5 artists who embraced their queer joy and sang it from the rooftop

Britain’s Got Talent star Calum Scott, whose debut album Only Human hit number 4 on the UK Album Chart in 2018, has spoken out about how his friends “abandoned him,” after he came out to them. Their reaction to his revelation left the singer struggling for years to accept his sexuality.

“Sister Wives” star Leon Brown announced on Tuesday that they are transgender, now exclusively using the name Leon with they/them pronouns. Brown is the only child of Meri and Kody Brown, but one of 18 half siblings from Kody’s plural marriage with Robyn Brown, Janelle Brown, and ex-wife Christine Brown. The family has appeared regularly on the hit TLC show beginning in 2010. 

star Leon Brown announced on Tuesday that they are transgender, now exclusively using the name Leon with they/them pronouns. Brown is the only child of Meri and Kody Brown, but one of 18 half siblings from Kody's plural marriage with Robyn Brown, Janelle Brown, and ex-wife Christine Brown. The family has appeared regularly on the hit TLC show beginning in 2010. «Someone recently told me that i didn't have to have all of my shit figured out in order for me to share myself with the world,» Leon wrote on Instagram. «So here’s me, definitely not having almost any of my shit figured out, to let you know that i am trans.

Researchers were stunned to recover a rare, original copy of an 1873 essay promoting the morality of same-sex relations.Titled “A Problem in Greek Ethics,” the essay was written by the English poet and cultural historian John Addington Symonds, who only published ten copies for fear of the work getting into the wrong hands.Homosexuality was very much a crime in 19th century England, and the essay, which praised the ancient Greeks’ acceptance of same-sex relations, could have landed Symonds in prison.Related: PHOTOS: Vintage Gay Couples Help Preserve Our Vibrant Queer HistoryIn the near century-and-a-half since it was written, five copies were thought to have survived. But then researchers at Johns Hopkins University made a startling discovery — a sixth copy.Gabrielle Dean, a curator at the university, was researching for an exhibit called “Queer Connections: The Library of John Addington Symonds,” when a simple Google search yielded the unlikely find hiding in plain sight on a rare book dealer’s website.“I was like, ‘Wait, is this even possible?’” she recalled.Originally given to British scholar and explorer Sir Richard Burton, the copy spent over a hundred years traveling between private collections and is now on public display for the first time ever.Related: 10 Queer History Spots To Check Out In Los AngelesSymonds was gay himself, despite marrying a woman and fathering four children.

Bachelor star Elizabeth Corrigan has come out as bisexual in a heartfelt post.

Matt Benfield and Omar Ahmed are a multi-racial couple based in Canada. Their content in general includes gender bender fashion, beauty, queer lifestyle, and travel. They also talk about queer advocacy, growing up queer in unsupportive environments and the importance of representation.Gabi and Shanna are a lesbian couple based in New York City.

The Sanderson Sisters are back in Hocus Pocus 2. After years of teasing their return, the witches are back to dish out their kooky and campy version of mayhem in this sequel to a perennial Halloween classic. 29 years later, the Black Flame Candle burns bright again, consequently resurrecting the Sanderson sisters who are looking to enact their decades-long revenge.

Clinics nationwide will begin offering vaccinations against monkeypox to anyone who may have been exposed to the virus, federal health officials announced on Tuesday. Until now, immunizations were offered only to people with a known exposure. States will receive doses of a safer and newer monkeypox vaccine called Jynneos from the federal stockpile, based on the number of cases and the proportion of the state’s population at risk for severe disease, the officials said at a news briefing.

The poster for Hocus Pocus 2 is aggressive!Good morning…still sad and frustrated but the only thing keeping me here is Beyoncé putting out a new album next month & Hocus Pocus 2 out in SeptMe watching Hocus Pocus 2 on September 30th, 2022How is Disney just going to casually drop this at 8am on a Tuesday like we all haven't been eagerly awaiting it??

