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Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman has opened up about changing Nick Nelson’s coming out journey for the show.

Children’s National Hospital has become the target of threatening phone calls, email messages and social media postings after a widely read far-right Twitter account known as Libs of TikTok posted an incorrect report claiming the hospital routinely performs hysterectomies on transgender patients under the age of 18.

Football referee Igor Benevenuto said that a large number of players identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Love Island star AJ Bunker confessed she split up with her “lying” boyfriend after she found out he led a secret life as a gay porn star.In an exclusive interview with the Daily Star at the launch of AMÀRE VODKA, the former reality star, 28, revealed how she went “celibate for two years” before she let him in but the couple called things off when she found out about his real job.She confessed: “I just found out a guy I dated does gay porn I swear on my life, that’s my dating life for you.READ MORE:Love Island's Millie Court sends pulses racing as she dons tight plunging dress“Someone sent me the name and the link to his gay porn site. He might be bi, I don’t mind but just be honest with me.”The auburn-haired beauty explained how she felt like her former hunk was living a double life after she learnt he had been lying about everything from having a car to where he lived.AJ continued: “I was seeing him for probably about three months but we ended things because he was a compulsive pathological liar.“He lied to me about everything: about his job, about his car – he doesn’t even have a licence!“He lied to me about having a dog, he lied about where he lived, so we broke up because of that.”Just months after the pair broke up, the ITV star revealed how one of her friends had found his real identity online and sent the link of his explicit adult site to her.The bombshell continued: “Then maybe a few months later someone searched his name and then I found out.

Drag Race star Jinkx Monsoon has opened up about her iconic All Stars 7 Snatch Game performance in a new interview. 

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country superstar Jason Aldean and his wife Brittany Aldean have become increasingly outspoken as conservative activists, without too much commentary or pushback from more centrist or liberal-leaning country stars. But when Brittany Aldean posted what many viewed as a transphobic joke to her Instagram account, Cassadee Pope and then Maren Morris jumped in defend the LGBTQ+ community — which then led to a war of words with another conservative Nashville celebrity, Candace Owens. The exchanges got contentious enough that Morris said, presumably addressing Brittany Aldean: “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.” Responded Brittany: “Karen Morris, thanks for calling me Barbie,” sealed with a kiss emoji.

murder of a Black trans woman called Naomi Hersi in 2018 in Hounslow, and the murder of a gay doctor named Gary Jenkins in Bute Park last year.This worrying trend here in the UK should be a cause for concern for anyone.While these figures might also be partly explained by increased confidence in reporting these issues, the ones reported are only the tip of the iceberg.Many people would never report hate incidents or crime to the police simply because they don’t believe the police will do anything about it, or take them seriously.According to LGBTQ+ domestic abuse charity, Galop, only one in eight LGBTQ+ people had ‘reported the most recent incident that they had experienced to the police’.I know this to be true both from working with charities that support people, and from the stories of queer people around me. LGBTQ+ people have also historically suffered stigma and discrimination from the police worldwide, so confidence that the police will support them is often low.Even in cases where issues have been reported to the police, I’ve heard from friends that there has often been no conclusion and cases have been dropped, or not recognised as a hate crime.This was also my experience. In 2018, I reported someone to the police for targeted harassment online.The person in question had repeatedly targeted myself and my partner online, where they maliciously misgendered us, calling us slurs and repeatedly abused us.

In a new piece written on his Medium account, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg details how he became a father. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, first announced they were first set to become fathers in August 2021.

Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has opened up about Armie Hammer’s cannibal allegations.

Country drama. Maren Morris and Cassadee Pope are clapping back after Brittany Aldean (née Kerr) — the wife of singer Jason Aldean — seemingly shared a transphobic message.

Coronation Street's Katie McGlynn has lead the stars celebrating at Manchester Pride which is taking place this weekend.The 29 year old, who is best known for playing Sinead Tinker on Corrie, looked incredible in a hot pink co-ord made up of a skirt and cropped blazer which she paired with white ankle boots. Posting plenty of snaps to her Instagram stories, Katie showed off her makeup for the event, which included sparkly eye shadow, heavy lashes and a slick of hot pink lipstick to match her outfit. She wore her short blonde hair straight and rocked a pair of cat eye sunglasses as she posed with pals and danced with a multicoloured pride fan.

An LGBTQ and intersex rights group in Ghana on Saturday said a group of men kidnapped its director and held him for ransom before they released him.

(watching a movie about gay sex) man these guys are really going at it............ https://t.co/T6q3waTutk@IndieWire This is so funny because queer cinema has been mostly about tenderness and longing, since, ya know we weren’t allowed to show positive queer representation in media for a few decades.

