GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attends gay son’s wedding, three days after voting against “Respect for Marriage Act”

Digital artist Maxim Zhestkov presents his first solo show, Waves, at W1 Curates immersive exhibition space on 18 August.

Heartstopper actor Joe Locke has called for change in the legislation which prohibits gay men to donate blood on the Isle of Man.

Warning: spoilers ahead for The Baby on Sky and NOW.Seyan Sarvan, who starred in It’s A Sin, has shared how ‘horrifying’ she finds the parallels between the recent Roe v Wade ruling in the US and her new Sky Atlantic TV series, The Baby.The horror comedy, which consists of eight episodes, follows the journey of a woman called Natasha (Michelle de Swarte) in present day, who – after sharing her disdain for her friends who are having babies – has one fall straight into her arms, right next to a woman who has plunged to her death from the top of a cliff.As the season progresses, Natasha discovers that the supernatural baby somehow causes death wherever they go, after being born in the 1970s to a woman called Helen (Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds), who was forced to go through with her pregnancy by her husband after being ripped away from her lover, Nour (Seyan).Metro.co.uk recently spoke to Seyan, who played lawyer Lizbeth Farooqi in acclaimed Channel 4 series It’s A Sin, to speak about her role in The Baby and the real-life influences behind her character.The premiere of The Baby in the UK came days after the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional right for an abortion in June this year, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade decision, which was originally established in 1973.While the limited series is a fictional tale, it draws from real historical events, shining a spotlight on the female liberation movement of the 1970s and women’s rights to their bodies.The show felt especially raw to watch after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, with Seyan admitting that she hasn’t been able to watch it in full because she ‘found it so hard to even see those scenes’.When asked about her views on the parallels

A journalist was the victim of a homophobic attack after a night out in Manchester’s Gay Village on 12 August.

When I was born, 55 years ago, my birth mother decided to deliver me to Catholic Charities so that I could be adopted. I was lucky to be raised by loving and caring people who never hid my adoptive status from me. They made it a routine part of my story — much like having blue eyes or being lactose intolerant.

READ MORE: Evil killer Ian Huntley snared after eagle-eyed newspaper reader spotted key detail He was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in January 1974 and was the first son of working class couple Kevin and Lynda Huntley who gave birth to another boy, Wayne, one year later.Huntley grew up in a semi-detached house in Immingham and his school life was miserable.In the book Beyond Evil: Inside The Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley, he was described as a small and timid child who was an easy target for playground bullies. He attended Eastfield primary school and although not the sporty type, he did support Manchester United, as did his later victims Holly and Jessica.

yoga instructor Stacie Graham is on a mission to make the ancient practice more racially and socially diverse, urging her charges to become “warriors for change” in the booming industry.Yoga, which originates from India, and pilates, a form of exercise focused on postural alignment, are now a $30 billion-a-year industry, according to the Global Wellness Institute.But this success masks a lack of diversity, which affects the entire fitness sector, argued Graham, who also works as a diversity policy consultant for corporations.“Here we are in London. If you go to any space where there is a gym or yoga studio, you will likely not see ’London,’ but typically white, female, able bodies - middle class - participating,” she said.“And my question has been: How is that possible?”A survey of yoga teachers and practitioners in the U.K.

The 10th Bingham Cup, known as the Gay Rugby World Cup, is scheduled to start later this week in Ottawa, Canada. Over 1,700 LGBTQI players from over 150 teams and 20 participating countries, including Australia, will participate in the tournament from August 17 to August 21, 2022, hosted by the local team Ottawa Wolves. The world’s largest amateur rugby union tournament is named after Mark Bingham, a hero of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Australia’s favourite gay rugby team, Sydney Convicts are the current holders of the Bingham Cup.

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Though Megan Thee Stallion’s Legendary tenure came to a close in season two, her propensity to serve it up lives on.The music video for her new track, “Her”, is a love letter to the girls. The black and white monochrome invokes “Vogue” (the music video), while the dance performances invoke vogue (the art form).Not to say that the Hot Girl president isn’t front and center throughout.

