Gay: Celebs Rumors

Deborra-Lee Furness is addressing those rumours about her husband Hugh Jackman’s sexuality once again.

LGBTQI advocates have asked the Australian Labor Party and opposition leader Anthony Albanese to spell out their plans for a Religious Discrimination Bill. This follows National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) setting an April 29 deadline for the ALP to explain “what a finalised Albanese Government Religious Discrimination Bill will contain”.Just.Equal said they had written to Dreyfus with four questions on the issue. The organisation wanted to know, if a Labor government would “allow discrimination by faith-based schools against LGBTQ teachers at the point of recruitment, allow discrimination by faith-based schools against LGBTQ students under the guise of “religious belief”, allow discrimination against LGBTQ staff and volunteers in other faith-based services and override existing state and territory laws against LGBTQ discrimination, including existing protections for teachers in faith-based schools as well as Section 17 of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act.” On February 10, 2022, Albanese had issued a statement after Prime Minister Scott Morrison indefinitely shelved his government’s Religious Discrimination Bill.

Missouri State Representative Ian Mackey, a Democrat, has gone viral for his defence of transgender young people during the debate on whether to allow transgender girls to compete on all-girls sports teams.Talking to the amendment’s sponsor, Representative Chuck Bayse, a Republican, Mackey even brought up Bayse’s own gay brother to make his point. “Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he?” Mackey asked.Bringing up the fact that Bayse’s brother was afraid to come out to him, Mackey said “If I were your brother, I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you too because of stuff like this – because this is what you’re focused on.“This is the legislation you want to put forward.

Two gay dads were called ‘rapists’ and ‘pedophiles’ by an unidentified man while on an Amtrak train trip along the California coast. On April 12, Robbie Pierce and his husband, Neal Broverman, were travelling with their two children when a man started yelling at them. “The next thing he said was, ‘Marriage is between a man and a woman. They stole you, and they’re pedophiles.’”Pierce and Broverman got between the man and their sobbing children and Pierce said, “Get away from my family.” The man responded, “That’s not a family! You’re rapists and pedophiles.

Never change who you are for anyone. During a conversation with a friend about how some people allow others to chip away at who they truly are, we came to the conclusion that they often do this  just to be part of the “In-Crowd.” Let me explain… I am in an interacial marriage.  The expectation that I tone down my Blackness to better fit in with my husband would never be broached within the confines of our relationship.

too extreme.” That blew over quickly, but in 2020, the Black Student Union and the Student Inclusion Coalition supported the removal.Yeah, Lincoln “said some racist thing,” Maher said, adding that “every white person in 1860 Columbus had slaves. So did everyone in 1492, who could afford it, including people of color in other parts of the world. … You know who else had slaves? Everyone in the Bible.

The NSW Government announced on Saturday, April 16, that it will establish a Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes.Justice John Sackar will act as Commissioner in charge of the inquiry. The Inquiry will look into “the manner and cause of death” of all previously investigated unsolved LGBTQI hate crime deaths in NSW between 1970 and 2010.NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said, “These unsolved deaths have left loving families without answers for too long.“This Inquiry provides an opportunity to focus further scrutiny on suspected hate crimes, and under the leadership of Justice Sackar will work to close a dark chapter of our state’s history that has left an indelible mark.“Justice Sackar is a respected and experienced Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and will bring expertise to this significant role.”Speaking on the Inquiry, Speakman said, “A Special Commission of Inquiry is a powerful investigative tool to look for answers for which many have been waiting decades. No one should have to suffer the distress of not knowing what happened to someone they love.”⚖️ A Special Commission of Inquiry, with coercive powers and Justice John Sackar as Commissioner, will inquire into the manner and cause of death in unsolved suspected #LGBTIQ #hatecrime deaths in NSW between 1970 and 2010.

1997, comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, dressed in black in front of a white background, under the words: “Yep, I’m Gay”. “Ellen opened the closet door. .

