Trans superhero Dreamer to make her DC Comics debut in Superman: Son of Kal-El

It was meant to be an open-air museum dedicated to Chile’s LGBTQ+ community, but days after the 40-meter (131-foot) mural was completed, vandals defaced its brightly colored panels with dozens of homophobic slurs.

HE’S already made a string of hit documentaries for the BBC – now former footballer Rio Ferdinand is stepping in front of the camera again, this time with Amazon. The former Manchester United and England star turned telly pundit is currently making a trio of football-based investigations for the streaming giant.

PIERS Morgan was forced to abruptly cut off an abusive trans activist who shouted x-rated expletives at him live on air. The TalkTV host encouraged 'Jame' - who chose not to reveal her identity - to engage in a "proper debate" about trans rights.

Megan Fox bought her children LGBTQ-inclusive books so they could learn about the “full spectrum” of gender identity.

Piers Morgan Uncensored in an episode that aired last night.In the interview, Trump told Morgan that he wasn’t “a fan” of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and that he recently shot a hole-in-one while playing golf. He also dove into transphobic remarks related to trans athletes, bringing up trans swimmer and swimming champion Lia Thomas.“I think it’s grotesquely unfair,” Morgan told Trump.

The Matrix creators Lana and Lilly Wachowski have announced a movie memorabilia auction to raise money for a trans youth charity.The filmmakers confirmed on social media that they will be auctioning off props and concept art from The Matrix but also Sense8 and V For Vendetta.“Hi youse! so me and Lana have been doing some spring cleaning at our Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse and have happily decided to pass on some of the best treasures we’ve been collecting over the years!!” Lilly told fans on Twitter.hi youse! so me and Lana have been doing some spring cleaning at our Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse and have happily decided to pass on some of the best treasures we've been collecting over the years!! no ark of the covenants but some pretty major and magical artifacts!— Lilly Wachowski (@lilly_wachowski) April 23, 2022“No ark of the covenants but some pretty major and magical [artefacts]!”The Wachowskis will be raising money for Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund, with their event titled Enter the Matrix: The Wachowski Collection.Most recently, Lana Wachowski directed The Matrix: Resurrections without her sister Lilly, and explained how writing the film helped her grieve her parents.“I didn’t ever wanna make another Matrix movie,” she said. “I told everyone for 18 years I didn’t wanna make another Matrix movie.

Kelly and Crowder continuously delegitimize and questioned the experiences of trans people, especially the experiences of trans youth.Speaking about trans athletes, Crowder said, “We're looking at men beating the hell out of women … in their own sports.”Kelly then claimed that there are “crazy trans activists” that are trying to make young gay men trans.“The crazy trans activists are so vicious and they're basically kind of doing conversion therapy on young gay men — instead of you're not gay, you're trans, you're secretly a girl,” Kelly said.In a segment of the transphobic conversation, posted on Twitter by Media Matters’ Senior Researcher Jason Campbell, Kelly and Crowder also questioned the “T” in LGBTQ+. “The interests aren’t necessarily aligned,” Kelly said while attacking the LGBTQ+ rights group GLAAD, asking if the organization has “lost the real scope of its original mission.” Throughout Kelly’s show, she and Crowder also criticize the medical associations that support trans children, while making false assertions about gender-affirming care over and over again.  Kelly went on to attack White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki for her comments about state legislatures going after the rights of trans children.Last week, Jen Psaki shed some tears during a recent interview on the News Not Noise podcast when the subject of the latest barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being proposed and passed by the GOP came up. Podcast host Jessica Yellin asked Psaki for her thoughts on the recent legislation and whether its motivation was sincere or an “organized political attempt to create a wedge issue ahead of the midterms,” to which Psaki said, “Ding.

Princess, a Houston trans woman missing since April 18, currently has bright blonde hair, friends said.

The cast of Queer Eye can’t speak enough about Angel Flores.

San Francisco's historic transgender neighborhood is getting a new supervisorial home. The decision is being compared to the Republican-led assault on trans people in various statehouses across the country.The San Francisco Redistricting Task Force voted 5-4 at its April 21 meeting to reject a motion that would have maintained the Tenderloin and its Transgender District whole in District 6 along with the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in western South of Market.

A social media post promoting a transgender and gender diverse swim night hosted by Inner West Council has received a deluge of abusive and transphobic comments, causing the post to be removed from . Earlier this month, Council announced that Ashfield Aquatic Centre would be hosting a free, exclusive swim night for the local trans and gender diverse community, as well as allies, friends, partners and families.

