Gemma Collins reveals amazing hair transformation after spending all day at the salon

You’ve heard of Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Tech, but… Big Gay? Who has ever heard of that? (And how do we sign up?)Bryan Fischer tried to make fetch happen, so to speak, back in 2015, when he tweeted this anti-gay rhetoric: “The pressure Big Gay has put on Indiana is proof they are not about ‘marriage equality’ but ‘homosexual supremacy.’”Related: Bryan Fischer just accused the LGBTQ community of stealing “the rainbow from God”In case you’re not familiar with this particular misinformed conservative, Fischer is a former Idaho Senate chaplain and a radio host with a “long history of anti-gay activism” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.The pressure Big Gay has put on Indiana is proof they are not about "marriage equality" but "homosexual supremacy."— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) March 31, 2015Fischer became the “poster boy for right-wing extremism” during his time as a spokesperson for the American Family Association, as Newsweek observed in 2011. But the AFA, which the SPLC deemed an anti-gay hate group in 2010, fired Fischer in 2015.

Victoria added: “Fight on and good luck.”And Dale echoed: “Get fixed and kick on… best of luck.

In the space of 14 years, Queer Contact has become a landmark occasion on Manchester’s arts and entertainment calendar - and this year’s line-up promises to be bigger than ever.

teenage years — I no longer live in the South Texas border town I grew up in, I'm openly gay, and I now have a life in Los Angeles that I'm really proud of. But I'm not the happiest I've ever been.I immediately logged onto Amazon and ordered a USB cable with the vintage wide-mouth connection, which was from a time when Apple didn’t change their chargers every few months just to keep things fresh. I wonder: Do the hyper-technically savvy babies of today even know what an iPod is? Do they think it’s an old Apple TV remote or beginner’s sex toy? Or do they just use them as hair clips? The opening squeal of a guitar blasted through my speakers and the biggest smile hit my face. I loved this song.

Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston” (Abrams Press), out Tuesday.Feeling pressure to conform to her strict religious upbringing and the norms of the time, Whitney hid her sexuality from the public till her tragic death, which happened 10 years ago this week. “Because her music didn’t fit squarely in the boxes expected of a Black girl making music in the ’80s, she was seen as not Black enough. She was ridiculed.

From I'm a Porn Star, a forgotten gem.

A parent in the Kansas City area who fought last year to ban LGBTQ-themed books from school libraries is now facing accusations of child molestation.

Sawyer Fredericks, the winner of The Voice‘s eighth season, is opening up about his sexuality.

Richard Kuipers Family photos, propaganda images and grainy archival footage are manipulated, re-processed and overlaid with wonderfully simple and highly effective animation in “Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish.” This imaginative documentary essay by 36-year-old U.S.-based Chinese artist-animator-filmmaker Lei Lei assembles striking imagery and deeply personal audio recordings to chart his family’s history in China from the late 1950s to the early ’70s. Though it runs a little too long, “Silver Bird” should have a bright future at general film festivals and those specializing in animation.After basing his 2019 feature debut “Breathless Animals” on his mother’s recollections of life in 20th century China, Lei has turned this time to audio interviews he conducted with his father Lei Jiaqi and grandfather Lei Ting in China between 2012 and 2021.

Newsweek, noting that he never wanted his daughter to feel singled out, excluded or embarrassed.Myers' daughter also has a physical condition that, according to her father, can bring unwanted attention. "For her to be the only kid in her class and the whole school to sit in the hallway is just bad," he said.He is now seeking legal advice regarding the incident.

Moderna has administered the first doses of its mRNA-based HIV vaccine to volunteers in a clinical trial, the biotechnology company announced late last week.

Following an article in the Bay Area Reporter this week, state Senator Scott Wiener has called on the San Francisco Police Department and medical examiner's office to more fully investigate the 2020 death of a 20-year-old gay man.

Nicki Minaj is speaking out in response to fans thinking she called out Demi Lovato in her new song “Do We Have a Problem?”

Pictured: Helen Thornton (at right), one of the plaintiffs who challenged the denial of Social Security survivor’s benefits, and at left with her partner, Marge Brown.Same-sex spouses who’d been unable to marry because of discriminatory laws won the right to Social Security survivor’s benefits last year, but activists are still trying to get the word out to them.“Given the sheer amount of time that marriage discrimination stretched across history, there are thousands of same-sex couples who were never able to marry before one partner died, and the vast majority of the surviving partners have never applied for survivor’s benefits,” Peter Renn, counsel at Lambda Legal, tells The Advocate. “Now that the pathway is finally open, they need to take action.

