Lance Bass shares devastating impact of being closeted: “I don’t know exactly what damage was caused”

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On 1 July, the UK marks 50 years since its very first Pride event took place on the streets of London.

As part of the brand new clan around Mitch (Roger Griffiths), Felix will arrive with brother Finlay (Ashley Byam) and dad Avery (Omar Lye-Fook, MBE). And before long, we will meet his glam persona Tara Misu.

P-Valley’s writer Patrik-Ian Polk has slammed homophobic fans after they critised the show for including a gay sex scene.

In 2022, Heartstopper arrived on Netflix, and everything changed.It was an absolute gift for LGBTQ+ teens and young people, centering around two teenage boys who figure out their feelings for each other, without any death, disaster or gratuitous cruelty.For LGBTQ+ people who had grown up before, positive representation of same-sex couples were rare – but they did exist, and they were vital.As Pride month comes to a close, Metro.co.uk are catching up with LGBTQ+ people about the on-screen romances that meant everything to them growing up.We’ve had Skins’ Emily and Naomi, Six Feet Under’s Keith and David, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Willow and Tara.Today we speak to The Only Way Is Essex star Demi Sims, who came out as bisexual at 19 and has been open, honest and unapologetic about her sexuality since.Demi has offered brilliant bisexual representation as fans watched her date and fall in love with girls on reality TV, including on Celebs Go Dating and Eating With My Ex.Demi, 25, didn’t have Heartstopper as a closeted teenager, but she did have something else: Santana and Brittany in Glee.They began as friends, moving on to friends with benefits before starting a proper romantic relationship before, finally, getting married in a double same-sex wedding alongside Kurt and Blaine.The marriage episode aired in February 2015 – before same-sex marriage was even legal in the United States.Demi found it ‘so important’ to find a show where ‘love is love no matter what gender’Reality star Demi discovered Glee when she was ‘so young’, and was entranced by the way it portrayed same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ characters, particularly Santana and Brittany.‘When I was a teenager and I wasn’t out yet, watching that was like the first gay,

Dr. Jordan Peterson has been suspended from Twitter for calling out the "criminal physician" who removed Ellen, now Elliot Page's breasts.The controversial tweet was flagged as violating Twitter's rules against hateful conduct, and Peterson has reportedly indicated that he will "never" delete the tweet.Peterson was addressing The Umbrella Academy actor Elliot Page in his tweet.Page came out as a trans man in December 2020, and the recent season of The Umbrella Academy reflected this change, having his character change from Vanya to Viktor Hargreeves."Remember when pride was a sin?" wrote Peterson on Twitter on June 22, the middle of Pride Month. He continued, writing to his 2.8 million followers, "And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician."It seems to have taken a week, but the content of that tweet specifically got Peterson removed from Twitter, as revealed by his daughter Mikhaila Peterson and his friend Dave Rubin.Mikhaila screenshotted the message that told her father he'd been suspended, and also mentioned prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk in her tweet.

Duchess of Sussex won't be published was greeted with dismay by Royal fans.But one expert has claimed that the lack of report could actually be a path to peace for warring prince brothers Harry and William.Buckingham Palace launched a probe in March last year after staffers accused Meghan of bullying them.READ MORE: Meghan Markle's take on US abortion rule will leave 'Netflix pulling their hair out'It came just one day after the claims were published by The Times, who reported that a former top aide to the Sussexes lodged a complaint in 2018.It was alleged that Meghan drove two personal assistants out of the royal household and undermined a third member of staff.Earlier this week, a senior Buckingham Palace aide announced the investigation was complete, but that the findings would not be released. However, royal expert Richard Key claims that this might not be a bad thing for the two brothers who have barely said a word to each other in the last few years.

Buy them £45 from From Our PlaceThe Body Shop is a long-time supporter of MindOut, a mental health charity for the LGBTQ community. The brand’s Out For Love liquid highlighters celebrate Pride in three shades.Vegan, and with a watermelon scent, the formula can be dabbed on to lids, cheekbones and lips, encouraging creativity and self-expression.Buy it for £10.50 from The Body Shop.Activewear brand Fabletics is making a £20,000 donation alongside the launch of its United With Pride collection to support the Glaad organisation’s work to amplify LGBTQ+ community voices.

