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(CNN) -- Ellen DeGeneres fought back tears in her first public video statement since the death of beloved talk show personality and her friend Stephen "tWitch" Boss."Hey everybody. I just wanted to say the past 11 days have been really tough for everyone," DeGeneres said in a video posted to her social media accounts on Friday.

Clive Davis is spilling the details about Whitney Houston‘s lesbian love affair!

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(CNN) -- A version of this story appeared in CNN's Race Deconstructed newsletter.About halfway into the winter finale of the workplace sitcom "Abbott Elementary," we learn why the corny history teacher Jacob, played by Chris Perfetti, is a Christmas killjoy: "Look," he says, "Christmas is not my favorite thing, OK? I don't have a lot of good memories around it."Jacob, who's gay, never elaborates. But as I watched the scene, I thought about how lots of queer people feel a similar unease around Christmas.

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Police have arrested two men in connection with a string of robberies and murders of men who were picked up at bars in NYC.Kenwood Allen, 33, and another unnamed man were arrested and charged with the drug-induced deaths of two men, although police said more charges are expected as their investigation continued.Police alleged the two men were part of a crew who drugged and then robbed unsuspecting men after they had left various Manhattan bars beginning in March of this year, according to a report in the New York Post.Allen was charged with the March 18 death of Nurbo Shera and the July 30 death of Ardijan Berisha. At least 24 other men have been drugged and robbed, and sometimes killed, under similar circumstances, and police have long suspected a crew was targeting inebriated bar-goers in the area.“They target their victims leaving bars, offering drugs in some cases, then either through force or when the victim passes out, they remove jewelry, money, high-end watches and phones from their victims,” James Essig, NYPD chief of detectives, said at a press briefing announcing the arrests.Allen was officially charged with two counts of second-degree murder, three counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of second-degree robbery, and two counts of second-degree assault.The unsolved murders of two gay men suspected of falling prey to the same crew made headlines last month when the mother of one of the victims, Linda Clary, accused Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg of dragging his feet in bringing the murderers of her son, John Umberger, to justice.“I can’t be quiet anymore.

By all accounts, early Hollywood was one big bacchanal for those at the top before the Hayes Code and censorship more closely monitored the public and private lives of celebrities. La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (a call-out to problematic but influential director D.W.

Tom Goss belts out some fab Christmas tunes on Big Fat Gay Ass Christmas. (Photo by Dusti Cunningham)

What a year: 2022 began with a law targeting transgender youth in sports going into effect, and it ends with the astounding news that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to get the Department of Public Safety to compile for him a list of people who had changed the gender markers on their Texas driver’s licenses and state IDs. Between then and now, we saw Gov. Abbott try to criminalize health care for trans youth

Where to begin with a play like One Woman Show? Liz Kingsman’s creation – originally opening at the Soho Theatre last year, and subsequently a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, earning rave reviews – has now opened on London’s West End and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve seen. It’s high concept stuff – Liz is on-stage as the writer, knowingly creating a performance about a character who works in marketing at the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust.

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Gemini Rights artist Steve Lacy has opened up about his “favourite” artists and how they influenced his sound.

Patti LuPone has joined the cast of Marvel’s upcoming series Agatha: Coven of Chaos.

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Meet Lt. Dan, a very happy and energetic little pup who is just over a year old. He is a Labrador retriever mix and has been with the SPCA of Texas since he was a puppy. He weighs 43 pounds and is covered in black fur with a little white underneath. Lt. Dan is celebrating this week because he was just outfitted with his brand new wheelchair! He had the misfortune of being born with deformed front legs. For his first year he managed without them completely and was even adept at rising up on his back legs. Now with his wheelchair exploring will become even easier for him. Lt. Dan is at the Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center, so no appointment is necessary to meet him.

Sometimes it’s easy for me to feel the holiday spirit. And sometimes, it is as if the holidays never existed. This year, for example, I decided that, in addition to the “s

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery director Rian Johnson has revealed why Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc doesn’t share any scenes with his partner. 

Eureka O’Hara is “blessed” now that she’s living her truth as a transgender woman.

