Indiana Supreme Court Okays Catholic School Firing of Gay Teacher

In a sense, singer-songwriter Maren Morris has felt like she's among only a handful of artists in the country music genre that speak out against topics like racism and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.But with that being said, the I Could Use A Love Song star also confessed during an interview with Apple Music's Proud Radio With Hunter Kelly that she doesn't want to just be known for her 'clap backs on Twitter', instead she'd like to have people take notice of her songs.'I can't just be this merch store on the internet that sells you songs and t-shirts,' Morris, 32, said, while taking her personality and personal ethics into consideration, in reference to her decisions to speak publicly on hot topic issues. Call for more voices: Maren Morris, 32, revealed she often feels like she's among only a few people in the country music genre who speak out against hot topics like racism and anti-LGBTQ rhetoricMorris continued, 'I have to let people know, because the real human aspect of this is when I go on tour, and I see the people in my crowd.

Gay pro- wrestler Anthony Bowens sent a strong, heartfelt message through tears after winning his first major All-Elite Wrestling (AEW) championship.Bowens made history, along with his teammate and the other half of the tag team The Acclaimed, Max Caster as the pair snatched the AEW tag-team championship. The pair defeated the duo Swerve in Our Glory – Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee in the dynamite match at the AEW Grand Slam.With this win, Bowens has become the first openly gay competitor to win gold in the AEW and spoke about the importance of the win and what it means to him.“Some of you know, some of you may not know, but I never thought I’d be able to have a moment like this.”“I never thought I would be able to live my dreams because there was a time where I was very confused, and I didn’t know how to accept myself, but I fought through that bullsh*t.

Welcome to the weekend, readers! Get comfortable, we have some bops to share.What pheromones were wafting through the air this week? Folsom Street Fair found itself back with a bang (and lots of them), Tom Daley went full bulge, and a certain trying guy tried a bit too much.Likewise, this week in queer music history was pretty physical. Lots of gyration and bare midriffs, with just a sprinkling of whispers of torrid affairs. Average gay week, really.From rocking hips to Rocky Horror lips, here’s your weekly bop rewind:Some 47 years ago, this defining cult classic hit the U.S.

Check your local listings. While a streaming release date has not yet been announced, “Bros” will eventually be streaming on Peacock since it’s a Universal Pictures release.

It used to be every parent’s nightmare. For one gay New Jersey dad, it still was.And like many parenting nightmares, it started with a text.Backing up a bit, Richard adopted his son, Jonathan, in 2005 at the age of five.

crying during an interview when asked about comments Olivia Wilde made about him. Yet, despite being insulted by a Hollywood A-lister, most people are likely not familiar with Peterson.The emotional moment for Peterson came during an appearance on Fox Nation's Piers Morgan Uncensored on Wednesday.

“Watch What Happens Live” on Thursday night, Ripa alleged that she has been “targeted” and unfairly maligned due to her silence on the issue. “I wish I had set the record straight in real time,” she proclaimed.

When it comes to major gaming franchises, queer characters or stories are often still left out. Fortunately, the story is different with many smaller games from indie developers.

ABOVE: He makes some good points.

We’re all unfortunately way too familiar with Caitlyn Jenner at this point. The decorated Olympian turned FOX News correspondent has been a pain in the queer community’s collective butt for years now, with a litany of queerphobic and regressive views being publicly espoused for conservative consumption.And yet, there was a sweet spot before the Fox News of it all.

Over the course of the last year, what was once a red-hot housing market has experienced a cool-down. Home sales have been slowing, and interest rates are rising as the Federal Reserve continues to try and tame inflation and soaring prices. Rates are currently sitting at their highest point since late 2008, and are more than double their level a year ago. 

Celtic hero Chris Sutton and Rangers legend Ally McCoist enjoyed a laugh over the latter unintentionally running out of superlatives for the Hoops despite his Gers ties in the preview for the upcoming Champions League ties.

— Guy Branum, at the Bros premiere, talking to PRIDE about Brendan Fraser’s controversial casting in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.Related: Guy Branum on “getting drunk & trying to F***” and gay culture’s magnificent tools

Bobby (Billy Eichner) and Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) in ‘Bros.’ (Courtesy photo)

Ginni Thomas is adamant that she never brings up work to her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, when they are alone.  "I generally do not discuss with him my day-to-day work in politics, the topics I am working on, who I am calling, emailing, texting, or meeting," Ginni Thomas said during her testimony in front of the January 6committee on Thursday.She also insists it’s an “ironclad” rule that they don’t talk about cases in front of the Supreme Court.

