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GEMMA Collins looked incredible tonight as she had a sexy makeover for Halloween. The GC slipped her shrinking figure into a black leather catsuit and corset and headed to the Kiss Haunted House Party at Wembley Arena with her fiancé Rami Hawash. She swapped her blonde locks for a white wig and covered her face with a bunny mask complete with big ears.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg spoke to a group of Democratic supporters at a campaign stop in Wisconsin Friday in the final days of this election cycle."When it comes to the actual issues, most Americans are already with us," Buttigieg said to an animated crowd.Buttigieg campaigned on behalf of Lt. Gov.

Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter, and LGBTQ+ and other civil rights groups are worried this means more hate speech on the platform.The $44 billion deal closed Thursday night, and Musk, the world’s richest man, has assumed the title of “chief twit.” He has said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump, and he wants to allow a variety of viewpoints on the platform — but progressive advocates say he will likely allow hateful content.“Despite his claim that he wanted to buy Twitter to ‘help humanity,’ Elon Musk has a record of posting and defending harmful anti-LGBTQ content as well as content that harms other marginalized communities,” said a statement released Friday by GLAAD. “GLAAD remains deeply concerned about the safety of LGBTQ people on Twitter and we join other organizations that are now questioning Twitter’s future policies and actions against extremist content.”Twitter’s moderation wasn’t great under the previous ownership, and it undoubtedly will be looser under Musk, Cathy Renna, communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, told The Advocate.

Following the brutal attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband, Paul, on Friday morning, Caitlyn Jenner felt it imperative to weigh in.Speaking on Fox News, where she's a contributor, Jenner insinuated the Speaker and her husband didn't have adequate security to repel such an attack. Paul Pelosi is now recovering after a 42-year-old man burst into his San Francisco home and attacked him with a hammer; he was allegedly looking for the Speaker, who was not home at the time.Jenner quickly pivoted to casting blame on everyone from President Biden to San Francisco itself, which she called a "violent city" and referred to a crime wave in the U.S., though crime remains significantly lower throughout the nation's cities than at its apex 30 years ago.

Throughout his campaign for Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin embraced the rhetoric of “parental rights,” allowing it to guide his campaign’s position on key issues, including mask mandates and diversity efforts in our K-12 system.To be clear, there is a dire need to ensure that parents have a voice in our education. The disregarded mental health concerns, failure to appropriately implement accommodations for disabled students, and lackluster equity responses during the COVID-19 pandemic made clear the school systems were largely ill-equipped to handle community concerns.

The first time I heard the term “lipstick lesbian” was when Amanda Bearse, a costar on one of Fox's most iconic programs, Married ... With Children, came out as a lesbian in 1993.If you were around in 1993 — or old enough to vote in that year, let’s say — you know that at that time the words gay or lesbian, to the uninitiated and/or naive, were usually dumbed down to stereotypes. Lesbians were “butch” and "manly," and gay men were “limp-wristed” and "queer." There were other words, of course, that were much harsher.

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(CNN) -- The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and an acquaintance told CNN that he seemed "out of touch with reality."David DePape, 42, was identified by police Friday as the suspect in the assault on Paul Pelosi at the speaker's San Francisco home.Two of DePape's relatives told CNN that DePape is estranged from his family, and confirmed that the Facebook account -- which was taken down by the social media company on Friday -- belonged to him.His stepfather, Gene DePape, said David DePape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, and left Canada about 20 years ago to pursue a relationship that brought him to California."I really don't know what to think," the suspect's uncle, Mark DePape, said of his nephew's alleged attack on Pelosi. "Hopefully it's a scam.

The truth is that speaking about menopause is a taboo topic. Although 80 percent of individuals assigned female at birth will face hot flashes and night sweats that come with menopause, the topic is still rarely discussed.

An advocacy group in Denver is bringing attention to domestic violence as an ongoing issue. Men and LGBTQ+ people have been calling for help in more significant numbers since the pandemic began, according to the group.SafeHouse Denver is hoping to snap the stigma of speaking out for anyone who is a victim of domestic violence. According to its website, the group is the only agency in the city and county of Denver that offers comprehensive domestic violence services to the victims of domestic abuse.The most common perception of domestic violence is that it is specific to women with cis-male partners.While SafeHouse Denver reports an increase in the number of men and people who identify as LGBTQ+, only 5 percent of their clients are males, and 13 percent are LGBTQ+, according to Denver Fox affiliate KDVR.According to the CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 44 percent of lesbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to 35 percent of straight women.LGBTQ+ members reported high rates of intimate partner violence, according to the 2013 CDC study.

Billy: "We thought that name was funny, and also a way to acknowledge the cis white gay male experience at Stonewall. It's not written in "stone", but I think it’s generally acknowledged that Stonewall was a riot started by trans women of colour, so that was our way of conveying that reality."Luke: "There are three times in the movie where Bobby is specifically aware of his cis white male privilege.

Singer-songwriter Tom Walker made Scotland proud with his performance at the Pride of Britain Awards.

When Monica Roberts died unexpectedly in 2021, the Black trans journalist behind TransGriot left a gap in the world wider than most and it takes more than one person to fill it. As a longtime Texas LGBTQ+ activist, Roberts was a force both in media and politics, speaking and organizing nationwide, leading and agitating for change (and inclusion of BIPOC, trans women in particular).

(CNN) —A version of this story appeared in CNN's Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here.Lawmakers across dozens of mostly Republican-led states have passed or introduced a record number of anti-LGBTQ bills this year, per a CNN analysis of data gathered by the American Civil Liberties Union, and this legislative assault has been attended by discourse on the political right denigrating LGBTQ people.In June, for instance, members of the extremist group the Proud Boys barged into the San Lorenzo Library in California and interrupted Drag Queen Story Hour.

RICHLAND, Washington (KAPP) — By a 4-to-1 vote, the Richland School Board approved a contentious policy that instills certain restrictions on the way race, sexuality and culture are allowed to be discussed in the schools’ curriculum.During a school board meeting on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 25, four of the five Richland School Board members agreed to Policy 2360, which is entitled ‘Race, Culture, and the Curriculum.’It’s a near-identical policy to one that was passed by the Kennewick School Board earlier this year. The following passage comes directly from the document shared during this meeting:The Board recognizes that students must learn factual U.S.

(CNN) – World Cup host Qatar has praised the Australian men’s national team for its efforts to raise awareness on “important matters” and said that “no country is perfect,” a spokesperson for Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy said on Friday.In a video message produced by Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) and released Wednesday, 16 Socceroos called on Qatar to recognize same-sex relationships and improve the rights of migrant workers.

As school boards vote to limit access to LGBTQ-themed books, an advocacy group has found that more LGBTQ+ people are running for school board positions than ever before.Data released by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a national political organization that works to elect LGBTQ+ people to public office, shows that 82 out people are seeking school board seats. That's more than double the number in 2018, while in 2020 the number was 43.As of April, only 90 of the 90,000 school board members in the United States had been known to be out LGBTQ+ people, according to the Victory Fund-affiliated Victory Institute’s “Few & Under Fire: LGBTQ School Board Members in the U.S.” national report about the state of LGBTQ+ representation on school boards across the country.Victory Fund reported that of the LGBTQ+ school board members surveyed 47 percent had been the target of anti-LGBTQ+ verbal attacks as a candidate, and 51 percent had been the target of anti-LGBTQ+ verbal attacks as a school board member.

DVtv Host Larry the Fairy teamed up with his “real job” — The Cask and Kitchen on Elm Street — to create a couple of deliciously spooky specialty cocktails for Halloween. Here’s how to make them for yourself.

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Cheddar Gorgeous has been applauded for using her runway look to start discussion about HIV stigma on this week’s episode of Drag Race UK.

(CNN) — The University of Florida Faculty Senate approved a no-confidence resolution Thursday on the selection process to appoint US Sen. Ben Sasse as the next president, officials said.The 67 to 15 vote comes after Sasse, a Republican senator from Nebraska, became the only person considered for the high-ranking position at one of Florida's largest universities.

(CNN) – A LATAM Airlines plane was damaged while traveling from Santiago, Chile, to Asunción, Paraguay, and had to make an emergency landing at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport on Wednesday after experiencing “severe weather conditions during its flight path,” the airline told CNN in a statement on Thursday.“Passengers and crew are safe and well,” the statement said, adding the airline regretted “any inconvenience this weather situation may have caused to its passengers.”Telefuturo, a CNN affiliate, reported that 48 people were traveling on the flight.The images obtained by the station show the damaged aircraft with its nose missing and its windshield smashed.The General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Chile reported in a statement Thursday that the Paraguayan aviation authorities have initiated an investigation and that a team of specialists from the Chilean entity “will be integrated on the ground to collaborate with this investigative process.”CNN en Español reached out to the Paraguayan National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics on Thursday for more information but has not yet received a response. Scary flight for passenger“Near Asunción the terrible turbulence began and people already started to panic and then the pilot tells us to prepare for an emergency landing,” passenger Pabla Thomen told a private radio station, Monumental AM 1080, on Thursday.Thomen added that she got scared and hugged her daughter during the turbulence and at one point her seat belt came undone.

Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old husband of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, was violently attacked inside the couple's San Francisco home by an intruder Friday morning.Nancy Pelosi's spokesperson, Drew Hammill, issued a statement Friday morning confirming the incident."Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi," the statement reads."The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation," the statement continues.

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BY THE DALLAS VOICE STAFF “We all love Leslie.” It was one comment from one person on one social media post following the death Monday, Oct. 24, of actor and comedian L

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Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan mopped the floor with Republican clown J.D. Vance during last night’s debate in Ohio’s way-closer-than-expected U.S.

A secret audio recording of Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka wooing far-right Christian extremists in the weeks ahead of the 2016 presidential election has just been unearthed and it’s deeply creepy, to the say the least.The recording appears in the new documentary Battleground, out this week, which offers a shocking deep dive into the anti-abortion movement in America.According to the doc, the tape was recorded in September 2016 during a closed-door meeting between the Trumps and a gaggle of Christian leaders a little over a month before the election.The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how Trump would “fulfill the Christian right’s legislative and cultural priorities” if elected president.Things kick off with Steve Bannon telling the group, “The key that picks the lock to this election is you. Conservative Catholics and evangelicals who have not voted, who have not been motivated to vote, have to come to the polls.

For a guy who claims to love law and order, Lindsey Graham has sure been doing a lot to avoid it. Unfortunately for him, Lady Justice is catching up quick.After a lower federal court ordered last month that he appear before the special grand jury investigating alleged efforts by Republicans to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, he vowed to appeal the ruling.Well, on Friday, prosecutors urged the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to compel the anti-LGBTQ congressman to testify under oath, and their case was strong.According to court docs filed in July, the grand jury wants to speak with Graham about those two phone calls he made to Brad Raffensperger after the 2020 election, during in which he allegedly pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to “explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.”Related: Lindsey Graham caves to grand jury subpoena, whines that “we’re opening Pandora’s Box!”“The Superior Court of Fulton County authorized a targeted subpoena compelling Sen.

(CNN) — Christian Walker, the 23-year-old son of Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker, has built a following as a conservative social media influencer after two years of creating videos in which he bashes liberals, feminists, abortion rights advocates, racial justice protesters, those celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month and more — often while waiting in a Starbucks drive-through line.But aside from one event after his father, a Heisman Trophy-winning former college football star, launched his Senate campaign with an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, Christian Walker says he has kept his distance from his father's campaign in recent months, even though his father has frequently spoken about his son.That changed in dramatic fashion this week, when Christian Walker unleashed a torrent of criticism, casting his father as a deadbeat and a perpetual liar, after a report emerged alleging that the elder Walker — who has said he opposes abortion rights, and that there are "no exceptions in his mind," on the campaign trail — had paid for a woman's abortion himself more than a decade ago.Herschel Walker, who is facing Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in one of the most competitive races of this year's midterm elections, has been under fire since the Daily Beast reported Monday that he paid for an unidentified woman's abortion in 2009.

Donald Trump‘s ongoing battle with the Justice Department just took another totally ridiculous yet completely unsurprising turn.Logs detailing the contents of hundreds of the documents seized by FBI agents from Mar-a-Lago back in August were briefly published online this week in an apparent slip up by a court employee who we’re guessing has since been fired.Reporter Zoe Tillman at Bloomberg was the first to notice the logs on Tuesday afternoon in a legal docket that was posted as part of the ongoing battle between ex-president Donald Trump and the Justice Department.Newly unsealed DOJ filing offers more details on what exactly the special filter team did during the Mar-a-Lago search, what they found, and what they determined might be privileged (tldr: not much) or returned to Trump for other reasons https://t.co/dWe9OaaKNZ— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 4, 2022According to the logs, which were quickly removed, among the documents seized by the feds were government records and communications from outside parties, including handwritten notes by Trump, as well as medical records, notes about discussions of presidential pardons, and records from the ex-president’s various legal entanglements.In total, FBI agents took more than 200,000 pages from Mar-a-Lago.

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Well, the thing we all knew was going to happen eventually just happened.Donald Trump asked SCOTUS intervene in his ongoing battle with the Justice Department over the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago back in August.The ex-president filed an emergency request late last night asking the Supreme Court to overrule an appellate court decision blocking a special master from reviewing roughly 100 of the stolen documents.Now, here’s where it gets especially squirrely.The request is being handled by far-right, anti-LGBTQ Justice Clarence Thomas, whose far-right, anti-LGBTQ wife, Ginni, was questioned last week by the January 6 committee about her close ties to the MAGA militia and her alleged involvement in Trump’s failed coup.NEW: Ginni Thomas met with Jan 6 committee IN PERSON. She did not answer my questions pic.twitter.com/5z6pypr0S9— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) September 29, 2022Politico reports:Lawyers for Trump asked Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday to issue an emergency order that would restore an outside reviewer’s authority over about 100 documents with classification markings found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate during the Aug.

Marjorie Taylor Greene over the weekend.Greene (R) spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Michigan. Her comments touched upon the environment.Greene spoke fondly of “the roar of a V8 engine under the hood of a Ford Mustang or Chevy Camaro and incredible feel of all that horsepower.” She added, “Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we drive and force all of you to rely on electric vehicles after they shut down your great Michigan auto industry.”Watch her comments below.Greene: Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we drive pic.twitter.com/UVVhQKdBgx— Acyn (@Acyn) October 1, 2022Related: Pete Buttigieg destroys Ron DeSantis over Martha’s Vineyard stuntFox News asked Buttigieg about Greene’s comments about him wanting to “emasculate” the way people drive.“I literally don’t even understand what that means,” Buttigieg responded.

Erotic-horror-movie-actress-turned-antigay-GOP-gubernatorial-candidate Tudor Dixon posted a new campaign ad to her social media pages this week, but based on the people’s reactions, it’s not going to win her any new supporters.The 60-second spot features a gang of elderly bikers bitching about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, complaining about everything from her COVID response to her plans to “keep killing babies” to the potholes in Michigan’s roads, which apparently she’s personally responsible for.“Fix the damn roads!” the bikers gripe at the end of the video after plugging Dixon, who they refer to as “the other chick”, for governor.These great folks know exactly what @gretchenwhitmer has done to all of us.

