Ron DeSantis “will not tolerate hatred towards LGBTQ” people after fomenting hatred for a year

Students at Yeshiva University in New York have tried for years to get their school to recognize an L.G.B.T.Q. student club, pushing back on the administration’s argument that its status as a Modern Orthodox Jewish school exempted it from the city’s human rights law. Last year, a group of students and alumni filed a lawsuit, and on Tuesday a state judge ruled in their favor, declaring that Yeshiva is not a religious institution and so must follow the law and recognize the club.

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This essay, by Lucas Cohen-d’Arbeloff, age 17, from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s Ninth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 16,664 entries. We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up over the next week, and you can find them here as they post. How ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Diminishes Same-Sex Parents and Their Children As a rosy-cheeked nine-year-old, I beamed as I walked down a grassy aisle blanketed with flower petals.

Axios.Sen. Jeremy Moss, who is the first openly gay person in the Michigan State Senate, told the outlet, "This is clearly an intentional target against our community.

Media Matters.Last month, threats of violence forced a school district in Wisconsin to take drastic security measures.The Kiel Area School Board canceled the remaining in-person school year for children in its district because of multiple bomb threats. In addition, the school announced that it dropped a Title IX investigation after weeks of threats, local TV station WFRV reports.

The Feeling singer Dan Gillespie Sells says his feelings – no pun intended – about the Pride flag are ‘complex’, but actually, they aren’t. The Everybody’s Talking About Jamie co-creator dreams of a time when the LGBTQ+ community no longer needs to use the flag as a symbol of their right to equality because, in this reality, they would have achieved it. It’s that simple. However, with the flag becoming such an ingrained part of the fight, would it be that easy to let go? This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pride Month, an event held annually for members of the queer community and their allies to celebrate their identities, accomplishments, and reflect on the struggle for equality. Perhaps at the heart of it all is the Pride flag, also known as the rainbow flag, which has become a well-known symbol of gay pride. It began with the traditional colours of the rainbow but, in 2022, now has various versions to truly represent the diverse family the LGBTQ+ groups have become. According to Queer In The World, there are currently more than 50 flags you might spot, though the number isn’t fixed as there may be multiple designs and variations for any particular flag. For example, there’s now the More Color More Pride flag, which was created in 2017 to add black and brown colour strips to the top of the flag.

the New York Times that both “Philadelphia” and his 1994 dramedy “Forrest Gump” were “timely movies, at the time, that you might not be able to make now.”“Let’s address, ‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’ ” Hanks asked. “No, and rightly so.

Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir, queer author and professor Jonathan Alexander took a trip to the past, imagining that he was in conversation with his younger self. The approach, he says, allowed him to better understand who he is today.

More bad news for Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.Ginni’s far-right activism, and in particular her involvement in the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, continues to come into clearer focus. Now the Washington Post is reporting that she exchanged emails with John Eastman, the Trump lawyer who drafted a memo outlining a plan to subvert the electoral process.It’s a horrible look for Ginni, who we now attended Trump’s Jan.

The hosts of the Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast break down the biggest news of the week, including our Saks Off Fifth and Phluid Project LGBTQ+ story of the week — Rebel Wilson’s new love connection!

Creating a more inclusive environment is the goal of the automotive industry leader, Ford, with their new video series, ‘Ford Presents Tough Talks.’ Host Gareth Thomas, the first openly gay Welsh rugby union professional, starts the series by opening up about the common issues people in the LGBTQ+ community face in the automotive industry. The […]

Irish charity ShoutOut begins two exciting initiatives in June, with the June 29 launch of a guide for parents and guardians on supporting LGBTQ+ youth, and the release of ‘ShoutOut, ListenIn,’ a podcast discussing education about LGBTQ+ issues in Ireland. A grassroots organization begun in 2012, ShoutOut has worked the last ten years towards its […]

Matt O’Brien and Róisín Barrett are the duo behind Pride Nails Dublin, a cute queer enterprise to spread some love this June and support an LGBTQ+ charity while doing it. “I did my nails last year … as a conversation starter because I like to make people uncomfortable around Pride,” Matt, a Trans man and […]

President Biden, in recognition of Pride month during a reception with LGBTQ leaders and advocates at the White House, signed a wide-ranging executive order advancing his administration’s goals for LGBTQ policy, which includes new prohibitions on widely discredited conversion therapy and resources for parents and children in states enacting laws against transgender youth.

