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President Biden said Hunter Biden is "on the straight and narrow" and that he is "proud of" him despite recent criminal allegations against his son, including tax fraud and lying to purchase a gun. During an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday, the president defended his son as the 52-year-old potentially faces tax and false statements charges from David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware.

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Award-winning movie and stage actor and gay icon, Angela Lansbury, has passed away at the age of 96, five days before her 97th birthday. She is best known for playing crime-solving mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the crime mystery series Murder, She Wrote, for which she received 11 Emmy nominations.Lansbury also starred in numerous films such as The Portrait of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate, winning Golden Globes for both. In 1971 she starred in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks endearing herself to a generation of children. Lansbury’s breakout role came at the age of 19 when she acted in the psychological thriller, Gaslight, for which she received her first Oscar nomination.She made her Broadway debut in 1957 and over the course of her stage career was awarded five Tony Awards for roles in such plays as Mame and Blithe Spirit.  In 1945, Lansbury married actor Richard Cromwell. The marriage only lasted a year on the account of Cromwell being gay.In a 2017 interview with Radio Times, Lansbury recalled, “I had no idea that I was marrying a gay man,”“I found him such an attractive individual, a very glamorous person – he knew everybody, he was a friend of Joan Crawford’s, these people who I was fascinated by as a young actress.

There is a secular revolution unfolding in the Islamic Republic that the mainstream media has thus far failed to adequately cover. This revolution is led by young women and teenage girls and supported by men and women from all over Iran. We are now entering the fourth week of demonstrations that have resulted in imprisonment, torture and death of countless Iranians.

didn’t have to deal with bullying growing up? For that matter, what member of the community today doesn’t have to deal with bullying from a certain whackado in the White House?In honor of Coming Out Day–and for some cathartic pushback against the world’s bullies–have a look at these fun movies about school bullies who get a hearty dose of comeuppance. They run the gamut of the genre spectrum from sweet to scary, and in any case, have some popcorn on hand.

Billionaire electric car magnate Elon Musk is blaming “communism” in elite colleges and universities for his estrangement from his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson.“It’s full-on communism ... and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” Musk told the Financial Times in an interview published Friday. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children].

As the club begins to fill, so does the abundance of energy and joy. Under the lilac fluorescent lights, regulars reconnect and strangers are embraced.

Madonna broke the internet once more when she shared a video where she apparently comes out as gay. The singer, who’s long been a staunch ally of the LGBTQ community, shared the video on Sunday.Lourdes Leon showcases her voice and colorful energy with new song, “Love Me Still”Madonna stops music video shoot after someone calls the cops on herThe clip shows Madonna wearing a white outfit and her hair pink, holding a pink pair of underwear. There’s a caption on the video that reads, “If I miss, I’m Gay!” with Madonna porceeding to throw the underwear on a trash bin, missing by a significant margin.

Welcome to Screen Gems, our dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Angela Lansbury once held the title of gay icon and sex symbol courtesy of her Broadway resume, which saw her show off her powerhouse voice, athletic figure and her dramatic skills. It’s a shame she rarely got any of those roles in movies, though one in particular, filmed at her peak does hint at her stage talents. 1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks casts Landsbury as a would-be witch in a musical about magic, friendship and Nazis.Really.This proto-Harry Potter finds Landsbury’s Ms.

Because it’s unlikely that his name will be publicly remembered for long, it’s worth pausing to consider the grisly murder of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh in the West Bank city of Hebron. Every murder is an outrage and a tragedy, and many murders involve a larger story. In this case, it’s one that too few people are willing to tell.

(CNN) – The high prices, the canceled flights, the booked-up lodging, and rental cars. The summer of travel chaos still seems hot and fresh somehow.But it’s time to look forward, for there’s another crunch time looming less than two months away: the 2022 winter holiday travel season.So put away your T-shirts, break out your sweaters and get ready for the winter holidays.

Canadian princess of pop and famed wielder of swords Carly Rae Jepsen is just over a week away from her new The Loneliest Time album release. Thankfully, the generous star decided to feed the fans well one more time before the drop.In her new music video for titular track, Carly dances through an old film spectacle on the rooftops with duet partner Rufus Wainwright.The two then take their lonely hearts up to the prance among the stars, with a cute little A Trip to the Moon reference for good measure.Serving up a galactic Fred and Ginger on the moon to a bouncy disco beat — complete with the occasional laser trill — this duo gives exactly as much gay energy as the pairing warrants.