ABOVE: He makes some good points.

Donald Trump isn’t exactly known for behaving tactfully in public, but the more the world learns of his off-camera behavior, the creepier he gets.According to a new book, the former president regularly wore his homophobia and transphobia like badges of honor among his staffers, sometimes leaving them stunned.Related: Donald Trump’s big plan to stall the DOJ comes back to slap him hard across the faceNew York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s forthcoming book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America details how Trump’s preoccupation with appearing to be masculine fueled his alarming behavior.Haberman describes one meeting early in Trump’s administration with vice president Mike Pence and campaign aide Jason Miller, whom Trump said definitely “likes the ladies.”“You know how sometimes someone turns out to be gay later and you knew?” Trump said, according to the book.

Donald Trump often asked oddly personal questions about staffers’ sexuality and made homophobic remarks about those he perceived might be gay, according to a new book.

Kellyanne Conway‘s righteous indignation is off the charts, and nobody seems to be buying her latest outburst.The former Trump adviser has been hitting the campaign trail in an attempt to rally up enthusiasm among Republican midterm voters. On Monday night, she appeared on Fox News and attacked Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman for displaying a marijuana flag outside the State Capitol.Related: Donald Trump’s big plan to stall the DOJ comes back to slap him hard across the faceFetterman is currently the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate against Trump-endorsed Republican Dr.

Of all the wild right-wing campaign stumpers out there, this Texan “prophet” might just take the (allegedly anointed) cake.Trump-loving Pennsylvania gubernatorial hopeful Doug Mastriano has brought Christ-shyster Lance Wallnau to help sell his candidacy, and it’s a partnership made in their particular version of heaven.As reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer, this evangelist’s questionable record has it all: accusing the Women’s March of manifesting “the spirit of Jezebel”, hocking $45 “prayer coins” of Donald Trump‘s face with Jim Bakker, hailing Biden as the “antichrist”… we could go all day.Wallnau was the speaker at a recent Mastriano rally who notably led the audience in an uncomfortably familiar right-hand salute.He calls for a “new birth of liberty” to a crowd of raised arms:PA MAGA Gov nominee Doug Mastriano rally: “Put your right hand in the air … America will have a new birth of liberty.” pic.twitter.com/UfcLDNoJD4— Ron Filipkowski

Donald Trump‘s strategy of using delaying tactics to slowly chip away at his problems appears to be backfiring spectacularly as he clashes with the Department of Justice’s investigation into that trove of highly-classified documents he stashed at Mar-a-Lago.The former president demanded a special master be assigned to his case to review the thousands of documents, despite the DOJ arguing there is “no role for a special master to play in executive privilege.”Related: Trump’s latest defense is the joke that keeps on givingTrump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to the request, and even approved team-Trump’s suggestion of Raymond Dearie for the role. Sounds like a major win, right?Wrong.The Daily Beast reports that Trump’s special master play “may have actually backfired and put him on a fast-track collision course with the federal government he once led.”Even after Cannon threw Trump a bone and gave Dearie ample time to rule on the dispute over the documents, Dearie essentially said “no m’am” and has been working faster than anyone anticipated.When Trump’s legal team refused to offer details into which documents the former president says he declassified (some with his mind, apparently), Dearie demanded they provide evidence on a short deadline.

ABOVE: What a beauty. Been 18 years since he died already!

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.Extracts appeared yesterday in The Atlantic.As told to Haberman, Graham and Texas Senator Ted Cruz persuaded Trump not to endorse a challenger to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). Instead, Trump endorsed Sasse: a decision he went on to regret as Sasse voted to convict the then President during his second impeachment.“Like a schmuck, I went along with it,” Trump said of the requests to back Sasse.Related: Lindsey Graham may want to stay off Twitter todayHaberman says she turned up to interview Trump at his Bedminster golf club.

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