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Donald Trump is having another headache of a week, and it’s only just started.On Monday, as millions of Americans enjoyed the day off for President’s Day, former President Trump launched his new social media app Truth Social. It was… bumpy.The rollout was plagued by a host of technical issues, with users reporting error message after error message.

Troubled talk show host Wendy Williams has just sustained yet another devastating blow. Producers have reportedly terminated her contract and will cancel her show after the conclusion of its current season.Williams has suffered a series of health and personal problems over the past year, including a case of COVID-19 and disputes with her bank, Wells Fargo.

This just in: Britney Spears is about to throw a tea party. The recently freed pop star has just inked a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster to write a tell-all memoir.Page Sixreports that the publisher won a bidding war for Spears’ book, signing her to a whopping $15 million contract.

Donald Trump Jr. has never been known for exhibiting much, if any, self-awareness.Over the weekend, he tweeted and then retweeted his support for the gaggle of rogue truckers protesting Canada’s COVID restrictions then called on the media to dox anyone connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s underage sex trafficking operation.Related: Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly hired OnlyFans star Jacob Wohl for $25,000 last month“Since the media is fine doxing ordinarily people for donating a few bucks to the Freedom Convoy Truckers you’d think they’d be fine doing the same to the pedophile scum named in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial complaints… but you’d be wrong,” the ex-president’s eldest son wrote.Since the media is fine doxing ordinarily people for donating a few bucks to the Freedom Convoy Truckers you’d think they’d be fine doing the same to the pedophile scum named in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial complaints… but you’d be wrong.— Donald Trump Jr.

Colorado web designer Lorie Smith. Smith wants to expand her wedding website services, however, she has argued that she would have to object to providing services for same-sex couples, according to the Associated Press.Additionally, Smith wants to include a statement on her website about her religious beliefs.

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The National Gallery of Ireland is standing by its decision to offer Direct Provision operator, Aramark, a catering contract for the establishment’s café. Gallery staff and artists have objected to the business relationship, with both groups penning letters to management expressing their concerns. The letter written by employees earlier this month warned the board that […]

GLAAD has released their 2022 LGBTQ Voter Pulse Poll, which gauges and tracks motivation, enthusiasm, and issues ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Pop culture guru David Ferguson is back with a look at the Troye Sivan movie ‘Three Months’, the depiction of HIV testing in movies and culture and how things have changed for the better. Troye Sivan announced on Instagram that he will be making his debut as a leading man in the upcoming film Three Months, […]

Illinois man is being held on $1 million bail after he allegedly attacked a man for being gay.Authorities say Ethan Dickerson is facing preliminary charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, aggravated unlawful restraint, home invasion, and a hate crime after he allegedly beat and attempted to kill the person.During the attack, Dickerson told the victim,  “You know why I have to do this. ... You're gay.  ...

REI launched Force of Nature, an outreach program designed to advance gender equity in the outdoors and inside the industry “from the backcountry to the boardroom,” as REI president and CEO Jerry Stritzke put it in a statement announcing the initiative.In the first three years, the Force of Nature project donated more than $2.5 million to dozens of organizations that promote inclusivity outdoors. The retailer later launched a new initiative, #OptOutside with Pride, that supports LGBTQ+ equality, and now partners with organizations like The Venture Out Project, Unlikely Hikers, TranSending, and Minority Veterans of America.

The New York Times just dropped a bombshell exposé titled “The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas” digging into Mrs. Thomas’s decades of work to advance extreme right-wing causes and the couple’s dubious claims that they operate in “separate professional lanes.”Related: Clarence Thomas’ wife is probably about to go through some thingsThe newspaper spoke to dozens of the Thomases’ classmates, friends, colleagues and critics, plus dozens more former Trump White House aides and supporters and several of Justice Thomas’s former clerks, and it reviewed hours of recordings and internal documents from groups the Thomases are connected to.For the three decades that Clarence Thomas has sat on the Supreme Court, he and Ginni Thomas have worked in tandem to take aim at targets like Roe v.

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has been amended with a requirement for schools to out students once they learn of them being LGBTQ+.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal from a Colorado web designer who objects to providing services for same-sex marriages, returning the justices to a battleground in the culture wars pitting claims of religious freedom against laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The court last considered the clash in 2018, when a similar dispute between a Colorado baker and a gay couple failed to yield a definitive ruling. The precise question the justices agreed to decide in the new case is “whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.” The court will hear the case, 303 Creative LLC v.

