How the war in Ukraine is transforming the LGBTQ+ rights landscape in Europe

Laverne Cox has made history as Mattel's first-ever transgender Barbie, just days ahead of her 50th birthday on Sunday.Following the exciting announcement, the 49-year-old performer could barely contain her excitement as she raved about a doll being made in her lifelessness.'I can't wait for fans to find my doll on shelves and have the opportunity to add a Barbie doll modeled after a transgender person to their collection,' she said in a statement, obtained by Page Six.

Kristen Stewart dished at the current Cannes Film Festival about the movie she has been planning to direct since 2018.The 32-year-old rose to a new level of professional pedigree this year when she landed a shock Oscar nomination for playing Princess Diana in Spencer.Now she has expressed hopes that her feature directorial debut is in the near future, telling IndieWire: 'If I don't make this movie before the end of the year, I'll die.' Walking the red carpet:Kristen Stewart dished at the current Cannes Film Festival about the movie she has been planning to direct since 2018; she is pictured at Cannes this TuesdayKristen has been giving interviews over the past four years about the prospect of her directing a movie ofLidia Yuknavitch's memoir The Chronology Of Water.Published in 2017, the autobiography details Lidia's attraction to both men and women, as well as her struggles with addiction. Kristen, who has herself dated both men and women, wants a skeleton crew of just five members and to shoot at the seaside in Oregon on a flexible timetable.Her preferences have apparently contributed to a touch of difficulty in securing full financing, potentially complicating Kristen's plan to make the film this year.

supports HTML5 videoTay claims she then heard the staff member talking about her with another customer – discussing Tay’s gender identity and saying she ‘lied about being disabled’. The couple went to complain to a different staff member who called someone else.

Why is budget makeup still failing ethnically diverse people?9 breathing exercises that help you cope with anxietyRemember when Glossier leaked a discount code? Here's another oneI hope that more companies and brands will start using their influence to positively represent underrepresented communities — and that they will do so in a committed, involved and meaningful way.We still have a long way to go in terms of trans rights, and in raising awareness of queer families in general. Pregnant trans men are a part of reality, whether some people on social media like it or not.

Prince William tweeted that he hoped it would give other people the confidence to be open about their own sexuality. Yesterday, the 17-year-old Blackpool forward became the first male professional footballer in England to come out as gay in 32 years, in an interview with Sky.He made his senior debut for the club last month and decided it was the right time to speak publicly about his orientation. ‘Now is the right time to do it.

London artist and activist Dominique Holmes, it is inscribed with the words protest, visibility, unity, and equality – Pride in London’s key values.The coin won’t enter general circulation, but will be available to buy in a range of metals this summer.It comes weeks before Pride month, a time dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities across the world.It is held in June as this was the month the Stonewall riots erupted in New York, triggering the rise of LGBTQ+ rights movement across the world.Asad Shaykh, director of marketing and communications at Pride in London, said it was ‘a privilege to visit The Royal Mint and see our coin being made’.‘It humbles me greatly that the words that I coined for the brand … will be on an actual coin, opposite the Queen’, he said.‘This queer brown immigrant has come a long way, powered by hope, love and this city.’Clare Maclennan, director of commemorative coin at The Royal Mint, named the 50th anniversary of Pride UK ‘a milestone celebration’.She said: ‘This is the first ever UK coin dedicated to Britain’s LGBTQ+ community, with colour printing technology capturing the spirit of Pride UK with its iconic rainbow colours.‘It was an honour to host representatives from Pride in London at The Royal Mint recently to strike their own coins as part of the launch and discuss with them our commitment to diversity and inclusion within the business and show how we are reinventing for the future.’Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our news page.Not convinced? Find out more »

Ricky Gervais can't be a trans ally while he continually makes lazy 'jokes' about usRicky Gervais vows he supports trans rights after packing Netflix special with cruel jokesChurch of Scotland will allow same-sex marriages for first timePride month is in June because this is when the Stonewall riots erupted in New York, triggering the rise of LGBTQ+ rights movement across the world.In a similar sign of solidarity, the Royal Mint has unveiled a rainbow-coloured 50p coin.

Ricky Gervais is on the defensive after mocking trans women in his edge-lord stand-up special SuperNature, referring to them as “the new women” and “the ones with beards and c*cks.” He went on to joke about a hypothetical trans woman raping cis women.Last year was the most lethal year on record for trans people, with the HRC reporting some 57 violent killings of trans and gender non-conforming people. Rhetoric like Gervais’ that reduces trans women to sexually violent caricatures based solely around their genitals contributes to the culture that leads to these violent killings, but on a recent interview on The One Show with Alex Jones, Gervais asserted that his dangerous rhetoric was all just comedy.“That’s when I say something I don’t really mean, for comic effect.

couple is facing criticism for refusing to let the groom's dad bring his husband because they want the wedding to be "non-ideological."Writing for the popular Reddit forum r/AmITheA**hole, stylized AITA, u/Stuckinthebone earned over 4,500 upvotes and 600 comments for his post, "AITA for telling my son to cancel his wedding?"The original poster (OP) said that he's a 49-year-old gay man, though when he was in the 20s, he was in the closet. When he was 24, he slept with a woman and got her pregnant, and they had a son, now 25.

