Heather Dubrow’s Daughter Kat Comes Out As Lesbian

The cute Island Fox is native to the Channel IslandsBack at my campsite later that afternoon, I was able to get acquainted with the diverse group of human residents at the campground. The 15 sites were filled with several obviously partnered couples, two surfers, several nature lovers, and two other single campers (both women). The best site was taken by two older gay men who told me they and their friends had been coming to the island for years, and rarely stayed for anything less than a week.

“Texas students push back against book bans for censoring LGBTQ, racial justice issues” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

On Wednesday, March 9, MPOWER and HIV Ireland bring us a hybrid event launching the EMERGE report and hosting an expert panel discussion on all things post-Covid sexual health. “As we EMERGE from the Pandemic,” the event details read, “we ask how Covid-related restrictions impacted the sexual health and wellbeing of gay and bisexual men.” […]

Last night, the online platforms of several media channels in Bulgaria were hacked and, instead of broadcasting their own content, they ended up showing an LGBTQ+ caricature of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The caricature appeared on the streams of media outlets Nova TV, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), Bloomberg, and Bulgaria On Air. While some […]

frightening conversation with ABC News Foreign Correspondent James Longman about the possibility of Vladimir Putin pulling down the Iron Curtain again in Russia, and how that would adversely impact the LGBTQ+ community. Putin’s move to close the country would be devastating, subjecting the Russian LGBTQ+ communities to even more discrimination than they experience now, including making them increasingly vulnerable to verbal and physical attacks.I don’t want to immix the horror of what’s going on in Russia with what’s happening around this country with LGBTQ+ kids, particularly in Florida with the “Don’t Say Gay” bills; however, the sheer fact that LGBTQ+ children are being singled out and being used as blatant political hostages to win votes is straight out of the playbook of an autocratic state.Since the start of the year, conservative state lawmakers have filed more than 170 anti-LGBTQ+ bills — already surpassing last year’s 139 total — with at least 69 of them centered on school policies, according to Freedom for All Americans. “What we’re seeing here is anti-LGBTQ groups, on a national level, making schools the new battleground across the board, across various kinds of school policies and various forms of legislation.

The 2020 presidential election happened 16 months ago, and Matt Gaetz still won’t shut up about it.The anti-LGBTQ congressman, who is currently under federal investigation, was fact checked by a reporter on Friday after he once again regurgitated ex-president Donald Trump’s 2020 election lie on live television.The awkward exchange happened between Gaetz and anchor Bob Solarski on northwest Florida ABC-affiliate WEAR-TV.When the congressman repeated Trump’s false claims of voter fraud then declared he was the true victor over Joe Biden, Solarski interrupted to say, “So, you’re still maintaining the 2020 election was stolen? Are we still going with that?”Related: Literally nobody is buying Matt Gaetz’s latest attempt to clean his image“Listen, I believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 election,” Gaetz replied. “I believe that he won the Electoral College.”“You can’t say that without saying there was a gigantic conspiracy across this country and supervisors and election offices to make this happen and we haven’t still seen any evidence that proves that,” Solarski countered.To which Gaetz responded by going on a tangent about how judges don’t have “the courage” to challenge the results in court, and how he is a champion for election integrity, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.“I believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election,” Gaetz said.

Namibia, same-sex marriages are not recognized, and same-sex relationships are considered illegal, but the law is not enforced in the southwestern African country. If a foreigner is married to a Namibian, permanent residency is automatically granted to foreigners."It was a partial victory...We will have to see what the way forward is," said the couple's lawyer, Uno Katjipuka-Sibolile, referring to the Supreme Court ruling.She is not happy with the verdict, she told The Namibian newspaper.WON...

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March 5, 2022At the time of writing, the tweet has received over 146,000 likes.Related: Gay dating app asks users to help Ukrainians and is blown away by responseRussian authorities have repeatedly made claims about fighting Nazis in Ukraine to defend their full-scale invasion of the country.Ahead of the invasion, President Vladimir Putin gave a video speech to his security council, saying Russia had to overthrow the “drug addicts and neo-Nazis” in Ukraine.There are some Ukrainians with ultra-nationalist and right-wing extremist views. Following the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, several volunteer militia groups formed, including one known as the Azov Battalion.