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Very Peri” that her time is up. With all Alaska 5000 has been up to in 2022, the Pantone Color of the Year has to be straight-up red.The Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner has been a ball of ambition since she hit the public eye on season five, back in 2013.

tumbling pound has encouraged dollar buyers to snap up hit songs with Phil Collins and Genesis the latest big names to cash in on their back catalogue with a $300m (£270m) deal. Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks sold the rights to hit songs including “Mama”, “Land of Confusion” and “Invisible Touch” to the US-based Concord Music Group.

The reviews are in, and despite homophobes’ attempt to review-bomb the film, Bros is a hit.Billy Eichner’s new flick, the first major movie studio-backed and -produced romantic comedy with two gay characters as the leads and subjects of the film, was released in theaters Friday.Rotten Tomatoes loves Bros, rating the comedy 95 percent fresh.Marya E. Gates at Robert Ebert's gives Bros 2.5 stars overall but rates the movie as entertaining with plenty of inside jokes and nods at things the LGBTQ+ community will identify.

Armie Hammer issues aside, Call Me By Your Name stands as one of the most thoughtful and sumptuous queer coming-of-age movies in recent memory. So we never thought director Luca Guadagnino’s reunion with his star Timothée Chalamet would be quite so… bloody.But that’s exactly what Bones And All appears to be.

trans Pakistanis are either beaten, harangued or publicly arrested by the police.She added: "How can we call on this hotline when our phones are snatched? When we are arrested like a robber from wedding parties where we have to perform and earn?"Who harasses us the most? Yes, indeed, the police.

Good morning, indeed!Hairspray alum and resident camp icon Nikki Blonsky has been engaging with fans for years, especially since her Cameo Renaissance™ back in 2019.

While Sarah Palin lost a special election in August to fill Alaska’s only House seat, the Log Cabin Republicans have endorsed her for the general election in November.In a tweet Tuesday afternoon, the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of LGBTQ+ conservatives, endorsed the former Alaska governor, former reality TV star, and failed vice presidential candidate. “Log Cabin is PROUD to endorse @SarahPalinUSA for Congress! Palin is a trailblazer who paved the way for the America First movement.

For a particular corner of the internet, the world ended this summer. Several internet-famous WLW couples — an abbreviation for “women-loving women” — had made online announcements that they had split up, leading their followers to speculate about a so-called breakup curse. Followers of the drama called it the “lesbian breakup apocalypse,” and NBC News reported on it in August.

White House press conference on Wednesday, the CDC’s Director Rochelle Walensky said the organization was moving toward more of a pre-exposure strategy. It was now promoting Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to gay and bi men who have matched any of the above criteria in the past six months.Dr.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) has introduced legislation that would set up the process to create a National Museum of American LGBTQ+ History & Culture, potentially as an official site within the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Reddit's "Am I The A**hole" forum where it received more than 9,700 upvotes and 1,200 comments. The post can be found here.According to guidelines prepared by Dr.

Bros, the new gay rom-com from Billy Eichner.What makes Underwood’s praise a little different is the history between the two men.You may recall that back in 2019, Eichner interviewed Underwood when he was on The Bachelor. Eichner made a jokey reference that Underwood could be the first gay Bachelor.

#Brazil to make a gender reveal, Environment department is investigating the case

The Aussie Boys explores the “the lives and loves” of blokes from Down Under across seven short films from seven up-and-coming directors. The stories range from historical epics to more modern dilemmas like truck stop romances and love triangles, but they all attempt to offer a snapshot of gay life in Australia.Available to stream now via Amazon Prime Video and other VOD services.There’s a reality show for just about everything these days, so it’s about time we’ve got one about gay men who work in the adult film industry! X-Rated is an OUTtv original docuseries that’s said to provide an “insider look at the lives of iconic adult performers” as they chase their dreams in the Big Apple.