It used to be that whatever happened at the Parthenon stayed at the Parthenon.Now 150 new cameras have been set up at the popular Grecian tourist site after the historical ruin saw an entirely different sort of action.A group of filmmakers staged an explicit gay sex scene at the UNESCO-listed site, and the footage was posted online in Janurary.The scene occurs in broad daylight as tourists walk nearby, though it’s unclear if any passersby were aware of what was happening.A Greek culture ministry spokesman told French media agency AFP at the time that it has launched an investigation and hopes to “find as soon as possible those responsible for this illegal shoot.”The anonymous producers of the film, titled Departhenon, have described the scene as “political art.”They say the Parthenon symbolizes “nationalism, the cult of Antiquity” and “patriarchy.”In response, the culture ministry said in a statement: “The archaeological site of the Acropolis does not lend itself to activism or any other action that offends or shows a lack of respect to the monument.”A translated description of the film reads: “After a hike, two men in a group remember the love adventures they had as a former couple. The company decides to bring back their lost eroticism and courage.

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Unveiling their truest self! Leon Brown, the child of Sister Wives stars Kody and Meri Brown, has come out as transgender.

For months, Hollywood has been engaged in a guessing game about Bob Chapek’s future as Disney’s chief executive, with detractors contending that missteps had sealed his fate with Disney’s board: His reign would soon be over. Not so. The Walt Disney Company’s board renewed Mr.

backed by the science on the matter. The linked Republican National Committee tweet says that Levine was talking about “reassignment surgery” even though she doesn’t mention surgery in the clip and gender affirming surgery is not performed on minors.Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Democrats “want to turn your kids gay”“I’m calling for the impeachment of Dr.

Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to Donald Trump‘s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the House select committee investigating January 6 today and, man, was it a doozy!The first hour of Hutchinson’s testimony was basically one bombshell after another, without a single break in between. It’s virtually impossible to write a recap because every minute contained new and shocking information, but here are some of the biggest highlights:But the moment that seems to have everyone talking is when Hutchinson described in vivid detail Trump’s reaction to former Attorney General Bill Barr telling the Associated Press that the Department of Justice hadn’t found evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.“I left the office and went down to the dining room and I noticed that the door was propped open and the valet was inside the dining room changing the table cloth off of the dining room table,” she recalled.“He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantle and the TV where I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there’s a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.”According to Hutchinson, the valet told her Trump was “extremely angry” at Barr “and had thrown his lunch against the wall, which was causing them to have to clean up.”Donald Trump was so upset, he threw his lunch and ketchup dripped down the White House wall.

Above: People pray on the steps of the Supreme Court as the case over school football coach Joseph Kennedy's public prayers is heard.  Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe ruling on abortion rights, which overturned Roe v. Wade, isn’t the only concerning one to come out of the U.S.

gay man. Then, in my mid-30s, I started to think about having children and what that could look like for me – but I always imagined doing it with a partner. I knew that, more than anything, I wanted to be a dad – but I was waiting for the right person to come along, to embark on that journey with. In my mid-40s, I finally got into a relationship – but it ended after a couple of years. I found myself aged 47, still with no children.At that point, I realised that if I wanted to have kids, which I desperately did, I’d need to go it alone.

Drag Race star Trinity the Tuck updated fans on her gender identity in a new social media post. 

Russell T Davies (Queer As Folk, Doctor Who) transported audiences back to London in the ’80s with It’s A Sin, imagining the uplifting yet tragic tale of a fictional group of queer friends living through the AIDS epidemic.Now, a new documentary series revisits that monumental time and place in gay history, but AIDS: The Unheard Tapes brings audiences face-to-face with the real stories of the people who lived through it—and those who didn’t.Related: And the films played on: 17 essential movies about HIV/AIDSNarrated by Russell Tovey—who, coincidentally, worked with Davies on the miniseries Years And Years—the three-part series gives modern audiences an unparalleled look at the LGBTQ community’s struggle to survive and defiant will to live during this dark time in queer history.In an exercise that proves both heart-wrenching and eye-opening, AIDS: The Unheard Tapes enlists a handful of actors, dressed in period-accurate costuming, to lip-sync to interviews with people who contracted HIV in the epidemic’s early days, recordings that were kept in the British Library and never broadcast until now.More than a gimmick, the effect is astonishing, offering windows into the lives that were taken from us too soon, telling a story of grief, but also one of hope, pride, and celebration.AIDS: The Unheard Tapes‘ first episode debuted January 27 on BBC Two and the BBC iPlayer, with its remaining episodes airing the following Mondays.

