Log Cabin Republicans Likens Mar-a-Lago Raid to Stonewall

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Paris – A court in Iran has sentenced to death two gay rights activists on charges of promoting homosexuality, campaigners said Monday, urging pressure from the international community to stop the implementation of the verdicts.The two women, Zahra Sedighi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Chubdar, 24, were sentenced to death by the court in the northwestern town of Urmia, the Hengaw Kurdish rights organization said.This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this support page.

Web Weaver, the new gay Spider-Man, will make their highly anticipated debut in October and Marvel Comics has released more details on how the newest member of the Marvel Universe gets their powers, as well as visuals of their fabulous crime-fighting costume.The character will make their debut in Edge of Spider-Verse #5, the concluding instalment of the five-part series.In the comic, created by out writer Steve Foxe, and artist Kei Zama, Web-Weaver is introduced as a “not-so-mild mannered fashion designer at Van Dyne [who] gets spider-powers and shows us a very different kind of Spider-Slayer.” “Web-Weaver is *not* Peter Parker–he’s a brand-new hero in the classic Spider-hero archetype,” tweeted Foxe on Friday. “And I promise you don’t need a degree in fashion to follow his exploits.

Below are our picks for some of the most fun and creative things to do this week in the DMV (and Rehoboth Beach) that are of special interest to the LGBTQ community.

(CNN) — A court filing from 16 current and former employees of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, along with the Texas State Employees Union, says the agency is "on the brink of collapse"following the state's decision to investigate the gender-affirming care of minors as potential child abuse.The brief cites a "string of departures" within the agency since the directive was put in place in February, arguing remaining workers will be spread dangerously thin.The amicus curiae (Friend of the Court) brief was filed with the state's Third District Court of Appeals, which is considering whether the policy, prompted by an opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton and ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott, was implemented legally.

Brendan Fraser may be known for his leading roles in The Mummy and George of the Jungle, but he is now earning some Oscar chatter for his new film The Whale where he plays a 600-pound gay man who has entered a severe bought of depression following the death of his partner.The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, debuted at the Venice Film Festival. It’s adapted from a play by Samuel D.

Cryptocurrencies use an eye-watering amount of energy. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, uses an estimated 78 terawatt hours of electricity each year, comparable to the power consumption of Chile.

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The English Rugby Football Union (RFU) is facing a legal challenge to its recently imposed ban on Trans women competing in contact rugby.  It was revealed on Saturday that a pre-action protocol letter was issued to the RFU by Trans woman Julie Curtiss.  The report in the Telegraph claims that London-based law firm Russell Cooke […]

.«I said yes to doing [the show] because for me, you know, I have had a very peculiar journey,» Victoria tells ET over video call. «When I say peculiar, you know, I never knew that it was possible to ever work in fashion — I didn't even know that was a thing — and I have worked really, really hard to get to where I am at and it's been a really long journey along the way.»«My family was like, 'You can't go to New York, it's too dangerous,'» she recalls.

Will & Grace between Karen Walker (played by Megan Mullally) and Beverley Leslie (Leslie Jordan). The two characters loathed one another and weren’t afraid to show it.Behind the scenes, gay actor Jordan and Mullally are friends.

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.

Queer storylines are becoming increasingly common in video games, but it’s still rare for games to be capital-G Gay. So if the prospect of an explicitly gay title makes you want to reach for the nearest joystick, check out this new offering from Melbourne-based Up Multimedia.The Beat: A Glam Noir Game is an investigative thriller where players take on the role of a closeted gay cop who is investigating a murder in a city’s gay scene.While tracking down clues over seven days and nights, you’ll explore places like a gay bar and a cruising area rendered with an impressive eye for detail.Related: The 10 best queer games available on the Nintendo Switch“The gay bar is this strange other world in which the main character steps,” says game developer Luke Miller. “He’s drawn to it but doesn’t fully understand why.

Hi Jake,I recently decided to fulfill what I thought was my ultimate fantasy: hiring two male escorts at once. Something about having two attentive, hot guys working together to fulfill my every need is such a turn-on. So, I ended up jumping on a massageM4M site and finding these guys visiting from Miami who work together as a team, and we met at a hotel room. Here’s the thing, it was an “experience” and all, but for some reason, after it was over, I was left feeling kind of sad. Granted, it didn’t exactly go as planned. They were both doing drugs and constantly in the bathroom for various things, and then wanted to do things sexually that were just too out there for me. Still, I really thought the whole thing was going to be my ideal sexcapade. Why do I feel like not only wasn’t it that fulfilling, but I’m left feeling empty? Escorted into a funkDear Escorted into a funk,Good for you for attempting to live out your dreams.

