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Bouquets of flowers sit on a corner Monday, Nov. 21, near the site of the Nov. 19 mass shooting at a Club Q in Colorado Springs. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Drag Race star Courtney Act has slammed Liberal senator Alex Antic for accusing her of grooming children.

Speaking up. Meghan Markle discussed female sexuality on the latest episode of her “Archetypes” podcast — and she did not hold back when commenting on the “stigma” many women face when it comes to sexual exploration.

Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Georgia, is being blasted for delivering an anti-transgender speech and running an anti-trans ad the day after the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The five people killed at Club Q included a trans man and a trans woman.Walker, who is up against incumbent Democratic Sen.

More gay men in NYC are coming forward to share stories disturbingly similar to those of two gay men who were drugged, killed, and had their bank accounts emptied after a night out drinking earlier this year.John Umberger, 33, of Washington D.C., was drugged, robbed, and killed after a night visiting gay bars in Hell’s Kitchen on May 28. He was last seen with a group of men exiting a taxi and his body was found on June 1.

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(CNN) – With a crippling freight rail strike looming in two weeks, leaders of four railroad unions and management of the major US freight railroads are due back at the negotiating table this afternoon.It will be the first joint negotiating session for the four unions, whose rank-and-file members rejected the five-year labor agreements similar to deals accepted by the eight other rail unions in recent months.The latest no vote came from the largest union, the transportation division of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail Transportation union, or SMART-TD, which represents 28,000 conductors, brakemen, and other workers. About 51 percent of those members voted against the deal reached in a 20-hour bargaining session in September, just hours before a previous strike deadline.“A strike could be averted.

Attacks on gay bars across America continue, with a New York City venue being attacked for the fourth time in a month.

(CNN) -- Some people attending 2022 World Cup matches have said they have experienced difficulties in Qatar when trying to enter stadiums wearing clothing in support of LGBTQ rights.At the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Monday, ahead of the United States Men's National Team's (USMNT) match with Wales, US football journalist Grant Wahl and former Wales captain Laura McAllister both said they had been told to remove rainbow-colored items of clothing by security staff.Wahl said he was detained and briefly refused entry to the match because of the "rainbow soccer ball t-shirt" he was wearing, posting on Twitter that security staff had told him: "You have to change your shirt. It's not allowed."The journalist wrote on his website that when he tweeted about the incident on his phone, "one guard forcibly ripped my phone from my hands.""One security guard told me that my shirt was 'political' and not allowed," Wahl wrote.

Most of us are devastated by the horrible tragedy perpetrated on our community at Club Q in Colorado Springs this weekend, with five people shot to death and nearly 20 wounded.While not all of us can go to Colorado Springs and hug every LGBTQ+ person we run into, we can help in other ways. We can take care of each other and reach out to LGBTQ+ people who are feeling isolated right now.

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Jinkx Monsoon hopes you’re going to be good to mama, as she announced she’s joining the cast of Chicago on Broadway.

(CNN) — Michael Anderson was mixing drinks at Club Q Saturday night when he heard popping sounds amid the loud, thumping music.He wasn't worried at first. The pops sounded like some sound effects popular at LGBTQ clubs, the bartender told CNN's Don Lemon. Then he looked up and a figure came into his line of sight, clutching a weapon."I saw the outline of a man wearing a rifle at the entrance of the club," he said.Anderson froze.Confused and suddenly terrified, he ducked behind the bar.

Jill Scott talked about the different experiences that LGBTQ+ men and women footballers have with coming out.

It was not the first time that Daníel Arnarsson, a well-known Icelandic LGBTQ+ rights campaigner, had faced homophobic insults on the streets of the capital, Reykjavik.

NBC News’ senior reporter Ben Collins is calling for media outlets to have a “come to Jesus moment” – a dose of reality in order to make a major change – in the wake of the Colorado Springs hate crime mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, that left five people dead. A clip of his segment is going viral, with many agreeing the media needs to do a better job.

