Four men arrested after woman sexually assaulted in alleged hate crime in gay village

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(CNN) -- The suspected gunman accused of killing five people in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last November is facing an additional 12 counts, raising the total to 317.Anderson Lee Aldrich appeared in court in person Friday, where Colorado's Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen announced the new charges, including four attempted murder charges and two hate crimes.Aldrich, 22, was initially charged in December with 305 counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault and bias-motivated crimes causing bodily injury.Aldrich -- whose attorneys say identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns -- faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted on the first-degree murder charges.The suspect allegedly entered Club Q late November 19 with an AR-style weapon and a handgun and opened fire, killing Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh, and Derrick Rump. At least 19 others were injured, police have said, most of whom suffered gunshot wounds.The attack was halted by two patrons who took down and contained the suspect until police arrived at the club, which was seen as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs.Ahead of an earlier hearing, Aldrich's attorneys said the suspect identified as nonbinary and would be addressed as Mx.

A gay elected official in Arizona whose recent Zoom call into a meeting received a lot of attention because of a person who showed up in the background has explained how the video came to be, and according to him, it’s not at all what it looked to some on the right who became outraged.Earlier this week, Dr. Matt Heinz appeared remotely to attend a Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting.

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.

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As a result of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Boise on January 10, an Idaho man has been charged with a hate crime.A 31-year-old man named Matthew Alan Lehigh is accused of driving his car at two people in Boise on October 12 last year in an attempt to cause bodily harm to the two people because of their sexual orientation.Boise Police apprehended Lehigh, and state charges were filed against him by the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, according to a justice department statement announcing the indictment.Lehigh was arrested in October and charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of malicious injury to property. He also faced an additional felony arson charge after he allegedly admitted to police he had committed multiple crimes against the LGBTQ+ community in Boise, including burning Pride flags and vandalism to The Community Center, an LGBTQ+ safe space.He faced a felony arson charge for allegedly burning a Pride flag of a gay married couple in Boise’s North End.

A troubling new crime is making its way into communities of gay men in the U.K. who engage in drug use with sex.

This story was originally published by Global Press Journal.CHIAPAS, MEXICO — When Thomas Chiu Palomeque saw on social media that there was a shortage of hormone-replacement testosterone in Mexico City, he prayed that it wouldn’t affect his home state of Chiapas. Chiu Palomeque, who lives in the municipality of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, had recently begun taking testosterone to help transition from female, the sex he was assigned at birth, to male.“One day, I wrote to all my friends that there aren’t any hormones left at the pharmacy downtown,” he says.

GEMMA Collins stripped totally naked for a bizarre pain relief treatment after being left in agony. The former Towie star resorted to a cupping massage to relieve the horrific discomfort she has been feeling from a mystery illness.

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Republican legislators in Iowa have introduced their version of a “don’t say gay” bill, largely mimicking the one that became law in Florida last year, and a bill that would essentially out transgender and nonbinary students to their parents.House File 8, introduced Wednesday, would prohibit instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. House File 9, introduced the same day, would bar schools from making accommodations for a student’s gender identity, if different from the one assigned at birth, without the written consent of a parent or guardian.

Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis Presley, was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after suffering from possible cardiac arrest, TMZ reports.The tabloid news site reports that emergency services were called to her house in Calabasas, Calif., and gave her CPR.Paramedics were able to find a pulse when they arrived to help Presley, 54, according to the site.Presley had joined her mother Priscilla Presley at the Golden Globes on Tuesday where actor Austin Butler won an award for his portrayal of her father in the film Elvis.She’s the mother of actor Riley Keough.This is a developing story…

As members of his home state's GOP demanded that gay Republican Rep. George Santos resign and then declared him persona non grata in their circles, Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy declined to join them and instead chose to stand by the embattled congressman.

