U.K. Far-Right Takes Lesson from U.S. Protests Against Drag Queens

Like millions of Americans, Jamaica is my top destination in the Caribbean. But unlike millions of Americans, I don’t just come to Jamaica to vacation and soak up the sun.

Megan Thee Stallion took to Instagram on Monday with a message for her 29.7 million followers.While posing in a sexy, multicolored catsuit with crisscross cutouts at the chest she bragged: 'Big natural t---.'The outspoken rapper, 27, uploaded multiple videos online as she showed off her bold style.  Statement: Megan Thee Stallion took to Instagram on Monday with a message for her 29.7 million followers The one-piece outfit clung to her voluptuous curves and bared her skin in several areas.At the center of the getup was a large opening that revealed her busty cleavage, which she proudly touted as 'natural.'  Additionally, a bit of her toned and flat stomach was exposed in the number, which was long-sleeved with an off-the-shoulder design.The outfit had pink, green, and blue ombre colors going vertically throughout the entirety of the fabric.

Attention all Hotties! Megan Thee Stallion is headed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

Lisa Rinna is walking back her affiliation with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — on social media, at least.

Does Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law — aka the “Don’t Say Gay” law — violate First Amendment, due-process and equal-protection rights?To paraphrase a bunch of unhappy Floridians: Abso-eff-ing-lutely. Now they’d like a federal judge to halt school districts from enforcing the law, which prohibits teachers from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation in grades K-3, and bans any such discussions deemed “age-inappropriate” for older students as well.Related: 16 states just turned to Ron DeSantis and said “GAY GAY GAY”On Friday, a group of Florida teens and their families, along with LGBTQ advocacy groups, requested a preliminary injunction, arguing their constitutional rights are bing violated.

Måneskin lead singer Damiano David isn’t the first guy to get his whole posterior posted up on the VMAs stage, and he’s unlikely to be the last.Judging by his social media, it won’t be his last time, either.

Despite the fact that homophobic and generally anti-LGBTQ attitudes are constantly intensify across the United States, more and more LGBTQ people are winning elected offices.According to the LGBTQ Victory Institute’s “Out for America” 2022 study, there are 1,043 publicly LGBTQ elected officials in the United States. The organization, which is dedicated to promoting LGBTQ representation in government, notes that this is a significant milestone: the first time in history that over 1,000 LGBTQ people have been serving in elective office simultaneously.

Bros star Billy Eichner has called out the US Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas in a passionate speech. 

Michael K. Williams, who played gay drug dealer Omar Little on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, fought for a full portrayal of Omar’s sexuality and relationships in the series, a new memoir reveals.Williams died last September at age 54, and his memoir, Scenes From My Life, was published last week. Jon Sternfeld coauthored the book.

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.

Gemma Collins was furious that her Greek getaway with her fiancée Rami Hawash was ruined by the constant barrage of drones trying to take pictures of her.The 41-year-old moaned that the "buzzing" was really starting to get to her and that she would happily "take a picture with anyone who asked".She was sympathetic that people "needed to earn money" and that being snapped while on holiday in Mykonos "came with the job" but she pleaded with drone owners to leave her in peace. READ MORE: TOWIE's Gemma Collins shares slimmest snaps yet as she strips down to plunging swimsuit In an initial post that was shared to her Instagram story, Gemma showcased the mechanical device flying above her as she zipped through the Mediterranean sea by boat with Rami.

The trainwreck otherwise known as Mehmet Oz’s doomed U.S. Senate campaign just got even more trainwreck-y (that’s a word, right?) with another terrible poll for the Donald Trump-endorsed TV doctor.A new survey by Franklin & Marshall College finds Oz trailing his Democratic opponent, Lt.

“We always say rest in peace. Why don’t we ever say live in peace?” Rarely has silence said more than during the minute’s remembrance at Manchester Pride’s annual vigil.

Barbie Ferreria has landed her first role since her surprising Euphoria exit.

Madonna already has a buzzy biopic on the way, but the Queen Of Pop’s star shines so brightly that now she’s stealing the spotlight in another biopic entirely.Yes, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is nominally all about the accordion-toting song satirist (his name’s in the title), but the film’s new, full-length trailer gives an awful lot of screen time to Madge and her apparent “bad influence” on Yankovic.Produced by Funny Or Die and coming this fall to The Roku Channel, of all places, Weird finds Daniel Radcliffe donning a curly wig and countless Hawaiian shirts to play the comedic musician. By telling the story of Yankovic’s “troubled” childhood and “tumultuous” rise to fame in melodramatic fashion, the film sets out to parody the music biopic subgenre to wonderfully weird ends.Related: Wait, is Daniel Radcliffe about to make us thirsty for Weird Al? Help! We’re confusedBut no matter how hard Radcliffe’s abs might try to steal our attention (and they are trying—really, really hard), this new clip is all about Madonna.

