Broadway legend Carol Channing died Tuesday at age 97 of natural causes, reports The Advocate. The Tony Award-winning actress, who originated the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in 1964’s Hello, Dolly! on Broadway, was beloved by the LGBTQ community for being a longtime ally. “The gay community is responsible for so much of my success, and I love them,”…
INTO, the online LGBTQ magazine owned and operated by gay dating app Grindr, terminated on Tuesday its editorial staff, effectively ending the digital outlet’s 17-month run, reports NBC News. “The company will be refocusing its efforts on video and as such, the editorial and social teams were let go this morning,” a joint statement from…
The New York State Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill to prohibit licensed mental health professionals from practicing gay conversion therapy on minors, reports Huffington Post. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is expected to sign the bill this week, which would make New York the 15th state in addition to Washington, D.C., in the U.S. to…
Trans actress Indya Moore has returned to her modelling roots with an assignment for Louis Vuitton, reports Gay Star News. Moore, who earned recognition for her role as Angel on FX drama Pose, is one of 17 celebrities to be featured in the campaign. She stars alongside the likes of Chloë Grace Moretz, Léa Seydoux, Alicia Vikander,…
Days after the American Psychological Association (APA) announced that “traditional masculinity” is “harmful” to society and can lead to homophobia and sexual harassment, razor brand Gillette released a new ad campaign touching on the same topic, reports New York Post. The Procter & Gamble-owned company is using the new ad to tackle its own slogan, “The Best…
The Paris Opera Ballet has dropped Ukrainian-born dance star Sergei Polunin from a production of Swan Lake after he posted a homophobic and sexist rant on social media, reports Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty. Polunin, 29, known as “the bad boy of ballet” who was compared to legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev earlier in his career,…
The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBTQ activists in Russia charged Monday, reports NBC News. The new allegations come after reports in 2017 of more than 100 gay men arrested and subjected to torture, and some…
This past Saturday, Justin Hoke, the pastor of Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church in Weed, Calif., announced that he had been ousted from his position, amid protest over a billboard the church had erected stating that: “Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.” Hoke wrote on…
It may be hard to believe, given the Trump administration’s history on the matter and the threats that still loom large in more conservative states, but 2019 could be a landmark year for LGBT rights, reports The Daily Beast. Thanks in part to the results of the 2018 midterm elections, some of the most populous states in the…
Writer/director Dan Gilroy of Nightcrawler fame has reteamed with Jake Gyllenhaal in a new thriller – Velvet Buzzsaw – which sees the actor return to playing a gay role (again), reports Queerty. As an art critic, Gyllenhaal begins experiencing a series of murderous supernatural events surrounding the work of a dead artist. Velvet Buzzsaw also stars Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe…
Yesterday, 50 LGBTQ and allied organizations – including the National Black Justice Coalition, National LGBTQ Task Force, American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Southern California – released a statement to demand a thorough investigation by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office of the second death of a black man at the West…
There has been a new round of detentions of people suspected to be gay in Chcchnya, activists told the Associated Press Friday, reports the Advocate. A crackdown has been going on for the past two years in which more than 100 LGBTQ people, especially gay and bisexual men, have been arrested and put in what amounts to concentration camps,…
A Northern California church put out an anti-gay and anti-transgender message on its sign for the New Year, reports The Sacramento Bee. “Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin,” read the sign outside Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church in Lake Shastina, California, not far from the Oregon border. “The culture may change. The…
The rapper and outspoken advocate for the LGBT community Kevin Fret has been shot dead in Puerto Rico, aged 24, reports BBC. The musician, described as Latin Trap music’s first openly gay artist, was killed in the capital San Juan on Thursday, police said. Fret was shot eight times while riding a motorbike in the…
Acclaimed director Peter Farrelly is apologizing to Cameron Diaz and others for repeatedly flashing his penis on movie sets back in the day, which he now calls a poor attempt at humor, reports TMZ. Peter’s public apology comes after Cameron’s interviews from 20 years ago resurfaced. The actress, who starred in his ’98 hit, There’s Something About Mary, said…
A woman who promised to attend gay people’s weddings if their mothers wouldn’t is getting a film made about her, reports LGBTQ Nation. Sara Cunningham got national attention when she posted on Facebook that she would attend weddings as a stand-in, since so many LGBTQ people have been rejected by their parents. Jamie Lee Curtis…
As the new California Insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Lara has made history as the first openly LGBTQ+ statewide-elected official in California’s history, reports abc10.com. Lara (D-Bell Gardens), formerly a California State Senator, was sworn in on Monday to his new position. “Today, we are living proof that #California is stronger when we stand together. We are…
Word is California Sen. Kamala Harris will announce she’s running for president either on or shortly after the upcoming Martin Luther King weekend, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The exact date is still being worked out, but sources told the Chronicle it’s going to be sometime this month — the MLK holiday is Jan. 21. While the…
Gay Marvel comic book writer Sina Grace made waves in 2015 by re-introducing the frosty X-Man, Iceman, as a gay character. And now Grace has broken new ground by introducing what could be the series’ first-ever drag queen superhero: a fan-wielding Glamazon named Shade, reports Queerty. Advocate.com reports that Shade made her X-Men debut last month when she…
A transgender California prisoner alleges in a new legal complaint that she spent nine months in solitary confinement after reporting that a cellmate had raped her, exacerbating her distress after the attack, reports The Sacramento Bee. The new filing expands on a claim Candice Crowder initially filed in August 2017, when she complained that correctional…
In response to the reported death of a second black man at the home of West Hollywood resident Ed Buck, the Los Angeles LGBT issued the following statement: “The Los Angeles LGBT Center calls upon Los Angeles County Sherriff Alex Villanueva and his department to fully investigate this tragedy and aggressively seek justice wherever the investigation…
WEHOville has reported that a young African-American man was found dead early this morning in the Laurel Avenue apartment of Ed Buck, where a death in July 2017 sparked a protest about its handling by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and about the reaction to the incident by Democratic Party politicians. Buck, a white…
