Month: July 2020

LGBT+ South Africans wave Pride flags at Durban Pride Festival. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images) Lawmakers in the upper house of South Africa’s parliament passed a bill Wednesday (July 1) that bars marriage officers from objecting to marrying same-sex couples. South Africa remains an outlier in the patchwork of policies and laws in Africa wired to erase
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Get reacquainted with these noises, heh-heh, uh-huh-huh, because Beavis and Butt-Head are making a comeback. Comedy Central has signed an “expansive” deal with Emmy winner Mike Judge to reimagine the MTV classic series Beavis and Butt-Head, as well as spin-offs and specials. The animated series burst onto the scene in 1993 and became a pop
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Between rising consumer demands for sustainable practices and the secondhand clothing industry estimated to be valued at $64 billion by 2025, you can’t not practice eco-friendly fashion solutions. That’s the Herculean task that Gucci is taking on with Off the Grid, the Italian fashion house’s first environmentally-conscious collection heralded by creative director Alessandro Michele. “Gucci
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World by Kristin Rockaway for $2.99 Code Girls (Young Readers Edition) by Liza Mundy for $2.99 The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum for $2.99 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan for $2.99 The
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One of the UK’s largest LGBT+ swingers festivals has been cancelled, citing coronavirus safeguarding measures. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato/Aurora Lifestyle Festival) Social distancing measures have imbued every aspect of life – pad-locking the economy, stonewalling loved ones from one another and… leading to the cancellation of Europe’s largest swingers festival. Nothing is sacred, not
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The late John Prine, who died earlier this year of COVID-19, has received an unprecedented posthumous honor. He’s the first person to be named Illinois’ honorary poet laureate. “John Prine leaves behind an unparalleled musical legacy and was beloved by family and millions of fans who hope that in Heaven he finds Paradise waitin’ just
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Translated by Saskia Vogel — Most readers will know Håkan Nesser for his popular and widely read Inspector van Veeteren series set in the fictional city of Maardam. Nesser didn’t set the series in Sweden because he loathes the stereotypical depressed characters and dark and dreary setting the rest of the world associates with his
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As Twenties, the BET sitcom from Lena Waithe, was gearing up for launch earlier this year, a lot was said about the ways it is a groundbreaking show, and rightfully so.  Twenties‘ main character is a masculine-presenting lesbian, making Hattie, played by Jonica “JoJo” T. Gibbs, a trailblazer for BET and TV as a whole. Gay lead characters
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Realistic conversations. Today, Phaedra Parks virtually stopped by Daily Pop and opened up about the unfortunate, yet necessary conversations she’s had to have with her sons about racism. Per Parks, these discussions have been “difficult” as her boys with ex Apollo Nida, Ayden, 10, and Dylan, 7, are “young” and “very innocent.” “Unfortunately, because of
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