Dove Cameron Says She Felt She Could Really Be Herself Publicly For The First Time After Coming Out As Bisexual

Muhsin Hendricks is said to be the world’s first openly gay imam. (Photo: Richard Finn Gregory)

Only Murders in the Building.While Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez all return for the second installment of the popular Hulu show, new cast members like Delevingne and Amy Schumer are joining too. The season starts with two episodes dropping on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.Ahead of the Season 2 debut, Delevingne appeared at a special London screening of the show to discuss her arrival in the show."I wondered how they got the role," Delevingne told the event, attended by Newsweek, "but then they described the part to me and they were like, 'she's English, queer, and a wannabe artist'...

Labour MP for Islington, South Finsbury and I’m gay’.With those words, Chris became the first-ever openly gay MP, and later the first gay cabinet minister – after Labour’s late Maureen Colquhoun confirmed herself as Britain’s first openly lesbian MP in the 1970s.The bravery both politicians showed paved the way for others – with the UK having more LGBTQ+ lawmakers than anywhere else in the world after the last election.Over the years, Chris, who served in Tony’s Blair’s government, has continued to fight against dangerous prejudice and became the first MP to announce he was living with HIV in 2005.Speaking to Metro.co.uk about his place in LGBTQ+ history on Pride Month, the 70-year-old has told readers to ‘be proud about who and what you are’.Chris, who now sits in the House of Lords, knew he was gay a decade before he was elected in 1983, but had never shared his sexuality with the world. The right moment ‘had never presented itself’ – and the fear homophobia would lose him votes lingered uncomfortably in the back of his mind.The right occasion finally arose when Rugby Council decided to withdraw protection for discrimination against sexual orientation in what was named a ‘ban on gays’.Although the council denied discriminating, one councillor named ‘all homosexuals vile and perverted people’, while the leader said ’we are not having men turn up for work in dresses round here’.‘I can remember sitting on the train to Rugby and writing this mundane speech’, Chris said. ‘But when I arrived at the hall, about 1,000 people were there and I remember just thinking, “if I’m going to do this, this is the moment”.

Blumhouse has released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming conversion therapy horror They/Them.

Cameroon-born performance artist and "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season #1 winner BeBe Zahara Benet believes in the power of drag."Drag is having its moment in pop culture right now, but it won't last forever," said Benet. "This type of representation matters immensely.""Visibility is so crucial," she said, from things like drag storytime to the Emmy Award-winning "RuPaul's Drag Race."She hopes that the award-winning documentary, "Being BeBe", her music, and live and video performances "pushes the needle forward in opening eyes, hearts, and minds" in Africa and wakes the West up and activate people to "help liberate others.""Being BeBe" debuted on Fuse June 21 in the United States and on OUTtv in Canada.

JoJo Siwa experiences a whole new world in her upcoming Facebook Watch series “JoJo Goes”.

This is one summer camp you want to avoid.

Should the primary aim of elite sports be competitive fairness? Or does maintaining integrity mean that inclusiveness is just as important as a level playing field? The issue, which has roiled the water of pools everywhere with the success of Lia Thomas, the transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer, burst to the surface again on Sunday. FINA, swimming’s world governing body, essentially prohibited transgender women from the highest levels of women’s international competition.

Dave Chappelle is out of new material.Newly posted audio from the Netflix is a Joke Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in late April finds Chappelle clinging to the same tired, queerphobic comedy that has kept him recently relevant.Chappelle blasted Lil Nas X as a “promiscuous f*g,” called Lia Thomas a man, and compared transness to him “identifying as Chinese” before putting on a heavy stereotypical East Asian accent.The section of his stand-up focused on Lil Nas X was based around the statement, “I don’t like Lil Nas X. It’s not because he’s gay; it’s because he’s slutty.”Dave Chappelle speaks on Lil Nas X pic.twitter.com/Uu8Wjpq6LR— ⚜️ LTDP FRIDAY (@lilnasxmajor) June 22, 2022 Even after speaking on Lil Nas X as one of the “promiscuous f*gs in Hollywood,” he somehow expected the crowd to believe him later on he said he respects Lil Nas X because he’s “busy being himself.”In another part of the show, Chappelle returned to his trademark transphobia, this time targeting Lia Thomas specifically (or, as he referred to her, “this trans swimming b*tch”).Watch. Or maybe don’t.Chappelle continued the tired rhetoric that Thomas is completely dominating the sport since transitioning (for reference, Thomas has won one single race in competition since transitioning).A large portion of the country, including a number of legislators, wish that trans people did not exist and plan to do their best to make it so, and Chappelle is out here laughing with those folks in front of thousands and thousands of people.He asserts each time that he launches a new attack against the trans community that he “has nothing against them,” but is clearly content with contributing to the culture that would see them eradicated.In 2006, Chappelle left his

