Here’s who’s taking over for RuPaul on next week’s Drag Race UK episode

A U.S. Air Force tanker plane drew a giant penis pointing at a Russian military installation in Syria recently, but a military spokesperson said the pilots of the plane totally didn’t mean anything by their actions.The KC-135 was in an orbital flight path over the Mediterranean as it waited to refuel other planes when it made the suggestive flight path that was captured by the plane-tracking website Flightradar24. “At this time, we do not believe the crew acted inappropriately,” an Air Force spokesperson said in a statement to Military.com.

Out actress Rebel Wilson is now the mother of a daughter.Wilson is “beyond proud to announce the birth of my first child, Royce Lillian, born this past week via surrogate,” she wrote on Instagram Monday.The Pitch Perfect and Senior Year star called the baby “a beautiful miracle” and thanked everyone involved, especially “my gorgeous surrogate who carried her and birthed her with such grace and care.”"I am ready to give little Roycie all the love imaginable,” Wilson continued. “I am learning quickly … much respect to all the Mums out there! Proud to be in your club.” Wilson, 42, came out in June by sharing a picture of herself and girlfriend Ramona Agruma on Instagram.

Rebel Wilson is “beyond proud” to announce the birth of her first child.

Subtropical Storm Nicole is forecast to keep strengthening and is expected to be a Category 1 hurricane when it approaches Florida’s east coast late Wednesday into Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said Monday morning.A hurricane watch is in effect along the east coast of Florida, from the Volusia/Brevard county line to Hallandale Beach, the hurricane center said.The watch extends from just north of Miami to the Space Coast and includes Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Cape Canaveral, and Melbourne.A storm surge watch has also been issued for parts of Florida and Georgia, from Altamaha Sound to Hallandale Beach.Florida officials are warning residents, including those recently hit by the destructive Hurricane Ian, that a tropical system could bring heavy rain and damaging winds this week.RELATED: Florida Update: Floating Cars, Submerged Buildings, and No PowerThe warning comes as Subtropical Storm Nicole has formed in the southwest Atlantic about 555 miles east of northwestern Bahamas, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm, now packing winds of 45 mph with higher gusts, is expected to begin impacting Florida by Tuesday evening.Already, the U.S.

Cynthia Lee Fontaine has revealed some scalding hot tea about what allegedly takes place on set during the filming of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Canada’s Drag Race contestant Rita Baga has apologised after she was accused of doing blackface in a Glee-inspired performance several years ago.

FILE – CNBC is canceling Shepard Smith’s nightly newscast after two years. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Michaela Coel revealed her pride to be joining the cast of Wakanda Forever, as she took her place on the red carpet in London for the film’s European premiere.

UPDATE: Disney and 20th Television no longer face a disparate impact claim in a lawsuit brought by actor Rockmond Dunbar. 

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The UK’s latest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to review where transgender rights stand in the Equality Act 2010.

Gay motorsports racer Zach Herrin will make his long-awaited debut in a NASCAR-affiliated race in Phoenix later today, but doing so on his own terms.When the green flag drops to start the ARCA Menard Series race at the Phoenix Raceway, Herrin will be in the 25th position off the pole. While he’ll be starting near the back of the pack, taking part in the race will be a big step forward for the 26-year-old who only recently returned to the sport he loves following a ten-year hiatus.As he told Outsports, he’ll be making his NASCAR debut as an out gay man.“I know I have a lot of eyes on me, and all I want to do is get out there and blur everything out so I can have a great debut race,” Herrin explained.

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The queens gave heartwarming makeovers to six special guests on the latest episode of Drag Race UK season four.

A popular gay leather bar in Chicago celebrated its 45th anniversary with a performance that critics found so offensive that one of the establishment’s bartenders quit on the spot and several patrons got up and left the bar. The famous kink and leather bar Touché hired puppeteer Jerry Halliday to entertain a crowd assembled for the anniversary soiree. Video clips of the performance show jokes that played on stereotypes and racist tropes of Black women and transgender people.Halliday, who is white, pulled out a black puppet that he introduced as “Sista Girl,” which, according to bartender Cris Bleaux, made him immediately uncomfortable.Halliday changed his voice to sound like a caricature of a Black person.

A doughnut shop in Tulsa, Okla., that had hosted an art installation featuring drag queens was attacked with a Molotov cocktail this week.The shop, the Donut Hole, had also been burglarized two days after the drag event, which was part of its grand opening October 15, the Tulsa World reports. The event had drag queens serving sculptures of doughnuts as well as real ones.Then Monday, the Donut Hole posted security video showing a “hooded and masked figure” breaking a window with a baseball bat and throwing a bottle with a flaming substance into the shop, according to the World.

