Trump Appointed Top Fed Official Resigning Early After ‘Ethically Questionable’ COVID Transactions of Up to $5 Million

“I’m very aware of the hate that exists online. But I have to protect my own mental health and my own artistry.

A U.S. culture war over LGBTQ+ rights has played out on school sports fields and in doctors’ surgeries in recent years. Now, the clash between liberals and conservatives is heading to the nation’s classrooms.

GEMMA Collins showed off her weight loss as she slipped into a pink dress and danced about to promote her new show. The 41-year-old - who has lost an incredible 3.5 stone over the past few years - took to social media to tell her 2.2 million followers about her upcoming theatre tour.

be responsible” if they are considering speaking out on political issues whilst in the country.One athlete who appears to be uncowed by the warning is Gus Kenworthy. The out athlete, who is competing for Great Britain in the Men’s Freeski Halfpipe, has been speaking to several British press outlets this week in the run-up to the games.“I’m probably a dumb ass for doing it but I can’t keep my mouth shut,” he told Sportsmail.

Halsey has been confirmed to appear alongside Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney in Tony Tost’s directorial debut.

Timothy LeDuc wants everyone to know they are here.

only 15 out LGBTQ athletes competed.Outsports reports that the athletes hail from 14 countries and will compete in nine different sports, including ice hockey, figure skating, skiing, and snowboarding.They include veteran LGBTQ competitors like Canadian figure skater Eric Radford, the first out gay man to win a gold Winter Olympics medal, bisexual Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst, the most decorated LGBTQ Olympian of all time, and gay skier Gus Kenworthy, who will be competing for Great Britain after switching from Team USA (Kenworthy holds dual citizenship).Also Read: A tennis player yelled anti-gay slurs at the Olympics. He blamed the weather.The Beijing Winter Games will also feature a number of freshly out LGBTQ athletes, including Brazilian skeleton athlete Nicole Silveira and Team USA figure skater Timothy LeDuc, who will be the first out nonbinary athlete at the Winter Olympics.Team USA’s Brittany Bowe, a world record-holding speed skater, holds the honor of being the only out LGBTQ athlete to be chosen as a flag bearer for the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.Bowe, the only openly LGBTQ woman athlete on Team USA, will compete in her third Olympic games in Beijing.

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Legislation to be taken up by California lawmakers this year aims to improve transgender medical care throughout the state. It would require medical professionals who interact with transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex patients to receive cultural competency training, and health providers would need to create searchable online directories of their gender-affirming services.

Related: Gay men more likely to have college degrees, and this could be the reason whyIn an interview with Australia’s ABC network today, Bondar was asked about kids who realize they are gay only after enrolling at a school. Should they be excluded?“No [but] the point is it’s like me buying a house under the flight path, it’s pointless me arguing two years late that there’s too much noise, I chose to do that.”Christian educator and Family Voice Australia spokesman Greg Bondar just told @PatsKarvelas on @RNBreakfast that sending a gay student to Christian school like #Citipointe (& complaining about their ‘contract’) is like buying a house on the flight path & complaining about noise.— Louise Milligan (@Milliganreports) February 3, 2022 Interviewer Patricia Karvelas pointed out it’s usually parents who decide upon a school, not the child.

Gay and lesbian adults in the USA have a higher rate of COVID-19 vaccination that heterosexual people, a study has found.

Rainbow Garden Club members visit The Forbidden City replica village in San Antonio in May 1998.

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition entry in the 2019 Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade

As Great Britain celebrates Elizabeth II’s 70th anniversary as Queen of England, Dallas Voice Distribution Manager Linda Depriter remembers when, at 16, she met the queen.

And Just Like That …] and the writers’ room would probably answer that best since they wrote the character of Che Diaz," they added, of how Che would respond to online criticism. "I imagine Che would have something very witty and silly and funny as a rebuttal; something that ultimately reminds everyone that they are human; something with a sprinkling of self-deprecation, because I think they know they’re a narcissist.

Put on the new @QueerEye and lasted 2 seconds into the opening credits and I’m already crying, I love it so, so much Of course I’m wearing my @jvn jumper, need you even ask? ❤️

JVN squeezed us into their busy schedule to chat about the Getting Curious podcast, Queer Eye, and their new Netflix show, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. Here's everything we learned:I've always been really curious. I've always wanted to understand the world around me more.

podDIVA, the new podcast companion to the United Kingdom’s revered magazine DIVA. Weekly podcast episodes rotate between breaking down the magazine’s print issues with the “DIVA Debrief,” interviews with queer luminaries in “DIVA Dialogues,” and Q&A advice episodes on all things queer with “Dear DIVA.” PodDIVA is a work of love from the LGBTQ+ folks who make the magazine and podcast producer and cohost Rachel Shelley, who learned early in her acting career the importance of doing the work as an ally. Yes, it’s that Rachel Shelley, who starred as lesbian heiress Helena Peabody on The L Word seasons 2-6, then surprised podcast audiences in 2020 when she produced fellow L Word stars Leisha Hailey and Katherine Moennig’s podcast, PANTS.“DIVA would like to be and is at the moment the world’s leading brand for LGBTQI+ women and nonbinary people,” Shelley says.

Cryptocurrency is becoming a more familiar way to pay for things.

The nominations for the 75th BAFTAs (British Academy Film Awards) have just been announced (February 3). Here’s a list of the LGBTQ+ names in the running for an award.

press conference on Thursday evening. “It’s about allowing biological females in their sex to compete fairly in a level playing field that gives them opportunities for success.”The bill is set to take effect July 1 but could face potential legal challenges from LGBTQ advocates. Since 2020, nine states have passed nearly identical legislation restricting transgender students’ ability to participate in sports, although some of those laws have since been challenged in court.

An exclusive GAY TIMES survey found an overwhelming amount of support for a total ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ in the UK.

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Welcome back, fellow Dallas Voice readers! It has been two years now since I joined Dallas Voice as a contributing columnist, and I am so thankful to not only be a part of Dallas Voice, but to also be able to share some important information about our pets. This time of the year, we celebrate National Pet Dent

Forgiveness is a four-letter word. That’s what many of us who have suffered anti-gay bias will say: Don’t talk to us about not having hard feelings. No ill will, no bitterness? No way! And who could blame us for o

Meet Whimsy, a 2-year-old pit bull terrier mix with the cutest underbite you’ll ever see. She came to the SPCA of Texas as a stray, so not much is known about her past, but we know she has a silly personality and loves to play with toys and spend time with people. She knows how to sit on command and walks like a perfect lady on her leash. Whimsy is a fun-loving, bubbly girl who is sure to bring her new family lots of laughs and smiles. Through Feb. 28, Whimsy and all other adult dogs and cats are only $14 to adopt at the SPCA of Texas’ Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center and Ellis County Animal Care Center. To meet Whimsy, come visit her at our Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center any day between noon and 6 p.m.

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Tina Kotek is used to breaking new ground. After becoming the first out lesbian to lead a U.S. state’s House of Representatives, she now wants to be elected the nation’s first openly lesbian governor, too.

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Van Gogh and the Olive Groves, co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, ends its run at the DMA, 1717 N. Harwood St. in Dallas, on Sunday, Feb. 6, so don’t miss your chance to see this special exhibit. This is the first exhibit dedicated specifically to Van Gogh’s olive grove series, created between June and December 1889 during the artist’ stay at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. This exhibit is the first time all 15 paintings in the series have been reunited. Get more information at DMA.org.

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It’s not that I don’t believe in the kindness of strangers. I do. Mostly. It’s just

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed a bill Thursday that bans transgender girls from playing on female sports teams, making the state the first this year to enact such a bill into law.

Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to the cryptocurrency as a religion.

KELO reports. The state’s House of Representatives had passed it Tuesday, following earlier approval by the Senate.The legislation, Senate Bill 46, states that “only female athletes, based on their biological sex, may participate in any team, sport, or athletic event designated as being for females, women, or girls.” “Biological sex” is defined at the sex on a person’s birth certificate, issued at or near the time of birth, so the measure bars trans females from girls’ and women’s teams, both in K-12 schools and public colleges and universities.

