Club Q Victims, Heroes Identified by Colorado Springs Police

According to GLAAD’s 10th annual Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), there was a decrease in the percentage of LGBTQ+ visibility in films last year.

Hunter Doohan has opened up about his marriage to Fielder Jewett.

Zendaya has shared her hopes for Rue in Euphoria’s forthcoming third season.

Protestors vandalized an out New York City Council member’s office and entered his apartment building on Monday, the member said.Erik Bottcher, who represents the city’s District 3, including Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Hudson Square, Flatiron, Times Square, the Theater District, and the Garment District, tweeted that several people showed up to his office and defaced it.“Today people who call themselves “gays against groomers” vandalized the hallway outside our district office. We will not be cowed. We will not be silenced.

(CNN) -- Amber Heard has settled the defamation lawsuit with her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, according to a statement posted on her verified Instagram account.Heard said she has "made no admission" and that the settlement is "not an act of concession." She pointed to her experience with the American legal system as part of her motivation for deciding to settle the case, alleging that "abundant, direct evidence that corroborated [her] testimony was excluded" and that "popularity and power mattered more than reason and due process.""I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder," Heard said.The actress filed an appeal in the defamation case earlier this month, but Heard said in her statement Monday that "even if [her] U.S. appeal is successful, the best outcome would be a re-trial where a new jury would have to consider the evidence again."CNN has reached out to representatives for Heard and Depp for comment."I simply cannot go through that for a third time," Heard said in her post, adding that she wants to spend her time "productively and purposefully," and can't afford to "risk an impossible bill -- one that is not just financial, but also psychological, physical and emotional."Depp accused Heard of defaming him in a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post.The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million dollars in punitive damages.

Best-selling author J.K. Rowling is showing her anti-transgender ways again by tweeting “Merry Terfmas.”The Harry Potter creator’s tweet is a play on TERF, an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” She has expressed anti-trans views and promoted those of others.

President Joe Biden’s administration is not appealing a ruling by an anti-LGBTQ+ federal judge that certain types of workplace discrimination against transgender people are legal in Texas.That doesn’t mean the administration accepts the ruling, and legal experts say it likely has another strategy in the works, The Dallas Morning News reports. But for now, federal government officials aren’t responding to queries, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who brought the lawsuit that resulted in the ruling, is touting the lack of an appeal as a victory.In October, U.S.

(CNN) -- Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of three of seven charges against him, including rape, Monday in a Los Angeles sexual assault trial in which prosecutors said he used his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them.Jurors found Weinstein not guilty of one count of sexual battery by restraint against another woman. They were a hung jury on one count of sexual battery by restraint, one count of forcible oral copulation and one count of rape related to two other women -- including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, first partner to California Governor Gavin Newsom.The three charges he was convicted of -- rape, sexual penetration by foreign object and forcible oral copulation -- were all tied to one of his accusers, a model and actress who testified the movie mogul assaulted her in a Beverly Hills hotel room in February 2013.The woman, identified as Jane Doe 1 in court, was the first to testify in the trial."Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013.

Philip Lokoko of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria announced the mother-to-child transmission rate of HIV has dropped to less than 10 percent in Nasarawa State. He delivered the news while discussing the Nigeria Resilient and Sustainable System for Health Project in Lafia.According to PM News Nigeria, RSSH is a project for Nigeria’s health system to strengthen their fight against tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV.The project also improves management and laboratory systems while strengthening the Nigerian health management information.

The morning after The Teddy Bear Party, attendees (and some of their kiddos) returned to the Echo Lounge to bag up the bears that they donated to Cook Children’s Hospital. Children’s Health, the usual recipient, canceled its trans health program, so the sponsors changed hospitals. The party collected 2,101 bears that give hospitalized children comfort. Doctors often explain procedures to children by demonstrating on the bears. Next year’s party will return to Echo Lounge on Dec. 9. (Photo by Bryan Chatlien)

A judge in a kidnapping case against the person accused of killing five people last month at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q previously warned the suspected gunman could become violent.In court transcripts obtained by the Associated Press, the judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich raised concerns that Aldrich could be violent in the future.Aldrich reportedly had a stockpile of weapons at this grandparents’ house and had a standoff with police.The news wire reports that Judge Robin Chittum had been told by Aldrich’s grandparents, who had claimed to have been kidnapped, that Aldrich had mental health struggles. The judge said Aldrich should receive treatment or “it’s going to be so bad.”Regardless, Chittum approved a defense attorney’s motion to dismiss the case in a four-minute hearing in July.

LGBTQ+ Americans continue to face discrimination, violence, and other difficulties in many aspects of life, according to the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus’s Inaugural Report on the Condition of LGBTQ+ People in the United States.“LGBTQ+ people deserve the same opportunities to thrive as their non-LGBTQ+ peers. The data presented in this report shows, however, that the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ people are vastly different than those of our straight and cisgender neighbors,” U.S.

