SBA names LGBTQ businessman Young Entrepreneur of the Year

And Just Like That creator revealed that Samantha Jones will be included in the show’s second season.

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Ambitious, inspiring, and defiantly gay, the latest iteration of Queer As Folk—now available to stream on Peacock—finally lives up to its title.With all due respect to Russell T. Davies’ groundbreaking, turn-of-the-millennium TV drama and its American counterpart of the same name, this reboot, of sorts, depicts a queerness more in line with our modern understanding of the word.

Singer/songwriter Nicole Serrano, whose songs have been featured on hit shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Selling Sunset, is opening up about her sexuality after years of struggling in the closet!

Thailand is set to become the first Southeast Asian country to legalise same-sex civil partnerships.

refused to wear rainbow-decorated uniforms for the baseball team’s Pride Night on Saturday, openly gay professional baseball player Bryan Ruby called them out for their foul behavior.“Discrimination and hate has a voice in baseball,” Ruby said, “and you saw it in Tampa.”Ruby, who plays baseball for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, came out as gay in 2021, making him the only out baseball player who is currently on a professional team. (The Volcanoes, although professional, are not currently affiliated with any major or minor league baseball organization.

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Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Pride Media.I was 10 years old in 1974 when the Watergate hearings took place. I can still remember them since they were broadcast live, and most of America tuned in.

Roy Trakin May Fung Lee Pang will be 72 in October, but was barely out of her teens when she boldly entered Apple’s New York offices, lied about being able to type, and secured a job at the Beatles’ multimedia company. She would soon become famous for a much more intimate tie to the group than that, as her very public 18-month affair with John Lennon in the mid-’70s is still a subject of great fascination to his fans, 50 years later.“Music was my passion,” explains the Spanish Harlem-born author and subject of the upcoming documentary, “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story,” premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival for a sold-out show on June 10.

Basketball star Dwyane Wade discussed the fears he experiences when his trans daughter Zaya Wade leaves the house.

Undeniable banger – "Lucid"Best lyric – "Come be my stranger in the dark."Pansexual pop vanguard Rina is one artist who should definitely be on your radar! The Japanese British singer an outspoken member of the LGBTQ community who loves to express this in her music, which is pretty sensational, I must say. She also counts Kehlani as an inspiration when it comes to singing about men and women!See also – "Cherry", "This Hell", "Cyber Stockholm Syndrome".Undeniable banger – "Honey"Best lyric – "Colored out the lines I came to find my fire was fate with you."Kehlani is somewhat of a pioneer when it comes to using same sex pronouns in love songs.

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Fire Island, the buzz is ramping up for Billy Eichner‘s Bros, which is set to debut in theaters on September 30. In an exclusive interview with Empire Magazine, the Billy On The Street star shed some light on his film’s gag-worthy cast, a proper “Who’s Who?” of queer talent.

ABOVE: Oscar Isaac is having a rummage sale — for a good cause!

new data from a survey of 15,000 LGBTQ+ people around the world by Gay Times reveals that 60 percent of the community is itching to get out of their hometowns and seek new, inclusive experiences.“Tens of thousands of nights have been already booked for Pride weekends across multiple continents, and the USA is home to 13 of the top 50 global prides this year,” says North America Airbnb communications manager, Haven Thorn. “This includes a number of trending destinations for LGBTQ+ travel, from large cities like NYC to smaller towns like Provincetown or Wilton Manors, all due to the spectacular return of Pride.”2022 also marks 53 years since the Stonewall Riots, widely believe to be the catalyst of the modern Gay Rights Movement.

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Fire Island finally hit Hulu last week after much anticipation.Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the film follows a group of gay friends who gather for what could be their last annual week of love and laughter together on the titular isle. Fire Island features the likes of queer actors Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, and Margaret Cho, and is being hailed for centering queer Asian individuals.In the featurette below, some of the cast and director Andrew Ahn chat about the film's location and what Fire Island means to the queer community. "There was a time when gay men weren't allowed to dance together.

The Ruins, a Jena Malone-led body horror film in which a group of young people finds themselves trapped among bloodthirsty and body colonizing carnivorous plants. While his latest genre outing, Swallowed, which premiered at the Overlook Film Festival this month, may have left the killer foliage behind, the squirm-inducing body horror and bodily penetration remain — as does Malone, albeit in a more villainous role this time around.The film focuses on two friends, Benjamin (Cooper Koch) and Dom (Jose Colon), on the last night before the former is set to leave their backwoods Maine town for the bright lights of Los Angeles and a career in gay porn.

Eric Dane, the artist formerly known as “McSteamy” on Grey’s Anatomy, recently gave The Hollywood Reporter a very thoughtful statement on his experience playing a closeted queer character on HBO’s Euphoria and how he hopes it contributed to the LGBTQ+ community. Unfortunately for him, his character is not one that the community is looking to claim.

Elizabeth Purchell isn’t afraid of “Transexual Menace,” even though she is a transgender woman and the film sounds like the kind of hateful propaganda you’d find for sale at a convention of conspiracy nuts. But “Transexual Menace” is a cornerstone of documentary filmmaking about transgender people — a 1996 time capsule made by the maverick and prolific queer German director Rosa von Praunheim. And Purchell, 32, is a historian of queer film who has a soft spot for movies that provoke, arouse, tickle and otherwise stir the queer cinema pot.

Related: DeSantis Press Sec defends calling “Don’t Say Gay” bill opponents pedophiles: “A hit dog hollers”LGBTQ Nation‘s John Russell emailed Pushaw to ask what DeSantis was referring to, and she responded with a picture of a cisgender woman.But instead of leaving it there, Pushaw decided to take her false statements to Twitter.“Unfortunately for churnalists, people have eyes,” Pushaw wrote condescendingly with the picture of the burlesque performer.Unfortunately for churnalists, people have eyes.

The Kalita Humphreys Theater is both in Uptown Players and Dallas Theater Center news this week. (Rich Lopez/DV)

Harry Styles continues to add impressive credits to his acting career. In what could be his most dramatic role yet, Styles stars in “My Policeman,” a historical romance that trails a closeted gay policeman in the 1950’s and a complicated love triangle.Lizzo defends Harry Styles following Liam Payne’s controversial commentsWhy Harry Styles was not chosen to portray Elvis Presley in upcoming biopic: ‘He was desperate’Based on the successful novel by Bethan Roberts, the film follows three characters across two timelines, one set in the ‘50s and another set in the ‘90s. As a young man, Tom (Syles) is a policeman in Brighton, who marries a school teacher even though he’s gay.

Chris Evans had Twitter turning the fan on high last night after walking the Lightyear red carpet looking like a gourmet snack. An hors d’oeuvre, even.Evans voices the titular Buzz Lightyear, and it seems he arrived on the carpet last night ready to advertise.

Pride month means standing up and being an ally for marginalized groups and Dwyane Wade is doing just that for his 15-year-old transgender daughter, Zaya — and we’re breaking it all down on Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast.

After a small role in Christopher Nolan‘s “Dunkirk‘ and a mid-credits cameo in Chloé Zhao‘s “Eternals,” Harry Styles‘ film career begins in earnest this October when he stars in Olivia Wilde‘s “Don’t Worry Darling.” But Styles leads another film out this Fall: “My Policeman,” a romantic drama about closeted gay romance in the 1950s UK.

Pictured: Adam and Amber Briggle with their son MaxAnother lawsuit has been filed in hopes of stopping the investigations of transgender-supportive families in Texas.Adam and Amber Briggle, parents of a trans son, two other families identified by pseudonyms, and PFLAG filed the suit Wednesday in the District Court of Travis County, Texas. The pseudonymous families include one in which a trans teen attempted suicide as a result of Gov.

Ahead of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released its 2021 annual report on human rights in the Americas, examining ongoing challenges and progress.The interactive report was released June 1 before leaders came together for the ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, June 6-10. The summit's theme was "Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future." President Joe Biden addressed the summit June 8.

Kim Cattrall is set to star in the first non-binary love scene of her career in the Queer As Folk reboot, meaning the person she has sex with does not identify as either male or female.The Sex And The City actress, 65, is best known for playing Samantha in the series, but now she’s taken on the role of Brenda in the revival of Russell T Davies’ iconic 90s show.Queer As Folk follows the lives of three gay friends living in Manchester and Brenda is one of their mothers.Discussing her character’s storyline, director Stephen Dunn said it will ‘take a fun turn’ as her friendship with other queer characters ‘become sexual.’Speaking to Attitude about Kim’s character, Stephen began: ‘I wrote the role only dreaming of being able to cast her. She’s an incredible improvisor.‘She added the line at the end of her scene in episode seven, “Can I say bottoms?”, in response to her learning what is ok and not in this new queer friendship that she’s establishing.’He continued: ‘It becomes sexual, but it didn’t start that way.

A post shared by Rebel Wilson (@rebelwilson)Rebel Wilson, actor and comedic scene stealer, has come out today, via Instagram. It’s “grid” post official, y’all!Though she doesn’t use any specific labels, Wilson’s post makes it pretty clear she’s part of the LGBTQ community, stating: ‘I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess.

Rebel Wilson has come out as gay and has announced that she has found her "Disney Princess" in new partner Ramona Agruma.

San Francisco supervisors unanimously adopted legislation that will offer all people experiencing homelessness in the city a safe place to sleep.A Place for All, the ordinance by gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, was two years in the making. At the supervisors June 7 meeting, board members did make some changes before voting 11-0 for the ordinance.The original proposal, introduced back in 2020, failed to make it out of the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee, which instead supported safe sleeping sites, or sanctioned outdoor camping spaces.

LGBTQ protesters will meet outside the gate of the Arboretum on Saturday, July 11 from 10 a.m.-noon, according to organizer Steve Atkinson.

The Advocate.Since then she’s created music with some of Christian music’s biggest names, like Chris Tomlin and Matt Maher. Serrano’s music has also been featured on The Kardashians, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Good Doctor.Now she’s come out as a lesbian and as nonbinary, using she/they pronouns.The church she grew up in wasn’t affirming of queer people. Instead, it taught that they went to hell.

Netflix is celebrating Pride Month, revealing its greenlit “Stand Out: The Documentary.”The documentary film will examine the history of LGBTQ+ stand-up comedy. While exact details of who will be featured in the doc were not available, Netflix did note that many of the comedians in “Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration” are in both projects.The feature-length documentary will include original performances, interviews, archival materials and backstage vérité-style footage.

Pitch Perfect star stunned fans Thursday morning when she came out to the world by going public with her girlfriend, Ramona Agruma.“I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess,” she wrote, hashtagging the photo #loveislove and throwing in a rainbow and hearts for good measure. Wilson had previously told PEOPLE that she was in a relationship after meeting someone through a set-up by a friend, but didn’t say who her new romantic interest was or hint that it was a woman.“I think going through the process of finding more self-worth, I think that what you want in a partner is elevated and so it’s great to have someone who feels like an equal partner and be in a healthy relationship,” she said at the time.Agruma’s Instagram, which is private, lists her as the founder of Lemon Ve Limon, a Los Angeles-based clothing brand.

My Policeman, is here and let’s just say we are ready to be cuffed and arrested, Officer Harry!Amazon dropped two stills from the highly anticipated adaptation featuring Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson earlier this morning, giving fans just the tiniest sliver of something to hold on to while they eagerly await the movie’s fall release.One picture shows Styles and Corrin grinning at one another in a pool, while the other offers a little more of a hint at the tension at the core of the story — all three of the film’s leads stand in an art exhibit, the two men presumably studying a museum piece as Corrin’s character, Marion, seems to suspiciously eye Dawson as he explains the work. My Policeman is based on a 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts, set in 1950s Brighton.

It’s bad enough that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s New York City and San Francisco Twitter accounts wished everyone a “Happy Pride Month” this week, but the even more tone deaf decision to use the Progress Pride flag, which incorporates the trans Pride colors into the rainbow spectrum, sent the internet into a tailspin.The play’s author, JK Rowling, has firmly established that she is no friend to the trans community, regularly attacking their rights. Her repeated attacks have caused many LGBTQ Harry Potter fans to turn their backs on the franchise altogether.Several commenters rose to the occasion with inspired responses, such as these ideas for Harry’s next big adventure:Harry Potter and the Audacity of This Shit.— King Kitt, Sunshine Goblin (@IndustrialPet) June 7, 2022Harry potter and the Lack of Situational Awareness https://t.co/WidBOEFPKD— ?????ZR1NZ03????? (@Z_R1Nzoe) June 8, 2022Actor Anthony Rapp put all jokes aside, however, when he responded: “This tweet is the epitome of cowardice masquerading as allyship.

In a post today on her Instagram, funny lady and actor Rebel Wilson seems to have come out posting a photo of her with brand ambassador Ramona Agruma. Her caption reads “I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince…but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess.”

Focusing on what’s important. Dwyane Wade opened up about why his 14-year-old daughter Zaya’s plans for Pride may look a little different this year.

This novel hooked me from the very first line. Bonnie Lincoln has just won the lottery. Choosing to live with her winnings while flying under the radar, she decides to do something drastic: move to an isolated mountain town to re-create the apartment seen in the hit show Three’s Company, including how the set changes over the seasons.

Benjamin DeanPerfect for 9+ readersBea’s family are happy. Like, really happy.

The singer–songwriter Nicole Serrano revealed her truth and came out as gay on Thursday in an interview with People.Serrano, who has worked with major names in Christian music as a songwriter, in addition to performing her own music, delved into when she first thought that she was a lesbian as a child, and how her conservative church tried to make her 'pray the gay away.''I felt tormented. I wanted so bad to be a good kid, you know?' she said of the ordeal.

Rebel Wilson looked over the moon on Thursday as she revealed her new girlfriend and officially came out as a lesbian.The 42-year-old Pitch Perfect star beamed ear-to-ear while introducing her 10.9 million followers to her girlfriendRamona Agruma on Instagram.In her caption, she joked that she had been searching for a 'Disney Prince' for years when a 'Disney Princess' was what she really needed. Introducing herself: Rebel Wilson, 42, looked over the moon on Thursday as she revealed her new girlfriend Ramona Agruma and officially came out as a lesbian on InstagramRebel, who has recently been flaunting her slimmed-down and toned-up figure after losing more than 75lbs, showed off her winning smile while posing next to her new girlfriend and resting her hand on Ramona's arm in the sweet Instagram snap.'I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince...

Gemma Collins told followers she feels “honoured” to have bagged a role on BBC’s Springwatch after finding nature to be her “real passion” in life.The 41 year old announced that she will be joining the show for a live special on Thursday, as she posted a clip of herself on the nature programme to the delight of fans.The footage shows an excited Gemma talking with hosts Chris Packham and Hannah Stitfall as they quiz her about various wildlife. Speaking about being on their show, Gemma captioned: "What an honour to be invited along to @bbcspringwatch my real passion in life is NATURE and to stand next to the legends Chris and Hannah and learn so much was incredible.

Democrats over their push to restrict guns for Americans under 21 years of age in comparison to what she said were their views on age and parental consent when it comes to gender transition procedures.While speaking during a House session on gun legislation Thursday, Michigan Representative Lisa McClain said that she needs her Second Amendment rights to protect her children because of "soft on crime" policies in the U.S. Seemingly referencing House-passed legislation that would raise the age requirement for purchasing semiautomatic firearms from 18 to 21, she said that Democrats are "making the claim" that those who can't purchase cigarettes or alcohol also "shouldn't be able to buy an AR-15.""But let's talk about a couple of things that the Democrats feel you are mature enough to do under the age of 18, because once again, their standards clearly aren't consistent," McClain said.

Seeing as a man who admitted to killing his wife with flower pot won his GOP primary from a prison cell in Indiana last month, it seems getting arrested isn’t quite the political career killer it once was.That must be comforting to Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley, who was arrested on Thursday morning as the FBI raided his home.Kelley, who blew his “groomer” hysteria dog whistle especially hard when he vowed to charge Michigan school boards with felonies if they failed to remove ‘sexually explicit content’ from classrooms, was arrested “on misdemeanor charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach,” and is to appear in federal court in Grand Rapids Thursday, according to the U.S.

This story is part of INTO’s seven-part series, in which we’ve asked queer voices to respond to the surge in gun crime and the sixth anniversary of the Pulse shooting. We hope these varied perspectives encourage dialogue and change to end the needless violence plaguing our country.When the British drama “Happy Valley” hit streaming in 2015, I, along with millions of others, could not get enough.