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When exploring your sexual orientation, it can be challenging to pick a label that suits you. Fortunately, there are many terms you can use to describe your attraction toward other people. If you think you might be polysexual or know someone who identifies that way, this guide will tell you everything you need to know.RELATED: How Straight Are You Based on Your Taste in Men?Polysexual is an orientation that describes someone attracted to people of multiple genders.

Gay Pride Apparel is a 100% queer-owned small business run by best-friends-turned-couple Jesus and Sergio since 2019. They create handmade, high-quality garments with cheeky, political, and simple designs.

Homoco is a queer-owned swim brand founded by designer Daniel DuGoff. They use recycled plastic and sustainably-harvested Tencel in their summer-ready apparel.Get it from Homoco for $69 (available in sizes XS–XXL).Plus, 10% of all Pride candle proceeds will be donated to the LGBTQ Freedom Fund.The Sisters Stoned is a Chicago-based, queer-owned shop founded by two best friends who love to make candles.Get it from The Sisters Stoned on Etsy for $25+ (available in two sizes).Common Dear is a queer- and woman-owned shop based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

a lot of new sex toy companies and small businesses that are inherently queer- and trans-friendly, such as New York Toy Collective, Cute Little Fuckers, Wet for Her, Honey Play Box, and even on Etsy like Fantasticocks, Form Function LLC, MaMa Leather, and Twisted Mountain Toys! Because a lot of toys literally can be enjoyed by all bodies with a little imagination!Just a heads-up: Some of these toys use binarist and cis-gendered language in their product descriptions that some folks may not identify with (which, boo! but hopefully one day that changes). For more info and insight on all types of dysphoria (including body dysphoria), check out Eli Erlick's video "You Don't Need Dysphoria to Be Trans." For more sex toys and products from queer-owned shops, check out this 2021 Pride Month sex toy post and this roundup of queer-owned sex shops!We hope that this is only one of many LGBTQ+ specific sex toy posts to come in the future, and that this helps prompt the creation of more products designed specifically for trans people and their pleasure in the future.

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Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Equal Pride.Today, Florida's "don't say gay" law goes into effect, and school districts will begin implementing policies to limit discussions about LGBTQ+ people, experiences, and topics in public schools. This is tantamount to erasure.

Rylan Clark will be joined by his mum Linda, on today’s episode of Celebrity Gogglebox (Friday July 1).He has joined the series ahead of the Pride anniversary special, helping mark 50 years of Pride in the UK.Channel 4 says the special will “reflect on the incredible achievements and challenges of advancing LGBTQ+ rights and visibility over the last half century, while also platforming the diversity of identity and sexuality in the 2020s”.Rylan, 33, discovered his own sexuality when he was just 10 years old, after watching a Louis Theroux documentary of all things.He met his now ex-husband Dan, 42, in 2015, though they split after six years of marriage.Here is everything you need to know about Rylan’s relationship history.Dan is best known for his appearance on 2013’s Big Brother, making it to week six of the competition before being voted out.Before that, he was a police officer who worked on Operation Yewtree.This was an investigation into child sex abuse by famous stars such as Jimmy Savile.However, it was during his time on Big Brother when he and Rylan first crossed paths.Rylan interviewed him following his exit and the rest was history.Just two years later, they were married after Dan proposed during an idyllic trip to Paris.They tied the knot in 2015 with an intimate ceremony.In June 2021, reports surfaced that Dan had moved out of their shared London home and moved into a flat in Essex.Soon after, the split was confirmed by Rylan, who broke his silence on the situation later that same month.Speaking to The Sun, he said: "Following reports about Dan and I spending time apart, I feel I have to speak out - as the way it is being reported is unfair.“I have made a number of mistakes which I deeply regret and have

Het aantal gevallen van het apenpokkenvirus is de afgelopen twee weken in Europa verdrievoudigd. De Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) roept Europese landen op snel actie te ondernemen.

