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Tuesday, October 1st, 2024




Ang Lee at Film Festival


The first Borscht Belt Film Festival is set to debut from Friday, Nov. 1 to Sunday, Nov. 3 in the village, according to an announcement.

The festival, to be held at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal St., will feature a full lineup of films highlighting the history of the area. Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (“Life of Pi,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) will attend the inaugural festival for the screening of his 2009 film, “Taking Woodstock,” which will be shown Saturday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m. The comedy-drama offers a Borscht Belt backstory to the creation of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival,” the announcement said.

The festival will open with the documentary, “The Catskills,” screening at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1. The documentary features interviews with many of those involved with local resorts. Following the screening, a conversation will be held with the film’s director, Lex Gillespie, and historian Peter Alan Chester.

The 1950 film “Catskills Honeymoon” will be shown Saturday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. The film showcases performers of vaudeville comedy and musical acts in both English and Yiddish, and was shot on location at Young’s Gap Hotel in Parksville. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Yiddish film historian Eve Sicular and Jay Blotcher of the Catskills Borscht Belt Museum.

Ang Lee at Film Festival



Gay Student Assaulted

A 17-year-old gay student at Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, Calif., was injured after being assaulted by another student, the culmination of what the student and his mother say is a year-long battle against bullying, discrimination, and administrative inaction. The senior, whom The Advocate is not identifying to protect his privacy, suffered back injuries after being physically attacked on September 6, while cleaning up his Gender and Sexuality Alliance club’s table during a school event.

The student’s mother, Veronica Garcia, tells The Advocate that she has been advocating for her son’s safety for over a year, filing complaints with the school and district and initiating a Title IX complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Despite these efforts, she says her son has faced consistent bullying from students and discriminatory treatment from school staff, including an incident where a band director singled him out over rumors of his romantic interest in another male student.

As president of the school’s GSA, the student set up a table for “club rush,” an event meant to encourage students to join extracurricular activities, the student tells The Advocate. He and his fellow GSA officers were subjected to derogatory remarks throughout the event. While cleaning up, a male student flipped the GSA’s table, causing the GSA president to fall backward and hit his back against a concrete planter, he says.

“The whole thing happened so fast,” the student says. “One moment, I was packing up and the next I was on the ground. My back hit the planter hard, and I couldn’t believe someone would actually do that.”

Gay Student Assaulted




Lesbians Obsessed With Jean Smart


“Saturday Night Live” host Jean Smart kicked of this year’s 50th season of the storied sketch show with a monologue highlighting its home city, the Big Apple.

Taking the stage in a sparkly pink pantsuit, the “Hacks” star said, “I can’t tell you how honored I am to be hosting the premiere episode of Season 50. It truly is incredible to be here.” She added with a grin, “I haven’t gotten all dressed up and had hundreds of people clap for me in days,” referencing her recent Emmy win for lead actress in a comedy series.

Smart reflected on watching the very first episode of “SNL” and thinking to herself how she’d host the show someday. “And this was the first Saturday that worked for my schedule,” she said with a smirk. Recalling her New York City beginnings as a young actor in her 20s, Smart quipped, “I always think of New York as my home, even though I have a much nicer home in L.A.”

She broke into song, highlighting the stenches, sights and sounds of New York, and the changing seasons, too. “I love autumn in New York… the color of trash bags changing.” She also noted seeing Mayor Eric Adams in the news. “I didn’t read it, I’m sure it was something good.” (The mayor recently pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges.)

Lesbians Obsessed With Jean Smart



Bisexuals Should Always Be Winning


Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are currently promoting their new film, We Live in Time, which just premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and was picked up by A24 for wide theatrical distribution. In one silly TikTok video, Garfield and Pugh reacted to a fan comment that read, "Bisexuals celebrate everywhere WE WON."

"That's a huge, important demographic of people that we want to celebrate," Garfield started, still unsure of what that comment even meant. Pugh added, "And they've won." Garfield asked, "And they feel like they're winning?" Pugh replied, "Yeah."

"That's so beautiful…" Garfield reacted. Pugh agreed, "It's a wonderful thing."

Garfield concluded, "It's a beautiful thing. Bisexuals should always be winning."

Indeed, Garfield, it's beautiful thing. And we agree, Pugh, that it's a wonderful thing. And we love to hear the sound of "bisexuals should always be winning," too.

Written by Nick Payne and directed by John Crowley, We Live in Time is a decades-spanning film about two people who meet by chance, fall in love, and must deal with a hard truth that is thrown their way. The movie has Garfield playing Tobias and Pugh playing Almut. The cast also features Adam James, Douglas Hodge, Marama Corlett, Grace Delaney, Lee Braithwaite, Aiofe Hinds, Kerry Godliman, Robert Boulter, Niamh Cusack, Amy Morgan, and Lucy Briers, to name a few.

Bisexuals Should Always Be Winning




Traveling For Care


In the future, Veronica sees herself in a big city.

“I like chaos and spontaneousness,” she says, and she doesn’t get much of that in her town surrounded by farmland outside of Des Moines. It’s slow and boring, she says. Matching rows of ranch houses line wide manicured streets, with SUVs parked in the driveways.

Veronica is 17. She has two more years of high school, then she can graduate and leave.

Hers is not just the usual adolescent wanderlust. This Iowa town has turned out to be a punishing place to be a transgender teenager. Her mom, Emily, has fought to change her name in the high school’s system. There's no good option for which bathroom to use at school. Emily says neighbors and classmates have made cruel comments.

NPR has agreed not to use the family’s last name because of concerns for Veronica’s safety.

Iowa was part of a wave of states that passed laws related to transgender young people in the last two years. Currently, 26 states have laws on the books banning gender-affirming care for trans teens, and an estimated 110,000 trans teenagers live in states with bans in effect. Virtually all major U.S. medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, support access to gender-affirming care for young people.

Traveling For Care



What Is Two-Spirit?


Siihasin Hope. A proud Native American with a big passion for culture.

"My great-grandmother, who helped raise me, was 109 and a really traditional Diné person," they said.

Hope identifies as a two-spirit person and uses they/them pronouns. According to the Indian Health Service, a two-spirit person is a male-bodied or female-bodied person with a masculine or feminine essence. Two-spirits can also cross social gender roles, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

"I'm intersex, and oftentimes, I'm perceived as a woman," they said. "Biologically, I have really high testosterone levels."

Hope added, their body functions a bit differently. They don't have menstrual cycles and may not be able to have children.

"We don't assign gender. We actually allow people to take up those roles, however they identify themselves," they said.

In Diné culture, this is also called nadleeh. The term loosely translates to "one in a constant state of change".

What Is Two-Spirit?



Pauley Perrette is an Ally


NCIS star Pauley Perrette's entire life has been spent as an ally for the LGBTQ+ community, so it's no wonder that when she branched into producing and directing, the untold stories of these men and women were at the forefront of her mind.

She began with 2013's Citizen Lane, about one of the 20th century's most extraordinary civil rights attorney's, 'freedom rider' Mark Lane, and now, 11 years on, has helped to produce the new documentary Studio One Forever, telling the untold story of Los Angeles' iconic disco which became a beacon of hope for men in the 1970s and 1980s.

"This is the [story] that [director Marc Saltarelli] has been talking about and dreaming about for so long  – it's important for history's sake, and it's important for the message," she tells HELLO!

"There's one reason I love documentaries, and it is because we have to remember. In society today, it [feels] like we're not paying attention to history and if you don't, we are going to repeat mistakes," she said.

"This film has a lot to do with prejudice and racism and the unfair nature of the way things were – and it really brings that to light in such a very human way."

At the height of its popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s, Studio One saw the merging of the gay community and Hollywood elites: Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart were both regulars, Chita Rivera, Joan Rivers and Ike & Tina Turner often performed there, while Sammy Davis Jr. and Paul Newman were on its board of directors.

Pauley Perrette is an Ally



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Tuesday, October 8th, 2024




Santaolalla Scores Dracula


Just in time for Halloween, the LA Opera has put together a spectacular treat for movie and music lovers: a screening of the rarely seen 1931 Spanish-language Dracula complete with a newly commissioned score by two-time Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla.

The music will be played live by the LA Opera Orchestra under the direction of resident conductor Lina González-Granados. The Argentine-born Santaolalla, 73, also will play electric guitar (but not his signature ronroco).

Suitably, the screenings on Oct. 25, 26 and 27 will take place at the gothic United Theater — a 1,600-seat palace that first opened in 1927 — in downtown Los Angeles. There will be English subtitles, and the audience is invited to come in costume.

Before the advent of sound in the movies, studios could just change the language of the intertitles to get their message across to overseas audiences. But when the talkies arrived, some elected to shoot new foreign-language versions.

For the Spanish-language Dracula, Universal employed a different director, actors and crew to work at night on the same sets — and in many of the same costumes — that were used during the day for the Tod Browning version that made Bela Lugosi a legend.

Santaolalla Scores Dracula



Anti-Gay Man Fired Over Past

Corey DeAngelis, a prominent advocate for conservative education reform and the face of the institutional privatization or ‘school choice’ movement, has been fired from the American Federation for Children after his past involvement in gay adult films came to light, Reason reports.

DeAngelis, previously a senior fellow at the AFC, had been a vocal critic of LGBTQ+ rights in education, frequently aligning himself with far-right groups like Moms for Liberty and PragerU. His work focused on diverting public funds to private and charter schools, often invoking parental rights and fighting against what he called “woke indoctrination” in schools. However, his past, which includes performing in gay adult entertainment films under the pseudonym “Seth Rose” around 2014, triggered accusations of hypocrisy from LGBTQ+ advocates.

“Corey is no longer at AFC,” a spokesperson told Reason. “We wish him well in his next endeavors, and we remain focused on our mission to expand educational opportunity for families, particularly lower-income families, across the country.”

Earlier, a spokesperson told The Advocate that DeAngelis had been placed on leave while the organization investigated the matter. Since then, neither DeAngelis nor the AFC has commented publicly about his status. “This employee has been placed on leave as we look into the matter, and we will not be commenting further,” a spokesperson for AFC told The Advocate last week. The same AFC spokesperson who confirmed DeAngelis’s suspension did not respond to multiple requests from The Advocate to confirm his firing.

Anti-Gay Man Fired Over Past




Kirsten Tan and Crocodile Rock


New York-based Singaporean filmmaker Kirsten Tan is set to direct “Crocodile Rock,” a film that explores the underground lesbian club culture of 1990s Singapore. The project is currently being presented at the Busan Asian Project Market (APM).

Tan’s debut feature “Pop Aye” (2017) earned international acclaim including awards at Sundance and Rotterdam. “Crocodile Rock” follows a homeless teenage drifter named Pepsi through the trancelike underbelly of lesbian club culture, intertwining her story with those of an elusive bar owner and an idealistic student activist.

‘Crocodile Rock’ is inspired by the longest-running lesbian bar in Singapore of the same name that operated throughout the ’90s,” Tan said. “I first learned of ‘Crocodile Rock’ over a dinner party from an older lesbian friend who regaled me with tales of an entire community of women who lived their fullest and most colorful selves and identities through this bar. It hit me soon after that had I not attended this dinner party, I would not even have known of this important landmark in Singaporean queer history, and I am only one generation away.”

“Queer erasure is real, and history tends to omit us. With the repeal of Section 377A [a British colonial law that criminalized gay sex repealed in 2023], it finally feels safe to do a queer film in Singapore. I hope to do as much as I can to patch the gaps of queer narratives in history, so that our interconnected hopes, struggles, dreams and failures will make sense on the larger canvas of time,” Tan said.

