Gay Star News‘ Rafaella Gunz has written about Harlem’s Atlah World Missionary Church in New York City. The sign outside the church reads: ‘The LGBTQ mafia is posting lies, attempting a hit job on our church. They want Harlem to be white and homo.” It turns out, Atlah World Missionary Church and its pastor, James…
Saturday Night Live featured its first take on gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg during this weekend’s season finale, reports the Advocate. Host Paul Rudd played Buttigieg during the segment, which spoofed The View (“the most high-stakes brunch on television.”) The hosts mostly fawned over the Indiana mayor, with Whoopi Goldberg (Leslie Jones) infantilizing him and Joy Behar (played by…
Lawmakers in Taiwan have approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, a landmark decision that makes the self-ruled island the first place in Asia to pass gay marriage legislation, reports CNN. The vote came almost two years after the island’s Constitutional Court ruled that the existing law — which said marriage was between a man and a woman…
Univision has announced that they are going to launch the first primetime telenovela with a gay couple as its lead characters, according to We Are Mitu. The new show, reports Instinct, will be in Spanish and be called El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca or The Heart is Never Wrong. It will be a spinoff of the Mexican telenovela Mi Marido…
Televangelist Pat Robertson has issued a super serious alert to the nation. He said he expects the United States to be engulfed by an “atomic war” if the Equality Act passes, reports Pink News. The act—which seeks to strengthen the rights of LGBT+ people—has been heavily criticized by a number of right-wing and religious commentators…
(John Mayer and Shawn Mendes. Photos: Instagram) John Mayer has gifted the world a ‘clickbait’ story about Shawn Mendes’ underwear during an interview with Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM channel, Radio Andy, reports Gay Star News. Speaking to Watch What Happens Live host Cohen, Mayer said: “This is a story thats designed for people to pick up, put…
(Photo: Michael Truncale) Republicans in the U.S. Senate have just voted to make virulently homophobic Michael Truncale a federal judge. He will be sworn in as a U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, reports AlterNet. Truncale could not even get 50 Senate votes. He was confirmed 49-46. Mitt Romney was the only…
(Photo: Steven Anderson) Ireland has banned a US preacher known for anti-gay and anti-Semitic views, using a 20-year-old legal power for the first time. Steven Anderson, who runs Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, was due to preach in Dublin on May 26, according to his website, reports CNN. Anderson’s Faithful Word Baptist Church…
Openly gay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg addressed identity politics and America’s “crisis of belonging” during the Human Rights Campaign’s 14th annual gala Saturday night in Las Vegas, reports Las Vegas Review Journal. “I am here to build bridges and tear down walls,” Buttigieg said to an audience of about 750 people at Caesars Palace.…
(Photo: Vanessa Vanjie Mateo) RuPaul’s Drag Race seasons 10 and 11 contestant Vanessa Vanjie Mateo recorded a video for Chips Ahoy! cookies and conservatives got mad, reports LGBTQ Nation. Miss Vanjie recorded a Mother’s Day message for Chips Ahoy! because she’s the perfect person to do it: “Get those cookies” is one of her catchphrases, her…
(Photo: Doris Day with Rock Hudson) Actress and singer Doris Day made nearly three dozen films and more than 600 recordings. At the height of her career, she topped both the billboard and the box office charts. Day died of pneumonia on Monday at the age of 97, reports NPR. Day remains one of the…
The Department of Health and Human Services late Thursday announced that Gilead, the drug company behind the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication medication Truvada, would provide PrEP for up to 200,000 individuals each year for up to 11 years, reports Towleroad. HHS writes: The agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Gilead will last…
(Photo: Pastor Casey Tinnin) Rocklin, Calif., has been in the news for some anti-LGBTQ activism by those who object to a new state-mandated inclusive public school curriculum — but there’s some support for LGBTQ youth in the area as well, reports Trudy Ring at the Advocate. In a meeting this month, the Rocklin Unified School District board…
Joe Biden raked in over $700,000 this past Wednesday at a Hollywood fundraiser, one of the biggest hauls so far in the former vice president’s campaign to take on President Donald Trump in 2020m reports CNBC. The evening reception had a host committee of Hollywood luminaries including DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, executive and producer Peter…
Renée Zellweger takes us over the rainbow in the first trailer for Judy, reports the Advocate. The Chicago actress, in makeup, acting, and song, transformed into Judy Garland for the upcoming biopic of the late gay icon. In the trailer, Zellweger, who does her own vocals in the film, sings a heartbreaking rendition of The Wizard of Oz‘s 1939 classic…
Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg drew a sold-out crowd to a fundraiser at the iconic West Hollywood gay bar The Abbey on Thursday, reports NBC News. Attendees at The Abbey each paid about $25 to attend the grassroots event for Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was introduced by his husband, Chasten. “If anybody…
Police in Chechnya have carried out a new round of unlawful detentions, beatings, and humiliation of men they presume to be gay or bisexual, Human Rights Watch said this week. Human Rights Watch interviewed four men who were detained for between three and 20 days, between December 2018 and February 2019, at the Grozny Internal…
George Clooney and Ellen discussed their criticism of the Sultan of Brunei’s anti-LGBTQ laws, and why a continuation of their boycott against companies who do business with the leader is still so important. WATCH:
(Photo: Alec McKinney, Instagram) Local media is reporting that one of the suspects in the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting in Colorado is transgender, reports LGBTQ Nation. On Tuesday, two students at the STEM School opened fire on their classmates, killing one and injuring eight others before they were stopped. Both of the shooters were…
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has made clear throughout his upstart 2020 presidential bid that he believes Democrats should embrace religion and decry those who try to suggest God belongs to one political party or another, reports CNN. But in an interview with NBC’s Today Show that aired on Tuesday, Buttigieg suggested that if God did have a political…
Following the Sultan of Brunei’s decision to back down on death penalty laws for those engaging in gay sexual acts, George Clooney, who has been a pivotal part of the global outcry against the country’s acerbic and inhumane legal codes, issued a statement today in response to the country’s reversal, reports Deadline. “This is a huge step forward after…
Why choose between a dress and a suit when you can wear both? That’s what Michael Urie did at last night’s Met Gala,reports Huffington Post. The Ugly Betty actor arrived for fashion’s big night wearing a gender-bending Christian Siriano creation that was half pink tulle ballgown, half pinstripe suit. Siriano posted about the outfit on Instagram, captioning a picture of Urie,…
