BBC Three’s queer slasher series Wreck renewed for season 2

When a shooter opened fire at Club Q in Colorado Springs November 19, killing five people and injuring at least 18, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas James stepped up, charging the attacker — along with decorated Army veteran Richard Fierro — and while James pushed a rifle out of the accused shooter’s reach, Fierro beat the attacker with his own handgun. The pair worked together to subdue the suspect and prevent further harm; Fierro told James to repeatedly kick the shooter.“That was hard to do, it’s not a humane act,” Fierro told The New York Times, speaking of James.

Less than two weeks after five people were shot to death and 25 others injured at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, a man was arrested at S4 for carrying a gun. Signs on the doors of all bars on Cedar Springs Road clearly mark them as places where guns may not be carried.

From left: Dana Rivers, Patricia Wright, Benny Toto Diambu-Wright, and Charlotte ReedA transgender activist has been convicted of the 2016 murders of a lesbian couple and their son in Oakland, Calif.An Alameda County jury convicted Dana Rivers of San Jose November 17, The [San Jose] Mercury News reports. Beginning December 5, the jury will consider whether Rivers was legally insane at the time of the killings.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will put the Respect for Marriage Act on the Senate floor late Monday afternoon. It is expected to pass, thanks to about a dozen Republicans who are expected to vote to protect, at least at the federal level, the marriages of same-sex and interracial couples.

British actor Helena Bonham Carter shared her opinions about both author J.K. Rowling and actor Johnny Depp in a recent interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times Magazine, expressing support for both of them.Bonham Carter, 56, said that Depp had been “completely vindicated” after his defamation trial against his ex-wife out actor Amber Heard."I think he's fine now," Bonham Carter said.

Is your LGBTQIA+ family protected under the law? Join this virtual estate planning and legal clinic to ensure your wishes are respected. Resource Center and the UNT Dallas Colleg

In an inquiry into the numerous hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people in Australia between the 1970s and 2000s, a spotlight has brought attention to lesbian targets of the violence. While most of the evidence and cases involve queer men, Carole Ruthchild gave evidence as the first witness from the lesbian community at New South Wales Special Commission Inquiry — the commission investigating the hate crimes, according to the Australian Associated Press.Ruthchild is the former advisor to the attorney general on LGBTQ+ subjects. In 2008, her activism on LGBTQ+ rights led to her being inducted into the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby Hall of Fame.Although homosexuality in New South Wales had been decriminalized in 1984, it didn’t change how queer people were targeted.

A sign at the Colorado Springs headquarters of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian group Focus on the Family was vandalized in protest of the mass shooting at Club Q in that city, a crime that left five people dead and nearly 20 injured.Someone spray-painted “Their blood is on your hands” and “Five lives taken” on the sign at Focus’s headquarters, The Denver Post reports. Officials at the organization wouldn’t say exactly when the incident happened.A group called Colorado Peoples Press claimed responsibility for the incident.

Drag events in the US have been subjected to at least 124 incidents of anti-LGBTQ+ protests and threats in 2022, according to a new report from GLAAD.

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Danny Beard has commented on whether she’d like to return to Drag Race for another winners-only season.

Helena Bonham Carter is speaking out about some very controversial issues involving a few of her A-list peers.

(CNN) -- NFL free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was removed from a Los Angeles-bound American Airlines flight Sunday morning at Miami International Airport after refusing to comply with safety protocol, according to a statement from the Miami-Dade Police Department.Officers were notified of a medical emergency on an American Airlines flight around 9:30 a.m.

Rolling Stone, he said that he wouldn't echo his former view again "because when I said it the times weren't as sensitive as they are now. "I think we love to make big deals out of things that aren't necessarily big deals, because we can," he said. The Oscars takes place on 25 February 2019.

Hollywood’s curse? Helena Bonham Carter defended J.K. Rowling and Johnny Depp amid their respective controversies — and took a strong stance against cancel culture in the process.

Helena Bonham Carter defended her Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows co-star Johnny Depp in an interview with London’s Sunday Times Magazine, saying the actor was “completely vindicated” in his defamation trial against his ex Amber Heard last spring.

A man in Georgia was arrested for allegedly making terroristic threats on social media against at least two LGBTQ+ nightclubs.Chase Staubs was taken into custody over Thanksgiving for making threats against two gay clubs in Atlanta, Heretic and Felix’s. No motivation was provided for the alleged crimes by police, but police did say a pepper spray gun believed used in the threats was recovered at the suspect’s home.The Atlanta Police Department said in a statement that officers responded on Wednesday to a bar identified as Heretic, meeting with employees who said they “observed threatening remarks made towards their establishment on social media.” On Thursday police responded to Felix’s, where employees and patrons told police they asked Staubs to leave the bar once he was identified.“The person appeared to be the same individual involved in making bias terroristic threats” against the Heretic, police said.RELATED: Photos: Who Were the 5 Victims of the Club Q Shooting?Officers quickly notified detectives with the APD Homeland Security Unit.