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The Living End, a wild, fearless, homoerotic road trip movie that, today, is remembered as one of the earliest works to come out of the ’90s’ New Queer Cinema movement.With a minuscule budget of $20,000, Araki’s film was an indie passion project in the truest sense—there were no permits, no one in the cast or crew was paid, and the police were called on the production on multiple occasions.“It was this whole crazy adventure and we had nothing to lose,” Araki remembers in a new anniversary interview with i-D. “We just kind of went for it.

Mr Gay World Foundation has sued former winner Louw Breytenbach, asking him and his publicist to “retract and apologise” for allegedly defamatory comments they made last year. South African human rights activist and TV presenter Breytenbach, was the winner of the Mr Gay World 2021 title, but resigned two months into his reign citing “value differences”. In a statement released to local media Breytenbach’s lawyer Quintin Steyn confirmed the legal action launched by the organisation.   A post shared by Louw Breytenbach (@louwbreytenbach02)Breytenbach told The Citizen that he had participated in the competition not for the title, but to use the platform to be a voice for the LGBTQI community. “There are real problems out there and we, as winners, need to get our hands dirty and work. My reason for resigning was never to tarnish the reputation of the organisation, but rather because of value differences,” Breytenbach said. Steyn revealed that he had submitted a supplementary affidavit on behalf of both Breytenbach and Prins.  A post shared by Louw Breytenbach (@louwbreytenbach02)Breytenbach had detailed his disagreements with the Foundation when he resigned as Mr Gay World in 2021, after refusing to sign a contract which said that the organisation would be his exclusive agent. Breytenbach at the time said that he already had an agent to manage his TV and acting gigs.

(CNN) — Out of tens of thousands of monkeypox cases around the world this year, there have been a dozen deaths linked to the virus, and for the first time, some of them have been outside Africa, in countries where the virus doesn't usually spread.More than 31,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported globally since January 1, more than 10,000 of them in the United States. Most people have recovered at home with no lasting problems. But doctors are working to understand why monkeypox can be serious and, rarely, fatal.According to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization, there have been two monkeypox deaths in Spain, one in Brazil, one in Ecuador and one in India -- all so-called nonendemic countries.

It seems that yelling at children to unmask and forcing trans students to be outed to their parents aren’t enough for this mess of a governor.Three years after signing a bill allowed public school teachers to be armed, DeSantis is putting forth a new push to militarize the classroom.He now wants to instate any and all underqualified veterans as full-time teachers:.@GovDeSantis on recruiting veterans to the teaching field: “Our veterans have a wealth of knowledge and experience they can bring to bear in the classroom.

Pageant organizers have hit former Mr. Gay World winner Louw Breytenbach with a gag order after Breytenbach made comments against the organization behind the pageant last year.Breytenbach has hired an attorney after he said he was served with the order last week, according to South African newspaper The Citizen.Mr. Gay World Foundation, the group behind the pageant, wants Breytenbach to retract the statements he made.Breytenbach, however, accuses the foundation of attempting to make his publicist, Gavin Prins, retract a press release about the situation that Prins had sent to his media contact list.

LGBTQ+ people are no stranger to finding community online. Since the internet’s inception, we’ve used it as a tool to chat, laugh, meet, and so much more.For many of us, it was our only respite from a homophobic, unaccepting world.

Kandii Redd, 29, a Black transgender woman and award-winning performer, was stabbed to death July 25 in Kansas City, Mo.There was “an argument that led to a physical altercation,” reports TV station KMBC, which misgendered her. Police found Redd in an apartment and called paramedics to treat her, but she was pronounced dead.Redd had been a model for the adult entertainment site Grooby.

A post shared by Louw Breytenbach (@louwbreytenbach02)A former Mr. Gay World pageant winner has hired a lawyer to defend himself against the organization after it served him with a gag order, and not the fun kind.Louw Breytenbach won the title in 2021, but refused to sign the final contract when he realized it stipulated the organization would be his exclusive agent for any bookings or acting gigs.Breytenbach already had an agent for TV roles, and wanted to keep it that way.“I don’t need them to manage whatever TV opportunities I get,” he said at the time.