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Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, continues through Dec. 26 this year, and Beth El Binah celebrates the holiday Friday, Dec. 23, with a party at a private home featuring latkes and a dairy potluck. A number of LGBTQ-welcoming churches will be holding special Christmas Eve services on Saturday, Dec. 24, and Christmas services on Sunday, Dec. 25, including Cathedral of Hope and Northaven Church. Check listings and church websites for details.

Happy holidays homos and the few straights that seek me out for my warmth, heart and humor. I hope you are all full of the Christmas spirit. Christmas spirit is such a weird and wonderful thing, isn’t it? Some years I feel it, and some years I gotta fake it. Since the world of advert

Stanford University has apologized for a skit performed by its band at Saturday’s football game against Brigham Young University (BYU) at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto.The band, officially known as the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB), performed a halftime skit entitled “gay chicken” that featured two women getting married and kissing, and using terms common in marriages performed by the Mormon church.BYU is ran by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the university repealed a ban on homosexuality a couple of years ago, the school still prohibits same-sex dating. “The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) has a long history of lighthearted and satirical halftime performances,” the Stanford Athletic Department said in a statement to local KSL Sports and BYU student newspaper Universe.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) lashed out with a Bible verse Wednesday morning, after the Senate passed legislation protecting same-sex and interracial marriage, while rejecting his attempt to infuse special religious rights through an amendment that even some Republicans refused to support.

For anyone wondering what marriage means to one of the best-known gay men in the U.S., Chasten Buttigieg has an answer.“My marriage has filled this house with so much love it makes me want to be a better husband, father, and citizen every day,” the husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote in a Tuesday post on Medium. “It’s called me to something bigger than myself while recognizing that my kids are now the most important thing in life, and I’d do anything to protect them.

Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson, whose nightly show frequently has the largest reach of any on cable news, regularly attacks the LGBTQ community with fear-mongering and hate-filled segments about gay people, transgender people, “groomers” and the latest target: “drag queen story hours.”

Police in Scotland are investigating the unexplained death of a man at a gay spa over the weekend. The unidentified 51-year-old man died late Saturday afternoon at the Pipeworks Men’s Health Spa on Metropole Lane in Glasgow. While the death is unexplained, authorities indicated they do not suspect foul play was involved and are instead trying to determine an official cause of death.“We received a report of a sudden death of a 51-year-old man at a premises on Metropole Lane, Glasgow around 7.55 p.m.

A sign at the Colorado Springs headquarters of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian group Focus on the Family was vandalized in protest of the mass shooting at Club Q in that city, a crime that left five people dead and nearly 20 injured.Someone spray-painted “Their blood is on your hands” and “Five lives taken” on the sign at Focus’s headquarters, The Denver Post reports. Officials at the organization wouldn’t say exactly when the incident happened.A group called Colorado Peoples Press claimed responsibility for the incident.

A man in Georgia was arrested for allegedly making terroristic threats on social media against at least two LGBTQ+ nightclubs.Chase Staubs was taken into custody over Thanksgiving for making threats against two gay clubs in Atlanta, Heretic and Felix’s. No motivation was provided for the alleged crimes by police, but police did say a pepper spray gun believed used in the threats was recovered at the suspect’s home.The Atlanta Police Department said in a statement that officers responded on Wednesday to a bar identified as Heretic, meeting with employees who said they “observed threatening remarks made towards their establishment on social media.” On Thursday police responded to Felix’s, where employees and patrons told police they asked Staubs to leave the bar once he was identified.“The person appeared to be the same individual involved in making bias terroristic threats” against the Heretic, police said.RELATED: Photos: Who Were the 5 Victims of the Club Q Shooting?Officers quickly notified detectives with the APD Homeland Security Unit.

