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EASTENDERS star Michelle Collins has been rushed to the doctors after falling unwell suddenly and needing treatment. The soap actress - who played Cindy Beale in the BBC programme until 1998 - took to Twitter to give her fans a health update.

THERE was a mini Love Island couples' reunion at the Pride of Britain Awards last night - but there was a notable absence. Dami Hope was left dining alone without girlfriend Indiyah Polack inside London's Grosvenor House, but he was joined by co-star pals Davide Sanclimenti, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, Gemma Owen, Luca Bish, Tasha Ghouri and Andrew Le Page.

Christina Perri and hubby Paul Constabile have welcomed a baby girl and we couldn’t be more happy for them!

Two monkeypox-linked deaths became the first MPV fatalities in New York City’s five boroughs on Friday.This takes the total United States deaths linked to MPV up to four, although NBC New York cited that the last update by the CDC was before the deaths in NYC.In a statement, New York City officials said, “We are deeply saddened by the two reported deaths and our hearts go out to the individuals’ loved ones and community. Every effort will be made to prevent additional suffering from this virus through continued community engagement, information-sharing, and vaccination.”The demographics or other information about the residents who died wasn’t available for immediate release, nor was it revealed if they had any other underlying conditions.

Kim Petras and Sam Smith have made LGBTQ+ history with their hit single Unholy.

Princess Andre dazzled in a stunning sequin gown as she walked the red carpet with her family at the Pride of Britain awards. The eldest daughter of Katie Price and Peter Andre posed for pictures in a floor-length dress as her dad and brother Junior joined her on the red carpet.

Heartwarming tributes for Leslie Jordan have started to roll in after his shocking death.

Helen Flanagan smiled for the cameras as she stepped out on the red carpet for the Pride of Britain awards earlier this evening, but kept her left hand out of sight.

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed a suit against the state’s “don’t say gay” law and refused to issue a preliminary injunction blocking its enforcement.U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger, appointed to her position by Donald Trump, made her ruling Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

EMILY Atack, Carol Vorderman and Molly-Mae Hague have led the glitz celebrating the heroic efforts of Britain's finest at the suitably glamorous Pride Of Britain awards. The annual event, marking life-saving acts of heroism and charity fundraising, always draws some of the best from the UK's telly as they celebrate members of the public and their achievements. Carol Vorderman, who has been a long-time host of the event, made a statement in a bold red dress as she made her way onto the carpet.

FILE – Leslie Jordan attends the 2018 PaleyFest Fall TV Previews “The Cool Kids” at The Paley Center for Media on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Jordan, the Emmy-winning actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story,” has died. He was 67. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has temporarily blocked an order for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify before a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn Georgia’s results in the 2020 presidential election.Graham, a South Carolina Republican and ally of Donald Trump, had been subpoenaed to testify in a criminal investigation about interference in the state, which Joe Biden won narrowly over Trump.

The beloved comedic actor Leslie Jordan has reportedly died. The performer was 67 years old.The news was first reported by TMZ.According to their law enforcement sources, Jordan crashed his BMW into the side of a building.

Paramore singer Hayley Williams has championed the LGBTQ+ community and POCs in a heartwarming social media post.

Leslie Jordan, beloved LGBTQ+ comedian and icon, has tragically died at the age of 67.

LGBTQ+ people were detained and subjected to “ill-treatment in detention” in Qatar as recently as last month, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).

(CNN) – Two people were taken into custody after authorities located and later disarmed a possible explosive device at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, police said.At around 4 p.m. Saturday, a device was found on a bicycle parked near the airport’s island-side ferry terminal, according to the airport’s social media account.

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Originally a Stoke New Vic Theatre production, Marvellous has just opened the brand-new @sohoplace theatre – the first new West End theatre to open in the capital for 50 years. It’s based on the book of the same name, which has already been turned into a BAFTA-winning film. It tells the story of unlikely local legend of Newcastle-under-Lyme Neil Baldwin, who is now 74 (and we are told attends each show – he was there on press night); Neil was diagnosed with “learning difficulties” when he was four years old, although they didn’t call it that back then.

