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announced that actor James Laurenson had passed away in April at the age of 84. Rest in peace.Born in New Zealand in 1940, Laurenson moved to the U.K.

GAY TIMES speaks to Jody Evans about their “messy, playful and sexy” practice and documenting queer folks at work. 

90-second YouTube video and another $150,000 after a short film in 2021, Rose told Newsweek in an interview."Before us, there wasn't a centralized list to find all of the bars," she said.In 2022, to mark National Coming Out Day, the Lesbian Bar Project released an eponymous three-part docuseries on the Roku Channel, with each episode focusing on a different establishment. It went on to win an Emmy.Since the project was first launched, a handful of new lesbian bars have popped up around the U.S., including Femme, The Lady's Room in Largo, Fla., Mother in San Francisco, The Ruby Fruit in Los Angeles, and The Sports Bra in Portland, Ore."I think we definitely helped amplify the conversation and pinpoint a desire for it," Rose said, adding that she didn't want to take credit for the other bar owners' work.

Timothy Griffin is a social services manager in Houston, TX. Christopher Green is an HIV prevention coordinator in Atlanta, GA.Timothy GriffinI can remember falling asleep in the living room of the apartment Christopher, 32, and I shared in Tallahassee, FL, and being woken up by him standing at the foot of the sofa with a piece of paper in his hands.After he dropped it, he burst into tears and ran onto the balcony. I had no idea what was happening in my head as I was meandering between being asleep and semi-awake.

Governor Abbott has developed into a significant thorn in President Biden's side in recent months, challenging the White House on a range of policy areas including education and how to control irregular immigration. Earlier this month he wrote an open letter instructing Texas universities and public colleges to "ignore" the Title IX revision, which he argued would "impose a leftists belief and erase advancements our state has made."On Monday Abbott shared an article on X, formerly Twitter, from local radio network KTRH which, citing news website Texas Scorecard, claimed Texas A&M "is planning to implement Joe Biden's radical Title IX rewrite this summer.""Woke Texas A&M Plans To Implement Biden’s Controversial Title IX Rewrite."If they do, if they act contrary to state policy, they are jeopardizing state funding, including money from the PUF fund.Bowing to the leftist agenda will reap consequences.https://t.co/wEZ5ffMTwsAbbott added: "If they do, if they act contrary to state policy, they are jeopardizing state funding, including money from the PUF fund."Bowing to the leftist agenda will reap consequences."Newsweek contacted Texas A&M University and Governor Abbott's office for comment at around 2:30 a.m.