Longtime activist Cleve Jones to leave Castro after tense landlord dispute

11-time Emmy winner RuPaul Charles has denied having any rivalry with Pabllo Vittar after blocking Twitter user @vittarwest over a request to acknowledge the Brazilian drag trailblazer's success.The 61-year-old drag icon tweeted a picture of the 28-year-old singer on Wednesday captioned: 'I love and support @PablloVittar and shame on you catty Twitter trolls trying to create a rivalry.'Pabllo (born Phabullo Rodrigues da Silva) then retweeted Mama Ru's post and replied with a teary-eye emoji and a heart emoji: 'I love you mother!' Enough! 11-time Emmy winner RuPaul Charles (L) has denied having any rivalry with Pabllo Vittar (R) after blocking Twitter user @vittarwest over a request to acknowledge the Brazilian drag trailblazer's successOn Saturday, Vittar made history as the first drag queen to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA; and she'll return next Saturday for weekend two.The Follow Me songstress - who came out as gay at age 15 - has released four albums and collaborated with two-time Grammy nominee Charli XCX and Grammy nominee Major Lazer. And in 2018, Pabllo made history as the first drag queen to be nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for best urban fusion/performance for her track Sua Cara.Vittar was first inspired to start dressing in drag, at age 18, after watching RuPaul's Drag Race, which is executive produced and hosted by Charles.

Director and choreographer Camille A. Brown and her cast of seven female singer-dancer-actors breathe life and vitality into Ntozake Shange’s still-potent mid-1970s touchstone for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf. Opening tonight at the Booth Theatre on Broadway, Shange’s fantasia of poetry, dance and stories of confession, defiance, sisterhood and, above all, perseverance, holds a power that’s not been weakened either by decades or the loss of a once startling newness.

Las Vegas is filled with performers who dance around in various states of undress. The “Las Vegas showgirl” shows from years ago—featuring topless women wearing giant headdresses—have mostly closed and are now a part of history.

Tuesday morning, well-known Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz broke conservative Twitter after the paper published an article that revealed the identity of a right-wing social media troll who had gone through great lengths to remain anonymous.  The account, @LibsOfTikTok, sets out to “expose liberals” by taking their content and purposefully putting it in front of an unreceptive audience. Many times the subjects were LGBTQ+, leaving to harassment.

Harry Styles‘ fans are trolling conservative pundit Greg Kelly over his femme-phobic remark about the British singer — and the Twitter replies are hilarious.Kelly posted an image of Styles wearing a rainbow-sequined pantsuit during his Coachella 2022 performance and wrote, “I think Harry Styles would benefit from 3 years in the Marine Corps.” Kelly, a former Marine, probably assumes that military service would make Styles less flamboyant — nevermind that we know plenty of queer veterans who are femme AF and slay on the regular… but we digress.I think Harry Styles would benefit from 3 years in the Marine Corps. pic.twitter.com/hMiA3H5Fk1— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) April 18, 2022Kelly may not have known that Styles was actually in the military… well, that is, he played a soldier in the 2017 film Dunkirk, a movie about the 1940 evacuation of European troops from a French beach under German attack during World War II.Styles’ fans began using screenshots from the film to mock Kelly, telling the pundit that he was wrong for “disrespecting the military.”Show some respect Harry is a decorated war hero from the battle of Dunkirk here’s two photographs documenting his time in service pic.twitter.com/oxHsMgR1Ov— Stacy (@Dixiechick3796) April 18, 2022He literally fought so hard in the war where are you living? He’s a young war veteran pic.twitter.com/bdQnNlo2mL— Carrotsfor_Leah (@Carrotsfor_Leah) April 18, 2022Greg…you seriously aren’t familiar with Mr.

RuPaul isn’t going to let the Internet start up drama.

drag enthusiasts might be shocked to learn that the most-followed drag queen on social media worldwide isn't RuPaul. It's Brazilian drag superstar Pabllo Vittar.Vittar, age 28, is beloved in the global drag community and has 3.1 million followers on Twitter. Her music is mostly in Portuguese, but that doesn't stop crowds in the U.S., and all over the world, from singing along—or trying to, at least.Newsweek sat down with Pabllo Vittar ahead of her historic set at Weekend 1 of Coachella 2022.