Video has surfaced showing a Florida deputy choking and using a taser on an unarmed transgender woman in 2020.In the video, Deputy Sean Bush of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office can be seen responding suddenly and violently after Jenny DeLeon, then 24, appeared to touch him, slamming her to the ground before choking and tasing her.DeLeon, who was found murdered last November, was charged with battery and resisting arrest. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail after receiving credit for time served.“Following review of body-worn camera video, HCSO launched a thorough and timely internal investigation,” a spokesperson for the HCSO spokesperson told HuffPost in a statement.

Although many LGBTQ+ couples enlist the services of sperm banks and even though there exists a shortage of samples from Black men in sperm banks across the country, men who have sex with men continue to be forbidden from donating sperm. TreVaughn Roach-Carter, 26, made that discovery when he received a rejection email a day after contributing to the Sperm Bank of California.The email informed him that since he had indicated that he was gay, and Food and Drug Administration regulations prohibit anonymous sperm donations from men who have had sex with men within the past five years, he could not donate anonymous sperm, the Washington Post reports.“I thought these bans were something that was long gone and over and that I wouldn’t have to worry about it,” Roach-Carter told the paper.He explained that being a donor was essential to him as a gay Black man because he feels that people ought to have the right to have families that look like them. The Post found that Black sperm donors make up less than 2 percent of sperm donors who have donated to the largest cryobanks in the U.S.Roach-Carter also said that it was also important to help LGBTQ+ couples who utilize the services of sperm banks to have children.“I know that when the time comes for me to have children, it will be a lengthy, stressful, and also probably expensive process.

A new study has found that most people who initiate gender-affirming treatment in their youth continue it as adults — undermining the argument by right-wingers that transgender people are likely to regret such treatment and even detransition, and that young people are not ready to make decisions about gender transition procedures, even though they do so in consultation with parents and doctors.The study, from Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands, looked at 720 people who had been treated with puberty blockers and hormones at the center as adolescents and whether they continued with gender-affirming care.“Most participants who started gender-affirming hormones in adolescence continued this treatment into adulthood,” says a summary of the study, which was published online Thursday by The Lancet. “The continuation of treatment is reassuring considering the worries that people who started treatment in adolescence might discontinue gender-affirming treatment.” “Most,” in this case, was 98 percent.“To our knowledge, this study is the first to assess continuation of gender-affirming hormones in a large group of transgender individuals who started medical treatment with puberty suppression in adolescence,” the report notes.“The key message [of the study] is that the majority of people who went through a thorough diagnostic evaluation prior to starting treatment continued gender-affirming hormones at follow-up,” Dr.

How’s this for a fairy-tale story? Rob Madge built a following on social media by posting hilarious home videos, many of which went viral during the pandemic; Rob reached out to the team at London’s Turbine Theatre to see if they would commission a play based on those videos. The result – My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) – premiered in June 2021 at the Turbine. We went to check it out at the time, describing it as “an uplifting and life-affirming piece of theatre”. Following a successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, it now returns to London – but its new home is the glittering Garrick Theatre on London’s West End.

Baby has issued a statement on her unexpected Drag Race UK exit.

(CNN) – Hurricane Roslyn slammed into west-central Mexico on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and threatening inland flooding. Two deaths have been reported.“This rainfall could lead to flash flooding and landslides in areas of rugged terrain,” the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.As of 2 p.m.

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HBO Max has released new images from Titans season four that hints at Robin’s potential new boyfriend. 

A childhood sexuality expert is advocating that Scots schoolchildren should be taught about pornography.

Pop icon Madonna has reflected on her polarising coffee table book Sex in light of its 30th anniversary.

Bobby (Billy Eichner) and Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) in ‘Bros.’ (Courtesy photo)

Jack Evans, left, and George Harris wait in line for their marriage license on Marriage Equality Day. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

Grab your costumes! LOOSE CHANGE has announced a new Halloween-themed event just in time for spooky season. 

She is coming back home, and she is coming as her true, authentic self! Kerri Colby, who grew up in Dallas, transitioned after moving to Los Angeles and then competed in Season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will be the special guest at the Texas Trans Pride celebration on Friday night, Sept. 30, starting at 7 p.m. in the Rose Room inside S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. The event is presented by Prism Health North Texas, Arttitude and Transgender Pride of Dallas. Read Dallas Voice’s interview with Kerri in our Sept. 16, 2022 issue, or online atDallasVoice.com.