On August 27, a 25 year-old Trans man was assaulted and beaten while he was participating in a Pride event in the city of Münster, Germany. Days later, on Friday, September 2, he passed away in the hospital. More than 10,000 people gathered in Münster for the Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride celebrations, organised in […]

Drag Race UK and Queerpiphany superstar Tayce revealed she and her friends were discriminated against by hotel staff in Birmingham.

Turing says her body “shut down” on the latest episode of Drag Race Philippines.

Saturday, September 3 saw two peaceful Pride parades take place in Poland with a collective 5,000 attendees, despite the country’s significant anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and history of counter-protestors disrupting Pride events. The people of Katowice celebrated their sixth annual Pride event, this year in collaboration and solidarity with the Ukrainian city of Odesa, with an impressive […]

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On paper, Horse-Play sounds like a lot of fun. It focuses on the lives of Tim (David Ames) and Tom (Jake Maskall) who have been together for a decade. Their sex life has become somewhat stale and they decide they’d like to spice things up a bit. Enter Karl (Matt Lapinkas), a male escort the couple have found online; the trio role-play a superhero sexual fantasy until a series of mishaps results in them finding themselves locked in the villain’s lair overnight. The tagline of the show is “they’re about to have the ride of their lives…” so we were expecting something exciting, dangerous, a little risqué perhaps.

Even though many of the titles passed the district's book challenge process, a school district in north Texas pulled dozens of books from its library shelves one day before the school year began. In response, concerned parents and educators are bringing attention to the conservative playbook implemented in Texas, which includes a cell phone company's mission to take over school boards.Keller Independent School District principals were asked last minute to remove challenged books from classrooms and libraries on Tuesday. Among the 42 books removed are the Bible, a graphic adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. Books were to be removed by Tuesday night before classes began on Wednesday. The district's curriculum director, Jennifer Price, sent an email that said in part, "Please collect these books and store them in a location.

Wolf and Dog (Lobo e Cão) is the first feature film by Portuguese director Claudia Varejão. The movie follows a group of queer teenagers growing up in the uber-religious town of San Miguel in the Azores who yearn for more than the small-town ideals and the mundane lifestyle of their parents. Written by Varejão and Leda Cartum, the central characters try to build a community of their own. Still, the adults want the kids to remain stagnant, become farmers, fishermen, or mothers, and force them to enjoy that lifestyle. The movie has challenging moments to get through because they slow the pacing, making it a more tedious viewing experience, but the script works hard to subvert some harmful tropes.

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Meghan Markle, 41, was reportedly left "shocked" when Mariah Carey claimed she gave the world "diva moments" at times during an interview on the former's podcast, Archetypes. After the comment caused a stir, the singer later clarified she meant it in an empowering way.Discussing the podcast interview on Good Morning Britain today, Susanna Reid told guest Dame Joan Collins that Meghan had "taken exception to being called a diva by Mariah Carey".The actress replied stating that she believes being called a diva was "rather nice now and then".Joan responded: "Oh really? I think it's rather nice to be called a diva, now and again.

Fire Island star Joel Kim Booster has reacted to comments Billy Eichner made last week about LGBTQ content on streaming platforms.Eichner is currently promoting his movie, Bros. The studio-backed gay rom-com will hit theater screens later this month.

The Whale, at the Venice Film Festival yesterday.The movie, in which Fraser plays an obese, 600lb, gay man seeking to reconnect with his daughter, went down well with its audience. In fact, they gave it a six-minute standing ovation at the Sala Grande.Related: Brendan Fraser to play a 600lb, gay recluse in new movie, The WhaleFraser and director Darren Aronofsky were in attendance for the screening and took the stage.

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Star Trek and American Horror Story star Zachary Quinto will make his West End debut in the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies.

As reported by the Kurdish human rights organisation Hengaw on September 4, LGBTQ+ activists Zahra Sediqi Hamedani and Elham Chubdar have been sentenced to death in Iran. The charges against them include “spreading corruption on Earth” through the promotion of homosexuality as well as “promoting Christianity”. The two activists for LGBTQ+ rights were given the […]

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Fire Island’s Joel Kim Booster issued a lengthy Twitter statement where he addressed remarks made by Billy Eichner.

Secondary school teacher, Enoch Burke, has been arrested and escorted by Gardaí to the High Court in Dublin today, 5 September. His arrest was ordered by Judge Miriam O’Regan last Friday when Mr Burke failed to attend court following an alleged breach of an injunction against him. The injunction was granted to the board of […]

Team Trump will not shut up about FBI agents allegedly ransacking Melania Trump‘s closet last week’s search of Mar-a-Lago.In addition to seizing boxes and documents, several conservative media outlets have reported that agents also rifled through Melania’s personal belongings.In a Truth Social post, Trump accused agents of tearing apart his wife’s wardrobe, writing: “….Just learned that agents went through the First Lady’s closets and rummaged through her clothing and personal items. Surprisingly, left area in a relative mess.

