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Jerrod Carmichael is coming out.

Hey, remember the weird fat-shaming cult Clarence Thomas’ MAGA-obsessed wife Ginni belonged to in the ’80s that we told you about back in January? Well, a newly unearthed video of her talking about it has surfaced and it’s deeply unsettling.Cult expert and author Steven Hassan shared the clip on Twitter yesterday, where it quickly racked up over 1.3 million views in less than 24 hours.“I knew Ginni Thomas. Ginni Thomas was in a cult (the large group awareness training cult, Lifespring).

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Jerrod Carmichael — who is hosting “Saturday Night Live” on April 2 — has officially come out in his new HBO special, which premieres Friday night.“Rothaniel,” which was taped in February at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, weaves stories of Carmichael’s family history in with his own coming out process. At times contemplative, buoyant, and occasionally heartbroken, Carmichael talks about the weight of keeping this secret throughout his life and career, and how coming out has changed his relationships with his friends and family for both the better and the worse.After telling a story about catching his father cheating, Carmichael takes a beat and looks out at his audience. “After that was out in the open, I was left alone feeling like a liar, because I had a secret,” he says.

The season nine queen from RuPaul’s Drag Race and joint winner of All Stars season four, Trinity the Tuck Taylor has come out to the world as Trans and non-binary in a heartfelt Instagram post. “Years ago after starting drag I seriously questioned how I identified with my gender,” Trinity, whose pronouns are she/they, wrote. […]

Dangerous Woman singer has used her platform to advocate and donate funds. In 2021, worked with Better Help to in free therapy with the mental health app—she actually did this twice, once in early June 2021 and again for World Mental Health Day in October 2021.Ariana Grande’s “Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund” is approaching half a million dollars with the goal of 1.5 million expected to be met quickly.More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2022 Condé Nast.

Working from home has its perks…and challenges.Sharing a WFH setup with a significant other often falls squarely in the second category, as was the case when Paramount producer Jason Bowers accidentally crashed his husband’s zoom call in the buff.Bowers was walking out of the bathroom looking at his phone as he entered the frame of husband Damian Mlotwoski’s call. When he glanced up and saw himself on Mlotwoski’s computer, he hit the floor.Luckily, Bowers found it funny enough to share with the world, posting the clip to Instagram along with the caption: “That one time I naked video bombed my husband’s zoom meeting!”  A post shared by Jason Bowers (@jsnbowers)“I had no idea he was on a meeting,” Bowers told the Daily Mail about the mishap.

Netflix. We’ve done a quick overview of the queerest and queer-adjacent stuff we’re looking forward to streaming this month.

Whenever summer inches closer, I think of how the heat bounces off the sidewalk, like basketballs on a court in June. I remember past images of people passing by on streets with joy in abundance and a lack of clothing, with sunshine being the catalyst for both. I’m also reminded of a time when the summer sun made me anxious, and the one trip that made me reevaluate how I viewed my body. In 2016, I touched down on the shores of Fire Island.

Pabllo Vittar has joined forces with Rina Sawayama for the contagious new club anthem Follow Me.

With LGBTQ+ rights in the spotlight, Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday for a closely contested parliamentary election and a parallel referendum on a law that limits schools’ teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues.

Lady Gaga will perform at this year’s Grammy Awards, which are set to air live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on 3 April.

Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee on a Friday episode of her podcast Unmuted with Marsha.Gaines, who tied for fifth place with Thomas during the championship's 200-yard freestyle, has been outspoken about her swim rival after being denied the fifth-place trophy, which officials gave to Thomas to hold during the podium presentation last month.Although Thomas placed fifth in the race, the UPenn swimmer also came first in the 500-yard freestyle during the championships and made history as the first known transgender athlete to win a Division One national championship in any sport."The NCAA official came up to me, and he just said, 'Hey, that was a great swim. We only have one fifth-place trophy,' which I understood, I get how that works—they only account, you know, for one fifth-place winner.

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Chris Rock is trying to avoid spurring on any of the public’s anger at Will Smith.

Mayor Eric Johnson has declared Sunday, April 3, Walk Against Hate Day. The Anti-Defamation League is holding its first walk since 2019 to draw attention to rising hate crime numbers.

An LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Florida has sued Governor Ron DeSantis after he signed the highly problematic ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill on Tuesday 29 March.We're proud to represent our extraordinary plaintiffs in challenging Florida’s discriminatory and unconstitutional #DontSayGay law.Here’s our complaint: https://t.co/oYKRz1wYCb@NCLRights @equalityfl @family_equality pic.twitter.com/GI5rQSQrPc— Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP (@KaplanHecker) March 31, 2022The lawsuit has been filed in a federal court in Tallahassee by the National Centre for Lesbian Rights on behalf of Equality Florida and Family Equality. They each believe that the new law is a violation of the First Amendment rights to free expression and other provisions of the United States Constitution.In a statement announcing their proceedings against the Governor, the LGBTQ+ group says that “This effort to control young minds through state censorship — and to demean LGBTQ lives by denying their reality — is a grave abuse of power.” The case also states that “The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that LGBTQ people and their families are at home in our constitutional order. The State of Florida has no right to declare them outcasts, or to treat their allies as outlaws, by punishing schools where someone dares to affirm their identity and dignity.”  A post shared by NCLR (@nclrights)In addition to this, the lawsuit includes statements from parents affected by the bill, including this emotional one from Dan and Brent VanTice: “Already, our children have told us that they are afraid that they will not be able to talk about their parents at school.

Knives Out is practicing foot-worship on me. Since I am the kind of person who has trouble parting with more than $35 for a top, these socks instantly become one of the nicer things I own. Usually, I wear socks my dad bought me several years ago from Costco.

Ivanka Trump is working harder than ever to help investigators get to the bottom of what happened on January 6 make sure everyone is aware of her noble humanitarian efforts.Last weekend, the former first daughter posted a video to Instagram bragging about how she sent 1 million meals to starving families in Ukraine. It was later reported that most of the food was packages of “oatmeal and goulash” and that Ivanka, who is worth an estimated $800 million, donated very little of her own money to fund the effort.Related: Ivanka would like a medal for donating “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to send oatmeal to UkraineA few days later, she posted about her quick jaunt down to Arabi, Louisiana, where local news cameras followed her around for an hour or so while she served meals, posed for photos with tornado victims, and surveyed the damage in the area without offering any real assistance or financial support for recovery.Related: Please give Ivanka Trump a round of applause for posing for photos with tornado survivorsYesterday, Ivanka very humbly took to Instagram yesterday to share photos of volunteers loading up boxes to be sent to the war-torn Eastern European country, along with the caption: “I feel humbled to have been asked by the Polish Government to assist in sending urgently needed medical supplies to Ukraine via Poland.

Donald Trump told some fans on Wednesday night that they didn’t “look gay.”During a fundraiser supporting Republican congressional candidate and former Trump administration Housing and Urban Development department official John Gibbs, someone shouted “Gays for Trump!”Trump then asked, “Where’s Gays for Trump?” After someone responded “We’re over here!” Trump looked in their direction and said, “You don’t look gay.”He then told the crowd, “We did great with the gay population,” while the crowd laughed.A video of the exchange has garnered more than 90,000 views on Twitter. Gibbs is opposing freshmen Michigan GOP Rep.

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Nearly one third (29%) of LGBTQ+ people have been subjected to abuse from people in their family, according to a study by Galop.

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Related: Madison Cawthorn’s mission to destroy his career makes significant progressA video clip was shared by Patriot Takes on Twitter.Trump told a “Gays for Trump” supporter, “You don’t look gay” during a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser event for Michigan Republican John Gibbs.The crowd laughed.

Fox News.On Thursday, Fox News announced the transgender retired Olympic decathlete and media personality will join the network as a contributor, with her first appearance having taken place on Thursday's edition of Sean Hannity's program "Hannity."Responding to the backlash on social media, Jenner said on Friday that she was "astounded" by "the irony of the fringe in the LGBT population is knocking me on 'trans day of visibility' which they tout every chance they get, all day long.""Meanwhile I am the most visible trans person in the world. The irony of the left and the WOKE never ceases to astound me," she tweeted.

The Daily Beast last year said she “is an active duty astronautical engineer in the U.S. Space Force, currently assigned to the Pentagon to lead space policy integration for the Department of the Air Force.”Stitchfeld and Johnson continued their attack, with the former claiming Fram is an “inspiration” to China and Russia who want the entire U.S.

