LGBTQ+ Protections Under Affordable Care Act to Be Expanded by Biden

Gus Kenworthy and his friends are heating up Fire Island, and it’s only giving that one The Other Two plotline a tiny bit.The Olympian posted a cute slideshow of his recent summer exploits on Instagram, all with his “besties with testes” in tow.A couple of the pics have us hoping there’s an opening or two for new members — to the group, we mean:  A post shared by gus kenworthy (@guskenworthy)Among the gallery are Drag Race All Stars winner Alaska 5000, film director Jake Wilson, and Titaniqu.e actor Constantine Rousouli.Actually, let’s take this opportunity to show, not tell:  A post shared by JAKE WILSON (@jakewil)  A post shared by Chase Vicenzi (@chaosvicenzi)  A post shared by Constantine Rousouli (@constantinerousouli)  A post shared by Justin Muir (@justin_muir)  A post shared by Magnus Hastings (@magnushastings)  A post shared by Adam Perry (@adammperry)And, of course, we can’t ignore the ringleader:  A post shared by gus kenworthy (@guskenworthy)  A post shared by gus kenworthy (@guskenworthy)  A post shared by gus kenworthy (@guskenworthy)  A post shared by gus kenworthy (@guskenworthy)

Rebel News was Carlson’s guest and he said that Miller doesn’t use “any gasoline or any fertilizer.” He said that those two things “have become very expensive because of [President Joe] Biden’s policies in regards to the war in Ukraine and Russia” and the Biden administration is “coming after him for it.”“Maybe if he promises to put more chemicals in the milk that turn kids trans, they’ll lay off,” Carlson said. There is no evidence that food additives are turning anyone LGBTQ.Here's the full segment.

A conservative Christian church in Texas has issued an apology for staging an unauthorized production of Hamilton that altered the text to include religious and anti-LGBTQ+ messages, and it will pay damages to the show’s copyright holders.The Door Christian Fellowship McAllen Church produced a version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning musical this month that had Alexander Hamilton and his wife, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, talking about their belief in Jesus Christ — language that is not in the script. It was followed by a sermon by the church’s pastor, Roman Gutierrez, that likened homosexuality to addiction.

A man cosplaying as the world’s angriest tomato turned heads at a Texas school board meeting this week as he delivered one of the most off-the-rails monologues in recent memory.Grapevine-Colleyville ISD in Texas hosted a meeting to discuss new school policies regarding instruction on identity, and folks came out in droves. An estimated crowd of 200 were in attendance to voice their support and concerns.In a half-sad half-entertaining turn, this man was also in attendance.This particular citizen took the floor to deliver a rant featuring his thoughts on the “simple facts” of gender, monkeypox, and way more excited talk about c*mming than expected.

Drag Race is the gap between RuPaul saying “Good luck, and don’t fu*ck it up” and the start of the Lip Sync For Your Life. Sure we’re all eagerly anticipating the show-stopping smackdown, but there are those few, unspoken seconds where we’re also waiting to hear what song the two queens will be lip-syncing to.Of course, the show has a good track record on that front, frequently delivering bop after bop that will have the fans gagging after just the first few bars.

Dennis Rodman, the former NBA player, says he is traveling to Russia to seek the release of Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner.The out WNBA star has been detained in Moscow since February of this year when Russian authorities at the Sheremetyevo Airport discovered vape canisters with cannabis oil inside of her luggage. Earlier this month, Griner was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison over the charges."I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl,” Rodman told NBC News.

As monkeypox, or MPV, continues to spread primarily among gay, bi, and queer men and men who have sex with men, local communities are implementing a new Biden administration pilot program to get MPV vaccines into at-risk peoples' arms at large gatherings. This weekend, the Mecklenburg Health Department was the first to roll out the new program as more than 275,000 people attended events during Charlotte Pride, and while many said information about the vaccine availability was lacking, officials are satisfied with the results.During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Mecklenburg County Health Department director Dr.

Elegance Bratton will make his narrative debut as writer-director in A24’s upcoming movie, The Inspection, which stars out actor Jeremy Pope (One Night In Miami, Pose). The trailer released today reveals that the drama is inspired by true events from the filmmaker’s life as a closeted gay man in the Marines. The film will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival at the beginning of September and will close the 60th New York Film Festival in October.“I’m incredibly humbled that my debut feature film will close the New York Film Festival this year,” Bratton said in a statement, according to IndieWire. “So many of my favorite filmmakers have made an impact as a part of this illustrious program.

The Hill that the company is taking Hyatt’s complaint “seriously.”Walmart does not “tolerate discrimination of any kind,” the spokesperson said. “We will respond to the claim as appropriate.”Hyatt’s complaint is one of several legal challenges the retail giant has faced alleging that they have discriminated against transgender employees based on their gender identity.In December, a trans former employee sued the company for failing to act when co-workers and managers repeatedly used her deadname in conversations about her and on official documents.In 2018, Walmart settled a lawsuit brought by a former employee in North Carolina who claimed she had been fired in retaliation for complaining to her supervisors about on-the-job harassment at the hands of her co-workers.A year earlier, the U.S.

“I need to have a conversation with you,” said Lee County sheriff Daniel Simon to Brian Alston-Carter, a candidate for the South Carolina House of Representatives, at a 2014 campaign event. “I need you to ride with me to see something.”Simon provided Alston-Carter with a police escort as the pair drove about five miles on Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Highway to one of Alston-Carter’s campaign posters.

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2 min read Harry Styles spoke to Rolling Stone about his career, relationships with women, acceptance of his sexuality, and also talked about his role in My Policeman, a new feature film that will premiere in theatres in October. As Harry Styles said, the film is not only about a gay couple, but above all about love.

A church in Texas that earlier this month staged unauthorized productions of the musical hit “Hamilton,” changing some lyrics to reflect Christian themes, apologized and agreed to pay damages on Tuesday after lawyers for “Hamilton” had demanded that they stop performances. The version put on this month by The Door McAllen, a nondenominational church in the border town of McAllen, Texas, altered certain words and inserted invocations of Jesus Christ, according to clips posted on Twitter. It also included a sermon stating that God could help people with their homosexuality, as well as with struggles with drugs and alcohol.

issued a written injunction preventing the state from trying to enforce the law, which was approved by Republican lawmakers earlier this year, over the objections of Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, who initially vetoed the measure.In May, three transgender athletes and their families enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in their case.

A new documentary investigating Princess Diana’s tragic death nearly 25 years ago revisits the mystery surrounding the “Mishcon Note.”The princess voiced her fears of dying in a staged car accident to her lawyer, Lord Mishcon, in 1995, two years before the crash that took her life. Her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, were also killed.Lord Mishcon provided a contemporaneous typed account his conversation with Diana to senior Metropolitan Police officers after the princess’ death.Rather than pass it on to French authorities investigating the crash, Met Police locked it away in a safe.

Rihanna fans are tired of waiting for new music and will take any opportunity to remind her of it.However, unlike other long-suffering stans (say, Normani supporters), Rihanna’s Navy™ occasionally have to deal with feeling like their fave is playing in their faces.Not since her Fenty Furniture musings have fans felt this as much as they do now, following the launch of Fenty Beauty’s new “Ketchup or Makeup” collab with MSCHF.Fenty Beauty has launched a makeup collaboration inspired by ketchup, with MSCHF.The ‘Ketchup Or Makeup’ set consists of six identical packets of “ketchup.” Some of the packets will contain Fenty Beauty’s Gloss Bomb lip gloss, and the others will be filled with actual ketchup. pic.twitter.com/L2eEtFIfnm— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 23, 2022It’s unclear whether this packet assortment will be equal parts “Gloss Bomb” and ketchup, or if each set is randomized.

Glee is not real life. Pitch isn’t always perfect, slushies don’t splatter across faces so artfully, and teens don’t actually look like twenty-something adults.Perhaps someone should’ve reminded the producers of The Glee Project about that!Back in 2011, the Oxygen network capitalized off of the massive popularity of Ryan Murphy‘s musical dramedy Glee by launching a reality competition show intent on finding the series’ next big star.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin seems to have reversed his position on the Respect for Marriage Act, now saying the legislation to write marriage equality into federal law is “completely unnecessary.”Johnson said last month that he saw “no reason to oppose” the bill, which has been passed by the House of Representatives and is pending in the Senate.

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Harry Styles is giving fans exactly what they want in a touchingly honest cover story interview with Rolling Stone.In addition to a mega-successful music career and growing resume as an actor, Styles often sparks conversation for one other topic — his sexuality. “I’ve never talked about my life away from work publicly and found that it’s benefited me positively,” he told the magazine. “There’s always going to be a version of a narrative, and I think I just decided I wasn’t going to spend the time trying to correct it or redirect it in some way.”Though Styles has made headlines for his relationships with women in the past — like with Kendall Jenner, Taylor Swift, and currently, Olivia Wilde — the “As It Was” singer has never publicly labeled his sexuality.