The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Florida’s “don’t say gay” law have requested a preliminary injunction blocking the law’s enforcement while their suit proceeds.They filed a motion to that effect Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

A trans memorial tree in Manchester's Sackville Gardens has been left 'irreparably damaged' after going up in flames during pride celebrations. The National Trans Memorial, which is the first of its kind in the UK, caught fire on Sunday night (August 29) as revellers enjoyed the third night of pride.

Caitlyn Jenner’s super hypocritical comments about trans women in sports on Fox News last week left golfer Hailey Davidson in an odd place.Jenner came out in support of Davidson golfing competitively against other women, saying that she is “playing by the rules”, as opposed to all the other trans athletes that Jenner has been critical of in the past.This is initially surprising in the face of her previous anti-trans athletics comments. It becomes less surprising, however, with the fact that golf just happens to be Jenner’s sport of choice these days.In her first interview since the segment aired, Davidson carefully threads the needle of responding to a trans figure supporting her through the use of transphobic rhetoric.Related: Caitlyn Jenner was a transphobic trainwreck on Fox News last nightShe starts by telling TMZ that she appreciates the support (a point she reiterates throughout that works well to soften her objections).“The support has been awesome,” she says, though adding that it was “definitely surprising.”She asserts that she and Jenner “sure disagree on some things,” presumably in regard to other trans people in athletics.“I would love to talk to her a little bit more about how we are all athletes, and her experience may not be everyone’s experience.She says that Jenner likely has a much different view as a former decathlete, stating, “With what she was training to do, yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s pretty big and strong.”“While sports are different, it needs to be treated on more of a human basis.

Swifties rejoice! Taylor Swift has announced the name and release date for her tenth studio album. 

There has been outrage after thousands of plastic single use cups were left strewn all over Gay Village following another busy night of Pride celebrations. The event, which has lasted four days over the bank holiday weekend, has seen crowds of people flock to the city to celebrate in style.

A group of people armed with AR-15 style assault rifles stood guard outside a Texas drag queen brunch location Sunday to defend people enjoying the show from armed right-wing extremists bent on disrupting it. Eventually, the two sides clashed, and a local journalist caught it on video.A video showing some of the heated exchanges that ensued went viral on Twitter.  Dallas-area freelance investigative journalist Steven Monacelli posted a thread to his Twitter timeline, where he documented the day’s events.Monacelli also captured this terrifying image of a right-wing extremist menacing the assembled crowd by intimidating them with a baseball bat wrapped in razor wire.

Gemma Collins has dropped a major wedding hint while holidaying on Mykonos. The GC suggested she could get married on the Greek island, where the 41 year old has been enjoying a luxurious getaway with fiancé Rami Hawash, after seemingly picking out a "magical" venue.

 ATLANTA (WGCL) -- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced Monday the arrest and indictment of 26 people she alleges were part of a criminal gang that carried out several home invasions at the homes of Atlanta celebrities.

turned violent for the second year in a row, and instead of arresting the Proud Boys who started the fray, police shot into the crowd of protestors with pepper balls and beanbags.The event was held outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic and the group of far-right militia members and hate preachers was vastly outnumbered by counter protestors. This is the fourth time the group has held the event; the group uses the opportunity to hurl racist and anti-LGBTQ slurs at passersby and protestors while soaking up the local media and police attention.Two counter protestors were arrested by the end of the scuffle.

By now it’s hardly news when Rep. Lauren Boebert rants and raves about President Joe Biden and the Democratic agenda, but her latest appearance on Fox News at least provided fodder for a good laugh.Related: A whole bunch of dirt on Lauren Boebert just leaked and… ewThe Colorado Republican appeared on Sean Hannity’s program and did her best to land a zinger aimed at Biden’s student student loan forgiveness plan, claiming the president is “robbing hard-working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.”The plan promises to cancel $10,000 of student debt for low- to middle-income borrowers, but of course Boebert spiced things up a bit.Lauren Boebert: “Joe Biden is robbing hard working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.” pic.twitter.com/pgzTfQfnPX— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) August 27, 2022“How the heck can Joe Biden call America First conservatives a threat to democracy with a straight face and a dry diaper?” she said.

