Four men arrested for ‘hate-related sexual assault’ in Birmingham’s Gay Village

Scream 6, which is officially titled Scream VI, has finally given fans their first look at Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) and confirmed when we can expect the trailer to drop.

Cheyenne Jackson was breezy and relaxed when he spoke to us this fall at his home in the L.A. suburb of Granada Hills. Things seemed a lot lighter then — it was just a few weeks before his costar in the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, beloved gay icon Leslie Jordan, would die suddenly after a medical emergency that preceded a car accident. Jackson was so distraught by his friend’s passing he declined to speak to us for a follow-up interview.

The struggle to find oneself — and one’s chosen family — hits hard in the trailer for “Lonesome,” the latest film from Australian writer-director Craig Boreham, which hits theaters in the U.S. Feb.

A conservative preacher and pundit running for a U.S. House seat in Virginia who claims that homosexuality is a treatable disorder is being called out for his lack of compassion.Republican Leon Benjamin, Sr.

A gay-owned restaurant in Chicago had a window shattered by a hammer-wielding man in a suspected homophobic attack last night.Witnesses and police say a man was shouting antigay slurs at a couple in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood afternoon and followed them into the R Public House in the 1500 block of West Jarvis Avenue. The man allegedly turned violent when fellow patrons stood up to the man and told him to leave.“He walked in, started calling them some like antigay slurs, and they were like, ‘Just leave, man, just get out of here,’” bar employee Corey Rolon told local ABC affiliate WLS-TV.

The LGBTQ+ corners of the internet rejoiced this weekend after learning that a White Lotus star was being considered for the role of gay pop star George Michael.James is the top contender for a big-budget film about Michael's rise from his days with Wham! to his solo career, the Daily Mail reports. Michael died in 2016.Appearing on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen last week, the tall, dark and handsome hunk noted his and Michael's shared Greek heritage when asked by a viewer about the possibility but otherwise remained mum."Oh yeah, I would love that," James said. "He's a lot of Greek, and I'm a lot of Greek.

Maren Morris issued an apology to contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race for the manner in which country music has treated the LGBTQ+ community.  Morris, 32, an acclaimed country singer and outspoken supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, fought back tears as she thanked contestants for making her feel like a 'brave voice' in her genre.'Coming from country music and it's relationship with LGBTQ+ members, I just want to say I'm sorry and I love you guys for making me feel like a brave voice in country music,' Maren told contestants as she spoke with them after the episode on Untucked.  'I just want to say I'm sorry': Maren Morris issued an apology to contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race over country music's treatment towards members of the LGBTQ+ community 'So I just thank you guys so much... inspiring me, I'm gonna cry, I need to go!' Maren, who was guest hosting the episode, added. Maren was praised as an 'ally' by the contestants as they thanked her for her kind words.  'Just you being here shows you're an ally,' one of the participants said.  'I also just want to say because you're a country gal, you're validation of my dolly meant everything to me! That made me feel amazing!' one touched contestant gushed.

(CNN) -- In what could be the first of many major pieces of hardware for him this award season, Brendan Fraser picked up best actor for his role in film festival darling "The Whale" at Sunday's Critics Choice Awards.Fraser had some mighty competition for the award, including Golden Globe winners Austin Butler, star of "Elvis," and Colin Farrell, who starred in "The Banshees of Inisherin."Tom Cruise ("Top Gun: Maverick"), Paul Mescal ("Aftersun") and Bill Nighy ("Living") were also nominated.Ultimately, the organization -- made of up more than 600 media critics and entertainment journalists -- picked Fraser, whose turn as a reclusive, obese teacher named Charlie in the Darren Aronofsky film has turned heads since its standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. "It was Herman Melville who once wrote that there are only five critics in America -- the rest are asleep.

GEMMA Collins has given fans an update on her mystery aching foot that left her unable to walk - sparking rumours that she is 'cursed'. Ever since the GC , 41, arrived home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with fiancé Rami Hawash, she has been in excruciating pain. Recently the star invited a personal trainer, physiotherapist and spiritual healer to her home to ease her discomfort.

Maren Morris apologised to the queens during Drag Race: Untucked for country music’s treatment of the LGBTQ+ community.  

Maren Morris shared a sweet moment with the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race when she apologized to them for the relationship country music has with members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Proud of the rainbow! During Maren Morris’ guest appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race, she opened up about the country music industry’s frequent homophobia.

Bridgerton author Julia Quinn has expressed her support for the Netflix adaptation to feature a gay protagonist. 

Zander Murray has made LGBTQ+ history after signing with one of the Scottish Professional Football League’s (SPFL) top teams. 

Hope this finds all enjoying a new year, despite the spectacle recently created in our House of Representatives not been seen since times of legal slavery in America. Rep.

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.

The official series trailer for Wolf Pack has arrived.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 on suspicion of a hate-related sexual assault in a popular gay village. Police report that a woman was assaulted and threatened with a knife in the early hours of the morning.

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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.

Spoilers ahead for the double premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15.  

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Strathaven Academy is to receive a £5,000 cash injection for a progressive diversity and racial equality project.

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.