John Mulaney Called 'Transphobe' After Letting Dave Chappelle Open for Him

Simon Webbe has gushed over his eldest daughter Alanah, who came out as gay “really young”. Simon, 44, welcomed his daughter Alanah in 1996 with his ex-girlfriend Nicola Jones.The singer has since had a second child with his now-wife Ayshen Kemal – whom he married in 2018. Ayshen gave birth to a little girl named Cyan Shenel last year.

My Policeman, in which the singer plays a married police officer involved in a secret gay love affair in 1950s Britain, was released June 15, stirring up even more public interest in the Queer love story.In a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Styles spoke about the challenges he faced while performing the film’s sex scenes.“It does feel vulnerable. I’d never kissed anyone on camera before and it felt like giving a part of myself away in some ways,” Styles said.“I was naked in My Policeman.

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Here’s a little new millennium nostalgia for your day. Remember the 2002 movie Scooby-Doo? You know the one that put those meddling kids into a live action camp fest that perfectly cast the characters Velma (Linda Cardellini), Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard), and the voice of Scooby-Doo (Neil Fanning)? Yea, that one.While the film itself received negative reviews, it was a box office success that has garnered a cult following throughout the years.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week that registration for the Florida Python Challenge has opened.Florida's annual python-catching event is gearing up for 2022. Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week that registration for the Florida Python Challenge has opened.

Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Pride Media.If you asked us to think of a timeless sentence, an evergreen sentiment that would be relevant no matter what period of history it was said in, we might offer, “It’s a really tough time to be in the LGBTQ civil rights movement.”It was a tough time in the ’70s, during Anita Bryant’s antigay “Save Our Children” crusade.It was a tough time in the ’80s, when President Reagan’s loudest comment on the AIDS epidemic was silence.It was a tough time in the ’90s, when media coverage of the murder of Brandon Teena widely misgendered him and he was buried with a headstone reading “sister, daughter, friend.” It was tough in the 2000s, when we saw an avalanche of constitutional and statutory bans on marriage equality. It was tough even in the 2010s, despite what seemed like a cascade of legal and legislative victories, including the defeat of North Carolina’s anti-transgender “bathroom bill” — as the murder epidemic of transgender women, especially trans women of color, grew more and more dire.And now, half a century out from “Save Our Children,” here we are again. This year alone, there have been hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures, of which 117 are explicitly anti-transgender.It’s always been a tough time.

It’s been a bit of a tense week. Homophobes are sending Pride decor up in flames, storming drag queen storytime events, and planning to take over queer events by the Uhaul-full. That’s why, for this week’s bop round-up, we’re going to cool things down a bit.

A post shared by ADAM LAMBERT (@adamlambert) At a time when Pride can sometimes feel a little sanitized and corporate-friendly, Adam Lambert has posted a short and sweet message to his fans and followers to remind them where his preferences lie.“I like dick,” he said at the start of the Pride Month video posted to Instagram.Appearing to answer queries from fans, he then responds to someone asking, “Are you gay?”“Where have you been?” responds the singer. “I’m really gay.

An original player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), the inspiration for the film “A League of Their Own,” provided a truly heartwarming moment at the 2022 Tribeca Festival.

“Asking for help is the most important thing you can do.” Micah Scott is the Chief Executive Officer of Minus18, an organisation that supports LGBTQ young people in Australia through preventative mental health support, education, advocacy and leadership development. Scott grew up near Victoria’s Dandenong Mountains and moved to Melbourne when he was 20 years old. He found life in Dandenong rather isolating: “I was the only gay kid that I knew… I’m not aware of anyone in my social circles from back then who is queer themself,” he said. These days, when not working, Scott enjoys spending time with his friends, his partner, his chosen family.

Manuel Betancourt The title of Rose Troche’s film, “My Fake Boyfriend,” may be clunky, but it captures the outrageous premise of this latest gay romantic comedy. When stuntman Andrew (Keiynan Lonsdale, of “Love, Simon” fame) is stuck in a toxic relationship with a self-absorbed narcissist, his best friend Jake and his girlfriend Kelly (Dylan Sprouse and Sarah Hyland) decide the only way to break the cycle is with a white lie: the creation of a new (fake!) online boyfriend.

Harry Styles mania is reaching a fever pitch this year. In addition to his well-reviewed new album and its inescapable single, the former One Direction member is out to prove he’s more than just a global pop star.