Queerty has written before about Pastor Jonathan Shelley of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Hurst, near Fort Worth, Texas. In 2019, Shelley gave a sermon in which he welcomed the death of a 75-year-old man who was accidentally run over at a Pride event in Wilton Manors.Related: Texas, Baptist preacher celebrates gay man’s death at Wilton Manors Pride“And, you know, it’s great when trucks accidentally go through those, you know, parades,” Pastor Jonathan Shelley said then. “I think only one person died.

AJ Simpson, a non-binary potter from Aberdeen, emerged as the victor of The Great Pottery Throw Down’s fifth season.

Last Saturday, the “No Woman Left Behind” women’s rally took place on the streets of Dublin ahead of International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8. The demonstration gathered hundreds of people to protest the too-slow progress in advancing gender equality in Ireland. The rally, organised by the National Women’s Council, started in front of Leinster House. […]

Zack Sharf Benedict Cumberbatch is defending “The Power of the Dog” against criticisms made last week by actor Sam Elliott, who called Jane Campion’s Oscar contender a “piece of shit” in part because of its “allusions of homosexuality.” Cumberbatch stars in the film as a closeted gay rancher in 1825 Montana whose repression manifests in toxic ways such as making life hell for his new sister-in-law (Kirsten Dunst) and her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).“I’m trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here. Someone really took offense to – I haven’t heard it so it’s unfair for me to comment in detail on it – to the West being portrayed in this way,” Cumberbatch said during a recent BAFTA Film Sessions interview.

Rolling Stone, the songwriters of a 2015 track by singer Jordan Vincent, ‘Dancing With Strangers’ (Vincent, Christopher Miranda, and Rosco Banlaoi), say Smith and Normani’s track plagiarized their song.Related: Um, who’s this super hot guy Sam Smith was just photographed making out with at a bar?In papers filed Friday in Los Angeles, they claim, “The hook/chorus in both songs — the most significant part and artistic aspect of these works — contains the lyrics ‘dancing with a stranger’ being sung over a nearly identical melody and musical composition.”They also point to similarities in the music videos.“Both videos consist of a girl performing interpretive dance alone in a minimalist studio, interspersed with shots of the male vocalist.“A girl dancing alone is not an obvious visual theme for a music video titled ‘Dancing With a Stranger,’ tending to dispel any notion that this similarity is a coincidence. When the extraordinary musical similarity between the songs is also factored in, it becomes even more apparent that it is impossible that the infringing composition and sound recording were independently created.”It goes on to say, “Defendants’ representatives were contacted in November 2020 about the similarities.

A new campaign devised and created by young people and led by the LGBTQ+ youth charity BeLonG To is calling on social media users and companies to make the platforms safer for all. While social media has a lot of positive benefits, it’s also well known that the platforms could be a lot safer. Trolling, […]

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Kandy Muse revealed that she and her season 13 sisters thought she was going to be the “fan favourite” of Drag Race during filming.

We’re big fans of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – it’s a gorgeous little space, nestled inside the Globe on London’s Southbank, and is entirely candlelit. Seeing a play here certainly is an experience – it really is like stepping back in time. The intimacy facilitated by the proximity of the actors to the audience really makes us feel like we’re all involved in some sort of communal, almost immersive event – we love spending a couple of hours in this gem of a venue.

Teachers in England want more guidance on how to support their transgender pupils, research from LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us has found.

In de loop van deze week moet de eerste opvang voor LHBTI-vluchtelingen uit Oekraeniuml;ne de deuren openen in Amsterdam. De organisatie hiervoor wordt in een samenwerking tussen lokale activisten, de overheid en de Europese LHBTI-organisatie Forbidden Colours opgezet.

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Small Island was a huge hit for the National Theatre in 2019 and, at the time, was greeted with rave reviews – it’s easy to see why, and it’s no surprise that it has been brought back so soon after the theatre’s re-opening. Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel is an absolutely epic tale – clocking in at comfortably over three hours, it tells the story of Jamaican couple Gilbert (Leemore Marrett Jr) and Hortense (Leonie Elliott) as they arrive, via the Windrush, into a post-war London that gives them anything but a warm welcome.