Amy Schneider, who demonstrated she’s “just a normal person like we all are,” except really smart; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the first out LGBTQ person to be the face of the White House; Jo Acker, a security guard who gave her life to defend others; teen activists who stood up against Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill who we’re calling The Say Gay Teens; and whose music and video art brought gay culture to mainstream audiences; and George M. Johnson, one of the most banned authors of the year who became an outspoken critic of the right’s war on inclusive literature.The five nominees for LGBTQ Nation 2022 Hero of the Year represent the best that we can be and how we can confront the worst.

Maren Morris just launched a new T-shirt in support of trans rights groups, especially LGBTQ youth. 

With her hair tied in a high ponytail, Bruna bends over a client, using her vibrant and outgoing personality to keep them comfortable and amused during their time together.The services offered at the Inkspace Studio in New Delhi’s bustling Hauz Khas neighborhood are similar to those provided by other tattoo studios in the area. But the artist is unique. 27-year-old Bruna has two lives. When catering to clients in her studio, she is a woman with an outgoing personality.

Hallmark Christmas movies, and I’ve always enjoyed Macfarlane’s work as a charming romantic lead in them, but “Bros” offers the kind of complexity and shading (to say nothing of humor) that Hallmark never could. Anyone coming into this film only knowing Macfarlane for his cozy cable movies will leave with a new appreciation of this versatile actor’s wheelhouse.Cinematographer Brandon Trost (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) bathes the film in a romantic-comedy glow, whether Bobby and Aaron are falling for each other in Manhattan or in Provincetown, and overall, “Bros” harkens back to old-school rom-coms and their more recent iterations.

Victor I. Cazares declares over cups of Prosecco in the dressing room of New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW).

Thousands of students in schools across Virginia participated in walkouts and rallies on Tuesday to oppose the revised “model policies” on transgender students released by the Virginia Department of Education.

Whitman-Walker Health, which provides medical as well as legal services for the D.C.-area LGBTQ community, was among 25 community-based organizations to receive a grant from the D.C. government earlier this month to provide legal support for immigrants.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reflected on her record of support for the LGBTQ community and pledged to continue that support if elected to a third term as mayor during an appearance Monday night before the Capital Stonewall Democrats, the city’s largest local LGBTQ political group.

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transgender students can access and which sports team they can join. The walkout comes nearly a year after Youngkin, who says the policies protect parental rights, rode a wave of culture war discontent over schools to be elected Virginia's first Republican governor in a decade."The student voice is clear: we don't want @GlennYoungkin to politicize our education and use our community as a political pawn," the Pride Liberation Project said in a tweet, a student-led LGBTQ advocacy group based in Virginia that's expecting walkouts in nearly 100 schools.

The Prince George’s County, Md., Board of Education and transgender former teacher Jennifer Eller have reached a settlement agreement regarding a 2018 discrimination lawsuit that Eller filed against the P.G. school system, according to a statement released by Eller’s attorneys.

LGBTQ Nation nominates five such people for our 2022 Social Media Hero.The nominees are Olivia Julianna, a teen who stood up to a powerful Republican lawmaker and raised millions for reproductive freedom; Dexter Mayfield, an Instagramer who showed us that big is beautiful after he got on the cover of Out magazine; Korynn Dickey, who came out and stood up to her Republican lawmaker dad; Taylor Blake, who educates her followers about wildlife and whose emu stole the show; his followers on TikTok and Instagram about life as a trans dad and promoted protests against anti-trans laws; and Blair Imani, who uses her large platform on to show what it’s like to be Black, queer, and Muslim.The nominees for LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Social Media Hero stood out from the crowd and kept us scrolling for more. Vote now for LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Social Media Hero.Olivia JuliannaIn one of the most shocking, hilarious and ultimately satisfying Twitter feuds of the summer, 19 year-old queer activist Olivia Julianna truly got back at Rep.

is now suing the city of Austin, Texas.The Rev. Andrew Fox, 54, who was a volunteer fire department chaplain from 2013 to 2021, accuses the city of violating his free speech and religious rights over a comment on his blog.

‘Before We Were Trans’By Kit Heyamc.2022, Seal Press$30/352 pages

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