Controversy sparked in North Carolina this week as a photographer was made by government order to remove his innocuous photo of two men kissing at a Pride parade from a museum exhibit.The picture from photojournalist Grant Baldwin features now-husbands Justin Colasacco and Bren Hipp sharing a kiss after Colasacco had proposed at Charlotte Pride in 2019.Wholesome enough, right?  A post shared by Grant Baldwin (@cltphotojourno)Wrong!Baldwin was forced to take down his photograph by order of Gaston County Manager Kim Eagle, who cited “differing viewpoints in the community.”Related: Psychotic school board official has homophobic meltdown while resisting arrest and OMG you guysA further statement from a Gaston County spokesperson specified that “the museum is government-funded, and as such, it is important for the items it shares to be informational without championing political issues.”You know, the political issue of gay people doing gay things in a gay space.President of Charlotte Pride Clark Simon told local news, “It is a feeling of disappointment in the county in which I live to take a section of the population and deem them not appropriate to all of the people attending the museum.”A twist of the knife to it all is that the exhibit has been open since May, but for some reason, Eagle waited until the very middle of Pride month to order the photo pulled.Here are a few of the reactions online:Queer people existing isn’t political. Someone cc Gaston County Manager Kim Eagle.

be investigated for child abuse.“Gregory, Gregory, Gregory,” Porter says in one video. “It’s hard enough with you being an intolerable, soulless, and empty shell of a human being.

Gemma Collins has announced that she's taken on a new position of becoming her nephew's "showbiz manager".The 41 year old, who became a household name following her stint on ITV's The Only Way is Essex, often includes her brother's son Hayden Collins in many of her social media posts.And now it looks like Gemma wants to make sure she carves out a place in the spotlight for him too.Jumping onto her Instagram story, Gemma posted a photo of herself with her arm over Hayden's shoulder.Wearing large sunglasses she captioned the snap: "I am Hayden's showbiz manager any brands modelling agencies collabs movie directors email mark@tm-media.co.uk.The GC has often shared just how talented Hayden is and provides fans with glimpses of him dancing on her social media platform.But although Hayden seems to relish the spotlight, Gemma also has another nephew that is rarely seen online.In April, Gemma left fans stunned when she showcased her nephew Caine who joined her backstage on her The GC's Big Night Out tour.Sharing a short clip on her Instagram story, Gemma told her fans: "I've got a very VIP guest tonight, my eldest nephew Caine, that you don't get to see very much."She then panned the camera around so spectators could see Caine who gave a thumbs up.Gemma then added: "He's so grown up, but he's a bit shy so he's not on the Gram much, but I am so happy he is here."Last month, blonde bombshell Gemma shut down any rumours of her potentially joining an all-star version of ITV's I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!Sharing her insight on the show, Gemma said she wouldn't take part in the programme again.Speaking to The Sun she said: "I haven’t heard about it."I just don’t feel that I need to go to extremes anymore on TV for people’s

Lightyear, complaining about “lesbian toys” in the movie. On a recent episode of his podcast The Verdict, the Texas Republican decried the inclusion of “lesbian toys” in the Toy Story spin-off.Related: Chris Evans says it’s “great” that Pixar is keeping Lightyear’s same-sex kiss as 14 countries ban itNoting that the film has already been banned from 14 countries and may also be banned from theaters in China, Cruz said: “It’s a wild twist where Hollywood has been willing to grovel to China, to let China censor its movies, to embrace anti-Americanism, to avoid any criticism of China because they want to get access to the Chinese movie market, but when it comes to their culture agenda, apparently now suddenly they’ve discovered, ‘Alright, give up the money because lesbian toys are more important.’”Sen Ted Cruz complains about "lesbian toys" in the Buzz Lightyear movie: "Most toys are, kinda, androgynous.

If you tuned into the Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing then you already know it was basically a Mike Pence masturbation fest. The ex-VP was praised by Republicans and Democrats alike for not giving in to Donald Trump‘s demands to overturn the 2020 election.“Thanks in part to Mike Pence, our democracy withstood Donald Trump’s scheme and the violence of January 6,” said Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the committee.“Vice President Pence understood his oath of office was more important than his loyalty to President Trump.

