New Zealand bans conversion therapy with landslide vote

A gay couple living in Dudley, United Kingdom were targeted by a gang of homophobic teenagers, who hurled vile abuse at them and threw rocks at their house. The West Midlands Police said they are investigating the case as a “hate crime”. Trigger Warning: This story has details of a homophobic attack, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The married couple Kieran (24) and Steven Douglas-Lane (33) had recently moved from Liverpool to Dudley to start a new life, reported Pink News. “It’s understood a group of youngsters followed two men from a shop on Birmingham Road at around 4pm, shouting abuse,” a West Midlands Police spokesperson said in a statement. “Objects including stones were also thrown at the home but thankfully no one was injured and no damage reported.

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson or sings a choral piece from the musical Considering Matthew Shepard commemorating a queer hate crime? History tells us that they aren’t concerned about more arguments around the dinner table or decreased church attendance. They are scared their child will turn gay.  Several decades ago, people were not so embarrassed to say this. “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot reproduce.

The LA Pride Parade will take place in Hollywood, returning to the area where it began more than 50 years ago.

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Ukraine, voting rights, Pete Buttigieg and “Ted Lasso,” was the week's most-watched live television show — making it three weeks in a row for the old guys.The newsmagazine has been on the air since 1968, and when asked to identify the first week “60 Minutes” was television's most-watched show, CBS said its records didn't go back that far.“60 Minutes” was television's top show for an entire year the first time in the season that ended in 1980, the Nielsen company said. The feat was repeated in 1983, 1992, 1993 and 1994.This winter's achievement is noteworthy because it came without the benefit of an NFL football game airing directly before it, which often inflates the show's ratings in the fall.For the week, CBS led the way in prime time with an average of 4.9 million viewers. ABC had 3.5 million viewers, NBC had 2.9 million, Fox had 2.1 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Television had 1.02 million and Telemundo had 990,000.Fox News Channel was the most popular cable network, averaging 2.79 million viewers in prime time.

transgender, and no one, not even their parents know. If you’re a teacher in Alabama you would be legally required to tell that child’s parents, if a bill that’s already passed the Senate becomes law.SB184 is expected to be taken up in the House this week.

A final hurdle for reopening gay bathhouses in San Francisco should be removed by Pride Month. The proposed zoning change will also allow adult sex venues to operate in neighborhoods historically home to LGBTQ districts.A prohibition against such businesses having locked rooms, enacted in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS epidemic, was officially lifted in early 2021.

The storyline of “Succession” might have looked different if writer Georgia Pritchett had anything to say.

whereischapek.com offered employees details, saying they could take part in in-person and virtual walkouts for 15 minutes during their work breaks at 3 p.m. between Tuesday and early next week, followed by a full-scale walkout on Tuesday, March 22.

Brookside.The actress, who starred in telly drama Marcella and a string of films including Rogue Trader, Goal! and a Midsummer Night’s Dream, said her grandma hated her pre-watershed snog with Nicola Stephenson in the since axed Channel 4 soap.Anna, 45, said she has spent the best part of 30 years trying to live it down even though it helped land her a National Television Award and turned her a star.She told The Chap magazine: "I never want people to forget that I come from Rochdale, but I’d like them to forget I did Brookside."Looking back, all that controversy with Brookside was a good start, it made people know who I was but hopefully - and not just because I kissed a girl on telly - for all the right reasons."My grandma said she hated me kissing that girl."Now I hope you won’t be doing that anymore', she said 'None of that old nonsense'."My mum only said, 'I don’t really like that, Anna'.

Christina Aguilera will headline LA Pride in the Park June 11 at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Photo: NBC

David Campos got a boost in his campaign for the 17th Assembly District race Tuesday when former candidate Thea Selby, who finished fourth in last month's primary, endorsed him.Campos, a gay man and former San Francisco supervisor, faces District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney in the April 19 runoff. The winner will finish the term of former assemblymember David Chiu, who resigned the seat last November to become San Francisco's first Asian American city attorney.

If Bob Chapek and the rest of the Disney brass thought the March 11 apology over the House of Mouse’s fumbling response to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation would placate the outrage among their own staff, they should perhaps think again.

Manchester United in the summer.The Ajax boss has been persistently linked with the vacant Old Trafford role after his stunning work with the Dutch giants. During his five years at the helm in Holland, Ten Hag has guided Ajax to two Dutch titles and implemented an attractive brand of attacking football. A number of Premier League clubs, including Tottenham and Newcastle, have already tried to lure Ten Hag to England due to his impressive work at Ajax.

During a live fundraiser for flood victims in Australia over the weekend, TV host Grant Denyer and sports reporter Ben Fordham, both married to women, made out. And they made a killing, too.The guys appeared together on the Australia Unites: Red Cross Flood Appeal broadcast Saturday evening when someone called in from an unnamed corporation to pledge $50,000… but only if they “pashed.”“What does ‘pash’ involve? Are we talking mouth open, closed?” host Amanda Keller asked.