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(CNN) -- The January 6 committee used its final public meeting Monday to summarize its 17-month investigation with a simple closing statement: All roads lead to Donald Trump.Members focused on how the former president's direct involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election makes him responsible for the violence that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and unfit to hold future office.The committee laid out the case for both the public and the Justice Department that there's evidence to pursue criminal charges against Trump on multiple criminal statutes, including obstructing an official proceeding, defrauding the United States, making false statements and assisting or aiding an insurrection.The committee released an executive summary of its report on Monday, and it plans to release the full report on Wednesday, as well as transcripts of committee interviews.Here are takeaways from the committee's final public meeting:Committee refers Trump to DOJFor months, the committee went back-and-forth over whether it would refer Trump to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.On Monday, the committee didn't equivocate.The committee referred Trump to DOJ on at least four criminal charges, while saying in its executive summary it had evidence of possible charges of conspiring to injure or impede an officer and seditious conspiracy.In practice, the referral is effectively a symbolic measure.

Shatzi Weisberger, a lesbian, longtime activist for many causes, nurse to people with AIDS, and death educator, died December 1 at age 92 at her apartment in New York City.Weisberger had wide-ranging interests, and one of them was preparing for death in a conscous and positive fashion. She studied the subject of death intensively and led discussion groups on the subject.“I really want to experience my dying,” she said in 2018, according to The New York Times. “I don’t want to die in a car crash or be unconscious.

George Santos, the gay Republican who won a congressional seat last month, may have falsified claims about his employment history and more during the campaign, according to a New York Times investigation.The Times looked into Santos’s résumé and found that several aspects of it could not be verified. In November, Santos beat another gay man, Democrat Robert Zimmerman, in the race for an open seat in New York’s Third Congressional District, which covers much of the north shore of Long Island.

The full line-up of guest judges has been revealed for Drag Race’s forthcoming 15th season.

A Michigan man convicted of killing, gutting, and eating the testicles and other body parts of a hairdresser he met on Grindr has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Mark Latunski, 50, pleaded guilty in September to the December 24, 2019, murder of Kevin Bacon, 25. Lawyers for Latunski had previously contended the man was mentally ill and unfit for trial.

The 2022 Teddy Bear Party brings in teddy bears for children and money for local LGBTQ organizations. And DVtv’s Larry the Fairy is there, along with videographer Joseph Herrera to bring you all the fun and excitement.

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(CNN) -- On a frigid December night outside a suburban Chicago church, a group of parents and wide-eyed children line up to see Santa Claus.He awaits them with the classic St. Nick look: pink, cherubic cheeks, twinkling eyes, a gray beard and a plump belly -- squeezed into a red suit with white fur trim -- that shakes "like a bowl full of jelly" when he laughs.But when a thin teenager with ripped jeans, tousled hair and a gray hoodie sits down next to him, it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary Santa."Nice to meet you. I'm Trans Santa," he says.

(CNN) -- A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a case brought by four cisgender high school girls in Connecticut who claimed the state's trans-inclusive sports policy violated their civil rights and deprived them of a "chance to be champions."The lawsuit, filed in 2020, had been seized on in recent years by state lawmakers and governors pushing anti-trans sports bans, with Republicans citing the claims made by the plaintiffs as they sought to prohibit trans girls and women from competing on teams that match their gender identity.A federal district court judge dismissed the case in April 2021, saying the girls' request to block the policy was moot because the two transgender athletes mentioned in the suit graduated in 2020 and there was "no indication" that the plaintiffs would again compete against trans athletes in the state. The district court also said the plaintiffs lacked the procedural threshold -- known as standing -- needed to bring the suit.It its Friday ruling, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court's decision, writing in a scathing 29-page ruling that the plaintiffs' claim that the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference's policy put them at a competitive disadvantage was unfounded."All four plaintiffs regularly competed at state track championships as high school athletes, where plaintiffs had the opportunity to compete for state titles in different events.

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Happiest Season’s Dan Levy is set to star in the new animated comedy Standing By.

Luke Evans has opened up about potentially playing James Bond in a new interview.

Ryan Murphy has been announced as the recipient of the Carol Burnett Award at this year’s Golden Globes Awards. 

A veteran who was instrumental in taking down the gunman in the Club Q shooting has spoken out about the tragedy in Colorado Springs.

(CNN) — Michael Anderson was mixing drinks at Club Q Saturday night when he heard popping sounds amid the loud, thumping music.He wasn't worried at first. The pops sounded like some sound effects popular at LGBTQ clubs, the bartender told CNN's Don Lemon. Then he looked up and a figure came into his line of sight, clutching a weapon."I saw the outline of a man wearing a rifle at the entrance of the club," he said.Anderson froze.Confused and suddenly terrified, he ducked behind the bar.

A Colorado man suspected of committing the horrific Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting has been arrested and faces numerous charges. 

Five people were killed and 25 injured on Saturday, as a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado. Richard Fierro was there with his wife and daughter when the shots rang out. He’s the one who took the gunman down.“I don’t know exactly what I did, I just went into combat mode,” Mr.

