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Winter Walks at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center offer gorgeous views (Photo courtesy of Visit Champaign County)

There’s an expression that has forever haunted me when it comes to traveling: “gay friendly.” I always hated that. “Gay friendly” — what does that even mean? “Friendly” like you’ll say hi to me? Or “friendly” like you won’t spit at me or worse? Am I welcome, or am I tole

M*A*S*H celebrates its 50th anniversary.Spun off from Robert Altman’s 1970 film of the same name, the TV dramedy followed the lives of U.S. military medical personnel stationed in South Korea during the Korean War.

Dennis Rodman, the former NBA player, says he is traveling to Russia to seek the release of Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner.The out WNBA star has been detained in Moscow since February of this year when Russian authorities at the Sheremetyevo Airport discovered vape canisters with cannabis oil inside of her luggage. Earlier this month, Griner was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison over the charges."I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl,” Rodman told NBC News.

Hello and welcome to another week that was in international entertainment. Jesse Whittock here, back to guide you through the big stories and scoops. Also, a warm welcome to another new face in our London office, Zac Ntim, who’s joined us as International Film Reporter. Drop him a note and say hello.

Fantasia International Film Festival—said to be the largest and most influential genre fest in North America—is back on and in person this year. True to its name, the event’s lineup includes some of the most fantastical, bizarre, imaginative, gasp-inducing, and flat-out weirdest features coming to the global stage.Among them is an exciting “Spotlight On Queer Cinema,” which includes a number of films we’ve previously featured on Queerty, including paranoid horror Hypochondriac, backwoods thriller Swallowed, LGBTQ wrestling doc Out In The Ring, and the wild queer pastiche Please Baby Please.But there’s another film we’ve neglected to mention until now, and—hoo boy!—does it look like a doozy.

Margaret Cho described feeling invisible as a bisexual woman because of the lack of representation and absence of leading figures in the media to whom she could relate as an Asian American and a  queer woman. Cho guest narrates the first episode of The Book of Queer, a five-part series that reflects on queer figures of the past, and their impact today and is a rousing celebration of queer joy. When asked what Pride Month meant to her, Cho asserted that it wasn’t about a singular parade or a short time taken out of the year to celebrate queerness. “I think that more than ever we have to celebrate ourselves and look to protecting our rights- whether that’s protecting trans kids, trans legislation or increasing our own visibility throughout the media,” she said. She declared it was vital for queer people to continue to be made visible and that through avenues like media and representation, LGBTQI -identifying individuals would be able to “maintain and advance our own rights and abilities to continue to exist and to thrive.” “My parents owned a gay bookstore in San Francisco, and I grew up in gay culture but the Korean society that we’re from doesn’t acknowledge queer culture. In fact, they still have gay pride parades in Korea but people are often not allowed to take photographs because they don’t want to have a witness to being there.

Joel Kim Booster jokes with ET about the fact that several major projects of his have debuted in June.In fact, the month first kicked off with the celebrated release of the Hulu film, which he wrote and starred in, followed by two Netflix standup specials, and, before closing out with the debut of the hilarious Apple TV+ series , in which he plays a devoted assistant to Maya Rudolph’s character, Molly. Considering June is the month when so much LGBTQ-related content is released, Booster has been a part of some of the biggest, most notable and historic ones, more or less making him the unofficial face of Pride in 2022. “No one wanted it, but everyone’s getting it,” he jokes.

This novel hooked me from the very first line. Bonnie Lincoln has just won the lottery. Choosing to live with her winnings while flying under the radar, she decides to do something drastic: move to an isolated mountain town to re-create the apartment seen in the hit show Three’s Company, including how the set changes over the seasons.

A growing number of LGBTQ+ stories on screen are helping to combat the “straightwashing” of American history and push back against a wave of hate, said comedian and actress Margaret Cho.

Harry Styles concert on gochujang, gochugaru, maesil cheong, and other pantry items. This shopping spree was inspired by Eric Kim’s Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home, my must-cook tome of the summer.Kim, a New York Times staff writer, spent a year in his hometown of Atlanta with his mother, Jean, coaxing out traditional Korean recipes (“Getting a recipe out of my mother is like pulling teeth out of a tiger’s mouth,” he writes in the book’s introduction), and developing his unique interpretations of Korean American cuisine.Their relationship has deepened over the years — both in and out of the kitchen — since Kim came out to his family.