Selena Gomez is changing her look! The 29-year-old singer who recently revealed some details about her new album, has surprised her fans on TikTok, after posting a video with long straight hair and blunt bangs.The Hollywood star immediately started trending on social media, with online users loving the new look and posting about her hair evolution, complimenting her bangs throught the years in 2008, 2016 and 2022.Selena Gomez in straight hair with bangs;2008//2016//2022 pic.twitter.com/ELe5KqE7WQ“Straight hair selena is my favourite selena, she looks so gorgeous omg,” one person wrote on Twitter,” while someone else commented “Selena Gomez with long straight hair is always a serve.”In the video Selena can be seen with lighter sleek brown hair, in comparison to her recent dark bob, which looked perfectly styled during her recent visit to the White House last week, where she teamed up with First Lady Jill Biden to participate in the Youth Mental Health Action Forum.Fans are also sharing theories about her new era on social media, as she is getting ready to release new music and she is even thinking about touring, however with the premiere of season two of the popular Hulu show ‘Only Murders in The Building,’ It’s still unclear if she is teasing a new era with her look or just changing her hair temporarely.

have threatened lawsuits against schools for investigating children who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a classmate. The state has also seen lawsuits about bathroom access of transgender students.

convicted by a jury in December of receiving and possessing child porn. Judge Timothy Brooks imposed the sentence Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville, Ark., the Associated Press reports.Prosecutors sought the maximum sentence of 20 years, saying in a court filing that Duggar has a “deep-seated, pervasive and violent sexual interest in children.” Duggar’s lawyers had asked for a five-year sentence.

And unbelievably, the mayor of Uvalde insulted Beto for this — he was madder at Beto than at the killer!

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If you are a preteen who was raped by your father or a transgender boy who was raped by a transphobe, and you are being forced to carry your pregnancy to term despite the tremendous anguish you will go through, what recourse do you have? Who do you trust to turn to when you feel like the criminal instead of the victim? You are a pawn for activist judges from the 19th century who claim to be "pro-life" but care nothing about your life. You are scum to them, while if their children become pregnant as a result of rape, they are secretly afforded the best care in the world.If you are in school and have two moms or two dads, and you must keep it a secret, who can you talk to about your loving parents? Will you be arrested because you accidentally let slip that your two moms took you to the carnival? Who can you trust? No one, because one politician is making you feel illegitimate and not normal all because he wants to be president.

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Real Time With Bill Maher, it feels like 1993 all over again, although this time it’s different and even more frightening.On last Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher, Maher said the number of youth identifying as LGBTQ+ is rising because it's “trendy,” while he spewed other harmful, homophobic and transphobic rhetoric. Maher continued his vitriolic commentary by taking several more potshots at LGBTQ+ youth, including claims that society was “experimenting” on children through the use of puberty blockers and genital surgery as a means to perpetuate culture wars.

May 20, 1961 — April 30, 2022Robert Dean Reiter died April 30, 2022. Service will be at Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, in Oakland on Saturday, May 28, at 11 a.m., followed by a reception at the Bancroft Hotel in Berkeley.

After being delayed by a year due to the COVID pandemic, San Francisco's LGBTQ community recently came out to support mental health services as the nonprofit Queer LifeSpace celebrated its 10th anniversary.The gala, held May 7, also premiered the organization's new Emerging Queer Artists in Their Youth program, EQUARTY, with a silent auction of 13 works from seven emerging artists.The organization's executive director, Ryan MacCarrigan, told the Bay Area Reporter the event raised close to $40,000 for the San Francisco LGBTQ mental health and substance abuse services organization. About 150 people attended the outdoor daytime reception in Lower Nob Hill while another 100 people who could not attend nevertheless made donations.The funds will help QLS's 163 clients and work toward expanding the organization's in-person and virtual counseling services.

The Queer Chorus of San Francisco performed during the city's observance of Harvey Milk Day Sunday, May 22, in Jane Warner Plaza in the LGBTQ Castro neighborhood. Other groups that participated included Rise Up 4 Abortion, in which people donned costumes from "The Handmaid's Tale" to protest in support of reproductive rights.

May 14, 1974 — May 3, 2022Gerry "Mary" Manzo passed on May 3, 2022, surrounded by friends and family after a valiant fight with cancer.For a number of years, Gerry was a popular bartender at the SF Eagle and The Hole in the Wall bars. More recently, he harnessed his great passion for the outdoors to create enchanting outdoor spaces around the San Francisco Bay Area.Gerry was an enthusiastic, frequent explorer of wilderness areas, mountain forests, beaches, lakes, and rivers. The more time he spent outdoors, the happier he was.

