Tom Ford opens up about his sexuality (and sex life)

Wilson Chapman editor“Please Baby Please” and “Mars One” are among the winners of the 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. The organization  announced the honorees during its award ceremony Wednesday.The L.A.-based nonprofit, which promotes LGBTQ filmmakers and projects, ran its 40th edition festival from July 14-24.

Usually summer is kind of quiet around here. Washington still has the old-school tradition of emptying out during the hotter months. Out-of-office responses bounce around town like a beach ball. Gays head to Fire Island, Provincetown, Rehoboth, or just anywhere in this city with a pool. Straights go, well, wherever it is they go. 

The Biden administration moved forward with its initiative to restore protections from healthcare discrimination for LGBTQ+ Americans with a rule proposed July 25.  A major aspect of the rule would classify discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity as  discrimination based on sex, meaning that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act protects Americans […]

The UK-based Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has issued new healthcare guidelines that encourage greater inclusivity for Trans and non-binary patients. The document, which has been put out for consultation until September 6, makes a series of recommendations to help improve the care of gender-diverse patients. The guidelines have the greatest effect on […]

Summer of 2022 might just go down in history as “The Summer of the Queer Romcom.” With movies and shows like “Heartstopper,” “Fire Island,” and “Anything’s Possible” already gracing our screens, and upcoming projects like Billy Eichner’s much-anticipated “Bros” still on the horizon, it seems like Hollywood is trying to make up for all those years of content in which LGBTQ people were only allowed to be shown as tragic victims or comic relief  – when we weren’t being erased altogether, that is – by giving us a glut of the kinds of happily-ever-after stories we never got to see about ourselves. It’s about time, and nobody is complaining.

three mass vaccination centers . It’s part of the city’s effort to get as many of those most at risk (currently gay/bi men) vaccinated.Vaccinations were already taking place in Chelsea in Manhattan. Further centers opened last weekend in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens.Health workers hope to be able to vaccinate up to 1,400 people each day at each site.

pic.twitter.com/wpuVYAKO05— Julie Van Rosendaal (@dinnerwithjulie) July 26, 2022Sent by Jeff von Rotz, ‘Owner of Valbella Gourmet Foods’, it said: “You could not pay me to sponsor anything to do with child grooming trannys. Please keep these sick people away from the children of this community, you should be disgusted with yourselves.“I’m sure there’s some woke organization mentally ill enough to help you with your event, but it won’t be Valbella’s.”Canmore Pride confirmed it has received a vile email from someone it approached for sponsorship for a barbecue.Related: 10 gay escapes to explore in Canada now that it’s reopened its bordersValbella Gourmet Food specializes in meat products, such as sausages and ham.

GEMMA Collins looked incredible as she continued to flaunt her impressive weight loss while modelling her clothing collection. The GC, 41, has teamed up with high street giant New Look for a fashion collaboration and today she showed off a stylish floral top.

Allison Bailey has won her employment tribunal case against Garden Court Chambers, though she lost her Stonewall lawsuit.

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In the world of podcasts about “X-Men,” flitting from allegories for inequity to “The Real Housewives”isalmost effortless. In the eighth episode of “Cerebro,” a popular podcast that looks at the mutant superhero franchise through a gay lens, Connor Goldsmith, who is the host as well as a literary agent, and his guest, the author Anthony Oliveira, delve deep into the character known as Iceman. The two talk through how the character’s coming out as a gay man in 2015 clarified nearly 60 years of subtext in the series.

what’s being done to combat the MPV (monkeypox virus) outbreak that is raging through the gay community, I also let him know how sorry I was to hear that he was retiring.Knowing his love for baseball, I framed a question to him around Willie Mays. One of the all-time Major League Baseball greats, Mays sort of petered out during the last two years of his 22-year career with the New York Mets.

Transgender rights advocate Iya Dammons, the founder and executive director of Baltimore Safe Haven, an organization that provides emergency housing and other services for the LGBTQ community with a special outreach to the transgender community, says she plans to open a similar group in D.C. later this year to provide services that D.C.’s Casa Ruby provided before its shut down last week.

the Trevor Project, which assists LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, is facing calls for his resignation after revelations about his work as a consultant to a manufacturer of opioid drugs.Before assuming his current position in 2017, Paley was an associate partner at McKinsey & Co., a global consulting firm. One of the McKinsey clients he worked with was Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin (generic name oxycodone), which is highly addictive.“Paley worked on projects with the goal of increasing opioid sales and helping to boost Purdue Pharma’s brand — even after the devastating effects of the opioid crisis, with Purdue as a key player, had become clear,” Teen Vogue reports.

CDC website for further information. It stated that in New York alone, only 23 people had tested positive for monkeypox in June.

Kevin Bacon’s young co-stars in Peacock’s upcoming LGBTQ+ horror film, “They/Them” gives the 64-year-old actor “hope” that the United States of America’s Supreme Court will have a tougher time reversing queer rights.

BERLIN — Dmitry Shapoval is a 24-year-old gay man from Ukraine who lives with HIV.

smacked by Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards while headlining standup shows in New York and New Jersey over the weekend. “Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face,” Rock, 57, declared while performing headline alongside Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle at Madison Square Garden Saturday, ET Online reported.Elsewhere during the event Hart had brought a live goat onstage and introduced it as “Will Smith.”Rock elaborated during his set the following day at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ, during a bit in which he riffed about people being overly sensitive, US Magazine reported.

Proud Callum McGregor admits he's buzzing to unfurl the title flag on Sunday and get his team's title defence off to the best possible start against Aberdeen.

On Wednesday, July 26, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly announced plans to extend the use of the smallpox vaccine to people at high risk of contracting monkeypox in Ireland. The move follows the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommending to the Interim Chief Medical Officer (CMO) that two doses of the jab should be administered 28 days apart to eligible parties, including gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM).Speaking on the news, Minister Donnelly said: “I welcome these recommendations which represent an important step in our ongoing response to the monkeypox outbreak and help protect those at high risk of exposure to monkeypox.“Monkeypox is usually a self-limiting illness, and most people recover within a few weeks, however the rapid spread of infection necessitates further measures beyond those currently in place.

Piers Morgan, 57, has reignited the row surrounding transgender women in sport.The broadcaster shared a controversial tweet regarding the Lionesses’ win during Tuesday's semi-final.In view of his 7.9 million followers, Piers typed: “Football’s coming home… to people who don’t identify as men! #LionessesLive”Twitter account FootballJOE soon replied to the tweet, asking: “Why are you like this?”Piers then went on to explain that his intention was to “mock” the “woke mob”.He wrote: “I’ll tell you why.. because we should be celebrating England’s women footballers for their gender-specific brilliance - but nobody’s even allowed to say what a woman is these days for fear of cancellation by the woke mob, and I want to mock that madness until it stops.”Comedian and podcast host Adam Rowe replied to Piers’ tweet, accusing Piers of making the Lionesses’ victory a “trans issue”.He penned: “That’s just not true though is it.“Loads of people are tweeting their joy and congratulations at England’s women’s team, calling them women and nobody but you is making it a Trans issue.

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Ian Roberts, the first out gay rugby league player, has addressed the Manly pride jersey boycott. Roberts, a former Manly Sea Eagles himself publicly came out in 1995 while playing for Manly.Seven Manly Players To Boycott NRL Match Over Gay Pride JerseyRoberts told Fox Sports that the controversy “breaks my heart.” “And to try to explain what a Pride Round means, particularly for the LGBTQIA+ community, what it means to us individually.”Roberts said that Pride Rounds are about being welcoming, inclusive, and making people feel valid and seen.“It isn’t a thing of exclusivity. It’s just about welcoming and saying to the LGBTQIA+ community, you’re part of the greater community and you’re welcome here.”Stressing why a Pride Round is so vital and the potential consequences of this player backlash, Roberts said, “I’ve lost friends to suicide and I’ve seen the consequences of what homophobia, transphobia, and all the phobias can do to people.”He continued, “There are kids out in the suburbs, out in the regions, who may not have heard many stories lately.

GEMMA Collins has been spotted looking unrecognisable in epic unseen snaps from her younger years. The former The Only Way Is Essex star could be seen sporting darker locks and a youthful visage as she posed for the snaps at home.

20-year-old Nico Cazorla has recently been documenting his transition on TikTok, and one of the latest updates is too heartwarming for words.Last week, Cazorla uploaded a video from his visit back home to Spain. In it, his grandfather asks for a new picture to frame and replace the previous one on his family picture mantle.The whole scene is the definition of adorable:The video has since been viewed over 1.2 million times.Related: Chella Man on how art and chosen family helped him take on depressionThis isn’t the first of Cazorla’s videos to garner attention; he told Newsweek that he started posting his transition more because his community was taking notice.“A video of me acting dumb in the hospital with my dad went viral,” he recalls.

Hit me, baby, one more time…with another Britney Spears track. It seems like the superstar is back in the studio working on new music.

Late Monday (July 26), Lambda Legal, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Legal Counsel and private counsel Baker McKenzie filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s House Bill 1557, commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, according to a press release from Lambda Legal.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFox has given a straight-to-series order to the comedy “Animal Control,” Variety has confirmed.As the title suggests, the show is a single-camera workplace comedy about a group of animal control workers. It hails from writers and executive producers Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Dan Sterling. Fisher and Greenberg previously were two of the co-creators of the Fox comedy series “The Moodys,” while Sterling has worked on Fox shows like “King of the Hill” and “The Last Man on Earth.” Fox Entertainment Studios will produce.Greenberg is repped by UTA and Greenberg Glusker LLP.

After winning praise for Almost Australian, actor Miriam Margolyes is back on TV screens with her new docuseries Australia Unmasked on ABC. The first episode sees Margolyes taking part in her first ever Pride parade in Hobart, with renowned Tasmanian LGBTQI activist Rodney Croome. “It was a privilege to have Miriam Margolyes highlight how Tasmania has gone from worst to best on LGBTIQA+ human rights,” Croome tweeted after the episode was broadcast.In her journey of unmasking Australia’s cultural crumbs, Margolyes arrives in Tasmania in the first episode. Not only does she get a chance to communicate with and unpack intricacies in the lives of Aboriginal Australian, but she also stumbles upon Croome in Ulverstone – a town of 15000 people at the mouth of Leven River.

A League of Their Own is returning to the screen in a whole new way…and we’ve got the newly released trailer to prove it! The beloved 1992 film — which starred Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, Tom Hanks and Madonna — has been rebooted and revamped into the highly anticipated Amazon Prime series of the same name.Created by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham, the eight-episode series stars Jacobson herself in addition to Roberta Colindrez, D’Arcy Carden, Kate Berlant, Nick Offerman, and O’Donnell (in a role that has not been disclosed yet).Similar to the film, the series will follow the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which formed in the mid-1940s while men were fighting in World War II. Revolutionary for its time, the league included 650 women who battled sexism and racism for the love of the game.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert‘s former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop is very concerned about the children… and election integrity… and the questionable intersection of the two.Bishop appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, the noted election denier, and got so emotional about the topic that she broke down in tears.Peters and Bishop’s homes were both previously raided by the FBI as part of an election fraud case, and Peters has repeatedly echoed Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 presidential election and claimed she, too, was illegally robbed in her own bid for Colorado’s GOP secretary of state nomination.Given the company Bishop keeps, it won’t come as a huge shock that she’s also accused schools of “queer-orizing” preschool and kindergarten, mocked trans people, and compared a kid’s drag show to the sexualization of children.Related: Lauren Boebert is probably freaking out after former campaign manager’s home is raided by the FBIIn an emotional (and incoherent) statement, Bishop explained that she formed an organization called America’s Mom because she’s lost her faith in elected officials.“Our children were under attack,” she said without going into any detail.

Donald Trump said his consultants warned him against speaking about transgender athletes during a speech on Tuesday.Trump gave the keynote address at the America First Agenda Summit, where he spoke out against the inclusion of transgender women on women's sports team.The issue has emerged as a rallying cry among many conservatives who argue trans women have an unfair advantage over their competitors. Advocates for the transgender community, however, argue that trans athletes are typically only able to compete after transitioning and that critics are using transphobic attacks against an already vulnerable community.During the speech, Trump discussed the inclusion of transgender athletes as one of many problems facing the United States, arguing it is "disrespectful to women" and "unfair" to allow trans women to play on women's sports teams."By the way, we should not allow men to play in women's sports," he said.The remark was met with loud applause from the audience, made up of Trump's conservative supporters, prompting him to add that it was "not even written down anywhere," yet it "got the biggest" applause."So crazy.

The Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, released a new policy regarding LGBTQ students in its Catholic Schools that equates being transgender to being sexually abused. The Diocese, led by Bishop David Ricken, published the new gender policy last month in its Education Policy Manual for the 2022-2023 school year.The manual explains how to “restrict” participation in the Catholic education of transgender students, staff, volunteers, and ally parents.The manual contains a section titled “Catholic Principles of Human Sexuality,” which promote current Church doctrine on sexuality and gender, including the idea that there are only two sexes, that every person’s body, as created by God, cannot be altered through social transition or medical interventions, and that heterosexual marriage is the ideal relationship for raising children and continuing the propagation of the faith.The manual also compares homosexuality or “expressing a gender that is discordant with one’s biological sex” with other sinful behaviors that are viewed as reprehensible or crude among polite society, including: the use of vulgar language, “immodest dress or deportment,” masturbation, pornography, fornication, adultery, cohabitating outside of marriage, obtaining an abortion, and sexual harassment or abuse. Section 5045 of the “Education Policy Manual” mandates that trans and non-binary people be addressed as their gender at birth, rather than based on how they identify.Based on this understanding, schools are expected to refuse to allow trans-identifying children to use their preferred names or pronouns, access gender-specific facilities that do not match their assigned sex at birth, or take puberty blockers to prevent the onset of secondary sex

Heartstopper and author of the Heartstopper comics, Alice Oseman, announced that the second season — and third season! —of Heartstopper had been confirmed.Speaking to RadioTimes in April 2022, Oseman said, "It would probably be four seasons to cover the full story. I haven't done any in-detail planning or anything, but it's quite easy to divide up the books into seasons, so four I think would do it."Fingers crossed we get that fourth one!Considering the first season covered Volumes 1 and 2 of the Heartstopper graphic novels, it's safe to assume that Season 2 will focus on plotlines from Heartstopper Volume 3. One of the key plot points in Volume 3 is a school trip to Paris for Grade 10/11 Truham-Higgs students.