Meet Garrett Ziegler.He’s the anti-LGBTQ ex-Trump aide who tried to sic the MAGA militia on the family members of purported FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago last week by posting their personal information, including the names of their children, on the far-right social media platforms Telegram and Truth Social.Garrett Ziegler who is leaking the data on the FBI agents who were are on duty at Mar-A-Largo pic.twitter.com/V2xbLdDxQR— WHO'S THE MOLE ?????? ?SLAVA UKRAINI? (@schwanderer) August 13, 2022“This is one of the two feds who signed the ‘Receipt for Property’ form, which detailed—at a very high level—the fishing expedition that the FBI performed at Mar-a-Lago,” the 26-year-old posted, along with the FBI agents’ date of birth, work emails, and links to their alleged family members’ social media accounts, including children.“Hope he doesn’t get a good night’s sleep for the rest of 2022,” he responded to another person’s Truth Social post that included photos of one of the alleged FBI officials who signed off on the inventory receipts on the warrant.Related: Mary Trump thinks she knows who tipped off the FBI about her crazy uncle and, no, it’s not MelaniaThe posts, which were a potential violation the first federal statute (18 U.S.Code §119), which makes it illegal to knowingly release to the public the restricted personal information of a covered person or their family member, were taken down shortly after Ziegler published them, but not before they were widely circulated among the MAGA mob.But since karma’s a b*tch, after doxxing alleged FBI agents, Ziegler himself was doxxed when regular, law-abiding citizens who don’t peddle in hate, conspiracy theories, or domestic terrorism learned about what he had done and posted

D.C. police on Aug. 11 charged a 46-year-old D.C. man with assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with incident earlier this month in which lesbian activist Aiyi’nah Ford said she was hit in the head three times with the metal legs of a barstool wielded by a man yelling anti-gay names at her.

died over the weekend after a devastating single car crash in which she sustained a severe brain injury. She was 53 year old.

< 1 min read The largest amateur rugby union tournament in the world, The Bingham Cup, kicks off this week in Ottawa Canada with players from more than 20 countries taking the field in the competition’s 10th edition.

Watch below.Sam, the boy in the video, loves painting his nails and sewing. His obvious delight at receiving the sewing machine has melted hearts.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and stylish. Netflix’s latest film, Do Revenge, wants you to know that.

Conservative nutjob Tudor Dixon is terrified of drag queens, but, if you ask us, her past life as a horror movie actress is much, much scarier.According to her website, the 45-year-old mother of four, who nabbed the GOP nomination for governor in Michigan earlier this month, wants to ban schools from talking about anything LGBTQ-related, police what bathrooms trans kids use, and “protect young girls from being forced to compete against biological boys” in sports. She also thinks Donald Trump is God, drag queens are Satan, abortion is murder, and the 2020 election was rigged.Related: This gay-hating GOP nominee once worked for Rosie O’Donnell and starred in a zombie golden shower filmPrior to her recent foray into politics, Dixon was an aspiring horror movie actress.

With just a month to go before their big day, Desirie White and Jess Dowd, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, were shocked to receive an email from their baker canceling on them because baking a cake for a same-sex couple goes against “my fidelity to the God of Scripture.”

Colorado's Rep. Lauren Boebert has remained uncharacteristically silent following the release of a 911 call regarding a incident with her family and her neighbors.Police in Garfield County, Colo., released 911 calls from Boebert's neighbors who complained her kids were speeding on the street and her husband had driven drunk and over a neighbor's mailbox.Deputies received several calls asking for assistance after the August 4 altercation, according to the Denver Post.The audio recording indicates how urgently the neighbors demanded assistance dealing with the Boebert family, despite no charges being filed and the parties being able to resolve their dispute among themselves.A neighbor says he asked the congresswoman's son to slow down when he saw him driving a Razor dune buggy down the street, which escalated into a dispute when Jayson Boebert, the congresswoman's husband, went through the neighborhood to confront his neighbors for engaging the son."He's going like 50 miles an hour, and this is a residential lane, there's kids.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to legally protect the right to access free period products.

Below are our picks for some of the most fun and creative things to do this week in the DMV that are of special interest to the LGBTQ community.