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@VickieforNYC, we need you to acknowledge this is wrong & tell others to stop also. pic.twitter.com/pXxhY59COqThough he did mention Paladino by name in a clip of his speech he shared on Twitter, he tagged the councilwoman directly in the caption, saying that she used the term "grooming" repeatedly to "describe my community.""@VickieforNYC, we need you to acknowledge this is wrong & tell others to stop also," he wrote.Planned drag queen story events across the U.S.

Forty-plus years into his acting career, Tom Hanks is still going strong. He’s onscreen next as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann‘s “Elvis” as Presley’s manager, and after that, he’s in Marc Forster‘s “A Man Called Otto” and Wes Anderson‘s latest, “Asteroid City.” READ MORE: Tom Hanks Teases Shelved Dean Martin Biopic Directed By Martin Scorsese But in a recent interview with The New York Times Magazine, Hanks didn’t talk about his upcoming roles.

, everyone was accepting. Still, when I thought about giving wrestling a shot, I believed that a sport often associated with macho men may not accept someone like me.  And when I expressed my interest in wrestling to people, there were some mixed perceptions from ex-work colleagues, or people I socialised with.

Massachusetts Catholic school can no longer call itself Catholic after a local bishop declared that its Pride and Black Lives Matter flags were incongruent with church teachings.In April, Bishop Robert McManus issued a statement opposing Nativity School of Worcester's display of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ Pride flags.  By doing so, he expected the school to comply and remove the flags, but administrators have refused.Now, McManus has forbidden the school from identifying as Catholic.On Thursday, the Diocese of Worcester posted a decree about Nativity School on its website."The Nativity School of Worcester is prohibited from this time forward from identifying itself as a ‘Catholic’ school and may no longer use the title ‘Catholic’ to describe itself," McManus declared.In an open letter published in May, he claimed that "These symbols (flags) embody specific agendas or ideologies (that) contradict Catholic social and moral teaching." His issue with the school's Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ Pride flags is that they send a message of support."It is my contention that the 'Gay Pride' flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle," McManus notes.While seemingly invalidating the social justice movement, he explains his opposition to the Black Lives Matter flags.

Another one, thank you!Disney showed off a few clips from their upcoming Strange World movie at the Annecy International Film Festival this week and among them was a clip featuring a character who is being hailed as “the first LGBTQIA+ Teen character from Disney animation.”Diversity win!Strange World’ has the first LGBTQIA+ Teen character from Disney animation, Ethan!

Junior Andre’s debut single has gone all the way to the top of the charts just hours following its release.The 17 year old son of Peter Andre and Katie Price has just released his debut song, Slide, which shot to the top of the UK iTunes Pop chart hours after its release at midnight on Thursday, beating iconic artists Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.The star excitedly shared screenshots to Instagram as his new track climbed the charts, at one point settling on number four on the national all-genre charts. "Thank you to all those who have supported," Junior wrote, adding: "You guys are mad can we get this to the top?" Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

My Fake Boyfriend is an adorable romantic comedy that follows the story of Andrew, an aspiring stunt coordinator whose best friend uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to make Andrew's terrible ex jealous! But, like in all great rom-coms, things soon go awry after Andrew thinks he may have met the real love of his life, and discovers that breaking up with a boyfriend, even a fake boyfriend, can be tough to do. You might recognize some of My Fake Boyfriend's fantastic cast, which features Keiynan Lonsdale from Love, Simon and The Flash, Dylan Sprouse of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody fame, and Sarah Hyland from Modern Family! Keiynan plays the unlucky-in-love Andrew, while Sprouse plays Andrew's best friend and graphic designer extraordinaire Jake! Jake pitches the idea of creating a "Fake Boyfriend" for Andrew on social media, and uses his graphic design skills to help create "Cristiano," the fake boyfriend in question, and make him look both insanely attractive and madly in love with Andrew. Hyland, meanwhile plays Kelly, another of Andrew's friends and Jake's longtime girlfriend!Lonsdale, Sprouse, and Hyland all have some truly amazing best friend chemistry together on screen, and for the record, I'd like to make it clear I'd love to be a part of this friend group, IRL, please.

Love can be confounding. It can be surprising and elusive; there’s no guidebook. That’s one reason why we devour romantic comedies: They’re funny but neat stories about how people get together, a process that’s terrifyingly vulnerable in real life. For Keiynan Lonsdale, best known for playing romantic lead Bram in 2018’s tender high-school romance Love, Simon, the genre has been professionally but also personally significant.

