Student Who Led 'Don't Say Gay' Protest Can't Run for Class President

Fortunately, there is no shortage of movies featuring tear-inducing moments between fathers and their kids. So before the big day, watch any of these 16 movies and you will be guaranteed to appreciate your old man and give him the love that he deserves on his big day.Spoilers below. Click is secretly the saddest father-son film ever made thanks to one heartbreaking scene where Michael (Adam Sandler) uses his magical, reality-warping remote control to visit the final time he saw his father Ted (Henry Winkler) before he died.

San Francisco health officials have now identified three confirmed and three probable cases of monkeypox, the SF Department of Public Health announced Wednesday, June 15. Alameda County reported its first case on June 9.While the San Francisco health department is not providing details about the cases, citing patient confidentiality, Dr.

Funny Girl.A week after Beanie Feldstein announced on Instagram that she had tested positive for COVID and would be missing more performances, the highly-anticipated musical revival failed to win a single Tony Award. The plot thickened on June 15, when the show’s Twitter account enthusiastically announced her return — but only through September 25. Co-star Jane Lynch, who plays Feldstein’s mother, will depart the production on the same day.Beanie returns tomorrow! 14 weeks left to see Beanie Feldstein & Jane Lynch now through September 25th.

There are 140 million poor and working-class people in the United States – with 22% of LGBTQ people living in poverty. As an organization that fights for LGBTQ people and families, economic justice is a vital aspect of our movement. It is because of that that we are answering the call from the National LGBTQ Anti-Poverty Action Network for the LGBTQ community to show up for the Poor People’s Campaign’s Moral March on June 18th.  As we take to Washington, joining side by side with those affected by the inequalities present in this nation, we’re reminded that despite the progress made in our

Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing days before an LGBTQ pride parade.Street artist Andrea Villa hung a large poster of Putin and Zelensky kissing each other by the side of a city street in Turin on Wednesday, three days before the Turin Pride Parade on June 18. The artist previously hung an image that depicted Putin as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in protest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began February 24.The new poster shows Putin and Zelensky, both dressed in suits and backed by their respective national flags, locking lips while embracing one another, with Putin's arms shown perched on Zelensky's shoulders.

In a new profile for GQ, Jerrod Carmichael addressed the nature of “cancel culture,” Dave Chappelle, and the fallout with his family after coming out in his intimate comedy special, Rothaniel, which premiered on HBO earlier this year.During his frank conversation with the magazine, the typically private comedian reflected on the encouraging response from his niece and why he has faith in the younger generation, which led to him opening up about his thoughts on the way certain big-name comedians use the idea of cancel culture as a “boogeyman” scare tactic: “I love this generation. I actually f*ck with them, and f*ck all those comedians that are going so hard against them.”Though he didn’t initially mention Chappelle by name, it was pretty clear who Carmichael was referencing.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Pride flags on its campus.Bishop Robert J. McManus of the Diocese of Worcester announced on Thursday that the Nativity School of Worcester is "prohibited" from branding itself as Catholic moving forward.This comes at a time when the majority of American Catholics support gay marriage, a percentage that has continuously increased since 2006, according to Gallup, and Catholics across the nation are speaking out about the relationship between the BLM movement and the church, according to Catholic News."As Diocesan Bishop, it is my sacred duty and inherent responsibility to determine when a school claiming to be 'Catholic' is acting in such a way that is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church and disregards my legitimate authority as the guardian and overseer of Catholic education in the Diocese of Worcester," Bishop McManus said in the statement on the Diocese of Worcester website."Despite my insistence that the school administration remove these flags because of the confusion and the properly theological scandal that they do and can promote, they refuse to do so.

The Daily Beast, Wilson’s tweet may have resulted from a recent U.K. public health service guide that encouraged more inclusive language for trans parents, specifically in regards to midwifery.Wilson is not the only celebrity to have recently apologized for insensitivity around language.Earlier this week singer and songwriter Lizzo apologized for an offensive lyric in her new song “GRRRLs” after fans pointed out she used an ableist slur.

press release says. As of this week, Chicago health authorities have identified seven confirmed cases of monkeypox.While cases have been reported among gay and bisexual men, the disease is not limited to that population, nor are queer men more prone to monkeypox than other people. “It’s dangerous to pin a virus and how it is transmitted on an identity because it can affect knowledge, treatment, and research associated with how the virus is spreading,” Dr.

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who came out earlier this year in his much-praised HBO special Rothaniel, had some words for fellow stand-up Dave Chappelle about the latter’s stances on gender, trans rights and cancel culture.

Related: “Comically evil” Marjorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert voted against bone marrow transplantsPeople in the replies had fun turning her tweet’s format back at her.Dear Lauren Boebert, you will never be smart enough to be clever— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 15, 2022Dear Lauren, you will never be honorable enough to be a decent human being.— Mrs.