Madonna refused to wear the costumes provided for her when she taped an episode of Will & Grace back in 2003, according to executive producer Gary Janetti.The Queen of Pop appeared on Season 5 of the hit show as part of the promotional campaign for her album American Life. The episode, which drew almost 18 million viewers, was titled  “Dolls and Dolls.” In it, Madonna played Liz, Karen’s (Megan Mullally) messy roommate.Speaking to the “Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef” podcast, Janetti recalls: “[She’s] like an executive secretary, the kind of woman who wears her sneakers on the subway and carries her shoes in her bag and goes to a happy hour after work and thinks she’s kind of like, you know, a big deal in her tiny office.”“So she was supposed to wear, you know, Anne Klein II suits with sneakers and be the kind of woman you’d see on the subway. And Madonna as that is very funny … but Madonna didn’t want to wear any of those clothes.”Madonna… being difficult… about her wardrobe?? We don’t believe it for a second!Janetti goes on to say that the singer, who was “at the height of her fame” at the time, brought her own wardrobe and glam team to set.The producer adds that he wasn’t sure if she had “a particularly good sense of humor” and so he ultimately concluded that asking her to wear her character’s pre-selected wardrobe “wasn’t a conversation that was going to happen.”“So, she looked fabulous,” he says, “but as a result, it was about 50 percent less funny than it should have been.”“We even had jokes we had to change because of what Karen said — maybe based on what she was wearing — [because it] didn’t make sense anymore,” Janetti continues.

They/Them takes us to summer camp. But this isn’t your typical retreat filled with hot and bothered teens—it’s a gay conversion camp.

Related: Anti-gay hate pastor proudly spews his vile nonsense to little kidsIf elected, he said he wanted to bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee, the committee that was started in 1938 to investigate subversive citizens with ties to communism before it was abolished in 1975.“It is a committee that we should reenact that starts holding these people accountable for treason. Lindsey Graham should be held accountable for treason for supporting Joe Biden’s gun-grabbing Second Amendment law that he’s trying to push forward,” Burns said.“We need to hold people for treason, start having some public hearings, and start executing people who are found guilty for their treasonous acts against the Constitution of the United States of America, just like they did back in 1776.”You can watch the interview below.Asked for clarification, Burns later told Newsweek that “liberal media like CNN have gone easy on sex abuse and trafficking and grooming of minors, which should be a capitol [sic] offense punishable by death.”Related: North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. calls homosexuality “filth”, says guns are gift from GodThis week, talking to conservative podcasters Diamond and Silk, Burns expressed his frustration at how his hateful comments had been reported.He said if people had watched the show in its entirety, “then you would clearly hear me not say that we should be killing the LGBT or transgender community.

re—inc website states. The site calls the painting “a bold and brave structure that serves as an ode to the challenging process of personal discovery.”“Each square represents the uniqueness and multi-dimensional nature of a coming out experience,” the site says.

Above: Rorex addressing a rally celebrating the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision in 2015.Clela Rorex, who was a former clerk in Boulder County, Colo., died at age 78.Rorex died Sunday at a hospice in Longmont, Colo., Boulder’s Daily Camera reports. She had suffered complications from a recent surgery.In 1975, when she was Boulder County clerk, Rorex received a marriage license application from two men from Colorado Springs who had been denied a license in their home county, El Paso County. Rorex consulted Bill Wise, an assistant district attorney in her county, and he said there was no law against issuing the license, “probably because the situation was simply not contemplated in the past by our legislature,” notes a news release from Out Boulder County.

