Month: August 2020

EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway production company behind the upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ and the stage adaptation of the hit 2000 film Almost Famous has hired The Old Globe Theater’s Travis LeMont Ballenger as producer to help oversee both high-profile projects. Ballenger, most recently the Associate Artistic Director at the Globe in San Diego, also will
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Cartier has sparked confusion and outrage by claiming two men featured in a Chinese advert are father and son, rather than a gay couple. The advert was released ahead of China’s Qixi Festival on August 25, often described as the Chinese equivalent of Valentine’s Day. The French jewellery brand promoted its Trinity ring as the
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Pose star Dominique Jackson and transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf head up the line-up for the digital UK Black Pride festival. Like many Pride events, the physical UK Black Pride gathering was cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus, but organisers have put their all into creating a day-long celebration of Black queer experiences. The
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The Weeknd‘s philanthropy isn’t confined to North America … he’s opening his wallet to help people who were injured, people whose loved ones died, and people who were left homeless by the tragic explosion that rocked Beirut. The singer’s manager, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, and his wife, Rima Fakih, have been leading the charge to get
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The UK’s home secretary Priti Patel is planning to fully decriminalise the sale of poppers. Not usually known for liberal stances on anything, Patel confirmed on Wednesday that she is “minded” to explicitly exempt poppers from laws banning former ‘legal highs’. Alkyl nitrites, popularly known as poppers, are sold in the UK as room odourisers
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The Japanese House—the recording moniker of singer-songwriter Amber Bain—has released her new Chewing Cotton Wool EP. In addition to the title track and the 2019 single “Something Has to Change,” the project features new a song called “Dionne,” featuring Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Take a listen to that below (via Dirty Hit). The Chewing Cotton
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An era of Marvel TV is coming to an end with Agents of SHIELD finishing its seventh and final season, but there are still several Marvel shows releasing in the future. In the aftermath of The Avengers breaking box office records, Marvel Television increased its output to make Marvel TV shows alongside the MCU that linked as narrative annexes. Agents
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Jaida Essence Hall was the deserved winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12. (Getty) Drag Race season 12 winner Jaida Essence Hall said she doesn’t know a “single Black queen” who hasn’t suffered racism at the hands of so-called fans. Jaida talked candidly about discrimination, the Black Lives Matter movement and growing up queer in
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Morgan Stewart and Jordan McGraw are already imagining what their little girl will be like. On tonight’s Nightly Pop, the parents-to-be joined Morgan’s co-hosts Hunter March and Nina Parker for a friendly game of “Fian…Say What?: Baby Edition.” For the first round, Nina reminded Nightly Pop viewers that a psychic previously predicted Morgan’s pregnancy. “I’m
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[Warning: This post contains spoilers from Stargirl’s Season 1 finale. Read at your own risk.] Remember that time Starman (Joel McHale) supposedly died in Pat Dugan’s (Luke Wilson) arms, marking the end of the JSA’s reign and jumpstarting Courtney Whitmore’s (Brec Bassinger) superhero journey five years later? Well, it looks like that dramatic death scene
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The anti-gay Liberty University has picked another anti-LGBT evangelist to stand in for the scandal-hit Jerry Falwell Jr. Falwell Jr, a key evangelical Trump ally, agreed to step aside from his position at the private Virginia Christian university this month after long-running concerns about his conduct reached new heights when he posted a photo of
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