Friday Night Live slammed with 1.4k Ofcom complaints after transgender comedian strips completely naked

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — As the midterm campaign enters the homestretch, it’s time for unity rallies. Here in Michigan, that meant bringing the Republican candidates for governor, secretary of state and attorney general together in an empty lot outside a church on a breezy Friday night to speak to a few hundred supporters, who had been amped up by a soundtrack strikingly similar to the set list played before a Trump campaign rally.

GEMMA Collins revealed her secret PTSD battle after nearly losing her Essex home while her father was in hospital with Covid. The reality star, 41, said her HSBC bank account with all her savings was suddenly frozen and she was put through "hell" by the bank - just as she was about to exchange on her dream home. The Essex favourite said the shock of being left cashless while making the biggest financial move of her life left her traumatised and "embarrassed".

Democrats have a master plan to bring undocumented immigrants into the United States to perform gender confirmation surgeries on them and then send a bunch of transgender people around the country to infiltrate society.   None of that is of course, true, but viewers of Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News would not know any better if they saw Ohio's Republican senate candidate J.D.

Sigal Chattah, the Republican nominee for Nevada attorney general, is defending and doubling down on her use of an anti-transgender slur.In late September, Chattah drew criticism for using the t word (The Advocate won’t use the full term, but be warned, it’s used in the video below) and for saying there should be “a lot less” trans people. Then recently, Las Vegas TV interviewer Brian Loftus asked her about her use of the term, which she has defended because, she said, it’s used in books and movies.“Since that community considers it offensive, why not use the term that that community does not deem offensive?” Loftus asked.“Like what, like drag queen?” Chattah responded, apparently unaware that most trans people are not drag queens and many drag queens are not trans.

The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine held a joint meeting Friday afternoon that devolved into chaos after the two regulatory bodies failed to agree on language regarding access to gender-affirming treatment. Florida regulators have been considering rules to ban such treatment for minors.A provision allowing minors access to gender-affirming care in research settings was at issue.The rule in the Standards of Practice for the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria in Minors states, "Nonsurgical treatments for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors may continue to be performed under the auspices of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved, investigator-initiated clinical trials conducted at any of the Florida medical schools set forth in Section 458.3145(1)(i), Florida Statutes.

“What do you like about your body?”That’s typically one of the first questions that therapist, life coach, author, PrEP promoter, and longtime HIV activist Damon L. Jacobs asks his guests on his YouTube show, Tub Talks With Damon L.

A mother of four from Tennessee has been hailed for an epic demonstration of allyship captured on video.During a meeting of the Maury County Board of Trustees on October 26, 33-year-old Jessee Graham got up to speak from the heart as she addressed the recent resignation of the public library director. After months of controversy over a Pride month display that included LGBTQ+ Brooks, Zachary Fox had resigned.

The UK’s latest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to review where transgender rights stand in the Equality Act 2010.

Right-wing extremist groups and political candidates are spending millions of dollars to spread lies about transgender children along with the “grooming” narrative leading up to next Tuesday’s election, notes a new analysis from the Human Rights Campaign.The worst offenders include America First Legal, an organization run by former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller; the American Principles Project, which features such big names on the far right as Maggie Gallagher and Terry Schilling; and Republican U.S. Sen.

My son turned 18 this past August, and so he is a first-time voter this year. He’s been raised by a cisgender, heterosexual, social worker mom who has stood on the frontlines of progressive social justice issues for many, many years. He’s attended Pride celebrations, rallied on street corners for an equa

The Nets suspended guard Kyrie Irving indefinitely Thursday for his “failure to disavow antisemitism” since he posted a link to an antisemitic movie on Twitter last week, though he had said there were some things in the movie he did not agree with. “I didn’t mean to cause any harm,” Irving said after a Nets practice Thursday. “I’m not the one that made the documentary.” Irving declined to apologize for the post, and when asked what specific points in the movie he did not agree with, he responded vaguely.

Modern Family star Julie Bowen revealed that she once had romantic feelings for a woman.

An appeals court ruled on Wednesday that requiring the Miss USA pageant to allow transgender women to compete would violate its first amendment right to communicate “the ideal vision of American womanhood.”The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a two-to-one decision that forcing the organization to allow Anita Green, a transgender woman, to participate in the pageant would violate its First Amendment rights.The Oregon woman sued Miss United States of America Pageants in federal court in Portland last year after her application to participate was denied.The 9th Circuit ruled that Enforcing Oregon’s law would violate the pageant’s free speech rights under the U.S.