Kirsten Tan and Crocodile Rock



Bisexual Coming-Of-Age Movie


Eighteen-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) might be instantly recognizable to anyone who’s ever been a teenager from a small town. She’s just weeks away from leaving behind her quiet and all-too-familiar childhood surroundings for the excitement and promise of college in “the city” – Toronto, in this case – and already has one foot out the door. Spending time with her parents and little brothers takes a back seat, of course, to hanging out with her best friends around the Muskoka Lakes in her dingy old motorboat and finally hooking up with her longtime crush.

What differentiates Megan Park’s sneakily affecting and quirkily-titled My Old Ass from other last-summer-before-adulthood movies is its high-concept premise of a hallucinogenic trip which proves literally existential. For her birthday, Elliott and friends Ro (Kerrice Brooks) and Ruthie (Maddie Ziegler) camp out in the woods and take mushrooms. Elliott’s experience conjures up her 39-year-old self, played by the always fascinating Aubrey Plaza.

Younger Elliott has a lot of questions – plus a couple of harsh critiques – for Older Elliott. Older Elliott is happy to impart some sage wisdom and advice, to a point. Don’t take time spent with your family for granted. Wear your retainer. Oh, and also: Avoid anyone named Chad.

Almost immediately Elliott meets a gangly guy around her age named – what else? – Chad (Percy Hynes White); he’s taken a summer job on her parents’ cranberry farm. Up to this point, she’s only ever been romantically interested in women. But she’s drawn to him anyway, partially because any headstrong teenager would be compelled to rebel against Older Elliott’s frustratingly vague warning, and also because Chad is effortlessly charming and almost-too-perfect in every way. She tries pushing him away, but the two collide, the experience throwing everything Elliott thought she knew about herself and her sexuality into whack.

Bisexual Coming-Of-Age Movie




Romania's Refusal Violates Rights


Refusing to recognise a citizen's change of first name and gender legally acquired in another member state is contrary to EU law and constitutes an obstacle to the exercise of the right of free movement and residence, the European Court of Justice ruled on Friday.

The decision follows a request by a British-Romanian citizen who changed his first name and title from female to male in 2017 and obtained legal recognition of his male gender identity in 2020 in the United Kingdom, where he had been living since 2008.   

On the basis of these documents, the concerned citizen then asked the local authorities in his home country of Romania to register the change on his birth certificate and requested new documents reflecting his change of first name, gender and personal identification number.

The Romanian authorities refused to do so and instead asked him to open separate proceedings in Romania before the national courts to confirm the change of gender.   

The individual therefore opened proceedings before a Bucharest court, which then referred the issue to the EU's top court, asking whether Romania's refusal to recognise the UK decision was within EU law and whether Brexit had any impact on the dispute.

Romania's Refusal Violates Rights



Genderqueer Book in Australia


The Australian classifications board made a “broadbrush dismissal” of over 500 submissions calling for a ban of the book Gender Queer by labelling those submissions as anti-LGBTQ+, a court has heard.

In July last year, the Classification Board rejected calls to restrict access to a memoir about gender identity that was the target of conservative campaigns to have it banned in the US, and found the content was appropriate for its intended audience.

Right-wing activist Bernard Gaynor had applied to the board in early 2023 to review the classification of the graphic novel-style memoir about gender identity by writer Maia Kobabe.

Complaints about the book – which details Kobabe’s experience coming out as non-binary – are focused on the cartoon images of sex scenes, one of which has been described by critics seeking a ban as “pornographic” and “paedophilic”.

When the Australian Classification Board upheld its original decision to classify the book as unrestricted with the consumer advice of “M – not recommended for readers under 15 years”, Gaynor appealed against the ruling to the federal court.

Genderqueer Book in Australia



Pauley Perrette is an Ally


NCIS star Pauley Perrette's entire life has been spent as an ally for the LGBTQ+ community, so it's no wonder that when she branched into producing and directing, the untold stories of these men and women were at the forefront of her mind.

She began with 2013's Citizen Lane, about one of the 20th century's most extraordinary civil rights attorney's, 'freedom rider' Mark Lane, and now, 11 years on, has helped to produce the new documentary Studio One Forever, telling the untold story of Los Angeles' iconic disco which became a beacon of hope for men in the 1970s and 1980s.

"This is the [story] that [director Marc Saltarelli] has been talking about and dreaming about for so long  – it's important for history's sake, and it's important for the message," she tells HELLO!

"There's one reason I love documentaries, and it is because we have to remember. In society today, it [feels] like we're not paying attention to history and if you don't, we are going to repeat mistakes," she said.

"This film has a lot to do with prejudice and racism and the unfair nature of the way things were – and it really brings that to light in such a very human way."

At the height of its popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s, Studio One saw the merging of the gay community and Hollywood elites: Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart were both regulars, Chita Rivera, Joan Rivers and Ike & Tina Turner often performed there, while Sammy Davis Jr. and Paul Newman were on its board of directors.

Pauley Perrette is an Ally



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Tuesday, October 15th, 2024




Interview with Jake


As a stage and screen actor, Jake Gyllenhaal is in the business of making realities from language. His personal theories on acting are like a re-spun version of the linguistic propositions in J. L. Austin’s 1962 book How to Do Things with Words. The British philosopher proposed that language didn’t merely communicate but enacted. A promise, a command, a warning, a declaration (“I now pronounce you man and wife!”)—such performative speech acts, Austin said, didn’t just describe the world but intervened in lived experience. Gyllenhaal, by interpreting the instructions of the script, transmutes the written word into an embodied text. “Acting is an interpretation of somebody else’s text,” he says. “So, if you’ve ever written an essay, it’s about writing an essay with your behavior.”

Movement talks in even his earliest adult roles: As Homer Hickam in biographical drama October Sky (1999), his shuffling gait conveys an earnestness as much as anything he says, and his tortured smirk is among the most memorable elements of his performance as the lead in Donnie Darko (2001). Gyllenhaal debuted, at the age of 11, in the Western City Slickers (1991), and in the more than three decades since, his career has spanned such varied roles as a dejected young adult in the West End production of Kenneth Lonergan’s play This Is Our Youth (2002), a closeted cowboy opposite Heath Ledger in Ang Lee’s romantic drama Brokeback Mountain (2005), and a deeply moral veteran-turned-police officer in David Ayer’s sleeper-hit cop thriller End of Watch (2012). Gyllenhaal is a true shapeshifter, with an inimitable attention to character detail, soon to be on display as he stars as Iago in the upcoming 2025 Kenny Leon-directed Broadway production of Othello, alongside Denzel Washington in the title role. As if these performances weren’t enough, last year he published a children’s book with Greta Caruso called The Secret Society of Aunts and Uncles.

Swiss art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist is likewise a master of linguistic performance. The artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries (where he’s worked since 2006), Obrist is perhaps best known for his unparalleled production of ultra-detailed artist interviews, inspired by those between Pierre Cabanne and Marcel Duchamp, which he read as a student. He began publishing these now-canonical conversations in Artforum in the ’90s, and later collected them in numerous books like his two-volume Interviews and The Infinite Conversations.

Interview with Jake



NFL Donation to Honor Nassib

The NFL is donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project, the favorite LGBTQ advocacy group of Carl Nassib, for National Coming Out Day, the gay former player said today.

“A huge, huge thank you to the NFL,” Nassib said on the NFL Network in announcing the donation. “It’s really positive stuff.”

Nassib came out as gay in 2021 and at the time donated $100,000 to the Trevor Project, which seeks to prevent LGBTQ youth from harming themselves, and the NFL matched the donation. He retired prior to the start of the 2023 season after a career with Cleveland, Tampa Bay and Las Vegas.

The Trevor Project has been a cause important to Nassib, something he again stressed in his announcement today.

“When I came out in 2021, it was important to me to let LGBTQ+ young people know that they are not alone,” Nassib said in a statement. “It has been an absolute honor to use my platform to shine a light on The Trevor Project’s life-saving services. The Trevor Project is near and dear to my heart, so it’s especially meaningful to me that the NFL has renewed their $100K commitment to support the organization’s mission to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people.”

Jaymes Black, chief executive of the Trevor Project, talked about how important it is for sports to create safe spaces.

NFL Donation to Honor Nassib




t.A.T.u - Pretend Lesbians


A couple months ago, I was working on one of my many Spotify playlists, going through songs from the early aughts, when “All the Things She Said” by Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. came up as a suggested track. I immediately hit “add to playlist.” 21 years after the song’s initial release, it’s still a bop. (Let’s not talk about the 21 years ago part, I am simply not in the mood to hurt my own feelings right now.)

Lena Katina and Julia Volkova, otherwise known as t.A.T.u, were packaged as a pair of pixie-like schoolgirl lesbians — what every man imagines lesbians look like — by managers Ivan Shapovalov and Alexander Voitinskiy. The name t.A.T.u. is a shortened version of the Russian phrase “Та любит ту,” which means “This [girl] loves that [girl].” The two men were inspired by the Swedish teen film Show Me Love, which is about two girls in a small town who realize they like each other.

“All the Things She Said” came out my junior year of high school, the same year I began my very own sapphic journey, and Show Me Love was the first sapphic film I’d ever seen, shown to me by the first girl I’d ever kissed. t.A.T.u. also has a song called “Show Me Love” on their debut album, and I remember illegally downloading it and burning it onto a mix CD. I listened to it so much it made up for the possible viruses I put onto our family computer.

“All the Things She Said” really made its impact in 2003. You couldn’t escape it — my local radio station played it all the time and I recorded it every single time. It was the first song I’d ever heard on the radio that was explicitly a girl singing a song about another girl. Listening to it in the privacy of my room felt like an open secret — I couldn’t believe that it was allowed on the radio! Even at 17, I understood a lot of their branding and imagery was created for the male gaze, and it didn’t matter much to me. Music was such an important part of my life at that age; just being able to sing along with a song on the radio that used female pronouns was life changing.

t.A.T.u - Pretend Lesbians



Surprise Bisexual Icons


The beauty of bisexuality is that there are as many ways to be bi as there are bi people in the world, as proved by pretty much every character in the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. But since the characters in that film are, in fact, animated and not actual people, we are taking this time to highlight some living breathing bi-cons who may have sparked bisexual awakenings just as powerful as those brought on by a beloved Disney movie.

For a while, bisexuality was defined as an attraction to both men and women, but bi activists have progressed the definition to a more expansive one: Today, bisexuality serves as an umbrella term that sometimes includes pansexual and sexually fluid people, and is understood as a sexual attraction toward more than one gender (often known as bi+). Visibility is such a valued aspect of the bisexual community, and many bisexual celebs, especially recently, are loudly and proudly claiming that term. But when conceived as a broader umbrella term, the bisexual family could also include a wide swath of celebrities — from scientists to Survivor contestants to Academy Award winners — who have opened up about their personal lives over the years.

Because we bisexuals are nothing if not thoughtful and inclusive, we’ll give an honorable mention to celebs who at one point identified as bisexual, but later threw in the purple-pink-blue towel. Jessi J (being bi was “a phase”), Nicki Minaj (“Used to be bi, but now I’m just hetero”), and David Bowie (who said claiming bisexuality was the “biggest mistake [he] ever made”). Bi-cons no more, but they live on in our history.

The celebrities on this list, even if they’re not hoisting the bi flag over their heads at all times, have not to our knowledge disavowed their past comments — and honestly, being quietly confidently bi+ is kind of a flex. Here, 23 bisexual icons you maybe didn’t know were bi.

Surprise Bisexual Icons




New CDC Survey


A first-of-its-kind survey has found that 3.3% of U.S. high school students identified as transgender in 2023, with another 2.2% identified as questioning.