Slightly Offensive, mentioned last week that someone had told him “there’s this mass genocide happening to trans kids by fascists” in Texas. In the state, Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered that parents who allow their children to receive gender-affirming health care be investigated for child abuse.

Mayor London Breed has made it official and appointed Pau Crego as the permanent executive director of the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives.Crego, a trans and nonbinary Spanish immigrant, had been serving as acting executive director since Clair Farley, a trans woman who headed the department since 2017, stepped down last September after leading the office for four years.Breed and City Administrator Carmen Chu made the announcement April 21.The office was established by the late mayor Ed Lee in June 2016 with Theresa Sparks as its inaugural director. It marked the first time a mayor in the nation had a senior director of trans initiatives, Lee's office stated at the time.

my rights” or “are a nuisance to wear,” Americans tossed their face coverings in the garbage the minute the ruling was announced. There was little to no thought given about who might be sitting next to them, near them, or around them. These strangers could have underlying conditions, elderly parents, or susceptible children at home.But that doesn’t matter to those who think masks are a dictate from an authoritarian government.

Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, has called on teachers to “involve parents” when children come out as transgender.

San Francisco Pride has released its list of community grand marshals for this year's Pride parade and celebration in June, its first live event since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Six individuals and one organization were announced as community grand marshals, to be recognized during the 52nd annual San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration and Parade.

California legislators are once again pushing forward on a number of bills aimed at improving the lives of the state's transgender and nonbinary residents. And due to the legislative attacks on trans children in several other states, lawmakers in Sacramento are also focused on assisting those youth and their parents who are trying to access gender-affirming health care.In addition to improving transgender medical care in the Golden State, lawmakers have introduced bills that will require California community colleges not to deadname their trans and nonbinary students, faculty or staff; require the governor to annually proclaim November 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance; and create an advisory body for a statewide pool of funds for trans services that would be renamed the Transgender, Gender-Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness and Equity Fund.Other bills would protect LGBTQ people who want to become foster parents, establish a pilot project to assist LGBTQ youth receiving child welfare services, and require affordable housing builders to contract with LGBTQ-owned businesses.Tuesday, April 19, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the language for the bill he plans to officially introduce this month that will make California a refuge for trans kids and their families persecuted by their own governments in states such as Texas and Idaho.The Idaho House of Representatives passed legislation last week to make it a felony for parents to allow their children to receive gender-affirming care, while similar policy is under consideration by lawmakers in Louisiana and Arizona.

The Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive in Vallejo was damaged last month after a driver plowed into the converted garage that houses it and reportedly fled, while the founder is expressing support as she works to have the building repaired.Ms. Bob Davis, a trans woman who founded the archive in 2017 — it opened in September 2018 — told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview that no one was injured during the incident, which occurred on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility."I was rushing to events in San Francisco and ran into the archive to get some brochures," Davis wrote in an email to supporters. "Imagine my surprise when I was greeted by an SUV parked in the middle of the office.

The petition calling for trans people to be protected in a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ in the UK is less than 14,000 signatures away from 150,000.

Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté has revealed that she will likely retire from drag in the next few years to focus on acting and transitioning.

faced death threats and calls to be canceled over her remarks.“There isn’t one answer to all these trans questions,” Margolyes told the UK’s Radio Times magazine, according to Yahoo News.“We all know people who are slightly pansy or a bit butch or whatever you call it,” the actress said, saying that “there is a spectrum and people can be anywhere along that.”“But I think the vituperation J.K. Rowling has received is misplaced,” she said of the vitriol directed at the author.“I admire her as a human being.

Smallville and Arrow (he was noted for the arrows he fired in his bid to fight crime). His son and successor, Connor, first appeared in 1994.Connor, a dedicated monk and martial arts expert, takes center stage in a new eight-page story, Think Of Me, in DC Pride 22.Related: Superman and Robin came out as queer and achieved super-strengthCreated by Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, and letterer Frank Cvetkovic, the story finds Connor foiling a mind-control plot at an opera by the villain, Music Meister.

A university has agreed to pay a philosophy professor $400,000 after disciplining him for refusing to use a trans student’s preferred pronouns.

Harry Potter star has defended J.K. Rowling and said that anger towards the author over her views about transgender people are "misplaced."Miriam Margolyes who played Professor Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter films has come out in support of Rowling and described her as a "generous woman."Rowling has been embroiled in a number of controversies over her views about the transgender community and several actors associated with the Harry Potter franchise have publicly disagreed with her, including Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne and Emma Watson.The author has denied feeling negatively toward transgender people.