EASTENDERS actress Clair Norris sobbed as she presented her first Panorama special tonight about the UK's obesity problem. Clair, who plays Bernadette Taylor in the BBC soap, broke down in tears as she revealed she had been bullied over her weight.

The popular, right-wing “Libs of TikTok” account has been feverishly deleting thousands of tweets since its owner’s identity was exposed earlier this week.Former real estate agent Chaya Raichik told the New York Post she “will never be silenced” after The Washington Post connected her to the account, but the 2,795 deleted tweets over the last few days paint a slightly different picture.The account, which currently has over 884k followers, is widely cited among conservatives in the escalating right-wing culture war on LGBTQ Americans. Raichik has previously appeared anonymously for interviews on Fox News, and Christina Pushaw, Florida Gov.

San Francisco Pride has released its list of community grand marshals for this year's Pride parade and celebration in June, its first live event since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Six individuals and one organization were announced as community grand marshals, to be recognized during the 52nd annual San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration and Parade.

Gemma Collins stunned Instagram fans as she boasted about her huge delivery of plant and grow-at-home veg.The 41-year-old TOWIE icon, explained to her loyal legion of followers that was revamping her garden with hundreds of new edible treats.In the short clip, workers can be seen loading up a huge lorry with with masses of herbs and yummy greens waiting to be nurtured.Excited about her new healthy and organic lifestyle, Gemma took to her social media platform to inspire others to follow in her footsteps.She penned: "Grow your own vegetables."Vegetables, vegetables it really is the way forward guys."Offering up thanks to the team of people who helped deliver her neverending supply, the Diva Forever star added: "Thank you @ukwholesaleplantsltd for helping me on my mission today."Fans were envious of Gemma's new batch of goodness, with one fan writing beneath the post: "I would love to have my own wee vegetable and fruit garden."A second echoed: "Nothing like walking into your garden and picking lunch and dinner."Another person said: Green fingered Gemma, well done you."Meanwhile, the GC recently revealed that she'd invested in a pricy "slender drip" in hope of shedding the pounds after the starlet confessed to eating "too many" burgers while on tour.Over the last few weeks, Gemma has been busy travelling up and down the UK delivering The GC's Big Night Out tour to adoring fans.Now that the reality TV star is now returning to normal life once more, she was keen to start losing weight straight away - using a £150 drip.Sat in the garden of £1.3million Essex mansion, she told her online followers: "Today I am having a metabolism booster just because I've obviously just finished my tour and you know, roadside stops, few little

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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence brought their Easter party back to Mission Dolores Park Sunday, April 17, for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic and the crowd was thrilled. This year's Hunky Jesus was "Black Woman is God" (Brittany Henry) and the Foxy Mary, at far left, was "Transgender Maria de Guadalupe" (Shane Zaldivar).

Since the surprising news in January that Another Planet Entertainment was taking over management and programming at the historic Castro Theatre, it's been our hope that APE and Castro stakeholders could work together on everyone's shared goal of rejuvenating a vibrant movie palace in the heart of San Francisco's LGBTQ neighborhood. Last week, however, the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District and numerous other groups and community leaders sent Gregg Perloff, APE chief executive officer, a letter expressing their concerns and requests.

Car collisions often result in dented fenders, an exchange of insurance information, or worse. Sometimes, though, the outcome is a little more hopeful. John Xavier Moore, 31, and his business partner, Paul Walker, 29, both queer, were in a ride-share vehicle in 2019 when their driver ran a red light.

Artist Serge Gay Jr. spoke about his new mural "Never Alone" on the wall of Maitri Compassionate Care hospice at 401 Duboce Avenue in San Francisco's Duboce Triangle neighborhood during its formal unveiling April 18.