Last week, Barbie Ferreira announced the sad news that, after two seasons starring on Euphoria, she’s leaving the show. It was a shock and fans were heartbroken that they wouldn’t get to see more of her character Kat Hernandez’s story play out.

So the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) happened last night.

(CNN) — Yeshiva University filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking to block a court order requiring the New York university to recognize a "Pride Alliance" LGBTQ student club.In court papers, the school says that "As a deeply religious Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot comply with that order because doing so would violate its sincere religious beliefs about how to form its undergraduate students in Torah values."Lawyers for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, representing Yeshiva, argued that the lower court's order is an "unprecedented" intrusion into the University's religious beliefs and a clear violation of Yeshiva's First Amendment rights.The New York Court of Appeals refused to review the denial of a stay, prompting school officials to petition the high court, but it has not yet ruled on the merits of the dispute.The application comes as the conservative majority of the court ruled in favor of religious conservatives in two cases last term. In addition, in 2021, the court sided with a Catholic foster care agency that refused to consider same-sex couples as potential foster parents.Justice Samuel Alito has repeatedly called for greater protections for the free exercise of religion including during a July speech in Rome.

Sunday was an incredible day for out singer Dove Cameron. Not only did she perform an incredible and moving medley of her hit singles “Boyfriend” and “Breakfast” during the MTV VMAs but she also took home the award for best new artist at the awards ceremony.It was a tough category as Cameron was up against K-pop group Seventeen and Eurovision winner Måneskin, the latter of which made major waves last year when the duo, Damiano David and Thomas Raggi, shared a passionate kiss on stage in support of LGBTQ+ rights in their home country of Poland.Cameron, a queer artist herself, used the opportunity (and the literal stage) to give love to the other artists in her category, whom she “worships,” but most of all she wanted to take the time to dedicate her win to queer kids everywhere.“I want to dedicate this to all the queer kids out there who don’t feel that they can take up space and inhabit the fullness of who they are,” Cameron began, receiving cheers from the audience.

Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Omar Narvaez joined fellow city council members, Dallas Sport Commission Executive Director Monica Paul, sponsors and GSWS director Ryan Haushusen at Dallas City Hall to welcome the softball games to Dallas. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

Little Mermaid, Ariel.  A post shared by Brian Sims (@briansimspa)Related: Rep. Brian Sims reveals he’s fallen in loveThis isn’t the first time Democratic Rep.

Elijah utilizes their over ten years of organizing and advocacy experiences to help build community and foster a commitment to the collective struggle for our liberation. Originally from Michigan, Elijah chose to attend George Mason University and completed a Bachelors in Government and International Politics with a focus on the intersection of class struggles with LGBTQ+ liberation.

RAE LEINER JOINS AS FIELD DIRECTOR, AND ELIJAH NICHOLS, FIELD ORGANIZER (WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 25, 2022) — The National LGBTQ Task Force announced today that Rae Leiner (they/them) joins the Task Force as our new Field Director and Elijah Nichols (they/them) joins the organization as Field Organizer in the Advocacy and Action Department. Said Kierra Johnson, Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force: “We are thrilled to continue building our field department.

Rae Leiner is a Black identified multi-racial non-binary Queer organizer, activist, and parent currently residing in the Hudson Valley. An experienced facilitator, community organizer, strategic thinker, embodied practitioner, and strategic relationship builder, Rae’s creative thinking and radical dreaming inform their analysis and guide their systemic approach to challenging race, class, and gender injustice.

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’Gorman TD has said that direct provision for migrants in Ireland is unlikely to come to an end by 2024, as it had previously been pledged. Mr O’Gorman cites the Ukrainian war as the main obstacle to ending the 22 year-old widely-criticised system. “The fact that […]

In a new documentary from director Eva Vitija, the private life and public career of lesbian author Patricia Highsmith are spotlighted on the big screen. The film entitled Loving Highsmith is based on the highly-esteemed novelist’s previously unpublished diaries, and features interviews with friends, family, and surviving ex-girlfriends. Born in Texas in 1921, Highsmith spent […]

Billy Eichner‘s big breakthrough came from the frantic and funny Billy On The Street, a series in which he was known for shouting furiously at anyone and everyone who crossed his path.Well, he channeled some of that Billy On The Street energy last night on stage at MTV’s Video Music Awards when we was brought out to introduce a musical performance form Panic! At The Disco.Never has that exclamation mark felt so appropriate.Related: Billy Eichner reveals his first encounter with homophobia came from his own managerLooking fantastic in a sheer black top (running around New York yelling at strangers is great cardio), Eichner kicked things off by hyping up his highly anticipated movie, Bros. Despite having a mic in hand, the star began to yell at full volume about his history-making flick.He reminded everyone that it’s the “first gay rom-com ever made by a major studio” and “the first where every role is played by an openly LGBTQ actor.” And the crowd went wild.And things only got louder from there as Eichner began to spin his movie plug into a tirade against the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v.

