Luke Evans breaks silence over Disney+’s Beauty and the Beast prequel series

Award-winning movie and stage actor and gay icon, Angela Lansbury, has passed away at the age of 96, five days before her 97th birthday. She is best known for playing crime-solving mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the crime mystery series Murder, She Wrote, for which she received 11 Emmy nominations.Lansbury also starred in numerous films such as The Portrait of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate, winning Golden Globes for both. In 1971 she starred in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks endearing herself to a generation of children. Lansbury’s breakout role came at the age of 19 when she acted in the psychological thriller, Gaslight, for which she received her first Oscar nomination.She made her Broadway debut in 1957 and over the course of her stage career was awarded five Tony Awards for roles in such plays as Mame and Blithe Spirit.  In 1945, Lansbury married actor Richard Cromwell. The marriage only lasted a year on the account of Cromwell being gay.In a 2017 interview with Radio Times, Lansbury recalled, “I had no idea that I was marrying a gay man,”“I found him such an attractive individual, a very glamorous person – he knew everybody, he was a friend of Joan Crawford’s, these people who I was fascinated by as a young actress.

There is a secular revolution unfolding in the Islamic Republic that the mainstream media has thus far failed to adequately cover. This revolution is led by young women and teenage girls and supported by men and women from all over Iran. We are now entering the fourth week of demonstrations that have resulted in imprisonment, torture and death of countless Iranians.

didn’t have to deal with bullying growing up? For that matter, what member of the community today doesn’t have to deal with bullying from a certain whackado in the White House?In honor of Coming Out Day–and for some cathartic pushback against the world’s bullies–have a look at these fun movies about school bullies who get a hearty dose of comeuppance. They run the gamut of the genre spectrum from sweet to scary, and in any case, have some popcorn on hand.

Billionaire electric car magnate Elon Musk is blaming “communism” in elite colleges and universities for his estrangement from his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson.“It’s full-on communism ... and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” Musk told the Financial Times in an interview published Friday. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children].

As the club begins to fill, so does the abundance of energy and joy. Under the lilac fluorescent lights, regulars reconnect and strangers are embraced.

Madonna broke the internet once more when she shared a video where she apparently comes out as gay. The singer, who’s long been a staunch ally of the LGBTQ community, shared the video on Sunday.Lourdes Leon showcases her voice and colorful energy with new song, “Love Me Still”Madonna stops music video shoot after someone calls the cops on herThe clip shows Madonna wearing a white outfit and her hair pink, holding a pink pair of underwear. There’s a caption on the video that reads, “If I miss, I’m Gay!” with Madonna porceeding to throw the underwear on a trash bin, missing by a significant margin.

Welcome to Screen Gems, our dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Angela Lansbury once held the title of gay icon and sex symbol courtesy of her Broadway resume, which saw her show off her powerhouse voice, athletic figure and her dramatic skills. It’s a shame she rarely got any of those roles in movies, though one in particular, filmed at her peak does hint at her stage talents. 1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks casts Landsbury as a would-be witch in a musical about magic, friendship and Nazis.Really.This proto-Harry Potter finds Landsbury’s Ms.

Because it’s unlikely that his name will be publicly remembered for long, it’s worth pausing to consider the grisly murder of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh in the West Bank city of Hebron. Every murder is an outrage and a tragedy, and many murders involve a larger story. In this case, it’s one that too few people are willing to tell.

(CNN) – The high prices, the canceled flights, the booked-up lodging, and rental cars. The summer of travel chaos still seems hot and fresh somehow.But it’s time to look forward, for there’s another crunch time looming less than two months away: the 2022 winter holiday travel season.So put away your T-shirts, break out your sweaters and get ready for the winter holidays.

Canadian princess of pop and famed wielder of swords Carly Rae Jepsen is just over a week away from her new The Loneliest Time album release. Thankfully, the generous star decided to feed the fans well one more time before the drop.In her new music video for titular track, Carly dances through an old film spectacle on the rooftops with duet partner Rufus Wainwright.The two then take their lonely hearts up to the prance among the stars, with a cute little A Trip to the Moon reference for good measure.Serving up a galactic Fred and Ginger on the moon to a bouncy disco beat — complete with the occasional laser trill — this duo gives exactly as much gay energy as the pairing warrants.