Heading into their NL Division Series against the Phillies, the Braves were confident and hoped to play with the swagger of a playoff-hardened team that became champions in 2021.  But the Phillies had other plans in Game 1.  The Phillies played small ball to defeat the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves 7-6 at Truist Park in Atlanta.  Braves' ace Max Fried was not sharp and gave up two runs in the first inning off singles by Nick Castellanos and Alec Bohm. Alec Bohm, left, and Rhys Hoskins (17) of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrate after defeating the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of the National League Division Series at Truist Park Oct. 11, 2022, in Atlanta.

Tom Felton shared his support for author J.K. Rowling as the "Harry Potter" writer continues to receive criticism over her beliefs on biological sex and gender. The actor opened up about his admiration for Rowling in a new interview with The Times of London.

After bullying and transphobic news reports, a trans teen and her family in Vermont are facing tumult an onslaught of hateful messages, threats, and harassment.The 14-year-old teen, who attends Randolph Union High School, plays high school volleyball. The teen’s mom told VTDigger her daughter had been playing for weeks without incident, but on Sept.

Everything Everywhere All At Once, in which Michelle Yeoh plays a Chinese American laundromat owner in southern California who finds herself sucked into alternate universes and, in the process, gets a hair-raising chance to save the world.The film is an intricate roller coaster ride, as well as a flat-out enjoyable popcorn movie, and as a result of it being such a crowd-pleaser, it’s amassed over $70 million at the domestic box office so far. One of the best elements of the film is that Stephanie Hsu (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Path) plays Joy Wang, Yeoh’s daughter, who just happens to be a lesbian with a girlfriend (and an alter ego, too).

@itsabigailadams has posted several TikToks criticizing Hall. In a recent one, she implored former Celebrity Big Brother housemates not to hang out with Hall as he’s “not a nice person.”Hall took a portion of her video and shared it to his Tik Tok and Instagram, adding his own comments.  A post shared by TODRICK (@todrick)“I really wish that people who have never met me would stop talking sh*t about me on the Internet,” Hall began.“Like, the audacity that you would feel comfortable enough to post a video about a perfect stranger publicly to anybody who can see it to declare that this person you have never met or breathed the same air as is not a nice person, which is a pretty ballsy statement I might add, to increase your likes, your popularity and to start a witch hunt against this person who is a human being and has family and friends who see this f*cking bullsh*t that you post would, in some people’s opinions, make you not a nice person Ms.

Attention Broadway enthusiasts! The LGBTQ+ musical A Strange Loop is set to end in 2023.

The building that once housed lesbian and feminist press Firebrand Books in Ithaca, N.Y., has been designated a local historic landmark.The city’s Common Council approved the designation unanimously last Wednesday, acting on a recommendation from the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission, The Ithaca Voice reports.Nancy Bereano founded Firebrand Books in 1984, and it was housed in a building at 143 E. State St.

Y Tu Mamá También that culminates in a kiss dissolving the limits of possibility, the queer longing for connection that permeates A Home at the End of the World, and the barbed revolutionary romp of The Dreamers, all of which somehow slipped past my parents’ radar. Suffice it to say, I had a thing for messy bisexuals.

Once upon a time, TV premieres were the province of fall, and there was something exciting about seeing all the new titles unveiled. In the streaming era, of course, new shows debut all year long – but we think there’s still a special excitement surrounding the ones that come out at this time of year. Call us old-fashioned.

The co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party thought she had made a brilliant comment on Twitter on Sunday, but it was actually just some blatant homophobia aimed at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who reacted to her words yesterday. Buttigieg said that his children will have better values than Meshawn Maddock, the Michigan Republican Party co-chair who called him a "weak little girl" earlier this week on Twitter. "If she wants to talk about little girls, Chasten, and I are raising a little girl and a little boy. And we are raising them to have better values than the chairwoman," Buttigieg told local station WXYZ in an interview during the Detroit auto show, which reporter Ross Jones tweeted out.

My So-Called Life and Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery has opened up about his struggles of being a gay man many times.

