Munroe Bergdorf calls for people to rally against government not banning trans conversion therapy

My wife’s stepfather began raping her when she was 11 years old. The abuse went on for years, and as Debbie got older, she was constantly terrified that she was pregnant. She had no one to talk to and nowhere to turn.

Seemed like only yesteryear that Bloc Party’s gay frontman Kele Okereke was a slender smooth-shaven indie rocker. But since Bloc Party recently released its sixth album, Alpha Games, we looked back in on the Nigerian-English artist and, wow — he’s 40 years old now and a full-on muscle daddy.While Bloc Party fans may recall their first album in 2005, Silent Alarm, Okereke didn’t puyblicly come out until 2010, the same year he began releasing solo albums.

Good morning. We’re covering the fate of abortion access in the U.S., the evacuation of survivors from a Mariupol steel plant and the Met Gala. The end of Roe v.

The actress had suffered a skiing trip two days before her death.She had been taking a beginner's skiing lesson in Quebec, Canada, when the accident took place.Liam and Natasha married 1994 and shared two sons - Micheál and Daniel.He opened up on Natasha’s last moments on life support during a 2014 interview with CBS's Anderson Cooper.Liam said: “She was on life support...

The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, will close on Sunday, May 22, several months earlier than originally planned.

Texas abortion rights organizations will be holding rallies at federal courthouses across the state today (Wednesday, May 3) to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson.

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Abortion rights are under attack. This morning, the nation woke up to the horrifying news that the Supreme Court made an initial draft decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health that would overturn Roe vs.

draft opinion published Monday by Politico that would overturn the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade and 1992 Planned Parenthood v.

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Billy Porter being carried in on a throne by glistening shirtless men or Lil Nas X serving gold robot — there was still a wealth of cheeky representation to be ogled.These are the top lewks:Ariana DeBose + Michaela Jaé Rodriguez For their gilded glamour, these two out and proud showbiz legends looked to that godfather of camp, Jeremy Scott of Moschino, who stayed true to the night’s theme with OTT opulence. Others in the Moschino posse included Manu Ríos, Megan Thee Stallion, Simone Ashley, and Iris Law.Fredrik RobertssonThe internet nearly collapsed when someone misidentified this as Jared Leto.

History has been made, yet surprisingly, it sounds like a story that just makes sense. A lesbian couple produced the first NFL player with queer parents.

A leaked majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito shows the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v Wade and all eyes are suddenly on Sen. Bernie Sanders.Related: Susan Sarandon should maybe probably stay off Twitter todayWhile campaigning against Hillary Clinton for president in 2015, Sanders went on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to say that if Democrats really wanted to win over new voters they should focus less on protecting people’s civil rights and more on things that matter, like economic issues, since those are what truly bring people together.Related: If Roe vs Wade is overturned, LGBTQ rights could be next“These people are struggling and voting against their own interests,” Sanders said when speaking about white voters in the South.

LGBTQ lawmakers from 19 states have or will introduce laws to protect trans kids from civil and criminal penalties when seeking gender-affirming care.At a virtual press conference May 3 with representatives from several states, gay California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced a coalition of LGBTQ legislators, health providers, and civil rights groups from throughout the United States was working to introduce legislation in the various statehouses that would provide refuge and support for trans kids and their families. New Hampshire State Representative Gerri Cannon (D), a trans woman, called for lawmakers across the country to support trans kids no matter where they reside."We should be giving children a chance at a normal life in a society that does not support people who are different," she said during the virtual meeting.The momentum is building from Wiener's March 17 announcement of his planned legislation that would provide protection to trans kids and their families if they come to California from states "criminalizing the parents of trans kids for allowing them to receive gender-affirming care." Written a short time later, his proposal is now encapsulated in Senate Bill 107, as the Bay Area Reporter previously reported.Last month, Wiener shared the bill language via Twitter in hopes of seeing other state legislatures also adopt it.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 3, 2022) – The following can be attributed to Kierra Johnson, Executive Director, National LGBTQ Task Force “This morning, the nation woke up to the horrifying news that a draft decision from the Supreme Court related to the overturning of Roe v. Wade signals a full reversal by the court and the potential to undermine and overturn other important decisions impacting LGBTQ people, people of color, and others whose rights were won after the Constitution was ratified.

Join the Texas Abortion Access Network for a virtual litigation briefing on Thursday, May 5, at noon.

