Modern adaptation of Antigone is a bold and powerful social commentary – review

J.D. Vance, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio who was able to obtain the Republican presidential nomination thanks in part to backing from gay conservative entrepreneur Peter Thiel, signaled on Tuesday he’d vote against legislation pending before Congress seeking to codify same-sex marriage into law.

It’s that time of year again: spooky season (aka gay Christmas). This means there are some amazing Halloween-themed queer events throughout Dublin this month. So, to help you find the coolest ones, we created a list of six Halloween events you have to check out before it’s too late. 1. Boos & Booze Halloween Party […]

The Washington Blade announced plans for the 21st annual Best Of LGBTQ D.C. Awards Party. The event will be held on Thursday, Oct. 20, 6-8 p.m. at the Eaton Hotel (1201 K. St., N.W.). 

Visibility is essential.

It’s a big week for the LGBTQ+ community — and green velvet couches, apparently!

The Trevor Project has launched free, confidential 24/7 crisis services for LGBTQ+ youth in Mexico.The move, announced Tuesday for National Coming Out Day, marks the first expansion of the Trevor Project’s services beyond the U.S. in the organization’s nearly 25-year history.

A former Benedictine monk in Germany married his boyfriend recently, and the pair expressed hope their public act of commitment would normal the practice and inspire others.According to Reuters, Anselm Bilgri, 68, wed his long-term partner, Markus Achter, 41, on Saturday in the Old Catholic Church, a splinter denomination from the Roman Catholic Church that recognizes marriage equality.Bilgri left the Roman Catholic Church in 2020 after 40 years as a priest and monk.“I immediately thought, ‘now I have actually received all seven sacraments, from ordination to marriage,’” Bilgri told Reuters following the ceremony. “And I would like it [marriage equality] to become normal.

Uptown Players will handle its administrative and tech needs from its new home in the Design District. (Photos courtesy Uptown Players)

The Trevor Project has launched a number of digital crisis services for LGBTQ+ youth in Mexico in line with National Coming Out Day on 11 October.

A gay former employee of a Vodafone store in Scotland was awarded more than $30,000 for being asked sexually inappropriate questions at work.The woman, identified only as Ms. C, sued her former employer, a Vodafone franchise called Thistle Communications, for sex and sexual orientation discrimination and harassment.

A new report from the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety underscores the effects gun violence has on LGBTQ+ lives.With more than 25,000 hate crimes in the U.S. each year involving a firearm, a significant number of those crimes are directed at queer people.LGBTQ+ youth have a greater chance of experiencing bias-motivated violence involving weapons than non-LGBTQ+ youth, the report notes.

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: Solomon Bates, 25Bio: Solomon Bates grew up in Victorville, California, where he excelled on the baseball field. He played through college for the University of Southern California until 2018, when he became the eighth-round pick for the Giants at age 25.  A post shared by Solomon Bates (@solomonbates)Little did we know, the following year, in 2019, Bates came out as gay to his teammates—the Giants’ minor league Richmond Flying Squirrels—and never let the ball drop.His posts during the time period show his clear love for the game:  A post shared by Solomon Bates (@solomonbates)  A post shared by Solomon Bates (@solomonbates)Coming out: The right-handed pitcher was released from the Giants organization this year, but Bates still had cause for celebration—becoming the second minor league baseball player to publicly come out as gay, after David Denson in 2015.“Being gay in this sport you don’t know what comes at you!” he said, alongside images of his 2022 stats and photos of him in action.“I thank the Giants for giving me the opportunity to be myself and go out there and play the game that I love the most.

Neighbors, is people discover it as it gets out in the world.

The Blade Foundation this week announced the recipient of an inaugural reporting fellowship focused on covering stories at the intersection of LGBTQ identities and race.

In recent months, a huge number of courageous famous faces across all sectors have opened up to the world and shared their true sexualities and gender identities. As we approach the end of the year, take a look at some of the celebrities who have come out so far in 2022! M.A. Voepel First on […]

CELEBRITY SAS: Who Dares Wins star Amber Gill has sparked romance rumours with a BBC actress after coming out as bisexual. The former Love Island winner, 25, has been spotted leaving flirty Emoji icons on Teddy Edwardes' Twitter profile.

On National Coming Out Day, the National LGBT Federation (NXF) – publishers of GCN – is calling for renewed whole-of-society efforts to empower LGBTQ+ people everywhere to live open and authentic lives free from discrimination.  We know from both the research and the direct lived experiences of LGBTQ+ people that it is not just right […]

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His Oz appearance was enough to inspire a prison bust. (GIF via GIPHY)

A lesbian Vodafone store worker has been awarded £30,000 in compensation after her manager asked her “How do lesbians have sex?”. Following an employment tribunal in Glasgow, the woman, identified as Ms C for legal reasons, successfully sued her former employers after she faced gender and sexual orientation discrimination from multiple managers and a co-worker […]

Cher to tears with his rendition of ‘Believe’?Last weekend he did it again. Lambert performed as a guest singer on Strictly Come Dancing.