The third installment of the House select committee’s hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is underway, and viewers are being presented with evidence of former President Donald Trump pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 election.As anyone could have predicted, Trump is less than thrilled with the national spotlight focused on his attempted coup.Hours before the hearing kicked off, Trump took to his Truth Social account to vent his frustration, railing against the news networks for failing to give him equal screen time to present his evidence of “massive Voter Fraud & Dem Security Breach!”Related: Ginni Thomas may need a “great f***ing criminal lawyer” after latest revelation“The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!),” he wrote.

Music icon Beyoncé has revealed the release date for her highly anticipated seventh studio album.

Representation matters. Although the world of reality dating shows focuses overwhelmingly on heterosexual couples, there are some series that have challenged that norm.

“Teen Vogue” Firsts interview, “Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams revealed that she thought her character Arya Stark was queer.Williams expressed this opinion while describing the first time her character surprised her.“The first time that I was surprised by Arya I guess was probably in the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry,” she said. “I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So… yeah.

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ChargesHakim, a physical education teacher at the Saltonstall School in Salem from 2015 until he was separated from employment in 2018, was arrested for 32 counts of Aggravated Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child Under 14 on ten victims, all students at the Saltonstall School at that time and all girls.Timeline2015: Hakim is employed by the Salem Public Schools.2018: Instances of improper conduct are brought to the attention of the Salem Public School district, which reports them, as required by law, to the state Department of Children and Families (DCF), the Salem Police Department, and the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Hakim is immediately removed from the school and suspended pending the outcome of the investigation; he never returns to Salem Public School and his employment ends as he is separated from service at the end of the school year.

Philadelphia today.Hanks earned a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Andrew Beckett, a gay attorney who was battling workplace discrimination after being diagnosed with AIDS.In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine published today (June 16), Hanks said it was “rightly so” that this was the case now, as Hollywood looks for more diversity in its casting.“Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now? No, and rightly so,” Hanks told the publication.“The whole point of Philadelphia was don’t be afraid. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay man.” Hanks added: “We’re beyond that now.”“I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy,” he went on.“It’s not a crime, it’s not boohoo, that someone would say we are going to demand more of a movie in the modern realm of authenticity.

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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Frameline International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the Bay Area’s annual celebration that proudly claims the title of the “world’s largest queer film fest.” Organized by the San Francisco-based queer media arts foundation Frameline, the event returns this June 16-26, showcasing more than 125 films from over 30 countries in some of the city’s best venues—including the historic Castro Theatre, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this summer.As always, the festival lineup is an embarrassment of riches, a jaw-dropping collection of world premieres, centerpiece screenings, shorts programs, and so much more. There’s even some television this year, with a presentation of the new Queer As Folk reboot, and and opening night gala showing of the upcoming A League Of Their Own series featuring a Q&A with some surprise guests.Under the theme “The Coast Is Queer,” the 46th edition of the festival welcomes film lovers from all over to the Bay Area, but will also offer up national streaming encores for many of its titles so that you can catch the best and the queerest of international cinema no matter where you are.With that in mind, Queerty has assembled a preview of Frameline46, highlighting some of the most exciting films to screen at this year’s fest that you won’t want to miss.

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Billy Eichner might just have himself a bromance.

Billy Eichner‘s gay rom-com Bros via a sexy, uncensored “Red Band” teaser, we’ve now got a full theatrical trailer that promises “it looks way bigger in theaters.”This new preview welcomes us into the world of Bros, a world that looks a lot like our own—except for the fact that all of the principal characters are played by LGBTQ actors.While we’ve known the film, touted as the “first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men,” would concern itself with the bumpy courtship of podcaster Bobby (Eichner) and the hunky Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), this new look provides a clearer idea of the specifics, including their nightclub meet-cute where they bond over gay gays being “so stupid.” But is that enough for these two to find love, or will their insecurities and use of GIFs from The Office get in the way?It also appears that the opening of a new LGBTQ+ museum will play a big role, a task that unites a board of quibbling queers like Glee‘s Dot-Marie Jones, Community‘s Jim Rash, and internet sensation, activist, and diva of our hearts, Ts Madison. To paraphrase the icon: Bros really stepped its p*ssy up with this one.The whole thing promises to be a gay fantasia like we’ve never seen on the big screen, boasting shirtless dudes, witty pop culture references (“It’s like they injected steroids into Dumbledore!”), and a gag-worthy cast that also includes SNL‘s Bowen Yang, comedian Guy Branum, the stunning Miss Lawrence, Scandal’s Guillermo Díaz, Dispatches From Elsewhere‘s Eve Lindley, Chicago Fire‘s Monica Raymund, and theater legend Harvey Fierstein.

Wake up everybody, new Herschel Walker kids just dropped!The Georgia GOP senatorial candidate has had a wild week, but the end doesn’t seem to be in sight.

Love Island villa. After seeing it, she issued a stark warning to others and told them: “I swear on my little brother’s life that I saw it.