Two people were injured in a drive-by shooting along Turtle Creek Boulevard in the Design District a block from the Dallas Voice office. Several new apartment complexes have opened within blocks of the shooting and the Virgin Hotel is along Turtle Creek Boulevard in the Design District.

Roe v. Wade, according to a leaked draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito.The document, obtained by Politico and reported Monday, is a version of an opinion being circulated among the justices.

Norway's government has issued a formal apology for a historical law that criminalised homosexuality.An estimated 119 men were convicted in Norway between 1902 and 1950 for having sex with other men under a paragraph of the country's penal code.The law was eventually removed on 21 April 1972."Gay people have been treated as criminals and prosecuted by the Norwegian authorities," said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, 50 years after homosexuality was decriminalised."The law had an important symbolic value and meant that homosexuals were exposed to multiple convictions, discrimination, slander and blackmail," the government added in a statement."Criminalising and prosecuting people for their love life, treating [medically] healthy people, depriving them of career and work opportunities are serious violations of our values."LGBT+ activists have welcomed the official apology while calling for more measures to ban so-called gay conversion therapy in Norway.Campaigners are also demanding recognition of a legal third gender and better access to care for transgender people."For many of us, it may be too little too late, we know that many people have lived and are living their lives marked by stigma," said Inge Alexander Gjestvang, leader of the Foreningen FRI association.Norway was the second country in the world to legally acknowledged civil partnerships for same-sex couples in 1993.

Longtime LGBTQ ally/Bernie Bro Susan Sarandon has been having a tough day on Twitter and it’s all because of the 2016 presidential election.Quick recap: While campaigning for Bernie Sanders, Sarandon, who is worth an estimated $60 million, went on MSNBC to say she wasn’t sure if she could ever bring herself to vote for Hillary Clinton, suggesting she might cast her ballot for Donald Trump instead.“You know, some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately,” she said. “If he gets in, then things will really explode.”Well, things certainly exploded. Unfortunately, not in the way Sarandon hoped they might.

Hundreds of people took to Downing Street on 10 April to protest the UK government’s decision to exclude trans people from a ban of so-called ‘conversion therapy’.

In a major blow to LGBTQ+ rights, Alabama’s Governor Kay Ivey has signed two horrific anti-trans bills into law.

BBC has announced a brand new Doctor Who podcast, and it’s set to be extremely queer.

In late March, President Vladimir Putin of Russia compared his country’s reputational plight to that of J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. In a speech railing against the West’s efforts to ostracize Russia, Mr.

The Broadway-bound revival of the musical 1776, which begins a pre-New York engagement at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts next month, has announced a cast comprised fully of performers who identify as female, non-binary, and trans.

Talisa Garcia has made history as the first openly transgender person to be cast by Disney in a Lucasfilm production.

Talisa Garcia has become the first openly trans actress cast in a Lucasfilm production, as the British performer will appear in the forthcoming Disney+ show Willow.The TV adaptation of the 1988 film will focus on a princess who puts together a team to save her twin brother from harm.The cast also includes Warwick Davis reviving his role as Willow Ufgood, as well as Erin Kellyman, Ellie Bamber and Tony Revolori. The latest:Talisa Garcia has become the first openly trans actress cast in a Lucasfilm production, as the British performer will appear in the forthcoming Disney+ show Willow.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear vetoed the state’s anti-trans sports bill.

Andi Mudryk, the first transgender person appointed to the bench by Governor Gavin Newsom, was sworn in April 7 during an in-person ceremony at Sacramento County Superior Court. She now doubles the number of out trans jurists on the state bench.Mudryk thanked Newsom during the event, which was livestreamed, as well as the LGBTQ and disability communities. As previously reported, Mudryk, 58, lives with brittle bone disease, stated the governor's office in announcing her appointment.

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Kay Ivey signs the legislation, doctors could face felony charges, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors or performing gender reassignment surgeries.The legislation, called the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, claims that most youth who identify as trans will "outgrow" the phase once they go through puberty."This internal sense of discordance is not permanent or fixed, but to the contrary, numerous studies have shown that a substantial majority of children who experience discordance between their sex and identity will outgrow the discordance once they go through puberty and will eventually have an identity that aligns with their sex," the bill states.The bill's wording mentions that a "wait-and-see approach" for transgender youth "who reveal signs of gender nonconformity" is the best course of action, instead of hormone therapy and surgery.Democrat Representative Neil Rafferty, the only openly gay member of the Legislature, said the bill would make life for transgender youth harder."This is invasive," Rafferty said, according to AL.com. "It's hard enough growing up being different.