SEOUL: Reckoning they have little to lose with prices so ridiculously low, South Korean speculators in recent days have piled into Luna, a cryptocurrency that lost 99.99 per cent of its value last week after its paired stablecoin TerraUSD collapsed.

Popular South Korean K-Pop singer and actor Holland said he was the victim of a homophobic attack last week. Holland, one of the few out gay K-Pop singers, said he was attacked on May 5, while he was walking in the Itaewon neighbourhood in Seoul. Trigger Warning: This story has details and visuals of a homophobic attack, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The Itaewon area, where the incident occurred is the popular LGBTQI night life district in South Korea.The photo showed bruises to his head and face.

Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary, the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ person to serve in the role. Incumbent Jen Psaki is set to leave the post next week.Jean-Pierre takes on the role as the White House faces an uphill battle to help Democrats hold onto the House and Senate in this fall’s midterm elections, and as the administration struggles to address Americans’ concerns about soaring inflation and the state of the economy.

SEOUL: Two South Koreans, including a serving army captain, have been arrested on charges of stealing military secrets for a suspected North Korean agent who paid them in cryptocurrency, Seoul police said Friday (Apr 29).

Jacqueline “Jacky” Goh serves as the Chief Development Officer for the National LGBTQ Task Force. In this role, Jacky leads the Task Force’s fund development efforts and is responsible for strengthening the infrastructure needed to support and grow the organization’s budget through foundation, corporate, and individual donors, as well as other vital revenue streams. As a queer Korean woman, Jacky has long understood the power and necessity of collective liberation.

After my parents divorced, my mother moved into housing commission on the other side of Parramatta Park. I harboured a lot of shame growing up within the lower socio-economic parts of the Parramatta LGA.

Pornhub’s 2019 “Year in Review” reflected an increased interest in scenes featuring Asian men. That year, the most popular search on Pornhub Gay pages was “Korean.” “Japanese” and “Black” followed as the second and third most popular searches, respectively. “Asian” was the sixth most popular search.

RICH LOPEZ | Staff writerrich@dallasvoice.com For a lot of folks, the pandemic brought out the b

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Take Me Out won many awards, including a Tony, Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel for its depiction of a baseball superstar who comes out of the closet, and it is now running on Broadway at New York's Second Stage Theater. Just a couple of weeks ago, director Scott Ellis thought Take Me Out might be the only game in town, but happily for all concerned, that is not the case and instead it is more of a companion piece to the national pastime.Both Ellis and Greenberg are particularly happy for baseball's return because they are real fans. Ellis says that he became a baseball fan, at least in part, because he has worked with the Nederlander Organization, the Broadway producers who are part owners of the Yankees, and they would give him tickets.

Absolutely nobody asked Donald Trump Jr. for his advice on foreign policy or the crisis in Ukraine, but that didn’t stop him from offering it anyway.Yesterday evening, Jr. tweeted: “Sending Biden to Europe for ‘High Stakes’ NATO talks will only embolden our enemies further.

Eric Trump is the laughingstock of Twitter this morning after he went on Fox News last night to tout his dad’s “great relationship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.“Putin was in with the KGB, he can read people, and he could tell that Donald Trump was a very strong person,” Eric told Sean Hannity when asked about why Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during the Trump administration.Eric Trump: Putin was in with the KGB. He can read people and he could tell that Donald Trump was a very strong person pic.twitter.com/1BqhstcUMP— Acyn (@Acyn) March 15, 2022Eric then pointed to his dad’s “perfect” relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.“And what did my father say? ‘You know, Kim, you mess around with us, you will be met with fire and fury, the likes of which you have never seen before.’ Right?” he said.

invasion of Ukraine, the world is almost collectively turning against him, and that might be fine with Putin, who may be in the process of pulling down the Iron Curtain back down again and isolating his citizens.In an emergency session Wednesday, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly for a resolution condemning Russia and calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. The vote was a lopsided 141 for to five against, with 35 countries abstaining.

invasion of Ukraine, the world is almost collectively turning against him, and that might be fine with Putin, who may be in the process of pulling down the Iron Curtain back down again and isolating his citizens.In an emergency session Wednesday, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly for a resolution condemning Russia and calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. The vote was a lopsided 141 for to five against, with 35 countries abstaining.

