Yeshiva University Halts All Student Clubs to Block L.G.B.T.Q. Group

Three people are dead, including the gunman, in a shooting in front of a popular LGBTQ bar in the old town neighborhood of the Slovakian capital of Bratislava on Wednesday evening.

An online exhibit that details Montgomery County’s LGBTQ heritage launched on Thursday on the Montgomery History website.

Glee star Chris Colfer has revealed if he’ll see Lea Michele in the Funny Girl revival.

Emily Ratajkowski is clearing the air amid swirling rumors about her love life. In a new interview with , Ratajkowski, who recently split from ex-husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard, did not go into detail about rumblings that she's dating Brad Pitt, instead maintaining that she's enjoying being newly single.«One of the things I write about in the last essay of the book is about control and kind of understanding that one of the best ways to actually be happy and have some semblance of control is letting go,» Ratajkowski told the outlet.

As the battle over parental rights and protections for LGBT students heats up in Virginia, one state delegate said she will introduce a bill in the legislature's next session that would make it a crime for a parent or guardian not to affirm their child's sexual orientation or gender identity.  The move is in response to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's updated "model policies" on transgender students, which require students to use bathrooms and join sports teams based on their sex at birth, as opposed to their gender identity.  Elizabeth Guzman running for election for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 31st District.

A group of Christian extremists are once again trying to co-opt Halloween (a.k.a. “Gay Christmas”) by turning it into “JesusWeen” and advertising about it on city buses.No, this is not a joke.

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The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency, in particular, was a game-changer, spotlighting the post-Stonewall gay subculture of the early ’80s through frank and provocative images of Goldin’s own New York City community.Related: A candid view from the front lines of the gay liberation movement in 1970s Los AngelesNow, a new documentary is turning the lens on Goldin. From filmmaker Laura Poitras, All The Beauty And The Bloodshed is an epic, stirring look at the past, present, and future of an icon and queer trailblazer.The feature catches up with the raconteur in her fight to take the pharmaceutical industry to task, working to hold the infamous Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis—an epidemic she’s still recovering from herself.It tells Goldin’s amazing story through her own groundbreaking work, thoughtful interviews, and rare footage of her activism and organized protests against the Sackler’s power in the art world, which take her from the Met to the Louvre to the Guggenheim Museum.Related: Masculinity and queer life explored in major new photography exhibitionPoitras—who directed the Oscar-winning Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour—has already been garnering acclaim for All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.

The queens teamed up with comedian Alan Carr on the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

In the first such report of its kind, Victoria’s Coroner said that over 200 LGBTQI Victorians have died by suicide in the past decade. Trigger Warning: This story discusses suicide, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The state’s coroner admitted that that the numbers are likely to be an “undercount” due to “issues with its ability to identify LGBTIQ+ people among deaths investigated by Victorian coroners”.Between 2012 and 2021, there were 208 deaths by suicide by LGBTQI persons, including 34 deaths – the most deaths during the 10 year period – that were recorded in 2014. The numbers also reflected what LGBTQI organisations have been saying for years, young LGBTQI people are the most vulnerable.

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A progress Pride flag was burned at the home of a male couple in Boise, Idaho, after one flag had been stolen and another vandalized earlier.The flag was burned October 4 at the home of married couple John Michael Schert and Brett Perry, the Idaho Statesman reports. They didn’t report the other incidents to police but decided to report this one.“We reported this incident because burning feels like so much of an escalation,” Schert told the Statesman. “It’s quite dangerous, and our house could have caught on fire.

There are "clearly partisan" divides over the inclusion of content addressing LGBTQ+ issues, race, and other supposedly controversial subjects in schools, says a new study from the University of Southern California."While Republican state leaders are backing public schools away from directly addressing race, gender, and sexual identity — as well as their historical injustices — in the U.S., Democratic state leaders are pushing in the opposite direction, mandating curricula and coursework discussing America’s racist origins and legacies and highlighting the contributions throughout history of women and people of color," says the study, titled "A House Divided? What Americans Really Think About Controversial Topics in Schools."Among the general population, both Republicans and Democrats surveyed by USC said it's good to teach high school students about certain subjects, including sex education, voting rights, and racism, but there was a great divide when it came to discussion of LGBTQ+ matters.

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dating app.TikTok user @sharinganivan took to the app with a greenscreen video that showed a screenshot of the messages he exchanged with the bloke about his sexuality.In the clip, which has gained more than 173,000 likes, the lad sent a message asking: "So, you're straight but you're looking for gay sex?"READ MORE: Singletons warned to watch out for controversial new dating trend ‘winter coating’In response, the man maintains that he is heterosexual, but had an odd - and highly confusing - explanation for his use of the app that allows gay men to find hookups.The unidentified man, who refers to himself as "20cm str8 top", replied: "It's not gay to top, lol.""A top" is a phrase used by the LGBT community referring to the person who is dominant in the bedroom or the "pleasure giver" rather than the recipient, according to Urban Dictionary.In the caption, the TikTok user joked: "Well, I guess I'm str8 then." TikTok users were left in hysterics over the interaction as they took to the comments with their best oneliners to inform the mysterious Grindr man that it doesn't work that way.