Sutton Stracke took a break from clashing with Diana Jenkins on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to host a Pride celebration on Thursday, the last day of Pride Month.The 50-year-old party host posed with her son James, actress Joely Fisher and more at the celebration, held at her fashion boutique Sutton in West Hollywood.They were joined by others such as actor Felix Solis, Terry Hu, Amelia McCarthy, Nancy Davis and Jai Rodriguez. Sutton:Sutton Stracke, 50, took a break from clashing with Diana Jenkins on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to host a Pride celebration on Thursday, the last day of Pride Month.Sutton stepped out with a pink off-shoulder lacy mini-dress that fell to her mid-thighs for the event.She also rocked a flowery barrette with her blonde locks falling just below her shoulders for the event.

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YouTube videos on his interests in ethics, theology and myth.  All that changed in 2016 when he challenged, on free-speech grounds, a proposed Canadian law, C-16, which he argued would legally compel him to use transgender people’s preferred pronouns.

Through coming out, I also discovered a chosen family. A community of queer people and allies who accepted, mentored and guided me with so much compassionIt was terrifying and it was painful. Some people are lucky to know who they are from an early age. Some are even lucky enough to be able to be themselves freely and unapologetically.

Halifax tells customers who don't like staff pronoun badges to close accountsEastEnders reveals newcomer Felix Baker's drag queen persona Tara MisuPride in London map reveals where the march will take place this weekend‘I have a thick skin and the letters haven’t deterred us from working here. In fact, it has pushed us to carry on and we have received so many messages of support this morning.‘This has now become nothing about us.

Florida teachers have revealed that the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and its restrictions have already started to take effect. 

“Why aren’t you eating?” my mother said to me, her Yonkers accent blaring into the otherwise hushed Chinese restaurant. A 77-year-old Italian-American hairdresser who believed that almost all problems could be solved with a pile of spaghetti and meatballs, she viewed my lack of appetite as a warning flare. “I’m fine,” I said.

U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Alabama has used the ruling in an attempt to prohibit gender-affirming health care to trans youth and to trans adults.Affirming fears from LGBTQ+ rights groups about what the decision could mean for queer rights, the state is seeking to lift a federal court's injunction that blocked an April law that made providing puberty blockers or hormones to youth a felony offense.

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DJs Lord Byron and Red Vamp, pictured, along with DJ Son of Sam will be at the turntables Friday at Panoptikon, the inclusive, alternative disco led by founder Lord Byron, aka Byron Laszlo, that celebrated its 16th anniversary in June. The party starts at 9 p.m. at 108 S. Pearl St., and admission is $10. Check listings for details. (Photo courtesy of Beagleone Photography)

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Tessa Thompson has opened up about Valkyrie’s sexuality in the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder film.

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Openly gay footballer Josh Cavallo shared his thoughts on potentially playing in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Love Is Not Abuse, was difficult to do but pivotal to my recovery from domestic violence. I hope it will inspire others to become more aware of domestic violence issues in the LGBTQ+ community and join me in doing something about it.Statistics tell the story in LGBTQ+ relationships and show that domestic violence is more common for us than those in heterosexual relationships.

Move over Lightyear, there’s a new Disney property in the conservative crosshairs this week.The family-friendly Disney+ series, Baymax!—a spin-off of the hit animated action-adventure movie, Big Hero 6—dropped recently, and its inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters has certain viewers freaking out.That’s right, the newest threat to our American ideals and values? It’s this guy.via GIPHYSet after the large-scale super-heroics of the film, Baymax! follows the titular bot—essentially an inflatable robo-nurse—as he provides help and healthcare to the citizens of San Fransokyo (a fantasy city that combines San Francisco and Tokyo, naturally). It’s a decidedly smaller-scale endeavor, each episode a brief 10-minute vignette where Baymax helps out different friends and comic hijinks ensue.

Rejoicing royals! Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are pleased with the results of the bullying investigation against the Duchess of Sussex — even though Buckingham Palace will not be releasing their conclusions.

Marching in the first Pride The UK's first Pride in 1972 vastly differs from the annual events which take place now.Mr Tatchell said organisers came up with the idea of "gay pride" to “counter the view that gay people should be "ashamed of their homosexuality"."We wanted to challenge that internalised homophobia.

