Wendy Williams breaks her silence over recent scandals in cryptic interview

EXCUSIVE: Jeffrey Scott Collins, director, writer and producer of romantic comedy Poor Greg Drowning, has signed with Stride Management for representation.

While Florida recently passed a “Don’t Say Gay” law banning LGBTQ issues in the classroom, at least 15 other states are considering similar laws. Even worse, bans on LGBTQ books are “escalating dramatically” across the nation as conservative school officials and so-called parents’ rights groups pull them from classrooms and school libraries.Five of the most commonly challenged books feature LGBTQ content.

It’s a well-documented fact that baseball pants are ideal for showing off a player’s assets, but it’s rare to see those assets perform at the very highest level of athletic achievement.In a clip from a recent Oakland A’s vs.

Mustache Mondays (ARTBOUND), which screened at Outfest Fusion, is an illuminating documentary by director Marianne Amelinck that recounts the rise, continuing impact, and ultimately tragic end of the weekly party. It does so through archival footage and interviews with those who were there on the frontlines, witnessing and lending their voices and art to create a new iconoclastic queer scene.Equal parts queer historical document and intimate portrait, Mustache Mondays successfully inspires emotions akin to a nostalgia for a time and place you’ve never visited by illuminating this incredible lightning-in-a-bottle moment which sadly burned out when one pillar of its founding quadpod passed away. Mustache Mondays screened at Outfest Fusion. This review is part of our coverage of the Outfest Fusion 2022.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, agreed to edit out two references to same-sex relationships from the film following demands from Chinese government censors.The censored dialogue, the removal of which ensured that the government would allow the film to be released to the public, occurs during a scene between main characters Albus Dumbledore, played by Jude Law, and Gellert Grindelwald, played by Mads Mikkelsen.The lines, which amounted to six seconds in total, were “…because I was in love with you” and “The summer Gellert and I fell in love,” reports the South China Morning Post.In 2007, J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series, declared that Dumbledore, who became the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry later in life, is gay, although he was never referenced as such in the books.Dumbledore’s sexual orientation was subsequently hinted at in the first two Fantastic Beasts films — which serve as prequels to the Harry Potter films — but it’s not until The Secrets of Dumbledore that the character’s sexuality if fully acknowledged on screen.

James Craig, seems to have reversed his allyship to the LGBTQ community, saying he'd want a "more aggressive" version of Florida's controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill.Last Thursday, Craig, a former Detroit police chief, told WJBK that if he were to be elected governor, he would go even further than lawmakers in Florida, banning classroom discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation beyond kindergarten through third grade all the way up to middle school."I'd be a little more aggressive with it. I would go beyond the third grade.

When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed last week as the first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, many of us rejoiced as we saw yet another crack in the symbolic glass ceiling that has historically kept women, especially Black women and women of color, from reaching our full potential.

Los Angeles Times that they can no longer remain silent amidst the public battle over CEO Bob Chapek’s initial lack of opposition to Florida’s controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill, aka the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on March 28. Last week, Charlee’s father Roy P.

Kristi Noem has some explaining to do.South Dakota’s God-fearing, LGBTQ-hating governor was photographed with Donald Trump‘s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at the annual gala for Kickstart Kids, a non-profit martial arts program for youth, in Houston, Texas over the weekend.Related: Kristi Noem continues her tireless crusade to spread hate and bigotry across the landGreg Travis, who is currently running for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, posted a photo of himself and his wife beside Noem and Lewandowski to Twitter, along with the caption: “Julie and I with Governor Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski. Hanging out with Keith and Alice Mosing and Chuck and Gena Norris at the Kickstart Kids Annual Gala.

