“The world is changing”: Billy Porter and Eva Reign on trans rom-com Anything’s Possible

Though Megan Thee Stallion’s Legendary tenure came to a close in season two, her propensity to serve it up lives on.The music video for her new track, “Her”, is a love letter to the girls. The black and white monochrome invokes “Vogue” (the music video), while the dance performances invoke vogue (the art form).Not to say that the Hot Girl president isn’t front and center throughout.

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The Living End, a wild, fearless, homoerotic road trip movie that, today, is remembered as one of the earliest works to come out of the ’90s’ New Queer Cinema movement.With a minuscule budget of $20,000, Araki’s film was an indie passion project in the truest sense—there were no permits, no one in the cast or crew was paid, and the police were called on the production on multiple occasions.“It was this whole crazy adventure and we had nothing to lose,” Araki remembers in a new anniversary interview with i-D. “We just kind of went for it.

Mr Gay World Foundation has sued former winner Louw Breytenbach, asking him and his publicist to “retract and apologise” for allegedly defamatory comments they made last year. South African human rights activist and TV presenter Breytenbach, was the winner of the Mr Gay World 2021 title, but resigned two months into his reign citing “value differences”. In a statement released to local media Breytenbach’s lawyer Quintin Steyn confirmed the legal action launched by the organisation.   A post shared by Louw Breytenbach (@louwbreytenbach02)Breytenbach told The Citizen that he had participated in the competition not for the title, but to use the platform to be a voice for the LGBTQI community. “There are real problems out there and we, as winners, need to get our hands dirty and work. My reason for resigning was never to tarnish the reputation of the organisation, but rather because of value differences,” Breytenbach said. Steyn revealed that he had submitted a supplementary affidavit on behalf of both Breytenbach and Prins.  A post shared by Louw Breytenbach (@louwbreytenbach02)Breytenbach had detailed his disagreements with the Foundation when he resigned as Mr Gay World in 2021, after refusing to sign a contract which said that the organisation would be his exclusive agent. Breytenbach at the time said that he already had an agent to manage his TV and acting gigs.

(CNN) — Out of tens of thousands of monkeypox cases around the world this year, there have been a dozen deaths linked to the virus, and for the first time, some of them have been outside Africa, in countries where the virus doesn't usually spread.More than 31,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported globally since January 1, more than 10,000 of them in the United States. Most people have recovered at home with no lasting problems. But doctors are working to understand why monkeypox can be serious and, rarely, fatal.According to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization, there have been two monkeypox deaths in Spain, one in Brazil, one in Ecuador and one in India -- all so-called nonendemic countries.

It seems that yelling at children to unmask and forcing trans students to be outed to their parents aren’t enough for this mess of a governor.Three years after signing a bill allowed public school teachers to be armed, DeSantis is putting forth a new push to militarize the classroom.He now wants to instate any and all underqualified veterans as full-time teachers:.@GovDeSantis on recruiting veterans to the teaching field: “Our veterans have a wealth of knowledge and experience they can bring to bear in the classroom.

Pageant organizers have hit former Mr. Gay World winner Louw Breytenbach with a gag order after Breytenbach made comments against the organization behind the pageant last year.Breytenbach has hired an attorney after he said he was served with the order last week, according to South African newspaper The Citizen.Mr. Gay World Foundation, the group behind the pageant, wants Breytenbach to retract the statements he made.Breytenbach, however, accuses the foundation of attempting to make his publicist, Gavin Prins, retract a press release about the situation that Prins had sent to his media contact list.

LGBTQ+ people are no stranger to finding community online. Since the internet’s inception, we’ve used it as a tool to chat, laugh, meet, and so much more.For many of us, it was our only respite from a homophobic, unaccepting world.

Kandii Redd, 29, a Black transgender woman and award-winning performer, was stabbed to death July 25 in Kansas City, Mo.There was “an argument that led to a physical altercation,” reports TV station KMBC, which misgendered her. Police found Redd in an apartment and called paramedics to treat her, but she was pronounced dead.Redd had been a model for the adult entertainment site Grooby.

A post shared by Louw Breytenbach (@louwbreytenbach02)A former Mr. Gay World pageant winner has hired a lawyer to defend himself against the organization after it served him with a gag order, and not the fun kind.Louw Breytenbach won the title in 2021, but refused to sign the final contract when he realized it stipulated the organization would be his exclusive agent for any bookings or acting gigs.Breytenbach already had an agent for TV roles, and wanted to keep it that way.“I don’t need them to manage whatever TV opportunities I get,” he said at the time.

