In an interview Dolly Parton conducted with NewNowNext about her new Netflix series Heartstrings – the interviewer asked about the dance album Dolly has teased her gay fans with for years. She let a few more details slip, including how she has written another song for the eventual queer classic: “I have a song ’Dance…
For the third consecutive holiday season, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Young Professionals Council (YPC) will collect new gift cards, unopened personal hygiene essentials, and canned or non-perishable food items to benefit LGBT seniors served by the Center. The annual donation drive party, known as Give What You Can, will be held on Saturday, December…
(Photo: “Mulan: Rise of a Warrior”) Academic LGBTQ publisher Harrington Park Press has just made available a free and public database of over 180 films and television shows celebrating the diversity and richness of transgender lives. The sortable “Films and Television Featuring Transgender People or Themes” was compiled from the “Films and Television of Interest”…
(Photo: Muhlaysia Booker, murdered in May this year. RIP) The Transgender Day of Remembrance is 20 years old today, and it continues to draw attention to the worldwide epidemic of anti-transgender violence, reports NBC News. The killings that led to the creation of Transgender Day of Remembrance two decades ago are still happening today. According to…
Democratic White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg surged to a 10-point lead in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, according to a new Saint Anselm College poll released Tuesday, reports The Hill. Buttigieg gets the support of 25 percent of self-identified likely Democratic primary voters, marking the first time the South Bend, Ind., mayor has emerged atop…
The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted several LGBTQ-supportive policies at a meeting Tuesday, endorsing bans on conversion therapy and backing inclusion of more information on transgender patients in electronic health records, and also pledged to address racial pay gaps in medicine, reports the Advocate. The AMA has spoken out on these issues before, but the…
A new study has found two thirds of gay and bi couples who adopt dogs say their relationships are stronger as a result, reports QN. The study by pet-sitting website Rover.com looked at pet dogs and their owners’ romantic relationships. It revealed 56% of the couples with dogs spent more time together. Participants also saw owning…
(Photo: Justin Wells) West Hollywood Council member John Duran was the bearer of sad news last night, when he announced on his Facebook Timeline the passing of Justin Wells, the co-founcer and CEO for Westwind Recovery Treatment Centers and Sober Livings in Los Angeles reports WeHoTimes. “WEHOANS. Sad news,” Duran wrote. “The passing of Justin…
Sara Lee Bread is facing an onslaught of raunchy comments on social media after the baked-goods brand was featured on a “Saturday Night Live” skit starring Harry Styles (see skit here), reports Business Insider. The skit involved a gay intern in charge of Sara Lee’s whose personal sexually explicit account gets mixed up with the corporate…
Iceland’s Hatari played a show in Moscow over the weekend where they spread their rainbow wings to show support for the suppressed LGBTQ+ community in Russia, reports The Line Of Best Fit. LGBTQ+ so-called “propaganda” has been banned in Russia since 2013, with many queer people being hunted down and tortured because of their sexuality.…
Mayor Eric Garcetti, along with Councilmen Herb Wesson and Mitch O’Farrell, announced the grand opening of Casa de Zulma last week, the first publicly funded bridge housing project for transgender women in LA County, reports Hayley Smith at USC Annenberg Media. Bridge housing is temporary housing meant to serve as a refuge for homeless people to…
Brit singer Harry Styles hosted Saturday Night Live last night. The most refreshing part of the show, reports Pink News, was watching Styles play a gay character – a millennial social-media intern – hauled in front of his bosses for some “off message” account activity – and realising that the jokes were not about the character…
LGBTQ people in Hong Kong celebrated Pride Saturday following a police ban on the annual march, reports the Advocate. Rather than a parade, attendees were only allowed to gather in a “public meeting,” reported the Straits Times. Members of the LGBTQ community expressed disappointment that the police would use the months of protests in Hong…
A gay penguin couple in Amersfoort’s DierenPark zoo have stolen an egg from another penguin family and are now trying to hatch it, the zoo said on Thursday, reports DutchNews. The two African penguins ‘acquired’ the egg at a moment when no-one was looking, the zoo said. No-one knows if the egg they stole has…
The day after a 16-year-old boy shot five classmates and himself at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva provides an update on the investigation. WATCH: https://youtu.be/GueIzw7BW-k
Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler, reports Reuters. “It is not coincidental that at times there is a resurgence of symbols typical of Nazism,” Francis said in an address to participants of an international conference on criminal law. “And I must confess to you…
On Wednesday, Lil Nas X became the first out gay musician to take home a Country Music Association Award. He and collaborator Billy Ray Cyrus took home the “Musical Event of the Year” trophy for the remix of “Old Town Road,” which spent an unprecedented 20 weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100,…
16-year-old Jordan Steffy explains what happened when he was bullied and what led to the fight that went viral on social media a few days ago on the Tamron Hall Show. WATCH:
Multiple people were injured, at least two of them critically, in a shooting at a Southern California high school on Thursday morning, officials said, reports NBC News. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s department said the suspected gunman, an Asian male wearing black clothing who was last seen at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, was…
(Photo: Phillip Todd Wilson) A former Kentucky school principal has been indicted on child pornography charges, a decade after he first made headlines for banning books with LGBTQ storylines, reports NBC News. Phillip Todd Wilson, the former principal of the Clark County Area Technology Center in Winchester, Kentucky, was charged with 17 child pornography and…
As the City of West Hollywood moves forward with implementing its HIV Zero Strategic Plan, the City’s Social Services Division is seeking feedback from the community about stigma experienced as a result of HIV status. The City has launched an online survey, which is available at www.weho.org/hivzero. Residents and members of the community, regardless of…
(Photo: Ellie Goulding) Five days ago, the NFL announced that English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding would perform during the halftime of its Thanksgiving Day game, a performance which for the last 22 years has served as the kick-off event for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign to raise money for the homeless, reports LGBTQ…