Appalled at SF Pride decision on policeI am totally appalled at the disrespect of the San Francisco Pride committee board banning our dedicated police and fire teams from the parade ["LGBTQ first responders won't march in SF Pride parade," online, May 23]. These are the people on the streets every day protecting us, caring for us. This, and other decisions, like voting down security cameras from the Castro (which SF Pride was not involved with) help precipitate the condition of San Francisco — once the great city to live in and welcome visitors and now a disgrace and embarrassment to say the least.

The National AIDS Memorial Grove has announced that panel-making workshops will be held over the next couple of weeks ahead of the historic AIDS Memorial Quilt display set for San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in June.The AIDS grove, which took over stewardship of the quilt in 2019, stated that the free workshops will be held June 1 and 8, from 3 to 6 p.m., at its offices at 543 Castro Street in San Francisco.As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, a massive display of the quilt is set for June 11-12 in Robin Williams Meadow, with some panels being displayed in the AIDS grove, which is also located in Golden Gate Park. The San Francisco installation will include 350 blocks of the quilt, which contain almost 3,000 panels, according to Kevin Herglotz, a gay man who is chief operating officer for the grove.

Eleven bills related to LGBTQ rights survived votes in their house of origin this month in the California Legislature. They run the gamut from bolstering health care services for LGBTQ individuals to protections for LGBTQ youth.One bill, however, failed to advance out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee by the deadline to do so last week.

There are numerous local races on the ballot in Bay Area counties outside of San Francisco where qualified LGBTQ candidates are seeking election or reelection in the June 7 primary.

Irish diplomats came out to the Castro earlier this month to mark the opening of a new exhibit exploring the history and influence of the LGBTQ Irish diaspora.The traveling exhibit, "Out In The World," shows the importance of, and sheds light on, the untold history of Ireland's queer diaspora and queer Irish people's impact on the world. The exhibit, at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro District, explores six themes of the diaspora: exclusion, community, love, defiance, solidarity, and return.

Over the past month, Heartstopper has become an instant classic of young queer crush content, and its cast is blowing up just as fast.Leads Kit Connor and Joe Locke are up for National Television Awards, Yasmin Finney has been announced for an upcoming installment of Doctor Who, and creator Alice Oseman has signed on with the cast for two more seasons with Netflix.For Connor, however, not all of the newfound attention has been so welcome. A couple weeks back, he took to Twitter to address the rumblings of speculation over his personal sexuality since playing bisexual Nick Nelson in Heartstopper.twitter is so funny man.

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From left: Jolanda Jones, Christian Manuel-Hayes, and Venton JonesThanks to victories in primary runoffs Tuesday, Texas is poised to have its first Black gay male state legislators — and one Black lesbian, who won a special election just weeks ago to fill a vacancy, is likely to be elected to a full term.Before Jolanda Jones’s victory in the special election, Texas had never had a Black member of the LGBTQ+ community in the state legislature. She won the special election May 7 in the Houston-area Texas House District 147 to succeed Rep.

Butch Pal for the Straight Gal had a humble but oh-so-relateable beginning. “[It] wasn’t a pandemic project, but it was definitely a project that came out of having way too much time on my hands,” series writer, creator, and star Ally Johnson recalled to The Advocate. “I had just been fired from my job at a radio station, and I started watching the new Queer Eye reboot while crying over my Fruit Loops.

Heartstopper. In the series, his friendship with Charlie Spring grows into a romantic connection in the first season of the charming queer series.This breakout role has led fans online to speculate about the young actor’s actual sexuality on social media, which Connor gently shut down with a post.

It’s been nearly 36 years since Top Gun first took flight. Essentially a recruitment ad for the Navy disguised as an action flick, the Tony Scott-directed film is remembered for ushering in a new age of blockbuster spectacle and solidifying Tom Cruise’s ascent to movie stardom.

Arlington’s LGBTQ community rallied its troops on Tuesday, turning out a crowd to attend the Arlington City Council meeting after word spread that right-wing forces would be at the meeting to speak in opposition to any official recognition of LGBTQ Pride Month by the council.

