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Billy Eichner’s Universal-backed comedy “Bros” flopped at the box office during its opening weekend with a $4.8 million bow, about half of the $8 million to $10 million that the studio projected. Eichner, in a now viral tweet, claimed that straight people not showing up to an LGBTQ comedy was a driving force behind “Bros” underperformance. “Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore, etc., straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for ‘Bros,'” Eichner wrote. “And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.” Eichner is certainly correct that some straight moviegoers weren’t interested in the material, while homophobia about two men falling in love also likely figured in. During a recent trip to a multiplex in Georgia, for instance, this writer saw a group of men being openly homophobic by mocking the “Bros” poster for featuring a guy putting his hand on another guy’s butt. However, the $4.8 million opening for “Bros” is so low that it also means many LGBTQ viewers didn’t show up to see the comedy in theaters either. So why did “Bros” disappoint?

Scoop rapper Lil Nas X stopped his latest concert for an emergency bathroom break. 

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.

To win over conservative voters, Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker teamed up with an athlete who has become the symbol of opposition to transgender sports.

The husband of anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Perry Greene, has filed for divorce.According to court documents, Perry Greene filed to divorce the right-wing lawmaker on Tuesday, the Daily Beast reports. The papers said that the couple’s 27-year marriage was “irretrievably broken.” They also indicated that the Greenes had already been separated.Marjorie Taylor and Perry Greene met in college.The outlet reports that Perry Greene has requested the divorce kept under seal.

The husband of anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Perry Greene, has filed for divorce.According to court documents, Perry Greene filed to divorce the right-wing lawmaker on Tuesday, the Daily Beast reports. The papers said that the couple’s 27-year marriage was “irretrievably broken.” They also indicated that the Greenes had already been separated.Marjorie Taylor and Perry Greene met in college.The outlet reports that Perry Greene has requested the divorce kept under seal.

September 28, 2022The tweet has had around 100k likes at the time of writing, and thousands of replies.Many pointed out that it was only a couple of weeks ago that the Georgia-raised performer was encouraging fans to have an orgy at his shows.Tf is there gunna be an orgy without poppers??https://t.co/YvSuZqgfi1— Mikey (@_HeyMickey24) September 28, 2022You ever been to an orgy and not bring poppers? I didn’t think so— Austin Wilde (@AustinWilde) September 28, 2022Related: Ask and you shall receive: Lil Nas X invites fans to “a big orgy” at his concertOthers said they would disobey his request.you cant stop me pic.twitter.com/3svKfAP4aD—

For the first time I actually think Donald Trump and his family may get what they deserve. They have been screwing the country for so long it seemed no one could get to them. Donald Trump is like a mafia don, with his family, and others like Rudy Giuliani, being his soldiers. Like many mafia don’s we have seen, while not going down for the deaths he caused, he will likely go down for his financial shenanigans.

How far to the right will Italy go? The new face of European politics is called Georgia Meloni. Her fascist-rooted Brothers of Italy party has swept to power, overshadowing her hard-right coalition partners Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi and routing the centre-left, which finished under 20 percent.

"We have to keep our country gay," Donald Trump stammered at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Friday.Clearly reading from a teleprompter, Trump misread the canned words sent his way. "Remember I was going to say, I was going to use an expression," he said. "We have to keep our country gay, puh, puh, but it's not, I mean, for some reason, it's not great anymore." Twitter leapt, of course.

Lamar Odom has a strictly platonic friendship with transgender actress Daniielle Alexis despite dating rumors.The speculation took off over the past few weeks as Daniielle posted selfies cozying up to the 42-year-old former NBA star.However insiders in Lamar's camp told TMZ they are just pals, while clarifying that he has nothing against her trans identity or the trans community overall. Pals: Lamar Odom reportedly has a strictly platonic friendship with transgender actress Daniielle Alexis despite dating rumorsRumors began swirling about the nature of their relationship after Daniielle posted an Instagram selfie with Lamar last month.'One of the most beautiful humans I’ve met,' the Australian actress wrote, and for good measure she added a couple of emojis including a pair of hearts.

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A group of conservative Republicans gathered in front of the US Capitol building on Tuesday, September 20, to announce their proposal for new anti-Trans legislation across the country. If passed, the ‘Protect Children’s Innocence’ bill would make it illegal to provide gender-affirming care to Trans youth. Georgia representative and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene was […]

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the nation's Title IX statutes proposed by the Department of Education earlier this year that, if adopted, would require publicly-funded schools to expand their nondiscrimination policies to incorporate students who do not identify as the gender their doctors assigned at birth. Those that don't could be subject to losing federal funding.The proposed changes, the AGs said, would "weaken the protections women have received from Title IX for the last fifty years" and pose a direct challenge to legislation passed by numerous states seeking to prevent transgender or gender nonconforming athletes from participating in women's sports."The Biden administration is putting girls and women at risk and ignoring science while it attempts to undo any meaningful definition of biological sex," Knudsen said in a statement.

