Trans, Nonbinary People Say They Feel Excluded From Abortion Fight

anyone can get in nowadays if they have the cash.“ But I then realized that when I had been thrown out of a VIP area during the pre-show part of the evening, it was because that section was reserved for the unwashed masses who’d paid, as opposed to dazzling journalists like myself! You’re right, Nigel. F*ck you, Fashion Week!It was all pretty fun anyway, and I got to catch up with Countess LuAnn (She spent lockdown promoting a sparkling, non-alcoholic wine and hanging in the Hamptons) and party-throwing queen Susanne Bartsch, who said Janet Jackson recently came to her On Top party and was really nice.

Over 35 Maryland LGBT Chamber of Commerce member businesses and organizations participated in the 2022 LGBT Business Expo in Columbia, Md. on Thursday, Sept. 15.

READ NEXT: Joan Collins breaks down and says she 'couldn't stop crying' following Queen's deathSpeaking to Saga Magazine, the glamorous star said: "I remember going through puberty at 14 and hating the way my body was changing."I hated everything that was happening," she continued candidly.The beautiful actress then revealed: "So I rebelled and wore boys' clothes. I wore corduroys and scraped my hair back.

Recent activity at former gay bar ARQ Sydney could indicate it’s reopening this October or November after its shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Originally, the club was shut down due to crowd limits brought on by the coronavirus. At the beginning of the pandemic, ARQ had intentions of reopening as soon as it was able to.

Cubans on Sunday will vote in a landmark referendum on whether to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, allow surrogate pregnancies and give greater rights to non-biological parents.

When he was an undergrad at Harvard, author and historian Eric Cervini’s first encounter with queer history surprisingly did not come from a book.

ABOVE: She gave one of the all-time great movie performances.

The first teaser trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s new LGBTQ+ horror movie Knock at the Cabin has arrived. 

After a performance from a repertoire of the best known hits from his songbook in a special musical concert at the White House Friday evening, Elton John was called to the podium where, accompanied by the first lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden surprised the iconic British singer-songwriter with an award.

The Color Purple star Cynthia Erivo has opened up about her coming out journey in a new interview.

Peacock’s critically acclaimed Queer as Folk reboot has been cancelled by the streaming service after just one season.

Few things are more upsetting than the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling.

Yup’ik Eskimo, also makes history as the first Alaska Native in Congress. She is also the first woman to hold the House seat.Palin, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has yet to concede defeat.

Former GCN cover girl, Dublin Pride grand marshal and all-around Irish legend Rebecca de Havilland is set to make history as Ireland’s first Trans TV show presenter. The Trans trailblazer will grace our screens with her new reality TV show, Second Chance Bootcamp, as part of Virgin Media’s autumn lineup. Inspired by hardships in Rebecca’s […]

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Release date: Aug. 23What it's about: This swoony, steamy, and touching romance follows Will Cowen, who could not be more elated for his fresh start at a renowned NYC publishing house, especially since it means he gets to work with his best friend Klair. There's one teensy problem: Graham Austin.

Employees of Texas’s child welfare agency were told to avoid written communications and take other steps to maintain secrecy about investigations of parents who allow their transgender children to receive gender-affirming care.The investigations began after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered them in February, based on a nonbinding legal opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton that allowing kids access to such care is child abuse.

A lot is riding on Billy Eichner.

As Manchester Pride celebrations came to an end on Sunday 28 August, the national Trans memorial for the UK was set ablaze. The beautiful memorial based in Manchester city’s Sackville Gardens took the form of large detailed butterflies carved into a tall sycamore tree, decorated by plaques dedicated to victims of transphobia and transphobic hate […]

Hold on to your wigs because Tove Lo is catapulting us back to the start of the millennium with her new music video.

World of Wonder, the Emmy Award-winning company behind RuPaul’s Drag Race, has announced its fall programming slate for its subscription service WOW Presents Plus.

Universities across the country are preparing for students to return to dorms and classrooms, and this year , as schools are faced with protecting student populations from spreading monkeypox, a number of institutions are taking various approaches.A student health clinic at the University of Tennessee Southern in Pulaski is educating and encouraging those who are vaccinated to seek medical attention.There is now a monkeypox resource page on the student health center’s website at the University of Memphis.According to Oak Ridger, Austin Peay State University is monitoring cases in the region and is ready to conduct emergency operations. In addition, in the health centers at Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, MPV tests are available if necessary.The University of Maryland, George Washington University, American University, and University of District of Columbia have all reported a few cases leading up to the start of a new school year, reports ABC affiliate WUSA.WUSA 9 cited information from GW, AU, Howard University, and the University of Maryland on their recommendations for students to prevent the spread.It is recommended that students who catch the virus wear masks when leaving their rooms, cover any lesions with clothing, and contact the university health center for further information.There are varying policies among some D.C.

Drag Race fans, World Of Wonder’s WOW Presents Plus is the one-stop destination. They simply have it all—and they’re about to have even more this fall. As a wise person once said: “Gagatrondra!”Queerty is thrilled to share an exclusive sneak peek at the months ahead on WOW, a wig-snatching lineup that will have you laughing, learning, and shablam-ing all season long.

Maren Morris and Jason Aldean's wife, Brittany Aldean, are at odds after a comment from the latter incited a war of words between them on social media. From the initial remark to a firestorm of backlash on all sides, celebrities and commenters have weighed in on the debate in recent days. Now, Brittany is using the buzz to launch a new business endeavor while Maren is focused on her touring.

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It began as an odd-looking pimple, or perhaps as a weird rash, or maybe as a sudden wave of fatigue in the middle of a hot summer day. The doctor was stumped, or said it was not a big deal, or — just maybe — identified it right away: monkeypox. New York City has been the epicenter of an outbreak of an old disease that has created new havoc.

20-year-old creative @bigsnoww_ went viral on TikTok this week with the feel-good video that we all need right now.The stylist/personality/graphic designer has had her share of views in the past, but this recent video has racked up an incredible 1.3 million and counting.In the clip, she comes out to her 9-year-old brother as trans and explains how she feels in terms she knows he can understand.What starts as confusion ends with nothing but love:She starts with asking if he knows what “transgender” means, before asking how he would feel if she were trans.“What?! I would be confused as heck!” he replies. “You’re a boy who wanted to transgender into a girl? That would make me confused.”She patiently poses, “What if I don’t feel right in this gender? What if I’m sad in this gender and would be happy another gender?”“That would be good for you,” he says, already starting to get it.Related: Hiker Veronica Ashcroft is taking the trans community to new heights — literallyAfter about a minute more back and forth of him coming around, she asks, “Would you still love me the same?” In a response quicker than any in the video so far, he immediately says yes.“Would you still be confused?” she asks.“No,” he says, “because you already told me what you feel like.”And that’s that.

Yanhui Peng, co-founder of LGBT Rights Advocacy China, a Chinese advocacy group, in 2014 sought to expose doctors and therapists who practice so-called conversion therapy.

Billionaire-backed Blake Masters, the Arizona Republican party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate is undergoing a massive transformation little more than two months before Election Day and nearly two months after early voting in the Grand Canyon State has already begun.

Actor-writer Billy Eichner used Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards to make a political statement, calling out homophobes who want to take away marriage equality and other rights.Eichner, introducing Panic! at the Disco, mentioned Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s expressed wish to overturn the 2015 ruling that established marriage equality nationwide. Thomas made the statement in his concurring opinion in the June ruling that reversed Roe v.

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Michael K. Williams, who played gay drug dealer Omar Little on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, fought for a full portrayal of Omar’s sexuality and relationships in the series, a new memoir reveals.Williams died last September at age 54, and his memoir, Scenes From My Life, was published last week. Jon Sternfeld coauthored the book.

“We always say rest in peace. Why don’t we ever say live in peace?” Rarely has silence said more than during the minute’s remembrance at Manchester Pride’s annual vigil.

A trans memorial tree in Manchester's Sackville Gardens has been left 'irreparably damaged' after going up in flames during pride celebrations. The National Trans Memorial, which is the first of its kind in the UK, caught fire on Sunday night (August 29) as revellers enjoyed the third night of pride.

Caitlyn Jenner’s super hypocritical comments about trans women in sports on Fox News last week left golfer Hailey Davidson in an odd place.Jenner came out in support of Davidson golfing competitively against other women, saying that she is “playing by the rules”, as opposed to all the other trans athletes that Jenner has been critical of in the past.This is initially surprising in the face of her previous anti-trans athletics comments. It becomes less surprising, however, with the fact that golf just happens to be Jenner’s sport of choice these days.In her first interview since the segment aired, Davidson carefully threads the needle of responding to a trans figure supporting her through the use of transphobic rhetoric.Related: Caitlyn Jenner was a transphobic trainwreck on Fox News last nightShe starts by telling TMZ that she appreciates the support (a point she reiterates throughout that works well to soften her objections).“The support has been awesome,” she says, though adding that it was “definitely surprising.”She asserts that she and Jenner “sure disagree on some things,” presumably in regard to other trans people in athletics.“I would love to talk to her a little bit more about how we are all athletes, and her experience may not be everyone’s experience.She says that Jenner likely has a much different view as a former decathlete, stating, “With what she was training to do, yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s pretty big and strong.”“While sports are different, it needs to be treated on more of a human basis.