The first nationally representative survey from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also highlights the multiple health disparities faced by transgender students who may experience gender dysphoria, stigma, discrimination, social marginalization or violence because they do not conform to social expectations of gender, the CDC reports.

These stressors increase the likelihood transgender youth and those who are questioning may experience mental health challenges, leading to disparities in health and well-being, according to the health agency.

More than a quarter (26%) of transgender and questioning students attempted suicide in the past year, compared to 5% of cisgender male and 11% of cisgender female students. The CDC urged schools to "create safer and more supportive environments for transgender and questioning students" to address these disparities, including inclusive activities, mental health and other health service referrals, and implementing policies that are LGBTQ-inclusive.

About 7 in 10 questioning students (69%) and transgender students (72%) experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, which the CDC states is a marker of depressive symptoms.

New CDC Survey



Heartstopper and Asexuality


Season three of Netflix's Heartstopper at times was like watching a horror movie, or a psychological thriller. It felt like around each corner one of your worst fears could be hiding. These fears however are not regular fears like death or bugs, but instead far more personal and introspective. At some point or another during the season all of my biggest fears about being asexual were showcased, and I have never been so glad to have my fears represented.

Since Heartstopper premiered it has always been an envelope pusher in terms of queer representation in the media. From comphet, to gender dysphoria, they have it all! But the storyline that has always been extra special to me is Isaac’s. Isaac is the resident aroace (aromantic asexual) member of the friend group, scarcely seen without a book in his hand and a cute sweater vest on. And even more notable, he is one of the two asexual characters to grace our screens in 2024, alongside Heartbreak High’s Ca$h.

Last season we saw Isaac come to the realisation that he identifies as asexual and aromantic, and this season follows his journey with coming to terms with his identity, and how that impacts his friendships and his future. Much of the season shows Isaac being a perpetual third wheel to his coupled-up friendship group, and being frustrated that he feels less important because he is ace.

Feeling as if you are not enough, not important enough, not interesting enough, not full enough, this often goes hand-in-hand with being asexual. In a world where dating, love and sex are prized above all else, it can be really disheartening knowing that because you don’t regard those things as highly as everyone else, that you will always have a life viewed as lesser.

Heartstopper and Asexuality



Pauley Perrette is an Ally


NCIS star Pauley Perrette's entire life has been spent as an ally for the LGBTQ+ community, so it's no wonder that when she branched into producing and directing, the untold stories of these men and women were at the forefront of her mind.

She began with 2013's Citizen Lane, about one of the 20th century's most extraordinary civil rights attorney's, 'freedom rider' Mark Lane, and now, 11 years on, has helped to produce the new documentary Studio One Forever, telling the untold story of Los Angeles' iconic disco which became a beacon of hope for men in the 1970s and 1980s.

"This is the [story] that [director Marc Saltarelli] has been talking about and dreaming about for so long  – it's important for history's sake, and it's important for the message," she tells HELLO!

"There's one reason I love documentaries, and it is because we have to remember. In society today, it [feels] like we're not paying attention to history and if you don't, we are going to repeat mistakes," she said.

"This film has a lot to do with prejudice and racism and the unfair nature of the way things were – and it really brings that to light in such a very human way."

At the height of its popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s, Studio One saw the merging of the gay community and Hollywood elites: Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart were both regulars, Chita Rivera, Joan Rivers and Ike & Tina Turner often performed there, while Sammy Davis Jr. and Paul Newman were on its board of directors.

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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024




Review - The Shipping News


I first read The Shipping News not long after it was published in 1993. It had been recommended to me by my mother, who was the world’s fastest and most eclectic reader, hoovering up everything from Maupassant to Patrick O’Brian via The Tale of Genji (during my adolescence, she grimly read the whole of Proust — “beautifully written but they’re all such awful people” — as well as virtually every whodunnit on the shelves of the local library; she regarded her love of detective novels as something of a vice and used to give them up for Lent).

I always took her book recommendations seriously, and when she told me that I had to read a wonderful new novel set largely in Newfoundland, I bought it straight away; the cover illustration showed a pounding green sea under a louring sky. “Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns,” reads the first sentence of Annie Proulx’s novel.

The opening chapter is a jolting read for a first-timer — a rapid run through Quoyle’s early life, short sentences like slaps in the face, half-phrases and broken clauses like missing steps, together building a vivid picture of an unloved man who cannot find a place in life, who is forever standing awkwardly on the margins.

Quoyle has a “great damp loaf of a body. Head shaped like a crenshaw [melon], no neck, reddish hair ruched back. Features as bunched as kissed fingertips.” He’s awkward and unhappy and exploited by everyone he meets, culminating in a terrible marriage to Petal, who despises him while he worships her. When she dies, leaving him with two small children, he takes the initiative for the first time in his life and moves his family a thousand miles north to the home of his forebears — a lump of rock in a hissing sea, the harshest of environments, but a place where, to his surprise, he seems to fit.

Review - The Shipping News



Honorable Discharges Issued

"Under President Biden's leadership, the Department of Defense has taken extraordinary steps to redress the harms done by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and other policies on these former Service members," Austin said in a statement.

The news comes a little more than a year after proactively reviewing the records of LGBTQ+ veterans who might be eligible for an honorable discharge but had not yet applied for one. The 800+ veterans receiving this relief will see their discharge papers – known as a DD-214 – automatically change to "honorable" without the burden of having to go through the military's formal process of applying for a discharge upgrade.

An honorable discharge status unlocks access to benefits that some of these veterans may have been missing out on for decades, including things like health care, college tuition assistance, VA loan programs and even some jobs.

A defense official said the department is sending information to veterans receiving the upgrade on how to obtain copies of their new discharge certification. The official also noted that because DD-214's contain sensitive personal information, the former service members must request the new copies themselves.

In a separate effort announced in June, President Biden sought to redress some of the harms brought about by the military justice system against those suspected of homosexuality when he issued pardons for former service members convicted under a military law from years past that explicitly criminalized consensual "sodomy."

Honorable Discharges Issued




Sharon D Clarke on Mr. Loverman


Sharon D Clarke has one of those names: perhaps not instantly recognisable when you first hear it, but look up her acting credits and you’ll gasp: “Oh, it’s her!”

Sharon D Clarke is a three-time Olivier-Award-winner, bagging best actress in a supporting role in 2014, for The Amen Corner, best actress in a musical in 2019 (Caroline, Or Change) then, in 2020, the crème de la crème: best actress, for Death of a Salesman.

She’s part of the furniture on British television, too: you’ve probably seen her in Doctor Who, or Holby City, or Lost Boys & Fairies, or Red White & Royal Blue and on the big screen in Rocketman.

But despite that lengthy CV, the way Clarke discusses her most recent role in the BBC’s new queer Caribbean drama Mr Loverman signifies that it might just be the most gratifying of her career.

She plays Carmel Walker, Antiguan Hackney resident and wistful wife of Barrington “Barry” Walker (The Walking Dead’s Lennie James) who, behind his sunny disposition, has a dark cloud hovering over him in the shape of a life-long secret: he’s in love with his best friend Morris De La Roux (Ariyon Bakare), with who he’s had a six-decade affair.

Carmel and Barry’s 50-year-long marriage began fruitfully, but, as with most things built on a foundation of lies – on both of their parts – it’s crumbling. Distrust lingers over their relationship like a bad smell. Barry wants to come out, Carmel is forlorn.

Sharon D Clarke on Mr. Loverman



Bisexual Down South


I am a Black, sexually fluid man from the South.

Growing up, each intersection of race, sexuality, and culture presented a unique challenge, yet it also offered profound lessons in empathy and resilience. As a 90’s child, the challenges I faced were a tangled web of racial, sexual, and gender expectations. The only language I had at the time was straight, gay, and bisexual; I was told that not only was I supposed to pick one, but my only option was a female attraction based on expectations.

But in my heart, bisexuality felt the most for me.

In the South, the notion of being assigned male at birth came with a rigid script: how you should walk, talk, and love. What should your interests be, and how should you show your emotions? This "one size fits all" mentality left little room to explore who I was to the full extent. For many queer Southern kids, this meant hiding our true selves from family, friends, and even ourselves.

Media representations only compounded these struggles. I longed for camaraderie with characters on screen, but bisexuals were either absent or vilified. Bisexual characters were portrayed as selfish and their desires a manifestation of deceit, something that couldn’t feel further from my own self. I knew I wasn’t selfish as I kept so many parts of myself hidden to protect loved ones and make others more comfortable. Yet, these portrayals stained the view of myself and public perception, branding bisexuals as untrustworthy and indecisive. Male bisexual characters were rare and often depicted as “down-low” (DL) or overly feminine, perpetuating the myth that masculinity and bisexuality couldn't coexist.

Bisexual Down South




Transgender Rights Targeted In Ads


Voters consistently say issues like the economy and reproductive rights are their top concerns in this election. But in the closing weeks of the campaign, Republican ads focusing on transgender rights are dominating airwaves all over the country.

The Trump campaign has recently dropped at least $17 million on ads highlighting Vice President Harris' support during her 2019 presidential campaign for access to gender-affirming medical treatment for transgender people.

It's part of a broader Republican strategy casting the Democratic Party as taking transgender rights to extremes.

According to data compiled by AdImpact for NPR, these ads have aired more than 30,000 times, including in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The campaign has placed a particular focus on NFL and college football broadcast audiences.

"I do think it's just emphasizing that sort of cultural divide that we do see in sport," said Jessica Taylor, a nonpartisan election analyst with the Cook Political Report. Taylor said the issue can appeal to men and swing suburban women, and polling backs that up.

Transgender Rights Targeted In Ads



I'm Aromantic


As someone who is aromantic, I don’t experience romantic attraction. I don’t ‘fall in love’ in a romantic sense. I don’t have romantic relationships. I don’t date anyone. I don’t have boyfriends or girlfriends, or any kind of romantic partner.

My emotional connections with other people do not manifest in a romantic way and I have no desire for that to happen – I’m just not that way inclined. It isn’t a lifestyle choice, I didn’t decide to avoid the world of dating because of a bad experience. It’s just the way I’ve always been.

I first realised I was aromantic when my peers seemed to realise they weren’t. From a young age, girls are taught to value romantic love. The message was a fixture in almost everything marketed to us.

In a world where we were encouraged to envision ourselves as our favourite Disney princess, finding a prince charming was the crescendo of our story – in our dreams and in reality. I didn’t have a problem with that until I realised there was a genuine expectation for me to partake in this behaviour and not doing so was seen as abnormal.

It would be years before I learned what I was experiencing was more than just a youthful rebellious aversion to following the status quo. I didn’t discover the term ‘aromantic’ until I was in secondary school, researching asexuality as I tried to work out my sexual orientation. It was then that I realised aromanticism was a legitimate thing with a large worldwide community that intersects with many others, including the asexual community.

I'm Aromantic



Pauley Perrette is an Ally


NCIS star Pauley Perrette's entire life has been spent as an ally for the LGBTQ+ community, so it's no wonder that when she branched into producing and directing, the untold stories of these men and women were at the forefront of her mind.

She began with 2013's Citizen Lane, about one of the 20th century's most extraordinary civil rights attorney's, 'freedom rider' Mark Lane, and now, 11 years on, has helped to produce the new documentary Studio One Forever, telling the untold story of Los Angeles' iconic disco which became a beacon of hope for men in the 1970s and 1980s.

"This is the [story] that [director Marc Saltarelli] has been talking about and dreaming about for so long  – it's important for history's sake, and it's important for the message," she tells HELLO!

