GOP candidate Scott Esk has some WILD views about gay people that voters should know about

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Chinese-owned video streamer iQiyi has confirmed that it has blocked access in Singapore to ten gay-themed TV series. But it says that the move is temporary. “The content was temporarily removed in compliance with the Infocomm Media Development Authority’s guidance towards R21 content,” a company spokesman told Variety by email. R21 restricts viewing to people aged over 21. The shows blocked include iQiyi’s Thai-language original “KinnPorsche and “Until We Met Again” that fall into the ‘Boys Love’ or BL genre. Soft-core romances between (mostly young and handsome) men have become hugely popular in Southeast Asia. And much of the audience for them is adult and female.

Thirty four years ago a young newly graduated police constable Tim Dooley arrested LGBTQI activist Rodney Croome, who was calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Tasmania. Last week the two met for the first time after over three decades in very different circumstances. This was just the second encounter between Cooley, now a Commander with the Tasmanian Police, and Croome, a former Tasmanian of the Year, who was appointed Member of Order of Australia for his LGBTQI activism in 2003. Croome recalls that in 1988 the LGBTQI community’s relationship with the local police were “at a low ebb”. In 1988, Tasmania’s LGBTQI community started their decade long battle to call for the repeal of the law that criminalised homosexuality with up to 21 years imprisonment.

An Emmy nominated, out gay New York-based Meteorologist and TV presenter, Erick Adame, said he was fired from his “dream job”, after someone took screenshots of him performing on an adult cam website and sent it to his mother and employer. Adame, who has over over 15 years broadcast journalism experience, was the resident weatherman on the ‘Mornings On 1′ show on weekdays on Spectrum News’ NY1 channel since 2017. He was part of the NY1 team that was nominated twice for the Emmys for their coverage of Hurricane Ida and Tropical Storm Isaias. “Despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country in front of millions of people five days a week for more than a decade and a half, I secretly appeared on an adult webcam website,” Adame revealed to his social media followers. “On this site, I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men.

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors have asked Interpol to issue a fugitive alert for the founder of Terraform Labs as they investigate a US$40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency that devastated retail investors around the world.

After finishing the 2022 season in third place in the WNBA Western Conference with an 18-18 record, the Dallas Wings are looking for a new head coach, according to a press release today (Monday, Sept. 19) from the team’s head office.

Original Sin was recently renewed for a second season on HBO Max. Yay!

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I'm excited for Billy Eichner's Bros, the Judd Apatow-produced rom-com that is being billed as the first gay entry in the field to be released by a major studio.

World leaders joined the British royal family and 2,000 other dignitaries for the hourlong state funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey Monday.

Lil Nas X was unfazed by homophobic protesters camped outside his recent show in Boston, instead extending an olive branch in the form of pizza.The rapper (real name Montero Hill) performed at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway last Sunday (September 20). Across the street from the venue’s entrance, a small group of Christian protestors convened to spout their bigoted messaging at those lined up for the show.Reposting a video taken by one of his fans, Hill joked that the protesters offered “really good promo”, noting that he’d “just told my team to send them pizza”.

Stop de doodsvonnissen tegen twee LHBTI-activisten in Iran en trek alle aanklachten tegen hen in. Die oproep doen ILGA World, ILGA Asia, 6Rang, COC Nederland en andere organisaties.

Welcome to Curtain Call, our mostly queer take on the latest openings on Broadway and beyond.A renewed interest in our country’s formative years unearths itself on stages across the country. Broadway soon welcomes an all-female/nonbinary production of 1776, the Tony Award-winning musical about our founding fathers reimagined through the creative lens of co-directors Diana Paulus and Jeffery L.

an advice-seeker who contacted Slate started dating his long-term best friend. “We’re a perfect match and stupidly attracted to each other,” he wrote, “but our sex life has been floundering recently.”The problem seems to be that the two are so used to hanging out platonically, that they both feel a little uncomfortable and clueless about how to relate sexually.The two are so used to playing video and tabletop games together that when they had an evening in with no plans, the boyfriend suggested they play the card game Uno.

Last week the news media was filled with reporters and many others investigating Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ transporting 50 asylum seeking Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard, with the week ending on reports the State of Florida paid Vertol Systems $615,000 to execute the flights.

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Below are our picks for some of the most fun and creative things to do this week in the DMV that are of special interest to the LGBTQ community.

We had a little bit of a weird thing. After my show went off the air and hers was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, “Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes.