Newly-elected U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett celebrates her victory on Election Night (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

Ezra Miller has reached a plea deal with prosecutors that will spare him jail time on burglary charges in Vermont.Miller, 30, is expected to appear in a Bennington County Superior Court this Friday where they will plead guilty to a single charge of unlawful trespass for the May 2022 incident, according to a report in the VT Digger.Miller, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, had been facing charges of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and petty larceny after they were allegedly caught on video breaking into a nearby home and stealing bottles of liquor. Those charges will be dropped, and Miller will instead receive a suspended jail sentence of between 89 to 90 days in jail and be placed on probation for one year.

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.

GEMMA Collins turned to a spiritual healer to help cure her mystery foot agony and said she feels "cursed". Ever since the GC arrived home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with fiancé Rami Hawash, she has been in excruciating pain. Last night she called in the cavalry, inviting a personal trainer, physiotherapist and spiritual healer to her home to ease her discomfort.

A U.K. man was found guilty this week of kidnapping and twice raping a queer woman he had lured into his car under false pretenses last April.It took the jury of eight men and four women roughly two hours to convict Yuseab Woldeab, 28, of the charges at Plymouth Crown Court in England, according to  the Plymouth Herald.During the four-day trial, prosecutors alleged Woldeab had been “prowling the streets looking for a victim” before he lured the woman, who was intoxicated, into his car by falsely claiming he was a taxi driver, then taking her to his Plymouth flat, where he raped her vaginally and anally.The unidentified queer woman, who is in her 20s, was able to escape the flat while Woldeab was in the bathroom.“This was a truly horrendous and disturbing crime,” Chris Kinski, senior investigating officer detective for Plymouth’s Sexual Offenses Investigation Team, told reporters outside the courtroom following the verdict.

Jerrod Carmichael apologised to Jennifer Coolidge “on behalf of all the gays” for what she endured on The White Lotus.

Airbnb is looking into a complaint of discrimination at a property in Dallas, where the host refused to rent to a male couple.On Twitter, Curtis Kimberlin Jr. shared the exchange his partner had over the weekend with the Airbnb host.

Prosecutors on Monday filed a motion to bring new charges against the alleged shooter who authorities say gunned down five people at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. More than a dozen were injured.Authorities have added more than 10 new charges including attempted murder, attempted assault, bodily injury with a deadly weapon, and a bias-motivated crime (which is Colorado’s hate crime designation), according to court documents.A hearing is set for Friday at 2:00 p.m., according to local authorities. Related: Who Were the 5 Victims of the Club Q Shooting?The suspect allegedly entered Club Q late on November 19 with an AR-style weapon and a handgun and opened fire, killing Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh, and Derrick Rump. About 20 others were injured, police have said, most of whom suffered gunshot wounds.

Black transgender woman Jasmine “Star” Mack, 36, was stabbed to death Saturday in Washington, D.C., the first reported violent death of a trans person in the U.S. in 2023.She was found lying in the street “in an unconscious and unresponsive state with an apparent stab wound to their right leg,” according to a police report quoted by the Washington Blade. It’s possible for a person to bleed to death from a leg wound, a spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office told the Blade.

Prosecutors on Monday filed new charges against the alleged shooter who authorities say gunned down five people at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. More than a dozen were injured.Authorities have added more than 10 new charges including attempted murder, attempted assault, bodily injury with a deadly weapon, and a bias-motivated crime (which is Colorado’s hate crime designation), according to court documents.Related: Who Were the 5 Victims of the Club Q Shooting?Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly entered Club Q on the night of November 19 and began shooting.

A new study find women who experience intimate partner violence are three times more likely to contract HIV. Regions like sub-Sarahan Africa show the highest prevalence of IPV and HIV worldwide, and sub-Sarahan African women accounted for 63 percent of new HIV infections in 2020.The full report, posted on The Lancet, showed a pooled analysis of nationally representative surveys in the region — 57 surveys with information on self-reported HIV testing and past-year physical or sexual IPV from 30 different countries showed that IPV was associated with both the recent increase in HIV diagnoses and a drop in viral suppression.“Worldwide, more than one in four women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime,” Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, McGill University Professer, Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling said on News Medical.