Related: WATCH: One Million Moms outraged by ad showing gay men enjoying … toastShe sent an email to supporters this week warning them her eyes had been burned by the “graphic” advert (SPOILER – you don’t get to see any genitals whatsoever.)“Ballsy needs to be held accountable for their recent ad that speaks openly and repeatedly about men’s genitalia,” the email began.“This specific commercial, ‘Ouch! – Ballsy B2 Trimmer,’ with its campaign hashtag #MaleGrooming, is currently airing on television.“During the commercial, a female narrator walks around a fake Ballsy lab with male “scientists” wearing only boxers, while she describes their new product, the B2 trimmer.“‘Here at Ballsy, we know how hard it can be to trim your balls. That’s why we created the new B2 trimmer.

Donald Trump is reportedly having a hard time retaining the “best people” to represent him as he faces multiple lawsuits and a federal investigation, but the latest move from Trumpworld has everyone wondering if his team is even awake at the wheel.On Monday night, one of Trump’s official representatives for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released a May 10 letter that legal experts say is incredibly damning.Conservative journalist John Solomon posted the document on his website, JustTheNews.com, prompting utterly baffled responses from folks who are following the saga closely.Related: Everything is crumbling around Donald Trump and he can’t find a single good lawyer to help him outThe letter was sent to Trump’s lawyers by NARA, and confirms that the former president took highly classified materials with him to Mar-a-Lago.“As you are no doubt aware, NARA had ongoing communications with the former President’s representatives throughout 2021 about what appeared to be missing Presidential records, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes of records to NARA in January 2022,” the letter reads. “In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials.

According to a new report published by The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), far-right groups that have anti-LGBTQ+ agendas have grown in recent years in Ireland. The report highlights how a considerable part of the Irish far-right extremist scene of the last six years is made up of anti-LGBTQ+ organisations. The study Irish […]

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U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is under fire after threatening bipartisan support of legislation to protect same-sex marriage because Democrats were finally able to put together a historic tax and climate change bill – a huge win for Democrats, the Biden administration, and Americans.“I just think the timing could not have been worse and it came totally out of the blue,” Senator Collins told HuffPost Thursday.

Trevor Project.The study, “Trauma and Suicide Risk Among LGBTQ Youth,” used data from the Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, collected in an online survey conducted between September and December of last year of 33,993 LGBTQ+ youth recruited via targeted ads on social media.“Individual trauma happens when a physically or emotionally harmful or threatening event, or series of events, is experienced by a person and has lasting effects on their well-being,” the study explains. “Therefore, experiences of discrimination or physical threat or harm based on one’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity may be experienced as individual trauma.

A lawsuit filed by more than 20 Republican attorneys general challenges the Biden administration over a Department of Agriculture policy prohibiting discrimination in the school lunch program based on sexual orientation and gender identity for school meals.Tennessee attorney general Herbert Slatery filed the lawsuit claiming the federal government misinterprets the law on antidiscrimination measures.Attorneys general hope this challenge will achieve a similar result to the one in which a federal judge in Tennessee temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing LGBTQ+ protections earlier this month.The judge ruled for the 20 state attorneys general that the directives violated states’ rights, including state laws that prohibit students from playing on sports teams based on their gender identities as well as requiring schools and businesses to provide transgender students access to appropriate bathrooms and showers.“This case is, yet again, about a federal agency trying to change law, which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative,” Slatery said in a statement to the Associated Press. “The USDA simply does not have that authority.

Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, continuing his months-long, fear-based attack on the LGBTQ community, appears to be claiming that elementary school teachers are “instructed” to tell children they they might be transgender, and insisting if anyone dares to disagree with him, they are “lying.”

monkeypox a global health emergency, making clear that the growing number of cases calls for an international response. The outbreak has mostly affected men who have sex with men.

lawsuit has been filed against Florida's "don't say gay" law. Lambda Legal joined the Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Legal Counsel, and private attorney Baker McKenzie to file a federal lawsuit challenging the law on Monday.By prohibiting sexual orientation and gender identity discussions from kindergarten through third grade and imposing undefined standards for appropriateness for students through graduation, the suit claims, Florida’s law silences and erases LGBTQ+ families and students. The suit also takes issue with the fact that any parent dissatisfied with a school district’s law implementation can sue the district over it.Gov.

the Trevor Project, which assists LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, is facing calls for his resignation after revelations about his work as a consultant to a manufacturer of opioid drugs.Before assuming his current position in 2017, Paley was an associate partner at McKinsey & Co., a global consulting firm. One of the McKinsey clients he worked with was Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin (generic name oxycodone), which is highly addictive.“Paley worked on projects with the goal of increasing opioid sales and helping to boost Purdue Pharma’s brand — even after the devastating effects of the opioid crisis, with Purdue as a key player, had become clear,” Teen Vogue reports.

