Kai-Isaiah Jamal wins British Community Trailblazer at GAY TIMES Honours 2022

The creators of Netflix’s Wednesday have opened up about a potential Wednesday and Enid romance in future seasons.

Less than a week after two people were arrested for trespassing at the apartment building of gay New York City Council member Erik Bottcher, police have now identified a third suspect who is wanted for assault. Bottcher represents the city’s District 3, including Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Hudson Square, Flatiron, Times Square, the Theater District, and the Garment District. When The Advocate spoke to City Council Member Bottcher last Monday, he said that two people were arrested for entering his apartment building unlawfully and that a third suspect was being investigated for assaulting a nearby neighbor of Bottcher.The neighbor was on his way home to his building down the block when he encountered the multiple hate groups stationed outside Bottcher’s building in Chelsea, Bottcher said. Now, police have identified David Nieves as the accused assailant. Authorities allege Nieves struck his victim in the face, cutting the victim.

Spoilers ahead for the grand finale of Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs the World.  

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Spoilers ahead for the grand finale of Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs the World. 

Sniffies, a popular map-based meetup app for gay, bisexual, and curious men, announced its latest campaign, Sniffies Unwrapped, will reveal the ways users explored and experimented on the platform in 2022.The year-end campaign will launch on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, featuring categories like Horniest City, Most Popular Type of Group, and Most Popular Cruising Location.A branded infographic with shareable award badges will allow users to post where they fit. An animated video will also enable users to dig into the data and learn, for example, where they might be able to find who hosts the most groups over the course of a year.“Sniffies users made this year our best yet,” said Chief Marketing Officer and Creative Director Eli Martin in a press release.

Lesbian WNBA champion Brittney Griner posted a holiday message to supporters this week, urging them to write to Paul Whelan, an American who is still detained in Russia.“Thanks to the efforts of many, including you, I am home after nearly 10 months. You took time to show me you cared and I want to personally take the time to write to you and say that your effort mattered,” Griner wrote on Instagram. “Your letters helped me to not lose hope during a time where I was full of regret and vulnerable in ways I could have never imagined.

(CNN) -- Ellen DeGeneres fought back tears in her first public video statement since the death of beloved talk show personality and her friend Stephen "tWitch" Boss."Hey everybody. I just wanted to say the past 11 days have been really tough for everyone," DeGeneres said in a video posted to her social media accounts on Friday.

Clive Davis is spilling the details about Whitney Houston‘s lesbian love affair!

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(CNN) -- A version of this story appeared in CNN's Race Deconstructed newsletter.About halfway into the winter finale of the workplace sitcom "Abbott Elementary," we learn why the corny history teacher Jacob, played by Chris Perfetti, is a Christmas killjoy: "Look," he says, "Christmas is not my favorite thing, OK? I don't have a lot of good memories around it."Jacob, who's gay, never elaborates. But as I watched the scene, I thought about how lots of queer people feel a similar unease around Christmas.

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Police have arrested two men in connection with a string of robberies and murders of men who were picked up at bars in NYC.Kenwood Allen, 33, and another unnamed man were arrested and charged with the drug-induced deaths of two men, although police said more charges are expected as their investigation continued.Police alleged the two men were part of a crew who drugged and then robbed unsuspecting men after they had left various Manhattan bars beginning in March of this year, according to a report in the New York Post.Allen was charged with the March 18 death of Nurbo Shera and the July 30 death of Ardijan Berisha. At least 24 other men have been drugged and robbed, and sometimes killed, under similar circumstances, and police have long suspected a crew was targeting inebriated bar-goers in the area.“They target their victims leaving bars, offering drugs in some cases, then either through force or when the victim passes out, they remove jewelry, money, high-end watches and phones from their victims,” James Essig, NYPD chief of detectives, said at a press briefing announcing the arrests.Allen was officially charged with two counts of second-degree murder, three counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of second-degree robbery, and two counts of second-degree assault.The unsolved murders of two gay men suspected of falling prey to the same crew made headlines last month when the mother of one of the victims, Linda Clary, accused Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg of dragging his feet in bringing the murderers of her son, John Umberger, to justice.“I can’t be quiet anymore.

By all accounts, early Hollywood was one big bacchanal for those at the top before the Hayes Code and censorship more closely monitored the public and private lives of celebrities. La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (a call-out to problematic but influential director D.W.

Tom Goss belts out some fab Christmas tunes on Big Fat Gay Ass Christmas. (Photo by Dusti Cunningham)

What a year: 2022 began with a law targeting transgender youth in sports going into effect, and it ends with the astounding news that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to get the Department of Public Safety to compile for him a list of people who had changed the gender markers on their Texas driver’s licenses and state IDs. Between then and now, we saw Gov. Abbott try to criminalize health care for trans youth

Where to begin with a play like One Woman Show? Liz Kingsman’s creation – originally opening at the Soho Theatre last year, and subsequently a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, earning rave reviews – has now opened on London’s West End and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve seen. It’s high concept stuff – Liz is on-stage as the writer, knowingly creating a performance about a character who works in marketing at the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust.

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Gemini Rights artist Steve Lacy has opened up about his “favourite” artists and how they influenced his sound.

Patti LuPone has joined the cast of Marvel’s upcoming series Agatha: Coven of Chaos.

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Meet Lt. Dan, a very happy and energetic little pup who is just over a year old. He is a Labrador retriever mix and has been with the SPCA of Texas since he was a puppy. He weighs 43 pounds and is covered in black fur with a little white underneath. Lt. Dan is celebrating this week because he was just outfitted with his brand new wheelchair! He had the misfortune of being born with deformed front legs. For his first year he managed without them completely and was even adept at rising up on his back legs. Now with his wheelchair exploring will become even easier for him. Lt. Dan is at the Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center, so no appointment is necessary to meet him.