Hot goss out of the Denver Zoo is that Freddie, an old queen in his early 50s, recently left Lance (freshly 21) for a 14-year-old friend named Iommi. Iommi is a grown woman in flamingo years surely, but that doesn’t make Freddie’s cradle-robbing, messy-bisexual behavior any less messy.Tense break notwithstanding, we celebrate that we got to witness the queer romance of the ill-fated flamboyance that was Lance and Freddie.In honor of the pair’s love story, here’s a playlist of seven songs that may just help mend any broken hearts among them:With lines like “your faith in me brings me to tears” and “I’m going to have to eventually give you away,” Freddie could’ve penned this song to Lance himself.

Queer as Folk, forget about them while you watch this show. While every iteration of QAF shares the DNA of queer sex, drama, and the struggles of everyday queer life, the Peacock edition goes further than everything before it, in many necessary ways.Whereas the first two iterations were glaringly about cis, white, hairless gay men, this update brings a whole host of characters from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum to tell a messy, but amazing story about the strength of queerness in all its forms.While the show takes a moment to get its footing, it ends up hitting a glorious stride when it lets its amazing queer actors let loose.The third edition of QAF starts off with Brodie Beaumont, played by Devin Way, who has just returned to New Orleans after dropping out of med school.

Tom Swift star Tian Richards with a swiftness.The sexy actor-on-the-rise is making waves in the titular role of the new CW mystery-drama, lauded as television’s “first gay Black lead.”Related: A gay billionaire inventor sends sparks flyingA spin-off of the network’s supernatural take on Nancy Drew, Tom Swift is a modern-day update of the literary hero. Richards breathes new life into the classic character, reimagining him as young inventor-entrepreneur-billionaire-playboy who just so happens to be gay and very, very hot.“What does a genius inventor do when he’s not inventing or genius-ing?,” one character quips.

recent analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).The nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank reviewed U.S. Census Bureau data collected last summer.

Kim Cattrall is taking on a big new role, and the cast of her series is being revealed.

Creator of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power announced a name change and updated pronouns. 

New York has emerged as a hot spot for a growing monkeypox outbreak, but as the city prepares to receive thousands of doses of vaccine, it is unclear how the city will distribute them equitably to the people most at risk for the disease: sexually active gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, among whom the global outbreak has been centered. Last week, a single clinic in Chelsea offered 1,000 doses of the vaccine that the city’s Department of Health had released from its stock. Hundreds of men turned up as walk-ins, leading the line to close to new people after only about 90 minutes.

Note: There's no right or wrong time to come out as LGBTQ — every individual's experience is different, and it's important to honor everyone's journeys and what works best for them.Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.—whatevenisthis12"Having a gay son is literally one of the best things that's ever happened to me. He jokes that he’s never even been in the closet, but acknowledges that almost all of his LGBTQ friends have had hard roads met with disapproval and sometimes even violence.

Heartstopper justice back in the early 2010s. Nonetheless, if there’s one thing I’m really good at, that would be holding grudges. It’s a flaw, I know.

Overall, who was your favorite couple in Season 3? Who is your favorite main teen character? And who is your favorite family member? Which character has had the most growth since Season 1? What was your favorite episode of Season 3? Finally, which season did you love most overall? Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Not in the US? My Fake Boyfriendis coming to Prime Video in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM, and Brazil on June 10, and all other territories on June 24.

overturned Roe v. Wade, said the justices should revisit Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling that invalidated state antisodomy laws across the nation; Obergefell v.

Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Equal Pride.When the Supreme Court ruling on Roe V. Wade came down last Friday, I was gathered with other LGBTQ+ community members just outside of the Stonewall Inn to commemorate the groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument’s visitor center.

The Spider-Man character makes his friend of Dorothy debut as “Web-Weaver”, a gay fashion designer fighting crime in a McQueen-inspired, lash-laden supersuit:Web-Weaver my design for the brand new Spider, debuting in Edge of Spider-verse 5 pic.twitter.com/vl2qVUtGVq— krisanka (@kristaferanka) June 23, 2022Something I realized immediately when conceiving Web-Weaver is that he can’t–and shouldn’t–represent ALL gay men. No single character can.His fearlessly femme identity is central to who he is, but it’s not the STORY…which you can experience for yourself in September!️ pic.twitter.com/PD1nhppqbc— Steve Foe Updates (@steve_foxe) June 27, 2022Spider-Man has had a choke-hold on the gay community for decades.