"There's one reason I love documentaries, and it is because we have to remember. In society today, it [feels] like we're not paying attention to history and if you don't, we are going to repeat mistakes," she said.

"This film has a lot to do with prejudice and racism and the unfair nature of the way things were – and it really brings that to light in such a very human way."

At the height of its popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s, Studio One saw the merging of the gay community and Hollywood elites: Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart were both regulars, Chita Rivera, Joan Rivers and Ike & Tina Turner often performed there, while Sammy Davis Jr. and Paul Newman were on its board of directors.

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Tuesday, October 29th, 2024




Booked Up Has Been Sold


The renowned bookstore founded in Archer City by award-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry has been closed for over two years, but Booked Up is getting a new life as a literary center.

Chip and Joanna Gaines sold the late writer's bookstore to the Archer City Writers Workshop, according to a media release.

“We are great admirers of the life and work of Larry McMurtry and look forward to seeing his remarkable bookstore open its doors again in a way that honors his legacy and our shared love for the story and spirit of Archer City,” Chip and Joanna Gaines said in the media release.

The nonprofit writers workshop plans to transform the bookstore into The Larry McMurtry Literary Center.

The ACWW is focused on creating a thriving literary center showcasing "Larry McMurtry’s epic life as a cowboy, novelist, screenwriter, rare book collector and artist for the ages," the media release said.

In addition, the nonprofit plans to make the author's collection of 175,000 rare books publicly accessible.

Booked Up Has Been Sold



Luke Evans and His Parents

Luke Evans has opened up in heartbreaking detail about his journey to coming out as gay to his parents and the “painful” consequences that followed.

Born to two devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Clash of the Titans star, 45, was raised in the church, where he was taught that homosexuality was wrong. Jehovah’s Witnesses is a denomination of Christianity that believes humanity is living in the last days before Armageddon.

In a new interview with The Guardian ahead of the release of his debut memoir Boy from the Valleys: An Unexpected Journey, Evans spoke about the inner turmoil he faced during childhood from having to hide his sexuality.

At 13, he was baptized in the church despite knowing he was gay. “I thought maybe by doing that, the rest would disappear,” he explained.

The Welsh actor shared that every night at church, “they read scriptures saying terrible things about the way I was feeling and who I was possibly turning into.”

“All that was in my head was: if I don’t sort this out, I’m going to lose my mum and dad. I’m going to lose everything I’ve ever known and I’m also going to die at Armageddon, so I’m giving myself a death sentence unless I sort his out,” he said.

Luke Evans and His Parents




Elizabeth Arden and Elisabeth ‘Bessie’ Marbury


A painstakingly researched new biography of beauty legend Elizabeth Arden has revealed an extraordinary - and rarely mentioned - intimate friendship she had with a woman so morbidly overweight, she had to walk with crutches.

Theatrical agent Elisabeth ‘Bessie’ Marbury was widely acknowledged to enjoy the company of other women - and had lived with her lover, interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, for more than 30 years.

Marbury was the polar opposite of Arden. While the beauty magnate had dedicated her career to health and beauty, her namesake was undeniably fat, and more interested in political activism than physical appearance.

However, the pair bonded over business, and their relationship - whether or not it was ever physical - was one of mutual adoration.

‘Marbury was an exceptionally successful woman in the man’s world of commerce,’ writes Stacy A Cordery in Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire.

‘She took risks to create new pathways of doing business that treated the artists more fairly. She purposefully hired women, and she rested her decisions on cold calculations even as she valued relationships above all.’

Elizabeth Arden and Elisabeth ‘Bessie’ Marbury



9-1-1 and Buck's Bisexuality


9-1-1 star Oliver Stark knows the responsibility that comes with representing the LGBTQIA+ community on screen; his character, Evan “Buck” Buckley, came out as bisexual on the firefighter procedural last year. And yet despite the newfound popularity — and plenty of brand new eyes on the show — Stark rejects any “pressure” to play the arc perfectly.

“There’s pride and there’s a want to do good, obviously, and for [Buck] to be representative in a positive way. But I don’t put too much pressure on myself,” Stark, 33, exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing his character’s queer evolution. “Somebody called me a ‘bisexual bi-con’ in an interview last year, which I kind of loved. But when I’m in my day to day at work, I don’t think of it in those regards. I just think of it as, ‘Let me just play Buck, and this is what he’s going through and this is what he’s dealing with at the moment.’ And that in itself, I think, is better representation — a bisexual character just living his life.”

Stark, who has portrayed Buck on the ABC series since the 2018 premiere, “really wanted” the sexual awakening story line for Buck, telling Us that he was a “big fan of endorsing it” when it was first brought his way. And while much of crafting Buck’s journey is in other people’s hands — like 9-1-1 showrunner Tim Minear — Stark’s “energy” remains on “playing each scene in the moment” and leaning into the “truth” of who the character really is.

“That in itself is then the representation,” he explained. “So I’m not consciously being like, ‘Alright what foot do I have to put forward here to best portray this in a broader sense?’ I just try and play him as a real person living in these moments, because that’s the real life of this bisexual character. So I don’t feel too much pressure in that regard, not no more so than I have ever playing him. I just play him truthfully.”

9-1-1 and Buck's Bisexuality




Transgender Rights in Germany


Starting Friday, people aged 18 and older will be able to change official records to alter their names and genders or have the gender marker removed altogether, under Germany's new Self-Determination Act.

There is a mandatory three-month wait between applying and making a personal declaration. Yet the requirement for two psychiatric assessments and a court hearing have been scrapped.

Minors — over the age of 14 — can do so with parental approval, or seek legal recourse. Parents can act on behalf of younger children, but the child needs to be present at the register office and give their assent.

This is a purely bureaucratic procedure with no medical implications.

Kalle Hümpfner, policy officer for the German Trans* Association (BVT), welcomed the fact that gender self-recognition will now be much more accessible and less costly.

Hümpfner also stressed that the new law also made the process far less intrusive. "In the assessments, people were forced to divulge a lot of very personal information — information that was shared with the court. There have been many awful reports of people having to talk about their sexual preferences, about their masturbation practices, or their underwear choices."

Transgender Rights in Germany



Joe Lycett Is Pansexual


Comedian and TV presenter Joe Lycett has spoken about the struggle of people assuming he’s gay, despite the fact that he has a female partner.

The Late Night Lycett host was speaking to RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season two finalist Bimini on new podcast The Pieces and revealed that the best description of his sexuality was pansexual, which refers to someone who can be attracted to someone regardless of their gender.

“It’s interesting now, being in a long-term relationship with a woman, because loads of people are like: ‘Sorry, what?'” he said.

At school, he believed he was gay because he was attracted to men but later realised that his feelings extended to more than one gender.

“I use the term bisexual when I just want to give a quick answer because people understand that. But I think the most accurate way of describing myself is pansexual, in that I’m not attracted to people just because of their gender,” he said.

Lycett revealed that he has a long-term female partner whom he calls Denise. That’s not her real name but helps hide her identify publicly.

Joe Lycett Is Pansexual



Pauley Perrette is an Ally


NCIS star Pauley Perrette's entire life has been spent as an ally for the LGBTQ+ community, so it's no wonder that when she branched into producing and directing, the untold stories of these men and women were at the forefront of her mind.

She began with 2013's Citizen Lane, about one of the 20th century's most extraordinary civil rights attorney's, 'freedom rider' Mark Lane, and now, 11 years on, has helped to produce the new documentary Studio One Forever, telling the untold story of Los Angeles' iconic disco which became a beacon of hope for men in the 1970s and 1980s.

"This is the [story] that [director Marc Saltarelli] has been talking about and dreaming about for so long  – it's important for history's sake, and it's important for the message," she tells HELLO!

"There's one reason I love documentaries, and it is because we have to remember. In society today, it [feels] like we're not paying attention to history and if you don't, we are going to repeat mistakes," she said.

"This film has a lot to do with prejudice and racism and the unfair nature of the way things were – and it really brings that to light in such a very human way."

At the height of its popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s, Studio One saw the merging of the gay community and Hollywood elites: Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart were both regulars, Chita Rivera, Joan Rivers and Ike & Tina Turner often performed there, while Sammy Davis Jr. and Paul Newman were on its board of directors.

Pauley Perrette is an Ally



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Tuesday, November 5th, 2024




Ahead of Its Time


2014 was the year modern true crime culture really kicked off. Serial, the smash hit podcast focused on a potentially innocent man’s trial, debuted in October and set the scene for what would practically become an American pastime a decade later. Knowing this, it feels like prescient serendipity that Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut, Nightcrawler, arrived the same month, on October 31, 2014. The film’s palpable neo-noir landscape is thick with foreboding vibes, but it’s downright horrifying when you realize it's indicting us in the overconsumption of extreme tragedy.

In fact, it starts to feel less like noir and more like horror, and it’s all thanks to Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom. It’s easy to temper our terror of the supernatural; we have no proof of it, so effectively, it doesn’t exist. A man without empathy, however, isn’t so easy to shake off. Enter Lou, a wayward conman and petty thief who finds a twisted talent and pride in nightcrawling, late-night video journalism covering Los Angeles’ gruesome crimes, and plans to make as much money from it as possible.

It’s quickly made clear that Lou has a screw loose. He always tries to appear relatable, but instead just comes off, well, off. He gives bizarre, pseudo-motivational speeches that feel like he lifted them from movies he’s seen. He objectifies and manipulates the people he’s forced into his life to further his goals, like Rene Russo’s Nina, the morning director at KWLA 6 who buys his tapes, and Riz Ahmed’s Rick, a desperate homeless man he brings on as an intern. He steals and brutalizes at a whim. He rearranges bodies at crime scenes to make his shots juicier. He moves like an alien, trying to fit into society while wearing human skin.

Ahead of Its Time



Parents in The Closet

As soon as Greg McDonald Jr. saw his parents, he knew he was in trouble. His father stood waiting for him with his arms folded and his brow furrowed. Beside him was Greg’s mother, her eyes red and puffy.

“Quick, pretend you’re interested in me,” Greg Jr. told his friend Betsy as he steered the speedboat toward the dock at his parents’ riverfront home outside Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Greg Jr. had just taken a group of friends out for a rollicking boat ride. It was late in the summer of 2001, and he was about to head off to his first year of college. In just a few weeks the 17-year-old thought he’d be free.

But while Greg Jr. was away his father, a conservative Christian, had checked his computer’s search history. He’d heard stories of young men being corrupted by the internet and had discovered his son’s secret: visits to gay porn sites.

As Greg Jr. stepped off the boat with his friends, his father looked sternly at the group. “You need to leave,” he said to the other teens.

Once they were alone, the father turned toward his son.  “Are you—?” he asked.

“Yes, I am,” Greg Jr. said, cutting his father off as he walked past his parents toward their house.

Parents in The Closet




Chloe Grace Moretz Comes Out


Actor Chloe Grace Moretz has come out as gay in a post encouraging others to vote early and endorsing Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for president.

The 27-year-old star, best known for her roles in Kick-Ass, Carrie and The Equalizer and who has previously dated Brooklyn Beckham, shared a picture of an “I voted early” sticker on her Instagram account.

In the caption, the actor wrote: “I voted early and I voted for Kamala Harris. There is so much on the line this election. I believe the government has no right over my body as a woman, and that the decisions over my body should come ONLY from myself and my doctor.”

Continuing, the star said that she believed that Harris “will protect that for us” adding that: “I believe in the need for legal protections that protects the LGBTQ+ community as a gay woman.”

“We need protections in this country and to have access to the care we need and deserve."

“SO… Are you voting early? Let’s get a plan together to get to your polling place with your friends! Go to IWillVote.com to figure out the best plan for you,” said Moretz.