Photos from the 2022 Atlanta Pride Trans March on October 8. All photos by Russ Bowen-Youngblood.

Photos from Pride Weekend at The Eagle’s new location. All photos by Russ Bowen-Youngblood.

In the grand history of stories like Juwanna Mann and Tootsie, the eSports community now has their very own entry in the “lying about gender to get ahead” canon.5v5 FPS game Valorant recently hosted an open qualifier for their Game Changers championship, a tournament dedicated to showcasing teams of underrepresented genders in the VCT scene. The league has apparently been a bit prone to drama, but none moreso than Eclectiq’s “Cerise” roster.EQ Cerise first hit a rough patch when one of their members, “@carosmacks” was found to be “promoting racist and extremely inappropriate comments,” according to a statement from the team.After ejecting this player from the roster, their scrambling for a replacement member led them into even choppier waters.Now-released Discord DMs show one of the Cerise team members coordinating with a friend, “@dsylexic”, to have him pretend to identify as nonbinary in order to fill the open slot in the explicitly male-exclusive league.Related: Overwatch’s new “Calling All Heroes” initiative aims to give their diversity a major buffThis may have never even been caught if they hadn’t doubled down on controversy.The team was flagged by Riot Games’ anti-cheating software after their very next match, disqualifying them from the league.

homo high holiday, we’ve conjured up 13 of this year’s best bone-tingling gay Halloween parties from across the continent. Iconic goth drag duo The Boulet Brothers slather Los Angeles‘ Hallo-weekend in their trademark creepiness with two nights of fun. This science fiction double feature includes the cast of Boulet Brothers Dragula: Titans and a DJ set by RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Trixie Mattel.

No matter what the occasional adaptation may attempt to do to it (cough cough BoRhap cough), Freddie Mercury’s legacy refuses to waver. Even here in 2022, his soaring vocals and spirit are finding new life.While scouring the archives for Queen’s upcoming reissue of their 13th studio album The Miracle, the band’s production team came across an unreleased song entitled “Face It Alone” recorded in 1988.The track, a stadium rock anthem to independence, was teased over the summer by Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor.“We’d kind of forgotten about this track,” Taylor said.

There’s a new rainbow in the air — or at least, on the airwaves of cyberspace.Randy Rainbow, well known for his hilarious, politically charged parodies of show tunes and pop songs, is now the host of The Randy Rainbow Podcast, taking his work to a new level.The show, which launched September 22 and drops new episodes each Thursday, features interviews, comedy skits, and of course Rainbow’s trademark satirical songs. “It sort of gives me an opportunity to relax a little bit and be myself,” rather than always displaying the heightened, campy persona of his videos and concerts, he says — although that persona is in evidence in portions of the podcast.He had been meaning to do a podcast for a while, and the impetus to get him started came when he got a text message from a man he calls “the great Sean Hayes,” one of his childhood idols.

(CNN) — A Singapore court on Tuesday sentenced an OnlyFans creator to three weeks in prison for breaching a police order to stay off the adult subscription site while he was under investigation for allegedly breaking obscenity laws.Titus Low, 22, pleaded guilty to the charge and another count of transmitting obscene material for which he was fined 3,000 Singapore dollars (about $2,000), according to court documents. He will begin his jail term on October 26, his lawyer told CNN.The sale and production of pornographic materials is illegal in Singapore but that has not stopped OnlyFans from building a following in the conservative city-state — where watching porn is not against the law but online sites are restricted by state censors.Low is the first OnlyFans creator to be prosecuted in Singapore.

Grindr users have called out the dating app’s new CEO for his past conservative tweets. 

‘Yours Forever, Lincoln’October 21 – 29Quarry Theatre@ The Voxel 9 W. 25th St.Baltimore, MD 21218$15-$30Quarrtytheatre.com

When right-wing Florida legislators and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis got the infamous “don’t say gay” legislation passed, they had plenty of help from conservative media outlets and influencers, which then amplified DeSantis’s message once he signed the measure into law.Key to the effort was Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account run by anti-LGBTQ+ activist Chaya Raichik, according to a new analysis by the Daily Dot.

Elliot Page has his next project lined up.

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When Inova opened its Pride Clinic in Falls Church last year, an official hailed the new center as an inclusive space where LGBTQ+ patients would be welcomed at the door with the questions, “What are your pronouns? How do you prefer to be addressed?”

Clear your schedules — Washington’s International LGBTQ Film Festival, Reel Affirmations, is returning for its 29th year of screenings on Oct. 20. 

Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis has opened up about being fearful for her trans daughter Ruby in a new interview. 

On October 13th, 1997—exactly twenty-five years ago—The New Yorker published Brokeback Mountain, a short story by Pulitzer-winning writer Annie Proulx. “Brokeback Mountain” is a bittersweet love story about two cowboys; Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar.

Mateo parece ser un chico adolescente promedio, al menos en su apariencia externa y amor por el fútbol, como es conocido el “soccer” aquí. Pero, él mantiene una profunda parte personal de sí mismo. “mi verdadero yo”, lejos incluso de sus amigos más cercanos y familia, solamente despojándose de su capa protectora en sus incursiones de fin de semana a La Zona Rosa de la Ciudad de México, un vecindario que es el centro de la vida LGBTQ en la capital mexicana, a una hora y media de distancia de Tizayuca.