The Roy and Jeanne Grogan Historic Plaza on the campus of Weatherford College (Photo via WikiData)

In a move that could further inflame the debate over how to handle transgender rights in schools, Virginia will no longer allow students to use facilities marked for the gender they identify with and will mandate that they file legal documents if they wish to be called by different pronouns. Those directives were among several guidelines for schools that the Virginia Department of Education announced on Friday in a reversal of transgender policies that the state outlined last year.

High Court judge he would continue to ignore the order and so was sent back to his cell.Mr Justice Max Barrett said the matter was not about transgenderism but rather his refusal to obey the terms of the suspension and the court-ordered injunction.But Burke sought to frame it as a religious freedom dispute, saying: ‘If this court so determines, I will never leave Mountjoy Prison if in leaving the prison I violate my well informed conscience and religious belief and deny my God.‘It seems to me that I can be a Christian in Mountjoy Prison or be a pagan and acceptor of transgenderism outside of it. I know where I belong.‘My faith has led me to that place and will keep me there.’He told the court that if that choice was put to him ‘every hour of every day for next 100 years’, he would answer the question the same, adding: ‘This court is seeking to deprive me of my religious beliefs.’Barrister Rosemary Mallon, counsel for the school’s board of management, said that it was ‘very clear’ from Mr Burke’s commentary that he does not intend to abide by the court order and had ‘knowingly and wilfully’ breached it.She also said that the school was left with no option but to pursue court action when he continued to attend the school despite his suspension and a judge’s decision.

Guy Lodge Film Critic In the little-remembered 1950 noir “The Damned Don’t Cry,” Joan Crawford plays a Texan housewife whose grief for her late son spurs her to make a new life for herself in the urban underworld. Fyzal Boulifa’s exquisite new film of the same title is named expressly for that Crawford vehicle, but is neither a remake nor a direct homage. Rather, it remixes the narrative components of that film and others of its ilk into the kind of new-school-old-school heart-tugger — one might say tearjerker if its characters weren’t, true to its title, stoically dry-eyed throughout — that might have been designed for the shoulder-padded diva were she alive in 2022 and, perhaps more crucially, of Moroccan heritage. 

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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the DC Extended Universe, it’s not the villains who have identity issues, but the heroes. Bruce Wayne watched his parents get murdered, adopted a teenage sidekick and now spends his nights cosplaying as the creature everyone associates with vampires. Kal-El also saw his parents die and goes through life trying to pass as the earthling Clark Kent, wearing spandex under his work clothes, just in case. These are not the traits of well-adjusted normies, and as such, there’s enormous subversive appeal in seeing trans artist Vera Drew turn such iconic characters inside-out in the illicitly made marvel that is “The People’s Joker.” Coming from a place of deep fan love and equally profound institutional mistrust, Drew’s anarchic feature-length parody impishly treads the line of fair use, so much so that the helmer pulled the film from the Toronto Film Festival after its raucous Midnight Madness premiere, citing “rights issues.” But what did she expect? The irreverent underground project reimagines the Joker’s origin story as a queer coming-of-age/coming-to-terms narrative, using a mishmash of styles: mostly crude live-action of the kind you expect from public-access programming (shot against greenscreens, then composited with rudimentary CG sets), embellished with various forms of homemade animation.

Richard Eyre’s writing debut has been a long time coming. The veteran director, recognised numerous times at the Olivier Awards (including with a lifetime achievement award), finally turned his hand to writing during the pandemic. The result is The Snail House, a two-hour political play which premiered earlier this week at the Hampstead Theatre. Eyre – the former artistic director of the National Theatre – also directs the show, which features Vincent Franklin in the lead role.

For the uninitiated, Heathers tells the story of the students at American high school Westerberg High. Early on, we’re introduced to protagonist Veronica Sawyer, who is struggling to get by until she does a favour for the Heathers – the popular trio of mean girls at the school. Suddenly Veronica is catapulted to popular status, and the protections that affords, but at what cost? Over the course of the show we see her struggle as she is forced to choose between former friends and, effectively, surviving high school.

The cast of ‘Clue’ at Dallas Theater Center. (Courtesy photo by Imani Thomas)

In response to a California school district's decision to paint Progress Pride murals on all school buildings, right-wing extremists plan to protest on Wednesday evening.All 15 of Castro Valley Unified School District's schools, plus the administration office, were painted with the progress Pride flag last week. Chaya Raichik, of Libs of TikTok on Twitter, noticed the video and inspired their followers to criticize the school."Homeschool your kids," Raichik wrote, along with a screenshot of the school murals.Gays Against Groomers has taken the lead and called for a mass protest at Wednesday evening's school board meeting.California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell says he's outraged by right-wing attacks on Castro Valley schools and other districts across the country."It's a blatant lie to suggest that the Castro Valley School District is teaching our kids anything besides the skills they need to compete in the 21st-century economy," Swalwell tells The Advocate.

The Centennial Building in Fair Park (Photo by Andreas Praefcke, via Wikipedia)

Drag legends The Boulet Brothers and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, this week announced a new spin-off series, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans.

