Justice Dept. Seeks to Block Alabama Trans Health Care Ban

Pride officials in San Diego have reached a compromise with law enforcement that will allow officers to march in uniform at its in-person parade in July. It remains unclear, however, if they will be able to do so in future years.While the organizers of the Southern California city's LGBTQ celebration are still encouraging law enforcement officers not to march in their uniforms, they are not requiring them to wear their civilian clothes.

 will be held on August 23.In the video, Stargel primarily cites her mother’s support of anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ legislation as the chief reason to vote against her. Stargel also claimed that she felt “neglected” by her parents when they prioritized their political careers.

Gemma Collins is now selling personalised clips as she gets herself ready for six months away from the Showbiz world.The 41-year-old bombshell who found fame on The Only Way Is Essex in 2011, is now flogging messages for her adoring fans for any special occasions.For a hefty fee of £95, fans could bag the GC's services for birthday shoutouts to remember.According to the feedback from paying customers, Gemma's videos are well worth almost £100 as the reality star has received glowing five-star feedback on the Memmo.me webiste.One online user wrote: "This message was more than expected! This felt so personal and so much content! Thank you for doing this it made my daughters birthday! Xx"Another echoed: "Thank you so so much, what a peach you are! The absolute perfect gift, much love xx"A third person penned: "This message from Gemma literally made my mums birthday..the 'OMG! ITS THE GC' was heard down the street.. so personal and sweet..

The recent revelation that swoon-worthy Bridgerton actor Jonathan Bailey (accidentally) wore a modesty thong out to the pub after a day of filming in the buff had us thinking:Are modesty thongs the unsung heroes of the entertainment industry?For those who are unaware, the modesty thong—sometimes referred to as a modesty pouch, or patch—is a crucial piece of modern movie magic. The barely-there undergarments are frequently used on sets when actors are filming nude scenes, a solution for those who are, well, modest and prefer to not let it all hang out.Since consent is king (not to mention the increased need for on-set intimacy coordinators), these skin-colored pieces help keep everything in check.

El Chingon Prideapple cocktail and Pride shot. (Courtesy photo)

Twenty-seven months after he set fire to a dumpster behind a Seattle gay bar, Kalvinn Garcia has pleaded guilty to one count of committing a federal hate crime. According to a news release issued May 26 by the United States Department of Justice, on February 24, 2020, Garcia, 25, of Sedro Woolley, Washington, set fire to the contents of a dumpster behind Queer/Bar, a popular club in Capitol Hill, Seattle's LGBTQ neighborhood.

Dora Mendoza, grandmother to victim Amerie Jo Garza, wipes tears from her eyes as she pays respects to her granddaughter and others at a memorial site for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting, Thursday, May 26, in Uvalde. (Kin Man Hui/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Lenny Zenith, his new release is something personal.The autobiographical single “Where is Safe?” focuses on Zenith’s own experience as a trans teen. He’s created a song that trans teens may be able to relate to in ways they never could in other music.It’s also a direct result of the anti-gender-affirming laws that have begun to crop up in several states.

It’s the last weekend music drop before Pride month kicks off, and the girls, gays, and theys of pop are getting their entries in just under the wire. We don’t know what was in the water this week, but some of the girls seem to be very… excited, in a word! Honestly, after Jonathan Bailey’s modesty thong story, Chris Hemsworth’s clothes flying off, and that oddly interesting Time Traveler’s Wife scene this week, we’ll have what they’re having.Here’s this week’s certified bop roundup!Please, everyone, join your hands in prayer as we ask Sky Ferreira not to give us false hope once again.

Margot Heuman was 14 when she and her family were deported to Theresienstadt, a Jewish “transit” ghetto in Czechoslovakia that was a way station — a cruel intermezzo — for those who would be sent to the death camps. It was 1942, and the Heuman family had already been severed from the comfortable life they had been living in Lippstadt, Germany. Yet Margot was happy there.