Chloe Grace Moretz Comes Out



Bisexual Themed Record


Tyler, the Creator’s new album CHROMAKOPIA just dropped, and it might just be his most bisexual-themed record yet.

Although the rapper has made numerous references in past interviews to same-sex relationships, he has never publicly confirmed his sexuality, leaving fans to pick through his lyrics for queer references and alussions. For example, the narrative of IGOR, his Grammy-winning 2019 album, largely concerns the complicated relationship between the titular narrator, his male love interest, and his love interest’s female love interest. (A bizarre love triangle, indeed.) He also rapped the lyric, “I’ve been kissing white boys since 2004” in “I Ain’t Got Time,” released the same year.

But CHROMAKOPIA is his most candid album to date. The LP finds Tyler expressing complicated feelings about aging and success, as well as the societal repercussions Black people face for wearing their natural hair. And yes, he references queerness, including what seems to be his own, throughout the record. In fact, this might be the first time in his music career that Tyler actually drops the “b” word — “bi” — in a song.

Read on for some of the queerest lyrics and moments from CHROMAKOPIA.

Bisexual Themed Record




Grieving Father Runs For Office


In early April, Trex Proffitt opened his mail-in primary ballot and saw that no Democrats were running for state senate in Pennsylvania’s 13th district.

It made sense: The district, which covers the city of Lancaster and its surrounding suburbs, has been represented by Republicans for over a century. The incumbent, Scott Martin, is vocally anti-abortion and the sponsor of a bill banning instruction around gender identity and sexual orientation in elementary schools. Martin won a decisive eleven-point victory against a well-funded challenger in 2020. The odds for Democrats have likely gotten slimmer after the district was redrawn in 2022 to include more rural areas. 

But Proffitt, a 56-year-old history teacher at a small Quaker school, still felt something could be done. He decided to run against Martin, winning a write-in campaign to become the Democratic nominee for state senate. After a personal tragedy, Proffitt wanted to center LGBTQ rights in his campaign—even in a reliably Republican district.

In 2019, Proffitt’s son George, who was transgender, died at the age of 20 from a drug overdose. George loved folk punk music and was active in the local LGBTQ community. He had struggled for years with depression and suicidality, but he seemed to be doing better before his death.

In the years since, Proffitt has watched anti-transgender rhetoric become increasingly visible in his community, as a national backlash towards trans people amplified and enabled sentiment that was already “endemic” to Lancaster, he said. As my colleague Kiera Butler has reported, Lancaster County is home to a burgeoning Christian nationalist movement.

Grieving Father Runs For Office



Asexual and LGBTQ+ Community


As much as I wish to forget the occasion, I can still remember the way my hands wouldn’t stop shaking when I first came out as asexual.

I was barely 19 and the world was just opening up in front of me, but internally I had already gone on a rollercoaster of life events.

My identity, specifically who I was attracted to, had bounced around for almost half a decade, as I discovered new terms and new ways to attempt to describe what was going on. It was messy, to say the least. But I was young and trying to find my footing, and there is never anything wrong with figuring it out and making a few mistakes along the way.

I thought I was bisexual, then pansexual, then a lesbian, then bisexual again and a lesbian again. It was like swerving round a roundabout and taking every single wrong exit.

Finally, I found the right one – asexuality. It turns out that I was the textbook definition of asexual. I was equally attracted to everyone, with that attraction being… nothing at all. No sexual attraction to anyone. Nothing. Zilch. I had that clichéd lightbulb moment that so many of us crave, where my identity and my life up until that point burst into clarity and it all made sense.

But this life-altering moment didn’t calm my nerves for the next step: telling people.

Asexual and LGBTQ+ Community



Kamala's Record As An Ally


Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic presidential nominee now that President Joe Biden has exited the race and has endorsed her. She also has won enough delegates to secure the nomination. She brings a long and strong record of support for LGBTQ+ equality, reproductive freedom, and other progressive causes.

If she wins in November, Harris will make history as both the first woman to be president and first woman of color in the nation’s highest office — the first Black woman and the first one of South Asian heritage. She'd also most likely be the most pro-LGBTQ+ president.

Harris was born October 20, 1964, in Oakland, Calif., and grew up in Berkeley and the surrounding East San Francisco Bay Area, along with spending a few years in Montreal. She is the daughter of two immigrants — her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in India, and her father, Donald Harris, in Jamaica. Gopalan was a research scientist and Harris an economist. Her parents were active in the civil rights movement and took young Kamala to marches in a stroller. She is a graduate of Howard University, one of the nation’s preeminent historically Black universities, and earned a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of Law. In 2014, she married Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer. They have two children, Ella and Cole.


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Tuesday, November 12th, 2024




Rodrigo Prieto's ‘Pedro Páramo’


Magical realism meets a grand family saga in “Pedro Páramo,” the directorial debut of cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. As the man responsible for lighting and lensing countless renowned films — including “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Brokeback Mountain” — Prieto brings a keen eye to one of Mexico’s most influential novels. A tale of ghosts and memories that slips through time, Mateo Gil’s screenplay follows the structure of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 text with stringent fidelity, laying the groundwork for a melancholic (if slightly imbalanced) adaptation that finds visual splendor in the macabre.

Tenoch Huerta (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) plays Juan Preciado, a man who travels to his late mother’s hometown of Comala sometime after the Revolution (1910-20), in search of the father he never met: a figure named Pedro Páramo (Manuel García Rulfo), who he quickly learns has died as well. The missing figure’s name is often spoken in full, numerous times before we meet him in flashback, as though he were a figure of myth.

Upon arriving in Comala — an eerie, deserted municipality with cobblestone roads — Juan runs into various people who once knew his parents, and who begin regaling him with stories by candlelight. However, the line between the living and the dead is razor-thin in this township, and it isn’t long before numerous conversations reveal themselves to be rendezvouses with spirits, who may not initially recognize their true natures.

As each story about Juan’s father comes to light, the film transitions seamlessly to the late 19th and very early 20th century — sometimes within the same shot. The camera pans between rooms in which different decades seem to unfold, as Comala’s dead streets and drab walls come to life in vivid hues, and the surrounding greenery pops. As the film hops back and forth, and Juan learns about his father from numerous sources, the gangland story of Pedro Páramo comes to light in nonlinear fashion, with puzzle pieces being gently laid.

Rodrigo Prieto's ‘Pedro Páramo’



Ending The Hate State

There’s no better window into the frontlines of Colorado’s long and bumpy fight to secure LGBTQ+ rights than Glenda Russell’s cluttered research room in Boulder.

Here, Coloradans don’t just learn about the setbacks and victories.

They can feel them as Glenda opens her files and reads her detailed notes, which include somber testimony how anti- LGBTQ+ ballot measures and rhetoric has impacted Coloradans.

“Gay people were objectified and talked about in all kinds of ways. A lot of lies were promulgated,” Russell said.

Russell brings this history to life in ways that few others can. As a lesbian, she has had a personal stake in it. She’s also a psychologist who did groundbreaking studies about the mental impacts of these key events.

Her quest to preserve and become a part of this history started in 1974. She was sitting in the Boulder City Council chambers when they were debating whether to become the first city in Colorado to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Ending The Hate State




Dorothy Allison Has Died


Dorothy Allison, the lesbian feminist author of the novel Bastard Out of Carolina and other noteworthy books, has died at age 75.

Allison, who had cancer, died Wednesday at her home in Northern California, Sinister Wisdom reports.

“Allison wrote about a queer, poor South with dynamism and ferocious love,” Literary Hub notes. “Her books tangoed frankly with historically taboo subjects, like sexual abuse, and spotlit characters under-glimpsed on the shelves of hegemony.”

Her books reflected her life. She was born in 1949 in Greenville, S.C. Her mother was just 15 years old, and Allison “had a difficult childhood marked by poverty and sexual, physical, and emotional abuse,” as Sinister Wisdom puts it. With the help of scholarships, she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and she became involved in the feminist and lesbian rights movements in the 1970s and ’80s in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York City.

She became editor of Amazing Grace, a feminist newspaper, and contributed poems and essays to LGBTQ+ and other publications. She served on the editorial board of Conditions, a lesbian feminist journal. “Sitting on the floor at editorial meetings talking about writing and manuscripts and how women might work toward a more just and equitable world, I looked around and felt my heart thudding between my breasts,” she wrote about Conditions in an essay for Sinister Wisdom. “I loved each and every one of us. I loved what we were trying to do even as we quibbled over line breaks in a poem or structure in an essay.”

Dorothy Allison Has Died



Quincy Jones Spilled Tea


The news of all-time great music producer Quincy Jones' passing hit the world this past Sunday, and with it came reminders that he spilled some of the most iconic celebrity tea ever to be spilled.

Jones, who died at age 91, produced records for artists like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, and Lesley Gore, including songs like "Billie Jean," "Thriller," "Come Fly With Me," "We Are the World," and "It's My Party." He also wrote "Soul Bossa Nova," which later became the theme song for the Austin Powers movies.

In his career, he won 28 Grammy awards, a Primetime Emmy, a Tony, and was nominated for seven competitive Academy Awards.

But for many, one of his lasting impacts will always be his incredible interviews, where he often spilled celebrity tea no one else was willing to talk about.

One particular interview with Vulture has been coming up a lot, and not just because he called the Beatles "the worst musicians in the world" and "no-playing motherf*ckers."

In that interview, he was also asked about dancing, and when the cha-cha was brought up, he dropped a major bomb.

Quincy Jones Spilled Tea




Don't Abandon the Transgender Community


Democrats are still reeling from the wave of defeats on Election Day that included Kamala Harris losing to Donald Trump. In the process of casting about for an explanation, one theory is that Trump won because the Democratic Party is disconnected from the concerns of average Americans. An example of this alleged disconnect is Democrats’ relative support of transgender Americans, compared to Republicans who’ve been engaged in a coordinated attack against trans people.

“The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left,” Rep. Tom Suozzi, a New York moderate Democrat who won re-election Tuesday, told The New York Times the next day. “I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports. … Democrats aren’t saying that, and they should be.”

There is no other way to put this but: No. Democrats absolutely should not be following Suozzi’s advice here. It is an instinct based on fear that should be rejected loudly and firmly from all corners of the party. From a human decency perspective, this moment, when trans people are most endangered, is not the time to throw them under the bus. It’s also wrong as political strategy in that the party would be trying to appeal to voters who would be no more inclined to lend the Democratic Party their support even if it abandons trans people.

It’s true that Trump and other Republicans went all in on anti-trans messaging this election cycle. According to data from Ad Impact, the GOP spent roughly $215 million on network TV ads alone calling transgender people a threat to the American way of life. That included at least $77 million in Senate races in 10 states between mid-July and late October and doesn’t include any online ads on the issue. That was significantly more than the GOP spent trying to whip up anti-trans sentiment during the 2022 midterm elections. That campaign strategy was a massive failure for the GOP then. There were no real gains to be shown for the GOP based on that rhetoric.

Don't Abandon the Transgender Community



Connecting With Pansexuality


I was in high school, and I was in show choir, and there was a girl who was a year ahead of me in school, and I don't know, I just thought she was really funny, and I just wanted to get to know her better.

And I was like lamenting to a friend of mine who happened to be a gay man, and I was lamenting to him about like, how, like, “I think I might like, like this person,” like, “that's weird,” like, “I want to get to know them a lot more, and I find myself feeling the way that I do about like boys about this person,” and he was like, “Well, you should tell them.”

And me being who I am. I was like, “Yeah, okay, I'm gonna do it,” and so, I remember I told her, like, face-to-face – like that seems so ballsy now – I told her, and she said, “I really like you, too, but I have a girlfriend, and she's in St Louis.”

