Harry Styles helps Italian fan come out as gay at London Wembley Stadium show: "You're a free man"

Dark Souls has always been queerMeet the rural drag queen ‘breaking down barriers’ facing LGBTQ+ people in the countrysideOne in 10 UK parents 'would never speak to their child about what LGBT means'The review was launched in January and, following the appointment of its chair, it will now begin its year-long investigation. Lord Etherton made history himself when he became the first openly gay judge of the Senior Courts.Tremaine added: ‘I hope this review can repair the hurt and compensate the loss and that its recommendations are honoured in full.’Sharon Hudson, a Women’s Royal Army Corps veteran, also experienced first hand as a result of the crackdown on LGBTQ+ people within the Armed Forces.She had revealed her sexuality after severe bullying from male soldiers and military investigators.She had gained the title of Lance Corporal by the time she was ordered to leave.‘Being dismissed for my sexuality severely affected my mental health,’ Sharon said.‘I lied to my family for 40 years because of the shame I felt.

3 min read In less than eight months more than 500,000 people will descend on Sydney Australia for World Pride 2023 and today the major events and ticket sales have been announced on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

supports HTML5 videoSimon Callow has disagreed with Tom Hanks’ view that he could not – and ‘rightly so’ – as a straight man play his 1993 role as a gay man in the movie Philadelphia today.The Four Weddings and a Funeral star called it a ‘dangerous idea’ that only gay actor should take on gay roles.Hollywood star Hanks, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of lawyer Andrew Beckett, who conceals his sexuality and HIV-positive status from colleagues before suing his employers for firing him, previously said that he felt the world was ‘beyond that now’ and ‘wouldn’t accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy’.Appearing on GB News on Tuesday, Callow – who identifies as gay – commented: ‘Think of all the wonderful performances of people who are not gay have given: John Hurt, Daniel Day Lewis, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.‘I mean, these are all as far as I know, heterosexual actors who’ve given utterly convincing credible and illuminating performances.’The actor said that people must remember the ‘general principle of acting rather than being’, using his famous role as Gareth in Richard Curtis’ hit 1994 comedy as an example of a gay role that was ‘only a tiny part of me’.He added: ‘Though I’m gay, it doesn’t qualify me to play all the many different kinds of gay people that there are.

The jury in the trial of an out gay Queensland man, accused of raping his female friend, has been disbanded after it failed to arrive at a majority verdict. Trigger Warning: This story discusses a sexual assault, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.Judge Catherine Muir of the Brisbane District Court discharged the jury and scheduled the matter for July 14, 2022, when the court will decide on a retrial in the case. The jury, comprised of seven men and five women, and deliberated for around 10 hours on whether 28-year-old Dominic Hansson was guilty of raping his female friend in her inner city Brisbane apartment on December 7, 2019 .

Happy Pride month y’all! This has been such an interesting Pride. First off, I got to be one of the grand marshalls of the Pride parade this year, and it was awesome. I was actually asked to be grand marshall last year in 2021, but because of freakin’ COVID it was more of a symbolic thing. This year, I got to sit in the back of a c

USA Today condemning the Texas Republican Party’s recently adopted anti-LGBTQ+ platform but claiming the national party is actually a welcoming space — something with which many LGBTQ+ people would no doubt disagree.“The Texas GOP isn’t just on the wrong side of history. They’re shortsightedly on the wrong side of the modern Republican Party,” Log Cabin President Charles Moran wrote in the op-ed, taking the state party to task for calling homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and not letting Log Cabin have a booth at its recent convention.

Okkar Min Maung is taking the whole ‘multi-hyphenate’ vibe to the next level.The New York-based Burmese actor, model, singer, beauty pageant winner and soon-to-be-published novelist is nothing if not busy, but he apparently has enough time left in the day to stir the thirst pot on Instagram, too.

The state's Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed Casey Flores, 31, to the Virginia LGBTQ Advisory Board, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

To T or Not To T, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, a Los Angeles suburb, just in time for Pride. The show opens Saturday as part of the Center Theatre Group’s Block Party 2022 series and runs through July 10.To T or Not to T is D’Lo’s intimate reflection on “T and transitioning,” T being testosterone.

