Louisiana Students Taken to Transphobic Church Event Instead of Career Fair

Republicans in the House of Representatives introduced legislation based on a right-wing conspiracy theory and proposed what critics are calling a federal “don’t say gay” bill.The bill prohibits using federal funds for programs or events that contain “sexually-oriented material” geared toward children under 10, such as drag queen story hours, which have attracted the attention of conservative politicians and right-wing activists. On Tuesday, Louisiana Rep.

Actors in Hollywood want new protections against discrimination.

SAG-AFTRA is urging Congress to pass the federal Crown Act, designed to prevent unfair workplace treatment of people of color based on hair style or texture.

Odessa Kelly is the archetype of a grassroots community advocate turned politician. Her long, wavy locs frame the kind of smile that will lend you a cup of sugar or invite you to an impromptu backyard barbecue just because. Kelly speaks like someone who has been in the trenches, can relate to all our struggles, and is authentically rooting for our successes. 

The Mayor’s Office for LGBTQ Affairs will host the 35th annual 17th Street High Heel Race on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. at 17th Street, N.W. Registration for the event will open at 7 p.m.

She briefly filed a restraining order against him just over two years ago for allegedly stalking her.But Cassie Randolph appeared to have had a change of heart when it came to her ex Colton Underwood, 30, during an appearance this week on The Ben and Ashley I. Almost Famous Podcast.The 27-year-old Bachelor alumna said that she was 'very happy' for Colton after he came out as gay and got engaged, though she was somewhat reticent about the former pro football player.  Cassie Randolph, 27, said she is 'very happy' for her ex Colton Underwood, 30, after coming out as gay during an appearance on the Ben and Ashley I.

Marco Rubio and Val Demings faced off last night in the Florida U.S. Senate debate that literally ended with the anti-LGBTQ lawmaker wiping the sweat from his forehead with a damp handkerchief while she received thunderous applause from the crowd.The 60-minute broadcast was the only scheduled debate between the two candidates and covered a wide range of topics, from gun control to abortion rights to the economy and immigration reform.Demings tore into Rubio about his response to the Pulse nightclub shooting and his record on gun control…Demings: You used the Pulse nightclub shooting as your inspiration to run again in 2016 and yet you’ve done nothing..

WNBA star Brittney Griner on Tuesday in a message through her lawyers thanked her supporters who continue to press for her release.

The Howard University Gallery of Art opened “Our Friend Jean” on Monday Oct. 17 featuring the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The exhibit will close on Monday, Oct. 24.

Center Aging Friday Tea Time will be at 2 p.m. on Zoom. This is a social hour for older LGBTQ adults. Guests are encouraged to bring a beverage of choice. For more details, email supportdesk@thedccenter.org.  Hallo-Queen Scream will be at 5

Harry Hains, a young actor featured in American Horror Story and  The OA, tragically passed in early 2020. His legacy lives on in his art, especially the music he created under the moniker Antiboy.Antiboy’s 2021 single “One Love” finds new life with this colorful animated music video from director Michael Saul.“I formulated the video to be an innocent, child-like cartoon world where anything can happen,” Saul says.

This profile is part of Queerty’s 2022 Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who’ve had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11.Name: Jerrod Carmichael, 35Bio: Jerrod Carmichael is nothing more than a multi-hyphenated creative force. This North Carolina native can confidently call himself an accomplished comedian, writer, actor, producer, and filmmaker.

There’s a café bar in the Italian city Modica, in Sicily, that has recently displayed a sign offering different coffee prices to customers depending on whether they are men, women or LGBTQ+ people. According to the sign, clearly visible at the entrance of the bar, the promotional offer would be valid from October 13 to […]

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A former Nevada Democratic Party official who turned Republican in 2018 has been arrested for threatening to commit a mass shooting event at an LGBTQ+ event in Las Vegas.Michael Zahara, 61, of Las Vegas was taken into custody on Friday by officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police after he allegedly sent threatening terroristic threats to the state's chapter of the Human Rights Campaign. According to a report from local CBS affiliate KLAS, Zahara allegedly sent a text message to HRC in Nevada saying he was “planning to shoot up Nazi HRC event” taking place yesterday at the LGBTQ+ Center of Southern Nevada.Police were alerted and contacted the owner of the number, who in turn said it was an old number that had not been used by his family in 15 years.