Last night RTÉ broadcast the stunningly poignant documentary Vincent Hanley: Sex, Lies & Videotapes, to huge acclaim. Produced and authored by Bill Hughes, a close friend of Vincent’s, the documentary takes a highly personal and fond look at the DJ’s career and his reluctance to reveal his sexuality or the truth behind his devastating illness. […]

And Just Like That dropped its first two episodes last December, former co-host of The View, Meghan McCain, penned a scathing review in her Daily Mail column. She attacked the “misguided, woke reboot of ‘Sex and the City’”, saying it was humorless and left her “simultaneously disappointed and depressed.”She highlighted what she perceived as a “clumsy attempt to reformat the show into the woke and puritanical times we are living in.” This included lead character Carrie being on a podcast with someone who is, “of course—queer and nonbinary.

Covid-19. It’s understood she’s had all her vaccines, but aged 95, there remain obvious concerns for her health.

Swim Swam reports.She not only bested Henig’s 47.80 record, which he had set earlier that day during morning heats, but also Henig himself, who came in second with a 47.82 swim.It was one of three individual victories Thomas secured.

The upcoming Lesbian Lives Conference in UCC will see the internationally renowned Susan Stryker giving a keynote speech. I spoke to her in advance of the conference, and, as a trans lesbian myself, I found her insights on trans people’s role at this point in world history incredibly illuminating. A former director of the Institute […]

A US official has warned the United Nations that Russia is planning to attack “vulnerable populations” in Ukraine, such as LGBTQ+ people. These minority groups will be targeted for criticising or refusing to live by Russian ideals and could allegedly end up murdered or sent to camps following an invasion. The letter addressed to the […]

How would you define familial love?Belinda Carlisle: I would say the first thing that comes to my mind is unconditional love, and that’s it. I mean, that’s the simplest answer.James Duke Mason: I agree with that. I’ve been so lucky that for me, from a young age, I always knew that love was unconditional from my mom and dad, and that definitely gave me the confidence and the courage to be the person that I wanted to be. Do you think there’s a special way of showing love between (often straight) parent(s) and a queer child?Carlisle: I always make jokes about that if I had a straight son, I would have nightmares about him bringing home a Kardashian.

West Side Story.” When listing the cast of an old movie – say, Judy Garland as Dorothy, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow – we add, “And Jo Van Fleet as the alcoholic mother.” Van Fleet won an Oscar for playing a monstrous mother in East of Eden.When Kevin got a job teaching music in a town near Chicago, I visited him often, and when I finally moved to Chicago, we had many great times exploring the city. Because of him and the other gay men (and LGBTQ+ people in general) I met, I started speaking out against homophobia wherever I encountered it – in the workplace, in social settings, whatever – and became an activist for LGBTQ+ rights.One of the gay men I got to know through Kevin was another Kevin, who lived near me in Chicago and was always ready with an offer to go out to dinner or the bars, or to make me dinner.

In a recent documentary named Gemma Collins: Self-Harm, the former TOWIE star, 41, opened up on her 20-year battle with self-harm and shared a side to her we'd been yet to see. During the hard-hitting documentary, Gemma had a heartfelt and honest conversation with her mum as she asked: "But what's more important, life being busy or your daughter hurting herself?" The duo then spoke openly about Gemma’s experience with self-harm, as Gemma asked her mum: "Did you not want to get help?" To which Joan replied: "Well, no, because you’re my daughter and my eyes are on you the whole time.

A US official has warned the United Nations that Russia is planning to attack “vulnerable populations” in Ukraine, such as LGBTQ+ people. These minority groups will be targeted for criticising or refusing to live by Russian ideals and could allegedly end up murdered or sent to camps following an invasion. The letter addressed to the […]

Xtra Magazine that his daughter didn’t want to tell friends why she was forced to use the nurse’s bathroom, which is on the other side of school, and would instead pretend that her arm was “really hurting her” to try and deflect questions from students who saw her in the corridors.But Phelan said that his daughter’s frequent trips to the nurse’s office instead lead some of her friends to worry about her health.“Every time she went to the bathroom, she told me that her friends asked if she had cancer,” Phelan said. “That’s the only reason they could come up with that she would have to go to the nurse so often.

