JD Vance might want to stay off Twitter today after his disastrous debate performance last night

Netflix’s hit LGBTQ+ series Heartstopper has earned nine Children’s & Family Emmy nominations.

Rising gay rapper Kevin Fret was killed in a hail of bullets while riding his motorcycle in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January 2019 — now nearly four years later, a prosecutor says her supervisor told her to end her investigation into the killing of the 24-year-old.Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez claims then-chief prosecutor of the Puerto Rico Justice Department, Olga Castellón, shut down the Fret investigation just three months after the killing, NBC News Reports. Rodríguez lays blame on not only Castellón, but the U.S. territory's secretary of justice at the time, Wanda Vázquez. Rodríguez says Castellón and Vázquez were in constant communication over the high-profile case.Fret was an up-and-coming out rapper; his debut single, "Soy Asi," made traction in the music industry with the music video garnering nearly 6 million views.Before his killing, Fret was accused of extortion by another musician, reggaeton star Jan Carlos Ozuna, known professionally as Ozuna.

The annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is always an amazing spectacle of music, pride, and occasionally controversy, and this year after a decades long wait, British heavy medal band Judas Priest — complete with out and proud gay lead singer Rob Halford — was inducted into the Hall of Fame, as was Eminem, the rapper known for antigay lyrics that, despite his avowed support for the LGBTQIA+ community and public friendship with Elton John, dehumanize LGBTQ+ people.Alice Cooper introduced Halford and the band at the Saturday ceremony in Los Angeles. “They’re electrifying on stage and one of the hardest-hitting live bands in the history of rock and roll,” Cooper said.

Netflix has released the first trailer for the highly anticipated Knives Out sequel.

(CNN) – Online user ratings are great, until you discover they’re fake. Or you remember how your uncle always leaves reviews and his taste is terrible.Travelers want a proper set of standards, which generic hotel star ratings seem to offer.

Growing up Black, queer, and different in the ’80s and ’90s, I used to wish I saw more people like me on TV and in the news. This year, I’m heartbroken that LGBTQ+ youth — especially trans and nonbinary children — are being thrust into the spotlight not for their brilliance or leadership, but as political pawns ahead of elections.Last month, a handful of anti-LGBTQ+ politicians in Congress stooped to a new low in their efforts to rile up their base when they introduced a bill to ban discussions of LGBTQ+ people and history in schools nationwide.

Netflix has renewed Ryan Murphy’s controversial Monster series for two more seasons.

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.

The North Texas Food Bank along with the University of North Texas at Dallas and Tom Thumb/Albertsons are joining forces for public event on Saturday, Nov. 12, to provide food for community members in need.

In what has now become the 34th LGBTQIA+ homicide for what is left of this year in Honduras, activist Melissa Núñez was shot dead in the Tomás Moncada neighborhood by several hooded individuals on a motorcycle, as reported in The Blade’s Honduran media partner, Reportar sin Miedo, Report Without Fear.Núñez had been in the United States, living in Miami for over 20 years, where she developed a strong interest in activism, as well as developing a following on TikTok of over 20,000 followers.Although it is unknown what grounds she had asked for asylum under, she had only been back in Honduras for a few months, and friends say she had just dropped some friends off and was talking on her cellphone when hooded men on a motorcycle gunned her down.Honduran activists groups say this is another example of just how dangerous life is for LGBTQIA+ people in the country, where discrimination and outright violence based on gender identity and expression are common place. United States officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris, acknowledge that it is this violence that is among factors that contribute to Hondurans as well as people from next-door El Salvador to emigrate.Indyra Mendoza, the coordinator of the Honduran LGBTQIA+ group Cattrachas, reported that the primary cause of death were bullet wounds in Núñez's head.Núñez's friend, Catrina, said on Facebook, “She was a person so full of life and energy that nothing was complicated...Fly high, Melissa, a very talented woman.

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

(CNN) -- Federal surveys like the US Census are gradually taking their transgender respondents into account. But they rarely ask specific questions unique to trans life: Have they been denied access to reproductive health care? Is their life better than it was before they came out as trans?Enter the US Trans Survey, the largest survey in the country specifically geared toward trans and nonbinary people.

(CNN) – A Tanzanian commercial flight operated by Precision Air crash-landed in bad weather in Lake Victoria on Sunday, killing 19 people.Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said officials believe all bodies have been recovered from the airplane.“We’re starting to pull out the luggage and personal items from the aircraft. A team of doctors and security agencies have started the process of identifying the dead and notifying the families,” Majaliwa said.The airline confirmed the death toll and amended the number of survivors down to 24 in an updated statement on Sunday evening.

Drag Race star Heidi N Closet has revealed details of a night which ended with her “shitting in a parking lot in Glasgow.”

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.

New Dallas Wings head coach, Latricia Trammell

State Rep. Julie Johnson, right, and her wife Sue Moster at Sue Ellen’s on Nov. 3. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

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

Television star Julie Bowen opened up about falling in love with a woman last week.In an episode of her podcast Quitters, Bowen, 52, discussed her sexuality. She said that while she identifies as straight, she has been in love with another woman before.“I’m straight.