(CNN) -- Federal surveys like the U.S. Census are gradually taking their transgender respondents into account. But they rarely ask specific questions unique to trans life: Have they been denied access to reproductive health care? Is their life better than it was before they came out as trans?Enter the U.S.

The Minnesota Vikings NFL team was tricked into featuring a photo of adult star Johnny Sins during a portion of the game that honored the U.S. military.The trick happened earlier this month during the Vikings and Dallas Cowboys game in a segment the team calls a “Salute to Soldiers,” which featured photos of members of the armed service put up on the stadium’s jumbotron.Before the game, the Vikings solicited images of service members on Twitter.

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Tom Daley has stressed the importance of “every single person” within the LGBTQ+ community working together to combat hate, discrimination and violence.

Lovers of female-led pop-rock music unite: Gwen Stefani will be joining Pink for her upcoming headline shows at BST Hyde Park.

Elf the Musical – based on the hit 2003 film starring Will Ferrell – has previously played in London back in 2015. Much was made of the high ticket prices back then and, even though we now find ourselves in the midst of a cost of living crisis, not much has changed – with the top tier stalls seats coming in just shy of £200. Does it justify such a high price tag? We’re not convinced.

(CNN) -- The prior arrest of the 22-year-old suspected gunman who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last weekend has put the spotlight on a state law which can be utilized to temporarily remove gun access from those deemed a danger to themselves or others.Colorado's controversial red flag law, also known as an extreme risk protection order, allows law enforcement, family members or a roommate to petition a judge to temporarily seize a person's firearms if they are deemed a risk. But one caveat is they must start the process.If the public is uninformed of the potential risk, or rejects gun control measures, or law enforcement refuses to enforce the law, it could be rendered useless, some observers said.The year before Anderson Lee Aldrich, whose attorneys say uses they/them pronouns, allegedly entered Club Q with an AR-style weapon and a handgun, killing five people and injuring at least 19 others, they were arrested in June 2021 on two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping, according to a news release from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at the time.Aldrich allegedly threatened to harm their mother with a homemade bomb and other weapons.

JoJo Siwa opened up about the heartfelt phone call she received from Elton John after coming out.

The Russian embassy in Canada is facing backlash from LGBTQ+ activists after they posted an offensive homophobic tweet. 

JoJo Siwa opened up about the heartfelt phone call she received from Elton John after coming out.

Openly gay singer Will Young has criticised David Beckham for his partnership with Qatar and the 2022 World Cup. 

American Idol star David Archuleta has opened up about his life after coming out.

American Idol star David Archuleta has opened up about his life after coming out.

NEW YORK: A few months ago at a raucous tech conference in Toronto, I got chatting to some crypto evangelists who were keen to extol the joys of decentralised finance or, as they like to call it, “DeFi”.

Daniel Craig has opened up about his Knives Out character’s sexuality in a new interview.

Emmerdale actor Ash Palmisciano, who plays the soap's first transgender character, has spoken about the heartbreak of losing his mum.

Would it really be the holiday season without Drag Race royalty Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme bringing their festive tour to a theatre near you? No points for guessing the answer. In fact, there are also no points for guessing that the show is phenomenal, but when has something these queens have worked on not been? In many ways, The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show feels like a victory lap for the beloved duo, whose success has gone long beyond the reality TV series that once made them famous. 

(CNN) – The World Cup is well underway in Qatar, but issues surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and visibility in the Gulf state just won't go away.On Saturday, two German soccer fans told CNN that they were asked by security officials at Qatar 2022 to remove the rainbow-colored items that they were wearing as they made their way to watch the World Cup match between France and Denmark on Saturday.CNN witnessed the conclusion to the incident at the Msheireb Metro Station, in Doha, as Bengt Kunkel, who was wearing a rainbow-colored sweatband, and his friend – sporting a similarly colored armband – refused to hand over the items. The rainbow is a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride.After taking the Germans to one side, a group of security guards eventually let them go – on condition that they put the rainbow-colored items in their pockets, according to Kunkel.“Out of nowhere.

Standing her ground. After Jodie Sweetin seemingly shaded her Full House costar Candace Cameron Bure over her alleged homophobic beliefs, the UnSweetined author is not backing down.

The Crown’s Emma Corrin has called out “clickbait” headlines relating to gender identity and inclusion topics.

The Football Association lit up the Wembley Stadium arch in rainbow colours following the OneLove armband controversy.

Club Q co-owner Nic Grzecka said the recent shooting is a result of increased anti-LGBTQ+ hate within the political sphere. 

GEMMA Collins looked sensational as she showed off her trim body in tight trousers in the Austrian Alps. The reality TV queen looked glam in her super-tight outfit in the snow as she showed off her two and a half stone weight loss.

Cue the wedding bells, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin have announced their engagement.  