Fire Island, filmmaker Andrew Ahn made his first major-studio film, going into business with Searchlight Pictures after previously helming indie fare like Spa Night.And from what Ahn told Vulture recently, Searchlight had many notes about Fire Island—from its script (the studio thought the Noah-Will beach scene was unnecessary) to the soundtrack (the studio wanted “Levitating” by Dua Lipa).Related: A queer Asian revolution is happening in Hollywood and, honestly, it’s about damn timeAhn also described his back-and-forth with Searchlight about the nudity in the film, which is now streaming on Hulu:I was like, “I want a d*ck.” It’s Fire Island. It’s sex scenes.

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Anita in West Side Story, Ariana DeBose made a plea for abortion rights, queer rights, and human rights in an appearance Thursday on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. DeBose, who made history this March when she became the first queer woman of color to win the Academy Award, enumerated the ways in which the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and Justice Clarence Thomas’s promises to come after other rights affects her personally.“I’m Black, I’m Afro-Latina, I’m a woman, and I’m queer.

The short film ‘Veils’ screens at this year’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas. (Courtesy photos)

Established Titles that will help benefit the environment and save the woodlands on the estate for generations to come. And now through Monday, Established Titles is celebrating the occasion of our country’s independence with a special Fourth of July sale!Potential members of the Scottish aristocracy can purchase plots of land from one square foot or larger, and all come with an actual title.

don't say gay" law.Instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation is forbidden in kindergarten through third grade.

Another Pride month for the books, boys! Only 334 and a half days til the next one.This month was chock-full of queer celebrations and setbacks, but one of the most fun parts of it all was seeing what wild little tactics businesses were going to pull out to cater to our fruity demographics. And pander, they did!From bottom buns to tasting too much of the rainbow, here are this Pride month’s 5 wildest corporate moments:Postmates partnered with gay comedian Rob Anderson (and a gay rectal surgeon) to introduce a new menu specifically designed to keep everything squeaky clean in the boudoir.

So THIS is why Buckingham Palace isn’t revealing the results??

Related: These anti-LGBTQ laws go into effect todayKorynn Dickey posted the video on Wednesday, but didn’t specifically name her father.“I had to cut my dad off,” the text overlay reads as she sways with a rainbow pillow. “See, I’m a bisexual Pisces and he is a republican state senator who contributed to taking my rights as a woman away and the possibility of me being able to marry the girl of my dreams one day.”“Guess who!! clues are hidden in the video.”Internet investigators quickly solved the puzzle, identifying her father as Iowa state senator Adrian Dickey.

Four in 10 (40%) LGBTQ+ people experienced a hate crime in the past 12 months because of their sexual orientation, a joint survey from GAY TIMES and Channel 4 News found.

In celebration of 50 years of Pride in the UK, The Crown Estate has commissioned a hundred Pride flags to hang above Regent Street. 

Savage x Fenty has unveiled their fierce new Pride Month campaign.

In-person Pride celebrations are back in 2022, following two years of digital or rescheduled events due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and LGBTQ+ travellers are jetting across the world to major destinations to be a part of the queer joy.

The pink triangle atop Twin Peaks was lit June 1 to kick off Pride Month. Ben Davis, left, founder and chief visionary officer of the arts nonprofit Illuminate, joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), Mayor London Breed, and Patrick Carney, co-founder of the installation that is now in its 27th year.

The museum at San Francisco International Airport is showing several Pride-themed short films during June, and passengers can check them out while waiting for their flights or watch some of them online."Join us in celebrating Pride Month at SFO," a description on the SFO Museum website stated. The films are all 20 minutes or less and the website gives a brief synopsis."Unity Mosque" is a 2021 film by Nicole Teeny.

Dwyane shares Zaya with his ex-wife Siovaughn Funches.

Dwyane Wade took a swipe at anti-trans politics while speaking candidly about raising a transgender daughter at the Time 100 Summit Tuesday.

Savage x Fenty has unveiled their fierce new Pride Month campaign.