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Wonder Girls members Yubin and Lim have reflected on their 2012 made-for-tv film The Wonder Girls.In a new interview with Billboard, Yubin and Lim reminisce their experiences while shooting the film, which premiered on TeenNick in February 2012. The movie starred members Hye-rim, Yubin, Yeeun, Sunye and Sohee during their US expansion in the early 2010s“We took acting classes as a group and worked on our English pronunciation and language skills,” Woo Hye-rim, who is a fluent English speaker. “Thankfully, our characters were based on our real-life personalities, so it wasn’t that hard to get into the character.”However, bandmate Yubin admitted that language was the biggest obstacle she had to overcome during filming at the time.

On 7 January, a Seoul court threw out the LGBTQ+ inclusive case due to the country’s views on marriage.

The unveiling ceremony for the USNS Harvey Milk was held in San Diego, California on Saturday (6 November).

The Advocate over email.Their name, they said, is inspired by the real leader of the savanna.“We tend to think that the carnivore at the top of the food chain in the African ecosystem, which we often see through the media, is the male lion with the thick bushy mane. But the ruler of the plains is actually the lioness.

Oscar Seung, above right. (Photos by Imani Thomas, provided by Dallas Theater Center)

ABOVE: I fell for Hugh Grant in Maurice, which was probably a bad sign since he was a villain. Of course, I was still more into Rupert Graves, so there was hope for me.

Sep 03 2021 12:46 PMMANILA -- A Filipina journalist is marking her first foray into writing fiction through a book about "woke" millennial lesbians.Purple Romero, who has covered gender issues, climate change, the Supreme Court, and foreign affairs, has released a book titled "Dito, sa Purple House."Published by Ukiyoto, the book hopes to shine a spotlight on stories about other members of the LGBTQI community, following the popularity of boys' love (BL) films and series in the country and other parts of the world."Dito, sa Purple House" tells the story of interracial lesbian love.

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (13 July), the young talent uploaded the bisexual flag and the caption “I am bisexual” in both English and Korean. 

Ofcom have received a number of complaints following a segment on ITV’s This Morning where they interviewed an influencer that identifies as Korean. Oli London is a non-binary influencer that has said they identify as Korean after undergoing surgery to try and look like BTS star Jimin.The white 31 year old from England has received a lot of criticism after “coming out as Korean” in Pride Month.

The first known same-sex partner burial happened this week at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Ken Sims was buried at the military cemetery on Monday, July 12. He was interred in the same grave as his husband, Lowell A. Worthington (1933-2017). Worthington served in the U.S. Army and was a Korean War-era veteran.

More than 570,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. That’s more deaths than American soldiers lost in World War II, the Korean and the Vietnam wars combined. But pandemics and wars are difficult to weigh against one another. Wars typically happen far away, and those who go to fight them und

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North Korea’s only openly gay defector is engaged. Jang Yeong-jin, 62, met his American fiancée on a dating app and now they have decided to tie the knot.It is a far cry from the first three-plus decades of Jang’s life where he lived in an oppressive State and was trapped in an unhappy marriage with a woman.“I couldn’t lay a finger on my wife,” he told the BBC.

Three masked men brutally attacked Uzbek rights activist Miraziz Bazarov late March 28, according to reports.

Violence against Asian Americans has risen dramatically over the past year. The coalition Stop AAPI Hate has tracked nearly 4,000 incidents of discrimination over the past year alone, as NPR reported earlier this month, though experts and advocates stress that the actual number is likely much higher.

K-pop superstar group BTS is calling for an end to violence against Asian-Americans.

The shootings at three Atlanta-area spas and massage parlors on March 16 have left members of the LGBTQ Asian American and Pacific Islander community deeply shaken and angry.

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Byun Hee-soo, South Korea’s first out trans soldier who enlisted in 2017, has been found dead after being forcibly removed from the military after having transitional surgery, prompting police investigations. According to Korean news outlet Yonhap, as cited by The Guardian, 23-year-old Hee-soo came out as a trans woman in 2019 and went on to have transitional surgery.

Seoul – A transgender South Korean soldier who was forcibly discharged from the army after sex reassignment surgery has been found dead, police said, prompting anger Thursday and calls for legal reforms.Firefighters found Byun Hee-soo in her home in Cheongju after a mental health counselor called emergency services to report that she had not been heard from for several days, the Yonhap news agency reported.