A group of queer mountaineers are literally taking LGBTQ+ activism to new heights, as they plan to scale the world’s highest mountains to promote queer visibility. Dastan Kasmamytov is an LGBTQ+ activist and founder of the Pink Summits campaign. After cycling from Central Asia to Germany, he decided to conquer the seven summits. The goal […]

A new podcast series, ‘I Am Not Your Refugee’ looks at refugee-led projects in Ireland, Turkey, Greece and Jordan. Journalist and producer Bairbre Flood tells us about how she met and spoke to Mehdi and Nihal, two members of the LGBTQ+ community in Yalova, a city just outside Istanbul, and to Mahmoud Hassino, who presents […]

The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has said that a Pakistani law that was enacted in 2018 enabling Trans people to self-determine their gender is “inconsistent with Islamic principles”. The progressive bill permits Trans people to have their gender recognised without approval from a medical board and allows them to obtain official documents with their […]

Atlanta City Council member Liliana Bakhtiari, the first queer Muslim to hold elected office in Georgia, has come out as nonmonogamous.Bakhtiari, a lifelong Atlantan born to immigrant parents, is the second Iranian-American on the council and one of just a handful of nonbinary elected officials or out queer Muslim officials nationwide. They are not only the first nonbinary person on the Atlanta council but the first on any governing body of a major U.S. city.The councilmember has been with their partner Kris Brown for 10 years and recently spoke exclusively to NBC News about their relationship with Sarah Al-Khayyal.Bakhtiari said they chose to come out because they wanted to start a family together.They said that stories like this tend to be scandalous.

After a recent episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon, when one of the show’s two confirmed queer characters (Laenor Velaryon’s lover, Joffrey) was brutally murdered, we wrote that the death fit into the tired “Bury Your Gays” trope. Many fans of the show disagreed.

A 21-year-old fan of American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer from Lafayette, Louisiana has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a gay man with the intention of murdering and dismembering him, as part of a scheme to abduct and murder Grindr users. Trigger Warning: This story discusses a hate crime, 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.On June 20, 2020, Chance Seneca used Grindr to lure 19-year-old Holden White.

‘Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York’ By Ron Goldbergc.2022/ Fordham University Press$36.95/512 pages

In recent days the Biden administration’s monkeypox response deputy coordinator, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has been attacked by right-wing figures and media. The reason? His thirst traps, his tattoos, and his sexuality.The conservative media outlet The Daily Caller specifically targeted Daskalakis and his history of being open about being gay as well as being directly involved on the front lines of health care.What’s ensued is a wave of homophobic attacks against Daskalakis.The reporter who wrote the Caller piece tweeted, “Meet Joe Biden's monkeypox czar: a ‘progressive, radical gay' doctor who performs HIV screenings in sex clubs and gives meningitis shots in drag.

The Miami-Dade School Board decided against declaring October LGBTQ+ History Month.Parents, teachers, and students debated the issue for three hours on Wednesday, during which one group emphasized indoctrination while the other cited the pink triangle used by Nazis to isolate gays and lesbians. The board voted 8-1 against the measure.“A year ago, the board supported an inclusive LGBTQ+ month measure in a 7 to 1 vote, and the only thing that has changed is that Ron DeSantis is making Florida more hateful,” says Cuban-American social activist Mike Rivero.Rivero is with the group Cubanos Palante, which sets out to represent the Cuban-American community in progressive spaces and to demonstrate that the Cuban community is not a monolith.Rivero says he’s experienced an incredible amount of bullying and abuse after right-wing trolls targeted one of his tweets.“Although I am straight, I recognize that I probably went through a fraction of what LGBTQ+ people facing bigotry go through, but I can say I understand.” He says that since tweeting about the school board meeting Tuesday, he’s been inundated by right-wing trolls who have targeted his account and him personally for attacks, including death threats.“I do believe that this is a result of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric ad culture wars coming out of the legislature and the governor’s office," board member Lucia Baez-Geller, who was the lone vote to recognize the month, told NBC News.One group that targeted Miami-Dade Public Schools is Gays Against Groomers.

LGBTQ History Month” amid protests from angry parents who said it would amount to “indoctrination” of children.The Miami Herald reports that the proposed measure wouldn’t have just designated October as LGBTQ History Month, but also would have taught lessons to 12th grade students about two landmark Supreme Court cases in American LGBTQ rights: Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage, and Bostock v.