Buzzfeed obtained audio of Congressman Thompson’s toast to the happy couple, during which he bestows the warmest of wishes and says he’s just like any parent who hopes their child finds “that one true love so that they have the opportunity to experience that: someone to grow old with.”Last week Rep. Thompson voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that rescinds the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, and requires the federal government and states to recognize the existing and lawful marriages of same-sex couples.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Monday that it intends to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for gay and transgender people in the Affordable Care Act — a proposal that would officially reverse a policy adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services under former President Donald J. Trump. The Trump rule, finalized in 2020, erased Obama-era protections for transgender patients.

A new regulation proposed by the Biden administration seeks to ensure non-discrimination in health care settings for women who have had abortions and LGBTQ people at a time when monkeypox cases continue to increase and fears persist after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Monday afternoon announced her positive COVID diagnosis. She is the fourth member of the Senate in recent days to test positive for COVID-19. Hours earlier Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) also announced he had tested positive for COVID. On Thursday Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) announced he had tested positive and was isolating for five days. That same day Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) announced her positive test, but she returned to work Monday.

headlines in May for his threats against the LGBTQ+ community and its allies, is now taking his “advocacy” to PetSmart.The right-wing anti-vaxxer formerly shared in a video that he was going to “make massive scenes” in various stores – like Target and Sunny's Hair and Wigs – to ensure that “corporate” does not “poison the children.”"If you support the LGBT agenda, you're not safe," he previously said.Now, enforcing his “beliefs” on the land of pets, in a clip shared by Patriot Takes, Schmidt demanded that a PetSmart employee take down the Pride flag as it “supports pedophilia and child sexualization.”The employee called a manager to the front, who assured him that they weren't going to take it down.“We are supportive of LGBTQ+ people here,” he said.“The real rainbow is from God,” Scmhidt-Crockett declared in the video, which has amassed over two million views. “That’s the rainbow of Satan.”“Thank you for coming by and sharing that with us,” the manager calmly added, before asking him to leave.“We’re going to have the Pride flag up.

Rupert Murdoch’s right wing cable channel Fox News vilified LGBTQ people across more than 100 days out of the first 181 days of 2022, according to a just-published report that characterizes the attacks as “extreme and harmful.”

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CNN Greece reports. The court cited the failing health of Hortarias’s wife and two relatives for whom he is responsible in its decision.

CNN Greece reports. The court cited the failing health of Hortarias’s wife and two relatives for whom he is responsible in its decision.

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.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sparred with a Republican after he asked whether the Cabinet had considered removing president Joe Biden via the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president and senior officials to strip the president of office if the president cannot fulfill their duties. House Transportation Committee members heard from Buttigieg on Tuesday about several infrastructure topics, but the hearing took a turn when Texas Rep.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) last week attempted to appear supportive of LGBTQ people, but on Tuesday he joined 157 Republicans in voting against protecting existing same-sex marriages should the Supreme Court overturn its own 2015 Obergefell ruling.

Most Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted against the Democrats’ Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that protects current same-sex marriages and partially codifies same-sex marriage into law, but does not make the right to marry for same-sex couples the law of the land.

A scandal is brewing in the nation’s capital surrounding a leader in the LGBTQ+ community. For more than a decade, Casa Ruby has provided temporary housing and social services to Washington, D.C.’s most vulnerable clients as its only LGBTQ+ bilingual, multicultural organization.

Washington, D.C. after the city opens its first homeless shelter for them in August.The LGBTQ+ Adult Shelter has 40 beds for individuals aged 25 and older and is located in southeast D.C., according to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office. Using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, the local government established and will operate the shelter.Members of the D.C.

has issued a temporary block against President Joe Biden, stopping the administration from from enforcing LGBTQ civil rights protections in employment and education the President had put into place upon taking office. That order comes in response to a lawsuit filed by 20 right wing state attorneys general.Judge Charles E.