LGBTQ+ People's Health Care Is Under Attack: You Can Help Protect It

The 2022 Shenandoah Valley Pride Festival was held at Court Square in Harrisonburg, Va. on Saturday, Oct. 8.

My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture discusses hard topics such as fat-phobia and homophobia with smart, unapologetic humor. He brings that same energy to Bros, where he plays Henry, the fun-loving friend to Billy Eichner’s character Bobby.Guy has been working in Hollywood for over two decades. He has a lot to say about both film culture and the gay scene.

With the recent release of Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2 and the resurrection of the Sanderson Sisters, the witches are out to play! We felt inspired by the mystically crisp October air this Halloween season to compile this list of must-see witch movies this month. However, a full moon in Aries approaches this month, bringing high illuminations of intensity and healing.

Originaria de Batuco, Chile, Alejandra González, 54, sobresalió por ser la primera mujer trans elegida para un cargo público, no solo en su país, sino en América Latina. La concejala fue encontrada el 5 de octubre en su domicilio sin vida, a consecuencia de una falla cardiaca.

supports HTML5 videoDame Kelly Holmes has spoken out how scared she was to come out as gay after previously having her room ransacked while serving in the army, saying she carried a ‘fear of going to jail’ with her even years afterwards.At the age of 18, Dame Kelly – who recently joined Loose Women as a new panelist – enlisted in the British Army.Serving from 1988 to 1997, the two-time Olympic gold medal winner recalled how her room was ‘ransacked’ and she was ‘interrogated’ over the possibility of being gay, as prior to 2000, the armed forces had a ban in place against homosexuality, before the archaic law was changed.Speaking on Monday’s Loose Women, the 52-year-old – who came out as gay in June this year – explained that the fear she had of going to jail continued to impact her when she continued keeping her true identity hidden from the public.‘I was scared witless. When I came out in June this year publicly, I had to resolve these issues that had been in my life,’ she said.‘I was scared that if I ever came out and admitted being gay while I served, that I could still go to jail.

Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers will be on assignment in Brazil through Oct. 11.

Jennifer C. Pizer has been named permanent chief legal officer of Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization working for the rights of LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV.

More than 100 U.S. senators and representatives, led by Sen.

Pakistani lawmakers passed a landmark transgender rights law in 2018, but some are now arguing that the law contradicts Islamic teachings about gender identity.Transgender people in Pakistan can change their gender identity on previously issued government documents according to how they perceive it, as outlined in the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.Some criticize the law’s provision allowing one to change gender as being un-Islamic and opening the door to same-sex marriage, which is currently illegal. Trans rights activists, however, argue that the misinformed debate against the law is causing further harm to the transgender community.Senator Fawzia Arshad of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is pushing a new bill that would define transgender people according to the law as those who “keep one hole for urination," Vice reports.The previous bill already has a strange definition of a transgender person, since it not only defines a transgender person as someone whose gender identity is different than their gender assigned at birth, but someone who has both male and female sex characteristics —that is, someone who is intersex.This new proposal, the news site notes, represents rising dissent and misinformation campaigns targeting the laws protecting trans people.

Charlie Puth cleared up rumors that he is queerbaiting fans with the thirsty content he posts online.

A post shared by Emeli Sandé (@emelisande)This profile is part of Queerty’s 2022 Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who’ve had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11.Name: Emeli Sandé, 35Bio: There wasn’t a bigger U.K. musical act in 2012 than Emeli Sandé.

harmful because it fails to provide the LGBTQ community with proper representation and perpetuates stigmas and stereotypes around it.

Singer Mothé hails from Houston. (Courtesy photo)

Watch them burn, baby, burn! (Image by Eric McNatt)

Lesbian activist and diversity consultant Lisbeth Melendez Rivera lost by just 17 votes in a three-candidate special election on Tuesday to fill a vacant seat on the Hyattsville, Md., City Council.  

The outgoing government in Italy introduced the new ‘National LGBT+ Strategy 2022-25’, a three-year plan to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The plan was passed just before the new far-right government is to be formed later this month. Italian Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities Elena Bonetti announced the introduction of […]

Research from Stonewall and Ipsos has suggested that Britain is entering a new era of LGBTQ+ diversity thanks to Gen Z.

Naman Ramachandran Maureen Duffy‘s 1966 book “The Microcosm” has been adapted as a film featuring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson. In 1966 London, when homosexuality was still criminalized, The Gateways club in Chelsea offered a haven for women to dance, express themselves and love who they want. In the book, based on her own experience, Duffy examined if this gay bar, and those like it, really offered the freedom its patrons crave. In the film, Jackson, along with director Joe Ingham, draw parallels between the past and the present and explore the uncomfortable paradox that exists within queer spaces. The Cheerio production featuring an original score by Helen Noir and animation by Rebecca L. Weil, opens at museum of British LGBTQ history, Queer Britain, London, on Oct. 12.