The man named Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year has quit his teaching position, citing anti-gay discrimination as one of the reasons for his defection.Willie Carver, Jr., an English teacher at Montgomery County High School in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, for the past 17 years, announced in an interview with the Lexington-Herald Leader that he would be taking a job with the University of Kentucky’s Office of Student Support Services.Carver attributed his decision to leave to his frustration “facing discrimination, heartache, and being a part of systems that cause harm” during his years as a public school teacher.

shared their colleague's story on the website's "Antiwork" forum, amassing over 19,000 votes in four hours."My job forced my coworker to remove his pride flag stating no flags were allowed," said the employee who specified that they worked in Michigan. "Even though other coworkers have football team flags at their desk."The worker added that their management reached the decision after strife broke out among the other employees, one of whom claimed they wanted to hang a "straight flag," while another said, "I'm bringing a Nazi flag in then.""As a spectator of the drama I've never seen so many people get so upset over something so small," said the onlooker.Employers who inconsistently apply workplace policies are more likely to field and lose employment lawsuits, as attorneys and government agencies view different treatment as the "hallmark of discrimination," according to Employment Law Handbook.For example, a company can consistently ban all religious items from being displayed at work, but not items representing one faith and not others.

EXCLUSIVE: Queer advocacy group Out in Hollywood released its second annual list of the best unproduced queer-focused television pilot scripts of the past year.

The burning of an LGBTQ Pride flag at an elementary school in Pacifica earlier this month is bringing community members together Tuesday — June 28 — for a unity event to demonstrate what organizers are calling "an affirming and educational way" for people to "counter all acts of hate."On June 6, someone stole the Pride flag that was flying outside Sunset Ridge Elementary School in the coastal community just south of San Francisco. According to reports from the Pacifica Police Department, "Officers were told an unknown person had removed a Pride flag that was affixed outside of a classroom.

queer cowboys having a moment? Not that we’re complaining! In fact, the announcement that Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar‘s next project will be a gay Western has us feeling hotter than a two-dollar pistol!In an exclusive interview with Indiewire, the celebrated auteur confirmed he’d be following up Parallel Mothers—the drama that earned Penélope Cruz a Best Actress Oscar nomination—with a 30-minute short called Strange Way Of Life, and he’s lined up a scorching-hot cast.Related: 7 songs to help you live out your gay cowboy fantasySilver-screen daddy Ethan Hawke and The Mandalorian himself, Pedro Pascal, will star as two “middle-aged gunmen” who were friends in their youth that re-connect over mysterious circumstances. As Variety all-too-vaguely reports, the pair will “celebrate” their reunion and—yeehaw—the thought of that has sent our minds racing!But what’s really got our chaps chapped is that Almodóvar has said this rare English-language film could be his “answer to Brokeback Mountain,” referencing the landmark gay Western from Ang Lee that went on to score a whopping eight Academy Award nominations.As many film buffs know, Almodóvar was once considered to direct Brokeback Mountain, but the filmmaker ultimately passed because of one specific reason: He knew he wouldn’t be able to make it as explicit as he wanted.Back in 2019, Almodóvar revealed to Vulture that his version of the classic cowboys-in-love narrative would’ve been more “animalistic,” which, oh my god! He continued, “My vision of that short tale was much more physical than it was in the movie.

age of 20 has already won an Oscar and several Grammys taking her halfway to being an EGOT, will grace a stage which has hosted some of the world’s most beloved musicians on Friday night.Meanwhile, McCartney will take to the Pyramid Stage for the first time since 2004; at 80-years-old the appearance will make the singer the oldest-ever solo headliner.Over the decades there have been many other record-breaking acts on the festival's stages. Let's take a look at a few other Glastonbury firsts...While there’s hardly been parity between the genders on the Pyramid Stage it has hosted some of the world’s best-known female artists.Suzanne Vega was the first woman to headline Glastonbury in 1984, 14 years after the event's first edition.