Loose Women panellist Brenda Edwards has been officially announced as the replacement for Gemma Collins in the musical Chicago. Edwards will be playing prison guard Mama Morton, the same character she played in her West End debut back in 2007.

Drag Race All Stars 7, “The Realness Of Fortune Ball.”We know the fact that Paramount+ drops these episodes over night means everyone’s watching on their own time, but we have to talk about the oh-so-charming moment that occurred when the queens first hit the runway for the Maxi Challenge.To back up a bit, the third episode of the already all-time-great All Stars 7 season tasks this legendary cast of winners to once again bring it to the ball. A classic challenge format, the ball puts everyone’s styling and sewing skills to the test by asking them to walk the runway in three distinctive categories, all under one cohesive theme, with the final look made on the spot with materials provided in the Werk Room.In the creatively themed “Realness Of Fortune Ball,” the name of the game is game shows! The first category is “Vanna White Realness,” in which the queens must serve classic game show hostess glamour.

The Oregonian, both called the race for McLeod-Skinner Friday. Problems with counting ballots had delayed the call in the May 17 primary.McLeod-Skinner will face Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer in November’s general election. The Fifth District leans Democratic and extends from Oregon’s central coast through the southern suburbs of Portland and then farther inland.

NBC News.They eventually made their way to the gay establishment the Ritz Bar and Lounge. A security camera near the bar caught Ramirez with three men, Ramirez’s brother Carlos told the outlet. He said the men then entered a taxi.

Talented Irish artist Niamh Barry is re-launching her No Queer Apologies exhibition at the new Hen’s Teeth studio on Mill Street today, May 26. The exhibition will remain open to the public until May 28 and it has also been made into a beautiful photobook. The original exhibition of No Queer Apologies happened in February […]

Texas this week, saying the Bible teaches “we should hate pride, not celebrate it.”“God’s already ruled that murder, adultery, witchcraft, rape, bestiality, and homosexuality are crimes worthy of capital punishment,” Jonathan Shelley, pastor of Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, said at the council meeting Tuesday.The council was taking public comments on whether to proclaim June as Pride Month. It has issued such proclamations for the past several years, TV station KERA reports.

Queerty. “He told me, ‘If you put it out independently, it’s going to be a sh*tshow.’”Instead, her independently released debut is now available on all major streaming platforms in stunning Technicolor.Technicolor shines for the same reason that its creator does; the bright excitement of the visuals and pop flourishes are supported at their core by a hard-earned emotional fortitude.

Reddit's popular "Am I The A**hole" forum where it received nearly 8,500 upvotes and 1,000 comments.According to the Human Rights Campaign, an estimated 2 million Americans identify as transgender. The word transgender, or trans, is an umbrella term used for individuals whose gender identity is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.It is estimated that three out of 10 adults in the U.S.

Todd Chrisley’s former business partner is making some shocking claims!

To say our movement has lost a giant is an understatement.  NCLR has had the honor to work beside and follow the larger-than-life lead of Urvashi Vaid for decades and, for this, we are always better and forever changed.

Southern Baptist leaders have responded to the exposure of sexual abuse allegation mishandling within their organizations in a big way–but it looks like the full story may be even bigger.Rather than continue the cover-up, the Executive Committee for SBC has released a list of abusers with the Baptist church system, and it is crushingly extensive.Even though it only covers abuses from February of 2007 onward, the list is 205 pages long with anywhere from two to five entries on every page, meaning there have been hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds) of sexual abuse allegations within the Baptist church system reported just within the past fifteen years.Related: Turns out the Southern Baptist Convention is even worse than we thoughtThe document contains partially and/or fully redacted entries throughout (presumably based on pending litigation for some), but the unredacted text and sheer scale of entries are enough to paint of picture of the enormity of the documented abuses.A report on many of the instances was published in the Houston Chronicle in 2019, while a number of the accused abusers were still in active ministry.