Queen booted Sarah Ferguson out of Balmoral the very same day the infamous 'toe sucking' picture came out, it has been revealed.The Duke and Duchess of York, now both aged 58, announced their separation in March 1992 after six years of marriage.But only five months later she saw herself embroiled in a national scandal when compromising photographs of her with her 'financial advisor' John Bryan from her holiday villa in St Tropez were published in the Daily Mirror.In the most notorious of the images the Texan millionaire can be seen sucking Sarah Ferguson's toes as she bathes in the sun, while another shows her kissing him in front of then-two-year-old Princess Eugenie, who is watching on.Now, fresh details of how the monarch herself responded to the furore have been revealed in a new TV documentary.In the upcoming episode of Secrets of the Royal Palace, royal experts describe how disgruntled members of the Royal Family waited downstairs at Balmoral Castle on the morning the indecent pictures hit the nation's newsstands.Journalist Bidisha Mamata then shares what happened next, recounting: "Apparently Prince Philip himself walked in, threw a copy of the tabloids at her, and without a word walked out again."Richard Kay, a former Daily Mail correspondent and close friend of Princess Diana's, then revealed that the humiliated Fergie then had a "one-on-one with the Queen" where she was "very frank about the situation, describing it as "possibly the most difficult moment of her life".But it was too little too late, as the Duchess was pictured leaving the royal residence later the same day, with her reputation in the eyes of the public seriously tarnished.Reflecting on her downfall, Richard Kay said: "It did go to show there

The San Francisco Planning Commission has approved 24 units of family housing in Diamond Heights that had generated much opposition from nearby residents. The project will also fund $3 million toward the construction of affordable housing elsewhere in the city.

Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy premieres tomorrow Friday, February 4. The series, which explores the influential 90s comedy show Phat Tuesdays at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, features the stories of the shows’ comedic stars, including Black trans comedian Flame Monroe.In an exclusive clip, Monroe tells viewers how there weren’t many trans comedians when she started out.

Alphonso David, the former president of the Human Rights Campaign terminated by the board after he was ensnared in the Governor Andrew Cuomo scandal, sued the nation's leading LGBTQ group February 3, arguing he was fired as a result of racial discrimination "amid a deserved reputation for unequal treatment of its non-white employees" and was explicitly told he was paid less because he's Black.

Uber is coming under fire from three California city attorneys after transgender drivers shared stories of being deadnamed or banned from the rideshare company's platforms with no recourse."Transgender and gender nonconforming drivers should not have to put themselves in danger or navigate a bureaucratic nightmare just to make a living," San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu stated in a news release . "Shielding drivers from workplace violence and ensuring equal opportunity to work are non-negotiable.

Neil Young has made national headlines since he decided last week to pull his music from Spotify. The move was prompted by the streamer continually giving podcaster Joe Rogan a platform to spread misinformation about Covid-19, and has led to several other artists following suit.In the midst of the fallout, an old interview has resurfaced in which the famed musician used homophobic language while crassly discussing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.In an interview with Melody Maker in 1985, Young said, “You go to a supermarket, and you see a f—ggot behind the f—kin’ cash register; you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”The quote is only slightly better with the full context, which many critics are leaving out of the discussion. Still, none of it ages well.“It’s true!” Young continued.

In Nederland ontstond een besmettelijkere eneacute;n schadelijkere variant van hiv. Snel behandelen na een positieve test is belangrijk.

Arnie Kantrowitz, a literature professor and author who was an early champion of gay rights and an indefatigable campaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, died on Jan. 21 at a rehabilitation center in Manhattan. He was 81.

De genomineerden voor het Roze Lieverdje 2022 bekend. GroenLinks reikt deze prijs iedere twee jaar uit aan een Amsterdammer of organisatie die zich op bijzondere wijze heeft ingezet voor de emancipatie van LHBTIQ+-ers in de stad.

Changes to the management at the Castro Theatre took center stage at the Castro Merchants Association's first meeting of the year February 3, with neighborhood leaders asking Another Planet Entertainment to be proactive in reaching out to them.

WFAA. The two were charged in the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Marisela Botello-Valadez in Dallas back in October 2020.“It’s definitely not been easy — that’s for sure,” the victim’s aunt, Dennesly Castillo, told the station. “It’s completely frustrating — we were expecting this after they posted bond, and here we are now.” Botello-Valadez, from Seattle, was in Dallas to see her ex-boyfriend.

WFAA. The two were charged in the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Marisela Botello-Valadez in Dallas back in October 2020.“It’s definitely not been easy — that’s for sure,” the victim’s aunt, Dennesly Castillo, told the station. “It’s completely frustrating — we were expecting this after they posted bond, and here we are now.” Botello-Valadez, from Seattle, was in Dallas to see her ex-boyfriend.