Gay man burns Bible, kisses husband at book burning

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The story of the Four Tops, the famous Motown harmony group, began at a high school graduation party in Detroit, when four young men were hoping to impress the girls with an impromptu performance.That night in 1954, when Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Levi Stubbs, Renaldo “Obie” Benton and Lawrence Payton sung together for the first time, was the start of a lifelong brotherhood.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Thirteen-time Grammy winners The Chicks are heading back on tour, their first major outing since 2017 and first shows since releasing their fifth studio album “Gaslighter."The multi-platinum female trio behind hits like “Wide Open Spaces” announced on Monday that The Chicks Tour will hit 27 North American cities starting in June and running through August.“While we were recording the 'Gaslighter' album, I was constantly picturing performing all of those songs on tour," said Martie Maguire, who together with her sister Emily Strayer and Natalie Maines make up The Chicks, in a statement to the AP.

There is another update about country singer Sam Hunt and his wife, Hannah Lee Fowler, after she filed for divorce and accused him of cheating.

Coheed and Cambria have shared their latest single ‘The Liars Club’ and announced details of a North American tour.The song is taken from the four-piece’s upcoming new album ‘Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind’, which is set for release on May 27 via Roadrunner Records.Speaking about ‘The Liars Club’, Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez said in a statement: “When the truth is such a mess, who doesn’t want to live out a different reality? Who doesn’t want to embrace a lie?”You can hear ‘The Liars Club’ in the band’s accompanying animated music video below.Coheed and Cambria have also announced their ‘A Window Of The Waking Mind’ tour, which will see them tour North America in July and August with Dance Gavin Dance and Mothica.You can see Coheed and Cambria’s upcoming tour dates below, and find tickets here when they go on sale on Friday (February 25).July12 – FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami, FL13 – MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL15 – 713 Music Hall, Houston, TX16 – Whitewater Amphitheater, New Braunfels, TX17 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, TX19 – Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GA23 – Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN24 – Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC26 – The Anthem, Washington, DC27 – The Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA29 – Agganis Arena, Boston, MA30 – Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, NY August1 – Stage AE Outdoors, Pittsburgh, PA2 – Crofoot Festival Grounds, Pontiac, MI3 – RBC Echo Beach, Toronto, ON5 – Armory, Minneapolis, MN6 – SeatGeek Stadium, Bridgeview, IL7 – Saint Louis Music Park, St Louis, MO9 – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Denver, CO10 – The Lot at The Complex, Salt Lake City, UT12 – Shrine LA Outdoors, Los Angeles, CA

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In 1973, amid the growing gay rights movement, a band called Lavender Country recorded a country music album that unabashedly explored LGBTQ themes, becoming a landmark that would nonetheless disappear for decades.Led by singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty, the self-titled album was created by a collective of activists, singers and musicians with ribald songs focused on LGBTQ people, like “Back in the Closet Again” and “Come Out Singing,” as well as an explicit song bashing straight men that has since become a cult favorite.Nearly 50 years later, Lavender Country is back with a sophomore record that connects today’s LGBTQ country musicians to historical roots in activism and social change.Haggerty, now 78, grew up on a tenant dairy farm about 100 miles west of Seattle in the Olympic Peninsula, one of 10 children.

As the surge of Covid infections in December and January due to the Omicron variant continues to recede, media and entertainment companies are starting to update their return-to-office plans.

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Lauren Bushnell’s son, Dutton, is only 8 months old, but the Bachelor alum already has strong opinions about him wearing a face mask at school in the future.

“Bridgerton” meets “The Bachelor” in NBC’s newest reality show dating competition, “The Courtship.”The regency-era-inspired series is dropping on NBC and its streaming service Peacock on March 6.The show takes a page out of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” as a modern spin on the classic game of love. It features Nicole Remy, a Seattle woman who is looking for her own Mr.

Dolly Parton delighted fans on Monday as she shared a vintage photo of herself alongside husband of 55 years, Carl Thomas Dean.MORE: Dolly Parton's astonishing childhood home - and why she made a replicaThe singer posted the loved-up photo in honour of Valentine's Day, and sweetly captioned it: "Happy Valentine's Day y'all! Remember to squeeze your loved ones a little tighter today and tell them you love 'em!"WATCH: Country superstars Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton release first track togetherThe picture, which she first shared on her website back in 2016, sees Carl giving her a kiss on the cheek whilst Dolly smiles at the camera.RELATED: Dolly Parton reveals exciting new role in Netflix series - and fans will be thrilledREAD: Dolly Parton shares extremely rare photo of her 'supportive' husband Carl DeanFans rushed to comment on the rare throwback picture, with many hailing Dolly as "the best person on the planet".Happy Valentine’s Day y’all! Remember to squeeze your loved ones a little tighter today and tell them you love ‘em! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/Oxm7UcdHN9Carl could be seen kissing Dolly in the cheek in the sweet vintage picture"I've heard it said the success of a man in a marriage is how HAPPY he makes his wife. You must have ONE HECK of a Man there, Dolly! God bless you! What an awesome Lady you are!" one wrote, whilst another added: "Happy Valentine's Dolly! You, I believe, have to be the best person on this planet right now.

Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines has opened up on recent hard times, sharing with fans how she "nurtured" herself back from a place of "unbalance".MORE: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thingThe mom-of-five wrote a new essay for the Spring issue of Magnolia Journal, the quarterly lifestyle magazine she publishes with her husband, Chip, and shared that she found herself in a rough patch in late 2021, "unbalanced by how much I was pouring out without being poured into in the ways I really needed."WATCH: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thing"I was learning that a well that's only ever knee-deep can't outlast a drought and that I had to figure out what it was that would pull me out of the grind and give me renewed perspective," she shared.The 43-year-old continued that she "considered what I'm already drawn to, what I already know wakes me up and brings me life — nature, the garden, being in my kitchen, and the peace that meets me there — and I leaned in".MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's lavish Nashville home could rival a palaceHowever, although her family "joked that I'd gone a little extreme" she found comfort and solace in the action of reading, gardening and canning "just about anything" and that it left her, for the first time in a long time, feeling "full, truly full"."And at the end of those days, I was bursting with so much more to give. And really, that's all that I was after." she concluded.

dangerous and possibly unconstitutional “Don’t Say Gay” bill gathers nationwide attention and condemnation – making it more likely to be passed and signed into law by Republican governor and rumored 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, another Republican is dusting off his own “Don’t Say Gay” bill to push his “Christian values” agenda.Tennessee state Rep. Bruce Griffey says if schools are forcing him to teach Christian values at home because they won’t teach them in the classroom, they should not be allowed to “promote” what his legislation calls “LGBT issues or lifestyles.”“The state of Tennessee is not allowed to teach my daughters Christian values that I think are important and they should learn, so I teach those at home,” Rep.

TikTok stars Alex and Franky Venegas of the musical duo Island Boys found themselves in hot water when their Florida home was raided on Monday.

Caroline Spence has teamed up with The National’s Matt Berninger for her latest single.‘I Know You Know Me’ is the follow-up to Spence’s 2019 release, ‘Mint Condition’ and will be included on her yet to be named fifth studio album which is slated for release this year.The slow-burning track opens with acoustic guitar before Spence and Berninger exchange loving sentiments over lush instrumentation, duetting, “No matter where the storm is in my mind/ It’ll never be a place that you can’t find/ You hold the candle, oh, you hold the key/ I know you know me“. “I’m still beside myself that Matt agreed to be a part of this song,” Spence said. “I recorded my own solo version for my upcoming record, but always saw potential for it as a duet.

Reese Witherspoon and Ava Philippe kick off their weekend by getting some drinks together. Witherspoon shared a post of herself and her daughter having some champagne together and looking remarkably alike.Reese Witherspoon’s daughter Ava Phillippe says “gender is whatever” while discussing sexualityReese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston celebrate their SAG Award nominationsA post shared by Reese Witherspoon (@reesewitherspoon)The photo features Philippe and Witherspoon having a drink together, with Ava wearing a black shirt and a brown skirt, wearing her pink hair long. Reese is also wearing her hair down and wearing a flowery dress.

Michelle Branch, who is now a mom of three! The 38-year-old singer and her husband, Patrick Carney, have welcomed their second child together, a daughter named Willie Jacquet Carney. The pair are also parents to son Rhys, and Branch shares teenage daughter Owen with ex Teddy Landau.«Welcome to the world, sweet Willie girl,» the «Everywhere» the singer announced via Instagram on Friday, along with a photo of her baby girl. «Willie Jacquet Carney was born on 2/2/22.

Rainbow baby! Michelle Branch gave birth to her third child, her second with husband Patrick Carney.