This story was supposed to be about a notable California school system near San Francisco that opens students' minds by embracing LGBTQ-related themes district-wide. But in a time when the LGBTQ+ community is often under political attack, before this story was published, it developed an ugly component, and of course, it involved Libs of TikTok.Castro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Parvin Ahmadi credits the school board for embracing the LGBTQ+ community and explains that the impetus for painting progress Pride flag murals on all 15 schools was a student request."Our board has always been very supportive, making sure that our LGBTQ+ students and families are welcomed and valued," Ahmadi says.Two students working with Castro Valley Pride approached school officials last year to request permission to paint a rainbow pathway from the Center for the Arts to Castro Valley High School, she says."There's a lot more than just the flags that are painted.

Even though many of the titles passed the district's book challenge process, a school district in north Texas pulled dozens of books from its library shelves one day before the school year began. In response, concerned parents and educators are bringing attention to the conservative playbook implemented in Texas, which includes a cell phone company's mission to take over school boards.Keller Independent School District principals were asked last minute to remove challenged books from classrooms and libraries on Tuesday. Among the 42 books removed are the Bible, a graphic adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. Books were to be removed by Tuesday night before classes began on Wednesday. The district's curriculum director, Jennifer Price, sent an email that said in part, "Please collect these books and store them in a location.

A highly intoxicated man who used anti-gay slurs and racist language in the cabin of a passenger jet was booted off a scheduled flight on Tuesday. Viral video first posted to TMZ shows the man roaming the aisle and searching overhead bins for his luggage as crew and airport security personnel wait to escort him off the plane, which was due to fly from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Dallas, Texas.The video opens showing the man arguing with a flight attendant and calling the passengers “f*gg*ts.

A gay inmate in Texas who died in prison was murdered and did not die by suicide.The death of Justin Levi Galloway, was a “homicide” resulting from “ligature/asphyxiation” according to local KJAS which obtained a copy of the autopsy report. On August 5, Galloway, 42, was found in his cell with a noose around his neck at the Gib Lew Unit in Woodville.

An educator in Kansas who sued her school district for suspending her for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns reached a settlement on Wednesday with the school district. The teacher will receive $95,000 in damages due to the lawsuit.After being counseled and suspended for three days by Geary County Schools last year, Pamela Ricard sued the district for reprimanding her over calling a student assigned female at birth by their legal and enrolled last names, NBC News reports.According to the lawsuit, a school counselor at Fort Riley Middle School informed Ricard that the student preferred an alternate first name and that a classmate recommended he/him pronouns.However, to avoid using the student’s preferred first name, Ricard began addressing the student as “miss,” using the student’s last name.

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff will host a virtual roundtable this afternoon when he will meet with LGBTQ+ high school students from across the country to learn how they feel about returning to school in the wake of widespread attacks on LGBTQ+ identity in classrooms.Young LGBTQ+ people have been the target of a coordinated right-wing attack for months to erase them and relegate them back into the closet.Today's meeting comes as Republican governors and legislatures have focused on banning subjects of conversation and books related to LGBTQ+ people and issues from schools and libraries around the country. Others have gone so far as to make gender-affirming medical health care access impossible with policies with which major medical associations disagree."The Second Gentleman felt compelled to hold a meeting with students following the passage of legislation in states that impacts the LGBTQ community, including the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida," a White House official tells The Advocate. The call will include trans and cis-gender youth from Florida, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, and California. Among these students are outspoken advocates of LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion, including some of those who led efforts against the Florida's "don't say gay" bill.The White House says the Second Gentleman is committed to ensuring students feel safe in schools.One of the young participants, Daniel, reacted to questions from The Advocate with excitement."I think it's important for young people to speak with political leaders, so they know exactly what we need and want from them at this time," Daniel, 17, said.

ABOVE: This would be my driver's license pic.

(CNN) — Yeshiva University filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking to block a court order requiring the New York university to recognize a "Pride Alliance" LGBTQ student club.In court papers, the school says that "As a deeply religious Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot comply with that order because doing so would violate its sincere religious beliefs about how to form its undergraduate students in Torah values."Lawyers for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, representing Yeshiva, argued that the lower court's order is an "unprecedented" intrusion into the University's religious beliefs and a clear violation of Yeshiva's First Amendment rights.The New York Court of Appeals refused to review the denial of a stay, prompting school officials to petition the high court, but it has not yet ruled on the merits of the dispute.The application comes as the conservative majority of the court ruled in favor of religious conservatives in two cases last term. In addition, in 2021, the court sided with a Catholic foster care agency that refused to consider same-sex couples as potential foster parents.Justice Samuel Alito has repeatedly called for greater protections for the free exercise of religion including during a July speech in Rome.