ban on conversion therapy.Jamie Wallis, Conservative MP for Bridgend, came out in defence of trans rights this week, accusing Boris Johnson of ‘breaking his promise’ to LGBT+ people.The Welsh Backbencher was praised for his bravery last week after he revealed he is trans in a highly personal statement on Twitter. Following theTory U-turn on the conversion therapy ban, he said it is ‘wrong to exclude protections for a whole group of people’ from an ‘abhorrent’ practice.‘I hope the announcement that a separate piece of work will now be done on this issue will be done at speed,’ Mr Wallis added.‘If the CT (conversion therapy) ban passes through Parliament without any protections for the transgender community, it cannot be described as anything other than a broken promise.’His comments come as more than 100 charities, including Stonewall, plan to boycott the government’s first global LGBT+ conference over its stance on conversion therapy.It is now unclear if the ‘Safe To Be Me: Global Equality Conference’ in London will go ahead after the LGBT+ and HIV charities, along with major sponsors, pulled out just three months before the event.A government spokesperson said it was ‘disappointing’ to see partners quit the conference, which was set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever London Pride march.They added officials are still ‘considering how to proceed’.In a statement on Twitter yesterday, Stonewall said it will only participate if the prime minister reverts to his promise for a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy.‘This is a decision we take with a heavy heart,’ it said.

Life, Liberty & Levin. The playwright was promoting his new book, Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch. Host Mark Levin read a passage from the book saying, “Now we have kindergarteners being trained in a bizarre catechism of sexual identity politics.” Then Levin brought up Florida’s recently enacted “don’t say gay” law, which prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in the early grades and restricts it for older students.Mamet responded, “What we have is kids not only being indoctrinated but groomed, in a very real sense, by people who are, whether they know it or not, sexual predators.

Diné Marriage Act prohibiting same-sex members from being married. Currently, queer Navajo couples who’ve received marriage licenses from their states won’t have their unions recognized, nor can they be married in the Nation.

Charlize Theron and streaming giant HBO Max have announced their newest, oh-so-queer project: an adaptation of the DC Comics young adult novel You Brought Me The Ocean. The book, for those unfamiliar, casts Aqualad–protege of Aquaman–as a gay teenager.Deadline reports that Theron will produce the show; at the time of this writing, neither the actress/producer nor HBO have said if she also plans to star in the series. You Brought Me The Ocean reimagines the origins of the character Aqualad.The novel, which is a self-contained story outside mainstream DC continuity, follows the story of Jake Hyde, an African-American teen that heads off to college.

signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey last week, threatens health care professionals with up to 10 years in prison for violation.

Messaging is everything in politics, unless you happen to be Marsha Blackburn, the antigay, far-right U.S. senator from Tennessee who seems to hate proof reading as much as she hates hairbrushes.Fresh off of misquoting the constitution, Blackburn is back on Twitter claiming her state is in favor of a wall on its souther border.

A post shared by Ozzy Lusth (@ozcardagrouch)Former Survivor contestant and current OnlyFans performer Ozzy Lusth wants the world to know: he is bisexual.Lusth, 40, rose to fame thanks to his very shirtless appearances on Survivor: Cook Islands, Survivor: Micronesia, and Survivor: South Pacific. The three seasons led him to becoming a fan favorite, and to his appearance on Survivor: Game Changers. To date, he remains only one of four players to appear on four different seasons of the show. Viewers also named him one of the “most attractive” contestants in the history of the show in an online poll.Following his Survivor tenure, Lusth returned to his roots by joining OnlyFans. Prior to his reality TV fame, he worked as a stripper in Santa Barbara, CA.Related: Zeke Smith describes the worst part of being outed as transgender on ‘Survivor‘Now Lusth has opened up about his queer identity and blasted Republican lawmakers pushing so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bills nationwide.

God bless Curtis Ingraham, Laura Ingraham‘s gay older brother.After the Fox News propagandist did a segment on her show in which she cited a Breitbart article that accused schools of grooming preschoolers to be LGBTQ, Curtis took to Twitter to slam his baby sister for being a “Putin-loving monster.”“This is rich coming from my Putin-loving sister who seems okay with children being killed in Ukraine,” he tweeted this morning, along with a clip from the segment, which aired last week. “Looks like she has a new trope in hand to further rile and anger her followers.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” that point to Albus Dumbledore’s homosexuality, though the studio says that “the spirit of the film remains intact” despite the edits. As first spotted by news.com.au, the Chinese theatrical release of the third “Fantastic Beasts” movie in the Wizarding World franchise omitted two lines of dialogue spoken by Dumbledore (Jude Law), including him saying, “because I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love.” “Harry Potter” author and the film’s writer J.K.