Fast forward, that girlfriend – not in St Louis. That girlfriend – best friend of hers at the high school we went to.

So, it wasn't long before that blew up in everybody's faces because, of course, I was like, “Your girlfriend's in St Louis, I'm still flirting with you.”

And so, yeah, that blew up in all of our faces because she was not pleased that I kept flirting with her in front of her.

Connecting With Pansexuality



Ruben Gallego Wins Senate Race


LGBTQ+ ally Ruben Gallego has seemingly won his race against anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Kari Lake for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat. He won 50% of the vote, beating Lake by 66,305 votes with 93% of all voting precincts reporting as of Monday morning, Decision Desk HQ reported. He has not yet made a statement commenting on his projected victory.

As such, Gallego will win the Senate seat that will soon be vacated by outgoing bisexual Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Sinema — a controversial figure in the Senate, often frustrating Democratic priorities — left the Democratic party in late 2022, after earning enmity from other Arizona Democrats for not helping others get reelected that year. She announced her retirement from the Senate in early March.

Gallego has been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights. In 2015, Rep. Gallego signed on as an original co-sponsor of the Equality Act, a comprehensive federal anti-discrimination bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to pre-existing anti-discrimination laws. He voted in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, which provides federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages.

In February 2022, Gallego co-signed a letter from the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus opposing Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids LGBTQ+ instruction in the state’s public schools. While serving as a Marine, he was a member of Voices of Honor, a group of military members that spoke out against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), the national ban on out gay and bisexual military service members.

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Tuesday, November 19th, 2024




Anna Faris and Scary Movie


Now that a Scary Movie reboot is in the works, horror fans are excited to see how the next installment will talk about tropes, common characters, and typical plotlines. Two stars from the franchise have said they would be happy to return to the franchise.

In July 2024, Anna Faris said she would come back to Scary Movie if Regina Hall did. She also mentioned "money" being a factor. Faris told People:

"I would love to work with Regina again. I just love her so much. We would make each other giggle all day long. Regina Hall would be my answer. And money. But mostly all Regina!"

In an interview with TV Insider, Regina Hall said she would love to play Brenda Meeks again. She praised her co-star Faris and then said:

"We’ll see if Brenda is in this new world. I’m thrilled at the possibility that the band could get back together again. That would be fun."

Faris and Hall played best friends Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks. Cindy is a mash-ups of two slasher movie final girls Julie James and Sidney Prescott, and Meeks is based on Scream 2 character Maureen Evans along with Karla Wilson in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. It would be a shame to see a Scary Movie reboot without both Faris and Hall. Fans are definitely hopeful that they can reprise their roles.

Anna Faris and Scary Movie



Life Without Parole

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced Friday to life without parole in prison.

Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced in a Southern California courtroom at the end of an all-day hearing for the murder of Blaze Bernstein (pictured left) nearly seven years ago. Woodward, who did did not appear in court Friday due to illness, was convicted this year of first-degree murder with an enhancement for a hate crime for killing Bernstein, a gay, Jewish college sophomore.

Dozens of Bernstein 's relatives and friends sat in the courtroom. Many wore T-shirts reading “Blaze it Forward," a slogan for a campaign to commit acts of kindness in his name following his death.

“Let’s be clear: This was a hate crime," Bernstein’s mother, Jeanne Pepper, told the court. “Samuel Woodward ended my son’s life because my son was Jewish and gay.”

She said she takes solace in Woodward never getting out of custody and that while he “rots in prison, we will be here on the outside, celebrating the life of Blaze.”

Life Without Parole




Being a Lesbian


With the results of the election, I wanted to take the time today to talk about being a proud lesbian woman!

I am personally the type of woman to make it known that I am a lesbian. I don’t care if it offends people, if it makes people uncomfortable, or if it goes against what they think is right and wrong. Lesbianism is BEAUTIFUL.

To start, coming to the realization that I’m not straight or bisexual, but that I am a lesbian; was really difficult for me. I really don’t like putting labels on things that are important to me and I felt almost constricted when trying to give myself a label. Now, I am a Virgo, so I like having things figured out down to a T. This was the one thing I could not have figured out as fast as I can figure other things out. I felt super anxious when people would ask me what I align with and it would often result in awkward laughter and saying that I like what I like. While this is a completely valid response, I knew that I was missing something within my answer.

I first knew that I like girls from a very young age. My “gay awakening” was Miley Cyrus performing at the VMA’s with Robin Thicke in 2013. I remember thinking, “Holy sh*t why do I have butterflies in my stomach when I look at this beautiful woman?” I didn’t know that having the option of being with a girl was a thing, and didn’t give these feelings much thought until I got into middle school.

Being a Lesbian



No "Coming Out Timeline"


Depending on how you were raised or the community you're a part of, coming out isn't always easy. Although plenty of people have really beautiful, heartwarming stories about coming out, there are, unfortunately, others who don't have such a positive experience. This, of course, comes down to a lack of understanding, ignorance, and sometimes fear. After all, it's human nature for people to be scared of what's foreign to them — it doesn't make it right, it's just how we're conditioned.

While there's no timeline as to when someone should come out, according to a 2024 Gallup poll, 71%, report coming out by the age of 30, with just over half, at 57%, coming out before they turn 22. Bisexuals, per Gallup's findings, tend to be a little more apprehensive about coming out — probably due to the stigma and myths surrounding bisexuality — with most coming out between the ages of 19 and 22, at 18%, while 13% come out between 23 and 29. These numbers prove that coming out bisexual isn't something that everyone does at a specific age and, as we've seen, a lot of people choose to come out well into their careers.

If trying to find the right time to share your bisexuality, know that there is no right time. When you do it is your choice and it doesn't matter if you're 15 or 65. It's all about when it feels right for you.


No "Coming Out Timeline"




Death Toll in 2024


This year, 350 transgender people were killed, a figure that has risen since last 2023's total of 321.

TGEU’s annual Trans Murder Monitoring project authors say this marks a "significant increase" in comparison with the previous year of violence against gender-diverse people.

Since it launched nearly two decades ago, the project has tracked the murders of over 5,000 transgender people.

One in four of those murdered were aged between 19 and 25. There were also 15 recorded murders of trans youth under the age of 18, representing 6% of those killed.

The annual global list is released for Transgender Day of Remembrance, held on November 20 each year. This year's numbers reflect the period between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024.

The majority of the murders were committed in Latin America and the Caribbean. For the 17th consecutive year, Brazil has seen the highest number of murders, accounting for 3 in ten (30%) cases.

Nine cases were recorded in Africa for this monitoring period, more than double the previous highest annual total since the project began. Notably, there were also rises in the U.S., while there was a decrease in Europe.

Death Toll in 2024



A Two Spirit Tribute


There was a lot of talk about portals earlier this month at MASS MoCA, the enormous art space in Western Massachusetts now playing home to an eye-popping, shape-shifting installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson through the winter of next year. Gibson had already been granted access to a big stage when he was chosen to represent the U.S. in this year’s Venice Biennale—the first time a Native American artist has done so with a solo show since the exhibition’s inauguration in 1895. But this is a bigger stage still, at least in literal terms: MASS MoCA’s storied Building 5, a vast column-free space in a former factory complex described as the size of a football field.

Gibson’s commissioned show “POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT” is different than his offering in Venice—more antic and animated, with an emphasis on performative gestures and an engagement with “two-spirit” states of being that figure in Indigenous LGBTQI+ culture. The exhibition is boisterous, with clubby electronic music and kinetic videos that bring life to outsize ceremonial garments hung from the ceiling above illuminated sculptures that double as dance floors.

“It was different from filling a space like in a normal exhibition,” Gibson said during a public talk at the opening. “It was more about: how do we fill this space with all the ideas of what’s happening in the work?”

While the amount of space is otherworldly (19,000 square feet in Building 5, across two floors), the art within it is earthy and homegrown. During his talk to introduce the show, Gibson said he had been inspired by the kind of collective and communal activity that he grew up with in churches and, later, dance clubs. “We talked about a disco/church,” he said of early conversations about the project. “A lot of it has to do with faith based-practices, regalia, queerness—a very welcoming space.”

A Two Spirit Tribute



Sheryl Lee Ralph is an Ally


This summer, Sheryl Lee Ralph took to social media to school “people of a certain age” about respecting preferred pronouns.

“Some of the things you used to do and say when you were young, they’re not going to work right now, OK?” Ralph said in an Instagram video posted by The Black Media. “These children right about now, they want to be called by their name. They want to be respected with their pronouns.”

It was a small moment in Ralph’s long history of LGBTQ+ allyship. Since the beginning of her now legendary career, the indomitable star of stage and screen has also been a fiercely outspoken advocate for queer people and other marginalized communities — which is why we're delighted to honor her as our 2024 Advocate of the Year.

“In my lifetime … I’ve been colored, Negro, Black, African American,” Ralph explains about why she decided to speak on the topic. “I mean, there have been so many names to try to figure out what to call people (who are descendants) from the African continent in America and around the world that I understood it in many ways — how young people are saying, ‘Look, things are changing once again.’ And so what if they don't look like what you think they should look like? Just try and call people by their name, nobody likes being called out of their name.”

The Emmy-winning star of Abbott Elementary, which incidentally features an array of queer characters, has never shied away from using her platform to educate others and create awareness around certain issues. But Ralph’s LGBTQ+ allyship began long before today’s conversations around pronouns and gender identity. It truly started at the dawn of her career in showbiz — which happened to coincide with the onset of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s.

Sheryl Lee Ralph is an Ally



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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024




Ang Lee on Filmmaking's Future


Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee added a prestigious honor Tuesday to his already exceedingly decorated career in the arts. The three-time Oscar winner was presented with the Praemium Imperiale at a black-tie ceremony in Tokyo. Often described as Asia‘s version of the Nobel Prize, the award is handed out annually to artists working in various fields. A mark of the prize’s prestige, past honorees in the film and theater category have included true icons of film history, such as Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese and Catherine Deneuve.

“I’d like to think that my career is a never-ending school where I learn about cinema and about myself and about the world. There is no end to that learning,” Lee said during a news conference in Tokyo ahead of the awards ceremony. “As the first person from Taiwan to receive this award, I’m proud and deeply grateful.”

Lee’s singular career is undoubtedly deserving of the high commendation. His body of work is characterized as much by a questing artistic curiosity as it is expressive mastery. As critics have been noting for years, few to no directors of his generation have generated a filmography of such high quality and relentless diversity. After earning two Oscar nominations from his early trilogy of Taiwanese family dramas — Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) — Lee ventured far from his comfort zone to direct his critically acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1995).

That success encouraged him down a path of continual reinvention. To follow: the aching New England family drama of The Ice Storm (1997), the wuxia martial arts masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), heartbreaking gay Western Brokeback Mountain (2005), the boundary-pushing erotic espionage thriller Lust, Caution (2007), and the technically innovative heartwarming saga Life of Pi (2012). Long before it became a movie journalist cliche to ask distinctive auteurs whether they would ever consider directing a superhero film, Lee had already done that too, helming the early Marvel hit Hulk back in 2003. Along the way, he has received nine Oscar nominations and won three (best foreign language film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, best director for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi).

Ang Lee on Filmmaking's Future



Khalid Comes Out After Being Outed

The 26-year-old singer Khalid came out as gay in a series of posts uploaded to X yesterday in response to some tweets, later deleted, by someone purporting to be an ex. In one of his posts, he put an emoji of a rainbow flag and said, "There y'all go, next topic, please." He also responded to a user's comment that said, "Wait, I hope Mr Khalid isn't GEHHH," replying, "I am! And that's okay."

