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Belfast-based multidisciplinary comic book artist Donna Anita Black has created a number of wonderful portraits over the years. I was recently taken by a portrait of hers of a young Robert Mapplethorpe – a famous queer photographer and one of her inspirations, as photography is one of the mediums she works in.

Nancy Mace placed a label reading "biological" above a sign for a women's bathroom in the U.S. Capitol, just weeks before the first openly transgender member of Congress is sworn in.Mace, a South Carolina Congresswoman, filed a bill this week seeking to ban transgender women from using women's bathrooms at the Capitol.Writing on X, formerly Twitter, she said: "I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women.

Married at First Sight is facing a storm of Ofcom complaints with viewers outraged over what they saw as bullying during the show. Channel 4 has been flooded with 341 Ofcom complaints following scenes aired on November 13 that many watchers have deemed as examples of bullying. The bone of contention for fans was the treatment of Hannah and Adam by brides Holly and Polly, which occurred during the show's first reunion episode, leading viewers to question both the cast members' actions and the lacklusture response from the experts.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) takes place every November 20, inviting people to pause, mourn, and remember all of the lives that were cut short due to acts of anti-trans violence.

Donald Trump and his MAGA devotees happy getting to JD Vance? Yesterday, the Vice-President-Elect posted a snippy tweet aimed at a close associate of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.Within hours, the tweet was removed.Friction within the Republican Party came to the surface yesterday in the Senate.Stay woke with our briefing while staying informed on all things LGBTQ+ entertainment, life, and more!Conscious that they will soon lose power, Democrats are making several judicial appointments before the end of December. President-elect Donald Trump believes the appointees are extremists. He took to Truth Social to urge GOP Senators to vote against them.“The Democrats are trying to stack the courts with Radical Left Judges on their way out the door.