Monkeypox outbreak: Health chiefs 'actively investigating' UK's gay bars and spas

offered a mixed ruling May 13 in a suit challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that started the investigations. It lifted an injunction placed by a lower court on enforcement of the order while the lawsuit is heard, but it also said the policies of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services were at the discretion of that agency, not the governor.

Gemma Collins wasn't holding back the intimate details about her sex life with fiancé Rami Hawash during a recent Instagram post.The 41-year-old TV star had taken to her platform in collaboration with Durex - a brand of condoms and lubricants who have also branched out to sex toys in recent years.With such a successful social media account, Gemma is no stranger when it comes to plugging goods on her page.However, the starlet decided that this time she'd tackle the taboo subject around "self love" - joining celebrities such as Love Island's Megan Barton Hanson with breaking the stigma.Selling a Durex sex product, Gemma went on to explain details about her own sex life with her future husband-to-be.Addressing her 2million fans, the GC said: "I know that buying a toy can be intimidating but trust me I get it - they can be overwhelming, especially your first time. But guys it doesn't have to be."She went on to add: "But guys the other day, I was talking to my friends about self-love and I realised everyone wants to talk about it.

Venerable film and television actor Ray Liotta has passed away at the age of 67. RIP.Best known for his role as Harry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie classic, Goodfellas, Liotta has made a career out of playing wise guys, tough guys, and generally guys you just don’t want to mess around with.

Oldham’s first openly gay council leader has been formally appointed by councillors.

Prism Health North Texas’ Free World Bound program has been awarded the Reentry and Integration Division Award as part of the Texas Governor’s 2022 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Awards.

Oh, bother!In case you haven’t heard, lowkey gay icon Winnie the Pooh is being reimagined as a hangry murderous bear in a violent R-rated horror movie.A.A. Milne’s beloved “Winnie the Pooh” stories hit the public domain five months ago and the twisted brilliant mind of director Rhys Waterfield has already reimagined the Hundred Acre Wood as a bloody killing field.Happy Bambi and Winnie the Pooh Entering the Public Domain Day, they’re gay now and there’s nothing Disney can do about it.

Casting queer actors in queer roles in Fire Island added “so much” authenticity to the film, according to James Scully.

The number of people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual has doubled in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Office for National Statistics says that the number of young people (aged 16-24) who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual has almost doubled in just four years. It’s risen from 4.1% in 2016 to 8% in 2020.The figures come from an analysis of the country’s large-scale Annual Population Survey, which surveys around 320,000 households annually.Breaking down that 8% figure, 2.7% of 16-24 year-olds identified as gay or lesbian, and 5.3% as bisexual.Looking more broadly at all age groups, the proportion of all adults identifying as LGB stood at 3.1% in 2020.

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Love Island, there’s a new kid on the block. He’s here, he’s definitely queer, and he’s called I Kissed A Boy.Commissioned by BBC Three, the new dating show will take 10 single men abroad, coupling them up before putting them through their paces in various challenges.

violently jumped after being asked why he was ‘wearing a girl’s jacket’ and called a ‘f**king f*g’.The 22-year-old suffered a bleed on the brain and needed surgery after being attacked in Manchester in the early hours of April 10.He was left with three smashed teeth and broken bones in his nose, cheek and around his eye socket.Morgan – a support worker for adults with learning difficulties – moved to Manchester from the small market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, for work more than a year ago.His family previously revealed he made the switch because he felt he would be less likely to experience homophobia in a larger city with a thriving LGBT+ scene.Parents Paul and Dawn Fevre rushed from their hometown to be by his side at Salford Royal as he fought for his life.Morgan is now out of hospital and continuing his recovery but the search for his attackers goes on.Greater Manchester Police have released images taken from CCTV following the incident in Charlotte Street at about 1.35am.Detectives say they want to speak to the man and woman visible in the footage.Detective Constable Lucy Hatton said: ‘This was an unprovoked attack in the street that the victim can remember very little about.‘Morgan was punched in the head and then fell to the floor, and spent 10 days in hospital being treated for head and face injuries.‘He has now been discharged from hospital but is still suffering from the after-effects of the incident.’Last month, his father revealed his son had no memory of the attack but recalled receiving homophobic abuse and negative comments about his sequin jacket before it happened.He said: ‘Morgan would go into town on his own and make new friends while he was out, he’s that kind of chap.‘But now, I went to see

couple is facing criticism for refusing to let the groom's dad bring his husband because they want the wedding to be "non-ideological."Writing for the popular Reddit forum r/AmITheA**hole, stylized AITA, u/Stuckinthebone earned over 4,500 upvotes and 600 comments for his post, "AITA for telling my son to cancel his wedding?"The original poster (OP) said that he's a 49-year-old gay man, though when he was in the 20s, he was in the closet. When he was 24, he slept with a woman and got her pregnant, and they had a son, now 25.