The Advocate. As a teenager, she snuck into Washington, D.C., nightclubs. At 16, she discovered the art of DJing.“I heard like one continuous song, and I was like, How are they doing that?” Young remembers thinking as she heard the DJ’s remixing music for the first time.

The National Black Justice Coalition, the HRC, Friends, and Family Mourn the Death of Za’niyah Williams, A Black Trans  Woman Killed in a Hit-And-Run Car Crash in Houston Texas By: Audrey Cole/TRT Reporter—HOUSTON, Texas—Za’niyah Williams sounded like a typical young woman who had tried to have others accept her for who she was, a proud black trans woman of color, according to her FB Page.The 21-year-old, according to Trans Griot, “was found dead on Dec. 20, 2021, after a hit and run car crash in Houston, Texas.” Za’niyah’s death is, according to the best estimates by the trans blog, “the 52nd violent killing of a transgender or gender-diverse person in 2021.” Numbers often do not match across platforms because many transgender victims are often misgendered and/or go unidentified by family.On Dec. 19, 2021, a day prior to her death, Za’niyah reposted a message from Raven Symoné, someone she knew online, about 2021 being the last year that she was going to dwell on others not accepting her for who she was, something that most transgender people also struggle with throughout their lives.“This my last year letting ppl treat me like I dont matter.

The blowback over podcast host Joe Rogan continues, as singer/podcast host India Arie has elaborated on the reasons she’s pulled her music and podcast from Spotify.Arie joined fellow musicians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash, as well as fellow podcast host Mary L. Trump in pulling her music and podcast from Spotify. The group has said publicly that they’ve done so in protest to the platform’s continued support of Joe Rogan and his spread of COVID-19 misinformation.Now, Arie wants the world to know, that COVID-19 misinformation was not the only issue she had with Rogan.Related: Joe Rogan just cost Spotify yet another famous podcastArie posted a lengthy video to Instagram to address her fans, the controversy, and to emphasize another issue she has with Rogan: his use of racist language.Arie begins the video by showing a clip of Rogan referring to a heavily black neighborhood as “Planet of the Apes.” She then clarifies her own stance to her followers.“I empathize with the people who are leaving for the COVID disinformation reasons,” Arie adds.

Welcome to the Weekend Binge. Every Friday, we’ll suggest a binge-able title designed to keep you from getting too stir crazy. Check back throughout the weekend for even more gloriously queer entertainment.HBO took a huge gamble in 2019 with the release of Watchmen, a limited series that functions as something of an adaptation and a sequel to Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel, and to Zack Snyder’s 2009 film.

The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. Between now and February 20, we’ll spotlight some of the inspiring LGBTQ athletes vying for gold.Jason Brown has been a staple in the figure skating world for years, but this will be his first Olympics competing as an out gay man.

Conservatives on Twitter are FURIOUS with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

BBC One show The Farmers' Country Showdown, was changing a tyre on his tractor when the jack failed, trapping his arm underneath.According to reports, Fred's arm was stuck for a "considerable time".The hospitalised dairy farmer has since been warned he could be left with only 20 per cent of his arm function, while a GoFundMe page has been set up by his friend Jules Giles to help Fred and his family in their hour of need.Jules' son was previously employed by Fred.Promising to update the fundraising page with Fred's progress, Jules said: "If any of you watched the BBC One series recently you will know how the family as a unit work so hard to make that farm work.

Sfereco celebrates the Super Bowl with pizza and wings specials. (Courtesy photo)

The L Word: Generation Q’s second season finale last fall. But for those waiting with bated breath to find out what's next for Bette, Shane, Alice, Dani, Gigi, Sophie, Tess, and the rest of the gang from the reboot, Showtime confirmed Friday that there will be a third season, according to Variety. From executive producers Ilene Chaiken, Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig, and Leisha Hailey, and showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan, the reboot follows original characters Bette (Beals), Alice (Hailey), and Shane (Moennig) while also telling the stories of a new crew of LGBTQ+ characters who span a breadth of diversity within in the community.The series second season explored new relationships for the three originals with Bette finding a formidable match in artist Pippa Pascal (Vanessa Estelle Williams), Shane finally acting on that undeniable chemistry with Tess (Jamie Clayton), and newly published author Alice in a romance with her book editor Tom (Donald Faison).

model policies provide a footprint for potential policies that acknowledge transgender students’ gender identity, ensuring they can have their gender affirmed, be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns, have their gender reflected on school records and transcripts, access facilities like bathrooms or locker rooms consistent with their gender identity, and are guaranteed equal access to school resources, clubs, or sports teams.The model policies are not a one-size-fits-all dictate, nor are they consistent from county to county. Last March, the Department of Education only said that the policies adopted by individual school boards had to be “consistent with” the aim of the model policies — in other words, ensuring that transgender students are not mistreated or denied opportunities granted to other students.