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.

distinct tonal difference between how and how he speaks now, after imitating the King's idiosyncratic baritone every day for so long. Butler responded to these claims in a Yahoo! Australia interview on June 8, acknowledging that, yeah, sometimes he gets stuck doing the Elvis voice by accident. “Certain situations trigger it, I think,” he said with a smile, like being surrounded by Elvis's name at all times.

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.

Mo'Nique and Netflix have settled their years-long legal battle. In court documents obtained by ET, on Tuesday Mo'Nique Hicks and Netflix agreed to dismiss the lawsuit she brought against them on Tuesday, «including without limitation all claims alleged therein, with prejudice, with each party to bear her or its own costs, expenses, and attorneys' fees.» No further details of the settlement were disclosed.In 2017, Netflix and Mo'Nique began discussions for the comedian to film a comedy special to air on the streamer.

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.

Related: Don’t shun Pride parades because of monkeypox, says WHOThe Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPB) said in a statement: “Some of the current cases involve individuals who recently traveled to Europe. One Chicago resident reported attending the International Mr. Leather (IML) conference in Chicago from May 26-30.

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Daily Echo he and Trussler were holding hands and cuddling against the cold when a group of young men approached from across the street yelling homophobic slurs."Three guys crossed the road, saw us cuddling because it was cold and they went in on us,” Miedzwiecki told the outlet. "They started calling us queers, and all that stuff.”Miedzwiecki began recording the encounter with his phone and shouted “how dare you” at the group.

A 17-year-old gay Florida high school student who was suspended after organizing a highly-successful statewide protest against Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” law now says school officials are blocking him from running for class president.

statement released Wednesday.The department said they are working closely with the CDC and other relevant partners to conduct contact tracing and prevent the further spread of the virus.While this is the first confirmed case this year in the U.S., outbreaks have occurred across Europe. The U.K.

for leading a protest against the state’s new "don’t say gay" law at his high school now says the school is preventing him from running for class president.Jack Petocz, 17, said school authorities at Flagler Palm Coast High School are saying the disciplinary actions he received for leading those protests now preclude him from running for any student body office.“My name is Jack Petocz, and I am a 17-year-old gay student activist in Flagler County,” Petocz posted to social media, detailing his efforts organizing over 500 students in the protests. These efforts included the personal purchase of over 300 Pride flags, which he distributed despite school officials classifying than as a “political statement.”Petocz, a political strategist associate with Gen-Z for Change, characterized the protests as a success, but school officials viewed things differently.

said in a statement on Twitter that Flagler Palm Coast High School issued a disciplinary action against him which he said would prevent him "from running for senior class president."He said that the decision followed his school suspension that came after organizing a mass protest against the state's Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed as the "Don't Say Gay" law that was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in late March. The legislation bans teachers in Florida from discussing topics related to sexual identity and sexual orientation in certain grade levels.My name is Jack Petocz.

Monkeypox virus, bringing to seven the total number of patients infected with the dangerous virus. According to a report in the Independent, the most recent cases of the zoonotic disease which can be fatal in up to 10 percent of its victims, were among gay, bisexual, or men who have sex with men, and who appeared to have contracted the disease in London. Monkeypox virus is endemic to central and western Africa, and U.K.

Truro Crown Court in Cornwall last week, Cornwall Live reports.Prosecutor Heather Hope told the court the two were neighbors and Hambley befriended the lonely young teen after he had offered to help with her yard work. Their friendship grew close, and Hambley began plying the young lad with alcohol and tobacco to lessen his inhibitions before forcing sex on him.“I wish I had you in my bedroom,” she eventually told the boy, Hope said.She told the court how things changed a short while later.“He confided in her that he was gay and she walked him into the bedroom and said she was going to prove he was straight before snogging him on the bed,” Hope revealed, adding the sexual abuse continued over the next several weeks.

existential threat to both the sovereignty of Ukraine and the rights of LGBTQ+ people.In his Feb. 24 speech, President Vladimir Putin used LGBTQ+ rights as a justification for his military operation, arguing that the West sought to destroy Russian “traditional values” with their “false values.”For some LGBTQ+ Ukrainians, the war is a call to arms — both in support of their homeland and in support of their rights.

Karine Jean-Pierre proudly announced, “I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts. I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position.

The Courier Journal the parent said her son was “upset” with the assignment.“Her kid is in the class that was given the assignment, and he and her are both uncomfortable with it," Davis told the paper. “She doesn’t know how to handle it.”Students were asked to write an imaginary letter to a “same gender” questioning or gay friend from their church they have known since kindergarten.“The aim of your letter should be to lovingly and compassionately speak truth to the person you’re talking to in a way that does not approve of any sin,” the assignment read.

Dr. Anthony Scarsella, chief of research at the Pacific Oaks Medical Group (POMG) where he helped pioneer health care for gay men and people living with HIV, has died. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, Scarsella, 77, passed away from injuries suffered in an accident Friday, May 6, at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood.