The U.K Is Celebrating Pride With a Rainbow Progress 50p Coin

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.

ABOVE: Hey, Jor'!

A League of Their Own. She was a member of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League that the 1992 film and the new series are based on.At a panel discussion, Blair said she was happy to see players not having to hide their sexual orientation any longer and the acceptance found in the sport.“I think it’s a great opportunity for these young girl ball players to come [to] realize that they’re not alone, and you don’t have to hide,” Blair shared.

Ricky Martin (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”), Stephanie Beatriz (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Encanto”) are among those standing up for the Latinx LGBTQ+ community.

2ND UPDATE, 9:45 AM: Mo’Nique and Netflix have settled the lawsuit she filed against the streaming company in 2019 claiming racial and gender bias, Deadline has confirmed. Details of the deal weren’t disclosed. Read about the case below.

No big deal. Chris Evans wishes that the decision to include LGBTQ+ characters in his new film, Lightyear, didn’t cause so much controversy.

Cher and Versace, two icons in the gay world, are collaborating for Pride Month. This marks the first partnership between Cher and the brand, which is managed by her long time friend, Donatella Versace.Cher turns 76 today and she’s still our favorite fashion icon of all time!Pride Month: Queer fashion icons influencing history and pop cultureA post shared by Cher (@cher)The announcement was shared alongside some amazing photos, featuring Cher wearing the new collection, called “Chersace.” The limited edition collection features shirts, socks and baseball caps, with all proceeds being donated to Gender Spectrum, an LGBTQ children and youth charity.

The post Exclusive: Anastacia promises to always “fight” for LGBTQ+ people’s “right to be free” appeared first on GAY TIMES.

It looks like Lauren Boebert is about to go through some things.American Muckrakers PAC, the group responsible for posting that video of Madison Cawthorn humping his cousin’s face, just launched the website fireboebert.com and is looking for photos, videos, and other damning documents it can use to try and stop Boebert from winning reelection.Welcome to GOP political takedown strategy in the year 2022!The group already claims to have major dirt on the God-fearing, anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theorist, including allegations that she once worked as an unregistered paid escort and used a website called SugarDaddyMeet.com to find clients.“According to our investigation, Boebert was hired by a wealthy male client in Aspen, Colorado, who was a Koch family member. Boebert’s rich client subsequently introduced her to U.S.

temporarily blocked by a court. In Texas, there was not legislative action against such care, but Gov.

And if you want to learn more ASAP, here's a link to the Asexual Visibility & Education Network FAQ. Side note: Did you know that Jughead is asexual in the original comics? 

Within the colours and festivities of Pride come a variety of collections from different brands, full of rainbows, flags and messages ranging from empowering to absurdly cheesy. Browsing online, it can be hard to know when Pride collections mean a company will donate to help members of the community, and when it just means money […]

Marking Irish Aids Day and Pride Month, drag icon, entertainer and all-round legend Veda has teamed up with GHN/man2man and Rainbow Project to promote the U=U message and combat HIV stigma. Their collaboration will include videos which will premiere on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels, and social channels. U=U is a global campaign to spread awareness […]

To mark the start of Pride week, Outhouse will host a Pride Information and Awareness event this Saturday, June 18 from 12pm to 4pm followed by a series of exciting events throughout the week. The event will herald Dublin’s first in-person Pride in three years and will showcase some of the wonderful organisations supporting Ireland’s […]

When Louis, a 29-year-old gay man, realised he had caught something “nasty”, the doctor initially thought it was herpes. His symptoms started with a rash, followed by a high temperature and blisters on his face.

Love Island in 2018 and has since kept the country inspired and informed with her sex positive attitude. The 28-year-old has talked openly and confidently about her stripping days, her OnlyFans, and her sexuality, so it was only right that we sought her advice. So today, the bisexual reality star and podcast host is Metro.co.uk’s very own agony aunt, and she’s here to answer an LGBTQ+ sex-related question. Dear Megan, My girlfriend and I have been in a relationship now for about three months and we’re wanting to spice up our sex life. We’re really keen to try out sex toys and finding a strap-on that works for us. What is the best way to go about doing this? It’s so important to have communication with your partner.

A post shared by Justine Simone Lindsay (@jus_lindsay_)Talk about the “Pride of the Carolinas”! Justine Lindsay publicly came out as transgender in the same Instagram post in which she announced she had joined the Carolina Panthers’ TopCats cheerleading squad.With that achievement, the 29-year-old became the first openly trans NFL cheerleader, as BuzzFeed News reported this month.Lindsay told the site she was “so scared” to come out on Instagram, thinking that there’s “some things you can’t post.”But Lindsay uploaded the post anyway. “I just felt like when I posted it, whatever reaction I get from everyone, it does not matter,” she said.