Shortbus, I screamed. Was I alone in my apartment? Yes. Was the effect felt halfway around the world? It sure was. Because the thing about this movie is, if you know, you know.

The Independent in a recent interview, “I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminized… I don’t think that to be fair to women, we should become them.”He added that he attributed it all to “cowardly genes.”“I think that men have, in my view, become quite feminized,” Penn said. “I have these very strong women in my life who do not take masculinity as a sign of oppression toward them.

The New York Times. The cause of death was complications of COVID-19.Kantrowitz was “an early champion of gay rights and an indefatigable campaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media,” the Times notes. Mass, a founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, called Kantrowitz “a true sage and champion.”He became vice president of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups founded in the wake of the Stonewall riots, in 1970.

James Bidgood, who elevated erotic gay photography to an art in the 1960s and ’70s with his carefully staged phantasmagoric pictures, and who was the anonymous director behind “Pink Narcissus,” a gay film released in 1971 that became something of a cult classic, died on Jan. 31 in Manhattan. He was 88.

Grammy-winning singer and 2022 Queerties nominee Lil Nas X has yet another achievement to add to his resume: comic book hero. The singer will star in his own edition of the comic book Fame, which will chronicle his rise to success.The latest issue of the long-running title, written by Darren G.

the Trevor Project found that 28% of LGBTQ+ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives.The study, titled “Homelessness and Housing Instability Among LGBTQ Youth,” found that those who did encounter housing issues had two to four times the odds of reporting depression, anxiety, self-harm, considering suicide, and attempting suicide compared to those with stable housing.Among the group's key findings, nearly half (44 percent) of Native/Indigenous LGBTQ+ youth experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their life. This is compared to 16 percent of Asian American/Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ youth, 27 percent of white LGBTQ+ youth, 27 percent of Latinx LGBTQ+ youth, 26 percent of Black LGBTQ+ youth, and 36+ of multiracial LGBTQ+ youth. Transgender and nonbinary youth both had higher rates of homelessness and housing instability.

Welsh actor Taron Egerton was serving Continental Baths realness on Instagram this week.Clad only in a towel, the Rocketman star grooved to the Bee Gee’s 1977 hit “More Than A Woman.”The clip quickly found its way to Twitter, where it proved to be quite a hit:Good morning to Taron Egerton’s Instagram stories… ??pic.twitter.com/Llv8wyoHDA— Evan ?????? (@_evanalrighty) February 1, 2022Related: Watch the exact moment Taron Egerton learns about gay sex slangHere’s how some viewers reacted:I going have to lie down now for an hour or two.— Christopher Tilley (@SF_Chris) February 1, 2022Now THIS is the reason The Goddess gave us social media!— eugelicious (@eugelicious1) February 1, 2022I’ve never wanted to be a towel so bad— Danny (@nutnnice562) February 1, 2022Am I pregnant now?— Kev or Kevin (@Grumpy_bear22) February 1, 2022Egerton’s physique, which he appears all too happy to share with fans, has added fuel to rumors he’ll soon join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the next iteration of Wolverine.Men’s Fitness reported: “The Welsh actor’s newly jacked physique has once again prompted widespread speculation that he is getting ready to make his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the newest incarnation of the beloved X-Men character Wolverine. Egerton, who is friends with legacy Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman after starring alongside him in Eddie the Eagle, has been at the center of casting rumors for years now, although he has downplayed them in the past.”And last month at Comic-Con, Wolverine director Matthew Vaughan said, “I think Taron could do it in his sleep.

A new report by Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International shows Afghan LGBTQ people remain at various stages of peril both within their own country and in neighboring countries. Governments around the world have been slow to act to protect them as the Taliban continues to deny LGBTQ Afghans their human rights, the report stated.

The HBO high-school drama Euphoria, starring Zendaya and Hunter Schafer, has been renewed for a third season.

Lemon had some major plans for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World.

Dr Gary Jenkins was killed by a “sadistic” teenage girl and two men on 20 July 2021 in a homophobic attack.