A CNN guest on Tuesday slammed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker for releasing an ad targeting teen transgender athletes hours after a gunman murdered five people at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs.

LONDON: The implosion of cryptocurrency exchange FTX shows the need to bring the crypto world within the regulatory framework, Bank of England (BoE) Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said on Monday (Nov 21).

Sam Smith has shared more details about the creative process of making their hit single, Unholy, with Kim Petras.

Colorado officials have publicly identified the five people tragically killed in a mass shooting at Club Q this weekend.

Richard Fierro

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett should recuse herself from an LGBTQ+ rights case the court is scheduled to hear in December, say former members of People of Praise, a religious group to which Barrett belongs.Barrett’s “lifelong and continued” membership in the group means she has anti-LGBTQ+ bias she can’t put aside when hearing the case of a Colorado website designer who wants to refuse services to same-sex couples, even though state law bans such discrimination, the former People of Praise members told The Guardian.People of Praise is an interdenominational conservative Christian group that believes, among other things, that wives should be subservient to their husbands, and it is also anti-LGBTQ+. The group operates Trinity Schools, which has Christian schools in Indiana, Minnesota, and Virginia, where it is clear that LGBTQ+ employees and children of LGBTQ+ parents are not welcome.

Amy Schneider is now not only the first out transgender person to compete in Jeopardy!’s Tournament of Champions, she is the first to win it.Schneider claimed the title in the episode that aired Monday. Under a new system this year, the winner of the tournament was the first finalist to win three games.

A Colorado man suspected of committing the horrific Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting has been arrested and faces numerous charges. 

Colorado Springs police have now released the names of all five people killed at Club Q over the weekend and lauded two people they consider heroes.They held a press conference Monday afternoon to provide updates on Saturday's mass shooting at the LGBTQ+ club. The accused shooter is Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22.Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez identified the five victims who died and their pronouns.

Five people were killed and 25 injured on Saturday, as a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado. Richard Fierro was there with his wife and daughter when the shots rang out. He’s the one who took the gunman down.“I don’t know exactly what I did, I just went into combat mode,” Mr.

The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs has shaken the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado and across the country. As the full scope of the massacre becomes clear, so do the stories of survival and bravery. Stories of terror that will never leave those affected.

At last night’s American Music Awards, Taylor Swift walked away as the evening’s top winner, as she collected half a dozen more prizes, bringing her career total up to an unprecedented 40.While the “Anti-Hero” songwriter may have emerged as the most-recognized star, newcomer Dove Cameron stole the show with one of the most meaningful speeches of not just this year’s ceremony, but of any AMAs in recent memory.As Cameron stepped up to the mic to accept the New Artist of the Year AMA, she took the trophy from recently-named Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph and wasted no time saying something heartfelt and timely. “I want to start by saying that every award that I ever win will always first and foremost be dedicated to the queer community at large,” started the singer and actor. “You guys have carved out such a space for me to be myself and to write music about it and I’ve never felt safer or more loved or more supported and I hope I can give you some semblance of that same feeling in my music.”After a round of cheers from the audience, Cameron continued to speak, never venturing away from the topic at hand.

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Four of the five people killed in the Nov. 19 mas shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs were, far left, bartender Derrick Rump, bartender/supervisor Daniel Alston, center, patron Kelly Loving, top right, and patron Ashley Paugh, bottom right.

BBC presenter Alex Scott supported the LGBTQ+ community at the Qatar World Cup by wearing a OneLove armband. 

Sunday afternoon U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) posted a tweet about the mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in his district and didn’t mention anything about the victims or that it was a crime of hate. He’s received so many angry responses he turned off responses.

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With threats of receiving penalizing yellow cards from the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the captains of seven European soccer teams will not wear pro-LGBTQ+ armbands during the World Cup, according to the Associated Press.England’s Harry Kane, the Netherlands’ Virgil van Dijk and Wales’ Gareth Bale were due to wear the One Love armbands in Monday’s games. The captains of Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark were also expected to wear the armbands in the coming days.The decision comes after the European Football Association (FA) released a statement that advised players "not to attempt to wear the armbands in Fifa World Cup games." That came after FIFA officials, who had assured the FA of safety for LGBTQ+ supporters, refused to back down over their zero tolerance of the OneLove campaign.If Kane or any other of the captains choose to go against the FA's advice, they could be penalized for wearing a OneLove armband against Iran in England's 2022 World Cup opener in Qatar.