U.S. diplomats have met Thursday with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who’s imprisoned in Russia, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.“We are told she’s doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances,” Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One, CNN reports. The State Department also confirmed that officials from the U.S.

McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley

Dwayne Wade’s ex-wife has asked a judge to block Wade from allowing their trans daughter, Zaya, to change her name and gender on her birth certificate. Siohvaughn Funches-Wade claims the basketball star is taking advantage of Zaya’s transgender identity for financial gain.Funches-Wade objected to Wade’s petition for recognition of their daughter Zaya’s gender change and the issuance of a new birth certificate. Since Zaya is only 15 years old, it’s necessary to have parental permission to obtain a court order granting the changes. Celebrity news site the Blast reports that Funches-Wade claims the NBA star is trying to circumvent the Illinois final custody order judgment entered in 2011.

Le Fil has shared the music video for the lead single from his brand new EP, Le Filosophical.

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Pageant queens Mariana Varela and Fabiola Valentin this week announced via their Instagram accounts that they got married Oct. 28 in Puerto Rico. Varela, Miss Argentina 2020, and Valentin, Miss Puerto Rico 2020, said in the post that while they had decided to keep their relationship private, they were choosing to “open the doors on a special day. 28/10/22.”

(CNN) -- A new power couple has taken the stage.A former Miss Argentina and former Miss Puerto Rico shocked and delighted fans by announcing their surprise marriage on Instagram.Mariana Varela and Fabiola Valentín met at the 2020 Miss Grand International competition in Thailand, where they represented Argentina and Puerto Rico, respectively. After making it to the pageant top 10, the two beauty queens appeared to remain close friends on social media.

With less than a week before Election Day and stakes that could not be higher, the race for attorney general in Michigan is surprisingly tight. The race is between the out incumbent Democrat, Dana Nessel, and Republican Matthew DePerno, who famously lost a case as part of the Big Lie election meddling conspiracy leading to the January 6 insurrection.Nessel tells The Advocate the attacks on the LGBTQ+ community this election cycle are opportunistic and have no widespread constituency in the Great Lakes State."[Republicans] get the attention because they have money, and unfortunately because the Republican Party now has become the party of homophobia and transphobia, that [anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric] gets spotlighted a lot," she says.

A middle school in central Oregon pulled its students from an outdoor educational camp after some parents and students expressed concern over the presence of nonbinary and transgender folks serving as cabin counselors. The camp’s director, however, said they were acting in accordance with the state’s civil rights laws.According to a report in the Central Oregon Daily, Culver Middle School superintendent Stefanie Garber said she made the “no-win” decision to pull all Culver Middle School students from Camp Tamarack in Singer last Monday after some students complained.“More than one of our boys’ cabins expressed that they were uncomfortable to our teacher,” Garber told the Daily.

Miss Argentina 2020, Mariana Varela, and Miss Puerto Rico 2020, Fabiola Valentin, have announced that they are married.

(CNN) – SpaceX's Falcon Heavy — a towering, three-pronged vehicle that is the most powerful operational rocket in the world — returned to the skies on Tuesday for the first time since mid-2019.The rocket launched at 9:41 a.m. ET from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hauling satellites to space for the U.S.

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Kit Connor, an actor on the Netflix hit Heartstopper, received support from fans after he publicly revealed he's bisexual Monday, saying he was 'forced' to do so.Connor, 18, tweeted Monday, 'Back for a minute. I’m bi.

“Just as it’s unacceptable for Americans to sit behind bars for simple possession of cannabis, it's absolutely unacceptable for an American sitting in a Russian gulag.” So said DC Marijuana Justice co-founder and cannabis activist, Adam Eidinger, to The Washington Post.So on October 26, when WNBA star Brittney Griner lost her appeal and, despite hope for a reduction in her punishment, a Russian court decided to uphold her nine-year prison sentence for drug smuggling charges, the same advocacy group and her supporters decided to hold a “smoke out” in protest.The demonstration kicked off at 4:20 local time outside the country’s embassy, and the group told demonstrators, “If you have used vape cartridges, bring them!"Griner, who was arrested February 17 at the Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow, had 0.702 grams of cannabis oil in vape cartridges in her luggage. "I had no intention to break the law," Grinder said during her initial testimony. She then added that it was an accident due to stress and rushing while packing, while also recovering from a then-recent COVID-19 diagnosis.At the time, she’d also testified that she’d used cannabis oil to treat various injuries she’d sustained over her basketball career.During the demonstration, protesters not only smoked marijuana, they also  carried a 51 foot inflatable joint.