Britney Spears will write and release a tell-all book in what is being called a “record-breaking” deal with publishers Simon & Schuster.

Liz Truss said the government “has no interest” in banning transgender people from using spaces that align with their gender identity.

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Russia allegedly has a list of “journalist, activists and gay rights advocates” to punish in the event it invades Ukraine, the US claimed.

THE Chase fans were left blushing by a VERY rude question - and even Paul Sinha couldn't keep a straight face. Monday's edition of the ITV quiz show saw contestant Alan take on The Sinnerman after taking £9,000 to the table from his Cash Builder.

GEMMA Collins looked fresh-faced as she went make-up free in a birthday tribute to her nephew Hayden. The former Towie star, 41, uploaded a video of her and the teen dancing in the car to a remix of Drake's song Get It Together.

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).He told RFI that the Senegalese who support the homosexual community “do not dare to publicly voice their opinions”.Sunday’s rally in Senegal’s capital was organised by a group known, in the Wolof language as And Samm Jikko Yi (Together we protect our values) regrouping some 125 local associations.Nn à l'homosexualité au sénégal pic.twitter.com/yV9rG8TsHTEleven members of parliament belonging to this group tabled a draft law in December 2020 seeking to toughen already severe laws against same sex relations. It was later rejected in January.The office of the National Assembly issued a statement saying that President Macky Sall made it clear that homosexuality will not be legalised and that it is already “severely punished by the Senegalese penal code”.Senegal’s article 319:3 states that “whoever will have committed an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex will be punished by imprisonment of between one and five years”.

Beijing 2022 was the best Winter Olympics and the worst all at once. It was the queerest Winter games ever, with a lot of out lesbians, some out gay men, the first nonbinary competitor and queer medalists galore. But it was still in Beijing, and China has been brutal on LGBTQ people and elided news of competitors from any state coverage. In addition, controversy over Chinese tennis phenom Peng Shuai continues. While she was seen publicly at the Olympics, she has been forced to withdraw both her rape accusation against a senior official and declare she is retiring from the sport, with no chance of outside intervention if she is never allowed to leave the country. Nevertheless, the early international outrage over China's human rights abuses was all but forgotten after the Olympics began. And there was much excitement —and drama— to be had. It really was glorious to watch.In some respects, queerness felt accepted and uncomplicated. Out Olympic veterans like skiier Gus Kenworthy and speedskater Brittany Bowe were at ease with their sexual identity and it was great modeling for queer kids and closeted adults.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, indicted nearly seven years on three felony charges on securities fraud violations and now under investigation by the FBI for abuse of power, released a formal attorney general opinion today (Monday, Feb. 21) declaring that “performing certain ‘sex-change’ procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law,” according to a press release from Paxton’s office.

An amendment added to the Florida “Don’t Say Gay Bill” will require schools to out LGBT students to their parents. The amendment to Florida House Bill 1557, filed by the Bill’s co-sponsor Representative Joe Harding (R) last Friday, would require schools to out sexually and gender diverse students to their parents within 6 weeks of discovery. The original bill still required disclosure but had an exemption if the disclosure could lead to “abuse, neglect or abandonment.” This exemption was removed in the current amendment. Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Candidate for Governor, Nikki Fried (D), tweeted, “This backwards cruelty must stop. Speak out against targeted hate legislation and support those leading the charge to protect civil rights like [Equality Florida] before it’s too late!”This backwards cruelty must stop.

A new amendment to Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill would require schools to inform parents of their child’s sexual orientation within six weeks of learning the student isn’t heterosexual, NBC affiliate WFLA reported on Monday.

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Governor Gavin Newsom slammed Florida’s far-reaching and dangerous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, urging Sunshine state lawmakers to stop pushing the legislation which he called “nothing short of a state-sponsored intimidation of LGBTQ children.”Newsom, who has a long history of standing up for LGBTQ people and same-sex marriage, rightly noted that the Florida legislation “will put kids – who are already navigating stress – in physical and psychological danger.”Indeed, the bill’s sponsor in the House is pushing a dangerous amendment to his own bill. Currently, the bill says schools must tell parents if their children exhibit mental or physical changes, which would include coming out as or even talking about possibly being LGBTQ.