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Former Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Ross Lynch is giving fans chills of their own thanks to a viral TikTok clip.Lynch and his brother Rocky are currently on tour with their band, The Driver Era, and from the looks of it they put on quite the show.On Thursday, TikTok user @allielbrown posted a video of a shirtless Ross singing on stage. It’s since racked up over two million views, and not because everyone loves the song.ross lynch, everybody.

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As the highly-anticipated return of the Rose of Tralee quickly approaches, host Dáithí Ó Sé has said that the competition “is for everyone” and that he “can’t wait” to have a Trans woman participating.  “I mean could you imagine the conversation?” he continued. “I think it would be hugely positive to get to hear about […]

Youth Advocate Programmes Ireland (YAP) is to launch a comprehensive new LGBTQ+ dictionary designed by young queer people to help others better understand some of the terminologies surrounding gender and sexuality. The group, calling themselves the Good Trouble Troop, came together in 2021 to discuss what is missed when people don’t understand the language around […]

Officials within the Department of Justice are set to conduct a public consultation surrounding the overturning of historical criminal convictions for homosexuality. The move comes after Minister for Justice Helen McEntee received final plans from an expert working group that examined how the State could overturn these charges that occurred under laws that have since […]

West Virginia senator called a trans activist's statement about childhood rape—read out during a debate on an abortion bill—"pathetic" in an email.Ash Orr, 32, said they emailed Mike Azinger on July 31 to share their dismay at comments he made on the West Virginia Senate floor after Democratic Sen. Mike Caputo read Orr's statement recalling how they had feared becoming pregnant after being raped twice by the age of 10.Hours later, Orr receive a response, reviewed by Newsweek, where Azinger denied knowing about the statement Caputo read out on Orr's behalf, but described it as "pathetic.""The arrogance of some people: why do you assume I know about your pathetic statement Capito [sic] read on the floor?" Azinger wrote in the email, which was marked as being sent from the senator's iPhone.Azinger has been contacted for comment, and Newsweek is still looking into the veracity of the statement."You were born a female and always—always—will be a female," he added.

D.C. native and award-winning comedian Sampson McCormick will perform in a series of shows from Thursday, Aug. 25 to Saturday, Aug. 27 at the DC Comedy Loft. 

The Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported that during the weekly papal audience in St. Peter’s Basilica on Aug. 10, Pope Francis met with a fourth group of transgender people who are staying in a church on the outskirts of Rome.

All Imani wanted to do was to play football. But Kenyan fans, gossiping about her sexuality, had other ideas.

A new report has found online hate targeted at the LGBTQ+ community has surged over 400% following the Parental Rights in Education bill.

Micro Rainbow is the frontline organisation that has supported and welcomed 82 LGBTQ+ people to the UK from Afghanistan and their family members over the last twelve months.

This week we learned about GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson, the Pennsylvania lawmaker who voted against protecting same-sex marriage rights then jetted off to celebrate his gay son’s wedding.We wondered allowed about what on Earth his reception toast was like, knowing the grooms and their guests were aware of exactly what side of history he was on.Well, wonder no more — a wedding attendee recorded Thompson’s speech and has leaked it online.The guest shared the audio anonymously with Buzzfeed News, telling the outlet “I think the word should definitely get out there.

Usually summer is kind of quiet around here. Washington still has the old-school tradition of emptying out during the hotter months. Out-of-office responses bounce around town like a beach ball. Gays head to Fire Island, Provincetown, Rehoboth, or just anywhere in this city with a pool. Straights go, well, wherever it is they go. 

GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania said — through a spokesperson — he was “thrilled to attend and celebrate” his gay son’s wedding on Friday.

The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act last week, which would protect marriage equality from the whims of the justices on the now-ultraconservative United States Supreme Court. If it passes in the Senate and goes to President Joe Biden, the bill will be historic, ensuring that marriage equality, which the Supreme Court enshrined into federal law in 2015, cannot be revoked. Republicans, however, have been pushing back on the measure, and one voted against it despite having a gay child.A few days after voting against the measure, however, U.S.

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GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attended his gay son’s wedding three days after opposing a bill in the US House that would codify federal protections for same-sex marriage.