LGBTQ Entertainment News

[ad_1] This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. On Tuesday, an X account attributed to a Texas man named Zyron Lewis posted a video of Lewis claiming that in 2012, when he was a middle school student, he was sexually assaulted by James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in

[ad_1] Asexual people around the world face pathologization, discrimination, and violence, according to a new report from Outright International. The LGBTQ+ rights organization teamed with British asexual activist Yasmin Benoit and asexual advocates from Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Vietnam to develop the report on global asexual human rights. Its

[ad_1] Donald Trump flew to Greenville, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, to sell Senate candidate Michael Whatley. He spent part of the night on Jon Husted’s ass. “I’m studying his body. I’ve never studied the body of a man before. It’s not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course,” Trump told the crowd

[ad_1] Members of a Washington state high school girls’ cross-country team are speaking out about what has become a national controversy surrounding their transgender teammate. Against the backdrop of a statewide anti-trans sports ban on the November ballot, the members of the Camas High School girls’ cross-country team have been thrust into the national spotlight

[ad_1] Thursday’s new music plans just got a little more exciting. Olivia Rodrigo is bringing Chappell Roan onto “Expectations,” giving the song from her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, a new version and a music video. Oh, we’re so ready. Mark your calendars, because both arrive Oct. 15

[ad_1] Gay Russian journalist Vadim Vaganov fled his home country in 2024, one year after its Supreme Court declared the so-called “international LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” Russia’s government now considers him, the media outlet he works for, Parni+, and other LGBTQ+ journalists and activists as “foreign agents” on par with terrorist extremists. The Russian

[ad_1] In Animals, Gillian Anderson plays the person you call when a situation has gone terribly wrong. In real life, she says her friends can count on her to pick up the phone, too. The actor joined Gayety to discuss Ben Affleck’s Netflix thriller, sharing what she has in common with her character and the

[ad_1] Nebraska’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled on October 16 that the state’s anti-transgender sports measure can remain on its November midterm ballot. Cara Ullman, a registered Democrat, filed the lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Monday, August 31. She alleged that the measure’s explanation, which was on a petition that Nebraskans signed to get

[ad_1] There’s a reason why the wild story of Tony Kiritsis has been adapted into different forms of media over the years: it’s hard for us to keep our eyes and ears away from it.  Born in 1932, Anthony “Tony” Kiritsis was an Indianapolis native who shot to notoriety in 1977 after he kidnapped and

[ad_1] Officials in the Massachusetts town of Swampscott angered many residents last week when they announced two rainbow crosswalks were “restriped” due to “regularly scheduled maintenance.” “The Town recognizes the significance these crosswalks have held for members of our community and appreciates the generosity and spirit behind their original installation,” read a statement from the

[ad_1] Ruaridh Mollica is entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe with superpowers, and a point worth repeating: Who you’re dating doesn’t determine whether you’re bisexual. That’s right, another queer character is joining the MCU! The VisionQuest actor confirmed that his character, Tommy Maximoff, is bisexual while discussing his own connection to the role. For Mollica, who

[ad_1] A new report by Open For Business suggests that a lack of LGBTQ+-inclusive laws and policies has become a massive economic burden for Japan, costing the nation somewhere between ¥6.04 and 16.42 trillion (or $37.3 and 101.5 billion) per year. These costs are fueled by lost earnings from the LGBTQ+ wage gap, as well

[ad_1] Alex and Henry are heading to another royal wedding, and their next chapter comes with an R rating. Consider our interest renewed. Red, White & Royal Wedding, the follow-up to 2023’s Red, White & Royal Blue, has received its U.S. classification for “sexual content/nudity and language.” Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine return as

[ad_1] Out Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg refused to criticize Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan as a radical when speaking to Fox News on Wednesday. Instead, Buttigieg used his response to criticize El-Sayed’s opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, for initially supporting the president’s tariffs and his war in Iran, which have resulted in

[ad_1] Romeo Beckham makes his acting debut in Forty Love, a gay tennis romance whose new trailer shows the two rivals in a heated will-they-won’t-they match. Opposite The Animal Kingdom actor Paul Kircher, Beckham plays a rival who gives an ambitious young player something more than a trophy to think about. David and Victoria Beckham’s 24-year-old son

[ad_1] Ana Lupez, a trailblazing transgender performer, died Wednesday at the age of 82 from heart cancer in the city of Mendoza, Argentina. She was one of the first Argentinian women to undergo gender-affirming surgery and made a career as a renowned actress and dancer, touring through South American countries and making a name for

[ad_1] The Yellowjackets are finally heading home! But how do you explain what happened to everyone who didn’t make it back? Only time will tell… Season 4 Early Release Images Paramount+ has officially released a teaser for the psychological horror drama’s fourth and final season, premiering Nov. 20. After 19 months in the wilderness, the

[ad_1] When groundbreaking lesbian political writer Gloria Anzaldúa grew up as a seventh-generation Tejana and Chicana in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley during the early 1940s, her grandparents had lost much of the land they had owned through “carelessness … white peoples’ greed, and my grandmother not knowing English,” she said. Anzaldúa — who had