#NoTearsLeftToCry is gayer than me and I ACCEPT. Ty @ArianaGrande.Today is a good day so here goes.

KXAN on Sunday after attendees approved platform planks attacking the LGBTQ community. “It’s a small minority of people that are being un-Christian-like and spewing this hateful language.”In addition to Cargill, Log Cabin Republicans of Texas Secretary and LCR Austin Vice President David Garza, and LCR San Antonio President Mimi Planas also resigned from the state board.

Gay educator Willie Carver Jr., Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, has officially decided to leave K-12 teaching behind.After 17 years of teaching, Willie Carver Jr. said that he has decided to leave the classroom and take a position in student support services at the University of Kentucky due to the homophobic and conservative conditions affecting public education today.Late last month, Carver spoke publicly about their hesitation to return to the classroom after the ‘21-’22 school year in the wake of the recent conservative focus on public school goings-on.“If I am, every few weeks, having to stop and undergo some sort of investigation over what’s happening in my class, I’m not going to be mentally able to do this work,” Carver told EdWeek.“Then what are my students seeing? A stressed-out, unhappy LGBTQ adult.

A post shared by Darren Hayes (@darrenhayes)Singer Darren Hayes has blasted Instagram for being “homophobic” after one of his photos was deleted for apparently being too gay (or something?) for the platform.The Savage Garden frontman shared a photo of himself, fully clothed, lounging in bed, with a naked man laying face down across him. He captioned the image with three hashtags: #HappyPrideMonth, #Homo and #Queer.NBD, right?Wrong!The image, which was taken by photographer James Reese, was almost immediately yanked down.

Just an FYI – none of these films are sexually explicit, but some of them do get a little steamy, hence why they aren't all available to play on this page without heading onto YouTube.Hetero best friends and roommates, Jay and Alex, spend a whole day debating sexuality before deciding to try something new.Directed by: Sophie KargmanStarring: Justice Smith, Graham Patrick MartinWhen David returns home from college, he finds a hired hand named Brent kipping in his bedroom. Brent's the strong-and-silent type, and David can't help but by intrigued by his new roomie.Directed by: Tyler ReevesStarring: Cooper Stone, Damian Joseph Quinn, Lauren Elyse BuckleyTwo "straight" guys hook up on a whim.

21st Century President Act, now officially allows women and LGBTQ+ people to become president. The bill was passed by a voice vote.The same bill passed the House in the last Congress by a voice vote as well, the Hill reports.Tuesday's vote targeted part of the U.S. code that concerns threats to presidents, former presidents, and their "immediate family." The issue is that the code defines immediate family as “the wife of a former President during his lifetime, the widow of a former President until her death or remarriage, and minor children of a former President until they reach sixteen years of age.”The bill now strikes that wording and changes it to, “the spouse of a former President during a former President’s lifetime, the surviving spouse of a former President until the surviving 10 spouse’s death or remarriage.”The outlet notes that Hillary Clinton was the first woman presidential candidate of a major party, that Pete Buttigieg was a leading democratic candidate in the 2020 election, and that Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president with a second man.

Zack Sharf The 89er Theatre in Kingfisher, Oklahoma has come under fire after posting a warning about a brief gay kiss featured in Pixar’s “Lightyear.” A sign was posted on the window of the theater during the movie’s opening weekend warning moviegoers about the gay kiss and claiming the theater would “do all we can to fast-forward” through the scene. Kingfisher is located about 50 miles from Oklahoma City.As reported by NBC News, the warning post included the following message: “Attention Parents: The management of this theatre discovered after booking ‘Lightyear’ that there is a same-sex kissing scene within the first 30 minutes of the Pixar movie.

The hosts of the Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast break down the biggest news of the week, including our Saks Off Fifth and Phluid Project LGBTQ+ story of the week — Jennifer Lopez using gender-neutral pronouns to introduce child Emme.

Release date: June 7What it's about: Nora Hamilton is a screenwriter for a romance television channel, which means she knows the onscreen formula for love. But her real life isn't exactly wrapped up in a neat bow. When her husband leaves her and her kids, Nora channels her grief into writing a fantastic script — which then gets picked up, attaching former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, as a lead, which means he's filming at one of their set locations: Nora's home.