A Republican lawmaker said he wants to ban minors from attending queer-inclusive drag shows.

here My work was going well, I knew I warranted stepping onto the lowest rung of the judicial ladder by being appointed an assistant Recorder. However, I was summoned to see the then Lord Chancellor’s officials to be told that Lord Chancellor Baron Hailsham would never appoint me, a gay man, to sit as a judge at any level.  I left the meeting crestfallen, but I was cheered by the indication that although I was apparently unsuitable to sit as a judge I could still be considered for Silk.  After more years of endless paperwork, and trial upon trial as a junior barrister, I rather fancied the more measured life of a QC.  With fewer but bigger cases, I looked forward to the financial security that evades most juniors, especially those working in the publicly funded sector.  Wrong again!  Although by that time I unquestionably had a practice deserving of Silk, I was blocked by an influential senior judge whose ‘over my dead body’ attitude prevailed over civil servants. It was now 1993. Lord MacKay, by then Lord Chancellor, was entirely oblivious of what was going on behind his back and has always treated me with courtesy and fairness.  At the time, I could have continued in the ever demanding life of a junior - behind on paperwork, juggling court diaries, and being shamed by self-regarding judges if a minute late.  Fortunately I had an ally.

The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page opened up about his coming out journey and challenging career moments in a new interview.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis asked the state’s medical board to ban gender-affirming care for trans individuals.

Legendary actress Lynda Carter shut down social media trolls after she celebrated Pride Month with Wonder Woman artwork.

Priscilla, and the rest is queer history!While this movie probably inspired the previous film, another camp classic about three queer performers traveling across the country should always be added to the list. This film has long been regarded as a queer classic, making this a wonderful addition to your watch list.The film is free to stream on Pluto TV.When this film was released, the girls, gays, and theys were never the same!Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt, notable for being one of the few queer novels to feature a happy ending (something that was taboo in publishing at the time), this 2015 adaptation by director Todd Haynes is an unequivocal queer masterpiece.When shop-girl Therese meets a soon-to-be-divorced Carol, her life is flung out of order, and what follows is one of the best queer romance films of all time.

Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Pride Media.“For the first time in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote.

In 2018, as part of a masters program in playwriting at Hunter College in Manhattan, Mara Vélez Meléndez was given a life-changing assignment: adapt a classic play. She chose “John Gabriel Borkman,” a rarely revived late Ibsen play about an ambitious banker, and in her reworking, the characters became members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, created in 2016 by the U.S. federal government to resolve the island’s debt crisis.

Zack Sharf Lynda Carter proved her superhero powers in real life after using social media to shut down a homophobic user claiming Wonder Woman “is not for gays.” Carter starred as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman for three seasons of the eponymous superhero TV series, which aired on ABC and CBS between 1976 and 1979. The actor marked the start of Pride Month by sharing fan art of Wonder Woman in front of rainbow colors and writing, “Happy Pride! So excited to celebrate with all my LGBTQIA+ friends and fans.”“Wonder Woman IS NOT A SUPER HERO FOR GAYS,” one Twitter user wrote to Carter, who fired back with the following statement: “You’re right.

The showstopping cast of Drag Race France has finally been unveiled ahead of its series premiere this month.

Welcome to our first-ever month-long Hot Hollywood Pride Celebration with Sponsor Saks OFF 5TH.

Pride Month. Every year throughout June, people around the United States commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. Throughout the month there are events, marches, parades, parties, and festivals, recognizing the repressive legal and social period for LGBTQI+ while celebrating the movement with pride.

Raven-Symoné Pearman-Maday showcased her 40lb weight loss in a plunging pantsuit while attending Pride Eve celebration at West Hollywood hotspot Poppy on Tuesday night.The 36-year-old former child star - who topped the scales at 210lbs - revealed to The View on March 30 that she whittled down her petite 5ft2in frame by quitting sugar and fasting without any exercise.Raven-Symoné's white suit, featuring a floral design down the right side, was selected by stylist Jason Sky. Looking good! Raven-Symoné Pearman-Maday showcased her 40lb weight loss in a plunging pantsuit while attending Pride Eve celebration at West Hollywood hotspot Poppy on Tuesday night 2022 vs.