Four of the five people killed in the Nov. 19 mas shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs were, far left, bartender Derrick Rump, bartender/supervisor Daniel Alston, center, patron Kelly Loving, top right, and patron Ashley Paugh, bottom right.

Video footage from a home security camera, provided to CNN by a relative of the shooter’s mother, shows Anderson Lee Aldrich surrendering to police after his mother reported he had threatened her by saying he had a bomb in June 2021. Charges in that case were apparently dropped, and the records sealed, CNN reports.

The 22-year-old suspect in the deadly shooting at the gay nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., was arrested shortly after the shooting on suspicion of hate crime and murder charges.Police detained the alleged gunman, Anderson Lee Aldrich, on suspicion of five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of bias-motivated crimes causing bodily injury — the state's hate crimes charge. The charges are only “arrest charges,” which means they have not been officially brought by prosecutors, according to The Denver Post.The reported charges can still change.At a press conference on Sunday, authorities said that hate crimes charges would not add anything additional to "top-level charges" such as first-degree murder.

(CNN) -- Once again, a mass shooting has rocked Colorado -- this time, in Colorado Springs.A 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in the city shortly before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before patrons confronted and stopped him, police said.At least two people inside Club Q confronted the gunman and prevented further violence, said Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. The suspect used a long rifle in the shooting, and two firearms were found at the scene, Vasquez said.The suspect is being treated at a hospital, police said.

Two heroic bystanders fought a gunman as he opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Colorado at the weekend. Police have paid tribute to the two patrons for their brave actions, which saved countless lives.

As details surface about the fatal shooting on Saturday night at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., that left five people dead and 25 wounded, information about those who died has also emerged.Two of the five people killed — Daniel Davis Aston and Derrick Rump, worked at Club Q, according to ABC News.Another was a visitor from Denver, the New York Times reports.One of the Club Q workers who died, Daniel Davis Aston, a trans man, had moved to Colorado from Oklahoma, his mother, Sabrina Aston told the outlet."He was our baby and he was our youngest," Sabrina Aston said.Drag performer and Club Q employee Leia-Jhene Seals told The Colorado Springs Gazette that Ashton was always looking to help.“He was always, ‘Do you need anything?’” said Seals.The other bartender killed in the attack was Derrick Rump. Seals said Rump was a joker with a vivacious spirit.Performer Tiara Latrice Kelley said Rump was “all about keeping people happy.”On his Facebook profile, friends wrote that Rump was “one of the sweetest guys.”Kelly Loving was another patron gunned down in the shooting.

More information about the mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub is slowly coming to light, including details about the attack itself and how the gunman was stopped.Club Q, a queer venue and safe space for the LGBTQ+ people of Colorado Springs, saw a massacre Saturday night, minutes before midnight. At least five people were killed and more than 20 injured as the alleged gunman entered the establishment and began immediately firing at patrons.In a press conference on Sunday, authorities said that patrons were able to take down the gunman while waiting only minutes until police arrived.Related: Suspected Club Q Mass Shooter Identified by Colorado PoliceWithin five minutes after the first calls to 9-1-1, the gunman had been subdued, Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told The New York Times.“It was quite something,” he explained.

Andy Cohen shared a heartfelt message with his fans on Sunday in reference to the devastating shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.On Sunday, the 54-year-old reality television personality wrote to his 4.9M followers that his heart broke 'for the victims in Colorado.''My blood boils thinking about the many, many elected Republicans who foment hatred against LGBTQ people on a daily basis and then wash their hands of these attacks,' he wrote on his Instagram Story. Devastated: Andy Cohen shared a heartfelt message with his fans on Sunday in reference to the recent shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs; seen in March 2022'The end result of dehumanizing an entire group of people is violence.

Colorado Police have identified the suspect responsible for the tragic shooting at Club Q.

Colorado Police have identified the suspect responsible for the tragic shooting at Club Q.

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At least are dead and 18 injured after a 22-year-old suspect entered Club Q in Colorado Springs Saturday night, Nov. 19, and started shooting, according to reports from numerous news outlets. CNN reports that several of the wounded are in critical condition.

A man entered the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just minutes before midnight on Saturday and “immediately” began shooting before patrons bravely intervened to subdue him, police said at a Sunday morning press conference. Five people were killed and at least 18 people were injured. It was the 601st mass shooting in America this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Police officials have identified a 22-year-old man who walked into a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub and began shooting patrons with a long gun.Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly walked into the club and, without hesitation, began firing around himself shortly before midnight Saturday, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said during a news conference Sunday morning.Five people died, and at least 18 were injured during the attack, but officials said the number could rise.According to Vasquez, at least two people inside the club stopped the gunman. “We owe them a great debt of thanks,” he said.The incident lasted just minutes. Police received numerous 911 calls starting at 11:56 p.m., officers were dispatched at 11:57 p.m., an officer arrived at midnight, and the suspect was detained at 12:02 a.m., police said.Lt.