2 min read A school captain who was asked to give a commencement speech in front of the entire school in Florida USA was told he couldn’t say the word gay otherwise his microphone would be cut off.

From left: Jolanda Jones, Christian Manuel-Hayes, and Venton JonesThanks to victories in primary runoffs Tuesday, Texas is poised to have its first Black gay male state legislators — and one Black lesbian, who won a special election just weeks ago to fill a vacancy, is likely to be elected to a full term.Before Jolanda Jones’s victory in the special election, Texas had never had a Black member of the LGBTQ+ community in the state legislature. She won the special election May 7 in the Houston-area Texas House District 147 to succeed Rep.

TikTok video already had nearly 68,000 views.“I did want a reaction,” Stargel told The Advocate. “I didn’t expect it to blow up overnight.”In the viral clip, the 28-year-old calls her mother out as a hypocrite for running for years on a family values platform, meanwhile leaving her children in the care of neighbors during legislative sessions and imposing beliefs through strict discipline when she was at homeAs a bisexual woman, Stargel takes issue with a number of her mother’s political “accomplishments.” Sen.

Fire Island director Andrew Ahn has praised Joel Kim Booster for his “brilliant adaptation” of Pride and Prejudice.

LONDON — With the cost of living soaring, a devastating war in Ukraine and the coronavirus still circulating, many Europeans had already been feeling anxious and drained. Then came some more unwelcome news: Monkeypox, a rare viral illness that causes pus-filled rashes, had appeared in more than a dozen countries in the region.

film or series every few years or so. With the success of related shows like Bridgerton and the rise of gay romantic comedies, it feels like the right moment for Pride & Prejudice, the grandmother of all rom-coms, to get a fresh update for LGBTQ+ audiences.That’s just what we’re getting with Gay Pride & Prejudice, a new Spotify Original scripted podcast. Executive produced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, and Gimlet's head of scripted Mimi O’Donnell, the 10-episode series was written and directed by Zackary Grady and features a standout cast including Ferguson, Blake Lee, Rosie O'Donnell, Ronald Peet, Vella Lovell, Javier Muñoz, Sherry Cola and more.The first two episodes are now available on Spotify, and the series will be presented at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with a panel featuring the cast and creators on June 13.“The idea for the series came the day marriage equality passed,” Grady told The Advocate.

pic.twitter.com/3upEQg05ry— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) May 24, 2022Related: Herschel Walker’s gay son mocks pro-choice women, says they can’t get laidSpencer went on to press Walker, saying Trump had repeatedly made claims about election fraud.“I’m not saying the president—but everyone knows that something happened in the election,” responded Walker, before going on to claim that Georgia’s own Stacy Abrams did not concede during her own 2018 defeat.Spencer says that although Abrams did not immediately concede, she did not keep repeating claims of election fraud for 18 months, as Trump has done. Spencer says that if Walker disagrees with Trump, why doesn’t he just say so.“But in that instance right there, I said, ‘Guys, there’s people that they’re unhappy with the election.

No catfish here! Frank Grimsley was crowned the winner of The Circle season 4 — and he did it by staying true to himself.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London will be home to this year’s UK Black Pride protest and celebration.