NCLR Legal Director Shannon Minter

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Pride Frisco celebrates their city’s first-ever Pride Month Proclamation in June. (Photo courtesy of Pride Frisco)

I was trans and I had no idea what to do, who to speak to or where to go. I knew I wanted to transition, but I had no clue about where to even start. She was immediately supportive – and instead of questioning me, she acknowledged and believed me, and helped me find a trans support group.

According to the latest annual report published by the Home Office in the UK on October 6, the number of hate crimes recorded in England and Wales in the last year has reached a new high. The official statistics indicated that incidents involving Trans people in particular have risen by more than 50%. The total […]

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Christfascists want to turn the U.S. into their own religion-based kingdom

In a massive blow to LGBTQ+ rights, a prominent Oklahoma-based hospital has ended its gender-affirming care for trans youth due to an archaic new law.

Pride is contagious! It used to be that Pride was a celebration that happened once a year and only down in the Gayborhood. Now, though, Dallas has TWO Pride celebrations each year, and so does Fort Worth. And, even better, Pride celebrations are popping up all over the Metroplex — North Texas Pride in McKinney, Carrollton Pride, Arlington Pride and more. Now, we can add Frisco Pride to the list. The Pride Frisco inaugural block party takes place Saturday, Oct. 8, from noon-4 p.m. at Grace Avenue UMC, 3521 Main St. in Frisco. Check the calendar listings and the Frisco Pride event page on Facebook for more details.

Judy Tenuta, a beloved comedian and ally to the LGBTQ+ community, has died at age 72.Tenuta died Thursday in Los Angeles, Variety and other outlets report. The cause was ovarian cancer.Tenuta was born in Oak Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, and was named for Judy Garland. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she became popular in Chicago comedy clubs in the 1970s and ’80s.

Of course, there is an element of empowerment, or rather a positive assertion that “I exist,” with our annual Gay Pride commemoration. Celebrating our collective LGBTQ history with a weekend of partying and marching is all well and good, but I’m reminded of an observation made recently during an online chat. “Someone” (ahem) commented that they must be proud of the size of their … um … “eggplant,” to which “someone” responded that they have their parents to thank for that. The implication being that they were just born this way, blessed with good genetics, and that it was not necessarily anything to be proud of since they had no hand in making it (okay, maybe in fact there was a hand involved, but I digress).

President Biden traveling in New York state on Thursday announced that he was granting a pardon of all prior Federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana.

politics and denying biology’ by the Home Secretary after calling out a Twitter user’s ‘hateful comments’ against a jailed trans woman.Sally Ann Dixon was sent to prison for 20 years after being convicted of historic sex offences against five girls and two boys before she had transitioned.Sussex Police had insisted it would not ‘tolerate any hateful comments’ about gender identity ‘regardless of crimes committed’ in response to a tweet expressing gender critical views.The force told the female Twitter user to familiarise herself with what it regarded as hate on its website.But then Home Secretary Suella Braverman waded into the row, telling the force to ‘focus on catching criminals not policing pronouns’.And within hours Sussex Police said yesterday that its initial comment had been ‘inconsistent with our usual style of engagement’, and deleted the tweet.Dixon, from Havant, Hampshire, was convicted of 30 indecent assaults between 1989 and 1996, when she was known as John Stephen Dixon.The 58-year-old, sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on September 8, transitioned to female in 2004, according to the force.When police referred to her as a ‘Woman convicted of historic offences against children in Sussex’ in a headline, there was a backlash on Twitter from users unhappy that it had not been made clear that the crimes were committed when Dixon was a man.Responding to one female Twitter user, Sussex Police asked her to ‘familiarise’ herself with hate speech.

Marco Rubio is clearly terrified of Val Demings.How do we know?Because he just released a vile attack ad against her, leaning into the “angry Black woman” narrative by setting Demings against an ominous dark backdrop with thunder and lightning crackling while painting her out to seem like a “radical” leftist constantly screaming about things like trans athletes and gender identity.Related: Tammy Baldwin cornered Marco Rubio in an elevator about his antigay remarks and it didn’t go well for him“Demings even voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent,” the narrator warns.(Fact check: Demings, who is challenging Rubio for his U.S. Senate seat, did vote for legislation that supported trans athletes, but it didn’t address school curriculum.)“I’m Marco Rubio and I approved of this message,” Little Marco can be heard saying at the end of the 30-second spot.The ad comes two weeks after a new Civiqs poll found Demings only 2 points behind Rubio.