Donald Trump and his camp are reportedly having a collective panic attack after coming to the conclusion that a member of the ex-president’s own family might have tipped off the FBI about the classified documents being stored in the basement of at Mar-a-Lago.Multiple sources close to Trump tell The Guardian that after the FBI searched his Palm Beach resort last week, aides began frantically speculating about who among them was in cahoots with the agency.Related: People are sharing what was #FoundAtMarALago during Trump’s FBI raid and LOLOLOLInitially they thought it might be one of the ex-president’s political aides, or perhaps a member of the resort staff. But now they think the “Mar-a-Lago mole” might be closer to Trump than they first thought.The reason?Because only a family member would have known to tell agents to look for a specific leather-bound box, as well the location of Trump’s safe.

Randy Rainbow comes for both sides of the aisle in his newest parody song. But in the end, the real message is for Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice: “Get your s— together” and criminally charge Donald Trump.Of course, the video kicks off much the same way all of Rainbow’s songs do; he comes for the right first. This time, instead of taking on his usual persona of an anchor for “Fake News Channel,” Rainbow fills in for Liz Cheney, presiding over the Jan.

In the least surprising news of the 2022 election cycle, Liz Cheney lost her primary yesterday.Republican (and some Democrat) voters in Wyoming overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Cheney’s Trump-backed, 2020 election denying opponent Harriet Hageman who, despite appearing to draw her makeup inspiration from Tina Burner’s makeover of Rosé on RuPaul’s Drag Race, actually hates LGBTQ people.This is what GOP voters in Wyoming chose over Liz Cheney, in case anyone was wondering how the Republican Party was going: pic.twitter.com/7cv9gkvaFP— Andrew Wortman ?????? (@AmoneyResists) August 17, 2022When it comes to LGBTQ issues, Hageman is horrific. Even more horrific than Cheney, if you can believe it.In addition to saying she’s “fed up with boys competing in girls sports” and can’t stand “woke radicals” who want to silence free speech, she’s also refused to take a stance on codifying same-sex marriage into federal law, saying it’s not an issue that voters care about.We’d argue there are lots of voters, especially LGBTQ voters, who care very deeply about it.

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, lost Tuesday’s Republican primary and will not retain her seat, leaves a mixed record on LGBTQ+ issues.Cheney, a staunch conservative and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has won the praise of many liberals for standing up to Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election being stolen from him and for her service on the committee investigating the insurrection by his supporters at the U.S.

When the FBI gets a warrant to search your private residence, that means you are in deep trouble — obviously. As we learned last week, there are multiple levels of approval for something like that, and with Donald Trump that included an unobtrusive attorney general and a judge in Florida who has appeared on Newsmax.I’ve become a bit blasé regarding news about Trump. We all know he was as crooked as a coat hanger while in the private sector, and that coat hanger turned into a corkscrew with his twisted behavior while he was president.

Mary Trump thinks she knows who might have tipped off the FBI about the classified documents being illegally stored at Mar-a-Lago by her crazy uncle.As you’ve likely heard by now, federal agents recovered 11 boxes of classified documents when they searched Donald Trump‘s Florida compound one week ago today.Since the raid, multiple media outlets have reported that the FBI was tipped off by an informant close to the twice impeached, one term ex-president.Related: People are sharing what was #FoundAtMarALago during Trump’s FBI raid and LOLOLOLDuring an appearance on the podcast The Dean Obeidallah Show on Friday, Mary was asked who she thinks could be the “Mar-a-Lago mole” and she replied: “We need to start with who would have access to this stuff. I don’t think Mark Meadows would have access to it.”“I think we need to look very hard at why Jared [Kushner] got $2 billion,” she continued, referring to an investment into Kushner’s private equity firm from a fund belonging to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.“We need to look very hard at why he has been so quiet for so many months now.”Both Jared and Ivanka have kept incredibly low profiles since leaving Washington, D.C.

On Friday it was revealed that federal agents seized 11 set of documents during its raid on former president Donald Trump‘s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. The haul include materials marked as “classified/TS/SCI” documents — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information.” Other documents were marked “secret” or “confidential.”After the Monday search, Trump 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,” which is pretty wild considering at the time he was one of the few people who knew exactly what the FBI had discovered in his home.And all week, the former president’s allies parroted his lies, blasting the raid as sham.