A new art exhibition exploring the lives and experiences of older gay men will be launched today in Cork. The project aims at giving older LGBTQ+ people the possibility to express themselves through art and at acknowledging the struggles that they faced at a time when Irish society demonised and vilified them.Produced in association with Cork Gay Project, the exhibition is titled Before The Rainbow…And After and it includes collage images, poetic text, a film piece and a book of photography.

Grassroots Comedy will partner with Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington, D.C. to host “Super Spectacular Comedy Show for Cultural Understanding” on Wednesday, Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m. at Kramers (1517 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.).

The Mayor’s Office of Veteran Affairs will host “Rewriting the Narrative of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. at As You Are DC. 

story published in the Los Angeles Times reveals that Marlon Brando discussed his friendship with and the sexuality of Michael Jackson during a police investigation into child molestation charges in 1994. Brando’s admissions seem to confirm what the documentary Leaving Neverland uncovered earlier this year.The newly uncovered document came to light as part of an ongoing podcast about Jackson’s legal woes: Telephone Stories: The Trials of Michael Jackson. Rather than call Brando before a grand jury, the prosecutors investigating Jackson interviewed him in a sworn deposition instead.

(CNN) -- An ordinary red-brick library in the southern English town of Reading is an unlikely backdrop for the latest front in the battle for equality for the LGBTQ+ community. But  in scenes later repeated across the country-- Covid-19 conspiracists and far-right supporters lobbed homophobic and transphobic slurs at parents and children to try to stop the kids from meeting drag queens.In footage shared online, anti-vaxxer Michael Chaves ​is seen berating parents -- some of whom are carrying infants -- arriving for Drag Queen Story Hour UK, an event at which books promoting compassion and inclusion are read to children.

The bodies of four men murdered in the infamous UpStairs Lounge arson fire in New Orleans, including a veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge during World War 2, may finally receive a proper burial. Earlier this year on the 49th anniversary of the blaze which took place on June 24, 1973, the city council of New Orleans issued a formal apology to the victims and their survivors. ABC News reported the city council passed a motion on Thursday to locate the remains of four men who were buried in a potter’s field. The Up Stairs Lounge fire took the lives of 32 people, injured at least another 15, and was the most deadly attack against the LGBTQ+ community until the Pulse Nightclub massacre in 2016.“The city we are today is not the city we were then,” Councilmember JP Morrell wrote in a statement.

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declared MPV a public health emergency, as has the World Health Organization, and they have recommended that people reduce their number of sexual partners. There is a vaccine against MPV, although supplies have been insufficient, and there is treatment for the virus.Schmidt-Crockett’s remarks echo those made early in the AIDS epidemic.

fourth time as prime minister, has become a darling of the American far right with policies that include bans on same-sex marriage, LGBTQ+ content that is accessible to minors, and legal recognition of transgender identity. His address at CPAC, being held in Dallas this weekend, dealt with those subjects and touched indirectly on his recent remarks saying Europeans should not become “people of mixed race.”He said Hungary is devoted to supporting families and protecting “an institution of marriage as a union of one man and one woman.

In an interview with the right-wing news network OANN, the founder of Gays Against Groomers, compared doctors who practice gender-affirming health care to Nazis.“Anti-indoctrination“ pundit Jaimee Michell said on a recent show that today’s doctors performing gender-affirming care would shame Josef Mengele.“What's happening now would make you know, I think Josef Mengele, I believe that was his name, you know, the Nazi doctor. He, you know, this puts him to shame,” Michell said.Mengele conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jewish prisoners held at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In the interview, Michell falsely claimed that the LGBTQ+ community treats children like lab rats, Media Matters reports.Transgender teenagers cannot undergo gender reassignment surgery in the United States until they are at least 18 years old.

lack of government response to the recent MPV (monkeypox) outbreak, there was a second group of protestors expressing outrage over what they saw as systemic racism that prevented many foreign IAS delegates from attending the conference. It seems many delegates, the majority of whom were from African countries, were denied travel visas by the Canadian government, and therefore could not attend.