Måneskin have announced details for their highly-anticipated third studio album.

Cary Alan Johnson — an HIV-positive author, activist, Africanist, and founder of several charitable groups — recounts his sexual and personal awakening ifour decades ago in New York City, in the days right before AIDS, in his new memoir Desire Lines. Read a juicy excerpt here:When it comes to getting screwed, Zogby says you’ve gotta want it. According to Zogby, if you can weather those initial moments of searing intensity (I literally saw stars the first time), then the pain of penetration transforms into a singular and exquisite pleasure.

SINGAPORE: Cryptocurrency exchanges licensed to operate in Singapore must comply with financial sanctions against Russia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday (Oct 31), after research found that pro-Russia groups have raised millions of dollars in crypto donations to support Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Russia has taken steps to extend the country’s archaic ‘gay propaganda’ law to all adults. 

Russia has taken steps to extend the country’s archaic ‘gay propaganda’ law to all adults. 

RICHLAND, Washington (KAPP) — By a 4-to-1 vote, the Richland School Board approved a contentious policy that instills certain restrictions on the way race, sexuality and culture are allowed to be discussed in the schools’ curriculum.During a school board meeting on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 25, four of the five Richland School Board members agreed to Policy 2360, which is entitled ‘Race, Culture, and the Curriculum.’It’s a near-identical policy to one that was passed by the Kennewick School Board earlier this year. The following passage comes directly from the document shared during this meeting:The Board recognizes that students must learn factual U.S.

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Cheddar Gorgeous has been applauded for using her runway look to start discussion about HIV stigma on this week’s episode of Drag Race UK.

Mark Patton on the convention circuit (Photo by Lizz Ellis)

Blu Hyrdrangea has opened up about her runway budget for Drag Race UK vs the World.

Drag Race UK star Sminty Drop shares the look she would have worn during the West End runway category.

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The queens delivered their best celebrity impressions on the latest episode of Drag Race UK season four.

Russian men are looking to potential scammers on the application Telegram to purchase fake HIV diagnoses to avoid the Russian draft.LGBTQ Nation reported that the groups contain tens of thousands of users and offer transportation to bordering countries in addition to work and housing. The falsified HIV and hepatitis diagnoses can be paid via Bitcoin and come alongside forged government documents and currency exchanges.The fake diagnoses come in the wake of the September 21 announcement from Russia’s anti-LGBTQ president Vladimir Putin ordering 300,000 male citizens to aid in his ongoing invasion of Ukraine.An anonymous seller told the global tech website Rest of World, “At the moment, the most effective way [to avoid being drafted into the Russian military] is to get a certificate that you have HIV or hepatitis.”He added, “Vendors offered HIV diagnoses that would be added to the Ministry of Health’s database, rendering someone as unfit for military service, for $620.

BENTON, Louisiana (KTBS) -- A special session was held at Benton United Methodist Church to decide if it will split from the United Methodist Conference.The session comes as some members are grappling with differing views about whether, or how to include members of the LGBTQ+ community in the church.Some in the Methodist church advocate for inclusion of LGBTQ+ Christians, however, many feel strongly that the church should uphold its current stance against gay pastors and same-sex marriage.However, some churches allowing LGBTQ+ clergy and performing same-sex ceremonies are prompting a split within the denomination.Many churches are voting this year to exit in time for confirmation this fall.Two-thirds of members must approve before the church can disaffiliate.The Methodist Book of Discipline states that a local church has the right to disaffiliate under the basis of deep conflict around the issues of human sexuality.As for Benton UMC and churches like it throughout the United States and worldwide, the church would owe the conference a one-time payment, before the end of 2023.Exiting churches must pay two years of apportionments and pension liabilities.A total of 3,000 to 5,000 churches are expected to leave the conference by 2023.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company.

CNN) — Russian lawmakers agreed to toughen the country's discriminatory law against so-called same-sex "propaganda," moving to ban all Russians from promoting or "praising" homosexual relationships or publicly suggesting that they are "normal."Moscow's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved unanimously amendments to strengthen the law against "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations," making such propaganda illegal among Russians of all ages, according to the parliament's official website.The original version of the law adopted in 2013 banned "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" among minors."Our bill is not an act of censorship.

Wagner, a private military company in Russia, has initiated a mass recruitment of Russian prisoners who have a severe infectious disease.The main targets of the prisoners are those with HIV and hepatitis C, according to the Kyiv Post. In a report on October 25 from Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, more than 100 prisoners with confirmed HIV or hepatitis C have been “mobilized” to Wagner.The fighters, who came from penal colony No.

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