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia announced on Saturday that he would not permit EuroPride, an annual weeklong gay pride event, to take place next month in his country’s capital, Belgrade, shocking the event’s organizers, who denounced the decision and vowed to go ahead regardless. Mr. Vucic, despite noting that he was “not happy” about the decision, said that it was not the right time to host the event.

TikTok’s ‘Squirrel Dad’ served equal parts nuts and meat, Madonna‘s daughter dropped a surprise debut single, and Chef Jon Kung left us hungry and parched.

Love Island's AJ Bunker has split from her boyfriend after discovering he'd been lying to her, to later found out he was also a gay porn star.The TV star has spoken about her horrifying ordeal where her now-ex boyfriend "stole thousands" from her and her agent, as well as completely lying about his life and identity to get closer to her.The former Islander admitted she has been unlucky in love since starring on the show, and has failed to find a connection with anyone - but her most recent boyfriend appeared to be "too good to be true" and swept her off her feet. AJ dated her boyfriend for three months before finding out he'd lied about everything: from owning a house, to having a car and a dog, to his profession, she revealed to The Sun.

Coronation Street stars were showing their Manchester Pride - heading out on the huge parade in celebration of LGBTQ+ culture through the streets of the city on Saturday. A host of famous faces from the soap headed on to an ITV open-top bus to wave to the thousands of cheering crowds lining the streets of the city.

Domingo’s Got Talent will host “Domingo’s Got Talent Presents: Family Values” on Sunday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. at DC9 Nightclub.

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Harry Styles, this summer’s pop prince, has earned his crown by capturing the fantasies of millions and taking what seems like a groundbreaking approach to the presentation of gender fluidity and sexual identity.While growing his kingdom and conquering pop culture, Mr. Styles has — with his last two album releases — also been accused of queerbaiting: In this case, using queerness to burnish his celebrity without explicitly claiming to be queer. Discussion of anyone’s identity, even a celebrity’s, is inherently fraught.

Ellen DeGeneres’ high-profile coupledom made big waves, though their relationship ended messily in 2000 and Anne went on to marry a man, Coleman Laffoon, in 2001. Well, just this May, here on Queerty, I wrote about Anne’s last soulmate, the openly lesbian Ami Goodheart.

It looks like fall season is upon us, judging by all the pumpkin spice everywhere. I was just walking through HomeGoods and went down the ‘fall aisles,’ which made me think, similar to how we ready our homes for the spring/summer season, we must prepare our homes for the fall/winter months as well. Here are a few tips to prepare your home for the fall season and into winter.

Did you read about the group of staid U.S. historians who just met privately with President Biden to warn him that U.S. democracy is teetering? They told him we’re closer to civil war and authoritarian rule than at any point in history since the 1860s.

Transmedicalism used to be the _only_ viewpoint on whether or not you were allowed to transition. They used to separate you into categories like "AGP" (fetish, not allowed) or "HSTS" (you were "exposed to more estrogen in the womb" and likely present feminine gay).damn hunter schafer is really supporting blaming other trans people for the bills that right-wingers and fascists are pushing to restrict and ban trans healthcare.

recently and unanimously passed Senate Bill 53, a law targeting so-called “cyber flashing,” the digital equivalent of showing your genitals in public. The bill, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would allow anyone to sue another person if they receive “unsolicited sexually graphic material by text, email, app or other electronic means.”But the law wasn’t really meant to stop all sexytime flirting on hookup apps.

‘From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium’By Justin Elizabeth Sayrec.2022, Chronicle Books$24.95/312 pages

The Boy Who Sat By The Window.Before clubland success came calling, one of Hodge’s first jobs in London was working on the reception desk at the London Lighthouse. It was one of the UK’s foremost AIDS hospices. Hodge worked there during the worst days of the epidemic, before treatment for HIV became available.One day in the mid-90s, he was surprised by a guest visitor: Diana, Princess of Wales.

Hi Jake,I consider myself to be mostly straight/bicurious. I messed around with a few guys when I was in college, but it was never anything serious and I’ve only ever had penetrative sex with women. I’m going to be turning 30 next month and I have this weird birthday fantasy: I want to get gang banged by multiple guys at once. I really feel like it’s something I need to do, and this milestone birthday feels like a good time. The only problem is I don’t know how to tell my girlfriend. She knows I’ve fooled around with dudes before we were together and was totally cool with it, but I don’t know how she would handle it if I asked about doing this particular thing. I want her permission, but part of me thinks maybe it’s better to keep it to myself. She probably wouldn’t ever find out or care and I would obviously use protection. What should I do?13 (Guys) Going on ‘30’Dear 13 (Guys) Going on ’30’,Your fantasy isn’t necessarily a “weird” one, and if Pornhub is any indication, you certainly aren’t alone in it.