At the 25th annual Spider Awards, taking place in Dublin Mansion House last night, March 31, GCN scooped the prestigious “Digital For Good Award”. This was the first ceremony held in person since 2019 and a total of 22 awards were assigned to organisations, companies and individuals who demonstrated their ability to add value through […]

As far as “humble musical beginnings” stories go, I consider myself pretty lucky. It was the early ’90s, and at 20 years old, I had just come out when I jumped headfirst into my very first band, the Fabulous Scallion Sisters — later renamed Paper Dolls. I joined four other gay women who had already developed a huge queer following, and I was accepted from the start. But the road (forward and back) isn’t always so easy. 

To mark Trans Day of Visibility, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken has confirmed that from April 11, people will be able to declare X as a gender identity on their passports.  The move was originally announced last June but no definite timeline had been confirmed.  An announcement on March 31 began by highlighting […]

wildlife photographer. They post videos of themselves on outdoorsy adventures, such as chasing tornadoes.Back in 2020, they decided to jump in their car and head down to Mexico to do some birdwatching. However, their plans went awry when they found themselves lost and traveling down a rural dirt road.Related: Texas same-sex couple found shot, dismembered on family trip to MexicoThey noticed a truck following them at speed, which began to make them nervous.

told Sky News the government will in fact ban conversion therapy.But what is conversion therapy, why do people want it banned, and what are politicians' positions on the matter?What is conversion therapy?Also called cure therapy or reparative therapy, conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy that aims to change a person's sexual orientation or suppress a person's gender identity.Therapies and prayer can be used, while more extreme forms can include "exorcisms, physical violence and food deprivation", Jayne Ozanne, a former government equality adviser said.

fundraising effort to support LGBTQ+ rights group Equality Texas. It's a play on the popular phrase "Don't mess with Texas."Republican Gov.

Ariana Grande is helping raise money for trans youth.

The mother of a teenager who wrote an open letter to her school accusing it of being "rife" with bigotry and misconduct accused the local council of failing youngsters, after it dismissed claims of a toxic environment for pupils.

The brisk, radio-friendly, pop-rock of ‘As It Was’ is the first taster of his third solo album, Harry’s House.To accompany the new track hitting streaming services, a video, shot in London, also dropped on YouTube. In it, Styles, 28, strips down to his red underwear and shows off plenty of tattooed flesh.The video appears to have gone down well with fans, with 10million views in ten hours at the time of writing, and 1.3million upticks.

posted a photo of himself to social media wearing a Don’t Mess with Trans Kids t-shirt. The image and garment were seen as a rebuke of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who O’Rourke is running for governor against. Abbott infamously has antagonized trans kids by creating policy to have the Department of Family and Protective Services investigate parents of trans and nonbinary children for “abuse” as a result of helping to provide affirming care.

RonDeSantis is threatening retaliation over Disney, the state’s largest private employer, for its opposition to the so-called “don’t say gay law” banning gender identity discussions in schools.And on Capitol Hill, the House of Representatives turns its attention to the legalization of marijuana after narrowly voting on Thursday to limit the price of insulin.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s exclusion of Trans people in the law that would protect them from conversion therapy has caused upset in the UK’s LGBTQ+ community. It was revealed yesterday, March 31, that the Prime Minister planned to drop the ban altogether, but following major backlash, he u-turned on the decision. The practice will now […]

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SAGE, the world’s oldest and largest LGBTQ+ elder advocacy and services organization, has a white CEO and historically has had predominantly white leadership. GRIOT Circle, the only staffed organization in the U.S.

It’s A Sin came out over a year ago. Few dramas have had quite the transformative impact as Russell T Davies’ drama celebrating and mourning those who lost their lives during the Aids pandemic, and quite so swiftly.

Boris Johnson has praised the ‘courage’ of the first British MP to come out as trans, hours after reportedly joking about gender identity to a room full of Tories.Tweeting in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Jamie Wallis, the Conservative MP for Bridgend, revealed he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and spoke about the recent trauma of being raped and blackmailed.Mr Johnson is said to have opened his speech at a dinner for Tory MPs earlier that night by saying: ‘Good evening ladies and gentleman, or as Keir Starmer would put it, people who are assigned female or male at birth.’After Wallis’s announcement, the prime minister tweeted: ‘Sharing this very intimate story would have taken an immense amount of courage. ‘Thank you for your bravery, which will undoubtedly support others.