Month: September 2020

South African 800 metre Olympic champion Caster Semenya. (PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images) Caster Semenya lost her final appeal to compete in the 800 metres race at the postponed Toyko 2020 Olympics in a ruling by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court Tuesday (8 September). After a lengthy battle, Semenya has been told that in order
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A call for institutionalised conversion therapy in Poland has been roundly condemned by therapeutic and psychological experts in the country. Earlier this month, the Polish Episcopal Conference of Catholic bishops said that it was “necessary to create [conversion therapy] clinics… to help people regain their sexual health and natural sexual orientation”. The call for a
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Jake Gyllenhaal starred in Brokeback Mountain with the late Heath Ledger. (Focus Features) Just two per cent of big budget films released in the last decade have had meaningful LGBT+ representation, according to an academic. Dr Ellie Lockhart, who has a PhD in communications, has been analysing recent films to figure out what kind of
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Doc Martin season 10 will be the show’s last. The medical comedy-drama focused on the life of Dr. Martin Ellingham, a character that was loosely spun-off from Clunes’ role in the award-winning 2000 film Saving Grace. The show featured Martin as a successful cardiovascular surgeon who, after developing haemophobia, moves to a quaint Cornish town as its
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Steps singer Ian H Watkins with Dancing on Ice skater Matt Evers. (ITV) Steps star Ian ‘H’ Watkins has called on Dancing on Ice to break new ground by introducing a trans contestant during its next season. Dancing on Ice made history in January when Watkins and professional skater Matt Evers became the show’s first ever same-sex
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At this time, Armie and Rumer haven’t publicly commented on their hang out. However, Jessica briefly addressed her dine-in with the actor. She told Page Six, “That’s just me having lunch.” Back in July, Armie and Elizabeth issued a joint statement announcing their divorce. “Thirteen years as best friends, soulmates, partners and then parents,” their statement read
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Gary Peacock—the legendary jazz bassist, who played and recorded alongside artists including Keith Jarrett, Albert Ayer, Bill Evans, Tony Williams, and Marc Copland—has died, NPR reports. A cause of death has not been revealed. Gary Peacock was 85 years old. Born in Idaho in 1935, Gary Peacock started out as a drummer and pianist before
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Refresh for updates: Warner Bros. long-awaited Christopher Nolan movie Tenet finally opened in the U.S., and together with its Canadian run, which began last weekend rang up $20.2M to date at 2,810 theaters. All in, the time travel, 2 1/2 hour spy thriller has clocked almost $150M to date. Since movie theaters closed down nationwide due to
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A proposed new law would legally erase the existence of trans people in Vladimir Putin’s Russia (Getty) Russia could be set to follow in the footsteps of Hungary with a proposed law that would legally erase transgender people. Proposed amendments to Russia’s Family Code, put forward by anti-LGBT+ lawmaker Yelena Mizulinam, would legally bar transgender
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Pennsylvania state representative Malcolm Kenyatta (YouTube/Pa. House Video) Pennsylvania representative Malcolm Kenyatta has shamed Republican lawmakers for backing legislation that he says will “intimate” people from exercising their right to vote. The Black gay Democrat tore into Republicans in an impassioned address on the House floor on September 2, drawing attention to a bill that
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