Buttigieg Says Anti-LGBTQ Attacks Are Distraction from GOP’s “Radical Policies”

Caitlyn Jenner, the pro-Trump former California Republican gubernatorial candidate and Olympic gold medal winner, is praising GOP 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley‘s apparent multi-pronged attack on transgender Americans, the U.S. Armed Forces, and the Biden administration’s foreign policy – while continuing to adhere to the GOP’s agenda of injecting “communists” into her messaging.“The Chinese Communist Party is building missiles and we’re arguing over gender pronouns.

More than 250 LGBTQ and ally actors, notables, and other leaders signed a public letter created by GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) calling on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter to better enforce hate speech, harassment, misinformation, and other existing content policies aimed at protecting transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming users and all LGBTQ people.

While there are plenty of people who can debate the merits of Todd Phillips’ Oscar-winning film, “Joker,” there is really no denying the film looks great. And a large part of that look falls on the shoulders of cinematographer Lawrence Sher.

Lewis Capaldi is taking an extended break from the stage. On Tuesday, the «Someone You Loved» singer took to social media to announce his hiatus to followers and fans.«Hello everyone.

“First-look deals are a lot of kicking tires,” Idris Elba said today, as he revealed his high-profile partnership with Apple TV+ has run down following the launch of psychological thriller Hijack.

Stacey Solomon has hilariously revealed to her fans that she was more than a little tipsy, as she proudly told her followers that she was “100 per cent drunk” while tweeting from the toilet at a friend’s wedding. The 32-year-old mum-of-five made the confession on Saturday, just hours after she revealed she had just enjoyed her first alcoholic drink in 20 years as she headed to a friend’s wedding in Austria with husband Joe Swash.

Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the Titanic. After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself. “People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded. To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”

deposition transcript for the FTC vs Microsoft and Activision Blizzard King case, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s CEO Jim Ryan explained why the company wouldn’t be able to share key info about its upcoming PlayStation console with Activision were Activision to be bought by Microsoft (via Stephen Totilo).“We simply could not run the risk of a company that was owned by a direct competitor having access to that information,” Ryan said, alluding to the possibility that if Sony shared info with Activision to help it craft console-exclusive features for hypothetical PlayStation 6 launch titles, Activision’s (would-be) parent company, Microsoft, would examine the details of the still-in-development PlayStation 6 and have unfair knowledge of what its rival was cooking up. This knowledge would possibly enable Microsoft to integrate its competitor’s console’s benefits into its own next-generation hardware.Ryan also said he believed Activision under Microsoft would not be incentivized to take advantage of unique PlayStation features, as Activision would be focused first and foremost on making its game experiences great on Microsoft’s systems (Xbox and PC).

celebrity chef has “banned” vegans from his restaurant after reportedly receiving a negative review from a customer who criticised the lack of plant-based options. On Tuesday, Chef John Mountain revealed on the Facebook page for his restaurant Fyre that the eatery would no longer be catering to vegan diners. According to Mountain, the decision to ban vegans from the Perth, Australia, restaurant was due to “mental health reasons”.

Since entering the Love Island villa on day one, Tyrique Hyde has been causing trouble, temporarily caught up in a love triangle of his own making between Ella Thomas and Leah Taylor. The semi-professional footballer, 24, who has never had a girlfriend before, sought out advice ahead of his villa debut from one of his best friends and former Islander, Toby Aromolaran, who appeared on the ITV2 show in 2021. Speaking to press, including OK!, Tyrique said: "I had a conversation with Toby before I went, obviously he is my close friend.

with a lot more than we even know about (and ). The Grammy-winning artist revealed that she recently had near-death experience due to a rare complication from a standard medical procedure. “I almost died in January,” Kesha told in an interview published on June 20. A year previously, the songwriter explained to the magazine, she had undergone a standard egg-freezing procedure, because she wanted more time to consider when and if she wanted to have children without worrying about a ticking biological clock.

The Boys fans are “missing the point entirely” if they support Homelander.The New Zealand actor – who plays patriotic yet sadistic superhero Homelander in the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson – said that he’s surprised the character still has fans in viewers.“There’s a very strange thing that’s happened with the character, though he is clearly not a good guy,” the actor recently told The LA Times.“A lot of people have glommed onto him. There’s a weird element out there that actually kind of idolise him.

Take That‘s Howard Donald has been dropped from a Pride event after Twitter users noticed he had liked a series of anti-LGBTQ+ tweets.The tweets that Donald had liked reportedly featured content from Andrew Tate, posts criticising a trans-inclusive period campaign, videos of anti-trans pundit Posie Parker (whose real name is Kellie-Jay Keen), and a tweet from Turning Point UK founder Charlie Kirk that called for Disney to be “defunded” for announcing a Pride event.Following widespread backlash, Donald then deleted his Twitter account.The Take That vocalist had been lined up to headline the Groovebox Nottingham Pride Festival, which is set to take place in Blinks Yard on July 29.Now, Groovebox has confirmed in a statement posted to Facebook that he will no longer be appearing.“In light of recent events, Howard Donald will no longer be playing at our Nottingham Pride Festival on Saturday 29th July at Binks Yard,” they wrote.“We would like to offer our thanks to the public for alerting us to the situation this morning and also appreciate your patience whilst we spoke to the relevant parties.“We are working on confirming a replacement headliner alongside Horse Meat Disco, Tayce, Danny Beard & ESSEL for Nottingham Pride and will make an announcement in due course.”Deeply disappointing to see Take That’s Howard Donald liking transphobic and homophobic tweets – while playing Pride festivals. The LGBT community made that band.

ITV soap. "It’s obviously very sad, it's been a lot of fun and I’ve really, really loved my time there. I met so many great people and I've made so many good friends for life.

Andy Cohen is opening up about his very, very close friendship with John Mayer.

Tom Schwartz is ending things with Tom Sandoval. On the latest episode of , Schwartz revealed that he's «permanently» stepping away from his friendship with his business partner and co-star in the wake of Scandoval.Schwartz began by calling Sandoval's affair with Raquel Leviss amid his relationship with Ariana Madix «incredibly messed up.»«It seems each time I try to weigh in or talk about, ramble on about it, drivel on, I inevitably sound like I'm somehow justifying it or making excuses for it, and I'm not,» Schwartz insisted. «There's just no excuse for it.»Schwartz previously said that he was «being fed a narrative» by Sandoval that the latter Tom had tried to end things with Madix «many, many times» amid his ongoing tryst with Leviss.

Clearing the air. Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins spoke out on why the team cut Anthony Bass following the backlash he received from his anti-LGBTQ post.

Summer's here and although former Love Island stars Antigoni Buxton and Danica Taylor are back on UK soil, the heat is still rising so they opted for barely-there outfits for a launch party. While the stars of the latest series of Love Island don bikinis to sit by the pool all day, ex contestants from the ITV2 dating show have been spotted in outfits that wouldn't be out of place in the villa.  Antigoni and Danica looked all set to make another entrance to the villa in bikinis and sarongs - but they were actually in North London, enjoying the UK's heatwave.The reality stars and friends hit the Antonia Bronze launch party for Kiss the Koala Brunch Spot along with Sophia Buxton, and all three chose to wear outfits to cope with the hot weather.

a ban on transgender athletes last year.The most prominent of the bills is a measure to ban transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming treatments meant to treat gender dysphoria, including puberty blockers, hormones, or surgical interventions, the latter of which are rarely performed on minors.The ban on gender-affirming care appeared to be dead last month after Sen. Fred Mills (R-New Iberia, the chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, voted with Democrats to reject the bill when it came before the committee.  Mills said that his decision had been heavily influenced by a 2022 Louisiana Health Department study on gender-affirming health care.It found that no gender-affirming surgical procedures had been performed on any minors enrolled in Medicaid in the state between 2017 and 2021, and that hormone and puberty blockers were rarely prescribed to transgender-identifying minors in Louisiana during that same period. National conservative pundits — who have deemed opposition to LGBTQ visibility, transgender rights, and “wokeness” as essential to their party’s brand — were outraged at Mills’ defection, and promised political retribution.Mills’ fellow Republicans caved to pressure from those voices to revive the bill.Senators then used a rare procedural maneuver to recommit the bill to a different committee, allowing it to pass on a 29-10 vote, reports the Associated Press.The bill now heads back to the House, which previously overwhelmingly approved the ban on gender-affirming care.

, which culminated into a three-part drama-filled reunion special, Tom Schwartz is revealing the last thing he said to Tom Sandoval.In an interview on former castmates Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright's podcast, , on PodcastOne, Schwartz revealed that he hasn't «seen or talked» to Sandoval in «a long time» amid the latter's current tour with his band, Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras. Schwartz said that he felt «exploited» by his longtime friend and business partner after he cheated on his longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix, with Raquel Leviss, and revealed that they last spoke immediately following the Bravo series' reunion taping. «That was the last thing I said to him, before we left the reunion,» Schwartz began, «I said, 'Dude, after all the s**t you put me through and everyone else around you through,' I was like, 'You better f**king marry this girl.'»Schwartz added, «I'm happy to report that I have no idea,» about the current relationship status between Sandoval and Leviss.