In the 1960s, a legend was on the rise in Los Angeles. An exotic dancer, singer, comedian, drag performer, and Black trans woman by the name of Sir Lady Java was a star of the L.A.

Izzy Dieker, who spoke out and instigated reforms after she punished at school for saying she’s a lesbian; the Pendleton Heights Gay-Straight Alliance, which won sued their school – and won – when they were forced to keep a low profile; school board chair Kelsey Waits, who did what she needed to do to protect her trans daughter who was outed and harassed; the PFLAG v. Abbott plaintiffs, who stopped the state from investigating the supportive parents of trans kids as child abusers; and Charlee Corra, a teacher and one of the heirs to the Disney fortune who came out to speak out against the Don’t Say Gay law.These five nominees defended LGBTQ kids’ rights and made the future a better place.

During a radio interview, the Prime Minister of Malta, Robert Abela, confirmed that free gender-affirming surgery is part of their LGBTQ+ rights reform. To date, the government has legalised marriage equality, criminalised conversion therapy, added non-binary as a gender option on official documents and more. On One Radio, Abela discussed the promise of free gender-affirming […]

As the oldest annually contested marathon in the world, the Boston Marathon often sets standards in the world of running. So, when the Boston Athletic Association, the race’s organizer, announced this week that it would invite nonbinary athletes to compete next year without having to register in the men’s or women’s divisions, it sent a signal to runners like Cal Calamia. “The Boston Marathon is the pinnacle of marathons,” said Calamia, 26, who won the nonbinary division of this year’s San Francisco Marathon.

As Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT), continues his push for broader adoption of electric vehicle use, he was again targeted with homophobic attacks online.  

Maybelle Blair, the 95-year-old baseball player who was an inspiration for A League of Their Own who came out this year; Solomon Bates, the second minor league baseball player to come out and was signed by the Sioux City Explorers; Lia Thomas, who came out and stood up to her Republican lawmaker dad; Megan Rapinoe, who educates her followers about wildlife and whose emu stole the show; his followers on TikTok and Instagram about life as a trans dad and promoted protests against anti-trans laws; and Justine Lindsay, who uses her large platform on to show what it’s like to be Black, queer, and Muslim.The nominees for LGBTQ Nation’s Sports Hero of the Year 2022 confirm that what counts, win or lose, is how you play the game. Vote now for LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Sports Hero. Maybelle BlairIn June, Maybelle Blair, who inspired the character played by Madonna in Penny Marshall’s 1992 comedy A League of Their Own, came out as gay.The occasion was the premiere of a new Amazon series based on the film.

Malta’s prime minister confirms that the country will have free gender affirming surgery for trans people, under reformed laws.

Pete Buttigieg.Meshawn Maddock is the co-chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party. She’s also the wife of State Rep.

Y Tu Mamá También that culminates in a kiss dissolving the limits of possibility, the queer longing for connection that permeates A Home at the End of the World, and the barbed revolutionary romp of The Dreamers, all of which somehow slipped past my parents’ radar. Suffice it to say, I had a thing for messy bisexuals.

Jennie Punter Tucked in a corner of the Catskills, Casa Susanna was a modest private resort where cross-dressing heterosexual men and transgender women gathered on summer weekends through the 1950s and ‘60s to live as their true selves, dressed in the ladies’ fashion of the day and engaging in bourgeois social activities such as taking snapshots.   Over the past 15 years, a handful of articles, academic research, and photography exhibitions (and let’s not forget the 2014 Tony-nominated play by Harvey Fierstein) have gradually opened the door to this secret subculture of Cold War America. Now “Casa Susanna,” a new documentary by French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz (“Wild Side,” “Little Girl”), flings it open.

ABOVE: Peter Scolari should be turning 67 today.

On Saturday, a Customs and Border Protection employee used an official Twitter account for the agency's West Texas division to promote homophobic and political content. The organization's commissioner says CPB will deactivate the account, and he has opened an investigation.“U.S.

On Sunday, Meshawn Maddock, the co-chair of Michigan's Republican party took to Twitter to attack United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Maddock's tweet was in response to a recent interview Buttigieg had done about the shift away from gas-powered vehicles."We're so blessed this weak little girl moved to Michigan!" Maddock wrote.