Heading into their NL Division Series against the Phillies, the Braves were confident and hoped to play with the swagger of a playoff-hardened team that became champions in 2021.  But the Phillies had other plans in Game 1.  The Phillies played small ball to defeat the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves 7-6 at Truist Park in Atlanta.  Braves' ace Max Fried was not sharp and gave up two runs in the first inning off singles by Nick Castellanos and Alec Bohm. Alec Bohm, left, and Rhys Hoskins (17) of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrate after defeating the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of the National League Division Series at Truist Park Oct. 11, 2022, in Atlanta.

Tom Felton shared his support for author J.K. Rowling as the "Harry Potter" writer continues to receive criticism over her beliefs on biological sex and gender. The actor opened up about his admiration for Rowling in a new interview with The Times of London.

After bullying and transphobic news reports, a trans teen and her family in Vermont are facing tumult an onslaught of hateful messages, threats, and harassment.The 14-year-old teen, who attends Randolph Union High School, plays high school volleyball. The teen’s mom told VTDigger her daughter had been playing for weeks without incident, but on Sept.

Everything Everywhere All At Once, in which Michelle Yeoh plays a Chinese American laundromat owner in southern California who finds herself sucked into alternate universes and, in the process, gets a hair-raising chance to save the world.The film is an intricate roller coaster ride, as well as a flat-out enjoyable popcorn movie, and as a result of it being such a crowd-pleaser, it’s amassed over $70 million at the domestic box office so far. One of the best elements of the film is that Stephanie Hsu (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Path) plays Joy Wang, Yeoh’s daughter, who just happens to be a lesbian with a girlfriend (and an alter ego, too).

@itsabigailadams has posted several TikToks criticizing Hall. In a recent one, she implored former Celebrity Big Brother housemates not to hang out with Hall as he’s “not a nice person.”Hall took a portion of her video and shared it to his Tik Tok and Instagram, adding his own comments.  A post shared by TODRICK (@todrick)“I really wish that people who have never met me would stop talking sh*t about me on the Internet,” Hall began.“Like, the audacity that you would feel comfortable enough to post a video about a perfect stranger publicly to anybody who can see it to declare that this person you have never met or breathed the same air as is not a nice person, which is a pretty ballsy statement I might add, to increase your likes, your popularity and to start a witch hunt against this person who is a human being and has family and friends who see this f*cking bullsh*t that you post would, in some people’s opinions, make you not a nice person Ms.

Attention Broadway enthusiasts! The LGBTQ+ musical A Strange Loop is set to end in 2023.

The building that once housed lesbian and feminist press Firebrand Books in Ithaca, N.Y., has been designated a local historic landmark.The city’s Common Council approved the designation unanimously last Wednesday, acting on a recommendation from the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission, The Ithaca Voice reports.Nancy Bereano founded Firebrand Books in 1984, and it was housed in a building at 143 E. State St.

Shangela playfully teases Dancing With the Stars host Alfonso Ribeiro for messing up her name.

Herschel Walker, mocked transgender service members to his supporters as U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), stood by and laughed. Walker has never served in the military despite his recent false claims of having had a “military career.”“Hey, just think about it: Pronoun? In our military?” mocked Walker, 60, whose own son is gay.“How do you identify? In our military? These are war times.

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The Wanda Alston Foundation states on its website that it made history in 2008 when it opened D.C.’s first transitional housing program solely dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth ages 18 to 24 experiencing homelessness.

Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman and presidential aspirant noted for her anti-LGBTQ+ record, has announced that she’s leaving the Democratic Party.“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party,” Gabbard said in a video posted Tuesday from the first episode of her new podcast, The Tulsi Gabbard Show. “It’s now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism, who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, and who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality.” She said the matter had been on her mind and troubling her for some time.She claimed that President Joe Biden’s administration is targeting as terrorists “parents who are vocally standing in opposition to radical curriculums and explicit sexual content being taught to their kids in public schools.” Gabbard went on to say the administration is erasing women by supporting transgender people.She also accused the administration of undermining law enforcement and the Supreme Court, treating “pro-life” protesters unfairly, seeking to quash gun rights and free speech, and above all moving the world closer to nuclear war, apparently through supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.Gabbard, the first Hindu elected to Congress, represented a Hawaii district in the U.S.

(CNN) — Angela Lansbury, who enjoyed an eclectic, award-winning movie and stage career in addition to becoming America's favorite TV sleuth in "Murder, She Wrote," has died, according to a statement from her family provided to NBC, whose parent company produced the long-running series. She was 96."The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," her family said in a statement.CNN has contacted representatives of Lansbury for comment.Not yet 20 years old, Lansbury garnered her first Oscar nomination for her movie debut, "Gaslight," in 1944.

Grammy-winner Sam Smith has opened up about the shocking NSFW gift Ed Sheeran sent them.

"Mental health treatment offers an opportunity to become your best self", says LGBTQ+ and HIV activist Gerald Garth. He had to get over stigma around such treatment, he says, the feeling that seeking it means something is wrong with a person. Having therapy for depression was “an opportunity to align [myself] with support and resources that empower [me] to be [my] best self,” he says in a new video for The Advocate’s Love, Me series.Garth grew up in Louisiana in a deeply religious family and felt like he didn’t fit in.

#houseofthedragonemma d'arcy speaking “sbagliato with prosecco”changed the trajectory of my life

after a journalist threatened to out her.It is 11:20pm. I just came out on stage at a @jimjefferies show in San Diego. Yep, I’m gay.

Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan mopped the floor with Republican clown J.D. Vance during last night’s debate in Ohio’s way-closer-than-expected U.S.

In another win for the LGBTQ+ community, model Emily Ratajkowski seemingly came out as bisexual in viral TikTok video.

(CNN) – A passenger who allegedly took psilocybin – the hallucinogenic chemical found in certain mushrooms – before boarding a United Airlines flight in Miami last week was arrested after allegedly assaulting two members of the flight crew.Cherruy Loghan Sevilla is charged with interfering with a flight crew and assaulting two flight attendants, according to court documents.The October 4 incident occurred on United Airlines flight 2116 from Miami International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport.Sevilla’s public defender, Shannon Quill, said “our office policy is not to comment on cases.”“Sevilla was wandering around the plane, running up and down the aisle, clapping loudly near the cockpit and yelling obscenities,” according to an FBI agent’s affidavit filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.Sevilla was arrested when the plane landed and taken to the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ office at Dulles. During an interview several hours after his arrest, Sevilla told investigators he had taken psilocybin prior to boarding the flight, the affidavit says.Sevilla allegedly said it was not the first time he had taken the drug.“Sevilla said that he was not totally surprised that he acted this way after consuming it.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, The Advocate spoke with queer pop star Betty Who about coming out, queer musicians, and her new album "Big!" which comes out on October 14.The Advocate: Twenty years ago, the theme of the annual day was "Coming Out Rocks" which celebrated gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender musicians. Have we progressed since 2002?Betty Who: We’ve come unimaginably far since 2002 as far as representation and support for LGBTQIA+ musicians and artists — even thinking about queerness in the 90s when I was growing up, how it felt so much more like a rebellion then.

Delegates from around the world have started arriving in Cape Town as they prepare to compete for the coveted Mr Gay World 2022 title.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it has declined to take up a case on video recordings from the 2010 trial against the California’s marriage ban known as Proposition 8, effectively green-lighting the process for making those confidential records open to the public.

- u/goodlostbonding"The fact that he’s shoving you into the closet for any reason is unacceptable, but his chosen reason is suss as f***. My theory is that he told some lie about you that he’s trying not to let out of the bag. It’s the only thing I can think of."- u/karigan_g"He sounds like he has some really weird ass insecurities going on there.

New York-based dancers Jose Gutierez and Luis Comacho worked together inseparably for years: at balls, on stage, in music videos. The pair just had a little special something.