(CNN) – The Biden administration has had communications with Russia to try and secure the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan “as recently as within past days” said a senior administration official, speaking to CNN on Griner's 32nd birthday, which she will be spending in a Russian jail.The United States first put an offer for a prisoner swap on the table with Russia back in June – the details of which CNN exclusively reported – and “conversations have not been static since then” the official said.Despite the “pretty persistent” pace of discussions between the US and Russia to secure the Americans’ release, the official said that the Biden administration has yet to receive a serious counteroffer from the Russian side.“We have worked hard to try to demonstrate the sorts of things that could well be the basis for resolving this and each time we have articulated that it’s been met not with a serious counteroffer,” the official said.They said the Russians have countered with “something not in our control, not in our ability to deliver,” but did not go into further specifics.“They’re not non-responsive.

Knives Out character Benoit Blanc is "obviously" queer.Rian Johnson, the director of the 2019 whodunnit and its follow-up Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, confirmed the detail in a press conference ahead of Glass Onion's screening at the London Film Festival on Sunday.The news has sparked debate across social media, with some praising the decision as progressive while others have accused Johnson, Craig and the films' producers of "queer-baiting."Ian Kinane, a senior lecturer in popular literature and culture at the University of Roehampton in London, compared the remark about Blanc to J.K. Rowling's retrospective announcement that Albus Dumbledore was gay.

Alexander Khinshtein, a Russian MP, said that media like Peppa Pig and South Park are “a tool of hybrid war” as they depict LGBTQ+ themes.

Cavetown has announced a new foundation called This Is Home Project, which aims to empower and support LGBTQ+ youth via donations to various queer-led organisations.

A high school student in Grant, Mich., has been accused of promoting witchcraft with some images in an LGBTQ-inclusive mural she created at the school.There will now be changes to the mural, but the LGBTQ+ imagery will remain, Michigan TV station WZZM reports.The student artist, Grant High School sophomore Evelyn Gonzales, won a contest to create a mural at the Grant Middle School health center. Her winning design included a boy wearing pink, light blue, and white, the colors of the transgender Pride flag; a girl in the colors of the bisexual flag, pink, royal blue, and purple; and a girl in rainbow colors.The final mural, however, had some elements that weren’t in her design, including a character from the video game Genshin Impact that had the face of a demon and a Hamsa hand (also known as the hand of Fatima), which is used as a symbol of good luck and protection in many cultures.

In the latest example of extreme conservative LGBTQ+ panic, Idaho legislators seemingly intend to introduce legislation banning the art form of drag performance.During the Idaho Legislature's next session, a bill will be introduced that would ban drag performances in all of the state's public spaces, Idaho Family Policy Center president Blaine Conzatti told the Idaho Capital Sun.Drag performance represents a sexualized representation of gender, according to Conzatti, and he compared it to the racist practice of blackface. “You overemphasize certain natural characteristics so much that it becomes a caricature of itself,” the Capital Sun reports him saying.The Idaho Family Policy Center is an organization that appeared in 2021 with the sole purpose of far-right-wing indoctrination of the state’s lawmakers.A few months into its existence, it became the organization to draft and push three of the most controversial and significant bills during the 2022 session — one to ban abortions by allowing civil lawsuits against medical providers, one to make gender-affirming care to minors a felony, and one to punish librarians who enable children to access “obscene materials,” according to the Capital Sun.Conzatti and other conservative activists have protested drag queen events in public spaces and drag queen story times in public libraries.

A post shared by Sam Smith (@samsmith) Can we take a moment to appreciate Sam Smith’s chart-conquering return?Smith’s latest single, “Unholy”, is a bonafide mega-hit. The collaboration with Kim Petras has been number one in Smith’s home country of the UK for the past three weeks and lodged at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 since it entered the US chart. It is also number 1 on Spotify’s Global Top 50.Related: Sam Smith and Normani are being sued over this songFollowing its success, Smith teased fans a couple of days ago, flashing their torso and underwear.

D.C.’s Whitman-Walker Health is inviting “thousands” of D.C.-area residents and visitors to participate in its annual Walk to End HIV scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Gateway D.C. Pavilion in Southeast Washington as well as in other locations.

Stonewall has launched its ninth Rainbow Laces campaign by urging people to “stand up and call out” anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination at the World Cup in Qatar.

Using updated DNA testing technology, D.C. police lab technicians recently developed a full DNA profile of an unidentified male suspect from tissue samples taken from the scene of the May 1987 murder of a lesbian whose body was found in the Capitol Hill apartment of her girlfriend.

Edición Cientonce es el socio mediático del Washington Blade en Ecuador. Esta nota salió en su sitio web el 12 de octubre.

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen since then.Cohen made the comments during an ‘Ask Andy’ panel at BravoCon 2022 last weekend. He said he hadn’t really planned to ask Winfrey the question, suggesting it was a spur-of-the-moment thing that didn’t work.“I asked it so poorly,” he explained to moderators Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, reports People.

After news broke that Rihanna will be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show next year and that she has allegedly recorded new music for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, fans have been wondering if this is the beginning of her highly anticipated return to the industry. It’s been six long years since the singer released new […]

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced a major policy change last week closing a gap in survivor benefits for certain survivors of LGBTQ veterans — specifically, for those who were unable to wed until the 2015 Obergefell v. HodgesU.S. Supreme Court decision, and who, therefore, were not married to their now-deceased veteran spouses for long enough to qualify for survivor benefits.

pilots and ground teams are no longer required to wear gendered uniform and may instead choose which outfit best represents them.The policy change is part of a wider relaxing of the airline's uniform rules. In 2019, Virgin Atlantic removed itsmandatory makeup requirement for female staff and allowed women to wear trousers and flat shoes. Earlier this year, it also became the first UK airline to allow visible tattoos.Optional pronoun badges have also been introduced for staff along with mandatory inclusivity training.Passengers, too, can opt to wear pronoun badges.

John Oliver, host of the satirical TV news show Last Week Tonight, has gone viral for a pro-trans speech he made during his October 16 show.During the segment, Oliver discussed the fight for trans rights, with a focus on how conservatives have “truly lost their minds” about it. The host of the Emmy-winning series started by stating that over 100 anti-trans bills have been introduced in states across the United States, with 12 states signing them into law. Oliver went on to talk about the tactic used by conservatives to explain the rise in kids identifying as trans as “due to social contagion” or a “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” which Oliver said is, “total horseshit.”Oliver then pointed out that “there is ample evidence of gender variance throughout human history and as far back as historians have found evidence of trans people, they found trans children.   “And, to the extent that some young people are just exploring their gender identity, how exactly is that a bad thing? Who the fuck are they hurting?“Watching the conversation around this, it is hard not to feel like, to the extent that there is any social contagion here, it is among adults who have whipped themselves into such a frenzy that they can find themselves repeating some humiliating nonsense.”Holy shit pic.twitter.com/jAxYqytO8M— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) October 17, 2022Last Week Tonight with John Oliver airs Sunday nights and can be watched on Binge. © Star Observer 2022 | For the latest in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTIQ) news in Australia, be sure to visit

While we Irish are to thank for originating Halloween with our Samhain festivities, it’s been said for years, nowhere goes as all-out for the spooky season as the USA. There’s no better example of this than Universal Halloween Horror Nights in Los Angeles – a must for travellers looking to fill up on terrifying thrills. […]

Launching its award-winning Rainbow Laces campaign for a ninth year, Stonewall has called upon the global sporting community to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights at the Qatar World Cup. The tournament, which has been the subject of much controversy, is due to kick off on November 20, and will run until December 18. FIFA has […]

Belong To has teamed up with Trinity College Dublin to conduct an in-depth survey into the mental health of LGBTQ+ people in Ireland. The ‘Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland’ survey is being carried out by a team of researchers based at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College and will be led by Professor Agnes […]

Drag Race UK star Vanity Milan said she is open to alliances on Canada vs the World given that the other queens might “play dirty as hell”.