A popular gay leather bar in Chicago celebrated its 45th anniversary with a performance that critics found so offensive that one of the establishment’s bartenders quit on the spot and several patrons got up and left the bar. The famous kink and leather bar Touché hired puppeteer Jerry Halliday to entertain a crowd assembled for the anniversary soiree. Video clips of the performance show jokes that played on stereotypes and racist tropes of Black women and transgender people.Halliday, who is white, pulled out a black puppet that he introduced as “Sista Girl,” which, according to bartender Cris Bleaux, made him immediately uncomfortable.Halliday changed his voice to sound like a caricature of a Black person.

Social media influencer Gena Tew announced in March that she has been battling AIDS, which is caused by untreated HIV. She has since documented her journey on her Instagram and TikTok, where she has amassed close to a million followers.Recently, she took to her social media to address questions regarding her fertility since revealing her diagnosis, as well as revealing she is not undetectable and growing healthier by the day.“So, I haven’t had a period in over a year, and I was actually worried about that myself,” she said in the video before adding that her menstruation returned.

I remember asking my mother when my penis was going to grow. Bless her heart, Millie Pete just nodded and said it wouldn’t because I was a girl.

A study from the researchers at University of Texas at Austin, and published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, found some important differences in how same-sex and opposite-sex couples deal with stress.Although stress is common in all sorts of marriages, researchers found that same-sex married couples, because they are generally more collaborative than their opposite-sex counterparts, are able to deal with stress better together.There were 419 couples who answered a survey on dyadic (paired) coping, and the analysis revealed the differences. Researchers have concluded this comes from a link between gender and coping strategies.The study author, Yiwen Wang, said, “This research shows that while there are some gender differences in dyadic coping efforts, the effects of supportive and collaborative dyadic coping as well as of negative dyadic coping on marital quality are the same for all couples.”“Our findings also emphasise the importance of coping as a couple for marital quality across different relationship contexts, which can be an avenue through which couples work together to strengthen relationship wellbeing.”Wang theorizes the reason both male and female same-sex couples work better collaboratively stems from similarities in stress response as well as shared experiences that are gender-specific.“Same-sex couples face unique stressors related to discrimination and stigma,” says Debra Umberson, Wang’s co-author, who points out that same-sex couples are less likely to have the same support straight couples may have.

A doughnut shop in Tulsa, Okla., that had hosted an art installation featuring drag queens was attacked with a Molotov cocktail this week.The shop, the Donut Hole, had also been burglarized two days after the drag event, which was part of its grand opening October 15, the Tulsa World reports. The event had drag queens serving sculptures of doughnuts as well as real ones.Then Monday, the Donut Hole posted security video showing a “hooded and masked figure” breaking a window with a baseball bat and throwing a bottle with a flaming substance into the shop, according to the World.

Dwayne Wade’s ex-wife has asked a judge to block Wade from allowing their trans daughter, Zaya, to change her name and gender on her birth certificate. Siohvaughn Funches-Wade claims the basketball star is taking advantage of Zaya’s transgender identity for financial gain.Funches-Wade objected to Wade’s petition for recognition of their daughter Zaya’s gender change and the issuance of a new birth certificate. Since Zaya is only 15 years old, it’s necessary to have parental permission to obtain a court order granting the changes. Celebrity news site the Blast reports that Funches-Wade claims the NBA star is trying to circumvent the Illinois final custody order judgment entered in 2011.

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Florida’s Republican governor is continuing his assault on the LGBTQ+ community. This time, he’s using a campaign mailer to mock nonbinary people ahead of next week’s elections.The campaign document uses slick disinformation about DeSantis’ Democratic opponent, Charlie Crist, including the claim that President Joe Biden’s student loan plan would force “hard-working Floridians to pay back student loans for degrees like Gender Studies and French Poetry.” HuffPost received the mailer from a person in Fort Lauderdale.

GEMMA Collins looked trimmer than ever in a throwback beach clip posted to celebrate her new podcast. The 41-year-old showed off her figure in a swimsuit as she strutted down the beach looking slimmer than ever.