According to LGBTQ media watchdog GLAAD, LGBTQ representation on television reached record highs this year, with 11.9 percent of the 775 series regular characters scheduled to appear on scripted broadcast primetime programming being part of the LGBTQ community. Despite this, asexual representation in media remains scarce, with only two asexual characters out of the 637 LGBTQ characters counted in GLAAD’s report. With anti-LGBTQ legislation on the rise and increased reports of anti-LGBTQ violence, it’s all the more important for storytellers to put LGBTQ stories front and center, as well as for advocates to highlight the few stories out there that are readily available.

Love Island star AJ Bunker has split from her boyfriend after finding out he was a secret gay porn star. The reality star beauty spoke to The Sun in an exclusive chat and revealed her horrifying ordeal after her former boyfriend “stole thousands” from her and “lied about his identity.” AJ admits she’d been unlucky in love and failed to find a connection on Love Island, but her recent boyfriend seemed like “the dream,” until she found out the truth.

World Bank. Around three-quarters of its population has been pulled into poverty, and tens of thousands of people have left the country. And the Lebanese pound has lost more than 90 percent of its value compared to the US dollar since 2019.It’s in this environment that the number of violations against the rights of Lebanon’s LGBTQ+ community, including death threats and physical and domestic violence, have escalated.In 2019, Helem recorded 522 abuse cases. In 2020, that number jumped to 2,161.And in 2021, the organisation recorded 4,007 incidents.Of the people who went to Helem for help, seeking free legal counselling and mental health support, around 60 percent were Syrian nationals.According to Zeidan, one of the reasons the blast had a devastating impact on the LGBTQ+ community was because pockets of the population lived around the Beirut port, where the explosion originated.“Areas of Beirut adjacent to the port are notoriously well known for being LGBTQ+ friendly areas of the city,” says Zeidan.

Erin Brown, a teacher in St. Johns County, Fla., typically keeps a gay pride flag hanging up in her classroom. As the faculty sponsor of a Gay-Straight Alliance club at her high school, she wants her students to know they are safe with her.

protect the nation’s definition of marriage, which excludes same-sex unions, in the Constitution, the government quickly mobilized top ministers to try to calm a storm brewing between the LGBTQ community and some religious groups.The next morning, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, the man tipped to succeed Lee as premier, spoke to the nation’s main broadcaster about how to “live harmoniously,” while Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam explained to the island’s biggest newspaper the move was to prevent the marriage definition being challenged in court.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. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this support page.

Jacksonville State footballer Jack Dawson was arrested on multiple counts of assault against a former teammate Troy Municipal Court Supervision Officer David Hennigan confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday. In a federal lawsuit which was obtained and publicised by Jacksonville’s CBS 42, ex-teammate John Haynes has alleged he was attacked because Dawson and fellow teammates thought he was gay. The assault ranged from verbal attacks to forced sodomy with a pool cue. Dawson turned himself into authorities in Troy (Alabama), on Monday and was released on bond. Criminal warrants for Dawson’s arrest were issued last October.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has gay sex on the brain.But not in that (deep breath) Ted Cruz sort of way — the Georgia rep. and walking stay in school billboard recently gave her hot take on monkeypox, going a step further than the typical, conservative blame-the-gays stigma and singling out “gay sex orgies” as the sole spreading events.In a now-viral clip from her webcast, MTG: Live, Greene audaciously hawks her new monkeypox T-shirt before saying, “Monkeypox is all the rage, it is the hottest thing going in Washington, D.C.

voting no on marriage equality three days before? I keep reading the previous sentence over and over, and I still can’t come to grips with what Thompson did. But I have a couple of ideas about why he did what he did and how he'll end up a loser professionally and personally.You don’t have to have experience in politics to understand what Thompson tried to do.

All Things Considered, that it is important to treat the virus as one that can affect anybody, even though the overwhelming majority of infected individuals have been men who have sex with men.Currently, there are 20,638 confirmed cases of monkeypox infection worldwide, and 4,639 confirmed cases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The World Health Organization has recently classified the current outbreak as a public health emergency, underscoring the importance of public health officials prioritizing actions like connecting infected individuals with treatment, doing contact tracing to alert those at risk of acquiring the disease, and vaccinating those who have not yet been exposed to the virus but are among high-risk populations, such as men who have sex with men, trans women, and commercial sex workers.According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 98% of infected individuals, out of a sample of 528 people from 16 different countries, were gay or bisexual men. But Fauci argues that just because the disease is prevalent in one community doesn’t mean that community should be shunned or stigmatized.