Khalid, known for his popular songs "Location" and "Young, Dumb, and Broke," both of which have over one billion streams on Spotify and are certified diamond, seemed to be in good spirits as he uploaded a statement. "I got outted and the world still continues to turn," he wrote in the post published on Friday. "Let's get this straight (lmao) I am not ashamed of my sexuality! In reality it ain't nobodies business! But I am okay with me, love yall."

The whole debacle started after a user on X named Hugo Almonte uploaded since-deleted posts in which he alluded to sleeping with different artists and alleged that "One of your favorite gay R&B singers" had "tried to set me up and lie that I broke into his house." He later shared a photo of himself with Khalid.

X users continued to comment online, one writing, "The closet was glass, baby, but we accept you. It's not about who you love; it's about your artistry." The singer replied, "I wasn't hiding anything! It's just not any of your business."


Khalid Comes Out After Being Outed




Millions Offered to Marry Daughter


Do you remember that story from 2012 about the Chinese business tycoon who tried to find a man to marry his lesbian daughter, Gigi Chao, for a handsome sum?

Hong Kong property tycoon Cecil Chao (趙世曾) offered US$65 million to any man who wanted to take on the ‘challenge’ – and as a consequence made his daughter an LGBTQ+ icon.

Chao, now 45, was bombarded with thousands of unwanted marriage proposals from across the world in an attempt to make her straight. She’s now a leading Hong Kong business woman and activist.

It was reported that some women even offered their own husbands. In total, 20,000 offers were said to have been made, but Chao remained unmoved – because she was a lesbian, and also in a civil partnership with another woman – her partner of nine years, who she eloped to Paris to marry.

When her father found out about the elopement, he came up with the idea to throw money at the “issue.”

“I am glad it happened,” Gigi Chao said to the Thomson Reuters Foundation a few years later, in 2018.

Millions Offered to Marry Daughter



Buck's Bisexual Arc


9-1-1 star Oliver Stark tells PinkNews how Buck has grown through season eight, the Buddie family unit, his personal Buck head-canons and more.

ABC’s 9-1-1 has been known for its sometimes dramatic, sometimes bizarre emergency calls since season one, but it has also carved a path for itself delivering complex and often moving character arcs through its stellar ensemble of first responders.

Fan favourite Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley (Oliver Stark) made headlines earlier this year when he joined the ranks of the many LGBTQ+ characters on the show via a wild and poignant bisexual awakening, after kissing his best friend Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) new friend Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr) in season 7.

Now, in season eight, Buck’s queer journey continues, but things aren’t so rosy anymore. After putting up with the awful Gerard (Brian Thompson) for several episodes while missing his captain-slash-father figure Bobby (Peter Krause), casually almost dying several times on the job, and breaking out in boils brought on by a suspected curse, he’s now single again.

Buck was left high and dry after asking Tommy to move in with him in ‘Confessions’, with the latter insisting that they couldn’t be together because he knew he was Buck’s ‘first’, not his ‘last’. Dazed and confused, Buck headed straight to Eddie’s to crack open some beers and sit together in charged silence, which left many viewers wondering (or continuing to wonder) if Buck’s ‘last’ might have been beside him all along.
 
Buck's Bisexual Arc




Transgender Community In Fear


Cello music filled a sanctuary here on Wednesday night as the audience clutched blue or pink carnations in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A slideshow cycled through pictures of trans daughters, brothers, coworkers and friends, forever frozen in confident, happy, candid moments.

As each name was read aloud, a gradual dawning swept through the room: Many of those memorialized were women of color. One was only 14. All had been killed in the last year because of anti-trans violence.

In the last year, 350 trans people were murdered worldwide, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project. The Human Rights Campaign found at least 36 trans people were killed in the US in a similar time frame. But the true toll, experts say, is much higher because trans deaths are often underreported.

Soren Ruppelius, a volunteer with the Delaware nonprofit Sussex Pride who helped organize the vigil, said Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is always a solemn event, feels particularly heavy this year.

“No matter how dark things get, you are never alone. We have always taken care of one another, and we always will,” he said.

Transgender Community In Fear



My Intersex Identity


Growing up, it's not uncommon for individuals to be unaware that they are intersex, often receiving only fragments of the truth about their bodies. My own experience was no different. At the age of eight, I was told that I was born without a uterus. It wasn’t until I turned 14 that I learned the reason why I didn’t have a uterus: I was intersex. That revelation was life-altering. Being told I was something that I didn't even think existed was mind-blowing.

Being intersex came with a heavy burden of stigma and shame. As an intersex child, you're often instructed to keep your identity a secret. I was told not to share it with anyone, and for a long time, I believed I could never be open about being intersex. Intersex is still typically conceived of as medical condition that needs to be fixed, resulting in interventions which are often medically unnecessary and sometimes lead to life-long health implications. It was very isolating going through this alone as this was a time when very few people were out as intersex – I never knew if I would ever meet another person like me.

Knowing I was different from a young age led me to pay extra attention in science classes, particularly biology. I distinctly remember a lesson on Punnett squares and genetics, where I thought that if I could grasp the science behind these concepts, I might be able to understand why I was different. When I majored in biology at university, it became clear how pervasive the concept of binary sex was in biology. In university and graduate school, I realised that this binary system didn’t acknowledge my existence despite my presence in the many classrooms where I was considered an outlier, an exception to the rule of binary sex. It struck me that the very foundation of how we think about people and bodies in biology is based on principles that are, at best, non-inclusive and, at worst, willfully ignorant of anyone who cannot be easily shoehorned into male or female categories.

My Intersex Identity



Dua Lipa Receives Honor


Dua Lipa‘s ties to The Trevor Project are growing stronger.

The superstar singer has been singled out to receive the Mental Health Champion of the Year Award from the organization. The honor is meant to recognize “influential public figures who use their platform to advocate for mental health awareness and issues impacting LGBTQ+ young people,” per The Trevor Project. She’s the fourth honoree and joins a roster of recipients that includes Lil Nas X, Janelle Monáe and Dylan Mulvaney.

Lipa’s ties to The Trevor Project — a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people in the U.S. and Mexico — include dedicating a segment on NBC’s Today to the org and its fundraising efforts, and sharing a link to crisis services the day after the election to her nearly 88 million Instagram followers.

“The Trevor Project is an organization that is near and dear to my heart, and I am humbled to play a part in shining a light on mental health awareness for LGBTQ+ young people. You are a beautiful, unstoppable community, and I am constantly in awe of the courage and strength you demonstrate when you stand proudly in your truth,” she said in a statement. “To every young person out there: Know that you are loved, you are not alone and The Trevor Project is a wonderful organization that is always there for you. The LGBTQ+ community have been my biggest champions since the start of my career, and I will continue to fight to make sure your voices are heard, your rights are protected and you are treated with respect for being just the way you are.”

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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024




Interview With Rodrigo Prieto


It was just a year ago I spoke to Rodrigo Prieto about Killers of the Flower Moon, his fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese. We once again found ourselves at EnergaCAMERIMAGE––this year bringing him into jury duty for the festival’s main competition, working alongside Cate Blanchett, Anthony Dod Mantle, Łukasz Żal, Jolanta Dylewska, Anna Higgs, and Sandy Powell to award a major achievement in cinematography. (A day after our conversation they’d bestow such honor upon The Girl with the Needle.)

Thus there wasn’t an exact objective to our conversation––Prieto is accomplished, engaging, and genial enough to carry a larger-scope chat about cinematography as philosophy and practice, about the particulars of jury duty, and regarding the actor-DP relationship. But this year also yielded his directorial debut, Pedro Páramo, and foretells further collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Taylor Swift, a powerful combination nobody but one man covers.

As we began our conversation in Toruń’s Hotel Bulwar, Prieto found himself perplexed by the set-up: two chairs scattered in a large, largely empty room obscured by half-light.

Rodrigo Prieto: My God, this place is the weirdest. [Laughs]

[Publicist asks if we want more light]

Yes, yes, I think some light could be there. And also I think I’d rather sit at a table, maybe. There is super-weird. [Sits at table] Yeah, this feels a little less awkward.

Interview With Rodrigo Prieto



The Rush Is On

Ben Nelson and Adam Weinberger’s last-minute decision to elope next month was made in the heat of the moment, not only in the name of love. After being together more than three years, they were already scheduled to marry next October. But things changed, they said, once Donald Trump was re-elected.

“We kind of decided that we would take a step back and do what we think is necessary for our lives, not necessarily what our first choice was,” Weinberger, 31, a veterinarian, said.

They are one of many gay couples in recent weeks who are rushing to get married, start fertility treatments and take other measures out of fear that some of their rights might be rescinded during a second Trump administration.

“This is not what equality looks like,” Nelson, 32, who is in photography school, said.

Same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States since the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark ruling, Obergefell v. Hodges, which made state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Before then, 37 states and U.S. territories had already legalized marriage equality.

But some gay couples say they fear that after it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, unraveling half a century of legal precedent, the Supreme Court will rescind their right to marry next.

The Rush Is On




Japan, Lesbian Escorts, and Self Care


In Japanese society, prostitution is often framed as a necessary evil – a way to maintain social harmony by providing men with an outlet for their pent-up sexual desires.

While there are a number of issues with this view – such as the implication that men are inherently unable to control their sexual impulses – it also has a critical flaw: It frames prostitution as something that only men want or need.

In Japan, female sexuality is often seen through the narrow lens of heterosexual romance and motherhood.

“Rezu fūzoku” upends this view.

Rezu fūzoku, which roughly translates to “lesbian sexual entertainment,” refers to agencies where female sex workers provide sex to female clients. And in Japan, it’s entirely legal. I began investigating female-to-female commercial sex and escort services in 2023. After initially studying the phenomenon of female-to-male crossdressers offering nonsexual, romantic dates to female clients, I decided to expand the investigation to focus on clients seeking sex and romance. The names of the sex workers and clients I interviewed in my research have been changed in this article to protect their anonymity.

Japan, Lesbian Escorts, and Self Care



Hugo D Almonte and Khalid


The man who outed Khalid as gay last week is blaming “years of emotional abuse” from the singer as the catalyst that led him to expose the “Young Dumb & Broke” star on social media.

Rapper and bisexual adult content creator Hugo D Almonte shared his side of the contentious story via a lengthy Instagram Stories post on Thursday, expressing remorse for his actions while claiming there was more to the situation than the public was aware of.

In his post, Almonte, who never mentions Khalid by name, claims he was introduced to “this person” at a party in L.A. several years ago.

Though he wasn’t aware who the singer was, the two would hit it off via exchanges on social media two months later.

“They reached out to me on Twitter, saying they loved my energy and wanted to get to know me better,” Almonte shared.

“I was flattered and curious. They told me they had been watching me for a while, even bookmarking my photos, but they were waiting to contact me because they were involved with someone else [at the time].”
 
Hugo D Almonte and Khalid




Lawyer Will Make History


A single 15-minute argument in the middle of this week could change Chase Strangio’s life – and the lives of so many people like him in the United States.

Strangio, an attorney for the ACLU, is set to make history Wednesday as the first known transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court. And he’ll do it as part of the most high-profile dispute on the docket this session.

The case, US v. Skrmetti, challenges a Tennessee law that bans treatments, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, for transgender minors and imposes civil penalties on doctors who violate the prohibitions. Some two dozen similar laws have been enacted in recent years in Republican-led states.

The high court’s ruling could have a cascading effect, not just for the families and physicians whose lives are deeply intertwined with its outcome – and who await Strangio’s appearance at the lectern with guarded hope – but also for the next chapter of civil rights law in the United States.