“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” has generated, in the weeks leading up to its release, if not exactly interest, then a kind of curiosity.This is a franchise that has survived, by the skin of its teeth, despite a largely apathetic critical and commercial response and several scandals ranging from author J.K. Rowling’s controversial comments about sex and gender to one-time costar Johnny Depp’s alleged spousal abuse, that have potentially dinged the franchise irrevocably.

After my parents divorced, my mother moved into housing commission on the other side of Parramatta Park. I harboured a lot of shame growing up within the lower socio-economic parts of the Parramatta LGA.

The murders of two gay men in separate incidents in a town in Ireland, have left the LGBTQI community “reeling”. Gardaí – the national police service in Ireland – said they were investigating the two incidents as possible hate crimes. Aidan Moffit (42) and Michael Snee (58) were found dead at their respective residences earlier this week in Sligo town in Ireland.

Finding love off the beach! Tia Booth may have not realized it at the time, but she met The One in Taylor Mock before she even returned to Bachelor Nation for a second stint in Paradise.

Jude Law (Dumbledore) and Mads Mikkelsen (Grindelwald) play former lovers in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore have been removed for the film’s release in China, as they allude to a gay relationship.Six seconds in the third film were cut in the forthcoming release, referring to a romantic past between Dumbledore and Grindelwald.The original cut included the lines “because I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love”.The producers, Warner Bros, told Variety in a statement that they believe the “spirit of the film remains”.The studio added that they remain “committed to safeguarding the integrity of every film we release” and that that sometimes means “sensitively” making “nuanced cuts” for certain markets.“Our hope is to release our features worldwide as released by their creators but historically we have faced small edits made in local markets,” they added.“In the case of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, a six-second cut was requested and Warner Bros accepted those changes to comply with local requirements but the spirit of the film remains intact.“We want audiences everywhere in the world to see and enjoy this film, and it’s important to us that Chinese audiences have the opportunity to experience it as well, even with these minor edits.” In a three-star review of the new film, NME wrote: “Unfortunately, there are far too many other characters involved – and most of them don’t do much that actually matters.”

Warner Bros has removed dialogue referencing a gay relationship between Jude Law’s Albus Dumbledore and Mads Mikkelsen’s Gellert Grindelwald in the version of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore” released in China.

first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, takes out six seconds of the film in which Dumbledore utters the lines “I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love.”The film’s total run time is 143 minutes.“As a studio, we’re committed to safeguarding the integrity of every film we release, and that extends to circumstances that necessitate making nuanced cuts in order to respond sensitively to a variety of in-market factors,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson told THR.“Our hope is to release our features worldwide as released by their creators but historically we have faced small edits made in local markets.” The spokesperson added: “In the case of ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,’ a six-second cut was requested and Warner Bros.

When I first proposed to chat with Lingsi Lu and Leanor Barz from the Street Roller Hockey Chix for this month’s column, I thought, “these chix are going to be sooo out of my league”’ I mean, they marched in Mardi Gras dressed as bin chickens – the club’s mascot! But I think, instead, I might have stumbled upon the most delightful (non-organised) sporting league there is. Like so many of our LGBTQI+ sporting clubs, the Chix got their start when a group of friends decided to meld their teenage hobbies – roller-blading and ice hockey. Believe it or not, their’s is a non-contact game, and score blow-outs are ‘against the rules’. Delightful, right? There are no designated surface requirements and no referees, and two milk crates cut in two suffice as goals, which is pretty great considering the competition for fields and courts here in Sydney.

Police are searching for the suspect in the murder of a black transgender woman in Philadelphia.Miia Jamii Parker, 25, was shot dead, at 3:30am, in her parked car, in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester, on April 1. Police have identified a suspect, Saad Najeed Dwight, 38, and are asking the community to be on the lookout. According to CBS Philly, Dwight is facing charges of third-degree murder, criminal homicide, and possession of a firearm.The suspect’s motive is unknown.According to Parker’s friends, she knew how to light up a room and was always the life of the party. “We say ‘at least’ because too often these stories go unreported — or misreported.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, agreed to edit out two references to same-sex relationships from the film following demands from Chinese government censors.The censored dialogue, the removal of which ensured that the government would allow the film to be released to the public, occurs during a scene between main characters Albus Dumbledore, played by Jude Law, and Gellert Grindelwald, played by Mads Mikkelsen.The lines, which amounted to six seconds in total, were “…because I was in love with you” and “The summer Gellert and I fell in love,” reports the South China Morning Post.In 2007, J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series, declared that Dumbledore, who became the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry later in life, is gay, although he was never referenced as such in the books.Dumbledore’s sexual orientation was subsequently hinted at in the first two Fantastic Beasts films — which serve as prequels to the Harry Potter films — but it’s not until The Secrets of Dumbledore that the character’s sexuality if fully acknowledged on screen.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” that point to Albus Dumbledore’s homosexuality, though the studio says that “the spirit of the film remains intact” despite the edits. As first spotted by news.com.au, the Chinese theatrical release of the third “Fantastic Beasts” movie in the Wizarding World franchise omitted two lines of dialogue spoken by Dumbledore (Jude Law), including him saying, “because I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love.” “Harry Potter” author and the film’s writer J.K.

Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, which released in China this past weekend, did so without references to the same-sex relationship between two of the threequel’s lead characters. The Chinese censors requested a cut, which Warner Bros, according to a studio spokesperson, “accepted… to comply with local requirements,” adding, “the spirit of the film remains intact.” (See the full statement below.)

There have been some changes made to Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ahead of its release in China.

Zack Sharf References to a gay relationship in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” were edited out of the movie by Warner Bros. for the film’s release in China. Only six seconds of the movie’s 142-minute runtime were removed.

Outgoing Sunrise executive producer, Michael Pell got engaged at his going away party, Saturday afternoon. Pell’s boyfriend, Daniel Burgess-Wise, in a room full of their friends, family, and colleagues asked Pell to marry him.Burgess-Wise, 29, voice shaking asked Pell, “Will you marry me?Pell, 36, holding back tears, replied, “’Yes!”The pair hugged each other as their guest cheered. The couple met in 2018 after Burgess-Wise started working on Sunrise. They started dating in 2020.Pell has been promoted to a new role and is moving to Los Angeles to be Senior Vice President, Entertainment Content, North America.There Pell will scout out new potential shows and formats for the Seven Network.  A post shared by Michael Pell (@michaeljpell)Pell has been the executive producer at Sunrise since 2010 when at the age of 26 was he was one of the youngest producers at the network. Prior to that, Pell  was a producer in the network’s news department.  A post shared by Michael Pell (@michaeljpell)In response to the news of the promotion, Sunrise’s David Koch wished Pell well saying, “Michael has been a major force behind Sunrise’s continued success over many years.

calling The Power Of The Dog a “piece of shit” earlier this year.The actor recently stirred controversy during an appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, where he spoke about the “allusions of homosexuality” in the Oscar-winning Netflix film, while also comparing the characters to Chippendales dancers who “wear bowties and not much else”.While he praised the director Jane Campion, he added: “What the fuck does this woman from down there [New Zealand] know about the American west? Why the fuck did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? And say this is the way it was? That fucking rubbed me the wrong way.”Elliott has now apologised for his comments during Deadline’s Contenders TV event, saying: “I told the WTF podcaster that I thought Jane Campion was a brilliant director, and I want to apologize to the cast of The Power Of The Dog, brilliant actors all. And in particular Benedict Cumberbatch.

slammed the movie during an appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast March 1, appeared on a panel over the weekend where he addressed his recent comments.“I told the ‘WTF’ podcaster that I thought Jane Campion was a brilliant director, and I want to apologize to the cast of ‘The Power of the Dog,’ brilliant actors all,” Elliott said at Deadline’s Contenders TV event on Sunday. “And in particular Benedict Cumberbatch. I can only say that I’m sorry and I am.

Ian Roberts, the first openly gay rugby league player, has called out the NRL, New Zealand Warriors, and North Queensland Cowboys for their slow reaction time in the wake of a homophobic slur shouted during a game, on Friday night.Roberts was disappointed that it took the club two days to respond to the slur and cited the Josh Cavallo incident in January as a positive example of what should have been done in this case. Warriors player Marcelo Montoya has been identified as the player that used a homophobic slur against Cowboys player Kyle Feldt. During Friday’s game, Montoya, who had floored Feldt in a tackle, could be heard in the broadcast audio saying “get up Kyle, you f****t”.Montoya, who apologised for the slur, will plead guilty to the NRL judiciary.

A 23-year-old man is in a critical condition and fighting for his life after being attacked outside Oxford Hotel in Sydney’s gay neighbourhood Oxford Street in the early hours of Saturday morning. The police arrested three men and urged the public for information or dash cam footage of the attack. Evander Tuala was allegedly punched and fell to the ground, striking his head and sustaining life-threatening head injuries. NSW Police Superintendent John Duncan told the media that Tuala was “fighting for his life with head injuries”.

Weeks after going on a homophobic rant about The Power of the Dog, actor Sam Elliott has apologized for his comments.

spoke out against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” which was signed into law last month.Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Disney described the anti-Disney campaign as a “coordinated, strategic plan.”“Disney seems like the biggest target because it’s so woven into families,” she told host Brian Stelter. “And so if you can create this idea that somebody’s in there trying to indoctrinate your child, my goodness, the paranoid imagination can run circles with that.”Florida HB 1557 – promoted under the name “Parental Rights in Education” bill but widely known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill – bans primary school teachers from instructing on sexual orientation and gender identity and bans teachers of all grade levels from discussing these topics when appropriate.

J. Kim Murphy Sam Elliott expressed his regret for voicing strong criticism for Jane Campion’s western “The Power of the Dog” on Sunday afternoon, extending apologies to Jane Campion, Benedict Cumberbatch and the gay community.Elliott offered his comments during a promotional panel for his series “1883,” a spin-off of “Yellowstone” for Paramount+, featured in Deadline’s Contenders TV event.“I wasn’t very articulate about it. I didn’t articulate it very well,” Elliott said.

By Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth, DinéLeaving home in the Sonoran Desert, I never imagined myself, a Queer (Two-Spirit), Brown, Indigenous (Diné), multiracial person having the opportunity to study abroad. I am thankful for the ability to live on Gadigal Country, and I begin with a proper Diné (Navajo) introduction to land, community, and ancestors past/future, for as I am Diné and a guest here:Souksavanh Keovorabouth yinishyé.

pulled off stage during a set at Columbia University because of a joke he made attempting to express the double difficulty faced by people who are Black and gay in America. “Not an anti-gay joke mind you,” Maher said, “a pro-gay joke, but one of the event organizers walked on stage and said ‘I don’t think you’re entitled to certain jokes you’re making.”This was the jumping off point for Maher to discuss what he sees as a growing intolerance on college campuses for risky or shocking humor.

Star Observer’s series on kink and following on from our piece on Agoraphobia,  AKA Public Nookie, we present for your reading pleasure a cheeky piece about fisting.On the face of it, the idea of someone putting their hand in your hiney wouldn’t leave most people sitting pretty, but dig a bit deeper. You’ll find that actually, fisting and the pleasure people derive from it is the most natural thing in the world – especially once you understand that the anus has one of the densest concentration of nerve endings in the human body!(Actually, fisting is a bit of a misnomer.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max is developing a series version of “You Brought Me the Ocean,” the YA graphic novel about the origins of DC’s Aqualad, Variety has learned from sources.The one-hour dramedy is based on characters from DC and the graphic novel by Alex Sanchez and Jul Maroh. The series will explore the life of Jackson “Jake” Hyde, a gay teenager living in New Mexico. All his life, he has had a strange attraction to the water and yearns to escape his desert surroundings for the ocean.