BRUNCH FOR A CAUSE: Members of the London fashion community on Sunday gathered at the London Edition for its annual Pride brunch, supporting charity organizations while enjoying high-energy drag performances. Cohosted by Jean Paul Gaultier, fashion designer Henry Holland and drag icon Gottmik, who recently starred in Christian Siriano’s resort 2025 look book, this year’s … Read more
By John Fritze | CNN The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the Biden administration’s challenge to a transgender care ban in Tennessee, delving into the complicated and politically fraught issue of gender-affirming care in a substantive way for the first time. The state law, enacted last year, bans hormone therapy and puberty blockers … Read more
Bollywood films, which have started to explore subjects beyond a boy falling for a girl kinda romance, have featured complexities of queer relationships in films such as Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, both starring Ayushmann Khurrana as the lead along with Jitendra Kumar in the former and Vaani Kapoor in the latter. … Read more
Denverites looking for LGBTQ bars have to be willing to roam, since the city’s cultural scene is not always matched by the amount or concentration of LGBTQ clubs. Over the last year or so we’ve lost a few spots, including Fusions, Lucid, and the 3 Kilts Tavern, so the remaining names are all the more … Read more
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the United States. In Los Angeles, celebrations include a festival and parade that are among the world’s largest LGBTQ+ events. VOA’s Genia Dulot talked to an immigrant couple about their lives in the United States and their struggle for acceptance back home. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! … Read more
LONG STRUGGLE Thailand has long enjoyed a reputation for tolerance of the LGBTQ community, and opinion polls reported in local media show overwhelming public support for equal marriage. More than 30 countries around the world have legalised marriage for all since the Netherlands became the first to celebrate same-sex unions in 2001. But in Asia, … Read more
Manila’s “Home for the Golden Gays” was among the few brick-and-mortar care facilities for the elderly LGBTQ community in the Philippines. However, when the facility closed in 2012, most of its elderly residents were left homeless and struggling in their final years. The surviving Golden Gays have since been trying to build a new permanent … Read more
By Summer Ballentine, Nick Ingram and Heather Hollingsworth | Associated Press PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — David Titterington had a sense of what his childhood friend would ask him when she led him into a photo booth at a mutual friend’s wedding roughly a decade ago. As the countdown for the second photo ticked, Jen Wilson … Read more
A push to oust Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams has led to the formal censure of the petition’s circulator — the Jefferson County party chair — and an apparent nullification of the effort by her own executive committee. Nancy Pallozzi started the petition last week. It lists several concerns with Williams’ leadership, including the party … Read more
The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority. In a preliminary injunction granted Thursday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty called the new rule an “abuse of power” and a … Read more