60 Minutes over the weekend. At one point during his interview with Anderson Cooper, I joked to no one in particular, “Looks like the transportation secretary is test driving a possible presidential run!”During the high-profile interview on the heavily watched news show, the secretary was coy when Cooper asked him if he’d run against President Joe Biden.“Where my head is at is how do we spend the better part of a trillion dollars in infrastructure funding accountable, on time, on task, and on budget.

Een grondwettelijk verbod op discriminatie vanwege een handicap of seksuele gerichtheid is opnieuw een stapje dichterbij gekomen. Vanmiddag steunde de Tweede Kamer opnieuw een voorstel daarover van D66, GroenLinks en PvdA.

If Bob Chapek and the rest of the Disney brass thought the March 11 apology over the House of Mouse’s fumbling response to Florida’s Don’t Say Gay legislation would placate the outrage among their own staff, they should think again.

After blasting Vice President Kamala Harris for knowing “so little about everything” this week, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is proving just how much she knows herself.Spoiler alert: Not much.In a video uploaded Tuesday to her Twitter page, Boebert defends her outbursts during Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address last week.During the speech, Boebert twice heckled the president.

Angelique Jackson A group of Disney employees have planned a week of in-person and virtual walkouts in response to the company and CEO Bob Chapek’s handling of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill.On Monday afternoon, the Twitter account called Disney Walkout posted a message explaining that, “The LGBTQIA+ workers and allies at The Walt Disney Company are standing in solidarity together over the coming weeks.”The post then linked to an open letter written in partnership with members of the LGBTQ community across the Walt Disney Company (including Disney Corporate, Disney Television Animation, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, Disney Streaming, Enterprise Finance, Enterprise Technology/Global Information Security and Bento Box). “The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) leadership regarding the Florida legislature’s recent ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have utterly failed to match the magnitude of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety represented by this legislation,” organizers wrote.

Randy Rainbow released a new video featuring far-right Republican U.S. Reps.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas declared last month that medical treatments given to transgender adolescents, including puberty-suppressing drugs and hormones, could be considered child abuse under state law. Opponents of the move swiftly responded, including President Biden, who described the decision as “cynical and dangerous.” Investigations of alleged abuse sparked by the order were temporarily halted last week after a state court ruled that the policy was “unconstitutional.” According to a 2019 C.D.C.

Dr. Mehmet Oz.Oz, 61, currently seeks to represent the people of Pennsylvania in the US Senate. Since announcing his candidacy last November, he has tripped over one obstacle after the next.

The march of LGBTQ visibility in the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues, as the superhero studio juggernaut has announced comic Jordan Firstman will join the cast of the new show, Ms. Marvel.Ms.

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump‘s appeal to keep his Jan.

Firebird has arrived.We first caught wind of Firebird’s story on the festival circuit last year. Based on a true story, the film recounts the love affair between Sergey (Tom Prior), a young private, and Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii), a crack fighter pilot.

Clearing up confusion! While rumors and speculation about Bella Hadid’s plastic surgery have been swirling around for years, the 25-year-old model has officially set the record straight. 

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Succession writer Georgia Pritchett has opened up about one Roy family member who was almost written as gay.“It’s interesting how characters take on a life of their own,” Pritchett said in an interview on the Homo Sapiens podcast, describing her job as the sole writer of four episodes across three seasons.“I had sort of advocated for Greg to be gay – until last season he hadn’t really done anything with anyone.”She added that she believes that the Roy children – Kendall, Shiv, Roman and Connor – move “in a circle where I think anything goes”.“I don’t think anyone’s closeted or not gonna do what they want to do,” she continued, before adding how Kieran Culkin’s character Roman “feels a bit fluid and pan”.“I don’t think he’d hold back if he fancied doing something,” she added. “He wouldn’t hold back.” In a four-star review of Succession season three, NME wrote: “Succession can risk feeling like a drama too obviously helmed by comedy writers, with its characters sitting in a circle firing off zingers.“There is a reason it is particularly beloved in the media landscape.

Randy Rainbow released a new video featuring far-right Republican U.S. Reps.

Todrick Hall has spoken out about his highly controversial appearance on Celebrity Big Brother for the first time since the season ended.

The Recording Academy has announced the first set of performers for the upcoming 2022 Grammy Awards.

Outspoken advocate for marginalized straight white cisgender males in America, Sen. Josh Hawley, was just slapped with a cease and desist letter from Politico demanding he quit using a  photo it owns on his campaign merch.Related: Josh Hawley implies he watches tons of porn and plays lots of video games in whiny little speechThe photo was taken by Francis Chung on January 6, 2021, shortly before the deadly insurrection.

Indie-pop trio MUNA has released the date of their self-titled album under Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records label.

he wrote. “A 6’2” daddy-type wreathed in world-weary mystery, the man was on fire in the 80s, starring in a series of critically acclaimed hits—Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), and Children of a Lesser God (1986)—about love and passion and the reconciliation of desire and difference.”Davis goes onto explain the problematics of Hurt the human, rather than the actor: he was famously abusive to partner Marlee Maitlin. He drank.

