and stepped in to help.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has alleged that British reality TV star Teddy Edwardes punched him in a London bar, while she has claimed he threw a drink at her.The incident happened early Thursday morning at a bar called Freedom, according to several U.K. news sources. Black was with his husband, Olympic diver Tom Daley, on a date night without their 4-year-old son, Robbie.Edwardes, the owner of the party planning agency Lick and host of The Big Proud Party Agency, said on social media that Black and Daley had sat down with her, and Black became upset when she asked another person to leave their table.

WPLG. “I was just thinking, ‘Stay calm,’ because we have a lot of people in there, and this is our community, so I want to keep everybody safe.”Shakespeare said the man also claimed to have guns in his car.But Darrell Darling, a former Marine, overheard the conversation and stepped in to help.“He was agitated at somebody in the bar, looking to pick a fight,” Darling said.

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WLS-TV.The victims killed in the attack have been identified as 25-year-old South Holland native Donald Huey, who was planning to move back to the area from Los Angeles, 27-year-old Chicago resident Devonta Vivetter, and 23-year-old Jaylen Ausley, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan. All three were transported to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead.The other victim was hospitalized in serious condition.

Five new patrons have been recruited by LGBTQ+ human rights charity the Kaleidoscope Trust to amplify its work across the Commonwealth.

Tom Daley has been praised by viewers for his unflinching and ‘shocking’ look at how LGBTQ+ people are treated in certain countries in his documentary Tom Daley: Illegal To Be Me.The 28-year-old retired diver spoke to athletes identifying as members of the LGBTQ+ about their experiences of persecution in their home countries ahead of the Commonwealth Games, where 35 of the 56 member states still outlaw homosexuality.Travelling to places including Jamaica and Pakistan, as well as speaking with a Nigerian refugee, the programme did not shy away from revealing the full and traumatic extent of some of its participants’ experiences – one of whom was stabbed in the arm for being gay, and another of who’s friend was murdered.As Tom himself said in reaction to that story: ‘Sad doesn’t even cover it, it’s like something out of a horror film.’However, the documentary attracted plaudits online as Tom campaigned for the Pride flag to be included in the Games’ Opening Ceremony, as well as exploring the idea of banning anti-LGBT nations from hosting the event in future years.‘Tom Daley is no longer just a sportsman, he’s an activist & a #LGBTQ community hero,’ tweeted one fan. ‘Using his diving platform to take a leap into uncomfortable truths about the commonwealth (a day after they ended!) with other leading activists is a bold move.