Stage Notes: ‘Waitress’ and ‘Enchanted April’ reviews; DSO to open parks concert series

Love Island bosses branded LGBTQ+ people a ‘logistical difficulty’, suggesting a series with queer couples would not be possible. Sadly, watching the contestants this year isn’t giving me much hope that overall attitudes towards lesbian relationships are changing,either. From what I’ve seen so far, it seems that the boys in the villa in this series are also incapable of wrapping their heads around female-female relationships.During the first episode on Monday, when the islanders were playing a game and getting to know each other, Amber was asked to deliver a chat-up line to the girl she fancied the most, before a visibly shocked Luca quickly told her she ‘can’t do that.’Of course, she could, and the realisation seemed to hit him like a tonne of bricks when it registered that she didn’t only have to be attracted to him.It didn’t stop there as, in the following episode, Paige revealed that she had kissed 10 girls in one night – good for her!However, once alone, the boys couldn’t wait to gossip in disbelief that, not only might she have had more action than them on a night out, but that it wasn’t with a man.The most soul-shattering comment though, came when Luca said Paige should ‘send the pictures’.Women-loving-women are not your porn – women can kiss and fancy other women without seeking gratification from straight menI would like to say two things to this year’s boys. Firstly, bisexuality exists and you don’t need to be involved somehow.

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two years away, ‘hibernating’, as he puts it (hence the whole bear and Jesus thing), the 30-year-old delighted fans by promising to make YouTube his home once more in his new comeback video – plus he’s going on a world tour, with his show We’re All Doomed. So how did we get here?In 2020, after a year away, Daniel returned to YouTube with what is now one of his most famous videos, Basically I’m Gay.

A new lawsuit from three Texas families has been filed in an effort to halt child abuse investigations into parents of trans youth.

#foryourpride #soho #gaysoho #pridemonth #londonpride #london #gentrification #prideinlondon #blackpride #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #queerlondon #gaylondon #sociology‘When you’re a developer whose only goal is to maximise profit, it is more financially advantageous to cater to a wider demographic beyond the LGBT+ community,’ explains Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor Joris Lechêne on TikTok.When you break that down to more granular groups within the LGBT+ community, that potential for profit becomes even smaller. But it would be remiss to look at this issue purely in terms of business and money.‘These spaces are so important as the queer community deserve a space where they are safe to be completely and unapologetically themselves, without threat to their safety,’ says Tina.

Stonewall Riots which took place at the end of June 1969, while also celebrating and recognising LGBTQ+ people and the impact they have had on society.This year is extra special, as the UK marks 50 years of Pride.And what better way to celebrate than watching some of the best queer-related films?With so many movies out there, it can be hard to know which ones are worth streaming.So, Metro.co.uk has rounded up the best LGBTQ+ movies to watch this June – and how to stream them.Described as a ‘sensual and transcendent tale of first love’, this coming-of-age story set it in 1980s Italy was released in 2018 to much acclaim. It stars the much-loved Timothée Chalamet as Elio, a teenager who ends up falling for 24-year-old graduate Oliver, played by Armie Hammer.Where to watch: NetflixDesperate to pursue his dream of becoming a famous drag queen, teenager Jamie has to overcome many obstacles.

A new lawsuit from three Texas families has been filed in an effort to halt child abuse investigations into parents of trans youth.

Happy Pride month y’all! This is such a fun and exhausting time of the year. I am lucky enough to be double booked many days this month. Daytime shows plus nighttime shows equal great sleep, when I can get it. All this running around, gig to gig, keeps me young — although some days I feel like a young 98. Did y’all watch the latest seas

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Summer’s here. And so is Summers — Mystique Summers, that is. Mystique hosts the Disney Drag Brunch on Sunday, June 12, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at Troy’s, inside Texas Live!, 1650 E. Randol Mill Road. In addition to Mystique, the event will feature DJ Al Farb, Candi Carroll, Shasta Montana, Kathy O’Connor and Eliza Rocks. General admission and VIP tickets are available through the event’s Facebook page The event is presented by the HELP Center for LGBT Health and Wellness and the Arlington Museum of Art, and a portion of the proceeds will go to those organizations. The brunch follows Arlington’s first-ever Pride show, happening Saturday, June 11, from noon-4 p.m. at the HELP Center, 602 E. South St., with drag shows at 1 and 3 p.m. Admission to the Pride party is free.

racism also impacts how they are perceived and treated by wider society. So, people from the LGBTQ+ community who do not have to also worry about racism, possess ‘white gay privilege’.

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.

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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.