British actress Talisa Garcia is breaking down barriers at Disney as the first known openly trans performer to be cast in one of the studio’s LucasFilm productions.

EXCLUSIVE: British actress Talisa Garcia (Baptiste) has been cast in anticipated Disney+ series Willow, marking the first known occasion an openly trans actor has been cast in a production from Disney-owned Lucasfilm, home to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.

Talisa Garcia is making history.

The Briggle family from Texas at the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards

exclusive interview, a portion of which was posted to social media. “The headlines are wrong.

Ron DeSantis.Fine said the proposed legislation will make it a felony for doctors to perform gender assignment surgery on minors, punishable by prison and loss of medical license. He said that the acts would be considered child abuse.Fine told Newsweek that parents would be charged with felony child abuse as well.I've had enough.

The California Legislature now has its first parent of a transgender child. Suisun City Mayor Lori Wilson easily won election Tuesday to the open 11th Assembly District seat that straddles Solano and Contra Costa counties.Wilson who, with her husband, has a transgender son in college, took her oath of office Wednesday morning.

In recognition of Transgender Day of Visibility March 31, Vice President Kamala Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and Admiral Rachel Levine of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services welcomed six transgender and nonbinary youth and their families to the White House, along with advocates from national rights organizations.

The Prime Minister has argued it is not “reasonable” for children to make decisions on their gender without parental involvement.

admitted on Monday it meant the conference due to be held in June and July was now in doubt.Now Sky News understands that the event is set to be cancelled.The conference would have coincided with the 50th anniversary of the capital's first official Pride marches.It was billed as the UK's first ever global LGBT conference when it was launched by senior ministers Liz Truss and Dominic Raab last year.Reacting to the event's cancellation, Conservative MP Dehenna Davison tweeted: "We had such a huge opportunity to prove the UK (and the Conservative Party) is a defender of freedom."As a Conservative member of the LGBT+ community, it is so wrong it has come to this."The decision to not ban transgender conversion therapy prompted the UK's LBGT+ business champion Iain Anderson to resign, saying it was "profoundly shocking".A government spokesperson repeated the position from Monday that it was "considering how to proceed" over the conference.Earlier this week, A Tory MP announced he is trans in a highly personal Twitter post.Jamie Wallis, MP for Bridgend, said he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, adding: "I've felt this way since I was a very young child."Mr Wallis also rallied against ministers' plans to limit a ban on conversion therapy for gay people.Posting on Twitter, he said it was "wrong to exclude protections for a whole group of people from a practice described as 'abhorrent'".A national LGBT survey done by the government in 2017 suggested that 5% of LGBT people have been offered conversion, and 2% have undergone the therapy.These figures were higher among trans people, with 8% saying they had been offered the therapy, and 4% reporting having undergone it.

The UK’s first transgender MP has hit out at the government for its attempt to exclude transgender people from a law banning ‘conversion therapy’.

LGBT+ rights.Mr Anderson said trust and belief in the government's commitment to the LGBT+ community had been damaged after a series of U-turns on plans to introduce legislation to ban conversion therapy.Also called cure therapy or reparative therapy, conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy that aims to change a person's sexual orientation or suppress a person's gender identity.'Conversion therapy is abhorrent'In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson shared on Twitter, Mr Anderson said it had been the honour of his life to serve as the UK's first LGBT+ business champion, but felt he had "no choice" but to resign."As a young gay man I lived through fear and oppression under the backdrop of Section 28," he wrote. What is conversion therapy and what has the government's position on banning it been? 'Don't say gay' bill signed: Teachers forbidden to give sexual orientation lessons in Florida Marvel's first Muslim superhero Kamala Khan celebrated as new series Ms Marvel is teased "I could never have dreamt then that a government - any government - would appoint an LGBT+ champion later in my lifetime."However the recent leaking of a plan to drop the government's flagship legislation protecting LGBT+ people from conversion therapy was devastating.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has updated its guidance on single-sex spaces, which state that transgender people can be excluded if the reasoning is “justified and proportionate”.

Iain Anderson has resigned from his role as the government’s LGBTQ+ Business Champion because of its stance on a trans ‘conversion therapy’ ban.

The government’s first LGBTQ+ conference is facing a mass boycott over its U-turn on banning ‘conversion therapy’ in the UK.

The UK government is reportedly “not budging” on its decision not to ban trans ‘conversion therapy’, despite widespread calls to do so.

Ariana Grande celebrated Trans Day of Visibility on 31 March by announcing a fund she has created to help support transgender youth.