(CNN) – One person was killed and 10 more were missing Saturday after heavy rain caused a landslide on the Italian holiday island of Ischia.Search and rescue operations are underway in the small town of Casamicciola Terme and reinforcements are being sent from Naples, said the Italian Fire Brigade, but weather conditions are complicating the search, Italy’s Civil Protection department told CNN on Saturday.Eight people had been rescued as of Saturday evening local time, said the civil protection department.The operations were being coordinated by the Naples prefecture, authorities told CNN, and are expected to continue through the night. Seventy firefighters are currently on the island assisting with the search and rescue, Italian Fire Brigade said in a tweet.Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples, was hit by torrential rain early Saturday, damaging cars, buildings, and roads.Videos and images shared by local and national authorities earlier today showed the destruction in the port town of Casamicciola Terme.“It is a time of pain and great emergency,” Vincenzo De Luca, governor of the Campania region, where the island is located, said on Saturday, thanking Italian Prime Minister Meloni for her close contact and message of solidarity.Meloni said on Twitter that she was in contact with local authorities, expressing solidarity with residents and thanking the rescue services.Ischia mayor Enzo Ferrandino described the incident as a “tragedy” and urged people not to leave their homes, reports ANSA news agency.In February 2021 a landslide on the Italian coast near Genoa caused the collapse of a cemetery, leading to hundreds of coffins falling into the sea.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

Chasten Buttigieg has clapped back at recent right-wing attacks on his husband, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, especially Tucker Carlson’s assertion that Pete Buttigieg “lied” for years about being gay and now wants to talk only about that.Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host lambasted the Cabinet member by saying, “Pete Buttigieg, of course, couldn’t pass up a moment like this,” referring to Buttigieg’s comments about the connection between anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric such as Carlson’s and the mass shooting at queer nightspot Club Q in Colorado Springs.“It’s not like Pete Buttigieg wants to talk about how things are going over at the Transportation Department, which he supposedly runs — short answer: not well,” Carlson said.“No, Pete Buttigieg wants to talk about identity. He always wants to talk about identity.

(CNN) – In the first hours after the Carnival Valor set sail from New Orleans on Thanksgiving eve, a brother and sister set off for a place appropriate befitting the occasion. They headed to an onboard bar.Predictably, the man at one point stepped away to use the restroom.But he didn’t come back.Hours passed.He wasn’t in his stateroom.He had, quite simply, vanished.What happened next has astonished at least one seasoned mariner who, with hours of hindsight, declared the stunning outcome unlike anything he’s ever witnessed – and nothing short of “one of those Thanksgiving miracles.” A search is launched by air and seaIt was around 11 p.m.

An anti-LGBTQ activist who lost her write-in campaign this month for a county clerk position in Utah previously resigned as a teacher over misconduct involving her relationships with students.

The father of the accused Club Q shooter has expressed relief that his child isn’t gay.Aaron Brink, the father of Anderson Lee Aldrich, gave a homophobia-filled interview to San Diego TV station KFMB. Brink, 48, who has worked as a porn star and mixed martial arts fighter and coach, said he wondered what his offspring was doing in a gay bar. Aldrich, 22, is accused of killing five people and injuring nearly 20 at the Colorado Springs nightclub Saturday night.When Brink heard from Aldrich’s defense attorney Sunday, “they started telling me about the incident, a shooting involving multiple people,” Brink said told the station Tuesday.

A local gay man was arrested on Tuesday for the recent brick attacks on a popular Hell’s Kitchen gay bar in NYC. Sean Kuilan, 34, was taken into custody and charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon for three of the four incidents at the VERS gay nightclub which took place within the past two weeks, The Gothamist reports. Three of the incidents were caught on video, and Kuilan was identified with the help of tips to the Crime Stoppers hotline.NYPD chief of detectives James Essig said investigators do not believe the crimes were motivated by anti-gay hatred, but instead resulted from a personal dispute Kuilan’s female friend had with the VERS nightclub.“Basically, what he says [is] he knows a girl who had a problem with one of the guys in the bar and he was ‘exacting revenge,’” Essig was quoted by the NY Post. “As of right now we don’t have any reason to believe it is [a hate crime].”Video of the “perp walk” at the NY Post showed the muscled and handcuffed Kulian escorted to an awaiting unmarked police car.“I’m gay myself,” he quietly responded to reporters’ questions in the video.“Something personal,” he responded when asked why he allegedly threw the bricks.Kuilan, who reportedly goes by the moniker “Paper Kid” in the neighborhood, was also arrested on an outstanding warrant for a 2021 incident of menacing.

