Ellen DeGeneres posts emotional message after filming final Ellen Show

Laverne Cox is making history! The 49-year-old actress is unveiling her latest achievement, becoming the first trans Barbie doll, joining forces with Mattel for their special Tribute Collection.The popular brand was inspired by Laverne and decided to create a doll based on her, including her in the collection among other celebrities, such as Zendaya, Vera Wang and Ashley Graham.“As a four-time Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer, and the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a scripted TV show, Laverne Cox uses her voice to amplify the message of moving beyond societal expectations to live more authentically,” Marvel shared.The Barbie doll can be found on the official website wearing “a triple-threat original design, featuring a deep red tulle gown gracefully draped over a dazzling, silver metallic bodysuit. Her hair is swept into glamorous Hollywood waves while dramatic makeup completes her look.”The actress shared her excitement for being part of the collection, revealing that “It’s been a dream for years to work with Barbie to create my own doll.”“I can’t wait for fans to find my doll on shelves and have the opportunity to add a Barbie doll modeled after a transgender person to their collection.

GEMMA Collins wowed in a multi coloured dress as she scoffed some chocolate during a baking session. The former Towie star, 41, decided to bake a cake for the Queen's Jubilee next week.

Lily Collins was spotted while taking her dog Redford for a walk in West Hollywood on Wednesday afternoon.The 33-year-old performer cut a casual figure while taking her pooch out for a bit of exercise and enjoying the pleasant California springtime weather.Collins tucked a dark gray t-shirt into a pair of stark white pants during her dog-walk. Stepping out:Lily Collins, 33, was spotted while taking her dog Redford for a walk in West Hollywood on Wednesday afternoonTheExtremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile actress paired her look with a set of dark beige shoes.

Views expressed in The Advocate’s Commentary articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Pride Media.It always seemed that there was nothing worse than growing up a closeted gay Catholic. The religion treated you like a pariah, and I have vivid memories of watching the news during the AIDS crisis and being dumbfounded by the sit-in by ACT UP at St.

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to an end. The eponymous talk show of lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres broadcasted its last episode Thursday after 19 seasons.In her opening monologue, DeGeneres detailed the difficulty she had in selling the show to stations following her coming out several years prior.“Twenty years ago when we were trying to sell the show, no one thought that this would work.

One of the more warmly received features at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is the stirring relationship drama The Blue Caftan, a story of love, grief, and queer desire from Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani.The Blue Caftan follows the story of married couple, Halim (Saleh Bakri, from The Band’s Visit) and Mina (Lubna Azabal, known for her work in Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies) who run a traditional caftan shop in one of Morocco’s oldest city centers, where Halim carefully hand-sews garments for demanding clientele. To keep up with the work, the pair hires a handsome young apprentice, Youssef (Ayoub Messioui), and it’s not long before he and Halim find themselves making longing glances at one another from across the room.Pulling at the threads of this mutual affection naturally causes some snags in Halim and Mina’s relationship, further complicated by Mina’s declining health.

Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey revealed which scene from season 2 was the most “traumatising” for him to film.

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Jasper Soloff at 26 is the baby-faced director you need to keep your eye on.Whether he’s directing a Billy Porter music video or shooting a cosmetics campaign starring Gigi Hadid, he’s on his way to real magic in story telling.After finishing school at Central Saint Martin in London, he moved to Brooklyn and got his start photographing his friends on his roof.Having zero contacts and wanting to work in fashion in NYC, he did what gay men do best: hustle. The hustle–and the formidable talent–eventually paid off and he began to book shoot after shoot.Today he’s directing commercials, video editorials  and has a determined desire to tell queer stories in film, big queer stories that we can’t wait to see on the little or big screen.Get to know the Jasper Soloff behind his Instagram @jasperegan in this exclusvie Queerty chat with Queerty contributor Michael Page Wright.Hi Jasper!!!HIII!As I do, lets jump into it. As a director there must have been that movie you watched an insane amount of times?Chicago.