Heartstopper and you love Gogglebox, well, you’re in for a treat. Members of the cast have joined Celebrity Gogglebox for the Pride special, with Kit Connor, Joe Locke, Yasmin Finney, and William Gao getting comfy on the couch to critic TV shows and films from the past week. The four have shot to global stardom following the release of Heartstopper on Netflix earlier this year, which saw rugby lad Nick Nelson (Kit) fall in love with form buddy Charlie Spring (Joe).

Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives announced on Tuesday a bill that would codify federal protections for transgender people. The lawmakers are calling the proposal the “Transgender Bill of Rights.” The legislation would protect employees from gender discrimination by codifying the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision in 2020.

posted online show the tweet in question from the Canadian clinical psychologist’s account, which reads: “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.”Page came out as transgender in 2020, announcing he would now be known as Elliot. Many are now calling out Peterson for “deadnaming” the 25-year-old “Umbrella Academy” star.Peterson, 60, who joined the staff of conservative podcast outlet Daily Wire on Thursday, is infamous for his anti-trans stance. He once claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that being transgender is a result of a “contagion” and similar to “satanic ritual abuse.”Conservative political commentator Dave Rubin posted screenshots of the removed tweet online, writing, “The insanity continues at Twitter,” and claiming that Peterson “just told me he will ‘never’ delete the tweet.

in a poignant Instagram post, revealing that they have known from a young age that they were not a girl.Brown, 26, is the only child of Kody Brown and his first wife, Meri, whose polygamous family is at the center of the long-running TLC reality TV series, which aired its 16th season earlier this year.“Someone recently told me that i didn’t have to have all of my s–t figured out in order for me to share myself with the world,” Brown wrote on their Instagram account Tuesday.“So here’s me, definitely not having almost any of my s–t figured out, to let you know that i am trans. my name is Leon or Leo (i love both) and my pronouns are they/them.”The 26-year-old shared a photo of themselves standing in a pair of brown shorts and sandals in a doorframe.Brown had come out as lesbian in Season 11 of “sister Wives.”“I remember the first time that i knew i wasn’t a girl,” the reality show cast member wrote.

Great to join @CommonsSpeaker and colleagues from across Westminster ahead of the Pride flag raising in the grounds of Parliament.It was a great opportunity to come together to recognise progress made and work still to be done.Together we can get there ð³ï¸âð pic.twitter.com/5P0eqMOarlOne of the MPs to join Sir Lindsay in celebrating was Elliot Colburn, a Tory MP representing Carshalton and Wallington near Croydon in south London. Mr Colburn, who has campaigned against homophobic abuse after receiving a death threat himself, tweeted that he was ‘feelin’ proud’.He said: ‘Great to join @CommonsSpeaker and colleagues from across Westminster ahead of the Pride flag raising in the grounds of Parliament.

It’s bee a rough couple of weeks in Supreme Court news, with conservative justices dominating rulings on issues from gun control to abortion rights to the fight against climate change.Just today, the court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions, and agreed to hear a case that could drastically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted, potentially jeopardizing election integrity.That being said, there is one major reason to pause and celebrate a SCOTUS development today — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has officially been sworn in as the 116th Supreme Court justice and the first Black woman to serve on the high court.Related: Openly gay Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald is having none of Clarence Thomas’ B.S.Jackson replaces liberal now-former Justice Stephen Breyer, who stepped down from his position today.Her confirmation hearing, if you recall, was a GOP sideshow of epic proportions, making today’s swearing in all the more satisfying.While the conservative stronghold on the court won’t change with Jackson’s arrival, folks are still hailing the historic moment:The news we needed this week. Grateful for you #KetanjiBrownJackson!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/Zw6ubL64H0— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) June 30, 2022Today we celebrate a monumental moment in history.

curated by fellow BuzzFeed writers, and then updated two years later. Of course.And of course, gays are not a monolith and there is no way all gay people love these songs.

Netflix‘s unintentionally homoerotic Indian action epic, then catch up on the latest from Gay TikTok:Drag kings got their moment.Liam Payne gave a private show.Mario Adrion found a drinking buddy.Lance Bass brought his infant to the bar.Trixie Motel opened its doors.♬ Brick House – CommodoresRob Anderson wrote a song.A chicken made its debut.Wayne LaPierre was thanked for his thoughts and prayers.Jasper practiced a dance.And an ally went viral.