#AtomicMonster and @Blumhouse – M3GAN is coming to theaters in 2023. pic.twitter.com/emB06I64Vj— Blumhouse (@blumhouse) April 25, 2022It all started this spring when fright-forward production company Blumhouse shared the poster for M3GAN, a new film produced by modern horror maestro James Wan (Insidious, The Conjuring, Malignant).

Something needs to be done about Jonathan Majors. The unmitigated gall to have folks gasping for air first thing in the morning is simply too much to handle.Between his upcoming wingman action flick Devotion, his hush-hush Creed III role, and his “Kang the Conqueror” character set to take the MCU by storm (into 2025, even!), the 33-year-old actor’s “star on the rise” phase just keeps rising.Now, the When We Rise and Lovecraft Country star has everyone parched with his new too-hot-to-handle Men’s Health spread.Jonathan Majors has risen from indie standout to blockbuster villain in the Marvel and Rocky Cinematic Universes.

A secret audio recording of Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka wooing far-right Christian extremists in the weeks ahead of the 2016 presidential election has just been unearthed and it’s deeply creepy, to the say the least.The recording appears in the new documentary Battleground, out this week, which offers a shocking deep dive into the anti-abortion movement in America.According to the doc, the tape was recorded in September 2016 during a closed-door meeting between the Trumps and a gaggle of Christian leaders a little over a month before the election.The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how Trump would “fulfill the Christian right’s legislative and cultural priorities” if elected president.Things kick off with Steve Bannon telling the group, “The key that picks the lock to this election is you. Conservative Catholics and evangelicals who have not voted, who have not been motivated to vote, have to come to the polls.

Modern couples attach great importance to the quality of their relationships. Today, the main task of Slavic brides and their men is not just to create a marriage, but also to take care of its health. What does it mean? A healthy relationship is a union that excludes moral and physical pressure, abuse, and humiliation of the partner’s dignity. 

When musicians as popular and as varied as Brandi Carlile, King Princess, Syd, Hayley Kiyoko and Girl in Red can be so openly, so matter-of-factly gay, it’s easy to forget that the vibe was not quite as welcoming 30 years ago. In the 1990s, singing paeans about making out with other women was a bold move. So when the Kansas-born lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge released the album “Yes I Am” in 1993, featuring the hits “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One,” she made a splash.

Release date: September 20What it's about: A new horror novel from thriller virtuoso Giles, The Getaway will keep you up at night after this twisty roller coaster. Karloff County is a prime vacation destination, a theme park getaway from the increasingly troubling outside world.

Editor’s note: This article mentions suicide. The LGBT National Hotline provides telephone, online chat, and email peer support at 888-843-4564 or www.lgbthotline.org.

J.D. Vance, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio who was able to obtain the Republican presidential nomination thanks in part to backing from gay conservative entrepreneur Peter Thiel, signaled on Tuesday he’d vote against legislation pending before Congress seeking to codify same-sex marriage into law.

It’s that time of year again: spooky season (aka gay Christmas). This means there are some amazing Halloween-themed queer events throughout Dublin this month. So, to help you find the coolest ones, we created a list of six Halloween events you have to check out before it’s too late. 1. Boos & Booze Halloween Party […]

The Washington Blade announced plans for the 21st annual Best Of LGBTQ D.C. Awards Party. The event will be held on Thursday, Oct. 20, 6-8 p.m. at the Eaton Hotel (1201 K. St., N.W.). 

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Beauty And The Beast, only to be given a blink-and-you’ll-miss it scene where LeFou (Josh Gad) dances with another man, right?So perhaps we were wrong to get our hopes up when the studio announced it’d be making a spin-off series about LeFou and his barrel-chested pal Gaston (Luke Evans). It almost felt like they might use it as an opportunity to right the wrongs of the film, to explore LeFou’s queerness in a more direct and thoughtful way.Not to mention, it’d provide Evans with a solid leading role.

Luke Evans has opened up about the future of Disney+’s Beauty and the Best prequel series.