We all know the LGBTQ community loves horror – that’s why we sometimes call Halloween “Gay Christmas.”

President Joe Biden “has no intention” of meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month, until and unless Russia engages in negotiations for the release of American WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner. 

Letitia James has made it clear that she’s not clowning around with Donald Trump and his alleged criminal empire family business.This morning, the New York state attorney general urged a state court in Manhattan to appoint an independent monitor to keep a close eye on the Trump Organization’s financial dealings as her civil fraud case against the ex-president and his adult children (minus Tiffany Trump) prepares to go to trial.Tiffany Trump: "It's a good time to be me".— NWO Watcher (@NWO_Watcher) October 12, 2022In a statement, James said:Our investigation uncovered the fact that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in significant fraud to inflate his personal net worth by billions of dollars to illegally enrich himself and cheat the system. Since we filed this sweeping lawsuit last month, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have continued those same fraudulent practices and taken measures to evade responsibility.

Growing up in the Mormon church was a challenge for Hunter Sabin, who always felt different. It was when he confessed to his bishop that Hunter lost his priesthood and was forced to be sidelined in the most important community he knew — until, that is, he found drag. Brian sits down with  the “Dom Top Barbie of Texas” to understand the transformative power of being “that bitch.”

YASSSSSS-ified Bunny, we all know that Halloween is the gayest holiday. But what of the film franchise born from its name? The original Halloween is one of the most influential films of the last 50 years, among the most profitable movies ever made, and has launched the career of a legitimate superstar in OG final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, in addition to 11 sequels.

not be in the headlines, but here we are…Recently, the TV host/RuPaul’s Drag Race UK judge/Eurovision commentator extraordinaire was a featured guest at England’s Cheltenham Literature Festival, where he sat down for a live interview with journalist Mariella Frostrup.The conversation touched on a wide range of topics, but it’s Norton’s comments on cancel culture—and why he’d rather not be centralized in that conversation—that have ironically gotten the internet’s attention.In a clip shared by Times Radio, the host shares his confusion over certain public figures decrying cancel culture: “In what world are you canceled? I’m reading your article in the newspaper,” he says with a laugh. “The word is the wrong word.

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Some families manage bakeries, nurseries, or vineyards.

Republican Maryland gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox on Wednesday said there is “transgender indoctrination” in the state’s kindergartens.

The owners of a gay bar in Connecticut were beaten outside their venue by a man who is also said to have assaulted them with homophobic slurs.

We’d love to be a fly on the wall in the Nebraska Governor’s Mansion right now.Susanne Shore, wife of Nebraska’s Republican governor Pete Ricketts, just endorsed the pro-LGBTQ Democrat seeking to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District over the pro-Trump, anti-LGBTQ Republican her husband endorsed earlier this year.Shore just released a video throwing her “wholehearted support” behind Democrat Patty Pansing Brooks for U.S. House, citing Brooks’ passion for serving others, especially children, as her main reason for doing so.“During my time as your first lady,” she says, “one legislator has proven that she will always use her voice to fight for not only those kids and their families, but all Nebraskans–that’s Patty Pansing Brooks.”A special message from Susanne Shore, First Lady of Nebraska: "During my time as your First Lady, one legislator has proven that she will always use her voice to fight for not only those kids and their families, but for all Nebraskans — that’s Patty Pansing Brooks." pic.twitter.com/3yrl5m5IYW— Patty Pansing Brooks (@Patty4Nebraska) October 11, 2022Pansing Brooks’ opponent, incumbent Mike Flood, was elected to the U.S.

Manu Ríos knows sex sells–or at least his agent does. The art of seduction is plastered all over the 23-year-old’s career and on Instagram. The Elite breakout star is not shy to trap his 10 million followers in thirst with his on-screen sex scenes and off-screen selfies. But beyond the smokes and mirrors of his undeniable sex appeal, who is this young internet sensation?   A post shared by Manu Rios (@manurios)As the Spanish sex bomb delivers some serious sex bombs in the forthcoming season 6 of Elite, Queerty staff scourged the Internet for all things Ríos to help make your fantasies about him more real.

The right-wing political views of the new head of Grindr are causing some users to delete the popular gay dating and hookup app.The tag #DeleteGrindr is trending after news incoming CEO George Arison, 44, previously tweeted he was a conservative who supported some of the positions of then-President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. Arrison, who is openly gay, starts his new job on October 19.“FYI I am a conservative & agree with some Trump policies,” Arison wrote in a since-deleted Tweet on February 28, 2020.

The DC Public Library, Little District Books, and the Rainbow History Project are joining forces to host “Secret City – An evening with Jamie Kirchick” on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Southwest Neighborhood Library. Paul Smith of Georgetown University will moderate.

Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish school in New York City, is suspending all undergraduate club activities at least temporarily to avoid recognizing an LGBTQ+ organization.The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday declined to block a lower court’s order for the university to recognize the Pride Alliance.