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Texas pastor Jonathan Shelley, leader of the virulently antigay Stedfast Baptist Church, stopped by a city council meeting to offer his thoughts on Pride month. Spoiler alert: He’s not a fan.In a video posted by activist Hemat Metha, Shelley appears before the Arlington City Council during a meeting that acknowledged June as Pride month.

Laverne Cox is in her plastic fantastic fantasy this week after Mattel released an official Barbie doll in her likeness as part of their Tribute Collection. Featuring a red leather bodice that flows into a light tulle gown all covering a silver bodysuit, the doll is the first of its kind to be modeled after a trans woman.

Conservatives are railing against Arizona's Department of Education for providing resources for LGBTQ+ students.In their latest attack, right-wing activists point to the state education department's website, claiming that LGBTQ+ people groom children for sexual exploitation.The department provides dozens of links to local and national resources for LGBTQ+ students, educators, and families in its resources section. In addition, there are two chat rooms, Gender Spectrum and Q Chat Space, where young people can interact with one another and with trained moderators to discuss essential matters to that particular community.It's here where conservatives have sought to make something harmless sound nefarious. As part of CenterLink's Q Chat Space initiative, young people can join scheduled conversations on various topics.

offered a mixed ruling May 13 in a suit challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that started the investigations. It lifted an injunction placed by a lower court on enforcement of the order while the lawsuit is heard, but it also said the policies of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services were at the discretion of that agency, not the governor.

targeting transgender youth and their families with laws criminalizing gender-affirming care. But one video game development company is offering to help employees move away from such restrictive states.The CEO of Certain Affinity — an Austin, Texas-based video game studio that has helped develop several best-selling military combat games like Call of Duty, Halo and the 2016 version of the demon-slaying classic Doom — recently told his employees that his company would help relocate anyone residing in a state that outlaws abortion or trans-related medical care.“If the state or province you live in restricts access to what a majority of medical experts consider essential care, and this makes remaining there untenable for you and your family, we will cover the pre-approved, documented, reasonable out-of-pocket costs of your relocation to another, safer state or province that we operate in,” Certain Affinity CEO Max Hoberman said in a recent letter to all employees.Certain Affinity has an approximate number of over 250 employees working in offices in Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario as well as remote workers in other U.S.

Gemma Collins wasn't holding back the intimate details about her sex life with fiancé Rami Hawash during a recent Instagram post.The 41-year-old TV star had taken to her platform in collaboration with Durex - a brand of condoms and lubricants who have also branched out to sex toys in recent years.With such a successful social media account, Gemma is no stranger when it comes to plugging goods on her page.However, the starlet decided that this time she'd tackle the taboo subject around "self love" - joining celebrities such as Love Island's Megan Barton Hanson with breaking the stigma.Selling a Durex sex product, Gemma went on to explain details about her own sex life with her future husband-to-be.Addressing her 2million fans, the GC said: "I know that buying a toy can be intimidating but trust me I get it - they can be overwhelming, especially your first time. But guys it doesn't have to be."She went on to add: "But guys the other day, I was talking to my friends about self-love and I realised everyone wants to talk about it.

The same day Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar posted dangerous lies on Twitter claiming the person who murdered 19 fourth-graders and two teachers on Tuesday, May 24, in Uvalde, a 17-year-old transgender girl in El Paso said she was attacked on the street by four men, one of whom claimed “it was one of your sisters who killed those kids. You’re a mental health freak,” according to LGBTQ Nation.

Senate Bill 615, requires students in public schools and public charter schools to use the restrooms and changing rooms designated for the gender on their original birth certificate. It applies to students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Venerable film and television actor Ray Liotta has passed away at the age of 67. RIP.Best known for his role as Harry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie classic, Goodfellas, Liotta has made a career out of playing wise guys, tough guys, and generally guys you just don’t want to mess around with.