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of course he is mannerisms. In dramas, they showed up in crime or legal series, the (offscreen) homosexuality serving as fulcrum for the week’s plot – blackmail, revenge over unrequited-love, mental instability – with a correlation seemingly drawn between gay and aberrant.But then TV began to become more real in the 1970s, in large part due to the arrival of “All in the Family” in 1971.

name its theater after him due to student backlash over transphobic remarks he has made over the past several months. During a dedication speech at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Northwest Washington, D.C., the comedian told the audience that he didn’t want his name to distract students from their art.The announcement came as a surprise to the crowd assembled Monday night for the ceremony.

Protecting her family — and the crown. Royal expert Katie Nicholl explained that Queen Elizabeth II won’t release anything about the bullying report filed against Meghan Markle because the sovereign wants to shield the monarchy and her loved ones from the negativity.

Not putting themselves in a box. As LGBTQ+ representation in media becomes more common, some celebrities have pushed back against the expectation that they have to define their sexuality.

Drawing a line in the sand!

READ MORE: Netflix Bridgerton cast romances - coming out, footballer partner and Kim Kardashian linkBy throwing the audience into the deep end of their virgin lesbian sex adventure head first, the producers of the series had viewers questioning the actual premise of the show.A number of viewers took to social media to ask if teenagers were the actual target audience of the show, with some criticising the lack of a romantic buildup between the two characters before they started romping.“All these new teen shows with heavy sexual themes. Who exactly is the audience?” asked one angry viewer, to which another responded admitting they had to stop watching First Kill because of the sex scenes.She said: “At 28 I really can't watch people pretending to be 15-17 being that sexual and not feel icky.”Another commented: “The sex scenes in First Kill are actually so inappropriate.”“I’m liking First Kill so far but did they have to make them 16?” questioned one.Several critics went online to express their belief that the sex scene was a typical example of a show being written and produced with a ‘male gaze’, saying they believed the show had been ‘oversexualised’, but others were not so sure.Instructing people who criticise First Kill because of its ‘sexual content’ to ‘go and watch Peppa Pig’ instead, one person said: “Women have sex with women, and if you’re saying a certain TV show is for the male gaze only because it has scenes with this type of content, it’s actually offensive.”Concurring, another said: “Anyone saying (First Kill’s) scenes are for the male gaze is just straight up weird.

Queen Elizabeth does not want any more of the palace's «dirty linens» aired in public.After it was revealed that Buckingham Palace would not be releasing a report to the public on the investigation into claims that Meghan Markle «bullied» palace staff, ET royal expert, Katie Nicholl, said that the Queen is doing her best to keep the matter «in-house» after a particularly dramatic year for the royal family.«Everything that I'm hearing at the moment out of the palace, is that the Queen doesn't want any more drama. She just doesn't want any more dirty linens aired in public,» Nicholl shared.She continued, «By taking it in-house, which is essentially what the Queen has done, she is trying to limit any further damage, any further damage to the monarchy, potentially any further damage to those members of staff who have made those allegations and also, possibly to the Duchess of Sussex, who denied those allegations.»While trying to limit any further damage to those involved, Nicholl said the Palace is trying to protect those involved as well as the queen attempts to bury Meghan's bullying report.«Well, it's been speculated that the reason that this investigation isn't going to essentially see the light of day, at least in public, is to protect those who spoke out and made these allegations of bullying against the Duchess of Sussex, to protect their privacy, to protect their anonymity.

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Asexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction ("ace" for short). Aromantic: A person who does not experience romantic attraction ("aro" for short). Note: A person who is asexual is not necessarily also aromantic, and vice versa. Demisexual: A person who only experiences sexual attraction after forming a strong emotional bond with someone. If you're interested in learning more, The Trevor Project or The Asexual Visibility & Education Network are both great resources. Responses may have been edited for length and/or clarity. —cjhall262—Adrienne1013(This is the demisexual pride flag.) —Anonymous, 26, Denmark—Anonymous, 26, Pennsylvania—kgillie93"That we're lying about it. I can't count the amount of times I've been asked 'Really? Never?' Even long after I've told the person.That we all hate sex.

Kesha has opened up about her sexuality in a lengthy Pride Month Instagram post shared to her account on Friday.The Die Young hitmaker, 35, stated that she is'not gay' and 'not straight' underneath a stunning outdoor selfie of herself.'I’m not gay. I’m not straight.