A 35-year-old doctor, who has become the first Qatari to come out publicly as gay, has sought asylum in the United States. Nas Mohamed, who is currently living and working as a physician in San Francisco, said he no longer wished to remain “anonymous”. Mohamed said that it was not safe for him to return to Qatar and live his life as an out gay man. Qatar’s human rights record and its treatment of LGBTQI people have come under the spotlight after the country was selected to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

San Francisco police are investigating two recent telephoned bomb threats against queer youth organization LYRIC, located in the Castro LGBTQ neighborhood, as possible hate crimes.LYRIC received the first bomb threat April 29, forcing the organization's youth clients and staff members to leave the Purple House building in the Castro that serves as its offices. A second threat, 24 days later, followed at 3:30 p.m., May 23, as after-school programs were underway, said Adam Michael Royston, communications director for the nonprofit, in a telephone interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

She went public with their four-year romance after years of speculation last week.Now Becca Tilley is opening up more about her relationship with singer Hayley Kiyoko.The reality star, 33, talked the decision to reveal their relationship, her sexuality, and attending several Bachelor Nation weddings with Hayley on herpodcast, Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad. 'Hayley has really made me feel brave': Becca Tilley is opening up more about her relationship with singer Hayley Kiyoko'So I was prepared for anything and everything, but I was not prepared for the amount of love and support that we got,' Becca said of going public with Hayley.'Hayley has really made me feel brave, and she was always like, "People love you and they want to see you happy."' Becca, who went public with Hayley by making an appearance in herqueer-Bachelorette themed music video For the Girls, also talked confirming their romance.'I've always said, "I'll go public — we can go public if I can be in one of your videos, like, be the video girl." And I'm not an actress and she always hires actors, like, legit actresses.

After right-wing backlash, State Farm Insurance discontinued any relationship with a project supporting the acceptance of LGBTQ+ youth.State Farm previously encouraged agents to donate books to Florida schools encouraging acceptance of LGBTQ youth. As part of a partnership with the LGBTQ+ advocacy group The GenderCool Project, State Farm corporate responsibility analyst Jose Soto states in an email on January 18, that agents across the nation can donate a three-book bundle to local teachers, community centers, or libraries.But the move came to light following the passage of the controversial "don’t say gay" law signed in March by Gov.

Jacob Bjørn Hessellund is a professional handball player from Denmark. He came out on Instagram this week just in time for Pride.“Something has been filling my mind for a long time. Something I need to share,” 30-year-old Hessellund’s post begins.

State Farm Insurance encouraged agents to donate books to Florida schools encouraging acceptance of LGBTQ+ youth. The move came to light following passage of the controversial don’t say gay law signed in March by Gov.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating five monkeypox cases in the United States, while the World Health Organization has now confirmed more than 90 cases in a dozen countries. So far, these cases have "mainly but not exclusively been identified amongst men who have sex with men," according to the WHO.Experts stress that monkeypox does not spread as easily as COVID-19 and they do not expect a pandemic of that scale.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.Canadian health authorities are also continuing to investigate “a couple dozen” possible cases throughout the country, including several in the Montreal area.Of the four remaining presumed cases of monkeypox in the United States, two have been reported in Utah, one case has been reported in New York City, and one case in Florida. All four cases were reported in men, whom the CDC believes were exposed to the virus while visiting other countries.Capt.

The lack of transmasc representation within the media is a telling sign of our own interpretations of masculinity within the queer community. There are sprinklings of trans masc experiences on TV, like Leo Sheng in L Word Generation and Brian Michael Smith in 9-1-1. A few personal social media accounts—like those of Schuyler Bailar, J Mase III, and Thomas Page McBee—give many needed lifelines for representation.

Monkeypox from the CDC website

national tracking poll of 4,410 adults conducted between April 20-23 in the aftermath of Florida’s “don’t say gay” law by Morning Consult.The poll found that 68 percent of all respondents strongly or somewhat supported sexual education being taught in K-12 schools, with only 23 percent of those polled opposed. Those numbers include both Democrat and Republican respondents.There was far less support for teaching the history of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement in K-12 schools.

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Learning your child has a disability can be a cause for huge concern, and at some points, be both physically and mentally exhausting. It is common for parents to feel alone and isolated from the rest of the world, so read on to find out how one couple  developed the Diffability podcast to create a […]

Fresh off the heels of his embarrassing defeat in last week’s North Carolina GOP primary, soon-to-be-ex-congressman Madison Cawthorn just landed a starring role in his very own ethics investigation.Related: Five former campaign volunteers spill the tea about Madison Cawthorn just in time for primary dayThe House Committee on Ethics just announced that it’s launching an inquiry to determine whether the anti-LGBTQ lawmaker was involved in financial improprieties or engaged in an “improper relationship” with a staffer.Related: Lauren Boebert is having a terrible day on Twitter and it’s all Madison Cawthorn’s fault“The Investigative Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Representative Madison Cawthorn may have: improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest, and engaged in an improper relationship with an individual employed on his congressional staff,” the committee said in a statement yesterday.BREAKING: The House Ethics Committee is investigating Madison Cawthorn. Let's hope they can finish their investigation before he's out of Congress.