The blood on Ted Cruz’s hands from yesterday’s elementary school shooting in Texas is apparently not going to be enough to keep him from giving the NRA a resounding round of applause at their convention on Friday.Cruz has received over $175,000 dollars in donations from the NRA over the course of his political career. Under Cruz’s senatorship, Texas has become the state with the highest number of gun deaths in the country, according to the CDC’s firearm mortality stats.  In the face of it all, the anti-LGBTQ seantor refuses to recognize the lethal implications of his massive gun lobby support.Related: Tomi Lahren said something stupid about yesterday’s school shooting and Twitter is NOT having itNow, even after this week’s shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two adults dead, Cruz and his fellow gun enthusiasts Greg Abbott and Donald Trump are still set to speak at the NRA convention in Houston this weekend.This convention not only celebrates gun ownership and open legislation, but it will also be a marketplace for weapons and ammunition, which is especially concerning for a state that no longer requires licenses or training for some gun owners.Related: Rep. Paul Gosar’s vile tweet about Texas school shooting has folks demanding he resignAccording to Education Week, there have so far been 27 school shootings in the U.S.

In what sounds like a bit of saucy gossip from Lady Whistledown’s latest newsletter, it’s been revealed that Jonathan Bailey held onto a special little (emphasis on the word “little”) souvenir from the set of Bridgerton‘s second season.When it was announced that the hunky gay actor would be stepping into the spotlight for season two of Netflix‘s romantic regency drama—based on author Julia Quinn’s novels of the same name—fans were excited to see a lot more of the sexy, brooding Viscount Anthony Bridgerton.But where the first season was full of sex scenes and bodily fluids, the second go-around was surprisingly more restrained, largely focusing on Anthony’s will-they-won’t-they dalliances with the gorgeous Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley).Of course, there’s at least one notable scene where Bailey shows some skin, one that quickly took on a life of its own when it was shared across social media. What can we say, the man looks good in a bathtub!Just Anthony Bridgerton taking a bath while I'm combusting over here wishing the focus of the camera was AHEM lower ?? #Bridgerton pic.twitter.com/Li0VEX7lmZ— Sincerely, Kanthony ? (@Kathony1814) April 9, 2022In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the star recalls feeling a “bit embarrassed” while filming the steamy scene in nothing but a modesty thong—a.k.a.

Ahead of the much-anticipated Mother show at the National Stadium in Dublin on May 26, worldwide famous drag queen Pabllo Vittar opened up about how excited she is to be back in the city. A 27 year-old Brazilian drag queen, Pabllo Vittar got the entire world to listen to her music since she released her […]

A groundbreaking new report published in the UK has found that many LGBTQ+ victims and survivors are often “blamed for their abuse” with accusations “that they were sexually abused because of their sexual orientation or gender identity”. The Inquiry also found that victims of child sexual abuse have suffered a lasting impact which has “severely […]

The Wilds, far from the strictures of society as they knew it, a love story between once-closeted beauty queen Shelby and proudly out Toni blossoms while they are stranded on a deserted island. Much of the Amazon Prime series’ first season about a homosocial experiment that involves a staged plane crash and loads of teen drama, saw the two young women at odds.

The Arizona Republic reports.Gosar responded, “We know already fool. It’s a transsexual leftist illegal alien.

train travel this summer, leaving the hassle behind and instead opting for the convenience and ease of multi-stop itineraries that can whisk them away to the best Pride events of the summer.Amtrak crisscrosses the country with over 500 destinations. During Pride Month, there’s no better way to experience three Pride celebrations in one epic trip than the Coast Starlight train, which travels from Los Angeles to Seattle, with plenty of scenic stops along the way.E-ticketing, schedules, and boarding information are located via the Amtrak app and real-time agent access for when spontaneity kicks in.

The historic Castro Theatre is a step closer to an upgrade in its status as a city landmark May 24 with the support of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.Supervisors voted unanimously 11-0 to approve enhancement of the historic theater's landmark status, a move that extends that designation from, essentially, just the facade of the building to its grand interior. Submitted by gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman during the May 10 meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the resolution amends the historic theater's landmark status by broadening the designation to include "the full historical, architectural, aesthetic and cultural interest and value of the Castro Theatre," as opposed to the current designation that only covers the building's elaborate California Churrigueresque facade.

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TikTok video already had nearly 68,000 views.“I did want a reaction,” Stargel told The Advocate. “I didn’t expect it to blow up overnight.”In the viral clip, the 28-year-old calls her mother out as a hypocrite for running for years on a family values platform, meanwhile leaving her children in the care of neighbors during legislative sessions and imposing beliefs through strict discipline when she was at homeAs a bisexual woman, Stargel takes issue with a number of her mother’s political “accomplishments.” Sen.

Fire Island director Andrew Ahn has praised Joel Kim Booster for his “brilliant adaptation” of Pride and Prejudice.

existential threat to both the sovereignty of Ukraine and the rights of LGBTQ+ people.In his Feb. 24 speech, President Vladimir Putin used LGBTQ+ rights as a justification for his military operation, arguing that the West sought to destroy Russian “traditional values” with their “false values.”For some LGBTQ+ Ukrainians, the war is a call to arms — both in support of their homeland and in support of their rights.

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KyivPride and Warsaw Pride will march together in Poland for the “peace and freedom” of Ukraine following Russia’s invasion of the country earlier this year.