REUTERS – An Osaka court on Monday ruled that Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage was not “unconstitutional,” dealing a blow to LGBTQ rights activists in the only Group of Seven nation that doesn’t allow people of the same gender to marry.Three same-sex couples had filed the case in the Osaka district court, only the second to be heard on the issue in Japan. As well as dismissing their claim the ban contravenes the Constitution, the court rejected their claim for ¥1 million ($7,414) in damages.This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.

Fire Island director Andrew Ahn said he fought for nudity in the hit LGBTQ+ film.

Pop superstar Kesha opened up about her sexuality in a heartwarming social media post.

five homoerotic music videos that were too hot for the censors to handle, then catch up on the latest from Gay TikTok:An enormous Pride dress made its debut.Comfy Daddy confirmed from the inside.TooTurntTony showed off his ducks.A hater tried to dominate bi Pride.Marco Medici taught some Italian.Utah Pride had some unwanted guestsFrancis Haugen woke up with style.Jose Sanchez begged for gay followers.Nicola Russell painted the oldest gay couple in history.And Alaska Airlines rained free flights for Pride.

On Saturday, June 11, “Jeopardy!” champ Amy Schneider threw out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game in celebration of Pride Day.

Openly gay comedian Jerrod Carmichael has called out Dave Chappelle and his anti-trans remarks. 

Kesha is celebrating Pride month.

Donald Trump has said that teachers should not be allowed "to teach transgender to our children" without permission from their parents, in his latest comments about transgender people.Trump made the remarks during his keynote speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday and also criticized what he described as "gender ideology."The former president is weighing in on an issue that has rapidly become a major point of contention for Republicans: discussions of gender and sexual identity in the classroom."Pushing woke gender ideology, think of it, on young people, is nothing less than child abuse," Trump said."No teacher should ever be allowed to teach transgender to our children without the parents' consent, and I don't think too many people are gonna be giving that consent. Not too many," the former president said.During his speech in Nashville, Trump also said that politics had become a "religion" for "the radical left" and that it "has warped their sense of right and wrong.

Simon Webbe has gushed over his eldest daughter Alanah, who came out as gay “really young”. Simon, 44, welcomed his daughter Alanah in 1996 with his ex-girlfriend Nicola Jones.The singer has since had a second child with his now-wife Ayshen Kemal – whom he married in 2018. Ayshen gave birth to a little girl named Cyan Shenel last year.

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London.The UK’s first Pride March, in 1972, took place just a few miles away between Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square.The march is depicted among the photographs within the Queer Britain museum, along with other key moments spanning the UK’s LGBTQ+ history.The museum’s contents are tightly interwoven with its staff.Front of House manager Stephanie Stevens initially joined Queer Britain as a volunteer, desperate to get ‘involved in any way’.She told Metro.co.uk: ‘As a trans woman, queer identifying, this was so important to me, I wanted to get involved in any way.‘Having an entire space dedicated to LGBTQ+ history is just amazing.‘It’s so normal to have to be grateful to be in the background of some other space, hidden away in a back room.‘To have our own museum is long overdue, it’s something we’ve needed for a long time.‘We’re slap-bang in the middle of London, standing shoulder to shoulder with huge institutions.’The aptly named ‘Welcome to Queer Britain’ display is the inagural exhibition for the museum.Lasting until July and spread over several rooms, it features key images from throughout the history of UK’s battle for LGBTQ+ rights.Rickshaw rider charged £180 for three minutes - and now he's got a £1,000 fineWhat I Rent: Oriana, £2,000 a month for a one-bedroom flat in Canning Town, LondonChef sacked for not washing hands after being caught 'kissing and fondling' waiterSection 28, the law which prohibited the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ by councils, introduced by the Thatcher Government in 1988, is featured.However images of more joyful occasions, such as the legalisation of equal marriage in England, Wales and Scotland – and later Northern Ireland – are also depicted.The exhibit also features key figures such as

pic.twitter.com/r0h232xaXd— NASCAR (@NASCAR) June 1, 2022The reference to “recent actions” not aligning with NASCAR’s mission to welcome all is believed to be down to the fact that Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) waved the green flag ahead of the May 22 All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway.In February, Abbott called for state agencies to investigate gender-affirming treatments on transgender teenagers. Although not explicit, most took the tweet as NASCAR admitting Abbott’s involvement with the pre-race rituals had been a mistake.Related: Postmates marks Pride month with bottom-friendly food menusNASCAR’s new Pride range earned praise from many.I admire that NASCAR is evolving even though it’s base is probably not happy about it.