What happens when electronic music transcends the nightclub? This is what Teneil Throssell, known professionally as HAAi, explores in Baby, We’re Ascending, her recent LP.“It’s essentially a mixtape style record with many sonic twists and turns,” says the London-based, Australian-born DJ and producer. “I have collaborations on there with a lot of great friends of mine: Jon Hopkins, Alexis Taylor, Kai-Isaiah Jamal, and Obi Franky.

Icesis Couture has responded to Drag Race viewers who are “mad” about her participation on Canada vs the World.

showed up to a school board meeting last week in Dearborn, Michigan certainly defied these stilted stereotypes. At the behest of Imam Sayyid Hassan al-Qazwini of the Islamic Institute of America, hundreds of Muslim-Americans packed the venue. The debate that unfolded over three hours of public comment bore little resemblance to the politicized tropes commonly reported by the media.Several of the parents were not shy about describing the content that they objected to.

A cinema was forced to stop a showing of Halloween Ends after a gay couple were subjected to homophobic abuse by a large group.

PARIS — Are you the person you love? Depends on your freedom to love. Intimacy, sexual identity and love are among the themes explored in a new show at the Institut du Monde Arabe that presents art by members of L.G.B.T.Q. communities in the greater Arab world.

Penny Lancaster has said she's extremely proud of her husband Sir Rod Stewart and his quest to help settle Ukrainian families in the UK, saying: "He is always giving back".

Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek) is set to write, star in, and direct a new Queer film.The film, called Good Grief, will be released on Netflix and will also star Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast). In a post to celebrating the news, Levy wrote, “Well, this is a g d dream come true!”Well, this is a g d dream come true! https://t.co/8Opw95bAVa pic.twitter.com/iULw34n6kM— dan levy (@danjlevy) October 17, 2022Evans posted to social media, writing, “What a dream team. So thrilled.”According to Netflix, Good Grief follows Marc Dreyfus (Levy) who, after losing his mother, decides to try and distract himself with a comfortable marriage.

Cassie Randolph is sharing some new comments about her ex-boyfriend Colton Underwood.

Making peace with her past. Bachelor alum Cassie Randolph revealed that she wishes ex Colton Underwood nothing but the best — even if their split led to dark times.

Orlando venues. Unfortunately, this revelry will once again not include beloved queer establishments Pulse and Parliament House.Pulse, notorious as the site of the 2016 mass shooting that resulted in the death of 49 people, has since been converted into a memorial for the victims.

its iconic label filled with woo spiritual teachings about love, unity, and the “Moral ABCs” in teeny tiny print.The company — founded in 1948 by Emanuel Bronner, a third-generation soap maker whose German-Jewish parents were murdered in the Holocaust — is actually a family-owned business, and its CEO David Bronner recently came out as neither completely straight nor male.“For some time, I’ve thought it would be a good idea to ‘come out’ and celebrate that I’ve considered myself ‘about 25% girl’ for quite a while,” Bronner wrote in a blog post on National Coming Out Day, noting that they use he/him and they/them pronouns.“I realized that I wasn’t ‘straight,’ ‘gay,’ or ‘man’ or ‘woman’ — but incarnate soul here to serve and get down, and that my toxic insecure aggressive masculinity was doing violence to my own feminine nature and soul,” they added.Bronner said they first realized their gender fluidity during “a dramatic LSD and MDMA mediated initiation into spirit world in Amsterdam in a gay trance club” in the winter of 1995. They have since celebrated this part of themselves at the Burning Man psychedelic art festival by “cross-dressing” and “expressing [their] androgynous nature and inner woman.”“While I identify as ‘relatively straight/masculine’ I also feel ‘relatively queer and feminine,'” they said.

facing the new administration on COVID-19 and national security. The administration’s economic record, which has featured the highest inflation in 40 years, the end of US energy independence and controversial giveaways like college-loan forgiveness, is completely ignored. The only outside critic who escapes the cutting-room floor is Ohio GOP Rep.

The Warriors is one of those films that, on the surface, plays like a straight-male fantasy, an ode to masculinity. But, dig just a bit deeper, and it’s that very quality that make it a homoerotic odyssey for the ages.