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Harrison with Chris Nevehev on Keamu Island, VanuatuNow Harrison has grown into the type of role model he once needed. The noted author and academic has made a career of traveling to isolated regions to study and document endangered languages.

“WoW, Finally Enough Love.”The hush-hush show, which has barely been advertised on social media, is being hosted by World of Women (WoW) — an art collective dedicated to improving the visibility of female artists in the NFT space.Madonna — who recently launched her own controversial NFT collection which included a 3D model of her vagina — was only recently announced as a performer at the event, which is now sold out.The Material Girl teased her Pride performance on Instagram Stories on Wednesday night, without explicitly revealing where she would be appearing. “Are you coming to see mother and her children Thursday night, b–ches?” the “Papa Don’t Preach” songstress asked, adding several Pride flag emojis to her post.

Muhsin Hendricks is said to be the world’s first openly gay imam. (Photo: Richard Finn Gregory)

North Carolina was disrupted by members of the local Proud Boys group, but reports differ as to the severity of the protest and the actions of the local sheriff.The incident took place Tuesday in a private room at the Pine Valley Library in Wilmington where local drag queens were reading stories to children. Deputies from the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office (NHCSO) were called after reported members of the Cape Fear Proud Boys demonstrated outside the library.

Pride postage stamps. The set marks the 50th anniversary of the country’s first gay pride march, which took place in London in 1972 and was inspired by similar events in the US.The eight stamps chronicle “the story of Pride across five decades.” They were designed by British artist Sofie Birkin.David Gold, the director of external affairs and policy at Royal Mail, said: “The vibrant, colorful Pride events that take place in towns and cities across the UK today trace their origins to a small number of people who marched through central London half a century ago to raise awareness of discrimination and inequality.”The stamps, along with postcards and presentation packs, can be pre-ordered from today and will become available on July 1.The UK is not the first country to issue LGBTQ-related postage stamps.

Labour MP for Islington, South Finsbury and I’m gay’.With those words, Chris became the first-ever openly gay MP, and later the first gay cabinet minister – after Labour’s late Maureen Colquhoun confirmed herself as Britain’s first openly lesbian MP in the 1970s.The bravery both politicians showed paved the way for others – with the UK having more LGBTQ+ lawmakers than anywhere else in the world after the last election.Over the years, Chris, who served in Tony’s Blair’s government, has continued to fight against dangerous prejudice and became the first MP to announce he was living with HIV in 2005.Speaking to Metro.co.uk about his place in LGBTQ+ history on Pride Month, the 70-year-old has told readers to ‘be proud about who and what you are’.Chris, who now sits in the House of Lords, knew he was gay a decade before he was elected in 1983, but had never shared his sexuality with the world. The right moment ‘had never presented itself’ – and the fear homophobia would lose him votes lingered uncomfortably in the back of his mind.The right occasion finally arose when Rugby Council decided to withdraw protection for discrimination against sexual orientation in what was named a ‘ban on gays’.Although the council denied discriminating, one councillor named ‘all homosexuals vile and perverted people’, while the leader said ’we are not having men turn up for work in dresses round here’.‘I can remember sitting on the train to Rugby and writing this mundane speech’, Chris said. ‘But when I arrived at the hall, about 1,000 people were there and I remember just thinking, “if I’m going to do this, this is the moment”.

The employees of United Airlines will march with their own ‘lively and colourful’ float in support of the LGBTQ+ community at this year’s Pride in London.

Ty Sunderland was pacing, his head bent intently over his phone. It was 5:52 p.m., eight minutes before 500 guests were expected to board the Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises boat where he was hosting a party on June 18, and the sound system had yet to be tuned. Mr.

“Bonjour,” says the barista as I reach the head of the line. I order a coffee and croissant, then take a moment to remind myself which country this cafe is in — a familiar quandary for long-haul pilots — and to confirm that the bank note I pull from my pocket is Canadian. Then I mangle a “merci” and step between the tables, each crowded with young tech workers speaking in euphonic blends of French and English, to a stool by the window overlooking the crowded street.