Eric Trump is the laughingstock of Twitter this morning after he went on Fox News last night to tout his dad’s “great relationship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.“Putin was in with the KGB, he can read people, and he could tell that Donald Trump was a very strong person,” Eric told Sean Hannity when asked about why Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during the Trump administration.Eric Trump: Putin was in with the KGB. He can read people and he could tell that Donald Trump was a very strong person pic.twitter.com/1BqhstcUMP— Acyn (@Acyn) March 15, 2022Eric then pointed to his dad’s “perfect” relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.“And what did my father say? ‘You know, Kim, you mess around with us, you will be met with fire and fury, the likes of which you have never seen before.’ Right?” he said.

KFOR reports.“It was absolutely shocking to me,” Emily Thornton, an OC alumnus, told the station. “O’Keefe was fired because he had a class where several speakers came in and talked about their personal challenges and how they overcame them.”In a statement provided by O’Keefe’s lawyer, Kevin Jacobs, the former professor said the claims were true.“Michael O’Keefe was fired by Oklahoma Christian University allegedly for his ‘gross misconduct, conduct contrary to the mission and values of Oklahoma Christian University and disregard of the policies and values of the university. It is our belief Mr.

Firebird, is set for its US theatrical release. Set in the Cold War, the film will be released on April 29, 2022, and is a passionate love story on an Air Force based in 1970s occupied Estonia.

As promised, Gov. Greg Abbott appointed a committee to study why Texas has a teacher shortage.

Drag Race’s Ginger Minj has reportedly secured a role in Hocus Pocus 2 as a drag version of Bette Midler’s Winifred “Winnie” Sanderson.

Disney Plus has unleashed the first action-packed trailer for Ms. Marvel.

Naman Ramachandran Germany’s Leonine Studios has rebranded its television subsidiary Odeon Entertainment as Madame Zheng Production to reflect its primary focus of “equality and diversity in every aspect of the production business, both in front of and behind the camera.” Tina Wagner, previously producer and executive producer at RedSeven Entertainment, and Nina Etspüler, co-head of entertainment at Leonine Studios, are joining the management team and will lead the company under Wagner’s direction along with Martin Schneider, Odeon Entertainment’s long-standing managing director.Fred Kogel, CEO and co-head of entertainment at Leonine Studios, said: “Ever since Nina Etspüler joined Leonine in Jan. 2021, we have jointly pursued the goal of establishing a production brand that advocates for equality and diversity in front of and behind the camera, in order to firmly anchor these themes, which are essential for Leonine Studios, in the production market.

Steph’s Packed Lunch panel discussed the idea of surnames and Bake-Off star John Whaite admitted that he has previously changed his, alongside co-star Russell Kane.Lewis Hamilton has just announced that he is changing his name to include his mother’s surname, Larbalestier.John told the camera that Lewis has said he “doesn’t understand” why people lose their name when they get married and turned to his co-stars for their thoughts.He began the discussion by admitting that he was born John Cunningham, but changed it to Whaite through high school and college because he wanted to “reinvent himself” by using his mum’s maiden name.Russell Kane began laughing which Steph pointed out and told the audience that “he knows why” it was changed but it “can’t be said on TV”.“Let’s just say, children are very cruel,” said Russell.John then said that he would give a demonstration on Instagram after the show before he admitted that the name change made him feel “like a new man”.Steph then moved on to Russell and checked that he had also previously changed his name.He said that he’s a “second generation name-change family” because his father also took a different one.Steph asked why that was, to which Russell replied that it was the “same reason he dropped his”.The comedian said that it was because his previous last name was “foreign, so people couldn’t pronounce it” and joked that he should “make a Channel 4 documentary about being triggered”.“I should have been celebrating my ethnic identity,” he said, before revealing that the name was easy to pronounce but hard to spell.Kane then said that he “got bored” of having to try and explain himself so he “ended up changing it” but found the rebrand “quite exciting”.The 46-year-old then went on

alternative viewpoint” on transgender people. The group, the Minnesota Child Protection League, has been cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center.Protesters have shown up tonight ahead of a Becker school board meeting where the Minnesota Child’s Protection League is speaking.

Out Traveler he created Elevation Mammoth because he wanted to create something where the events and production itself were not an afterthought. From left to right: Dustin Woehrmann, Topher Vollan, and Elevation founder Tom Whitman Elevation Mammoth opens Wednesday, March 16 with a Welcome Aprés-Ski social and frisky Frat Boy party, and runs through Sunday, March 20. True to Whitman’s original vision for the event, Elevation Mammoth pairs activities like wine and spirit tastings alongside the parties on and off the slopes.

Hairspray, La Cage aux Folles, and Torch Song Trilogy — Harvey Fierstein was simply a student at New York’s Pratt Institute, one who had no intention of pursuing a life onstage. “I didn’t want to be an actor.

Amid the escalating violence in Ukraine, Adam Long interrogates Putin’s European far-right allies and the reckoning which is upon them. For the past two weeks, the world has looked on in horror as Ukraine has been subjected to a brutal invasion by neighbouring Russia. Here in Ireland, the outpouring of support and solidarity for the […]

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