Length: 13 hours 47 minutesWhat it's about: Aiden Thomas's debut novel tells the story of Yadriel, a trans teen boy who comes from a traditional Latinx family of brujos and brujas. When Yadriel comes out to his family, no one knows where he fits in, and his family refuses to perform the ceremony required to make him a brujo. Yadriel, however, knows who he is, and with the help of his best friend and cousin Maritza, he sets out to prove it.

Last month, I came across a petition with over 90K signatures calling the San Francisco Police Department to reopen the case of Jaxon Sales, a 20-year-old, queer Filipino man who died due to an overdose in the home of an older, affluent 41-year-old white man. The Sales’ family believes that authorities overlooked many crucial details in their son’s case, the most glaring being another overdose just weeks before Sales’ death in the same white man’s apartment.As I read through the details, I was fuming with anger, tears forming in my eyes.

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling and the cast, including Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson, following the author's vocal stance on trans issues. Additionally, Emma appeared to snub the author at the BAFTA Awards earlier this year, after she said that she is "here for all the witches" while presenting an award at the event, seemingly in reference to Rowling's criticism of Labour Leader Keir Starmer saying "trans women are women".It comes after Rowling faced backlash after taking to Twitter two years ago to mock an article which used the phrase, "people who menstruate" instead of "women".Additionally, last year celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter franchise's first installment.And while many cast and crew members were invited back to film scenes for the one-off taping, JK was nowhere to be seen.Instead, she appeared in archived clips taken from previous interviews as fans rushed to social media, under the impression JK had been snubbed from the reunion.Appearing on GB News earlier this year, Evanna attempted to dispel rumours of a rift between the cast and the creator of the wizarding world.The Luna Lovegood actress said: "I think there's things we don't all agree with and don't understand."The star went on to insist that despite a difference of opinion, they all respect each other.She continued: "I've talked to all the cast, they all have great respect for her even if they don't agree with her beliefs."I really strongly disagree with the narrative that there's a rift," she added.The star went on: "She has her beliefs and she's doing her thing.

Missouri State Representative Ian Mackey, a Democrat, has gone viral for his defence of transgender young people during the debate on whether to allow transgender girls to compete on all-girls sports teams.Talking to the amendment’s sponsor, Representative Chuck Bayse, a Republican, Mackey even brought up Bayse’s own gay brother to make his point. “Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he?” Mackey asked.Bringing up the fact that Bayse’s brother was afraid to come out to him, Mackey said “If I were your brother, I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you too because of stuff like this – because this is what you’re focused on.“This is the legislation you want to put forward.

In a small win for LGBTQ+ rights, Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed the state’s anti-trans sports ban.

America's rising inflation to the transgender movement, saying "they're exactly the same."On Wednesday's episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, the host said that the country's "trans issue" is really "an issue of reality," adding that people aren't allowed to change their own reality. Without clearly explaining it, Kirk said there's a direct link between inflation and transgender identity.Kirk began by saying poor people can't one day say "I'm rich" and it becomes true.

Honey Mahogany is a San Francisco native and the first transgender chairperson of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, the governing body of the local Democratic Party. Mahogany worked as a social worker before appearing on the fifth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" in 2016. She said the platform the reality show provided allowed her to further serve the community.

Kay Ivey signed a bill last week making it a felony to prescribe hormone medications to transgender people under the age of 19.The bill has sparked outcry from transgender and civil rights advocates, who argue the bill bans families from seeking medically necessary care for their children. The bill states such medications "should not be presented to or determined for minors who are incapable of comprehending the negative implications."For Heather, the bill is "heartbreaking" as it means her 15-year-old son will not be able to continue with his transition.

Wilson Chapman editorThis year, DC Comics is celebrating Pride Month with a bang.On May 31, the company will launch “DC Pride 2022,” a 104-page anthology comic featuring stories from LGBTQ creators and focusing on queer characters from the DC universe. The comic will open with an introduction from Nicole Maines, the transgender rights activist and actor who portrayed Nia Nal on “Supergirl” in 2018, becoming the first trans actor to play a superhero on television.

To understand the contours of the renewed culture wars over sex education, sexual orientation and gender identity, start with a Rorschach test. According to Gallup, the share of younger Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has risen precipitously in the last decade.

news leaked last week that a U-turn had secretly been made.Following widespread outrage, the government vowed once again to ban the practice hours later – but transgender people will not be included.In a statement on Twitter yesterday, Stonewall bosses said they would only participate if the prime minister reverts to his original plan.It is ‘apparent trans people have once again been sacrificed for political gain’, they said.Non-binary teen 'humiliated' after Monsoon staff 'kick them out of changing room'JK Rowling enjoys boozy lunch with women’s rights campaigners amid trans equality protestsTrailer for Netflix's LGBT teen drama Heartstopper has fans 'sobbing' their eyes out‘This is a decision we take with a heavy heart,’ a statement read.