On Sunday, comedian and LGBTQ+ icon Kathy Griffin’s Twitter account was suspended for mocking Elon Musk, the new owner of the social media platform.To draw attention to the flaws in Musk’s plan to provide anyone who pays $7.99 with a verified checkmark on the site, Griffin changed her Twitter profile photo and display name to mimic Musk’s. In her tweets, she mocked the billionaire, still struggling to decide what direction to take the $44 billion purchase he made.“I’ve decided that voting blue for [reproductive] choice is only right,” she tweeted as Musk.Twitter suspended Griffin’s account on Sunday afternoon.Early Sunday evening, Musk tweeted, “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended.” He added that any change of one’s Twitter name would “cause temporary loss of verified checkmark.”Musk also announced that Twitter users would no longer receive warnings before being suspended.

Levi Davis, the first out bisexual rugby player in England, has gone missing in Spain.The 24-year-old winger and reality TV celebrity, who currently runs for the Worthington Raiders after stints with Bath and England, had been staying with Richard Squire, a close friend who lives on the island of Ibiza, when he suddenly announced he was going to meet friends in Spain. Davis reportedly departed the island on a ferry with only a small backpack and minimal clothing and money.

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(CNN) – As tasty as it might look, you should refrain from licking the Sonoran desert toad, the National Park Service has warned.On Tuesday, the NPS used Facebook to warn passerby to use caution around the Sonoran desert toad, also known as the Colorado river toad.The amphibian is one of the largest toads found in north America, measuring up to seven inches, according to the Facebook post. The toad’s call is a distinctive “low-pitched toot,” says the NPS. But the toads, found across the American southwest, also boast another unique feature: They “have prominent parotid glands that secrete a potent toxin,” according to the NPS.

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

Saturday Night Live viewers have criticised the long-running sketch series for announcing Dave Chappelle as their new guest host.

Gemma Collins frolicked with a nearly-naked hunk on a leash after admitting she’s ‘put on a few pounds’. The 41-year-old posed next to Ex on the Beach star Rogan O'Connor for the cheeky snap.

In a massive blow to trans rights, Florida has effectively banned medical care for trans youth.

13 Reason’s Why star Tommy Dorfman has found the leads for her upcoming film I Wish You All The Best.

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Sh*t is going down at Truth Social… again.Will Wilkerson, one of the very first people tapped to work for Trump Media & Technology Group after Donald Trump left the White House, says the ex-president demanded company execs fork over their shares of the right-wing propaganda social media platform to Melania Trump, The Washington Post reports.According to 38-year-old Wilkerson, Trump called co-founder Andy Litinsky in a Florida coffee shop last October to make the outrageous demand. The shares he was seeking for Melania were were worth millions of dollars, and Trump made the request despite already owning 90% of the company.“They were taking equity away from hard-working individuals,” Wilkerson says.Litinsky, a former contestant on The Apprentice, refused, telling the ex-president that “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay.” But, Wilkerson says, “Trump didn’t care.

It’s been a super crappy week for Donald Trump.In addition to the January 6 committee subpoenaing him at the end of its final televised hearing yesterday (drama!), New York state attorney general Letitia James filed a junction to appoint an independent monitor to keep an extra close eye on the Trump Organization as her civil fraud case against the ex-president prepares to go to trial. And on top of all that, the Mar-a-Lago mole is making headlines again.Related: Looks like another one of Trump’s lawyers has had to hire her own lawyer after the Mar-a-Lago messOn Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that someone from within Trump’s inner circle told the feds that they were specifically ordered by the ex-president himself to move several boxes of documents into his private residence inside Mar-a-Lago.The Post also reported that the FBI undercovered CCTV footage showing longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta carrying boxes out of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago after the Justice Department had already issued a subpoena demanding the ex-president immediately return of all classified documents.Related: Everything keeps getting worse for Donald Trump and his Mar-a-Lago mess39-year-old Nauta previously served as a White House valet before going to work for Trump at Mar-a-Lago after he left office.

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Letitia James has made it clear that she’s not clowning around with Donald Trump and his alleged criminal empire family business.This morning, the New York state attorney general urged a state court in Manhattan to appoint an independent monitor to keep a close eye on the Trump Organization’s financial dealings as her civil fraud case against the ex-president and his adult children (minus Tiffany Trump) prepares to go to trial.Tiffany Trump: "It's a good time to be me".— NWO Watcher (@NWO_Watcher) October 12, 2022In a statement, James said:Our investigation uncovered the fact that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in significant fraud to inflate his personal net worth by billions of dollars to illegally enrich himself and cheat the system. Since we filed this sweeping lawsuit last month, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have continued those same fraudulent practices and taken measures to evade responsibility.

The right-wing political views of the new head of Grindr are causing some users to delete the popular gay dating and hookup app.The tag #DeleteGrindr is trending after news incoming CEO George Arison, 44, previously tweeted he was a conservative who supported some of the positions of then-President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. Arrison, who is openly gay, starts his new job on October 19.“FYI I am a conservative & agree with some Trump policies,” Arison wrote in a since-deleted Tweet on February 28, 2020.