Loose Women panelist has left many excited fans over the moon after it was announced that she would be replacing Gemma Collins in the upcoming Chicago tour.TOWIE star Gemma was set to play Mama Morton in the production, but has reportedly suffered a knee injury, leaving her forced to pull out.She was supposed to be making her debut with the musical at Sunderland Empire this month.However, hope was not lost after it was announced today that Brenda will be taking over from June 2.Brenda has a background in musicals and has even played the role before, making her West End debut playing the matron of the women's ward at Cook County Jail in 2007.The Loose Women panellist has also appeared in Hairspray, Carousel and We Will Rock You.She will star alongside Lee Mead, Faye Brookes, Djalenga Scott, Jamie Baughan and BE Wong.Brenda will be part of the production till July 23 with dates at Cardiff New Theatre, Winter Gardens Blackpool, Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, Norwich Theatre Royal and New Theatre Oxford.The news of Brenda's latest career moves comes after the devastating loss of her music mogul son, Jamal, earlier this year.Jamal died from a heart attack at just 31 on February 20, with his heartbroken mother there holding his hands in his final moments.The presenter revealed on her return to Loose Women the little comfort she has from being with her son as he took his last breaths.Recalling the evening of Jamal’s death, she said: "I was with him. His sister was with us.

Ten days after Oregon's primary election former Santa Clara City Councilmember Jamie McLeod-Skinner was declared the winner of the closely watched race for the Beaver State's newly drawn 5th Congressional District. The progressive ousted from office moderate Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-Canby)."I'm honored to be elected as Oregon's Democratic Nominee for Congress in OR-5," tweeted McLeod-Skinner.

Wildhood stands out by putting the focus on an underrepresented community to tell a tender tale of young love and identity.From two-spirit filmmaker Bretten Hannam, Wildhood begins in a rural, East Coast trailer park where half-brothers Link (Vikings‘ Phillip Lewitski) and Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony) ditch their bigoted father to hit the road in search of Link’s Mi’kmaw mother, who was long thought dead.Along the way, they encounter pow wow dancer Pasmay (Joshua Odjick), whose clear attraction to Link kickstarts the elder brother’s journey toward self-discovery. Initially at odds, a spark grows between them as they travel across the Mi’kma’ki territory of Nova Scotia.The film also stars character actor Michael Greyeyes, who’s been on an impressive hot streak lately, turning up in everything from Peacock comedy Rutherford Falls to Stephen King adaptation Firestarter to indie Wild Indian, which earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination.Wildhood has spent the better part of the last year on the festival circuit, racking up plaudits and critical raves along the way.

As the nation reels from another unbelievably tragic mass shooting, leave it to Rep. Lauren Boebert to pop into the public discourse to say the worst possible thing. She does seem to have a gift for it.Appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, Boebert called former Rep.

Hello my babies. I hope this day finds you well. In this week’s episode of brain vomit, I will entertain you with some of the stuff that has happened to me over the past few weeks. It’s nothing major, just random shit that I found funny. The first involves THE BRENDA LO

Alaska is another iconic RuPaul’s Drag Race winner who wasn’t asked to be part of the franchise’s first ever winners’ season.

Pride Month, where millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer people will gather at parties and parades to celebrate LGBTQ rights and the transformational impact these communities have made.From London to New York, the celebrations are held the world over.The main symbol of Pride is a rainbow flag, with the vibrant colors reflecting the movement's diversity and denoting the sheer spectrum of gender and sexuality.Read on to learn more about the month-long celebration, and the different aspects of the LGBTQ+ community.Acronym LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, while increasingly, a Q is included for Queer and/or Questioning.An "A" for Asexual, an "I" for Intersex and/or a "2" for Two-Spirit is also sometimes included in the acronym.A lesbian is defined as a woman who is mainly romantically, emotionally and physically attracted to other women.A gay person is usually denoted as a man who is exclusively attracted to other men, although this term is occasionally used to refer to lesbians.Bisexuality refers to a person who is drawn to members of both people born male and female.Transgender broadly denotes anyone who does not identify with his or her assigned gender, and as an identity, the term refers those who transgress either the traditional sex and gender characteristics or expectations.Dr. Trevor A.