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.

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(CNN) -- A campaign watchdog group is filing a complaint Monday with the Federal Election Commission, accusing newly sworn-in Rep. George Santos of illegally using campaign funds to pay personal expenses and of concealing the source of more than $700,000 that the New York Republican plowed into his election bid.The Campaign Legal Center's complaint also alleges that the embattled congressman's campaign falsified how it spent campaign funds, citing dozens of disbursements of exactly $199.99 -- one penny below the threshold above which campaigns are required to retain receipts.The complaint marks the latest potential legal complication for Santos, who has been widely criticized for his fabrications about his biography.

Four men in the U.K. were quickly arrested just hours after they allegedly engaged in a hate-related sexual assault against a young woman last night.West Midlands Police arrested the four men, aged 18 to 22, after they were allegedly observed via CCTV assaulting a young woman in her 20s around 5:30 a.m.

Newly-released data from the UK’s census has shown that being bisexual is almost as common as being gay or lesbian in England and Wales.

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.

The new queens from the next season of MTV's RuPaul’s Drag Race sat down with GLAAD to discuss the anti-drag sentiment spreading among right-wingers across the country.Speaking with GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos, the new contestants discussed how they experience and fight the relatively new phenomenon spreading across the country that has painted drag queens as somehow dangerous to children and communities.“I don’t know any drag queen who’s trying to hurt nobody. Yeah, there’s different kinds of drag – I know my drag can sometimes be very sexy too, but it’s like I am not trying to hurt [anybody.] People who are swearing by their guns and their bibles are hurting more people than they know,” said Salina EsTitties.Fellow queen Jax explained that drag is a creative outlet of expression.“[Drag] is so many things that we love about ourselves and our life experiences… [we] create these characters to just continue to highlight our own personal journeys.

Four men have been arrested after a woman was physically and verbally assaulted in Birmingham’s Gay Village.

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Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has poked fun at his coming out announcement with another video on social media.

Looking for a new Real Housewives ally? Whitney Rose seemingly has a new social media fan following costar Jen Shah’s sentencing.

MTV has stepped into their Real Housewives bag with their upcoming new reality series, The Real Friends of WeHo. 

Dave Bautista revealed that he covered up his Manny Pacquiao tattoo after the former boxer made homophobic comments.

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ABC television series The Parent Test returns tonight. The unscripted series looks at different perspectives of parenting through 12 families that are followed.Hosted by Ali Wentworth and Adolph Brown, the families share their experiences in parenting as camera crews film the highs and lows of being a parent.

A central Texas LGBTQ+ bar's owner abruptly fired all employees on New Year's Day and shuttered the business, leaving a community devastated and without a safe space for LGBTQ+ people.Staff and management of the Stonewall Warehouse in San Marcos, a college town between San Antonio and Austin, were told by owner Jamie Frailicks on Sunday that they no longer had a place to work, former manager Lena Jacobs tells The Advocate.After arriving 30 minutes early to meet the owner without a care in the world, she says the two exchanged initial pleasantries and light-hearted banter before heading upstairs when Frailicks's demeanor changed."He told me that this was about to be a hard meeting and that he was shutting the bar down," Jacobs, who had been managing the Stonewall Warehouse for five years, says. "It just blindsided me out of nowhere."She continues, "I sat there, and he talked to me for ten minutes.

A Florida college student is under arrest after he allegedly used the popular instant messaging and social media platform Discord to threaten a mass shooting at Florida State University.Sean Michael Albert, 19, of Winter Park, and a student at Full Sail University was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making an interstate communication to threaten to injure another person. The criminal complaint alleges that on December 16 of last year Albert posted a picture to a Discord server showing an AK-47 with the following text:“600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

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STRANGER Things star Noah Schnapp has come out as gay in a candid video on TikTok. The 18-year-old - who plays closeted gay teenager Will Byers on the Netflix series - said he was "scared and in the closet" for years.