LGBTQ+ Americans are poised to become one of the fastest-growing voting blocs in the nation, transforming the political landscape, according to a report released Thursday by the Human Rights Campaign and Bowling Green State University.The report, “Equality Electorate: The Projected Growth of the LGBTQ+ Voting Bloc in Coming Years,” predicts that by 2030 approximately one in seven voters will be LGBTQ+, up from the current one in 10, and the proportion will near one in five by 2040.The vast majority of LGBTQ+ adults are registered to vote, and most vote Democratic, so they will make Democratic, or “blue,” areas bluer and push “red” Republican areas into “purple,” or swing territory, notes the report, which is based on new analysis of publicly available data. Without the LGBTQ+ vote, Joe Biden would likely have lost the 2020 presidential election to Donald Trump, as this vote proved key in swing states.That election saw the largest proportion of LGBTQ+ voters since exit polls began asking about this identification in 1992.

Far-right conspiracy monger Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of nearly $1 billion to families of several victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.The award came Wednesday in one of three defamation suits filed by Sandy Hook families after Jones claimed the mass shooting was a hoax. He later acknowledged that the massacre was real, but that was after the suits were filed and the families had endured threats and harassment.

If you were hoping to see footage of extreme right wingnut Ginni Thomas’ testimony before the January 6 committee in this Thursday’s televised hearing, you’re outta luck.Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, one of the nine members on the bipartisan committee investigating the deadly attack, said the panel didn’t videotape the four-hour interview like they did with several of the other witnesses.Related: With no place left to run, Ginni Thomas begrudgingly agrees to meet with January 6 committee“It was just the agreement reached with her,” Lofgren told MSNBC this week. “And I think it was suitable from all sides.”That means any testimony from Thomas that appears in Thursday’s broadcast will be be shown through a transcript.

Christina Bobb appears to have had to do what soooo many other lawyers who’ve worked for Donald Trump have had to do over the years: hire her own lawyer and sit down with federal investigators.The former One America News personality, who signed a letter in June certifying that all classified documents in the ex-president’s possession had been returned to the government, met with Justice Department lawyers in Washington, D.C. last last week, according to three different sources familiar with the matter.NBC News report:The certification statement, signed June 3 by Bobb, indicated that Trump was in compliance with a May grand jury subpoena and no longer had possession of a host of documents with classification markings at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, according to the three sources who do not want to comment publicly because of the sensitive nature of the sprawling federal investigation.Of course, as we all now know, the letter Bobb signed turned out to be a total lie.

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Billionaire electric car magnate Elon Musk is blaming “communism” in elite colleges and universities for his estrangement from his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson.“It’s full-on communism ... and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” Musk told the Financial Times in an interview published Friday. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children].

A secret audio recording of Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka wooing far-right Christian extremists in the weeks ahead of the 2016 presidential election has just been unearthed and it’s deeply creepy, to the say the least.The recording appears in the new documentary Battleground, out this week, which offers a shocking deep dive into the anti-abortion movement in America.According to the doc, the tape was recorded in September 2016 during a closed-door meeting between the Trumps and a gaggle of Christian leaders a little over a month before the election.The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how Trump would “fulfill the Christian right’s legislative and cultural priorities” if elected president.Things kick off with Steve Bannon telling the group, “The key that picks the lock to this election is you. Conservative Catholics and evangelicals who have not voted, who have not been motivated to vote, have to come to the polls.

J.D. Vance, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio who was able to obtain the Republican presidential nomination thanks in part to backing from gay conservative entrepreneur Peter Thiel, signaled on Tuesday he’d vote against legislation pending before Congress seeking to codify same-sex marriage into law.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that employers in the state can ignore portions of the Biden administration’s guidance on equal treatment of LGBTQ+ workers, particularly as it regards transgender ones.U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by Donald Trump, ruled this week that guidance on implementing the Bostock v. Clayton County ruling from the U.S.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg had a great comeback for U.S. Rep.

Marjorie Taylor Greene over the weekend.Greene (R) spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Michigan. Her comments touched upon the environment.Greene spoke fondly of “the roar of a V8 engine under the hood of a Ford Mustang or Chevy Camaro and incredible feel of all that horsepower.” She added, “Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we drive and force all of you to rely on electric vehicles after they shut down your great Michigan auto industry.”Watch her comments below.Greene: Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we drive pic.twitter.com/UVVhQKdBgx— Acyn (@Acyn) October 1, 2022Related: Pete Buttigieg destroys Ron DeSantis over Martha’s Vineyard stuntFox News asked Buttigieg about Greene’s comments about him wanting to “emasculate” the way people drive.“I literally don’t even understand what that means,” Buttigieg responded.

President Biden raised a few eyebrows this week, after he said he was “sort of raised” in a Puerto Rican community in Delaware. That included Seth Meyers, who joked on Tuesday that Biden’s words sounded pretty similar to a grandpa’s first encounter with gay people.Biden was in Puerto Rico this week getting a look at hurricane damage when he made his comments, noting that Delaware has a large Puerto Rican population.