Jack Harlow represents a new breed of rapper unafraid to break through the “tough guy” persona that dominated in the past. He’s even gone on record about Canadian rapper Drake being one of his biggest influences for breaking the mold and leaning into the less “conventional” side of his music. One way he’s demonstrated this out-of-the-box thinking as a rapper is by playing second to openly gay pop sensation Lil Nas X in his music video “Industry Baby”.

Pride of Britain Award nominations, almost a year ago, their lives have been, in their words, “bonkers”. First there was the shock of receiving trophies from Dan Walker at the Pride of Manchester awards which were hosted by Kym Marsh. Then Ant and Dec jumped out at them from a red phone box at the I’m a Celebrity Jungle Challenge in Manchester and surprised them with invitations to the Pride of Britain Awards in London.

Marjorie Taylor Greene making a transgender joke on A broadcast of MTG: Live has begun circulating on social media.The video, shared by the Twitter page Patriot Takes, showed the moment Greene joked about gender reassignment surgery with her intern Milo Yiannopoulos.The pair began joking about transgenderism after making reference to a Life Site report regarding a new bill in support of transgender people in California.Marjorie Taylor Greene and her intern, Milo, joked about people with the last name Wiener. MTG said some transgender people “want to get rid of the wieners” and do the “weenie chop thing.” pic.twitter.com/yyH3XmbKiX"California has advanced a bill to become a transgender sanctuary" Yiannopoulos said off-camera."It was introduced by Democrat Senator Scott Wiener.

A new generation of queer actors are stepping into the Hollywood scene, showcasing their talent and bringing their incredible performances to popular TV series and films.

Kari explores the aftermath of an attempted suicide by Kari, the protagonist, and her lover Ruth. This dark and gritty novel explores the themes of love and loneliness and is set against the backdrop of recession and the horrifying terrorist attacks of 2008.You can get the hardcover here.At the outset, Heartstopper may seem like your usual romance between Charlie, an openly gay but awkward British teenager, and his jock classmate, Nick.

Brittney Griner for an additional 18 days.The extension was ordered by the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region after investigators requested it, according to a report by Russian state news agency TASS and reported by The New York Times. Extensions are usually given in Russia leading up to a trial.Griner was arrested on February 17 at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow after authorities allegedly found vape cartridges containing residue of hashish oil in her luggage.“Today’s extension is just further reinforcement that Brittney Griner - an Olympian and an American citizen - is being used as a political pawn,” Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Coles, posted to social media. “Her detention is inhumane and unacceptable.”Griner is reportedly under investigation for the “large-scale transportation of drugs” and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

My Policeman starring Harry Styles as a queer man in mid-20th Century England has dropped.The film toggles between past and present, with Styles as the young Tom Burgess, a Brighton policeman discovering his identity at a time in England when queerness was criminalized and LGBTQ+ people were routinely jailed. The Crown star Emma Corrin is Tom’s wife Marion while David Dawson stars as Tom’s lover Patrick.

33-34 Parliament Street, Dublin- known now as Street 66 but remembered by many as the Front Lounge. Countless fans of the venue even still refuse to call it by its current name, keen to grip onto the memories too fond to erase. But how did a venue, which originally opened as a straight bar, come […]

Prime Video has shared the the first trailer for its new gay drama My Policeman, which stars former One Direction frontman Harry Styles.

De Gomarus Scholengemeenschap in Gorinchem wordt niet vervolgd vanwege dwang en discriminatie tegen homoseksuele leerlingen door medewerkers. Het Openbaar Ministerie in Rotterdam heeft dit besloten omdat de school zijn beleid heeft aangepast.

Lightyear.The animated film, about Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear, features a brief same-sex kiss between two female characters. The segment was reportedly removed by Pixars’s parent company, Disney, but later reinstated after the company faced backlash for not speaking up soon enough against Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.The movie will hit theaters worldwide this week, although it’s been barred in at least 14 countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudia Arabia, because of the same-sex kiss.Related: “As a gay man, I…”: Did extreme right-wing troll Ben Shapiro just come out on Twitter?On Monday, Shapiro tweeted, “Disney works to push a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’ and seeks to add ‘queerness’ to its programming, according to executive producer Latoya Raveneau.