Julie Bowen fell in love with a gay woman who didn’t like her “in that way”. Opening up about her sexuality, the mum-of-three ‘Modern Family’ actress, 52, added she identifies as straight despite being once interested in a female. She told Becca Tilley, 34, on the latest episode of her ‘Quitters’ podcast, released on 1 November: “I’m straight.

In the course of excavating her family history, Letty Cottin Pogrebin examines shame — or shanda, in Yiddish — as a Jewish inheritance, “not because other people or groups don’t feel it,” she writes, “but because it’s coded into the DNA of my family and ABC’s of my faith.” A frank and often amusing tabulation of well-kept family secrets, SHANDA: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy (429 pp., Post Hill Press, $28) tells a story of high-stakes melodrama and surreptitious relations, in which runaway brides, false marriages, lost children and other moral crises abound. But there is more here than mishegas.

A middle school in central Oregon pulled its students from an outdoor educational camp after some parents and students expressed concern over the presence of nonbinary and transgender folks serving as cabin counselors. The camp’s director, however, said they were acting in accordance with the state’s civil rights laws.According to a report in the Central Oregon Daily, Culver Middle School superintendent Stefanie Garber said she made the “no-win” decision to pull all Culver Middle School students from Camp Tamarack in Singer last Monday after some students complained.“More than one of our boys’ cabins expressed that they were uncomfortable to our teacher,” Garber told the Daily.

A compilation of threats sent to Judge Mary Brown, who is presiding over a custody case involving a trans child.

Dwyane Wade and his ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade are not on the same page about their child.

The nearly 50-year mystery of the famed Lady of the Dunes has been solved.Her body was discovered on July 26, 1974 in Provincetown, making her the oldest unidentified homicide victim in Massachusetts.. Twelve-year-old Leslie Metcalfe and her parents were hiking after a day at a dune shack when they spotted something strange in the scrub pines.The nude body was lying on half a beach towel, as if she had been sharing it with a companion, her head resting on folded Wrangler jeans and a blue bandana.A blow to her head had left her nearly decapitated.

She who shall be named. Daniel Radcliffe opened up about Harry Potter author J.K Rowling’s anti-trans comments — and why he felt it was imperative to speak out against them.

Over 160 state bills across the country have been proposed that will directly affect and restrict trans rights, with restrictions extending all the way to the voting booth, the American Civil Liberties Union warns.“People who might be inclined to harass marginalized voters at the polls are more aware of trans people’s existence,” Olivia Hunt, the policy director at the National Center for Transgender Equality, told NBC News. “So I expect that we’re going to hear more stories of trans people being harassed, whether by voters, poll workers, poll monitors or other folks who are present during the election.”The National Conference of State Legislatures says that the majority of states require a voter to show identification for 2022’s election, while eight of them have strict photo ID laws, i.e., only a government issued ID will satisfy.

A woman in Las Vegas says she remains shaken from her experience last week when another woman berated her in a public restroom for being transgender. The problem is that she’s not trans, and, as she puts it, regardless of whether she had been, the entire situation was plainly wrong.In Las Vegas, Jay, a 24-year-old cis woman, was driving with her boyfriend when she said she had to use the restroom.Jay says the couple stopped at Rampart Casino after being out all day to fix a seat belt on their car.Because she knew she would take longer, she gave her boyfriend some money to gamble while he waited and she went to the bathroom.“As soon as I got in, I went straight to a stall,” Jay tells The Advocate. “About a minute or so in, I start to hear a woman being extremely aggressive.

 Emily Ratajkowski says that she believes sexuality is on a 'sliding scale' and that she doesn't believe in straight people.The 31-year-old  supermodel - who is launching podcast High Low with Emrata today - recently spoke candidly about her views on sexuality in a recent interview with Harper's Bazaar.She opened up about going viral during a TikTok trend she participated in last last month which said that women who own a green couch are bisexual.  Revealing: Emily Ratajkowski (pictured in Paris last month) says that she believes sexuality is on a 'sliding scale' and that she doesn't believe in straight peopleWhen asked if there was any truth behind the post, Emily replied: 'I think sexuality is on a sliding scale. I don’t really believe in straight people.'Emily had  divorced estranged husband Sebastian Bear-McClard less than a month earlier before making the eyebrow-raising post.

Kit Connor has taken to social media to come out as bisexual after he says he was forced to. The Heartstopper star is now receiving the support of his fellow cast members and the creator of the series.