2. Star WARS is literally in our nameThe franchise’s defense of LGBTQ characters comes as the brand was celebrating Pride month by releasing special covers of its comics during “a time dedicated to uplifting, honoring, and supporting the LGBTQIA+ community’s impact in the world.”The variant covers were “created by LGBTQIA+ artists and showcases LGBTQIA+ characters of the galaxy, featuring trade dress with a rainbow burst and a classic logo with a rainbow trail.” Celebrate #PrideMonth with Jan Bazaldua’s incredible cover for Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #24, out today! More info here: https://t.co/TgLG4au6Bhpic.twitter.com/G82ZFiOYndThe pushback on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric also follows Chris Evans’ defense of ’s inclusion of a gay kiss between two married female characters, which has resulted in the animated film being banned in certain countries. “Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good,” Evans told .

With Pride Month in full swing, it only makes sense that Universal Pictures wants to promote their upcoming romantic comedy “Bros” as much as possible. And “Boys” deserves all the hype it can get.

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If you've ever posted your relationship status on Facebook, and you're happily involved with that one great person you want to spend your life with, you may not have noticed an aspect of the social networking site's relationship status offerings: they're all geared toward dyadic relationships or, rather, relationships involving just two people. If you have noticed, and you're one of the 5% or so of people involved in romantic relationships with more than one other person, you may very well have just rolled your eyes and checked the "open relationship" or "it's complicated" box and called it a day.One group is attempting to change that because, as it said in a letter released June 16 to Tom Alison, Meta's head of the Facebook app, "this restriction perpetuates the erasure and marginalization of non-monogamous relationships; at worst, it harms non-monogamous users by perpetuating social stigmas around the validity and authenticity of their relationships." (Meta Platforms Inc.

Tom Hanks has looked back on his 1993 role as a gay man in Philadelphia and said that ‘rightly so’ he could not – as a straight man – play that part today.In the legal drama, which scored him his first of two back-to-back Best Actor Oscars wins, the Forrest Gump star portrayed gay lawyer Andrew Beckett.Beckett initially conceals his sexuality and HIV-positive status from colleagues before suing his employers for firing him.The film, which co-starred Denzel Washington, was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address HIV/AIDS and homophobia.‘Let’s address ‘could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’ No, and rightly so,’ the 65-year-old stated in a new interview.‘The whole point of Philadelphia was don’t be afraid.

Father’s Day brings with it a crush of ads reminding us to treat one of the most important men in our lives to something special.Commercials for cheese hampers and beer-of-the-month subscriptions skyrocket thanks to the assumption that everyone must, surely, have a dad worthy of such delights.But what if you don’t? Counselling Directory member Debbie Fletcher tells us: ‘We all have our own unique relationship with our fathers, based on a shared or sometimes an unshared history, so Father’s Day is not always a joy-filled occasion. ‘For some of us, it can bring up difficult and painful emotions, which are hard to ignore when everywhere you look you see the “perfect” father and child relationship.’First, let’s break down some of those feelings before we get to tips on how to cope with them.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect LGBTQ+ people from laws targeting them in conservative states.