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Kerri Colby has hinted at some major drama viewers can expect to see during the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 reunion.

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@paulaabdul) earlier this morning. Wearing a multi-colored body suit and grooving to the beat of her new hit single “Vibeology,” Abdul shows why she’s always a fan favorite, and her crew is pretty talented (and hot!) as well.Abdul will headline Sunday’s T-Dance on Sunday, May 1, which starts in the afternoon and continues well into the warm Palm Springs night. “I’m beyond thrilled to be playing for all my fans at the legendary White Party Palm Springs 2022 Sunday T-Dance,” Abdul said in a statement last month.

Washington Blade.Court documents seen by the outlet indicate that Webster had stalked his victims and carefully planned the rapes and that he entered the residences through unlocked doors.The assaults took place from mid-August to October 2016, according to evidence provided by authorities. During the first attack, Webster entered a home in a neighborhood on Capitol Hill and took photos of himself sexually abusing a man who authorities stated was unconscious.Days later, Webster broke into an apartment in the same area as the first.“The victim was awakened to find Webster, a stranger, standing in the doorway of his bedroom, dressed all in black, holding a handgun with a red laser sight,” a news release by the Department of Justice said.

the famous song dedicated to the state. However, that big heart in Texas doesn’t exist for anyone who is LGBTQ+.The Sunshine State is Florida’s nickname, but the sun doesn’t shine on LGBTQ+ expression that is being forced into the dark closets of classrooms.The fiendish governors of these states, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas, are out to make anyone who is trans, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or nonbinary targets of hate, and anyone who interacts with them either a liar or a vigilante.These two loathsome leaders are gleefully signing laws that almost make it illegal to be queer.

Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, which released in China this past weekend, did so without references to the same-sex relationship between two of the threequel’s lead characters. The Chinese censors requested a cut, which Warner Bros, according to a studio spokesperson, “accepted… to comply with local requirements,” adding, “the spirit of the film remains intact.” (See the full statement below.)

A same-sex married couple claimed in a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday that the City of New York discriminated against them in denying them in vitro fertilization coverage under the city’s insurance plan for employees. The couple, Nicholas Maggipinto, 36, and Corey Briskin, 33, claim the policy discriminates against them based on their sex and sexual orientation and that if they were female or in a heterosexual relationship they would have access to the I.V.F. benefits that city employees are entitled to.

Activist and protest organizer Steve Atkinson announced today (Tuesday, April 12) that there will be another protest outside the Dallas Arboretum on Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m.-noon. Atkinson and other organizers have pledged to continue regular staging protests until Arboretum and/or Dallas city officials address alleged anti-LGBT and racial discrimination at the arboretum.

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a nationwide book ban sweeping America’s school districts, primarily fueled by conservatives who are targeting books mostly by and about minorities, especially LGBTQ and Black people.Over the last nine months 1145 books have been removed from school classrooms and libraries in 86 school districts, a PEN America report finds. They cover a wide range, including books about Rosa Parks, Dr.

Fantastic Beasts 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore might have been number one at the box office in China this week, but audiences there still aren’t privy to one of the wizard’s secrets: his former relationship with the film’s villainous Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen). The reason? China’s government requested that the dialog referencing their romantic history be cut from the film, according to Variety.While the removed dialogue only amounted to six seconds of the film’s 142-minute runtime, it does mark the franchise’s first textual reference to Dumbledore’s (Jude Law) sexuality.

Former pro football player Michael Sam is ready for his next adventure.Sam became the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by a professional sports team when he was picked up by the St. Louis Rams in 2014. It became a huge story, especially after ESPN broadcast him kissing his then-boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, when he learned he’d been drafted.What followed for Sam was a meteoric rise to fame, high performance expectations, and ultimately, disappointment.

It’s Tuesday, which means Sarah Huckabee Sanders has done something stupid again.This morning, Donald Trump‘s former White House propagandist, who is currently a candidate in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election, tweeted: “A record-breaking presidency… Record-high crime. Dangerous crisis at the border. 40-year high inflation.