Open, was published in January, I realized its release was an opportunity to come out to all my family and friends. Jen Winston, bisexual author of the groundbreaking 2021 essay collection Greedy, encouraged me to try owning the label. And indeed, I found that though I’d tried on labels like queer, pansexual, and fluid, something about owning the word bisexual — and its history — has indeed been powerful.  So, perhaps I’m more on the lookout for bisexual books than ever before.

B. Pagels-Minor, a former Netflix employee who organized protests of Dave Chappelle’s transphobic comedy special; Barbra Seville, a drag queen that stood up to a GOP politician and brought receipts; Maia Kobabe, a nonbinary author who found emself at the center of the right’s book-banning craze; Adrian Jawort, who sued a pastor who lied about her and misgendered her… and won; and HRC legal director Sarah Warbelow, who testified in Congress about LGBTQ people’s rights in the wake of Roe being overturned and stood up to a Republican Congressman who was erasing bisexual people.The nominees for Hero who Stood Up with Dignity came out, fought back, and stood tall.

The drag queen icon impersonator hall of fame is pretty well established at this point: Cher has Chad Michaels, Britney has Derrick Berry, etc. After the last stop of the Chromatica Ball tour, the world has finally met Lady Gaga‘s match.Brazilian queen Penelopy Jean has been performing as Mother Monster for years, but her greatest performance of all might have been trying to escape the arena following the show in full Gaga-geish.The final stop of the Chromatica Ball in Miami was unfortunately rained out mid-performance.

Curtis Ried has been named chief of staff at the National Security Council, making him the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to hold that post or any senior leadership position at the NSC, NBC News reports.“We are excited to have Curtis take on this critical leadership role for our team,” said a statement from National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. “I’m confident he will bring to it his trademark smarts, skills, and collegiality, sharpened across his nearly 20 years as a Foreign Service Officer and multiple tours at the NSC.”Ried is currently senior director for multilateral affairs at the NSC.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has some bizarre ideas about, well, everything.The notoriously anti-LGBTQ lawmaker has said she believes straight people face extinction within 150 years, called for the end of Pride month, and regularly spews anti-trans rhetoric that’s best left unrepeated.Now the far-right congresswoman has offered her hot take on electricity, and let’s just say she’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene might want to delete this video before it’s too lateSpecifically, she appears to be in disbelief about the existence of batteries — you know, those things that were invented in 1800 to provide power without the need for cords.After learning that Air Canada recently placed an order for 30 electric airplanes, Greene expressed some rather dim concerns.

Erick Adame, who has been the meteorologist for Spectrum's NY1 for about four years, announced that he had been fired on Monday."I have recently been terminated from my job as the meteorologist at Spectrum News NY1 in NYC," he wrote in a statement on Instagram. "I am taking this opportunity to share my truth rather than let others control the narrative of my life."In the letter, Adame, who has been nominated for two Emmy awards for his work, wrote that "despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country," he had "secretly appeared on an adult website."The website itself was never named."On this site, I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men," he wrote.

A self-described American anglophile has been saving up for the eventuality of Queen Elizabeth II's death for years. Finally, this weekend, he had the bitter-sweet experience of a lifetime as he participated in the monarch's final tributes.Michael Tropp has been to England more than 15 times.

Virginia's governor has stripped transgender public school kids in the state's schools of fundamental rights to dignity and belonging. Under new policies by Republican Gov.

(CNN) -- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck just off the southwestern coast of Mexico, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).The Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami alert warning of potentially hazardous waves striking Mexico immediately.There are no known casualties or damage yet recorded in Mexico City, according to the city's mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum.The USGS provided more detail, saying that the quake struck about 23 miles (37 kilometers) southeast of the city of Aquila, in Michoacan state. The quake depth was about 9.4 miles (15.1 kilometers), the USGS also reported.The news comes on the fifth anniversary of the 2017 earthquake that killed 216 people in Mexico City.The epicenter of that 7.1-magnitude earthquake was 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) east-northeast of San Juan Raboso and 34.1 miles (55 km) south-southwest of the city of Puebla, in Puebla state, the USGS reported at the time.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

Premiering Thursday on Netflix is the documentary short The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone. The film spans 19 years following Georgie, an Australian transgender teen, as she works to change the laws of her country while affirming her gender and finding her voice.