A post shared by JOHNNY SIBILLY (@johnnysibilly)Though Johnny Sibilly has been acting for a while now, the last year has seen him achieve new heights of success, finally giving the Cuban and Dominican actor the spotlight he has long deserved.His most recent role in Peacock’s Queer As Folk reboot has him playing Noah, a lawyer and former meth addict who struggles to find connection after losing a loved one in a mass shooting.The role could’ve easily devolved into trauma-drama and self-pity, but Sibilly renders Noah as a flawed but earnest man one who retains his sense of humor and sex appeal, even in the face of grief.  A post shared by JOHNNY SIBILLY (@johnnysibilly)Sibilly grants similar humanity to Wilson in the HBO Max dramedy series Hacks, which entered its second season in May and received 15 Emmy nominations last July.Wilson is a gay water inspector who falls in love with Marcus, the workaholic personal assistant of an aging comedienne staging a comeback. When he encourages Marcus to break out of his shell and try activities like rock climbing, it’s not because he wants a fun boyfriend, it’s because he knows that the man he cares for has never really put himself first.Of course, it’s hardly surprising to see Sibilly portraying characters with such humanity.

Harry Styles‘ upcoming gay romance movie, My Policeman!But, before you get yourself too excited, know that the just-released trailer only features scant hints of the “gay romance” in question, and nary a glimpse of skin—unless you count that brief shot of Styles’ muscular back as he freestyle-strokes through the pool.Still, there’s quite a bit to be excited about packed into this gorgeous 40-second teaser.Directed by Michael Grandage and adapted from Bethan Roberts’ novel of the same name, My Policeman is described as a “sweeping romantic drama,” telling the story of a complicated, forbidden love triangle in 1950s Britain.Styles stars as Tom, a closeted policeman married to school teacher Marion (The Crown‘s Emma Corrin), whose relationship is complicated by dashing museum curator Patrick (Peaky Blinders‘ David Dawson).The narrative also flashes forward to the ’90s, with our central trio well into their adulthood—featuring Linus Roach as an older Tom, Gina McKee as Marion, and Rupert Everett as Patrick.

@Mariellaf1 on #TimesRadio her ex-husband Prince Andrew is a “good and kind man”. pic.twitter.com/YVcE504HVf— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) June 14, 2022Related: Sarah Ferguson signs a 22-book deal and no, that’s not a typoFerguson recently netted herself a 22-book deal with Australian publishers Serenity Press. She will co-author the books with established writers.

Related: Adam Lambert, Diana Ross and others perform at Platinum JubileeOn Instagram, Lambert posted a video of himself getting ready to go on stage at the O2. He’s singing the 2018 Brandi Carlile song, ‘The Joke’.  A post shared by ADAM LAMBERT (@adamlambert) In the accompanying caption, he says, “Getting ready backstage for one of ten sold-out nights at the 02 with @officialqueenmusic … the lyrics of this stunning song by @brandicarlile keep coming back to haunt me.“When I was an adolescent, I didn’t really have any friends at school.

Harry Styles‘ new LGBTQ+ drama My Policeman has been released – you can watch it below.Styles portrays the younger version of policeman Tom in the adaptation of Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel, which centres on a love triangle between a man, a woman and a policeman.Set in the 1990s, the drama begins when an elderly man arrives at Tom and his wife Marion’s (Emma Corrin) home, kickstarting an exploration of “seismic events from 40 years previous”.This teaser trailer focuses solely on those past events, in which Tom and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson) first discovered their feelings for each other at a time when same-sex relationships between men were illegal.An official synopsis for the film reads: “My Policeman follows three young people – policeman Tom, teacher Marion, and museum curator Patrick – as they embark on an emotional journey in 1950s Britain.“Flashing forward to the 1990s, Tom (Linus Roache), Marion (Gina McKee), and Patrick (Rupert Everett) are still reeling with longing and regret, but now they have one last chance to repair the damage of the past.“Based on the book by Bethan Roberts, director Michael Grandage carves a visually transporting, heart-stopping portrait of three people caught up in the shifting tides of history, liberty, and forgiveness.”The film is further described as “an important and timely cultural story, shedding light on recent history while also being relevant to today’s current cultural landscape, where we are as a society and where we’re headed”.Amazon Studios have developed the film, which is directed by by Michael Grandage, with Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner adapting Roberts’ book for the big screen.Earlier this week, first-look images of the film were released online.