High school government and history teacher Gary Blenner may be a long shot candidate to be elected California secretary of state this year. Nonetheless, he is breaking through another pink political ceiling in the Golden State.Blenner is the first known gay Green Party candidate to qualify for a statewide primary race in California.

Over the last few weeks, anti-transgender and general anti-LGBTQ animus has reached a fever pitch. The hatred is easily as bad as it's been since orange juice pitchwoman Anita Bryant was fighting against our rights in Dade County, Florida back in 1977.It is bad enough that Florida's "Don't Say Gay" has been signed into law and several states are seeking to follow suit.

California legislators are once again pushing forward on a number of bills aimed at improving the lives of the state's transgender and nonbinary residents. And due to the legislative attacks on trans children in several other states, lawmakers in Sacramento are also focused on assisting those youth and their parents who are trying to access gender-affirming health care.In addition to improving transgender medical care in the Golden State, lawmakers have introduced bills that will require California community colleges not to deadname their trans and nonbinary students, faculty or staff; require the governor to annually proclaim November 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance; and create an advisory body for a statewide pool of funds for trans services that would be renamed the Transgender, Gender-Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness and Equity Fund.Other bills would protect LGBTQ people who want to become foster parents, establish a pilot project to assist LGBTQ youth receiving child welfare services, and require affordable housing builders to contract with LGBTQ-owned businesses.Tuesday, April 19, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the language for the bill he plans to officially introduce this month that will make California a refuge for trans kids and their families persecuted by their own governments in states such as Texas and Idaho.The Idaho House of Representatives passed legislation last week to make it a felony for parents to allow their children to receive gender-affirming care, while similar policy is under consideration by lawmakers in Louisiana and Arizona.

A group of queer youth of color is putting its imagination into words at an inaugural science fiction and fantasy workshop in Oakland.Earlier this year, Chapter 510. launched a first-of-its-kind science fiction and fantasy workshop for LGBTQ sixth and seventh graders called New Origins.Jahan Khalighi, director of programs at Chapter 510, told the Bay Area Reporter that the organization developed New Origins to create more space for Black and Brown queer middle school-aged youth to connect with each other.The organization created a space where youth "can utilize their imagination" to connect, build community, and gain confidence and joy "in their capacity to imagine themselves into the future and also write the stories that feel most compelling to them," he said.The creative writing and bookmaking organization based in Oakland has a budget of $850,000.

The Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive in Vallejo was damaged last month after a driver plowed into the converted garage that houses it and reportedly fled, while the founder is expressing support as she works to have the building repaired.Ms. Bob Davis, a trans woman who founded the archive in 2017 — it opened in September 2018 — told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview that no one was injured during the incident, which occurred on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility."I was rushing to events in San Francisco and ran into the archive to get some brochures," Davis wrote in an email to supporters. "Imagine my surprise when I was greeted by an SUV parked in the middle of the office.

Battle of the queens?

For years, people have speculated about whether or not Hugh Jackman is gay — and once again, his wife Deborra-Lee Furness is sharing her brutally honest thoughts on those incessant rumors!

“There are millions upon millions of people on this planet who are positive.” (Image via Paramount+)

Following our hugely successful apparel collection in collaboration with artist Brian Teeling, we here at GCN are super excited to launch our new merch collection, featuring an incredible range of queertastic new tee designs, tote bags, pins, prints and postcards sets. Proceeds from this glorious range of merch will help raise vital funds to enable […]

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterPlaywright Christopher Adams has been tapped to pen a screenplay based on the novel “Finistère.”While not widely known, the novel is a groundbreaking early tale of a gay man who falls in love with his tennis instructor at a French boarding school in the 1920s. It was written by Fritz Peters, whose entire catalogue was recently acquired by Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment.“Beyond his impressive curriculum vitae, what impressed us with Chris was his deep understanding of the novel and his passion to speak to modern audiences while honoring the text,” said producer and managing partner David M.