(CNN) – With a crippling freight rail strike looming in two weeks, leaders of four railroad unions and management of the major US freight railroads are due back at the negotiating table this afternoon.It will be the first joint negotiating session for the four unions, whose rank-and-file members rejected the five-year labor agreements similar to deals accepted by the eight other rail unions in recent months.The latest no vote came from the largest union, the transportation division of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail Transportation union, or SMART-TD, which represents 28,000 conductors, brakemen, and other workers. About 51 percent of those members voted against the deal reached in a 20-hour bargaining session in September, just hours before a previous strike deadline.“A strike could be averted.

NBC News’ senior reporter Ben Collins is calling for media outlets to have a “come to Jesus moment” – a dose of reality in order to make a major change – in the wake of the Colorado Springs hate crime mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, that left five people dead. A clip of his segment is going viral, with many agreeing the media needs to do a better job.

A CNN guest on Tuesday slammed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker for releasing an ad targeting teen transgender athletes hours after a gunman murdered five people at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs.

Sunday afternoon U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) posted a tweet about the mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in his district and didn’t mention anything about the victims or that it was a crime of hate. He’s received so many angry responses he turned off responses.

Disney fired CEO Bob Chapek after less than two years on the job and brought back former CEO Bob Iger.That comes after missteps on public issues, most notably a failure to oppose Florida’s “don’t say gay” law early. That prompted Chapek in March to publicly apologize to its employees and cease all political donations.Variety reported late Sunday that the world’s largest media company had abruptly decided to reinstall Iger and dump Chapek.

Colorado prosecutors have filed hate crime and murder charges against the suspect in Saturday night’s anti-LGBTQ mass shooting. Five people, including employees of the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q were killed, another 25 were injured. The suspect is believed to have used an AR-15 style rifle.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is being highly criticized for her role in spreading anti-LGBTQ hate and lies after this weekend’s horrific anti-LGBTQ mass shooting in her home state of Colorado, which left dead five patrons of a nightclub that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, and another 25 injured.

The owner of a gay bar in NYC says his establishment has been attacked multiple times in recent days, but police appeared disinterested in investigating.David DeParolesa, the owner of VERS gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen, told the Gothamist an unidentified man has thrown bricks at the windows of his bar three times in the last week, and four times overall. The most recent was the first time the brick thrower was caught on video.When DeParolesa reported the incident to police, though, he said they appeared dismissive and even tried to dissuade him from contacting the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.“They weren't seemingly interested in investigating it at the moment,” DeParolesa told the Gothamist.

In the wake of Saturday's mass shooting at the queer club Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., which left five people dead and at least 18 wounded, advocates point to the increased anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric online and the numerous anti-LGBTQ+ bills drafted in recent months.Far-right influencers have set their sights on the LGBTQ+ community, specifically the transgender community and drag queens, to generate a divisive culture war issue in the run-up to the recent midterm elections. For months, experts have warned that the attacks targeting the LGBTQ+ community were not only bigoted but also dangerous.Now in the wake of the massacre, this time at Club Q, authorities are trying to piece together a motive. However, some say one of the factors is clear: targeted online extremism and stochastic terrorism.While authorities in Colorado Springs have not released why the suspect gunned down at least five patrons at Club Q, the venue called the shooting a "hate attack."A public information officer for the Colorado Springs Police Department said on Sunday that the department is still investigating the reason for the shooting and would not speculate on the motivation.

U.S. House of Representatives member Lauren Boebert is under fire after commenting on the Colorado Springs mass shooting at Club Q. News broke Sunday morning that five people were killed and at least 18 injured by a shooter the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The suspect, who was subdued by two patrons and subsequently taken into custody by police, has been identified as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich.

U.S. House of Representatives member Lauren Boebert is under fire after commenting on the Colorado Springs mass shooting at Club Q. News broke Sunday morning that five people were killed and at least 18 injured by a shooter the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The suspect, who was subdued by two patrons and subsequently taken into custody by police, has been identified as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich.

Five people were killed and another 18 injured in a mass shooting incident last night at a gay nightclub in Colorado.The shooting occurred at Club Q in Colorado Springs just before midnight. Police said they have a suspect in custody. A spokesperson for the Colorado Springs Police, Lt.

(CNN) -- Five people were killed Saturday night at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to police. Another 18 people were injured in the mass shooting at Club Q.Authorities received numerous 911 calls starting at 11:57 p.m.