Kit Connor called out Netflix’s Heartstopper fans who forced him to address his sexuality — after previously taking a break from social media due to public speculation about his love live.

One of the nation’s best-known transgender women, Caitlyn Jenner, has amplified right-wing criticism of trans TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney and misgendered Mulvaney in the process.Jenner, a conservative, has now apologized for the misgendering, blaming a member of her staff, but said she stands by the rest of her statements.Last week, Republican U.S. Sen.

The UK’s new equalities minister Kemi Badenock has halted work on banning ‘conversion therapy’.

(CNN) – The death toll has risen to 134 after a suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat on Sunday, as authorities revealed the structure had only recently reopened following repairs.Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi said Monday some 200 people are estimated to have been on the bridge in the town of Morbi when it collapsed into the river below on Sunday evening. A cable at one end appears to have snapped, he added.The state of Gujarat has lodged a criminal complaint against the agency that was handling the maintenance of the 750-foot-long bridge, which was built in the 19th century and reopened last week after renovations, he said.Photos from the scene Monday showed people gathering on the bank of the river Machchhu beside the mangled metal walkway, which hung at a sharp angle into the water, where rescue workers in inflatable dinghies searched for survivors.A five-person special investigation committee has been established to investigate the incident, Sanghavi said, amid an ongoing search and rescue operation by hundreds of personnel from state and national disaster relief teams and the Indian military.Speaking at a news conference in the early hours of Monday, Sanghavi did not say how many people are missing, but social media video showed dozens in the water following the collapse of the bridge.TV footage showed people holding the cables and remains of the bridge as emergency teams tried to reach them, Reuters reported.

Former Real Housewives of Orange County star Alexis Bellino introduced fans to her 15-year-old trans son, Miles.

A Thai trans activist and business tycoon has bought the long-running Miss Universe Organisation in a landmark deal. 

In a blow to trans rights, a Florida medical board committee has moved forward with a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth. 

In a blow to trans rights, the Florida Board of Medicine has moved forward with their ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth. 

World of Wonder has revealed that Michelle Visage will replace RuPaul as host of the upcoming episode of Drag Race UK.

Nonbinary contestant Rowan Ward has claimed a spot in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions with a win in the Second Chance Tournament.The Tournament of Champions brings together all the top winners of the previous season. This year, for the first time, Jeopardy! reserved two spots in the Tournament of Champions for winners of the Second Chance Tournament, televised over the past two weeks.

The truth is that speaking about menopause is a taboo topic. Although 80 percent of individuals assigned female at birth will face hot flashes and night sweats that come with menopause, the topic is still rarely discussed.

When Monica Roberts died unexpectedly in 2021, the Black trans journalist behind TransGriot left a gap in the world wider than most and it takes more than one person to fill it. As a longtime Texas LGBTQ+ activist, Roberts was a force both in media and politics, speaking and organizing nationwide, leading and agitating for change (and inclusion of BIPOC, trans women in particular).

BY THE DALLAS VOICE STAFF “We all love Leslie.” It was one comment from one person on one social media post following the death Monday, Oct. 24, of actor and comedian L

(CNN) – The federal government saw a spike in complaints from angry airline passengers in August, the last full month of a summer marked by flight cancellations and delays.In just-released data, the Department of Transportation says it received more than 7,000 complaints from flyers, a 6 percent increase compared with July and a 320 percent increase compared with pre-pandemic levels.“Flight problems was the highest category of the complaints received in August 2022,” the DOT says. “Of the 7,243 complaints received, 2,321 (32.0 percent) concerned cancellations, delays, or other deviations from airlines’ schedules.”The data also shows that in August, United Airlines took the top spot for canceled flights at 3.6 percent.

Time once again for some Pride on the court — the basketball court, that is. The Dallas Mavericks are hosting another Pride Night at the American Airlines Center on Friday, Nov. 4, when the Mavs host the Toronto Raptors. There will be a Pride Night Pre-Game Party in the AAC’s Mic Ultra Lounge starting at 6:30 p.m., and tip-off is at 7:30 p.m. Kathy Jack, the Mavs’ ambassador in the LGBTQ community, says the team will have lots of “Pride Night swag” to give away, and there will be plenty of new Pride items for sale in The Hangar. Tickets start at $35; get your tickets at https://tinyurl.com/mwessnps and you get access to the pre-game party and you get a Mavs Pride t-shirt.