Meet Garrett Ziegler.He’s the anti-LGBTQ ex-Trump aide who tried to sic the MAGA militia on the family members of purported FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago last week by posting their personal information, including the names of their children, on the far-right social media platforms Telegram and Truth Social.Garrett Ziegler who is leaking the data on the FBI agents who were are on duty at Mar-A-Largo pic.twitter.com/V2xbLdDxQR— WHO'S THE MOLE ?????? ?SLAVA UKRAINI? (@schwanderer) August 13, 2022“This is one of the two feds who signed the ‘Receipt for Property’ form, which detailed—at a very high level—the fishing expedition that the FBI performed at Mar-a-Lago,” the 26-year-old posted, along with the FBI agents’ date of birth, work emails, and links to their alleged family members’ social media accounts, including children.“Hope he doesn’t get a good night’s sleep for the rest of 2022,” he responded to another person’s Truth Social post that included photos of one of the alleged FBI officials who signed off on the inventory receipts on the warrant.Related: Mary Trump thinks she knows who tipped off the FBI about her crazy uncle and, no, it’s not MelaniaThe posts, which were a potential violation the first federal statute (18 U.S.Code §119), which makes it illegal to knowingly release to the public the restricted personal information of a covered person or their family member, were taken down shortly after Ziegler published them, but not before they were widely circulated among the MAGA mob.But since karma’s a b*tch, after doxxing alleged FBI agents, Ziegler himself was doxxed when regular, law-abiding citizens who don’t peddle in hate, conspiracy theories, or domestic terrorism learned about what he had done and posted

D.C. police on Aug. 11 charged a 46-year-old D.C. man with assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with incident earlier this month in which lesbian activist Aiyi’nah Ford said she was hit in the head three times with the metal legs of a barstool wielded by a man yelling anti-gay names at her.

died over the weekend after a devastating single car crash in which she sustained a severe brain injury. She was 53 year old.

< 1 min read The largest amateur rugby union tournament in the world, The Bingham Cup, kicks off this week in Ottawa Canada with players from more than 20 countries taking the field in the competition’s 10th edition.

Watch below.Sam, the boy in the video, loves painting his nails and sewing. His obvious delight at receiving the sewing machine has melted hearts.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and stylish. Netflix’s latest film, Do Revenge, wants you to know that.

Conservative nutjob Tudor Dixon is terrified of drag queens, but, if you ask us, her past life as a horror movie actress is much, much scarier.According to her website, the 45-year-old mother of four, who nabbed the GOP nomination for governor in Michigan earlier this month, wants to ban schools from talking about anything LGBTQ-related, police what bathrooms trans kids use, and “protect young girls from being forced to compete against biological boys” in sports. She also thinks Donald Trump is God, drag queens are Satan, abortion is murder, and the 2020 election was rigged.Related: This gay-hating GOP nominee once worked for Rosie O’Donnell and starred in a zombie golden shower filmPrior to her recent foray into politics, Dixon was an aspiring horror movie actress.

With just a month to go before their big day, Desirie White and Jess Dowd, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, were shocked to receive an email from their baker canceling on them because baking a cake for a same-sex couple goes against “my fidelity to the God of Scripture.”

Colorado's Rep. Lauren Boebert has remained uncharacteristically silent following the release of a 911 call regarding a incident with her family and her neighbors.Police in Garfield County, Colo., released 911 calls from Boebert's neighbors who complained her kids were speeding on the street and her husband had driven drunk and over a neighbor's mailbox.Deputies received several calls asking for assistance after the August 4 altercation, according to the Denver Post.The audio recording indicates how urgently the neighbors demanded assistance dealing with the Boebert family, despite no charges being filed and the parties being able to resolve their dispute among themselves.A neighbor says he asked the congresswoman's son to slow down when he saw him driving a Razor dune buggy down the street, which escalated into a dispute when Jayson Boebert, the congresswoman's husband, went through the neighborhood to confront his neighbors for engaging the son."He's going like 50 miles an hour, and this is a residential lane, there's kids.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to legally protect the right to access free period products.

Below are our picks for some of the most fun and creative things to do this week in the DMV that are of special interest to the LGBTQ community.

ABOVE: Dr. Oz's web team HATES him.

Former Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Ross Lynch is giving fans chills of their own thanks to a viral TikTok clip.Lynch and his brother Rocky are currently on tour with their band, The Driver Era, and from the looks of it they put on quite the show.On Thursday, TikTok user @allielbrown posted a video of a shirtless Ross singing on stage. It’s since racked up over two million views, and not because everyone loves the song.ross lynch, everybody.

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As the highly-anticipated return of the Rose of Tralee quickly approaches, host Dáithí Ó Sé has said that the competition “is for everyone” and that he “can’t wait” to have a Trans woman participating.  “I mean could you imagine the conversation?” he continued. “I think it would be hugely positive to get to hear about […]

Youth Advocate Programmes Ireland (YAP) is to launch a comprehensive new LGBTQ+ dictionary designed by young queer people to help others better understand some of the terminologies surrounding gender and sexuality. The group, calling themselves the Good Trouble Troop, came together in 2021 to discuss what is missed when people don’t understand the language around […]

Officials within the Department of Justice are set to conduct a public consultation surrounding the overturning of historical criminal convictions for homosexuality. The move comes after Minister for Justice Helen McEntee received final plans from an expert working group that examined how the State could overturn these charges that occurred under laws that have since […]