Spider-Man and MJ haven’t found a new home just yet.

Russia has begun invading Ukraine? An invasion that seems all but imminent.The foreboding maps showing nearly 200,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine are alarming. Last Friday, President Joe Biden announced that it’s all but certain Russian President Vladimir Putin will invade the country. And U.S.

Russia has begun invading Ukraine? An invasion that seems all but imminent.The foreboding maps showing nearly 200,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine are alarming. Last Friday, President Joe Biden announced that it’s all but certain the Russian President Vladimir Putin will invade. And U.S.

Techno and progressive-dance inspired club NSFW (Not Safe for Work) is back and taking over Bow Lane Social Club for another fantastic night of inclusive queer fun! Set to return on 25 March, doors will open from 10:30 PM to a post-Covid celebration of our fabulous LGBTQ+ community. “This is an inclusive space for queer […]

Sometimes, moms with gay adult sons get hungry, and all they can think about is getting their hands on a sandwich.This week, Twitter user @SpiceBoyJoey wrote, “mom asked if Grindr is for ‘ordering subs’ and i just walked out of the room.”mom asked if Grindr is for “ordering subs” and i just walked out of the room— lisa barlow’s diet coke (@SpiceBoyJoey) February 14, 2022For those of you who might not know, “grinder” is another word for a submarine sandwich used in parts of New England, not to be confused with “Grindr”, the gay hookup app.Per Wikipedia:A common term in New England is grinder, but its origin has several possibilities. One theory has the name coming from Italian-American slang for a dock worker, among whom the sandwich was popular.Others say that it was called a grinder because the bread’s hard crust required much chewing.In Pennsylvania, New York, and parts of New England, the term grinder usually refers to a hot submarine sandwich (meatball, sausage, etc.), whereas a cold sandwich (e.g., cold cuts) is usually called a “sub”.

Pride and Prejudice has been the basis for a lot of great works since in its lifetime, but Andrew Ahn’s Fire Island just might make Jane Austen’s masterpiece into a modern queer classic. Saturday Night Live alum Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster (who also wrote the film) will star as the leads along with Matt Rogers, Margaret Cho, Conrad Ricamora, and James Scully.The film will premiere on Hulu sometime this year.Bros made headlines when it was announced that it would be the first major studio film made by an all queer cast, and then some more headlines when it was announced they'd be playing straight people.Billy Eichner will lead and write the comedy alongside love interest Luke Macfarlane, along with Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, and Guillermo Diaz.The film is scheduled to be release on Aug. 22.Tig Notaro and their wife Stephanie Allynne will make their directorial debut with a dramedy about two best friends trying to figure out their future.Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno lead a stacked queer cast as friends trying to make sense of their romantic feelings toward each other.The film will release later this year.Colman Domingo will star as gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin from director George C.

Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "They say that we're out of control and some say we're sinners/ But don't let them ruin our beautiful rhythms"This song is about church fuelled homophobia and persecution of queer people.Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "No masters or kings when the ritual begins/ There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin / In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene"The song talks about the feeling of having to change an integral part of oneself to get to heaven.Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "Without losing a piece of me/ How do I get to heaven?/ Without changing a part of me/ How do I get to heaven?"The song deals with the conflict of one's queerness and one's religious upbringing.Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "Holy Father, we need to talk/ I have a secret that I can't keep/ I'm not the boy that you thought you wanted/ Please don't get angry, have faith in me"This iconic anthem sings of personal liberation.Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "I've got to break free/ God knows; God knows I want to break free."The song is a celebration of the singer's personal relationship with God.Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "I'm not a saint, I'm more of a sinner / I don't wanna lose, but I fear for the winners"  This is another underrated song that captures the conflict between one’s queerness and relationship with God.Lyrics in the song that are truly the most relatable:  "God was never angry/ God was not against me/ God was never far away/ God is not disappointed”This song talks about the internal conflict of growing up in a religious setting as a queer person.Lyrics

aw shucks, there’s a white dad and his cute multiracial kids look. The staring continued…one second, two seconds, three seconds. Finally, I looked directly at her, leaving my gaze as locked as hers.