Month: August 2020

CCGSD/ The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon/ Mitchel Raphael courtesy of Christopher Karas A gay man in Canada has filed a human rights complaint with the United Nations over his country’s discriminatory blood donation ban on queer men. Christoper Karas, 24, from Brampton, Ontario, complained in 2016 to the Canadian Human Rights Commission over the
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Yesterday, the United States–based human rights advocacy nonprofit Human Rights Foundation published an open letter to Tyga, asking the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance in the Belarusian capital of Minsk over concerns that the concert was “an excuse to cancel the opposition’s final electoral rally” on the eve of a potentially historic presidential election.
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Conservatives in America are reportedly hoping Donald Trump will weaponise trans rights in an effort to revitalise his failing re-election bid. Polls suggest that Trump’s campaign is on thin ice, and some Republicans are now hoping that the president will launch an attack on trans people in an effort to gain popular support from conservatives.
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Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. In the early evenings, Esther Povitsky heads outside to begin her meditation. This being Los Angeles, you might think that involves crystals or ashwaganda, but, she says, “‘Sit down, hold your back up, close your eyes and think about nothing’—that’s
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Layla Moran has warned the government not to conflate a conversion therapy ban with reforms to the Gender Recognition Act (Vickie Flores/In Pictures/Getty) Lib Dem leadership candidate Layla Moran has warned Liz Truss not to use a conversion therapy ban as “a pawn in the Government’s culture war”. Moran, who is pansexual, wrote to the
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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) legend Marty Jannetty. (WWE) World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) legend Marty Jannetty left the wrestling community stunned Wednesday (August 4) after appearing to confess to murdering a gay man when he was 13. In a startling and since-deleted Facebook post, Jannetty, who was one half of the Rockers duo with Shawn Michaels
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Exclusive The firearms seized in the FBI raid at Jake Paul‘s house are now in the hands of the Sheriff … and we’re told the guns aren’t the reason the feds stormed the place with a warrant. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … there were multiple guns taken from Jake’s crib in Calabasas during Wednesday’s
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Don’t ask Jacob Elordi about the end of The Kissing Booth 2—because he hasn’t seen it.  On July 24, Netflix dropped the highly anticipated sequel to the 2018 teen rom-com, The Kissing Booth, starring Joey King, Joel Courtney, newcomer Taylor Zakhar Perez and, of course, Elordi.  After his rise to fame as high school hunk Noah Flynn in the first iteration, Elordi
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Kae Tempest. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images) Kae Tempest – poet, rapper, author and all multi-genre talent – revealed Thursday afternoon (August 5) that they have changed their name and pronouns in a heartfelt message to fans. The author and rapper, known for their work that examines the steely agonises of the modern world, took to their
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Buffalo rapper Conway the Machine has detailed his next studio album. From King to a GOD arrives September 11 via Drumwork/Griselda/EMPIRE. The album features Freddie Gibbs, Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Havoc, Lloyd Banks, DeJ Loaf, the Alchemist, Daringer, Erick Sermon, Hit-Boy, and more. Listen to the new song “Lemon,” featuring Method Man, below. “Typically,
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Hulu, Peacock) Released in 2008, Nicholas Stoller’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, quickly became a must-watch in terms of breakup movies, but not because of a depressing and heart-wrenching telling of infidelity and heartbreak (though those are both featured here). Instead, the movie, which stars Jason Segel (who wrote the screenplay) as composer Peter
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Red Cross worker and St Petersburg activist Daria Apakhonchich was arrested for taking part in a “vulva ballet” street performance in support of Yulia Tsvetkova. (Darya Apakhonchich/ Facebook) A Russian activist was arrested and fined after taking part in a “vulva ballet” street performance in support of persecuted queer artist Yulia Tsvetkova. Russian LGBT+ activist
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