Miia Parker, a trans woman described by loved ones as “the life of the party”, was fatally shot in a parked vehicle in Chester, Philadelphia.

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London Trans+ Pride will make its return this summer with a protest march to “celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries”.

Six in 10 people (58%) intending to vote for the Conservative Party want a ‘conversion therapy’ ban to cover trans people, a study has found.

As the American right continues its onslaught against transgender people throughout much of the country, the toll the attacks are taking on the objects of their obsession is becoming much clearer. More than 58,000 adolescents in 15 states will be forced to bear the brunt of those attacks if proposed legislation in those states becomes law.

ZIPOLITE, México — Cuando el sol comienza a deslizarse hacia el océano en este idílico pueblo ubicado en la costa del Pacífico, inicia una silenciosa migración. Grupos de personas, la mayoría de ellos hombres homosexuales, muchos de ellos desnudos, caminan por la playa hacia un peñasco elevado. Suben por una escalera sinuosa, cruzan el acantilado y bajan a una cala oculta conocida como Playa del Amor.

"don't say gay" bills, which seek to ban the discussion of gender identity in the classroom, while Alabama passed a law making gender-affirming care a felony. Additionally, the governor of Texas has attempted to investigate supportive parents of trans kids for "child abuse" for allowing their child access to such care. “As a journalist, it's not my place to wade into the politics, but as a trans woman who has been fortunate enough to experience what it is like to have a supportive family and community and to benefit from opportunity and privilege, I also couldn't sit by and see kids' lives made even harder,” Fried said in an email to The Advocate.Fried eventually came up with the idea for #letters4transkids.

The Magic Castle in Hollywood is the official clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts (Courtesy photo)

A great-grandchild of Roy O. Disney — brother of Walt and cofounder of the Walt Disney Company — has come out as trans and is speaking out against Florida’s right-wing leadership and the ‘Don’t Say Gay” bill Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed into law, according to Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, shown in an AP file photo, on April 8 signed into law a measure banning gender-affirming health care for trans youth. Two families and two doctors filed suit Monday, April 11, challenging that law.

Disney heir has come out as transgender, while also expressing regret for not having publicly spoken out sooner in opposition of Florida's Parental Rights in Education legislation.Dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics, the legislation—which was recently signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis—prohibits teachers from discussing LGBTQ+ issues with students from kindergarten up to third grade.Disney had faced much criticism in the weeks leading up to the bill being signed into law, amid claims that the entertainment giant's CEO, Bob Chapek, had taken too long to speak out in condemnation of the legislation.Showing their personal stance on the matter, the Disney family pledged $500,000 to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), with Roy P. Disney, the great nephew of Walt Disney and grandson of a Walt Disney Co.

Parliament will consider a petition on including transgender people in a ‘conversion therapy’ ban for debate after it reached 100,000 signatures.

Harry Potter author's newest movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, as Johnny Depp's replacement, Gellert Grindelwald.The movie's release comes as Depp is set to face another ugly court battle involving his ex-wife Amber Heard over domestic abuse claims, while Rowling has continued to be embroiled in controversies over her views about trans people.Mikkelsen appears unphased with Rowling and her current reputation, however, urging for "adult conversation" and mutual respect from all parties."People treat it a little flippantly, like, 'Isn't that a disgrace?' And every time you ask somebody, you can't really figure out what she said," the actor said about Rowling being judged for her views.The 56-year-old said the reaction to Rowling's views is "crazy" but again urged caution and that those criticizing have an understanding of what they're talking about.Accusations of transphobia have been leveled at Rowling for a number of years but she has denied feeling negatively toward transgender people.Several actors associated with the Harry Potter franchise have publicly disagreed with her, including Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne and Emma Watson."But if the reaction is that crazy, we have to be very careful that we know what we're talking about," Mikkelsen said in an interview with GQ.He confirmed that he had not read Rowling's blog where she had written on the issue and added: "I have a habit of not commenting on things that I don't know anything about, and I actually think that that would suit the entire world."The Hannibal star said he didn't know what the solution was but insisted there should be "no hateful rhetoric towards either women or trans [people]—that's a good start.""But we have to be honest—and it