Spoilers below***Survivor, the CBS reality TV show which maroons strangers together on a deserted island just to watch them vote each other out one by one has been a queer show from the very beginning; the first player voted out was gay. The first winner was gay.

Keiynan Lonsdale in My Fake Boyfriend, has only been living in LA for a month. According to him, it's all been coming up roses since he set foot off the plane."People always talk shit about LA, and before I got here, I believed what people were saying, kinda. Then I came, and I had my own experience.

This story first appeared in our sister publication Out. You can read the original story here.As many across the nation acclimate to a new normal given the still ongoing global pandemic, reports have spread about another virus. Over the past month, cases of monkeypox have spread through various countries.

New York‘s famous Stonewall Inn and the National LGBTQ+ Task Force, Nicole Murray Ramirez, Queen Mother I of the Americas, emphasized that a “movement that doesn’t know where it came from, doesn’t know where it’s going.” She heads the International Imperial Courts of the USA, Canada, and Mexico, the oldest LGBTQ organization in North America, established in 1965. Murray Ramirez, who oversees the selection of the quintet of queer people posthumously honored each year, said the goal was simple: to ensure the inductees are remembered. The Stonewall Inn might’ve not served as the home of the Wall of Honor had it not been saved from permanent closure in 2006. Activist and one of the historic gay bar’s current co-owners Stacy Lentz tells GayCities it has always been a designated safe space for queer people to find their chosen family.

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot may not be everybody’s cup of tea, and she’s just fine with that. She said so (again) on Twitter this morning after some people took offense to her unfiltered remarks about Clarence Thomas last weekend.Quick recap: On Sunday, Lightfoot marched in her city’s Pride parade and gave an impassioned speech about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v.

Roe is dire. As an abortion activist, I’ve seen firsthand that stripping one right simply starts a domino effect: more will fall. So this morning I married the love of my life while I still can as a queer person, and tomorrow I will continue to fight for abortion access for all. In my last piece for The Advocate, I argued that queer people need access to abortion too and that the then-impending Supreme Court decision on Roe v.

During Nintendo’s partner showcase on June 28, players first got a look at key artwork for Sonic Frontiers, featuring Sonic running through the Starfall Islands.The new linear levels, which will be accessed through in-game totems, will send Sonic to Cyber Space. These challenges will reward Sonic with keys that will be used to unlock further Cyber Space levels.Related: Xbox’s new controller is basically an entire Pride parade and we’re obsessedFans are excited to explore the new universe, and to mark the occasion, here’s a look at some queer Sonic ship art.

DVtv’s Tom Roma and crew were at the Samuell Grand Aquatic Center on Saturday, June 18, to catch all the fun and excitement of Dallas Southern Pride’s Juneteenth Unity Festival and Pool Party. Check out the video below.

Alaska on Saturday. There were no reported injuries and the cruise ship is expected to safely continue to Seattle.“On June 25, 2022, while transiting to Hubbard Glacier in Alaska, Norwegian Sun made contact with a growler,” a representative from Norwegian Cruise Lines told Out Traveler in a statement.

Barbie movie—now with totally rad roller skate accessories!Warner Bros. Pictures previously celebrated Pride Month by giving audiences their first official look at a bleached and bronzed Ryan Gosling in full Ken Doll mode.#BARBIEJuly 21, 2023Only in theaters.

A morning meeting ground for Dublin’s queer community, whether you’re searching for oat milk or just making your way home from a night out, Dame Street Spar is open to meet all the queer needs. Since 2019, when they put user @lusxt’s tweet on posters for Pride month, we’ve been waiting to celebrate their safe […]

We think it’s safe to say openly gay Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald and antigay U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas won’t be sitting down for a nice dinner together anytime soon.McDonald just blasted Thomas in a Facebook post after the 74-year-old judge said SCOTUS should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell–cases which established federal protections for contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage, respectively–following its vote to overturn Roe v. Wade last week.Related: Clarence Thomas wastes literally no time using Roe decision to attack gay rights“Mr.