A historic ruling from Croatia’s High Administrative Court means that same-sex couples will be entitled to apply to adopt children.

interview with the LA Blade, the frightened trans girl identified only as Tracy said she was attacked outside a library in El Paso by a group of four men on Tuesday evening. She said the men used transphobic slurs and blamed the trans community for the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.“Oh look, it has a dick,” her attackers said, she told the Blade.Tracy, 17, said she was both confused and frightened as the men blamed her for “perverting kids instead of killing them” and then grabbed her arm to twist her body around.“Yeah, you know it was one of your sisters who killed those kids,” Tracy recalled the man saying as he faced her.

Tom Daley has launched a brand new Price collection on his Made With Love fashion label.

The new play Party Scene: Chemsex, Community and Crisis by theatre production company THISISPOPBABY premieres this summer at Cork Midsummer Festival and in Dublin’s Project Arts Centre. Using dance and drama, the play explores how the chemsex scene and queer culture intersect in Ireland, sometimes with detrimental effects on the lives of gay men. Dublin-based […]

For someone who purports to have a law degree and has been working in politics for the last 27 years, you’d think Jim Jordan would have a better idea of how subpoenas work.(In Gym’s defense, even though he has a Juris Doctor from the Capital University Law School, in 2018, he admitted that he never passed the bar exam… mainly because he never bothered taking it in the first place.)Related: It sure looks like Jim Jordan is in for one very crappy summerThe anti-LGBTQ congressman told the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack this week that he might consider complying with the subpoena they sent him, but only if he can see what dirt they have on him first.“Because your subpoena is an unprecedented use of a committee’s compulsory authority against another member,” Jordan said in a six-page letter to the committee, “I respectfully ask for the following material so that I may adequately further respond to your subpoena.”Response to the January 6th Committee: pic.twitter.com/zO7nPK72QQ— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 25, 2022To be clear, that’s not how subpoenas work.

CHICAGO — As drag brunch came to a close at a Mexican restaurant here last Sunday, the performers conga-lined their way through the crowd of about 40 party people who were just this side of tipsy on Brunch Punch. But this was no standard drag brunch; it was a Taco Bell Drag Brunch. And that wasn’t a microphone in the lead queen’s hand; it was a Grande Toasted Breakfast Burrito.

Shooting to fame during the first year of the pandemic isn’t ideal, and it certainly isn’t easy. Yet when Lee Rodriguez, the queer actress who immortalized the role of Fabiola on Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, rose to prominence after the show’s first season hit in 2020, she found herself unprepared for the windfall of probing questions that were directed her way.

Isaiah Rashad is speaking his truth, and this time it’s on his own terms.The 31-year-old rapper has had had a wild ride of a year. In February, an alleged gay sex tape featuring him with another man was leaked on Twitter.The 26-second clip first surfaced on an Atlanta-based account called The Vault, which specializes in celebrity gossip and, apparently, outing people by sharing their private videos.If there was silver lining to the gross invasion of privacy, it was the massive show of support from Rashad’s fans.The outpouring of love was not lost on the “West Savannah” singer, who addressed the leak during the intro to his Coachella set two months later.Isaiah Rashad’s intro video at Coachella: “The purpose of doing that was to embarrass him.

“don’t say gay” bill, following several other GOP-led states. The legislation, which is currently going through Senate committees, would prohibit teaching students about gender or sexuality during early elementary school.It could also require school employees to out LGBTQ+ students in any grade level, according to Raleigh’s The News & Observer.LGBTQ+ advocates and other critics of the bill, HB755, have called it anti-LGBTQ, but Republican lawmakers say they are supporting parents, not being discriminatory.“It has no place in the K-3 curriculum,” state Sen.