I knew I couldn’t seek help or do anything about it though – either medically or legally – and this felt terrible.I had a lot of close friends but they didn’t know anything about what I felt because I had to hide it from everyone.I knew that if I came out to anyone, I could be killed, or sent to prison where I’d be raped or severely tortured just for being who I am. So I decided to continue living as a female and hide my identity until I got the opportunity to leave.It was a heart-breaking situation but I didn’t have any other choice.Throughout it all, I had a really special friend who I met when I was eight years old via my cousin.

Pride Month 2022 parades, not to mention will help to illuminate the meaning behind the funniest Pride Month memes, the best Pride Month quotes, and storylines and characters on your favorite LGBT TV shows.  From sexual identities like pansexuality to gender expressions like non-binary, consider this your base-level LGBTQ+ vocab lesson. (And if you're curious about what all of those colors mean on the rainbow Pride flag, study up on these facts about Pride Month.

Around 24 cases and six deaths have been reported in Florida, in what the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described as the “worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history”. The CDC and the Florida Department of Health are investigating the outbreak –  half of the cases are among hispanic men.

Summer is officially upon us.It’s hard to believe that it’s been 21 years since the film Wet Hot American Summer was first released. The 2001 sex comedy spoof was total flop, earning just $295,000 at the U.S.

Traditionally gay nude beaches offer eye candy in a time when pornhub, dominating our fantasies during the pandemic, is probably just not doing the trick anymore.When diving back into real-world events, make sure to pack plenty of SPF, that special speedo that’s been in dry dock for three years, and grab a rainbow towel or two.If you’re looking for clothing-optional options that include the sun, sand, and surf get thee to a nude beach. The following beaches have all reopened for the summer season.Please check local rules about nudity–they can change.Please comment to add suggestions if your favorite didn’t make the cut. Praia do Abricó, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIpanema is fun and all but if you’re looking for a boy from Ipanema, you have a better chance of finding him sunning his backside 25 miles west of Copacabana at the “Apricot Beach,” popular since the mid-1940s.

San Francisco's last remaining gay sex club is racing to reopen its doors in time for Pride weekend. In doing so, it is reviving a historic location in the Tenderloin once home to a bathhouse that catered to men who have sex with men.Eros SF, the sex club for queer and trans men, is now located at 132 Turk Street.

This past weekend, the Republican Party in Texas voted on an outrageous platform that not only denies the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also rejects gay marriage and seeks to “protect” minors until they turn 17 against “predatory sexual behaviors,” such as drag queens reading stories aloud to children. Drag queens are predators, trans women are a threat and gay marriage is a violation of the “natural order”: This is all part of the widening and re-energized attack by Republicans on L.G.B.T.Q. people and culture in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v.

It's time to come out, y'all! (Note: This is all in good fun, and people should only come out when they feel comfortable, safe, and ready. HAPPY PRIDE!)Ok, let's start with a softball (that's not a lesbian joke I swear!!). It's pretty widely suspected and accepted that Elsa is a lesbian.

The Associated Press.While monkeypox is not currently defined as a sexually-transmitted infection, it can be passed on by close or intimate contact that occurs during sex, either through respiratory droplets or through contact with sores or bedding and clothing that has touched pox sores. Health officials warn that anyone who is in close, physical contact with someone infected or their clothing or bedsheets is at risk of acquiring the disease, regardless of sexual orientation.However, in the United Kingdom, where there are 793 confirmed cases of monkeypox, 99% of those infected are men, and men who have sex with men comprise the majority of cases among that sub-group.Last month, Dr.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. But! He is heard.The heartthrob lends his unmistakable vibrato to the voice of the eponymous animal, a crooning croc who just wants to hang out with the neighborhood kids and *checks notes* wear a scarf? We guess?Like Clifford The Big Red Dog, it’s the kind of thing that makes sense in a children’s book, but then is pretty baffling—and terrifying—when the character is brought to life through photorealistic animation and plopped down in the middle of a Manhattan brownstone.Related: Shawn Mendes posts super cryptic letter about struggle to live as his “true self”On top of that, you’ve got Hustlers‘ Constance Wu as the harried mother who’s just worried about her child’s (Winslow Fegley) safety in the presence of a carnivore, which is very understandable! But are we just imagining things, or does she have some chemistry with the crocodile?Funnyman Brett Gelman also stars as a nosy neighbor, Mr.