Spoilers ahead for the latest episode of House Of The Dragon, “We Light The Way.”House Of The Dragon, we have a problem.A spin-off of HBO’s wildly popular and occasionally problematic Game Of Thrones, this fantasy prequel had every opportunity to course-correct many of the original’s dubious choices. And yet…Apparently, old habits die hard as House Of The Dragon found itself relying on the same unfortunate trope that plagued GoT—one that’s been all-too-common on television for years: Killing off LGBTQ characters.We see the trope— known as “bury your gays”—time and time again, from Buffy The Vampire Slayer to Grey’s Anatomy, where queer characters are treated as expendable and frequently offed as some sort of turning point for our (typically straight) heroes.Related: Bury Your Gays: 109 Dead Gay and Bisexual Male TV Characters, And How They DiedPreviously, on House Of The Dragon, we were introduced to Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate)—a prince who made a pretty bad*ss entrance on the back of dragon—and Ser Joffrey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod), canonically queer characters from George R.R.

Why is it always on the Democrats to compromise? To be the nice ones? To take the high road to nowhere? On Thursday, the bipartisan group of senators behind the Respect for Marriage Act, which would have enshrined federal protections for same-sex marriage, announced a delay on putting the measure to a vote, which had been expected to take place this week. According to the bill’s lead sponsor, Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat of Wisconsin, postponing the vote until after the November elections would increase the likelihood of getting the 10 Republicans on board necessary to push it through today’s filibustery Senate, where 60 votes would be needed for it to advance.

California has passed a law making it easier for veterans discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell” to receive benefits.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 325 into law over the weekend, establishing the Veterans Discharge Upgrade Grant Program, the Associated Press reports.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday spoke at an LGBTQ and intersex rights event that took place on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly.

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A post shared by Colton Haynes (@coltonlhaynes)Beauty influencer Manny Gutierrez jokingly commented, “milf alert”. This prompted a crying-with-laughter emoji from Haynes.One woman commented, “You have better cleavage than me.”Haynes has built up a following with his candid Instagram feed.

performing on stage. Valencia Prime, 25, was halfway through her 'Prime Time' show at the Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar when she suddenly dropped ill on September 12.The star, who called herself "Philadelphia’s Plus Size Dancing Diva", tragically passed away from heart disease, obesity and diabetes, according to medics. READ MORE Farmer beaten to death by pet kangaroo to be buried next to alpaca in animal cemetery Emergency services rushed to the US gay bar following reports that she had become "unresponsive" during the show she was hosting.

ruling, Meachum said the PFLAG families have demonstrated a likelihood that they will suffer “probably, imminent, and irreparable injury” if the state Department of Family and Protective Services is allowed to continue with its investigations into transgender youth receiving doctor-recommended medical care and their parents.Some of that harm includes potentially having transgender youth taken out of their parents’ custody and placed into foster care, as well as the parents potentially facing criminal charges and penalties. Meachum also found that DFPS did not begin investigating gender-affirming care as child abuse until after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order directing the agency to investigate parents who have allowed their children to receive transition-related care, including puberty blockers, which delay the onset of secondary sex characteristics.Abbott based that order on an opinion issued by Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who stated that that all the forms of surgical and hormonal interventions for transgender youth constitute “abuse,” and violate minors’ fundamental right to procreation by subjecting them to treatments that can potentially cause sterilization.Although DFPS began investigating several families with transgender children following Abbott’s directive, the Texas Supreme Court later found, in a partial victory for a group of transgender plaintiffs and advocates, that the governor had overstepped his authority.

GOSHH (Gender, Orientation, Sexual Health and HIV) is a charity based in Limerick, located in Redwood Place on Davis Street. It first opened in 1986, under the name of Gay Switchboard Limerick. It was originally set up as a volunteer support helpline, and over the years, it evolved as a signpost for information and support […]

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Daniel Franzese starred as one of the first gay characters in the film industry to be shown in countries where identifying as LGBTQ can cost your life. That’s because Mean Girls‘ Damian might have been too gay to function, but he never verbalized his sexuality in the movie, which allowed it to move past censorship, and many viewers around the globe got a glimpse of their first gay person.