West Virginia senator called a trans activist's statement about childhood rape—read out during a debate on an abortion bill—"pathetic" in an email.Ash Orr, 32, said they emailed Mike Azinger on July 31 to share their dismay at comments he made on the West Virginia Senate floor after Democratic Sen. Mike Caputo read Orr's statement recalling how they had feared becoming pregnant after being raped twice by the age of 10.Hours later, Orr receive a response, reviewed by Newsweek, where Azinger denied knowing about the statement Caputo read out on Orr's behalf, but described it as "pathetic.""The arrogance of some people: why do you assume I know about your pathetic statement Capito [sic] read on the floor?" Azinger wrote in the email, which was marked as being sent from the senator's iPhone.Azinger has been contacted for comment, and Newsweek is still looking into the veracity of the statement."You were born a female and always—always—will be a female," he added.

D.C. native and award-winning comedian Sampson McCormick will perform in a series of shows from Thursday, Aug. 25 to Saturday, Aug. 27 at the DC Comedy Loft. 

The Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported that during the weekly papal audience in St. Peter’s Basilica on Aug. 10, Pope Francis met with a fourth group of transgender people who are staying in a church on the outskirts of Rome.

All Imani wanted to do was to play football. But Kenyan fans, gossiping about her sexuality, had other ideas.

The upcoming 15th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race will celebrate a huge milestone with its 200th episode.

A new report has found online hate targeted at the LGBTQ+ community has surged over 400% following the Parental Rights in Education bill.

Micro Rainbow is the frontline organisation that has supported and welcomed 82 LGBTQ+ people to the UK from Afghanistan and their family members over the last twelve months.

Jeff Levy, a gay, Chicago-based psychotherapist.“At the time, there were no role models in the media and I was coming out during the AIDS crisis. Although there are more role models for younger gay folks now, I’d encourage younger gay men to reach out to older gay men and to ask questions about their life experiences and relationships. I think intergenerational friendships and opportunities for mentoring could be incredibly valuable and enriching.”We messaged some gay men over 50 and asked them about things they wished they’d known earlier about love, life, sex, and relationships.

Courage to Share is a new literary exploration of queer African activism (Illustration by Kgalalelo Shoai)

In a blow to LGBTQ+ rights, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) are set to vote on a policy banning trans women from women’s rugby.

in her online blog.The 27-year-old was placed on suicide watch by prison staff after she tried to hang herself on the van journey to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, she added.Minor’s most recent post, entitled ‘Being Forced to Live in a Male Prison’, pleaded with prison bosses to send her back to a female prison.She wrote: ‘As a woman who is transgender I truly fear what lies ahead for me, its clear that staff have looked for some kind of security reason to kick me out of the only female correctional facility, they have thrown me to the wolves and expected for me just gave up.‘I am baffled and disgusted by this use power and I can only ask that the commissioner and governors office please send me back.

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Hollywood has given us so many queer teen romances over the last few years that it’s easy to forget a not-so-distant past when LGBTQ people had to grow up watching movies that only showed the pangs of first love through a heteronormative filter, and relate to the experience as best they could via the pretty straight kids enacting it on the screen. It was a take-what-you-can-get situation that left a lot of people feeling left out, isolated, and unseen.

Michaela Zee editorQuidditch, the real-life sport based on the beloved broom-flying game from the “Harry Potter” book and movie series, has officially been changed to “Quadball.”U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch — now rebranded as U.S. Quadball (USQ) and Major League Quadball (MLQ) — both announced the name change this week.

NJ Advance Media reports. The media company had reported in April that two women at the prison had become pregnant through consensual relationships with a trans prisoner, later identified as Minor (the state prohibits even consensual sexual relationships among prisoners).

Harry Potter, will now be called quadball. The move comes after the sport’s governing bodies decided on renaming it due to J.K.

Reddit forum, earning 5,700 upvotes and 1,100 comments for his post, "AITA for throwing a gender reveal party for my son instead in the same week as my sister's baby shower?"He says that his son, 19, came out as transgender three years ago, and just completed his transition. He told his father that since coming out, he'd wanted to have a gender reveal party.

It was getting an abortion after being raped as a teenager that drove transgender man Adri Perez to help set up an LGBTQ-inclusive fund in the U.S. state of Texas to support others wanting to end their pregnancies.

An estimated 20,000 gathered in Brighton in protest for trans liberation on Saturday (16 July). Trans Pride Brighton returned last weekend for the first time since before the pandemic. 

Supreme Court's decision, the state asked the 11th Circuit to overturn a partial injunction to the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. They even cited the Roe verdict in their appeal.This partial injunction had prevented doctors who prescribe hormones and puberty blockers to trans minors from being charged with a Class C felony. If it is appealed, doctors could face up to 10 years in jail for prescribing these drugs.We don't know what this would mean for my 17-year-old son, Phin, as he has already been injecting himself with testosterone every week for the past year.

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