Tom’s voiceover plays over a sun-soaked montage of his courtship with Marion: the handsome pair frolics at the beach, sits by a pool and takes a drive through the countryside with Patrick. But Tom’s emotional dilemma soon becomes apparent between shots of him and Patrick in a close embrace, him and Marion on their wedding day, and other glimpses of the trio in various scenes.“You feel they could crush you, or take you under,” the voiceover continues as the music intensifies.

Carson Burton Harry Styles plays a closeted policeman in the teaser trailer for the romantic drama “My Policeman.”Released by Amazon Studios on Wednesday, the teaser finds Styles and co-stars David Dawson and Emma Corrin entangled in a complicated love triangle. The story — an adaptation of Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel — follows Styles’ character Tom Burgess, a closeted policemen. Since it is illegal to be gay in 1957 Brighton, Burgess begins dating a schoolteacher named Marion (Corrin), but also has a secret love affair with a museum curator named Patrick Hazelwood (Dawson).The film jumps between two time periods: the 1950s and the 1990s.

London artist and activist Dominique Holmes, it is inscribed with the words protest, visibility, unity, and equality – Pride in London’s key values.The coin won’t enter general circulation, but will be available to buy in a range of metals this summer.It comes weeks before Pride month, a time dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities across the world.It is held in June as this was the month the Stonewall riots erupted in New York, triggering the rise of LGBTQ+ rights movement across the world.Asad Shaykh, director of marketing and communications at Pride in London, said it was ‘a privilege to visit The Royal Mint and see our coin being made’.‘It humbles me greatly that the words that I coined for the brand … will be on an actual coin, opposite the Queen’, he said.‘This queer brown immigrant has come a long way, powered by hope, love and this city.’Clare Maclennan, director of commemorative coin at The Royal Mint, named the 50th anniversary of Pride UK ‘a milestone celebration’.She said: ‘This is the first ever UK coin dedicated to Britain’s LGBTQ+ community, with colour printing technology capturing the spirit of Pride UK with its iconic rainbow colours.‘It was an honour to host representatives from Pride in London at The Royal Mint recently to strike their own coins as part of the launch and discuss with them our commitment to diversity and inclusion within the business and show how we are reinventing for the future.’Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our news page.Not convinced? Find out more »

Over the past year, insurance giant State Farm has posted ten tweets supporting LGBTQ people, programs, and organizations, as recently as last week:

reportedly beaten by his uncle and three other men because he wore a rainbow bandana on his backpack.The alleged attack, reported by the social activist group Arci Cosenza, took place May 17, in Calabria and left the youth with facial injuries, broken bones, and more. The uncle, who was reportedly tipped off by the youth’s dad, loaded the beaten teen into an awaiting car and threatened to take him to his death.The alleged beating took place not long after the youth decided to hang out with friends, Silvo Cilento, president of Arci Cosenza, posted to social media.Tipped off by the teen’s father, though, the youth’s paternal uncle took his car and tracked down the teen.

Disney has debuted a new “Pride Collection” of merch, marking the first time the company has openly marketed its rainbow-themed products towards the LGBTQ+ community.

ABOVE: If you follow Gr8erDays, you won't be in danger, girl, of missing Tony Goldwyn's birthday.

Stamford Advocate reports. In this instance, Kyu Tipjak and his husband, Michael Flora, owners of The Blue Orchid, caught the crime on a security camera.In the video, a group of young people approached the restaurant and began trying to jump up and take down the flag. After several minutes, one climbed up the front of the building to pull it down.

Stamford Advocate reports. In this instance, Kyu Tipjak and his husband, Michael Flora, owners of The Blue Orchid, caught the crime on a security camera.In the video, a group of young people approached the restaurant and began trying to jump up and take down the flag. After several minutes, one climbed up the front of the building to pull it down.

The Royal Mint has revealed a new rainbow-coloured 50p coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK Pride movement and said this will be the first time the LGBTQ+ community has been recognised on an official coin.

The Royal Mint has unveiled its new rainbow-coloured 50p coin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pride UK.

The Royal Mint has revealed a commemorative 50p coin which celebrates Pride’s 50th anniversary in the UK with a Progress flag design.

ABOVE: Karine's debut.

preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge Liles Burke in the case of Rev. Eknes-Tucker v.

Los Angeles Times reports.The candidate, Jordan Henry, “asked for emails on social justice learning standards and lessons, restorative justice and antibias education,” according to the Times. One email, between Tiber and a curriculum adviser, was posted on social media, leading to criticism of the teacher and contentious school board meetings.“Today I talked to my class about LGBTQ pride month and played 2 short videos from youtube that were geared toward kids,” Tiber wrote in the email last June, when she was teaching online via Zoom.