Billy Eichner‘s big breakthrough came from the frantic and funny Billy On The Street, a series in which he was known for shouting furiously at anyone and everyone who crossed his path.Well, he channeled some of that Billy On The Street energy last night on stage at MTV’s Video Music Awards when we was brought out to introduce a musical performance form Panic! At The Disco.Never has that exclamation mark felt so appropriate.Related: Billy Eichner reveals his first encounter with homophobia came from his own managerLooking fantastic in a sheer black top (running around New York yelling at strangers is great cardio), Eichner kicked things off by hyping up his highly anticipated movie, Bros. Despite having a mic in hand, the star began to yell at full volume about his history-making flick.He reminded everyone that it’s the “first gay rom-com ever made by a major studio” and “the first where every role is played by an openly LGBTQ actor.” And the crowd went wild.And things only got louder from there as Eichner began to spin his movie plug into a tirade against the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v.

On Saturday, August 27, approximately 100 people gathered on Talbot Street to protest against recent anti-Trans media coverage in the Irish Independent. Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin called for the demonstration after claiming that numerous harmful pieces have been published weekly as of late, several of which are behind a paywall therefore allowing the news […]

Pride means different things to different people. To some it’s a celebration, a safe place where they can be themselves. For others, it’s a protest, and a chance to have their voices heard louder than ever.

Peruvian trans activist Rodrigo Ventocilla has died in police custody in Bali after being arrested at Denpasar airport. Ventocilla was a Harvard Kennedy School student from Peru and was known as a prominent trans rights activist.The trans activist was detained on August 6 after local police found ‘suspicious items’ in his luggage while going through customs, as reported by the BBC.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country superstar Jason Aldean and his wife Brittany Aldean have become increasingly outspoken as conservative activists, without too much commentary or pushback from more centrist or liberal-leaning country stars. But when Brittany Aldean posted what many viewed as a transphobic joke to her Instagram account, Cassadee Pope and then Maren Morris jumped in defend the LGBTQ+ community — which then led to a war of words with another conservative Nashville celebrity, Candace Owens. The exchanges got contentious enough that Morris said, presumably addressing Brittany Aldean: “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.” Responded Brittany: “Karen Morris, thanks for calling me Barbie,” sealed with a kiss emoji.

In a new piece written on his Medium account, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg details how he became a father. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, first announced they were first set to become fathers in August 2021.

It looks like fall season is upon us, judging by all the pumpkin spice everywhere. I was just walking through HomeGoods and went down the ‘fall aisles,’ which made me think, similar to how we ready our homes for the spring/summer season, we must prepare our homes for the fall/winter months as well. Here are a few tips to prepare your home for the fall season and into winter.

Did you read about the group of staid U.S. historians who just met privately with President Biden to warn him that U.S. democracy is teetering? They told him we’re closer to civil war and authoritarian rule than at any point in history since the 1860s.

written to discuss LGBTQ+ identities, which I slowly began to realise applied to me. I then made the decision to come out to my friends at 13. They mostly reacted well, and I began to live more as myself. When I became more confident, I came out to my parents at 14.

Transgender woman Maddie Hofmann, 47, was shot to death by police in Malvern, Pa., in May, news that has only recently been widely reported.Police were called to Hofmann’s home to do a wellness check May 19 after receiving a report that a woman there was having a mental health crisis, according to Philadelphia TV station WTXF. Hofmann approached them outside the house, holding a handgun and a cell phone.

A Fairfax County Police officer on July 7 shot and killed a transgender man who family members say was having a mental health crisis inside the family home where he lived after the man, identified as Jasper Aaron Lynch, 26, lunged at three officers while wielding a wine bottle as a weapon and refused the officers commands to drop the bottle, according to a statement released by Fairfax Police.

Ethan Shanfeld Portraying openly gay stickup man Omar on HBO’s widely acclaimed “The Wire,” Michael K. Williams offered a fresh portrait of masculinity that was considered revolutionary at the time. But according to the late actor’s memoir, “Scenes of My Life,” Williams pushed “The Wire” to go further in terms of portraying Omar’s intimacy with his boyfriend Brandon Wright (Michael Kevin Darnall). “In regards to Omar and his lover Brandon, it seemed like everyone was dancing around their intimacy issue,” Williams wrote (via Vulture). “There was lots of touching hair and rubbing lips and things like that. I felt like if we were going to do this, we should go all in. I think the directors were scared, and I said to one of them, ‘You know gay people fuck, right?'”