Anitta is taking her talents to Los Angeles.Following an unbelievable performance at Coachella last weekend--and another coming up for Weekend 2 of the festival--the “Envolver” singer has been announced as the second headliner of the 2022 LA Pride Concert.

recent order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott directing state welfare agencies to investigate parents for suspected “child abuse” if they have reason to believe that a transgender minor has obtained gender-affirming health care, such as hormones or puberty blockers, to treat their gender dysphoria. Schaffer, who scoffed at the idea as hyperbolic, joked with guest Dave Landau, a comedian, during a recent episode of his show Slightly Offensive.Both men, who live in Texas, laughed at the rhetoric allegedly used by Schaffer’s off-air confidant and the characterization of Abbott and Republican lawmakers in Texas as “fascists.”Landau started the exchange, telling Schaffer, tongue-in-cheek, that he and other Texans have been instructed to kill transgender children by dragging them behind a moving truck.“How many trans kids did you kill today,” Schaffer asked.

Liza Minnelli had everyone very concerned when she took the stage with Lady Gaga to present the Best Picture award at the 94th annual Academy Awards last month. Now, Minnelli’s longtime friend Michael Feinstein says his BFF was “sabotaged” by being “forced” to use a wheelchair against her wishes.Speaking to Sirius XM’s “Jess Cagle Show”, Feinstein, who was backstage with Minnelli at the ceremony, said she “only agreed to appear on the Oscars if she would be in the director’s chair, ’cause she’s been having back trouble.”Related: We need to revisit Liza Minnelli’s super gay electronic dance album that nobody seems to rememberHe claimed Minnelli said she wanted to “look good” and didn’t want people to “worry” about her health, but everything went awry backstage after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and a stage manager told her she had to use a wheelchair instead.“I guess they were all shaken up because of everything that had happened earlier,” Feinstein alleged.Upon being told she would have to use a wheelchair, Feinstein claims Minnelli turned to him and said, “No, I will not be seen in a wheelchair in front of everybody.

issued guidelines arguing against any gender-confirming treatment for minors, even social transition.The guidelines, which are not legally binding, recommend that no one under 18 should be prescribed puberty blockers or hormones, or undergo gender-confirmation surgery. The latter was not generally performed on minors before the guidelines.

RuPaul has responded to backlash from fans for not posting about Pabllo Vittar becoming the first drag queen to perform at Coachella.

Tournament of Champions for a third season — and now LGBTQ+ fans have even more reason to celebrate because it crowned a queer winner, Tiffani Faison.Faison took home $100,000 which is the largest cash prize in Food Network history, and is the first out chef to win the show.Faison first faced off with Tobias Dorzon in the finale, where the two were tasked with a set of major challenges from the randomizer — a machine that’s employed in the game to determine the protein, produce, equipment, and cooking style used. In their case, the randomizer selected “goose, bergamot, liquid nitrogen, velvety, and 45 minutes.” Faison clinched the win with her bergamot pan-fried goose breast with a goose and bergamot jus and cauliflower puree and moved on to the final round.There she faced off with season one winner Brooke Williams.

The Northman debuts in theatres this week, has addressed his approach to one of the movie’s most jaw-dropping scenes… and how he managed to shoot it without anyone having “their bits chopped off.”Eggers first rocketed to fame with his surreal horror films The Witch and The Lighthouse. The Northman, which stars Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Claes Bang, and Björk, follows the story of a Viking prince on a quest to avenge his father’s murder.The movie culminates with an epic swordfight between Bang and Skarsgård… in which their characters appear totally nude.Talk about an insurance nightmare!Now, Eggers has opened up about shooting the scene to The Hollywood Reporter, and the incredible effort it took to keep both actors safe while filming.Related: Alexander Skarsgard Opens Up About The “Incredible” Gay Sex He’s Had“If it’s not a Viking raid of a village with hundreds of extras of stuntmen, horses, cows, chickens, geese, children, then it was a storm at sea at night on a Viking ship, or a naked sword fight on a volcano,” he says of the movie. “I mean, there was nothing easy about making this movie.

Jacqueline “Jacky” Goh serves as the Chief Development Officer for the National LGBTQ Task Force. In this role, Jacky leads the Task Force’s fund development efforts and is responsible for strengthening the infrastructure needed to support and grow the organization’s budget through foundation, corporate, and individual donors, as well as other vital revenue streams. As a queer Korean woman, Jacky has long understood the power and necessity of collective liberation.