Last weekend, droves of people descended on a 15-acre park in northeast Los Angeles for an afternoon of picnicking, mingling, cheering on drag performances and a puppy costume competition, and more. Known as Dyke Day LA, this annual Pride gathering takes a homespun approach to a month typically packed with corporate-sponsored parties, parades and concerts; one organizer estimated the crowd at about 1,500. Since its first iteration in 2007, it has gone from a scrappy Eastside alternative to the spectacle of West Hollywood’s Pride celebrations to an essential — if unofficial — event on the city’s Pride calendar, open to “dykes of all genders.” (According to the organizers, that means everyone but cisgender men.) The name asserts that a term once widely taken as a misogynistic and homophobic slur can be seen as a positive, liberating label.

Sister Helen Holy is back and bringing friends with her. Join us as Helen Holy and her secular friends serve up a night of laughter benefiting Legacy Cares.

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande is a mouthful in more ways than one.The great Emma Thompson stars as Nancy Stokes, a 55-year-old widow who hires a sex worker, Leo Grande, so that she can enjoy a night of exploration and pleasure. A bit out of practice and insecure—she says she’s never had an orgasm—Nancy even prepares a to-do list for her time with Leo (“Number one: I perform oral sex on you,” the list goes on).True to his last name, Grande has a lot to offer Nancy.

Dead By Daylight recently outed its first-ever playable gay character, David King, bringing some badly needed gay representation to the game’s large (and largely male) fan base.King is a hunky, English brawler and former rugby player who earns money in the underground fighting circuit. His quick-healing abilities and confrontational combat style differentiate him from the other characters being stalked by The Huntress and Dead by Daylight’s other monstrous slashers.But King is just one of several sexy out video game characters to grace the small screen.

The ‘Godfather of Gay’, Tonie Walsh is back with his unmissable Lavender Walk, Dublin’s original LGBTQ+ history tour. Don’t miss the opportunity to experience Ireland’s rich queer history at some of the sites where seminal events took place and the country’s queer community was born. As founder of the Irish Queer Archive and co-founder of […]

Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” Now, Matt Gaetz appears to be taking those wise words to heart.This week, Gaetz revealed that, should Republicans take control of the House in November, he plans to launch an investigation into jail conditions, particularly of people being held on charges related to the deadly January 6 insurrection.“In the minority, we’re very limited in the tools we have to compel responses from the Department of Justice,” he told reporters. “If we’re in the majority, I do believe the Judiciary Committee is the appropriate place to use compulsory tools to get those responses.”Related: Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene team up to be extra horrible togetherGaetz, along with several GOP lawmakers, including some who sit on the House Judiciary Committee, says he’s concerned that accused insurrectionists are being subjected to harsh jail conditions as they await their trials.We’re sure his sudden worry for the wellbeing of American inmates has everything to do with compassion for his fellow man and absolutely nothing to do with that pesky ongoing federal investigation into his alleged sexual relationship with a high schooler.Related: Matt Gaetz’s future looking “not good” after latest development, says former federal prosecutorSpeaking of that investigation, this week Time magazine reported that Gaetz keeps a handwritten note from ex-president Trump encouraging him to “keep fighting” on display in his office:On the wall of the cramped congressional-office-turned-podcast studio, there’s a black-and-white poster for S.J.

As everyone already knows, Pride month is the best time of the year with a smorgasbord of LGBTQ+ events happening around Ireland. There is so much to do that it is almost impossible to keep track of all the different things happening. So, to help you find some hidden gems that are taking place this […]

The sustainable Irish urban clothing brand, Human Collective, is offering two lucky GCN readers the chance to win one of their stylish limited-edition Pride t-shirts. Available in black and white, the design sees the Pride flag sitting where fashionistas would usually find the brand’s signature equals sign logo. The design is sleek and modern, and […]

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“Wildhood” opens in Los Angeles June 17 and on Hulu June 24.

Arya Stark was queer until her sex scene with Gendry in the final season. Arya was among the few characters to survive Game of Thrones, and before she fled Winterfell for new adventures, she lost her virginity to Gendry (Joe Dempsie). Three years on from the divisive finale, Maisie has revealed she was taken aback by the moment Arya slept with Gendry when they were reunited after several years. ‘The first time that I was surprised by Arya I guess was probably in the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry,’ she chuckled.‘I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So… yeah. That was a surprise.’Back in 2019 after the episode aired, Maisie admitted she thought the scene was a joke due to creators David Benioff and D.B.