Not holding back anymore! After going public with her romance with Hayley Kiyoko, Becca Tilley is slowly sharing more details of their relationship — and why she was ready to come out.

Sky Sports News. ‘I have been thinking for a long time about how I want to do it, when I want to do it. I know now is the time.

Robbie McEwen, former Australian cyclist-turned commentator and a three-time winner of the Tour de France points classification, has apologised after using a homophobic slur on live television. The incident occurred last week during the broadcast of stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia on Eurosport and GCN+. Trigger Warning: This story discusses the use of a homophobic slur, 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.Cycling is a sport for all & everyone should feel welcome.

Based on a true story, Firebird is a meticulously researched and produced film about two young men on a military base in Soviet-occupied Estonia in the late 1970s.Sergey (Tom Prior) is a private just weeks away from discharge; Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii) is an officer and pilot, newly assigned to the base. Their attraction is almost immediate, unfolding with a tender intimacy which is beautifully, painfully naïve to the realities of their society – both military and civilian.Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii in ‘Firebird’Firebird feels like a film for the ages, but also of the times.

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warned him against discussing his gay identity and LGBTQ+ activism while speaking against graduation in light of Florida’s recently adopted “don’t say gay” law, which restricts school-sponsored mention of sexual orientation and gender identity. The administration had threatened to cut him off if he did so.However, in the Sunday night speech, Moricz, a plaintiff in a suit challenging the law. managed to get his points about being gay across without saying the word.“I must discuss a very public part of my identity.

As more than a dozen countries grapple with outbreaks of monkeypox, health officials worldwide are rushing to assess reserves of vaccines and treatments that may be needed to contain the spread. The U.S. emergency stockpile holds two vaccines approved by the Food and Drug Administration that could be used to contain monkeypox, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters on Monday.

MTG Live podcast about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has become a hero to conservatives for his opposition to political correctness, COVID-19-related shutdowns, and “cancel culture,” including the alleged (but not actual) suppression of conservative voices on social media platforms. Musk, who is poised to buy the social media giant Twitter — a development that some conservatives believe will usher in new policies protecting “free speech” — was previously accused by a female flight attendant of SpaceX, Musk’s space transportation firm, of exposing his genitalia to her, rubbing her leg, and offering to buy her a horse if she performed a sexual act for him. According to Business Insider, documents show Musk later paid the woman $250,000 as part of a severance agreement in 2018. Greene, who has embraced various conspiracy theories during her short political career, and is no stranger to inflammatory comments, claimed that breaking news about the past accusations of sexual harassment is a political attack against the billionaire, and complained that conservatives like Musk and former President Donald Trump often get accused of sexual misconduct.“If anyone was a Democrat steps out of line because they’ve decided they can’t go along with the horrible, disgusting, and failing ways of the Democrats, and they actually see the light, see the truth… They go, you know, I’m going to try voting Republican because these people over here make sense,” Greene said.

Red Table Talk: The Estefans.“That was hairy, because Emily was very raw at that moment,” says Estefan. “And we didn’t discuss it beforehand, because we wanted it to be natural. I wish that the whole two-hour conversation could have been aired….

The late gay U.S. ambassador James C.

Robert's co-worker further explained that he was asked to take a paternity test to prove he wasn't the father of Robert and Danielle's daughter, Chelsea. Posting in Reddit's "True Off My Chest" forum under the username u/McGhostShadow, the post has garnered more than 14,000 upvotes and over 1,600 comments from Redditors, many of whom called Robert an "idiot.""I don't know whether to laugh or cry over this entire situation that's unfolded in the past six weeks," the co-worker began.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey have joined the city's LGBTQ first responders in saying they will not march in the Pride parade if organizers continue to prohibit police from marching in uniform.Earlier Monday, members of the San Francisco Police Officers Pride Alliance, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, and the San Francisco Fire Department announced that, following 18 months of discussion with SF Pride, the organization that oversees the massive, yearly event, they had been unable to come to a mutually acceptable agreement about the presence of uniformed officers participating in the parade. Consequently, the first responders would not be marching in the parade if they weren't allowed to do so in uniform.