Sometimes it’s easy for me to feel the holiday spirit. And sometimes, it is as if the holidays never existed. This year, for example, I decided that, in addition to the “s

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery director Rian Johnson has revealed why Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc doesn’t share any scenes with his partner. 

Eureka O’Hara is “blessed” now that she’s living her truth as a transgender woman.

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Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, continues through Dec. 26 this year, and Beth El Binah celebrates the holiday Friday, Dec. 23, with a party at a private home featuring latkes and a dairy potluck. A number of LGBTQ-welcoming churches will be holding special Christmas Eve services on Saturday, Dec. 24, and Christmas services on Sunday, Dec. 25, including Cathedral of Hope and Northaven Church. Check listings and church websites for details.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Sunlenca (lenacapavir), produced by Gilead Sciences, in combination with other antiretrovirals for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in heavily treatment-experienced (HTE) adults with multi-drug resistant (MDR) HIV-1 infection.Sunlenca offers a new, twice-yearly treatment option for HIV-positive adults that is not adequately controlled by their current regimen.“Today’s approval ushers in a new class of antiretroviral drugs that may help patients with HIV who have run out of treatment options,” Debra Birnkrant, M.D., said in a press release from the FDA.

The upcoming Road to Freedom Literary Festival aims to help support LGBTQ+ people who face persecution because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics by raising money for the nonprofit organization Rainbow Railroad.Under the theme of “storytelling helps heal humanity’s wounds,” the organization will hold the festival at the newly renovated office tower above Penn Station, PENN 1, on January 12, 2023, in New York City.“The Road to Freedom Literary Festival will contribute to that healing when prominent LGBTQI+ writers share moving and inspiring stories from their own work and ‘roads to freedom,’” Rainbow Railroad said in a press release.Rainbow Railroad is an international nonprofit organization working to assist LGBTQ+ escape violence and discrimination because of who they are. The group said it has helped more than 5,000 queer people find safety.Journalist and novelist Richard C.

Scotland and Spain have both advanced legislation making it easier for transgender people to legally change their gender.Both bills require further steps before they become law. Scotland, as part of the United Kingdom, needs royal assent for its bill, while Spain’s legislation has been passed by one house of its Parliament but needs the approval of another, something that is expected.Scotland’s Parliament voted 86-39 Thursday to ease the process of obtaining what’s called a gender recognition certificate, the BBC reports.

Republican congressman-elect George Santos of New York divorced a woman in 2019, days before the start of his failed 2020 campaign.In a new report by The Daily Beast, Santos didn’t disclose his marriage to a woman throughout his campaign while he positioned himself as a proud gay Republican.Santos is the first gay Republican to be elected to Congress while being out from the get-go when he beat out Democrat Robert Zimmerman in last month’s midterm elections. Predecessors Steve Gunderson and Jim Kolbe came out while already in office.“The divorce—which Santos has not discussed publicly—adds new uncertainty to his already shaky biographical and political claims,” the outlet reports.Santos had previously said that he was “openly gay,” and that he never had a problem with his sexual orientation.The Beast reports that after his divorce was finalized, he filed to run for Congress in 2020 — where he went on to lose.

The Great American Family Network, which is positioning itself as a conservative Christian alternative to Hallmark, has apologized to a viewer who objected to a commercial for HIV medication on one of its programs.The cable channel is also getting heat for the airing of an ad for RuPaul’s Drag Race and is saying that was a local ad, like the one for the HIV med, and it has no control over local commercials.Actress Alexandra Billings, who is transgender and living with HIV, shared an Instagram post in which a viewer under the name straighttalkwithmj wrote, “Love the movies! But have you removed the very non-family friendly aids drug ad with 2 men kissing?”Great American Family responded, “Unfortunately, we don’t have any control over local commercials, and we sincerely apologize.”Billings, tagging the cable channel, commented, “I have been living with HIV for over thirty years now. I buried most of my friends in my twenties and I live with an illness that gets more and more difficult to manage and navigate with each passing year.

NEW YORK: Sam Bankman-Fried was released on a US$250 million bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.

FTX founder and former Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces US fraud charges over the collapse of FTX, ran his crypto empire with a number of associates.

The Biden Administration is investigating a Texas school district for removing 130 titles from library shelves, mostly books with LGBTQ+ content.

With awards season in full swing, 25 November marked the most anticipated queer night of the year: GAY TIMES Honours sponsored by Meta Quest.

Tove Lo is the recipient of the GAY TIMES Honour for International Excellence in Music, sponsored by Skittles. 

Olympic athlete Tom Daley has been named the recipient of this year’s GAY TIMES Honour for Changemaker presented by Meta Quest.

GAY TIMES Honours sponsored by Meta Quest celebrates the individuals and organisations who have had a profound effect on the lives of LGBTQ+ people over the past 12 months.

Amir Ashour has been awarded the GAY TIMES Honour for International Community Trailblazer.

London Trans+ Pride has been named the recipient of this year’s GAY TIMES Honour for Future Fighter presented by Hinge.

Cat Burns has been named the recipient of this year’s GAY TIMES Honour for Rising Star in Music presented by Coca-Cola.

Queen of the Universe winner Grag Queen has released Future Is Queer, the fierce anthem for GAY TIMES Honours sponsored by Meta Quest.

After releasing her first-ever album as an independent artist, Tove Lo tells GAY TIMES that she finally feels “creatively free”.