GCN has the scoop on the exciting events upcoming on June 4. Make sure to mark your calendars for a night filled with incredible entertainment right here in Dublin, courtesy of Film Fatale! Come out to The Sugar Club and join the Film Fatale family in celebrating their 10th birthday party on Friday, June 4 […]

Beverly Tillery is the executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, an organization that works to address and end all forms of violence through organizing and education and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. She is an experienced thought leader, advocate, and national organizer with nearly three decades of experience working in social justice movements. AVP runs a 24-hour bilingual (English/Spanish) hotline for LGBTQ and HIV-affected survivors of violence.

Caitlin Quinlan “I don’t think you ever have to be fearful when you’re writing a film,” says Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani ahead of the premiere of her second feature “The Blue Caftan” in Un Certain Regard.Following the relationship between husband and wife Halim and Mina who have kept Halim’s homosexuality a secret for many years, the film takes an important stand against the homophobia of Morocco and its anti-LGTBQ laws. “In Morocco, homosexuality is illegal and I don’t have words to describe how it makes me feel.

Harry Styles concert on gochujang, gochugaru, maesil cheong, and other pantry items. This shopping spree was inspired by Eric Kim’s Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home, my must-cook tome of the summer.Kim, a New York Times staff writer, spent a year in his hometown of Atlanta with his mother, Jean, coaxing out traditional Korean recipes (“Getting a recipe out of my mother is like pulling teeth out of a tiger’s mouth,” he writes in the book’s introduction), and developing his unique interpretations of Korean American cuisine.Their relationship has deepened over the years — both in and out of the kitchen — since Kim came out to his family.

“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light.

How do you write a queer romantic comedy? That is, not one where you merely gender flip a lead (“rom-com, but make it gay!”) but actually create a story that interrogates the very foundational tropes of the genre? If you’re Joel Kim Booster, you do so by adapting one of the most beloved Jane Austen novels of all time, the one whose recent big-screen adaptations have earned the likes of Keira Knightley and Renée Zellweger Oscar nominations.

P-Valley.Damn, we have missed our girls!But you know we would be lying if we said there isn’t one gorgeously OTT character we’ve been missing most of all: The Pynk’s larger-than-life, fierce and fiercely loyal owner and proprietrix, Uncle Clifford (Nicco Annan).When we last saw P-Valley’s gender-fluid H.B.I.C., she’d just broken things off with her closeted paramour, up-and-coming Mississippi Delta rapper Lil Murda (J. Alphonse Nicholson) and entered into an uneasy alliance with dancer Autumn (Elarica Johnson) to save the club.When Season 2 premieres on June 3, the ladies are dealing with the toll the pandemic has taken on their community while preparing for The Pynk’s grand re-opening.

A teenage ambulance worker who was called a 'f***ing f****t' by his boss has been awarded £20,000 in compensation.

Oldham’s first openly gay council leader has been formally appointed by councillors.

Reality TV star Gemma Collins was set to perform in Cardiff later in 2022 however has had to pull out of the Chicago tour due to injury. An ongoing knee issue that Gemma has described as "next level" means that Gemma will not be able to take up her role as Mamma Morton in the famous musical.

GenderCool Project, an organization that promotes LGBTQ inclusion through speaking events, mentorship programs, consulting, and advising for parents of transgender children, to provide a collection of three books — A Kids Book About Being Transgender, A Kids Book About Being Transgender, and A Kids Book About Being Non-Binary — for libraries and community centers to put on their shelves. The book initiative was touted as an effort to “replace misinformed opinions” about transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming youth with positive depictions of the community in the hope of promoting positive real-life interactions between readers and LGBTQ youth they may encounter. The books in question are written promote the idea of inclusion and explain who LGBTQ people, especially transgender and nonbinary individuals, are.“The project’s goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering conversations with children age 5+,” an email from Jose Soto, State Farm’s Corporate Responsibility Analyst, which was sent to all of the company’s agents in Florida, reads.