Following the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, the favorite right-wing response has been to wail that the agency has become “weaponized” against Donald Trump. No matter that crimes may have been committed and it’s their job to investigate.The Log Cabin Republicans parroted the talking point, but gave it a gay spin that’s so cringey it feels like someone must have hacked their Twitter account just to mess with them.But nope, the gay conservative group really did have the audacity to compare themselves to Stonewall rioters as they continued to suck up to Trump.Related: Mary Trump explains the chilling reason why Donald is “panicked” by FBI raid“Just as the patrons of Stonewall were not intimidated by police, we will not be intimidated by the weaponization of the FBI and DoJ against President Trump or his home, Mar-A-Lago… …where (as we announced hours ago) we will be holding our annual gala later this year!” the group tweeted.Just as the patrons of Stonewall were not intimidated by police, we will not be intimidated by the weaponization of the FBI and DoJ against President Trump or his home, Mar-A-Lago……where (as we announced hours ago) we will be holding our annual gala later this year! ?— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) August 9, 2022As one commenter pointed out, “The patrons at Stonewall were largely Black and Latinx.

Details about Monday’s FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago continue to be revealed. Multiple media outlets are now reporting that federal agents didn’t just rifle through Donald Trump‘s safe.

OK, what is going on here?No, seriously, what is going on here?!Truly bizarre video of a woman rallying outside Mar-a-Lago in a giant-sized red “Make America Great Again” hat and spewing wild pro-Donald Trump propaganda after Monday’s FBI raid on the ex-president’s home has been circulating on Twitter and, well, take a look…Outside Mar-a-Lago, a concerned citizen wants to know why the FBI isn’t doing anything about Hillary’s emails or Hunter’s laptop. pic.twitter.com/BM3RHRLXuQ— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) August 10, 2022“The Democrats are weaponizing the FBI and it has to stop!” the totally-not-crazy-seeming woman declares in the video, which has been viewed over 1.2 million times in less than 24 hours. “The FBI is not here to weaponize against another president.

You’ve likely heard by now that federal agents raided ex-president Donald Trump‘s home in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday morning as part of an investigation into alleged mishandling of presidential records, including classified documents.Trump was in Manhattan preparing to give deposition in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil investigation into his shady business dealings when roughly three dozen FBI personnel conducted the surprise search, which lasted for about 10 hours.Related: Mary Trump explains the chilling reason why Donald is “panicked” by FBI raidCBS News reports that agents seized boxes and documents, but no electronics.

Monday’s FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida has many Republicans, including Trump himself, screaming “political persecution” — and the Log Cabin Republicans organization has joined the chorus by likening it to the police raids on the Stonewall Inn.“Just as the patrons of Stonewall were not intimidated by police, we will not be intimidated by the weaponization of the FBI and [Department of Justice] against President Trump or his home,” Log Cabin tweeted Monday evening. The group also noted it will be holding its gala there at Mar-a-Lago year. There are so many things obviously wrong with that comparison.

Mary Trump is back with another hot take on her Uncle Donald following the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, and according to her the former president is in full “panic” mode.Speaking with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Mary was asked about her uncle’s angry statement professing his innocence and calling the raid “unannounced” and “not necessary or appropriate.”“This kind of thing couldn’t have happened without his lawyers knowing,” O’Donnell said. “There were plenty of hints.”Mary agreed, noting that “They’re not really breaking in, they’re just doing their job,” and describing Donald as “panicked.”Related: Kellyanne Conway’s husband is trolling her so hard right now on Twitter following Trump’s FBI raidShe followed up by saying Donald wasn’t entirely lying about being blindsided, but rather that his response shows a disconnect from reality.“This is just an example, in a very long line of examples, of Donald’s narcissism and sense of entitlement,” she continued.

Kellyanne Conway over a tweet she wrote in 2016 following an appearance on Fox News and even her future ex-husband George is getting in on the action.“Most honest people I know are not under FBI investigation,” the former White House propagandist tweeted on October 28, 2016, “let alone two.”She was referring to the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State, which ultimately found “no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.”What say you now @KellyannePolls ? pic.twitter.com/bPZL1r21dj— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) August 9, 2022The tweet obviously hasn’t aged well after Donald Trump, the one-term, twice-impeached ex-president and Kellyanne’s former boss, had his home in Palm Beach, Florida raided by the FBI yesterday morning as part of an investigation into the alleged mishandling of presidential records, including classified documents.Related: Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and others react to FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-LagoThis is in addition, of course, to the Justice Department’s probe into the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the January 6 insurrection, of which Trump may or may not be at the center.

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