BERLIN — Samuel Mariño is a rarity in opera: a true male soprano. Rather than relying on falsetto as a countertenor would, Mariño, 28, is able to comfortably sing high notes with his chest voice. Now he is branching out from Baroque parts originally written for castrati.

Generation Drag feels both like a balm and a spark of hope — even as it draws the ire of conservatives. In the series, it’s not the glitz and the glamor that takes center stage, but the humanity of children who’ve found an art form that allows them to explore and discover their truest, bravest, and most beautiful selves — and for that alone it’s must-watch viewing.The series focuses on five baby drag queens Jameson (“Ophelia Peaches”), Noah (“Poptart”), Vinny (“Vinessa Shimmer”), Bailey (“Nemo”), and Nabela (“DunkaShay Monroe”) as they each prepare for the event of their year: a drag ball even for teens and tweens called Dragutante held in Denver, Colo.

Channel 4 has announced a new documentary featuring Stephen Fry, which will centre the lives of two queer World War II heroes. The production focuses on artist Willem Arondeus and cellist Frieda Belinfante who defiantly fought back against the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. The Dutch pair have a fascinating history, giving up their practices […]

I was thoroughly on board with Everything Everywhere All at Once based solely on the crazy trailer and the movie having Michelle Yeoh as the lead. What I wasn’t expecting was a surprise queer influence on the story. Spoilers ahead for those who have watched the movie. Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American woman […]

“We are heartbroken and shaken by the senseless and preventable act of violence in Uvalde, TX, yesterday,” reads a caption on the video.“Our deepest condolences go out to the families and loved ones of those affected by this tragedy.“While we offer this song in solidarity, we know that thoughts and prayers are simply not enough. From Sandy Hook to Pulse Nightclub, to countless other mass shootings in this country, we have seen this happen time and again.“Something has to change.”“When words fail us, that’s when we sing.”It then goes on to list the names of those killed.Related: Ted Cruz responds to Texas school shooting in the worst possible wayThe tragedy took place Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

KTVU. “However, if the Pride Board does not reverse its decision, I will join our city public safety departments that are not participating in the Pride Parade.“Let’s be very clear about who we are talking about: brave women and men who not only have the courage to put on their uniforms and go out and risk their lives every day to serve our city, but who also have the courage to do so as openly out women and men in uniform,” she added.Breed’s decision to opt out of the parade highlights a growing controversy regarding Pride events held in many major cities, where organizers have either sought to ban LGBTQ officers from marching in the parade altogether or to ban them from wearing uniforms while at Pride events.

Fire Island is full of “gorgeous queer joy”, says star Margaret Cho. 

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe last time audiences saw the Byers family on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” they were leaving town. After a lengthy hiatus, the highly anticipated fourth season returns to Netflix on May 27.This time, the family has been relocated for their safety to Southern California, where they moved from fictional Hawkins, Ind. (actually filmed in Georgia).The family has expanded, with Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) joining Joyce, played Winona Ryder, Noah Schnapp’s Will and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton).In finding the new home, production designer Chris Trujillo thought about building from the ground up, but there was something more special in finding a practical location.Albuquerque, N.M.

Suit up It’s time to begin lining up those looks for all those pool parties invitations. Can’t decide on the best way to look cute and sexy this season? We got you covered — well almost.

The US Department of Justice filed a motion to block Alabama from enforcing a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Audemus jura nostra defendere” is the state motto for Alabama, which I believe is Latin for "We Dare Defend Our Rights" or "We Dare Maintain Our Rights.” A motto that is depicted on the state’s coat of arms. Marie Bankhead Owens, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, coordinated the design for the coat of arms — she was the aunt of bisexual actress Tallulah Bankhead. The state motto to defend rights is at odds with action from some state lawmakers and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.