Yahoo! News reports.“I confess that before Rik Carmichael and John Hay sent me the fruits of their amazing research, I had never heard of Willem Arondeus or Frieda Belinfante — a pair whom I now regard as being authentic and remarkable heroes,” Fry said. It’s an oversight the documentary Willem and Frieda: A Story of Resistance seeks to correct.Prior to WWII, artist Willem Arondeus and cellist Frieda Belinfante lived out lives in the Netherlands.

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey might want to cancel that ticket to the Queen’s Jubilee — British authorities are bringing criminal charges against him on four counts of sexual assault against three men, the country’s Crown Prosecution Service announced on Thursday. However, Spacey cannot be formally charged unless he enters England or Wales and no plans for extradition have been publicly disclosed.Spacey, 62, had “also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent,” according to Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s special crime division.According to the news release, the charges stem from three alleged incidents dated March 2005, August 2008 and April 2013.

Prism Health North Texas’ Free World Bound program has been awarded the Reentry and Integration Division Award as part of the Texas Governor’s 2022 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Awards.

In her new memoir “Here’s the Deal”, Kellyanne Conway writes that America is ready for a female president.Of course, this was made abundantly clear in 2016, when 65 million people voted for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, compared to 62 million who voted for Donald Trump.But apparently Conway is juuuuust now getting the memo.In a new interview with Business Insider, the former White House propagandist/professional gaslighter was asked what women, specifically, she would like to see in the Oval Office.Related: The 5 most ridiculous quotes from Kellyanne Conway’s new tell-all (so far)“I think you have to look at Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, you have to look at Sen.

GEMMA Collins has confessed a very X-rated bedroom confession with fiancé Rami Hawash. The reality star, 41, took to Instagram to share he sex-positive motto and to break down the stigma of self-love.

Representatives from Belong To, Foróige, Youth Work Ireland, and the National Youth Council of Ireland as well as 70+ youth workers have all signed a letter calling for action to be taken to correct the current healthcare crisis Irish LGBTQ+ youth are facing. The letter was addressed to Ministers Stephen Donnelly TD (Minister for Health) […]

Queerty are thrilled to share an exclusive first look at RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7′s extra-special guests this week: Wheel Of Fortune‘s iconic Vanna White and actor Kirby Howell-Baptiste.We’d like to solve the puzzle: It’s a joint slay!That’s right, this season of All Stars keeps the stars coming. First of all, Vanna White is a veritable TV legend; alongside Pat Sajak, she’s been the official “hostess” of Wheel Of Fortune since fall of 1982.

Star of Heartstopper, Kit Connor, has revealed that he does not want to define or label his sexuality yet. 

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Laverne Cox is getting her very own Barbie doll.Mattel is celebrating the actor and LGBTQ activist with a new doll made to her likeness, just in time for her 50th birthday.

Season five winner and All Stars 7 alum Jinkx Monsoon is no stranger to the spotlight.

Following the recent protests in the United States regarding reproductive rights, new legislation known as the Women’s Bill of Rights could now push the fight for equality for LGBTQ+ people back even further. The Republican party has introduced the Women’s Bill of Rights, which has left Democrats frustrated. If passed, the only ‘right’ cis women […]

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Don’t ask, don’t tell" was the policy of the U.S military from February 28, 1994, through September 20, 2011. The policy prevented the military from asking service members about their sexual identity, but also prevent service members from disclosing their LGBTQ+ identity.

The possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade has set off alarm bells in the LGBTQ community. Activists and legal experts are warning that the 1973 landmark decision could have severe consequences for LGBT Americans’ mental and physical health, socioeconomic status and right to marriage. Brian and Colman sat down with attorney Caleb Patterson to unpack some of the legal implications we face at both the state and federal level.

The Vivienne has embraced her inner All Stars 4-era RuPaul by declaring a tie between her two favourite Drag Race winners.

The Ellen Show. The groundbreaking show debuted in September of 2003, but in recent years had suffered turmoil following reports of a toxic work environment. The final episode of The Ellen Show will sign air on May 26.“When we started this show in 2003, the iPhone didn’t exist,” DeGeneres wrote.