Meet Linda Paulson. She’s a Salt Lake City grandmother who just announced that she’ll be on the ballot for Utah State Senate… in a rap video.The video was actually posted to Paulson’s YouTube channel earlier this month but didn’t get much attention until local media in Utah noticed it over the weekend.Related: Move over, Lauren Boebert! Colorado might send another LGBTQ-hating, QAnon nutjob to Congress!In it, Paulson rhymes her way through her political values, which include things like loving God, opposing abortion, being “pro-religious freedom” and “pro-police”, and supporting “traditional family” among other extreme right-wing beliefs.“And just to clarify, as a female adult, I know what a woman is,” she raps.According to her campaign website, Paulson, who graduated with a degree in “Family Life” from anti-LGBTQ Brigham Young University in 2007, opposes student athletes competing on teams that match their gender identity and wants to ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ issues in the classroom because she considers it “pornography.”So far, she doesn’t appear to have racked up any meaningful endorsements and, according to her campaign’s most recent Received Contributions Report filed with the state, she has accepted a total of $4,190.33 in donations.

Queen Elizabeth II as her coffin arrived at Windsor Castle after an emotional journey that started in central London at 12pm.The late sovereign was welcomed by thousands of grieving royal fans, with some holding up their phones to record the historic moments while others threw flowers on the state hearse.Dame Joan Collins took to Instagram and said today marked a "personally poignant" day for the actress.The Dynasty actress explained September 19 - the day of the Queen's funeral - held significance as it was the same day her sister, Jackie Collins died.Jackie died on 19 September 2015, of breast cancer, two weeks before her 78th birthday.She had been diagnosed with stage-4 breast cancer more than six years before her death but kept her illness almost entirely to herself.In view of her 292,000 followers, Joan shared a candid black and white snap of their sisters when the pair were young.Joan cradled Jackie in her arms as she looked lovingly at her younger sister, before penning an emotional tribute on the anniversary of her sibling's death.She captioned the post: "It’s personally poignant to me that we should be mourning the passing of #queenelizabeth on the same day as I mourn seven years since the passing of my dear sister @jackiejcollins."Social media users flocked to the comment section as they offered their support.A post shared by Joan Collins (@joancollinsdbe)Poetic.Heart wrote: "Thoughts and prayers."Jeffrey Lane commented: "Beautiful photo," as Passion Flower stated: "Thank you for posting."Martslondon remarked: "So moving and beautiful.So happy to have met you and your sister."SusanFur shared: "I just watched the special last night Boss Lady she was so amazing and what a story.

Dallas Police responded to a shooting at about 11:50 p.m. on Sunday, Sept.18 in the 2500 block of Lemmon Avenue.

Multiple sources have told Vanity Fair that Flash actor Ezra Miller is battling mental health and substance abuse issues that have resulted in a chaotic and dangerous home and lifestyle.According to these sources, Miller has a messianic vision of themself and uses their celebrity status to groom vulnerable persons and create a cult-like following. Sources also described Miller’s Vermont farm as filled with guns, drugs, and squalor, as well as an altar to marijuana, sage, and bullets.One unnamed source said Miller’s mental health issues and their hard-partying ways accelerated during downtime after projects had wrapped.

Please Baby Please is finally heading to a theater near you and, well, you’ve just got to see it to believe it.For couple Suze (Birdman‘s Andrea Riseborough) and Arthur (Henry Melling, a.k.a. Harry Potter‘s Dudley Dursley), life’s got no gas—at least not until they encounter a neighborhood biker gang who really revs their engines.Related: Here’s all of the queer, must-see movies and TV shows headed your way this fallThe genderqueer gang goes by the name of The Young Gents—they’re like West Side Story‘s Jets, but with a BDSM fetish.

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Reporters in Oklahoma are asking a candidate with a violent past why he refuses to reply to their questions about comments he made years ago suggesting gay people should be executed. Today, Republican Scott Esk faces fellow Republican Gloria Banister in a runoff for a state house seat.Esk, 56, according to LGBTQ Nation, is being confronted by the local press about his previous comments, and, "He's not handling them well."Esk said in a video he disseminated online on Sunday to "set the record straight" for the third time that reports of his views were manufactured to make him appear in a bad light, calling them "hit pieces."As a result of a local news station reporting on his old comments, he responded in a YouTube video on July 15. He said that he believes his stance on homosexuality makes him a "Christian.""I've stood up for what is right in the past, and I intend to in the future, and I am right now.

Republican candidate running for a seat in Oklahoma's state House once said it is "totally just" to kill gay people in comments that have resurfaced amid his campaign.Scott Esk is running to represent Oklahoma's 87th House District, which includes parts of Oklahoma City. He is set to face another Republican Gloria Banister in a Tuesday runoff, but his campaign has faced scrutiny in recent days over the resurfaced comments, which began nearly a decade earlier.