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Texas Republicans have been targeting transgender folks in the Lone Star State for years, especially since 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. It’s like, since they lost on marriage, the right-wingers decided to target the most vulnerable in our community.

Well, here we go again.Netflix decided to give Dave Chappelle a break this week by giving trans people a different aggressive funnyman to endure (though Chappelle is doing his best to keep focus). Ricky Gervais’ new stand-up special SuperNature wastes no time in getting to calling trans women “the new women” and more specifically “the ones with beards and c*cks.”Following the wildfire notoriety of Chappelle’s transphobic special The Closer, it seems both Netflix and Gervais were desperate enough for engagement to go for the target that’s been proven to cause controversy.Netflix allegedly ordered the SuperNature special for some $20,000,000, which seems like quite a bit for the streaming giant to shell out for Gervais’ repetitive jokes. This latest release comes in the face of a steadily declining user base for the streaming giant and a mass of layoffs that impacted a lot of the queer creatives who had worked for Netflix, and it’s hard to imagine too much queer goodwill is still left for the company.Gervais ended his transphobic segment with a pretty cognitively dissonant statement: “In real life, I support trans rights.

charged on stage during comedian Dave Chappelle’s set, tackling the openly transphobic comedian.Lee, who was armed with a fake gun that concealed a knife, was tackled on stage and, according to Brianna Sacks, a BuzzFeed News reporter who was in the audience, security officers and audience members began “kicking and punching” Lee for several minutes. Lee received a black eye and a broken arm.“They spat on me and twisted me as if on purpose,” Lee told The New York Post.Lee is now opening up about what prompted the assault on Chappelle. “I identify as bisexual,” he told The New York Post.

John Mulaney has had a straight year of controversy since leaving his wife of six years for Olivia Munn last May, but a dedicated core of his fans have stuck by him through it all.However, after ambushing the crowd at Ohio State University’s Value City Arena on Friday with a surprise opening set from transphobic comedian Dave Chappelle, it seems the goodwill of some fans may be dwindling.Chappelle’s Netflix special The Closer from last October went especially hard with punching down at the trans community, and the ensuing controversy with Netflix is well-documented.Mulaney on the other hand has drawn queer fans in for years with characters like Stefon on Saturday Night Live and light-hearted jokes like his New in Town bit comparing his childhood self to “a 67-year-old gay man who’s kind of over it.”His decision to bring Chappelle on as the opener on his “From Scratch” tour stop in Columbus, Ohio has those same fans feeling forsaken…okay so tell me why I just went to the John Mulaney show and Dave Chappelle was a surprise opener and made not only a transphobic joke but a homophobic one— maddie (@boobeoisie) May 21, 2022if i was john mulaney i would maybe acknowledge the fact that a vast amount of my fanbase consists of queer young people and simply not openly be a chappelle supporter— the people’s princess (@lif3aquatic) May 21, 2022“don’t like chappelle’s transphobic material? don’t watch it” sure gets blown out of the water when he can just show up at a john mulaney show and fuck up your night— dr caitlin green (offense archaologist) (@caitlinmoriah) May 23, 2022I take back every defense I’ve made of John mulaney, very divorced of him to have Dave Chappelle open for him and tell a bunch of transphobic jokes.

Comedian John Mulaney has been slammed by fans for including Dave Chappelle in his recent comedy show. 

John Mulaney is taking some heat after Dave Chappelle opened for him in Ohio and told jokes that some audience members found to be transphobic and homophobic.The Saturday Night Live alum, 39, held a show on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio and brought out the legendary comedian Chappelle to open the show, TMZ reported.The audience had their phones locked in pouches so they couldn't record any of the show, but fans who attended took to Twitter afterward to voice their displeasure. Backlash:John Mulaney is taking heat after Dave Chappelle opened for him in Ohio and told some reportedly transphobic and homophobic jokes (pictured 2020).

John Mulaney is facing backlash online after welcoming Dave Chappelle to the stage at his show this weekend.

Gender Affirming Care in Young People. The document claims to outline an established standard of care on how to proceed with social, pharmacological and surgical "affirmation" of children and adolescents who identify as transgender.

Parliament has scheduled a debate on including trans people in its restrictions on ‘conversion therapy’ after a petition on the issue got more than 140,000 signatures.