Disney fired CEO Bob Chapek after less than two years on the job and brought back former CEO Bob Iger.That comes after missteps on public issues, most notably a failure to oppose Florida’s “don’t say gay” law early. That prompted Chapek in March to publicly apologize to its employees and cease all political donations.Variety reported late Sunday that the world’s largest media company had abruptly decided to reinstall Iger and dump Chapek.

Dove Cameron delivered an emotional tribute to the victims of the horrific Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting.

Video footage from a home security camera, provided to CNN by a relative of the shooter’s mother, shows Anderson Lee Aldrich surrendering to police after his mother reported he had threatened her by saying he had a bomb in June 2021. Charges in that case were apparently dropped, and the records sealed, CNN reports.

Drag Race UK star Vanity Milan has announced that she will release her next single, a “bad bitch anthem” titled Pissed, in just a few days.

Colorado prosecutors have filed hate crime and murder charges against the suspect in Saturday night’s anti-LGBTQ mass shooting. Five people, including employees of the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q were killed, another 25 were injured. The suspect is believed to have used an AR-15 style rifle.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is being highly criticized for her role in spreading anti-LGBTQ hate and lies after this weekend’s horrific anti-LGBTQ mass shooting in her home state of Colorado, which left dead five patrons of a nightclub that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, and another 25 injured.

The 22-year-old suspect in the deadly shooting at the gay nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., was arrested shortly after the shooting on suspicion of hate crime and murder charges.Police detained the alleged gunman, Anderson Lee Aldrich, on suspicion of five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of bias-motivated crimes causing bodily injury — the state's hate crimes charge. The charges are only “arrest charges,” which means they have not been officially brought by prosecutors, according to The Denver Post.The reported charges can still change.At a press conference on Sunday, authorities said that hate crimes charges would not add anything additional to "top-level charges" such as first-degree murder.

The owner of a gay bar in NYC says his establishment has been attacked multiple times in recent days, but police appeared disinterested in investigating.David DeParolesa, the owner of VERS gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen, told the Gothamist an unidentified man has thrown bricks at the windows of his bar three times in the last week, and four times overall. The most recent was the first time the brick thrower was caught on video.When DeParolesa reported the incident to police, though, he said they appeared dismissive and even tried to dissuade him from contacting the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.“They weren't seemingly interested in investigating it at the moment,” DeParolesa told the Gothamist.

(CNN) -- While Bono was touring the U.S. following the release of U2's fifth studio album, he stopped by the Nashville home of country music icon Johnny Cash, who along with his wife June had invited him for lunch.Cash was a popular performer in Bono's native Ireland, and the two singers had already formed a friendship, bonding over music and their shared faith.

"Honestly, I can’t believe after everything that went down just a few months ago, that she would not only create a movie with the intention of excluding LGBTQIA+, but then also talk about it in the press," she also wrote.

Democrat representative Alecandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) eviscerated anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman Lauren Boebert for her response to the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado.

GEMMA Collins has been spotted looking slimmer than ever in a chic behind-the-scenes clip from a glamorous photoshoot. The former The Only Way Is Essex took to her Instagram page to show off her curves in a bright pink two-piece outfit. Gemma, 42, who has lost a huge three stone this year, looked sensational in the outfit as she struck a number of poses.

(CNN) -- Once again, a mass shooting has rocked Colorado -- this time, in Colorado Springs.A 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in the city shortly before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before patrons confronted and stopped him, police said.At least two people inside Club Q confronted the gunman and prevented further violence, said Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. The suspect used a long rifle in the shooting, and two firearms were found at the scene, Vasquez said.The suspect is being treated at a hospital, police said.