Comedian Adam Carolla stopped by Fox News this week and somehow made Sean Hannity seem reasonable by comparison.The former The Man Show host shared his cringey take on Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the comments quickly went viral on Twitter.During an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show, Carolla argued that people only like Ocasio-Cortez because she is pretty, saying: “If AOC was fat and in her 60s, would anyone listen to another thing she ever said?”Related: Sean Hannity freaks out about hamburgers after Jan. 6 committee releases his cryptic textsHannity then asked him: “What exactly do you mean by that? Is it because she’s young?”“Yeah she’s young, she’s vibrant, she’s beautiful and everyone’s always putting a camera and a mic in her face but her opinions are idiotic 95% of the time,” Carolla replied.“I don’t think if she was middle-aged, heavy-set woman anyone would care what she had to say,” he continued.Hannity guest Adam Carolla: “If AOC was fat and in her 60s, would anyone listen to another thing she said? ..

Alphonso David, now former president of The Human Rights Campaign, at a previous Black Tie Dinner in Dallas

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A Little Night Music, is getting a new production in Los Angeles, with a queer twist.The tale of love, lust, and jealousy, set in 1901 Sweden, revolves around actress Desirée Armfeldt and her lovers, past and present: lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, respectively. Both Egerman and the count are married, and they, their wives, and assorted others agree to spend a weekend at Desirée’s mother’s estate.

Rudaw her uncle Dlovan Sadiq said: "She left the house five to six years ago, I had not seen her ever since. Doski made a mistake." No arrests have been made and the suspect fled the country, Ekurd Daily reported.

Arnie Kantrowitz was a pioneer of LGBTQ civil rights activism and one of the founders of GLAAD.Kantrowitz got involved with the gay rights movement shortly after the 1969 Stonewall riots that marked the movement’s birth. In 1970, he joined the Gay Activists Alliance, becoming the organization’s vice president. As an English professor at the College of Staten Island, Kantrowitz created one of the first gay studies courses in higher education in 1973.

Eden Hunter’s iconic new music video for All My Love is an ode to an over the top 1980s call centre, complete with an array of drag legends.

Former actress Kirstie Alley is trending on Twitter again.The 71-year-old has been blocking people left and right on the platform after firing off a series of incoherent tweets about, well, we’re not entirely sure.Here’s a sampling of just some of batsh*t crazy stuff she’s been tweeting over the last 48 hours:I can’t think of a time when differing medical opinions from HIGHLY qualified EXPERT Physicians & Scientists were being BANNED & labeled as “MIS-information.” This is the product of being dominated by the composite Entity of Big Pharma Big tech & Big government. BIG TYRANNY— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) February 2, 2022YAAAAAASSSS GO GO GO GUTSY CANADA!!! https://t.co/AxN9pE5BAD— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) February 2, 2022The point of freedom of speech is to be able to speak what you would like to speak.

Key West’s tropical climate, abundant ocean activities, and lively social scene make it one of the most ideal destinations for adventurous travelers. Among popular activities like diving, snorkeling, sailing, and golfing, you will find plenty to experience year-round on Key West’s welcoming shores. But what if you’re craving a relaxed day in town? We’ve got you covered with the gayest Key West walking tour imaginable, highlighting just a few of the great shops this island paradise has to offer.First thing’s first: When looking for a place to stay, we recommend the Guesthouse District, a happening ‘hood with tons of friendly accommodations.

The Church Times reports.“Nevertheless, Ghanaian citizens must not use the bill as an avenue to assault persons with homosexual orientation but show love to them as the Church of Jesus Christ is called to demonstrate the love of God by protecting all vulnerable people and groups. Acts of harassment, intimidation and hostilities against LGBTQ+ people should be condemned,” the statement continued.It also stated, “the criminalization of sections of the bill are severe and must be reviewed.”The statement comes after Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said there should be more tolerance in the face of the proposed bill. The draft bill proposes a five-year maximum prison sentence for those who are LGBTQ+.

Holly Parker died Monday. She was 30.Parker was reportedly discovered to have passed away in Kokomo, Ind. Her death was confirmed by her close friend ​​Brooke Zanell and a fellow adult performer who posted her condolences on social media.“It [is] with greatest sorrow and devastation that I, her sister, inform you the world … Yesterday we lost [Holly Parker], My right hand man, the bread to my butter, my singing partner, my travel companion, my baby sister has left this earth omg it’s just too much for me!!!” they wrote on Twitter.

JAMES Argent has poured cold water over fans' hopes he would rekindle his romance with first love Lydia Bright. The Towie favourite lifted the lid on their special friendship and said he would hate to stand in the way of Lydia finding love again.

GEMMA Collins proved the perfect golden girl as she re-visited snaps of her stunning weight loss showcased in a metallic dress. The Only Way Is Essex star, 40, used the dazzling snaps, which showed her dancing around to music, for inspiration for her continued weight loss.