President Zelenskyy is keen to emphasise the liberality of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression, many LGBTQ+ Ukrainians are concerned about the potential impacts the invasion will have on their burgeoning civil rights.“Of course, this worries us,” says Yura Dvizhon, creative director of UKRAINEPRIDE, a queer patriotic movement which nurtures Ukrainian cultural identity at home and abroad.“Russia comes to our land and wants to take it away, establish its own rules and take away the freedom that exists in Ukraine.“People in Kherson, Mariupol or hundreds of other places occupied by Russia suffer.“Of course, there are LGBTQ+ people in these cities and they need a lot of help, because being different in Russia is one of the worst and hardest things that a person can handle.”A post shared by YURA DVIZHON (@dvizhon)Dvizhon is one of a number of participants who are partaking in ‘LGBTQ+Me. Embracing Our Differences,’ a collaborative project between UKRAINEPRIDE and BetterMe, a global behavioural-health care company which is headquartered in Kyiv.Research shows that depression, discrimination by family members, trouble sleeping, and feelings of hopelessness are all higher in the queer community.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday to counter what he called discriminatory legislative attacks on the LGBTQ+ community by Republican-controlled states.

according to Swedish newspaper Queer.de.The effigy sparked a backlash, with one resident filing a criminal complaint against the town. Master of ceremonies Christian Weiss has insisted this was not an attack on any one person, but rather a statement against ‘rampant narcissistic hypersensitivity and the pathological lack of humor’.

Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins will become the latest celebrity to host the British LGBT Awards later this month. The 52-year-old will follow in the footsteps of famous names such as Mel B, Alan Carr and Kelly Osbourne in hosting the star-studded bash in London, on June 24. Celebrities and organisations with a track record of promoting LGBT+ rights will be honoured at the showbiz event, with nominees including singer Lady Gaga, Rylan, Steps, Olly Alexander and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.

first ever Pride demonstration in the UK took place, three years after the monumental Stonewall riots in New York, which propelled the movement for LGBT+ rights.Now 50 years later, Pride Month is a globally-recognised event that is cause for celebration, commemoration and conversation to address what more can be done to ensure that everyone has an equal right to live as their true selves.Today, Love, Victor season 3 drops on Disney Plus in the UK and Hulu in the US, completing the story of Victor (Michael Cimino) – a teenage boy who begins the series unsure about his sexuality, before eventually coming out as gay.In the third and final season, viewers will discover where Victor’s heart lies after becoming entangled in a love triangle with his boyfriend Benji (George Sear) and his friend Rahim (Anthony Keyvan), as well as following the rest of the cast as they embark on new journeys and experiences.Metro.co.uk recently spoke to the cast and creators of Love, Victor to find out what Pride means to them and how they feel about being a part of a show that not only represents LGBT+ people, but has been released in the celebratory and commemorative time of Pride Month.Pride is about embracing who you are as a person and so much of that is exciting. Pride is a very exciting time for so many people.It’s a time where they feel surrounded by people that embrace who they are, because you have this sense of community that you might not have had growing up or at home, but you have it in the streets, when you’re walking the streets and you’re celebrating Pride.

Lightyear,” which features a same-sex kiss, has been denied release in more than a dozen mainly Muslim countries.Countries across Asia and the Middle East have refused to give Pixar’s “Toy Story” spinoff a showing, in the latest development for parent company Disney as it tries to navigate differing public and political attitudes on LGBTQ issues.Regulators in the United Arab Emirates this week announced they were banning the movie for “violation of the country’s media content standards,” tweeting a picture of titular hero Buzz Lightyear in a red “No” symbol.Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, said it had not banned the film, “but suggested the owner of the movie think about their audience in Indonesia where an LGBT kissing scene is still considered sensitive.”Rommy Fibri Hardiyanto, head of Indonesia’s censoring office overseen by the Ministry of Education and Culture, told AFP that Disney has not offered a re-cut version of “Lightyear.”In neighboring Malaysia, the Film Censorship Board said if cuts were not made the film would not be screened in the country.“It is not appropriate to show the two scenes, and they are not suitable to be viewed by children,” an official, who declined to be named, told AFP.Disney is understood to have declined to make any cuts, offering the film “as is” in all markets.As a result, a total of 14 countries and territories where the company wanted to show “Lightyear” have not granted the film a release, AFP has learned.The others are: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Syria.“Lightyear” tells the backstory of the main character from the hit franchise “Toy Story,” an action figure who believes he is

President Joe Biden today (Wednesday, June 15) issued an executive order pledging to “combat unlawful discrimination and eliminate disparities that harm LGBTQI+ individuals and their families, defend their rights and safety, and pursue a comprehensive approach to delivering the full promise of equality for LGBTQI+ individuals.”