Pornhub’s 2019 “Year in Review” reflected an increased interest in scenes featuring Asian men. That year, the most popular search on Pornhub Gay pages was “Korean.” “Japanese” and “Black” followed as the second and third most popular searches, respectively. “Asian” was the sixth most popular search.

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WLNE, Manning allegedly approached four men who were gathered outside the bar and without provocation punched each of the men in the face using a closed fist while yelling antigay epithets. Witnesses at the bar told the outlet Manning had been in the bar prior to the alleged assault.Providence Police Commander Thomas Verdi told the Providence Journal police responded to reports of an assault at the Dark Lady located at 19 Snow Street. GoLocalProv reported the men told police they were leaving the club when Manning approached and started yelling anti-gay slurs like “faggots” while assaulting each of them.

RuPaul’s Drag Race has reached its finale—the big event will be broadcast on April 22—and we are sad to say goodbye to yet another group of (mostly) beloved queens. Of course, the next question is: who will be brought back for a season of “Drag Race All Stars”?That’s one of the questions that we posed to Season 14’s Jasmine Kennedie, the vivacious and memorable contestant from Season 14 with the “relentlessly positive attitude” (as described by castmate Lady Camden).  Jasmine very notably did not answer our “All Stars” question—perhaps because she has already been cast, or she is bitter about being skipped? Only time will tell. But she did tell us about what she thought about her elimination, her most embarrassing moment on the show, and what she has in common with her best frenemy Daya Betty.When you were eliminated in Episode 11, that massive lip sync “LollapaRuza” must have been exhausting. How stressful was it for you and the other contestants?Honestly I had a lot of fun that day.

There have been some changes made to Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ahead of its release in China.

Instagram saying, “I, I, I…did some stand up last night. First time since cancer surgery.

SINGAPORE: The National University of Singapore (NUS) is investigating after cryptocurrency mining rigs were found in a resident’s apartment last week. 

Zack Sharf References to a gay relationship in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” were edited out of the movie by Warner Bros. for the film’s release in China. Only six seconds of the movie’s 142-minute runtime were removed.

In his new memoir, Coming Out and Coming Home, Stan JR Zerkowski writes about how he never intended to be a national spokesperson for LGBTQ Roman Catholics.But Zerkowski said that for us all, "There is a plan in the end" we can't necessarily control.Zerkowski, the executive director of the LGBTQ Catholic-affinity group Fortunate Families and director of Catholic LGBT ministry for the Diocese of Lexington, told the Bay Area Reporter that he wrote his memoir so that people might see "There is hope, there is light at the end of the tunnel."Yes, you read that correctly. Zerkowski is openly gay and not only a church employee, but the head of ministry to queer people in the diocesan structure.His boss, the Most Rev. John Stowe, the bishop of Lexington, wrote the forward."JR has been very instrumental in helping the local church minister to the LGBT community — he's really challenged me to be more open to the LGBT community, so I was happy to write that," Stowe told the B.A.R.Stowe said he hasn't had any pushback for writing the forward to the book, but has been criticized for his relatively more liberal approach to LGBTQ people. "I've gotten all kinds of pushback before," Stowe said.The Catholic Church officially teaches that homosexual actions are sinful and that, therefore, LGBTQ people should remain celibate.Zerkowski said that the book covers his journey "from marginalization to ministry." "The story I share shows that even though one can be terribly marginalized and treated poorly — even having to hide part of who they are for a long time — those things can lead to coming out and coming home," Zerkowski said.

Alexandra Billings is redefining what is possible for trans people in Hollywood. Before making a name for herself in the Chicago theatre scene and landing her breakout role in the TV show, Transparent, Billings was a showgirl and sex worker who struggled with addiction.

Can we talk for a minute about how Jessica Simpson is just un-freakin-believable?!

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A clearly weakened Wendy Williams, who is battling a conservatorship and rumors about her physical and mental health, has released a video in which she argues — eerily calmly — that she should be allowed access to her own money.