Court is joining the National LGBTQ Task Force as the Creating Change Conference Intern for 2022. Since moving to Washington, DC, Court has worked for an Events Startup called Happied as their Fulfillment Manager.

In my 10 years of education and work experience, I have been committed to community centered service and public policy. I am originally a Washingtonian and a graduate of Western Washington University.

The Reverend Nicole M. Garcia, M.A. LPC is the Faith Work Director at the National LGBTQ Task.

A legal battle involving shareholders of the Castro neighborhood bar The Mix is over after a San Francisco judge granted summary judgment in favor of the 18th Street watering hole.In a March 23 decision, Judge Suzanne R. Bolanos of the San Francisco Superior Court ruled in favor of The Mix (referred to as TDG Inc.) and its shareholders Ross Crum and Virginia Crum-Ross.Bolanos also ruled against Lawrence "Larry" Metzger, who initially brought suit against The Mix and his two former partners in October 2019.

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow clapped back hard in a viral speech against her Republican colleague’s “hollow, hateful scheme” of labeling LGBTQ allies across the aisle as “groomers” and “pedophiles.”McMorrow said she was surprised to learn that Republican state Sen.

It’s been said a thousand times, but it bears repeating: Future Nostalgia was the ultimate lockdown record. Released in the midst of the pandemic, Dua Lipa’s sophomore album was met with overwhelming critical acclaim for reviving disco-pop in the mainstream, spawning chart-topping singles such as Don’t Start Now and Levitating in the process (the latter memorably made history as the longest-charting song by a female artist on the Billboard Hot 100). Dua defeated the so-called “sophomore slump” that has cursed artists in the past and supplied listeners – particularly queer listeners – with exactly what they needed while sequestered in their homes: a slick collection of intelligent, club-ready disco anthems that invoked a sense of excitement of post-lockdown nightlife.

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Narrated by the late Grammy Award winner himself, a new autobiographical film on George Michael is set to offer an incredibly poignant and moving tribute to the singer’s legacy.

Bob the Drag Queen said he wasn’t asked to participate in Drag Race’s seventh All Stars season, which is entirely made up of former winners.

The Norwegian government has apologised to homosexual men for a law that once made the act of gay sex illegal in the country.

Herman Cain is back from the dead… again… sorta.The 2012 GOP presidential primary candidate, who died from COVID-19 in July 2020 after attending a maskless Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been trending all morning after Newsmax ran a story about Black conservatives.Related: Herman Cain tweets from beyond the grave (again) and this time he’s questioning his own deathA screenshot showing Cain, alongside Sheriff David Clarke and Ben Carson, with a chyron that reads “Left considers Black conservatives to be traitors” has been circulating on Twitter. Also featured in the lineup is extreme right-wing YouTuber Ben Shapiro, who isn’t Black.This is an actual screenshot from Newsmax.

Walter Mercado will conquer television once again. The flamboyant and flirtatious TV icon will get the full biopic treatment for an as-of-yet unannounced network.Puerto Rican-born Mercado began his career as a dancer and actor in Spanish language theater and local television.

What a difference a week makes — or a rally.Longtime gay activist Cleve Jones has decided that, actually, he'd like to fight his new landlord who wants to see him leave his Castro neighborhood home.As the Bay Area Reporter reported March 24, Jones initially decided to leave the Castro due to a tense dispute he's having with Lily Li Pao Kue, the new owner of the building he's been renting a rent-controlled unit in for several years.Kue alleged Jones bringing Brenden Chadwick to live with him was against the lease. Jones said that doesn't matter due to San Francisco rent laws.

After telling the Bay Area Reporter and other outlets that he was going to leave his Castro apartment rather than fight his new landlord over a large rent increase, gay longtime activist Cleve Jones has decided to fight the eviction. Jones, right, addressed a crowd of supporters March 27 at Harvey Milk Plaza.