Chris Cash, the founder and Publisher Emeritus of Georgia Voice, has been named to the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame.

The White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre handed over the podium to the Biden-Harris administration's monkeypox coordinator Bob Fenton and deputy coordinator Dr. Demetre Daskalakis to give an update on the outbreak of MPV on Wednesday.

With its abundance of flickery grain, exceedingly credible period production, and eminently authentic ensemble, UK filmmaker Georgia Oakley’s astonishing debut feature “Blue Jean” — which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last week, no doubt primed to pick up a swath of gongs and laurels — could well be a relic exhumed from the back cupboards of a dusty film archive.  READ MORE: Venice Film Festival Preview: 16 Must-See Films To Watch Set amid Margaret Thatcher’s reign of terror in the late ‘80s, the little-known Rosy McEwen puts in a calling card performance for the ages as Jean, a closeted lesbian gym teacher torn asunder by the emergence of Section 28: barbaric British legislation that, until 2003, prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” across the country.

John Thomas Camp, a computer programmer for the U.S. National Institutes of Health and later for the MCI telecommunications company in the late 1960s and 1970s and whose love for abstract art led to a sideline occupation as an art dealer, died July 12, 2022, at an Arlington, Va., hospital from complications associated with prostate cancer. He was 77.

England celebrated a triumphant victory against Luxembourg in the women’s World Cup qualifiers, winning 10-0.

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The Katie Phang Show. She has long been a fierce critic of her uncle, documenting family secrets in her book about him, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residency in Florida was raided by the FBI in early August.

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In anticipation of significant LGBTQ-focused events over the Labor Day weekend, the Biden-Harris administration has announced that it is working with localities to provide thousands of vaccine doses for onsite administration. New Orleans is preparing to host Southern Decadence, one of the country’s largest gatherings of gay and bisexual men. Thousands of additional monkeypox vaccine doses have been sent to Louisiana in anticipation of this weekend’s event.Southern Decadence is expected to attract between 100,000 and 300,000 people.Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra explained the importance of onsite vaccination in a recent call with reporters.“It’s not enough to wait for people to show up at a doctor’s office or a county health department to schedule a vaccination appointment,” Becerra said.

BuzzFeed News story in July. The lawsuit alleges that Black residents of Trilith were “being stalked, harassed, subjected to intimidation and raised legitimate concerns for the safety of Black residents.” The suit names Trilith Development LLC, the Townhomes at Trilith Homeowners Association and Trilith Studios.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, spoke on a Sunday podcast about her stance on gender-affirming treatment for transgender children, saying that the country is in a "spiritual war" as some critics consider some of her opinions controversial."I don't know how we got in a place where my stance is controversial," she said during an interview with Human Events Daily podcast host Jack Posobiec. "I think it just shows you, we are in a true spiritual war in America.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has shared surveillance footage that captured the police response to a "swatting" call at her home earlier this week, saying those behind it are trying to get her killed.Greene, a Republican from Georgia, says she has been the target of multiple swatting calls this week—hoax emergency calls that are intended to elicit a response by a SWAT team.Officers in Rome were dispatched to Greene's home early on Wednesday morning after an emergency call that reported a male had been shot five times in a bathtub, with a female inside the home, possibly with children.Footage from security cameras showing Greene answering the door at around 1 a.m. was aired during an interview the congresswoman gave to the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RBSN)."Never before seen security camera footage," Greene wrote on Twitter on Saturday night.WATCH: Never before seen security camera footage.

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(CNN) -- An elementary student in Georgia has tested positive for monkeypox, raising questions about how concerned schools should be about the small risk of the virus spreading among children as they head back to class.Monkeypox risk is low for school-age children. As of Thursday, more than 16,000 people in the United States have confirmed or probable monkeypox infections, and almost all are in adults.

According to a report from the city’s police department, five officers showed up at the Georgia home of Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after midnight Wednesday morning because of a fake 911 call placed by a suspect who was “upset about Ms. Greene’s stance on ‘transgender youth’s rights.’”

LOVE Island star Remi Lambert is releasing a diss track about Jacques O’Neill and Luca Bish. The rapper, 22,  from Manchester is hitting back after claiming he was bullied by the pair both in and out of the villa. An insider said: “Remi’s had enough so he’s speaking out in the way he knows how – through music.

Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has called for a controversial transgender hate forum to be taken offline after it was linked to her being targeted in a "swatting" incident.Greene said that she was "swatted"—a term usually referring to a harsh confrontation with law enforcement due to the filing of false reports to police—at her home in Georgia around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

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(CNN) — A suspect is in custody who is suspected of defacing the city's rainbow crosswalks with swastikas on two separate occasions, according to TaSheena Brown, spokeswoman with the Atlanta Police Department.According to police, investigators went to an apartment of the suspect and tried to make contact with the individual, later requesting a SWAT team for assistance.The suspect eventually was taken into custody without incident, according to police.Crosswalks defaced twice in two daysPolice say the first incident happened on Wednesday, August 17. Two days later, police say the suspect defaced the crosswalk again at around 1:45 a.m.The rainbow crosswalks are located at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta's midtown community, in front of the site of the city's first LGBTQ+ bookstore.

A judge in Colorado his week ordered Jenna Ellis, a former legal adviser to Donald Trump, to appear before a grand jury investigating whether the Trump and others illegally tried to influence the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia. But instead of focusing on her legal obligations, Ellis is stigmatizing monkeypox online and criticizing the appearance of Rachel Maddow.After a hearing in Fort Collins, Judge Gregory Lammons Tuesday ordered Ellis to travel to Georgia to testify.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) -- Atlanta’s iconic Rainbow Crosswalk has been vandalized once again, according to the Atlanta Police Department.Officer says someone spray-painted a Swastika on the intersection at 10th and Piedmont this week and the LGBTQ Liaison Unit was notified by Zone 5 units regarding the hate speech.Police say the ATL Department of Transportation responded to remove the vandalism with a pressure washer and investigators are currently working on details surrounding the incident.“Atlanta Police immediately notified the Mayor’s Office of the matter, then ATL DOT scrambled a crew -in the rain- to remove the disguising act of vandalism from our street,” said Atlanta Police Department Press Secretary Michael Smith. “We thank the women and men of ATLDOT and APD for erasing the hate that has no place in our city in such a swift and efficient manner.”Police are still investigating.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia plans to introduce legislation to federally ban gender-affirming care for transgender children.Greene announced the bill during a Thursday appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight. The Georgia Republican argued that gender-affirming care—which is backed by most in the medical establishment, including by major mainstream organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)—is "disgusting and appalling" and "child abuse" when minors are involved."I find this absolutely appalling, Tucker," Greene said. "When it comes to gender-affirming care, which is really child abuse, this is actually an assault and it's child abuse.

On September 2, Atlanta Black Pride is hosting a fashion show showcasing local Black queer designers along with local LGBTQ Greek organizations. The show, which is chaired by new board member and friend of Georgia Voice Tiana Clay, promises to be a diverse and incredible event.

Peacock’s new film, “They/Them,” made in Georgia, is almost like two movies rolled into one — a conversion camp drama and a slasher film. It stars an appealing and talented group of younger performers, in addition to some more established stars.

As part of the Biden administration’s ongoing effort to curb the spread of monkeypox (MPV), the Department of Health and Human Services has launched an outreach program to provide vaccines at large LGBTQ+ gatherings across the country.During a pilot program, HHS will make additional vaccine allocations available to states and local health departments that host events primarily attended by men who have sex with men.For the program, jurisdictions can use 50,000 doses reserved from the Strategic National Stockpile and their existing vaccine allocations and supplies, according to a White House announcement of the program. The amount available depends on the jurisdiction’s size, nature, and ability to reach attendees at risk of contracting MPV.“We’re asking the requests to include a component of how they will promote education and awareness, as well as how they will address health equity in delivery of both messaging as well as vaccine,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr.

The D.C.-based LGBTQ health and HIV services organization Us Helping Us, People Into Living and The Kier Company, which filed a $3.8 million lawsuit against Us Helping Us in November 2020 alleging a breach of contract for its renovation of the group’s headquarters building, have reached an out-of-court settlement in the case, according to court records.

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statement Monday evening. “They even broke into my safe!”Trump was not at home at the time of the raid but was at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.He blasted the action as, “a prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.”Many of those on the far right of the Republican party were quick to mimic this message.Georgia Rep.

Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia for recent remarks she made about monkeypox, calling her a "danger to children" and linking her to the QAnon conspiracy theory.Oliver brought up Greene during Sunday's episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight while discussing how the monkeypox virus is spreading across the nation and hitting the LGBTQ+ community the hardest. Oliver talked about misinformation being spread about monkeypox and ridiculed the early public health response.Oliver's segment aired after President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday responded to the rise in monkeypox cases by declaring the virus a public health emergency.