Instagram stories. She does not use any particular labels for herself. Ava specified that she is attracted to "people" while answering the question of a fan who asked if she liked girls or boys. She also said that her gender is "whatever."Singer Emeli Sandé came out as queer in early April. In an interview with Metro, she clarified that she is in a same-sex relationship and that she is "happier than ever."Four-time Survivor contestant, Ozzy Lusth, has come out as bisexual via Twitter on April 8. And for my Republican Colleagues, and anyone else who matters, Yeah I’m Bisexual.

London’s most successful LGBTQ+ nightclubs could close, after owners admitted they ‘don’t know what the future holds.’G-A-Y, with venues across the capital, has been in business for decades, and have welcomed guests such as Spice Girls, Lady Gaga and Adele.But the venues closed on June 12 for a ‘true break’ to protect the mental health of staff, owner Jeremy Joseph announced this week.He also revealed he is considering shutting down them for good.Mr Joseph told Virgin Radio Pride UK: ‘There are probably three or four options on the table, including closing and selling up.‘I’m not saying that’s what I’m going to do. I don’t know what I’m going to do.

Raja has opened up about her lip-sync performance against Jinkx Monsoon during last week’s All Stars 7 episode. 

In a new profile for GQ, Jerrod Carmichael addressed the nature of “cancel culture,” Dave Chappelle, and the fallout with his family after coming out in his intimate comedy special, Rothaniel, which premiered on HBO earlier this year.During his frank conversation with the magazine, the typically private comedian reflected on the encouraging response from his niece and why he has faith in the younger generation, which led to him opening up about his thoughts on the way certain big-name comedians use the idea of cancel culture as a “boogeyman” scare tactic: “I love this generation. I actually f*ck with them, and f*ck all those comedians that are going so hard against them.”Though he didn’t initially mention Chappelle by name, it was pretty clear who Carmichael was referencing.

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who came out earlier this year in his much-praised HBO special Rothaniel, had some words for fellow stand-up Dave Chappelle about the latter’s stances on gender, trans rights and cancel culture.

Students at Yeshiva University in New York have tried for years to get their school to recognize an L.G.B.T.Q. student club, pushing back on the administration’s argument that its status as a Modern Orthodox Jewish school exempted it from the city’s human rights law. Last year, a group of students and alumni filed a lawsuit, and on Tuesday a state judge ruled in their favor, declaring that Yeshiva is not a religious institution and so must follow the law and recognize the club.

the New York Times that both “Philadelphia” and his 1994 dramedy “Forrest Gump” were “timely movies, at the time, that you might not be able to make now.”“Let’s address, ‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’ ” Hanks asked. “No, and rightly so.

Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir, queer author and professor Jonathan Alexander took a trip to the past, imagining that he was in conversation with his younger self. The approach, he says, allowed him to better understand who he is today.

pic.twitter.com/fw5DMMeSJN— Ron Filipkowski

monkeypox.Microbiologist Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, shared his feelings with the state-run TASS news agency at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.Gintsburg told the news outlet that "naturally, [a vaccine] is needed," to control the virus, as it is rapidly spreading throughout the globe with no explanation."Today, no one can explain why this infection, which was endemic to the African continent, is spreading across the globe for no apparent reason.

Tom Hanks has looked back on his 1993 role as a gay man in Philadelphia and said that ‘rightly so’ he could not – as a straight man – play that part today.In the legal drama, which scored him his first of two back-to-back Best Actor Oscars wins, the Forrest Gump star portrayed gay lawyer Andrew Beckett.Beckett initially conceals his sexuality and HIV-positive status from colleagues before suing his employers for firing him.The film, which co-starred Denzel Washington, was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address HIV/AIDS and homophobia.‘Let’s address ‘could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’ No, and rightly so,’ the 65-year-old stated in a new interview.‘The whole point of Philadelphia was don’t be afraid.