I May Destroy You star Michaela Coel has opened up about playing a queer character in Black Panther 2. 

“The Swimmer” opens in NYC Oct. 7 and LA Oct. 14 via Strand Releasing.

The Biden administration needs to overhaul its response to monkeypox. Now.

Oklahoma has blocked the provision of gender-affirming care for young people at a major university hospital, and Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling for a ban on all such care in the state.Stitt, a Republican who is up for reelection next month, signed Senate Bill 3 into law Tuesday.

The hospitality industry in D.C. has given me so many opportunities throughout my five-year career as a bartender. I’ve had a flexible schedule, been able to support my family and live in D.C. (not the cheapest!), advance in my positions, and make lifelong friends whom I consider family. Being a bartender is my career, and that’s why I’m speaking out against Initiative 82 to share my perspective as someone who will be directly impacted by its passage.  

Amid all the news this week about whether or not the movie “Bros” was a blockbuster, we still hear about fluctuating mortgage rates. This is obviously detrimental for my business. I have a dog to feed and I like to eat. So let’s look at some alternative methods of combating the higher mortgage rates. If you have read my previous columns (I hope you have) then you will know I am a huge fan of sass and more importantly, controlling your controllables! Let’s outsmart these interest rates, hunny.

Release date: October 4What it's about: Waters is fast becoming the go-to source of haunting Sapphic YA, and she keeps it up with her newest, about three girls with vested interest in winning a contest to find a killer's bones. Near-victim Lucy, true crime fan Carolina, and psych student Maggie all have reasons for wanting to find the Cloudkiss Killer's remains, and when they team up and work together, it brings Lucy and Carolina closer...and puts all of them in danger.Get it from Bookshop or from your local indie bookstore via Indiebound.

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‘Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir’By Jann S. Wennerc.2022, Little, Brown$35/592 pages

In a recent ruling, New York Judge Karen May Bacdayan declared that the same law that protects two-person relationships should also protect polyamorous relationships. Scott Anderson, Markyus O’Neill and Robert Romano were in a relationship in which Anderson and O’Neill lived together in an apartment, and Romano lived in a different location. Even though O’Neill and Romano […]

The 500X Gallery, 516 Fabrication St. in Dallas, has issued a call for entries for its biannual 500X LGBTQIA+ Juried Exhibition for the 2022-23 season. All artists in the LGBTQIA+ community ages 18 and over are eligible to apply.

This week, as Falling Out LGBTQ begins our new creator/artist series, highlighting creators in our community, we welcome Chaselyn Wade Vance to talk about directing her first full-length feature film, Dr. Kim Hunter and the Apparition, premiering Oct. 13

California governor Gavin Newsom signed a new bill on September 30 to offer legal refuge to Trans youth and their families fleeing from conservative US states that are enacting anti-Trans legislation. In recent months, Republican lawmakers have consistently introduced anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in an increasing number of US states, with the majority of bills aimed at […]

‘Maple and Vine’Through Oct. 23Spooky Action Theater1810 16th St., N.W. $30-$40Spookyaction.org

This profile is part of Queerty’s 2022 Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who’ve had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11. In this special profile, we’re highlighting an individual who is living with HIV and using their platform for good.Name: Dr.

Michelle Hardwick has increased the security surrounding her home, which comes after previously receiving homophobic death threats.The actress, who plays Vanessa Woodfield in the ITV soap, is married to Kate Brooks, a producer on the show.Married since 2019, the couple have a son called Teddy and recently announced they would soon welcome a baby girl into the world.Michelle has spoken about the horrific trolling her and Kate have received in the past just because they are a gay couple, telling OK! Magazine at the time: ‘There have been certain times when police have had to be called because there have been death threats.‘And when they’re mentioning your son’s name and you’re just going “really? I’m just in a soap you know – we’re not doing any harm to anybody.” The root of it all is always because I’m gay, I’m a gay woman.’‘And it’s like, “lesbians shouldn’t be on this Earth, just burn in hell and die”.’Over on her Instagram stories, Michelle recently revealed she had increased the protection surrounding her home, thanking the company for their services.Faith's final episodes confirmed with Cain by her side as she dies in EmmerdaleEmmerdale reveals Mack's secret lover - and she's pregnantAaron announces he’s staying as boyfriend Marco heads to Emmerdale villageShe wrote: ‘Just wanted to say what fantastic service we have had from the very first phone call to the end result. Anyone local to the Leeds/Wakefield area who needs any security solutions then look no further than @msc.security.solutions.‘This was a fully paid for job, not a paid ad.