Enoch Burke has commenced a legal bid against his employer Wilson’s Hospital School, following events that stemmed from his refusal of acknowledging a Transgender student’s identity. The Westmeath teacher represented himself before the High Court in Dublin today, September 14, with Justice Eileen Roberts overseeing proceedings. Justice Conor Dignam adjourned an injunction sought by Mr […]

GAY TIMES teamed up with London’s most well-known LGBTQ+ sexual health clinics to show you how easy it is to get checked.

Yesterday, September 13, activist group ACT UP Dublin was informed of plans for the impending closure of two sexual health clinics in the Northeast. All clinical sexual health services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda and Louth County Hospital Dundalk will be closed. This closure comes during a nationwide increase in rates of HIV […]

A trans boy has been outed at a school in Israel resulting in anti-trans protests by parents and threats of school transfers. The third grader attends Morsheth Naria school in Givat Shmuel. Trigger Warning: This story discusses transphobic conduct, 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.In an interview with Ono News, a parent said, “The administration knew about the story and probably most of the teachers did too, but it dropped on the parents like lightning on a clear day.”According to JewishPress, 17 transphobic parents of third graders threatened to pull their children from school.“We, the majority of third-grade parents, are not ready to contain the phenomenon and accept the damage to our spiritual character and the emotional damage that our children are going through and will go through in the future.”“We need your help in this fight to stand firm on the way our children are educated, and our insistence that we are not ready to apologize for our way of life and our desire to educate our children according to our will.”In response religious LGBTQ Group, Havruta tweeted, “In the service of transphobia and under the auspices of the hate lobby, there is a demonstration in Givat Shmuel against a religious trans boy.

An Ofsted report has described a formerly 'outstanding' grammar school as a place where racism, homophobia, and misogyny have flourished. The school, in Lancashire, has been downgraded to 'inadequate' by the inspector as incidents such as 'harmful sexual behaviour went unchallenged’ and said some pupils had ‘lost confidence’ in the ability of staff to protect them from harm.

Nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put a lifetime ban on the use of blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM).

(CNN) — Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has apologized for a recent social media post in which he used homophobic language.On his Instagram story, which was recorded and shared by others before it was deleted, a person is apparently inside a car with the window partially rolled down and records a small gathering of men standing together at a short distance away.Some of the men are hugging. A voice can be heard saying "look at these queer a** n***ers.""What I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I'm incredibly sorry," the 21-year-old wrote on his verified Twitter account on Sunday.

. This is a truly exciting time for queer cinema, with high-caliber films like “The Inspection” and “Fire Island” that will surely stand the test of time. Not only are the genres diverse, the stories also elevate the voices and experiences of gay men of color who have been neglected in mainstream representation for way too long. “The Inspection” opens in U.S.

On Monday, September 13, a judge adjourned an injunction seeked by secondary school teacher Enoch Burke with the aim of being released from prison. Burke has mounted a legal challenge against the Wilson’s Hospital School’s decision to put him on paid administrative leave pending a disciplinary process. After being jailed for contempt of court, teacher […]

The Boulet Brothers have confirmed Dragula: Titans is the first new series to come out of their Dragula franchise expansion.

A school chaplain claims he was unfairly dismissed from his post at Trent College in Derbyshire last year on the grounds of religious discrimination. Rev Bernard Randall is suing Trent College at an employment tribunal in Nottingham because he believes that a disagreement with senior staff at the college on implementing an inclusion programme designed […]

After years of teasing, today it’s finally official: Dragulais expanding the franchise. Dragula: Titans are on the way and coming to Shudder sooner than you might have hoped.As everyone knows, October is the spookiest month of the year making it the perfect time to crown a new Dragula star.

On Friday, September 9, a sexual assault complaint was filed against queer pop singer Ricky Martin. Although details about the allegations are not public, it has been reported that the police complaint was filed by the singer’s nephew. As reported by the Associated Press, a sexual assault complaint was filed against Ricky Martin at a […]

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic English novelist E.M. Forster never married, and why would he? The author of “Maurice” and “Howards End” was gay, reportedly maintaining relations with a much-younger police officer over the span of four decades. That man did marry, and history has it that his wife knew their secret. In “My Policeman,” this unconventional arrangement lends itself quite nicely to one of those slightly stuffy yet respectable period pieces of the kind that Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have made of Forster’s novels, jumping back and forth in time between the sexy stuff (featuring Harry Styles, fully embracing the ambiguity of his queerbaiting brand) and the maudlin way it resolves itself so many years later.

Natasha Tripney’s review of the book in The Guardian, she describes the Marion and Patrick points of view, saying that the “possessive note is the key to their tragedy and it’s telling that the man so desired by them both remains voiceless, distant.” That is not the case in Grandage’s film, adapted for the screen by Ron Nyswaner (“Philadelphia”), in which Tom is very much a real person but still feels “voiceless, distant,” a slippery, elusive character. There is a gulf between the older Tom and the younger Tom in “My Policeman,” in both writing and performance, as there is with all of the younger and older characters in the film. Older Tom is bitter and taciturn, avoiding his wife by taking long walks on the sea wall with his dog.