On the first day of 2022’s Pride Month, Lynda Carter is revisiting her most famous role — and defending the character’s stature as an LGBTQ icon.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorBilly Porter is known for being in front of the camera — most famously as Pray Tell on “Pose” and recently delivering a gender-bending twist on everyone’s favorite fairy godmother in Amazon’s musical movie “Cinderella.”Now, the Emmy-winning actor is stepping behind the camera to make his feature film directorial debut with “Anything’s Possible,” a John Hughes-esque coming-of-age dramedy about trans high school senior Kelsa (trans newcomer Eva Reign), who is navigating her first boyfriend, Khal (“Katy Keene” actor Abubakr Ali), friendship and family life with her single mom (Renée Elise Goldsberry).“I ain’t Barbra Streisand yet,” Porter tells me, laughing. “It’s like, let me do one thing at a time. Let me direct something first.

Paving the way. LGBTQ+ athletes have been breaking down barriers and challenging prejudices for decades, but it wasn’t always easy.

The Telegraph a Tory attendee was struck on the head by one of the mob.Prior to Mr Zahawi’s attendance, Warwick Pride issued a statement accusing him of playing a ‘significant role in institutional transphobia’.They said he was guilty of using a ‘transphobic dog-whistle’ by defining a woman as an ‘adult human female’.The group encouraged its supporters to buy up tickets to the talk and said it was ‘ludicrous’ to suggest he ‘does not incite hatred’.A statement issued before the protest also pointed to Mr Zahawi’s support for Kathleen Stock, an academic who resigned from the University of Sussex amid protests over her views on gender identification.Warwick Pride said its activists were attending with the ‘intention to ask Zahawi questions concerning the rights of trans people in the UK’, adding that it did not condone violence.But supporters turned up with placards and flags, with one chanting through a microphone.The government unveiled a new law which it says will protect freedom of speech in British universities, including provision to stop speakers being ‘no-platformed’.Ministers and some academics warn there is a ‘chilling effect’ of UK campuses dictated by a vocal minority of students, with the government pointing to a Policy Exchange survey which found a third of lecturers with centre-right politics feel they have to self-censor their views at work.Responding to the Warwick incident, an education department spokesperson said the incident ‘proves’ the need for the bill, calling it ‘more evidence against those who say there is no such thing as a chilling culture on campus’.A spokesperson for the University of Warwick Conservative Association told The Telegraph: ‘The anger and hatred aimed at us that evening only

Council members Jesse Moreno and Omar Narvaez holding the city of Dallas Pride flag with Love Field officials. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Pride Media.During Pride Month, we celebrate our stories: stories of our elders who fought so hard to realize the progress many never got to see, stories of our chosen families, our own stories of coming out, of falling in love, of finding healing in community. As the interim president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, I get to hear so many powerful stories directly from folks in our community. And this Pride Month, I need you to hear these stories as well: stories of trans and nonbinary children, their families, and millions of LGBTQ+ people whose rights and lives — right now — are under attack. Every school day, a mother in Texas helps get her young trans daughter ready for school.

Chase Strangio, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, is “the face of the whole legal battle for trans rights in the U.S.” At least, that’s how a friend of mine recently described him. And from what I can tell, he never seems to sleep, never seems to stop.

Singer and rapper Ashley Gray has come out as transgender via a video posted on his personal TikTok account. 

Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced $6.5 million in her proposed budget for a plan to end trans homelessness in San Francisco by 2027.Breed is expected to unveil her proposed two-year budget June 1.According to a news release from her office, the plan to end trans homelessness will be a collaborative effort between the Mayor's Office on Housing and Community Development, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, the Department of Public Health, the Office of Transgender Initiatives, and nonprofit organizations serving transgender and gender-nonconforming people experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness.The proposal makes San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to commit to ending homelessness for TGNC people, the mayor's office stated.