Tom Hanks opened up on straight performers playing LGBTQ characters, saying he would not accept a role in such circumstances in current times after winning an Oscar for his performance of a gay man living with the HIV virus in the 1993 movie Philadelphia.The Academy Award winner, 65, speaking with The New York Times Magazine Monday, said, 'Let's address, "Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?" No, and rightly so.'Hanks in the film portrayed the role of lawyer Andrew Beckett, a gay man who is fired from his law firm after his bosses discover details about his personal life. The latest:Tom Hanks, 65, opened up on straight performers playing LGBTQ characters, saying he would not accept a role in such circumstances in current times after winning an Oscar for his performance of a gay man living with the HIV virus in the 1993 movie Philadelphia.

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Pose), actress Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), writer-producer-director-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights, Encanto), singer-songwriter and actor Ricky Martin, and singer, artist, and television actor Valentina.“I know firsthand what it means to have the support of a loving community as I navigated and embraced my gender identity. I am honored to be part of an initiative that will provide that much-needed support system to so many other members of the Latinx LGBTQ+ [community] who are facing their own challenges or are on their own journeys of self-discovery,” Rodriguez said in a press release.“With the hate and division so many in power are looking to create in the U.S.

WASHINGTON — President Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people from a cascade of legislation in conservative states that increasingly targets the rights of gays, lesbians, transgender youth and others. The order is designed to counter efforts by Republican politicians like Gov.

Spurred on by a Twitter account known for its provocative nature, @libsoftiktok, a cadre of alleged Proud Boys members stormed into the San Lorenzo library in the East Bay June 11. Their target was a "Drag Queen Story Hour" event hosted by local drag artist Panda Dulce.About 10 or so of the group marched in, calling the host and others homophobic and transphobic slurs.

Three of the five races in November for even-numbered seats on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have drawn well-known LGBTQ community leaders. Should out candidates be victorious in all of them then the city will see the largest number of LGBTQ supervisors in a decade.In 2012, two gay men and the city's first bisexual supervisor served on the board that year.

San Diego will see an inaugural queer arts festival this month. A queer San Francisco Bay Area native is the visionary behind the event.Former Vallejo resident Desiree Cuizon, a 36-year-old Filipina woman, is co-director of the City in Motion's Queer Mvmt Fest, scheduled for June 24-27.The art festival will wrap up June's Pride Month and kick off San Diego's month of Pride events, said Cuizon, who is a lead artist with Disco Riot, the festival's sponsor organization.

In San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood June 12, Indigenous dancers performed at the remembrance ceremony for the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. This year marked the sixth anniversary of the 2016 massacre that saw 49 people die and more than 50 others injured.

1955 — 2022Douglas (Doug) Anderson (1955-2022) died peacefully June 1, 2022, a patient at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, while being followed by Palliative Care. Doug was one of the longest-surviving patients of the Positive Care Clinic there. Over the past few years he began suffering with ambulatory issues, osteoarthritis, bone loss, and eventually could not walk and was confined to a wheelchair.Doug was born in Minneapolis and, after graduating high school, attended St.

The Federal AIDS Policy Project Coalition and Prep4All have sent a letter, signed by 100 organizations, urging the House and Senate appropriations committees to approve $400 million to fund a national PrEP program within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While this is far short of the $9.8 billion over 10 years that President Joe Biden called for in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget, it's a meaningful start and something that HIV/AIDS advocates believe can be accomplished this year.A markup in Congress is scheduled for June 23, and we urge the appropriations committees to approve this funding allocation.Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV and Hepatitis Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., told us that a national PrEP program would lessen disparities among Black and Brown people that have been ongoing since the advent of PrEP nearly 10 years ago.