(CNN) – One person was killed and 10 more were missing Saturday after heavy rain caused a landslide on the Italian holiday island of Ischia.Search and rescue operations are underway in the small town of Casamicciola Terme and reinforcements are being sent from Naples, said the Italian Fire Brigade, but weather conditions are complicating the search, Italy’s Civil Protection department told CNN on Saturday.Eight people had been rescued as of Saturday evening local time, said the civil protection department.The operations were being coordinated by the Naples prefecture, authorities told CNN, and are expected to continue through the night. Seventy firefighters are currently on the island assisting with the search and rescue, Italian Fire Brigade said in a tweet.Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples, was hit by torrential rain early Saturday, damaging cars, buildings, and roads.Videos and images shared by local and national authorities earlier today showed the destruction in the port town of Casamicciola Terme.“It is a time of pain and great emergency,” Vincenzo De Luca, governor of the Campania region, where the island is located, said on Saturday, thanking Italian Prime Minister Meloni for her close contact and message of solidarity.Meloni said on Twitter that she was in contact with local authorities, expressing solidarity with residents and thanking the rescue services.Ischia mayor Enzo Ferrandino described the incident as a “tragedy” and urged people not to leave their homes, reports ANSA news agency.In February 2021 a landslide on the Italian coast near Genoa caused the collapse of a cemetery, leading to hundreds of coffins falling into the sea.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

Treating HIV symptoms in “clusters” could help improve a patient’s overall quality of life, according to a study presented at the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care 2022 annual meeting.The evidence, according to Medscape, showed that the four main symptom clusters for HIV include pain, body psychological, gastrointestinal, and body image. These symptoms were also more common in HIV-positive people older than 45.Natalie Wilson, PhD, assistant professor of community health systems at the UCSF School of Nursing, and a group of colleagues performed a study that also suggested that the elderly population experienced more distress from their symptoms, with the exception of anxiety.“The symptom burden is still high in people living with HIV,” said Wilson.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden called the owners of Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., where last week a gunman killed five people and injured more than a dozen more.The two offered their condolences to owners Nic Grzecka and Matthew Haynes, according to the White House.The Bidens also voiced support for the LGBTQ+ community.“They reiterated their support for the community as well as their commitment to fighting back against hate and gun violence,” the White House said on Friday. “They also thanked Nic and Matthew for the incredible contributions they have made and will continue to make to Colorado Springs.”Grzecka and Haynes have said the attack on Club Q, which was a queer safe space in a conservative community, was a hate crime.

(CNN) -- FIFA President Gianni Infantino pleaded with countries to let football take center stage ahead of the World Cup in Qatar, but it hasn't quite worked out like that.Soccer's global governing body has found itself at loggerheads with seven European nations over the threat of sanctions for any player wearing a "OneLove" armband during games.The eleventh-hour announcement from FIFA has created a rift between soccer's governing body and the seven nations involved, although neither side has emerged free from criticism.The "OneLove" armband -- which features the outline of a heart striped in different colors -- was intended to be worn by captains from England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Wales at the World Cup to promote inclusion and display solidarity with people of different genders and sexual identities.But hours before England captain Harry Kane was scheduled to wear the armband against Iran on Monday, FIFA said any player wearing the armbands would receive a yellow card, putting them in danger of being sent off or banned from a later game in the tournament.FIFA regulations state that team captains must wear armbands provided by the governing body, even though it said it "supports all legitimate causes, such as 'OneLove.'"However, the debacle has rumbled on as a sideshow to the tournament itself.If players like Kane didn't wear the armband, Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Hadja Lahbib did as she talked to Infantino at the World Cup game between Belgium and Canada on Wednesday.German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also wore the armband with Infantino sitting close by during her country's 2-1 defeat against Japan."It's quite scary for LGBTQ+ communities around the world to see our

HEBER CITY (KSL) -- Local groups in Utah are working to help people in the LGBTQ community feel more welcome and more understood.Kyle Ashworth was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served a mission, married in the temple, and had some kids."And after all those things, I still was gay," Ashworth said.Now, he's married again and hosts the podcast Latter Gay Stories, where he's hoping by sharing people's stories, others might get a better understanding."A lot of the religious population have no need to draw closer to the queer community," Ashworth explained. "It's usually only when someone's son or daughter or child comes out that a family actually pays attention to these topics."He's not the only one in Utah with this kind of personal mission, like Susie Augenstein."I'm constantly begging and pleading for people, especially those that don't have LGBTQ kids in their lives, to join us and to help support those that do because they need us," Augenstein said.She's an ally to queer kids and adults through a group called Peculiar."Whether it's a shooting like happened or a suicide, we just need to stop the deaths and have them feel like they're a part of us," explained Augenstein.And it's tragedies like the one in Colorado that have people on the side of allyship and support.

The queens gave heartwarming makeovers to six special guests on the latest episode of Drag Race UK season four.