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Donald Trump said Tuesday before a rapt audience that his political consultants had advised him not to criticize transgender athletes as he regaled the crowd with a long transphobic rant.During his speech at the America First Agenda Summit in Washington, D.C., Trump said: “By the way, we should not allow men to play women’s sports. It’s so disrespectful to women.” When his comment was met with wild applause, the former president paused for nearly 20 seconds to revel in the attention he was receiving.“So crazy.

what’s being done to combat the MPV (monkeypox virus) outbreak that is raging through the gay community, I also let him know how sorry I was to hear that he was retiring.Knowing his love for baseball, I framed a question to him around Willie Mays. One of the all-time Major League Baseball greats, Mays sort of petered out during the last two years of his 22-year career with the New York Mets.

This just in: Come January, Madison Cawthorn will no longer have his congressional salary and could be quite literally jobless, penniless, and facing the prospect of criminal charges.Related: Madison Cawthorn lands starring role in his very own ethics investigationAccording to The Daily Beast, the outgoing, one-term congressman maybe probably violated campaign laws with his “outrageous” spending of campaign funds meant to be used during his now-defunct general election campaign, including blowing thousands of dollars on dining at the vehemently anti-LGBTQ fastfood chain Chick-fil-a and at least three shopping sprees at a high-end cigar shop.  A post shared by Madison Cawthorn (@madisoncawthorn)An anonymous campaign source says the anti-LGBTQ GOP Representative’s campaign was so strapped for cash during the end of his failed primary that it was forced to dip into general fund money.Related: Madison Cawthorn, thoroughly humiliated, just flipped on Donald Trump in the most pathetic wayUnfortunately, election laws forbid those funds from being spent until the general election. If a candidate loses their primary, as Cawthorn did, the money must be returned to donors.

Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, has said men who have sex with men (MSM) should be among those prioritized for the monkeypox vaccine in the United States.Monkeypox continues to spread around the world, with nearly 17,000 cases reported globally as of July 22, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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There is still hope that Democrats can convince ten Republican senators to join them in codifying marriage equality, even though two Republicans once considered amenable to voting for it have come out against it.Four Republicans have so far said they will support the measure: sponsors Susan Collins of Maine and Ohio’s Rob Portman; Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina, who said he's a probable vote; and Sen.

wrote that things got so bad with MPV that the United Nations’ AIDS agency called out some of the coverage about the virus as “racist and homophobic,” and added that some of the reporting is “exacerbating stigma and undermining the response to the growing outbreak.”At the time, we reached out to Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, who explained, “Unfortunately, the virus hit the social network of gay men first, but it will not stay confined to gay men if it spreads. Anyone can get it, and anyone can get monkeypox through skin contact with sores, touching objects, and by respiratory.

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest LGBTQ news“My question for you is, sir, have you spoken with any other Cabinet members about implementing the 25th Amendment on President Biden?” Nehls asked. The 25th Amendment allows “the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” to declare “that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”Biden actually did fall of a bike last month while in Delaware, unlike some of the other stories Nehls referenced.“First of all, I’m glad to have a president who can ride a bicycle, and-” Buttigieg started to reply, possibly a reference to Donald Trump’s statement that he “will never, ever ride a bicycle.”“Answer the question!” Nehls barked, cutting Buttigieg off.“I will look beyond the insulting nature of that question and make clear to you that the president of the United States-” Buttigieg said before Nehls cut him off again.“Have you spoken to any Cabinet members about implementing the 25th Amendment on President Biden?” Nehls asked.“Of course not,” Buttigieg said as the committee chair asked Nehls to allow Buttigieg to answer.“This is my time!” Nehls responded, asking his question again even though it had already been answered.“The president of the United States is as vigorous a colleague or boss as I have ever had the pleasure of working with,” Buttigieg said as Nehls continued to rant.Nehls was out of time and asked the chair for another minute to question Buttigieg.“Absolutely not,” he said.

Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to put the same-sex marriage protection bill to a full floor vote quickly, after it passed the House Tuesday by a strong 267-157 margin, including 49 Republican votes. While there aren’t currently enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill, at first glance it’s looking like it may become possible. The legislation, which does not make same-sex marriage the law of the land, protects existing marriages at the federal and state level.