Substance use disorder and suicide are on the rise in California. We often see the two mental health issues co-occurring, each with potentially deadly outcomes. The link between substance abuse and suicide hasn't always been known and still isn't completely understood.

In April, Martin Alperen had a breakdown. It wasn't the first time that his bipolar disorder had caused him to lose a job or spiral into depression, but it was the first time he had tried to navigate his mental health with Medicare. He had recently turned 65 and had switched to a new Medicare insurance plan provided through Brand New Day and Hill Physicians Medical Group.

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Gina Carano, the former The Mandalorian star fired after a series of offensive tweets, is making a “comeback” in the new Western Terror On The Prairie…. so says Ben Shapiro’s media company The Daily Wire, which happens to be producing the movie.Wait, a comeback? What is she returning to, exactly? More flat, uninteresting screen roles that define acting as “lifelessly glowering on camera”? Well, if the tepid trailer for Terror On The Prairie is any indication, that’s precisely what Carano is doing.

interview published in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy Award-winning actor was discussing shifting cultural attitudes as they relate to some of his previous work, including his role in Philadelphia.Related: America’s Dad Tom Hanks wants you to know: ‘We are going to be all right’In that acclaimed 1993 film, directed by the late Jonathan Demme, Hanks played a gay corporate lawyer who successfully sues his former law firm for firing him for being HIV-positive. Hanks won his first Oscar for the role in 1994.But in the Times interview, the beloved actor, who stars in Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic Elvis, agrees with journalist David Marchese’s suggestion that there’s no way a straight actor would be cast as the lead in Philadelphia today.“‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’ No, and rightly so,” Hanks says.He goes on to suggest that the film’s success was due, in part, to his participation, which may have put viewers at ease.“The whole point of Philadelphia was don’t be afraid,” he explains.

Joe Biden launched his own plan to protect the health care of transgender youth after Republican Governor Ron DeSantis moved to end gender-affirming care for minors in Florida.On Wednesday, Biden will sign an executive order calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to clarify that federally funded programs are banned from offering conversion therapy and to take "steps to address the barriers and exclusionary policies" by expanding access to different types of health care and treatment.Conversion therapy, a practice seeking to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, is already banned in at least 20 states and Washington, D.C., according to the think tank Movement Advancement Project.Biden's move comes less than two weeks after DeSantis' administration asked the state board regulating doctors to ban Medicaid coverage for minors seeking transition-related care, which includes puberty blockers, hormone therapies or gender-reassignment surgery.DeSantis is among a string of Republican state officials who have restricted access to health care for transgender youth in recent months.Texas Governor Greg Abbott also stirred controversy in February for ordering the state department of family and protective services to investigate parents who provide their children with gender-affirming care. Across the U.S., over 300 anti-LGBTQ laws have been introduced in state legislatures this year, according to the White House.Back in March, the Justice Department had warned states that blocking access to gender-affirming care could violate federal law."President Biden always stands up to bullies.

President Joe Biden will host an LGBTQ Pride Month celebration in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, focusing on LGBTQIA children and families, and will sign a “historic” executive order to protect them and the LGBTQIA community.

WJZ reports.There were two separate incidents, Baltimore Fire Department officials said. One started when a Pride flag at one home was set on fire, and then someone set fire to a house down the street that was decorated for Pride.At the latter house, three people were injured and taken to a hospital.

President Joe Biden, in recognition of Pride Month during a reception with LGBTQ leaders and advocates at the White House, on June 15 signed a wide-ranging executive order advancing his administration's goals for LGBTQ policy, which includes new prohibitions on widely discredited conversion therapy and resources for parents and children in states enacting laws against transgender youth.The executive order is the latest measure from the Biden administration building on its reputation for steadfast support for transgender and nonbinary youth, who are the targets of more than 300 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation in state legislatures and new state laws. Many of these measures ban transgender girls from sports consistent with their gender identity or penalize medical providers and parents for providing transition-related care for youth.Key components of Biden's order direct U.S.