The title of ‘Summer Anthem’ is still anyone’s game (although Beyoncé may have already have it on lock), and Ricky Martin is ready to “Play.”On Monday, the singer shared a glimpse of the next single from his upcoming EP, Play, and while we don’t yet have a beat, we do have a vibe.“In this photo, a little tease of what the video of my next single is going feel like,” he wrote on Instagram. “It was a really long day, but everything flows amazingly well when surrounded by the right group of people.

Variety, Kristen Stewart said about this issue, "I would never want to tell a story that really should be told by somebody who’s lived that experience. Having said that, it’s a slippery slope conversation because that means I could never play another straight character if I’m going to hold everyone to the letter of this particular law."She added that it is "such a gray area," and that listening to the responses of the community you are trying to represent is of paramount importance.

South Dublin County Council announced LGBTQ+ woman Emma Murphy as their newly elected mayor after their annual meeting held on June 24th. This “landmark moment”, as the Council shares, comes with celebrations for the LGBTQ+ community, as Murphy is the first LGBTQ+ woman to be elected as mayor of South Dublin.  Following the election, Murphy […]

Forget Me Not appeal this month. The charity says that LGBTQ+ people with dementia can face particular challenges due to their illness.Some who have faced discrimination or stigma may feel forced back into the closet, or their dementia could mean they feel they are still living in those times.Trans people with dementia may go back to a time before they transitioned, which can be distressing and confusing.Some LGBTQ+ people may feel isolated as they may have no long-term partner or family to support them.Andrea says she has not personally experienced major problems after coming out as trans, except for some comments from people online.

Someone left note criticising parking when cop dumped car to chase suspectFactory worker sacked for taking day off to go to baby scan with girlfriendSajid Javid shares 'private pain' during speech about his brother's suicideIn recent years, the government has adopted a harsh approach to public events by groups that do not represent its religiously conservative views. Large numbers of arrests and the use of tear gas and plastic pellets by police have accompanied Pride events.Counter-demonstrations by nationalists and Islamists, who claim the LGBTQ+ community is a danger to ‘Turkish values’, have also threatened marchers.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our news page.

Three people have allegedly been hospitalised following a suspected transphobic attack which occurred in Dublin’s Stephen’s Green on Saturday, June 25 at 6.50 pm. According to a message received by Labour TD Aodhan O Riordain, the assault was carried out on a group of five LGBTQ+ people following Pride celebrations. It also reported that among those […]

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In Mexico City, hundreds of same-sex couples were married on Friday, marking the first Pride parade since the pandemic forced the city's annual mass ceremony to be postponed two years ago due to health concerns.A live band played traditional tunes like Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" as couples exchanged their vows, the Associated Press reports. The city's government hosted the large-scale wedding ceremony in its civil registry plaza as part of its annual Pride Month celebrations. Around 100 same-sex couples traveled hundreds of miles to attend the event.Since 2010, 26 out of the 32 states in the country have legalized same-sex marriages.Mexico is one of three Latin American countries with the highest number of same-sex marriages, along with Brazil and Argentina.

Kentucky’s Teacher of the Year for 2022, but he announced last week he is resigning from his position teaching high school and college-level French and English at Montgomery County High School in Mount Sterling and leaving the profession due to the increasing hostility to LGBTQ+ teachers and students.“The new anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is complicated,” Carver, 37 tells The Advocate. “It's a dangerous game of policy and culture, and it clearly craves sacrifice.”Carver says it’s the most vulnerable students who are most at risk and left out.“We have to create and maintain space for people who are in ways different to the norm, especially our kids, who are vulnerable,” he says.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On‘s story about carving out a place for oneself in a daunting world feels like a small miracle. And in its adorable star, the film gives us an emblem of hope, of ingenuity, and perseverance—a tiny icon with an outsized appeal for the LGBTQ community.“Generally, I think Marcel focuses us on our similarities more than our differences,” writer-director Dean Fleischer-Camp shares with Queerty.

The latest big-name show to open at London’s Ambassadors Theatre, Mad House, is a new play written by Theresa Rebeck. It features David Harbour – best known for the role of Hopper in hit TV series Stranger Things – starring opposite veteran film and theatre performer Bill Pullman. It’s a dark comedy, exploring themes of death and mental health, and spends most of its time presenting the audience with a dysfunctional family at war with one another.