For Strangio, the professional path that’s led to this moment – in which he’ll have 15 minutes to present his argument to the justices – cannot be unwoven from his life outside the courtroom.

“It is not lost on me that I will be standing there at the lectern at the Supreme Court in part because I was able to have access to the medical care that is the very subject of the case that we’re litigating,” he said recently.

Lawyer Will Make History



Viktor From Arcane is Asexual


Arcane Season 2, and the series as a whole, has officially ended, and while it was an emotional rollercoaster that some people still haven't recovered from, a lot of talking points were thrown up as a result of the show's climax. One such conversation that is still ongoing is the relationship between Viktor and Jayce, and whether the two have any sort of romantic feelings for each other.

Viktor and Jayce is a very popular ship among the Arcane fandom, but co-creator and head writer Christian Linke recently claimed that the two are just good bros, as the team wanted to focus on "close friendships" and "brotherhoods" between male characters. Specifically, Linke wanted to portray a close relationship between two men without it being romantic, though that idea has been pushed back on by some of the more ardent Viktor and Jayce fans.

However, a new interview with Christian Linke talking about Viktor's sexuality is causing a stir now, as Linke recently confirmed while talking with German Twitch streamer LPGjustJohnny that Viktor is asexual, and was always intended to be asexual representation. According to a translation by Reddit user Flirefy, Linke supposedly spoke with LGBTQIA+ Rioters before the creation of Arcane about how asexuality is often lacking in representation in media.

Linke then supposedly claims that the Arcane team has always seen Viktor as asexual, and that his love for Jayce is just on a different level than a typical romance. These comments have somewhat riled up certain fans of Arcane, who are accusing Linke of trying to avoid depicting a gay relationship by labeling Viktor as asexual after the fact, while others are also upset that the disabled character in Arcane is asexual, which is often a harmful trope.

Viktor From Arcane is Asexual



Dua Lipa Receives Honor


Dua Lipa‘s ties to The Trevor Project are growing stronger.

The superstar singer has been singled out to receive the Mental Health Champion of the Year Award from the organization. The honor is meant to recognize “influential public figures who use their platform to advocate for mental health awareness and issues impacting LGBTQ+ young people,” per The Trevor Project. She’s the fourth honoree and joins a roster of recipients that includes Lil Nas X, Janelle Monáe and Dylan Mulvaney.

Lipa’s ties to The Trevor Project — a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people in the U.S. and Mexico — include dedicating a segment on NBC’s Today to the org and its fundraising efforts, and sharing a link to crisis services the day after the election to her nearly 88 million Instagram followers.

“The Trevor Project is an organization that is near and dear to my heart, and I am humbled to play a part in shining a light on mental health awareness for LGBTQ+ young people. You are a beautiful, unstoppable community, and I am constantly in awe of the courage and strength you demonstrate when you stand proudly in your truth,” she said in a statement. “To every young person out there: Know that you are loved, you are not alone and The Trevor Project is a wonderful organization that is always there for you. The LGBTQ+ community have been my biggest champions since the start of my career, and I will continue to fight to make sure your voices are heard, your rights are protected and you are treated with respect for being just the way you are.”

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Tuesday, December 10th, 2024




David Harbor Super Hero Roles


It could be argued that the summer of 2008 changed the superhero movie landscape forever. With the release of films like Iron Man and The Dark Knight mere months apart, it showed studios and audiences alike that the genre could be more than it was before. Since that point, the industry pretty much hasn't been without a major comic book adaptation on-screen or in development. Before the MCU and DCEU, there weren't nearly as many actors in comic book roles as there are now. Now, we have record-breaking superhero actors, like David Harbour.

Harbour is just one of many actors involved with the likes of both Marvel Studios and DC studios, but his work specifically has broken an incredibly niche and hyper-specific Superhero movie record for the smallest number of days between superhero projects (as first pointed out by ScreenRant). With his role as Eric Frankenstein in the season finale of DC's Creature Commandos on January 5, 2025 — followed by his return to the role of Red Guardian in Thunderbolts* on May 2, 2025 — Harbour will have a mere 113 days between both projects, breaking Randall Parks' previous record of 159 days between his role as Jimmy Woo in Ant-Man & The Wasp in 2018 and Dr. Stephen Shin in DC's Aquaman.

This niche record speaks to the increased number of actors who are not only involved with one comic book adaptation, but many — with some even coming from differing studios. The stacked voice cast of DC's Creature Commandos is a testament to this, with actors like Frank Grillo, Sean Gunn, and Maria Bakalova appearing in Marvel Cinematic Universe films in the past (a move that would have been unheard of only a few years ago). The growing number of projects and talent involved have led to new kinds of milestones beyond the more classic ones, like "how many times can Hugh Jackman appear as Wolverine in literally anything?" (OK we made that one up.)

David Harbor Super Hero Roles



Rudolph As a Gay Icon

I'm a dog person, but I'm also partial to reindeer. One in particular: Rudolph, of course.

To be clear, I'm not one of those everyday-is-Christmas folks. Nor am I that person who spends the whole year prepping, ordering new ornaments on Amazon in February, and posting on Facebook in mid-August: "Christmas shopping…DONE!" Most years, I don't celebrate Christmas at all.

If Tofurky isn't sad enough, try Tofurky for one.

Rudolph isn't about Christmas. Sure, he's a big help on foggy Christmas Eves, but I'm confident there's technology for that now. With three hundred sixty-four other days in the year and, even accounting for a week to rest his tired legs, he's got more of a life to live.

Rudolph—I used to call him Rudy, but a particular political figure ruined that—got me through childhood. I suppose every kid has bouts of feeling like he doesn't belong, but it was pervasive with me. I'd play the equivalent of reindeer games like Hide and Seek, Tag, and Make My Sister Scream.

But right around the age when kids started questioning the whole Santa thing, games got more complicated, requiring coordination and catching skills. That's when I, like Rudolph, started getting left off the neighborhood roster. When my gang let me play baseball, they would stick me in the Extreme Outfield, where no ball had ever landed. My at-bats were preceded by Jimmy Hardy yelling, "Move in, everybody. Way in!"

Rudolph As a Gay Icon




Judge Refuses to Marry Lesbian Couple


A city court judge in Syracuse, New York is facing investigation and calls to resign after she refused to marry a lesbian couple.

Felicia Pitts-Davis is being investigated by the state Commission of Judicial Conduct for refusing to marry the two young women, Shawntay and Nicorra Davis (no relation), despite marrying a straight couple moments before. The women told local outlet CNY Central that the judge left the courtroom on Nov. 16 when she saw the two of them were her next wedding.

"All of a sudden she looked at us, she just swished her hair and walked away like she was disgusted or something, and I noticed it and was like, 'What’s going on?' Then another judge came in," Shawntay said.

City court judge Mary Anne Doherty, who is LGBTQ+, then officiated the couple's wedding. Pitts-Davis allegedly told Doherty that she could not marry the couple, as it went against her religious beliefs, according to Syracuse.com.

An investigation against Pitts-Davis has since been launched, as court spokesperson Al Baker told the outlet: “We are aware of the allegation and have referred the matter to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct," further explaining that "discrimination of any kind is not tolerated by the UCS. Under New York Law, Judges are authorized, but not obligated, to perform marriages. Judges who choose to perform marriages may not unlawfully discriminate when deciding which couples they will marry.”

Judge Refuses to Marry Lesbian Couple



Hugo D Almonte and Khalid


The man who outed Khalid as gay last week is blaming “years of emotional abuse” from the singer as the catalyst that led him to expose the “Young Dumb & Broke” star on social media.

Rapper and bisexual adult content creator Hugo D Almonte shared his side of the contentious story via a lengthy Instagram Stories post on Thursday, expressing remorse for his actions while claiming there was more to the situation than the public was aware of.

In his post, Almonte, who never mentions Khalid by name, claims he was introduced to “this person” at a party in L.A. several years ago.

Though he wasn’t aware who the singer was, the two would hit it off via exchanges on social media two months later.

“They reached out to me on Twitter, saying they loved my energy and wanted to get to know me better,” Almonte shared.

“I was flattered and curious. They told me they had been watching me for a while, even bookmarking my photos, but they were waiting to contact me because they were involved with someone else [at the time].”
 
Hugo D Almonte and Khalid




Preparing for Trump


Afraid. Disappointed. Frustrated.

This is how Giovanni Santiago is feeling after former President Donald Trump's reelection victory.

"What I do believe is that LGBTQ people, specifically trans people, are a target for him, and are a target for his fan base," Santiago, who is trans, says about the president-elect.

The 38-year-old lives in Ohio, where state law has banned gender-affirming care for youths and participation of transgender girls and women on girls and women's sports teams. He is seeing and feeling the impacts of the political fight over rights for transgender people every day.

Nationally, the issue of gender-affirming care for minors was before the Supreme Court this week, after families challenged Tennessee's ban.

Santiago, a local activist in Cleveland, isn't alone in how he feels.

"Many in our community, particularly trans people and their families, are filled with anxiety and fear about what a second Trump presidency could bring," says Ash Lazarus Orr, with Advocates for Trans Equality. The group works to strengthen and protect the rights of transgender people through policy advocacy, political work and legal support.

Preparing for Trump



Pansexual Skater Wins Title


Amber Glenn has soared to the top of international figure skating and proved she belonged there Saturday with an historic victory in the Grand Prix Final.

Glenn became the first American to win the women's Grand Prix Final competition since Alissa Czisny 14 years ago as three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto had to settle for third place.

That continues a stunning breakout season at the age of 25 for the Texas-born skater, who is unbeaten in 2024-25, and caps a year which began with her first U.S. national title in January. Glenn admitted it's hard to get used to being on the top step of the podium.

“I’m exhausted,” she said. "It has been a whirlwind of a season and I’ve kind of struggled with this imposter syndrome. Just: ‘Oh, no, no, I’m not winning. That’s not me.’ And I’m just happy my hard work is finally showing, and this is a great event, and I’m honored to even be here."

Skating last in the six-woman field against five Japanese skaters, there was little sign of the pain which had bothered Glenn in Thursday's short program.

Glenn started with an emphatic triple axel and overcame a slight wobble part-way through her free skate — doubling a planned triple salchow and slightly under-rotating a triple flip — to finish strongly and score a total 212.07 for the win.

Pansexual Skater Wins Title



Dua Lipa Receives Honor


Dua Lipa‘s ties to The Trevor Project are growing stronger.

The superstar singer has been singled out to receive the Mental Health Champion of the Year Award from the organization. The honor is meant to recognize “influential public figures who use their platform to advocate for mental health awareness and issues impacting LGBTQ+ young people,” per The Trevor Project. She’s the fourth honoree and joins a roster of recipients that includes Lil Nas X, Janelle Monáe and Dylan Mulvaney.

Lipa’s ties to The Trevor Project — a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people in the U.S. and Mexico — include dedicating a segment on NBC’s Today to the org and its fundraising efforts, and sharing a link to crisis services the day after the election to her nearly 88 million Instagram followers.

“The Trevor Project is an organization that is near and dear to my heart, and I am humbled to play a part in shining a light on mental health awareness for LGBTQ+ young people. You are a beautiful, unstoppable community, and I am constantly in awe of the courage and strength you demonstrate when you stand proudly in your truth,” she said in a statement. “To every young person out there: Know that you are loved, you are not alone and The Trevor Project is a wonderful organization that is always there for you. The LGBTQ+ community have been my biggest champions since the start of my career, and I will continue to fight to make sure your voices are heard, your rights are protected and you are treated with respect for being just the way you are.”

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