Less than one month before opening night on their new auditorium stage, Hillsboro High School students were crushed to learn that they would not be allowed to perform their fall play. “She Kills Monsters” was abruptly canceled last week after students said there were complaints about a gay character. The play follows a high school […]
Federal prosecutors are pushing back against claims of mistreatment at a Washington, DC, jail where dozens of U.S. Capitol rioters are being held. The Justice Department on Wednesday addressed complaints lodged by defendant Christopher Worrell, whose case has become a cause célèbre in right-wing circles because of his health issues while in jail. “During an […]
Doritos has released a new ad celebrating both LGBTQ+ pride and Día de los Muertos, the holiday where Mexican and Latin American communities honor their deceased loved ones. Doritos Mexico’s new Spanish commercial features a family paying tribute to their deceased Uncle Alberto, who appears as a ghost alongside another man. “Who is he,” Alberto’s […]
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar has sparked outrage online after he posted a photoshopped anime video to his Twitter and Instagram accounts showing him appearing to kill Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden with two swords. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to the video on Monday saying a “creepy member” of the House had […]
A high school student who was speaking out about homophobic bullying during a school committee meeting in Franklin, Mass. earlier this week was heckled by an enraged woman in the audience. “I am gay,” Franklin High School senior Mackenzie Atwood told the committee Tuesday. “Call me what you want about that, I’m being personally attacked […]
Jenna Ryan, a Texas real-estate agent who infamously took a private jet to Washington, DC, to attend what turned into the deadly riot at the US Capitol and later tweeted that she’s “definitely not going to jail,” was sentenced to 60 days in prison on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Ryan played a […]
Pop star Britney Spears is free from her conservatorship after a judge ruled in favor of termination Friday, ending the 13-year arrangement that has legally stripped the pop star from making her own personal and financial decisions. “Effective today, the conservatorship of the person and the estate of Britney Jean Spears is hereby terminated,” Judge […]
Amy Schneider, a transgender woman and engineering manager from Oakland, California, recently became the defending Jeopardy! champion during Transgender Awareness Week and has now successfully defended her title five episodes in a row — meaning she now qualifies to compete in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, a yearly tournament between the show’s 15 contestants that […]
Police in Orlando are investigating a fire that was set last month to the 49 victims who died in a massacre at a Florida gay nightclub five years ago, and the foundation that runs it is seeking the public’s help in catching the vandal. On Saturday, the onePulse Foundation released security footage on its Facebook […]
Televangelist Marcus Lamb, who once compared LGBTQ people to “drug addicts and shoplifters” and vocally opposed Covid-19 vaccines, has died at 64, weeks after he contracted Covid-19. Lamb was the co-founder and former CEO of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network which regularly hosted anti-vaccine activists, including Sherri Tenpenny, who believes that vaccines make people […]