Contested Bodies explores themes of power, race, gender identity and masculinity

SINGAPORE: A 32-year-old man who faces criminal charges in the United States on Monday (Mar 7) admitted in a Singapore court to impersonating two men to deceive Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for cloud computing services that he used to mine cryptocurrency.

LGBTQ history projects across the Golden State, from digitizing periodicals and films to preserving archival material related to gay rodeos and Santa Cruz's LGBTQ community, are receiving $750,000 in grant funding from the California State Library. It is the second time since 2019 that the state has allocated funds to such projects.Three years ago state lawmakers allocated $500,000 toward the Preserving California's LGBTQ History grant program.

The main obstacles to Valeria Kolosova escaping from Ukraine are her passport and ID card, which identify the 24-year-old transgender woman as a man – meaning she must stay to fight the invading Russian forces.

Before Omar leaves home in the morning, he carefully uninstalls the apps on his phone one by one – no WhatsApp, no Facebook, no Grindr.

Alex Scott has said that society still has a long way to go in achieving gender equality. Speaking to HELLO! for our International Women's Day digital issue, the Football Focus presenter shared her views as she said: "I am absolutely a proud feminist, I always have been.

A Florida student was indefinitely suspended for organising a statewide walkout in protest of the state’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill.”Jack Petocz, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School (FPCHS) in Palm Coast Florida, USA, planned a March 3 rally in order to protest the Parental Rights in Education bill or “Don’t Say Gay Bill.”              I organized the statewide #DSGWalkout today in response to attempts to silence and erase the LGBTQ+ community in Florida. I was indefinitely suspended from my school for organizing a peaceful rally.

Hulu has unveiled the first images from Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang’s new queer romantic comedy, Fire Island.

Kristen Stewart celebrated her Oscar nomination by golfing: "I went with my girls at Neon and played nine holes in Los Feliz...

Texas officials have appealed the court order that blocked an investigation regarding the parents of a trans teen.

BEIRUT/LOS ANGELES – Before Omar leaves home in the morning, he carefully uninstalls the apps on his phone one by one — no WhatsApp, no Facebook, no Grindr.“The paranoia is constant,” said the 19-year-old gay Egyptian man, who asked the Thomson Reuters Foundation not to identify his hometown or real name for his safety.

Popstar Demi Lovato has stepped away from the upcoming NBC series Hungry.

Colman Charles and Brian Kennedy with DVtv bring the music and excitement if Turtle Creek Chorale’s 2022 gala, “Rhapsody,” featuring the legendary singer Audra McDonald to you on video.

Utah governor Spencer Cox announced that he’d be vetoing the state’s horrific anti-trans sports ban.

Rocketman star Taron Egerton passed out during the first performance of his new West End show, Cock.

Above: Matthew Angelo Spampinato with his cousin Morgan Hanners's daughter, AthenaMatthew Angelo Spampinato, a 21-year-old transgender man, was killed in a hit-and-run car crash February 9 in New Castle, Del., making him the sixth trans person known to have died by violence in the U.S. this year.Spampinato was walking home from work at a Starbucks when he was killed, the Delaware News Journal reports.

BirminghamLive's inspiring award ceremony, in partnership with TSB, will take place at Birmingham University's Great Hall on Monday (March 7), and it's sure to be a night to remember.The star-studded Pride of Britain event will be hosted by former Coronation Street star Kym Marsh, and it aims to give thanks to the region's "unsung heroes.It gives Birmingham the chance to pay tribute to the most inspiring and courageous locals who have risked their lives or battled against the odds to make a difference.This year's incredible winners include a terminally-ill schoolboy who has inspired everyone around him as he battles his devastating Batten Disease.Another winner is a teenager who has raised thousands of pounds for the hospital which gave her life-saving brain surgery - after starring in a series of moving TikTok videos.The event will also feature a mother who has been campaigning for life-saving bleed kits to be made mroe accessible to the public - following the tragic stabbing of her son.There will also be a young man who risked his life to climb into a smoking car in order to pull a driver to safety after a terrifying road accident.The glam red-carpet event will be bustling with showbiz stars, including Tipping Point host Ben Shepherd, Strictly stars Amy Dowden and Rhys Stephenson, Dancing on Ice's Connor Ball, and musician Ruby Turner.Speaking about the winners, host Kym said: "I'm so excited about Pride of Birmingham. It's been two years since we have been able to get together properly for these awards, so I know it's going to be a fantastic night.