How do you solve a problem like America? For the creators of the musical “1776,” the answer was to wrap it in jaunty tunes, 18th-century double entendres and enough twisty dialogue to make a dramatization of the debate over the Declaration of Independence feel like a thriller. Premiering on Broadway in 1969, the musical ran for 1,217 performances, won the Tony Award for best musical and, over the last 50-plus years, has left more than a few critics scratching their heads over how such a resolutely square show won over Vietnam-era America.

After nearly 30 years of working in Hollywood, Gabrielle Union is used to facing slings and arrows. Still, when she opens up Twitter and sees people attacking her trans daughter, Zaya Wade, it hits differently.

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More than 100 youth activists and their supporters were expected to turn out for a rally from 9:10 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 12, at D.C.’s John Marshall Park near the U.S. Capitol to urge Congress to pass the LGBTQ nondiscrimination legislation known as the Equality Act.

Liz Truss is officially the UK’s new Prime Minister, and has already appointed a brand new cabinet. But who are the new ministers, and what have they said about LGBTQ+ issues?

‘Drag Race’ alum Jasmine Kennedie joins local faves for Night of Stars fundraiser

An international law firm and a coalition of LGBTQ and healthcare advocacy groups filed a complaint Wednesday challenging a Florida rule that excludes transgender-related medical care from Medicaid reimbursements. 

study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found that online discussions linking the virus to the LGBTQ community skyrocketed following the outbreak of the virus in May.False claims have suggested that monkeypox was pre-planned by the world's elite as part of the so-called "plandemic".But other Twitter users have predominantly used the outbreak to spread online hate and disinformation targeting the LGBTQ community.Social media platforms have increasingly been accused of facilitating the spread of homophobic content related to the virus.In a statement to Euronews, a Twitters spokesperson said "while we have made recent strides in giving people greater control to manage their safety, we know there is still work to be done as our product, policy and engineering teams continue to work at scale and pace to build a healthier Twitter."According to the ISD research, anti-LGBTQ narratives have been used to specifically demonise gay men on Twitter, falsely presenting them as the source of the outbreak.Disinformation also suggested that LGBTQ people were a danger to children after the first two US children were infected with monkeypox in July.Conspiracists and far-right voices -- such as US Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene -- claimed without proof that the children must have been infected by sexual interactions with gay men.Monkeypox is not considered a sexually-transmitted disease (STD) because it is not spread through bodily fluids during sexual contact, but in droplets via respiratory tracts or from the bedding or clothes of an infected person.But the online disinformation plays into the false narrative that all LGBTQ people are "groomers" or paedophiles and want to turn children queer. Twitter has

Editor’s note: The Washington Blade interviewed Alba Rueda before the murder of Alejandra Ironici, a prominent transgender activist, in Santa Fe on Aug. 22 and the attempted assassination of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Buenos Aires on Sept. 1.

Release date: January 4What it's about: This standalone companion to Happily Ever Afters stars Lenore Bennett, who's mastered high school but still has infinite questions about her plans for once she gets to NYU — a definite point of contention with her parents. Then, while on a post-grad cruise, she meets Alex, and of all the things she's never figured out she wanted for herself, he might be the most surprising.Get it from Bookshop or your local bookstore via Indiebound.Release date: January 4What it's about: When Dua's forced to spend the entire month of Ramadan in Queens with her cousins, she isn't happy about it, especially since she barely knows this branch of the family tree.

How to support a friend through a breakupHow to stop physically comparing yourself to othersHow to train for a marathon with your dogDrag queens, trans people and all members of the LGBTQ+ community will not hide away in backstreet gay bars, like we did in the past. We will always put the fight for equality before profit.If I retire and all drag artists are treated with respect, kindness and paid equally – as they deserve – I can be happy.Do you have a story you’d like to share? Get in touch by emailing James.Besanvalle@metro.co.uk. Share your views in the comments below. MORE : There is nothing inappropriate about drag queens performing for children MORE : How Drag Race’s Ginny Lemon shattered huge LGBTQ+ boundaries in Commonwealth opening ceremony: ‘This is a huge deal for queer people everywhere‘ MORE : I coached EastEnders’ new drag queen character – she’s going to be iconic

Conservative Party leadership announced Monday that Liz Truss was elected head of the party and will become the U.K”s new prime minister, replacing her fellow Tory, Boris Johnson, who announced his resignation this past July following a slew of scandals and resignations from his government.