If Andrew Garfield needs a lifeguard on his beach vacay, we volunteer!Paps caught up with the world’s most zealous ally earlier this week to find him splashing around with a few friends off the coast of Ischia in Southern Italy.Related: ‘tick…tick…BOOM!’ star Andrew Garfield reveals the one dream he hasn’t achieved yetAndrew announced an indefinite acting break a couple months back and seems to be enjoying himself — that said, he was just cast as Richard Branson for a Universal project, so this time off might be coming to a close.Thankfully, we’re getting to enjoy his break while it lasts!Check out the flood of new pics currently splashed across Twitter:NEW: Andrew Garfield enjoying the summer holiday in Ischia, Italy.

YouTube star NikkieTutorials has made history as the first trans woman to cover The Knot magazine.

Bob the Drag Queen has called out “racist” Drag Race fans who criticised Monét X Change for her All Stars 7 Variety Show number.

United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court struck down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which deprived lesbian and gay couples of the intangible dignity and tangible benefits of marriage under federal law. During argument of the case at our nation’s highest court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously remarked that there are “two kinds of marriage, full marriage,” and “skim-milk marriage.” And Edie deserved a full marriage.

An Australian rugby coach has apologized to the homophobic players on his roster after a team Pride promo didn’t go as planned.Coach Des Hasler arranged for his Manly Warringah Sea Eagles to don uniforms featuring rainbow accents for a game on Thursday. Fun, right? Except that seven players have said will not be wearing the gear, or playing in the game, citing religious and cultural objections.They’re especially upset that the team wasn’t consulted ahead of time, but whatever point they may have on that issue is difficult to empathize with.Hasler apologized to players Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Tolu Koula, and Toafofoa Sipley for the “poor execution” of the Pride jerseys, calling it a “significant mistake.”Related: You must see this highly unusual Pride display at an Oregon soccer gameOur thoughts and prayers go out to these seven players who’ve no doubt suffered quite the ordeal.

preliminary injunction on Tuesday to allow a trans girl in Indiana to rejoin her all-girls softball team while the case continues.The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s judge Jane Magnus-Stinson made the order to allow 10-year-old A.M. to play on her team after her school told her parents she could no longer be on the team following the passage of the state's anti-trans sports ban, House Enrolled Act 1041.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued the school district in April on behalf of the girl, challenging the state's ban on trans girls participating in school sports that match their gender identity.“When misinformation about biology and gender is used to bar transgender girls from school sports it amounts to the same form of sex discrimination that has long been prohibited under Title IX, a law that protects all students – including trans people – on the basis of sex,” Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana, said in a statement.

Randy Pearlman and the cast of WaterTower Theatre’s ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.’ (Courtesy photo by Taystan Photography)

Musician John Mayer, who owns a residence in Montana, put together the Rise for the River concert event and said proceeds will benefit a new fund called the Southwest Montana Flood Relief Fund that serves Park and Madison counties. Proceeds will go toward emergency shelter, drinking water, food and clothing for those impacted by the flooding.

2 min read Amidst the storm that has erupted from the refusal by seven National Rugby League (NRL) players to refuse to play a game of football while wearing a rainbow jersey, Australia’s leading LGBTQ+ sport organisation has reminded everyone that Pride rounds and jerseys still make a difference.

Good Morning America. This also marks the completion of her partner’s, Amber Laign, chemotherapy for breast cancer.She made the announcement on Instagram on Sunday.

Bob the Drag Queen has called out “racist” Drag Race fans who criticised Monét X Change for her All Stars 7 Variety Show number.

gender identity clinic (GIC) appointment, she had been waiting for more than two years. Having experienced gender dysphoria as a child, and suffering from severe depression due to a lack of testosterone, Emma was 17 when she first began to feel detached from her body, and was diagnosed with depersonalisation disorder.‘I was worried about going through male puberty,’ recalls the 25-year-old data analyst. ‘I would cry every night imagining I would wake up with facial hair, and I remember praying every night that I would wake up as a girl.‘It felt like I wasn’t alive, as if I was living in a dream.

Hamilton is gearing up for its first of three summer fun day events taking place this weekend. On Saturday, July 30, locals are invited to join in the Mela Celebration in the town centre which will feature Lanarkshire 's first ever Pride stage.