Lily Collins! The actress just announced a major family milestone she is celebrating with her husband, Charlie McDowell.MORE: Emily in Paris star Lily Collins' new Netflix thriller is set to be our next obsessionIn a new post on Instagram, Lily shared that the couple are actually celebrating two new exciting milestones together. Charlie, 38, married Lily in 2021, and is the son of actress Mary Steenburgen. WATCH: Lily's new thriller, WindfallMORE: Lily Collins' $13.5million home she sold ahead of wedding to Charlie McDowellNot only are Lily and Charlie celebrating six months of marriage, but they are also celebrating the upcoming release of their new movie together, Windfall.The Netflix original, which was directed by Charlie and stars the Emily in Paris actress, is a crime thriller about a man who "breaks into a tech billionaire's empty vacation home, but things go sideways when the arrogant mogul and his wife arrive for a last-minute getaway." The movie also stars How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel.Lily shared a series of behind-the-scenes clips marking both her marital and film-making achievements on Instagram. "Today marks 6 months of marriage AND two weeks until #WINDFALL releases!" she wrote.A post shared by Lily Collins (@lilyjcollins)The celebratory tributeThe first picture of the carousel features her in a chic camel blazer with black trousers giving her back to the camera, as she fist bumps her husband while on set.

Las Vegas Raiders star Carl Nassib has opened up about his impactful journey in a heartfelt post.

Saturday Night Live cast member, Kate McKinnon, ridiculing the bill.“Why does SNL want to teach 3-8 year old children about sex, without telling their parents?” she posted. On Saturday, McKinnon addressed the pending legislatioin in a Weekend Update segment. "I'm trying to make sense of all of this," the out performer said after calling the bills unconscionable and saying that it could make LGBTQ+ youth depressed and suicidal. "If the 90s were right and gay means bad then this is the gayest bill I've ever seen."Formally called the "Parental Rights in Education" bill, the legislation doesn’t have anything to do with teaching about sex.

Brittney Griner had been detained by Russian authorities some time in February. Griner, who is a seven-time WNBA All-Star and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was in Russia in order to play for UMMC Yekaterinburg, a local league.According to Russian authorities, Griner was detained because she was found to be in the possession of hashish oil while at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow.

even G-rated movies. And sometimes, they fall for guys from adult entertainment!In a recent Reddit thread, gay men listed the adult-film performers they’ve been sweet on, after one user asked users to name their first adult-star crush.

Okay, while there won’t be any actual sleighing, you can expect a weekend of ski slopes complete with the gayest experience Norcal has to offer at Tahoe Pride Ride.If there’s one thing that everyone knows about the LGBTQ+ community, it’s that we throw a sick parade. Now, short of skiing in full drag, it can be difficult to show pride on a snowy mountain peak. The cold makes skimpy outfits impractical, and no amount of glitter and makeup can shine through those clunky ski masks.

Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Kyle MacLachlan seems to be having a ball this week amid the lunacy of Joe vs. Carole. In honor of said nuttiness, we hereby refer you to one of his earliest–and strangest–cinematic outings.Blue Velvet blindsided audiences back in 1986 with its mix of mystery, satire and graphic sexuality. The plot follows Jeffrey (MacLachlan), a college student who returns to his small, middle-American town after his father has a heart attack.

Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna in the The Roku Channel’s new film, then catch up on the latest from Gay TikTok:Random BYU students talked gay marriage.Rob Anderson prepared for the apocalypse.The voice of Pinocchio spoke up.Ford commented.Trixie Mattel made an old fashioned.♬ original sound – trixiemattelThe Big Drag Bus rated pedestrians.A heterosexual processed pronouns.Will Larkins addressed the school boardBrandon Vasquez‘s grandma had zero chill.And Gay TikTok dragged itself.

study believes it’s identified the most beneficial amount of coffee to consume each day if you’re keeping an eye on your heart health. It looked at almost 500,000 coffee drinkers and says anything between 0.5 to 3 cups of coffee a day conveys heart health benefits.Researchers say drinking more coffee than this was not harmful, but doing so did not bring the same advantages.One big proviso was that the benefits only came from drinking ground coffee, not instant.