JoJo Siwa experiences a whole new world in her upcoming Facebook Watch series “JoJo Goes”.

Dave Chappelle is out of new material.Newly posted audio from the Netflix is a Joke Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in late April finds Chappelle clinging to the same tired, queerphobic comedy that has kept him recently relevant.Chappelle blasted Lil Nas X as a “promiscuous f*g,” called Lia Thomas a man, and compared transness to him “identifying as Chinese” before putting on a heavy stereotypical East Asian accent.The section of his stand-up focused on Lil Nas X was based around the statement, “I don’t like Lil Nas X. It’s not because he’s gay; it’s because he’s slutty.”Dave Chappelle speaks on Lil Nas X pic.twitter.com/Uu8Wjpq6LR— ⚜️ LTDP FRIDAY (@lilnasxmajor) June 22, 2022 Even after speaking on Lil Nas X as one of the “promiscuous f*gs in Hollywood,” he somehow expected the crowd to believe him later on he said he respects Lil Nas X because he’s “busy being himself.”In another part of the show, Chappelle returned to his trademark transphobia, this time targeting Lia Thomas specifically (or, as he referred to her, “this trans swimming b*tch”).Watch. Or maybe don’t.Chappelle continued the tired rhetoric that Thomas is completely dominating the sport since transitioning (for reference, Thomas has won one single race in competition since transitioning).A large portion of the country, including a number of legislators, wish that trans people did not exist and plan to do their best to make it so, and Chappelle is out here laughing with those folks in front of thousands and thousands of people.He asserts each time that he launches a new attack against the trans community that he “has nothing against them,” but is clearly content with contributing to the culture that would see them eradicated.In 2006, Chappelle left his

EXCLUSIVE: Marcia Gay Harden (The Morning Show), Halston Sage (Paper Towns), Andrew Richardson (The Independent) and Aidan Quinn (Elementary) have signed on to star in Daughter of the Bride (w/t), an indie comedy from MarVista Entertainment and Particular Crowd, which has entered production

ABOVE: I would stop.

SAGE, which has welcomed myself and thousands of other LGBTQ+ older adults, providing us vital resources for this stage in our lives. However, with the community of LGBTQ+ elders estimated to double in size by 2030, we need more places like SAGE to help the LGBTQ+ elders today and the many generations that will follow us.We must not lose sight of the importance of aging with pride and independence.

They/Them takes us to summer camp. But this isn’t your typical retreat filled with hot and bothered teens—it’s a gay conversion camp.

Actor Simon Callow has weighed in on the “should straight actors take gay roles” debate after Tom Hanks recently said he could not as a straight man today play his 1993 role in the movie Philadelphia.Callow, who is gay and has appeared in films like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Amadeus, called it a “dangerous idea” that only out-gay actors should take gay parts.Hanks won an Oscar for his work in Philadelphia as lawyer Andrew Beckett, who hides his sexuality and HIV status from colleagues before suing his former employers for firing him. Earlier this month, he said he felt the world has moved “beyond that now” and “wouldn’t accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.”Callow respectfully disagrees.In an interview on GB News on Tuesday, the 73-year-old actor countered: “Think of all the wonderful performances of people who are not gay have given: John Hurt, Daniel Day Lewis, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.“I mean, these are all as far as I know, heterosexual actors who’ve given utterly convincing credible and illuminating performances.”He added: “Though I’m gay, it doesn’t qualify me to play all the many different kinds of gay people that there are.

Nate Byrne works for News Breakfast on ABC.Pride month found him visiting the Melbourne drag community, Yummy. The cabaret troupe tour internationally.Attending one of their workshops, Byrne received his first drag makeover.

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Gay and bisexual men considered to be at higher risk of exposure to monkeypox will be offered a vaccine to control the outbreak of the virus, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed.