Gay Republican Grills Fellow Lawmaker Over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill

Kentucky Gov. Any Beshear, at a bill signing on Wednesday, vetoed a sweeping GOP bill on Friday that would have regulated the lives of trans youths, including banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also would have also banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools with students of any age and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use. Photo: Gov. Andy Beshear Flickr page

Kentucky Gov. Any Beshear, at a bill signing on Wednesday, vetoed a sweeping GOP bill on Friday that would have regulated the lives of trans youths, including banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also would have also banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools with students of any age and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use. Photo: Gov. Andy Beshear Flickr page

Tristyn Bailey‘s family is speaking out days before Aiden Fucci is expected to receive his sentencing in the teenager’s murder trial. As you may know, Tristyn was killed on

Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have locked horns after the former US president branded the presenter ‘ratings-challenged. ’The scathing remarks came ahead of the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s interview with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, 44, which will be broadcast in full on Thursday.

Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have locked horns after the former US president branded the presenter ‘ratings-challenged. ’The scathing remarks came ahead of the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s interview with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, 44, which will be broadcast in full on Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is publicly denouncing Uganda’s latest Anti-Homosexuality legislation, which is being called a “Kill the Gays” bill for its capital punishment penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”The legislation passed in a nearly-unanimous vote and now heads to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni‘s desk.“The Anti-Homosexuality Act passed by the Ugandan Parliament yesterday would undermine fundamental human rights of all Ugandans and could reverse gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

JoJo Siwa opened up about the big moments in her life that have taken place at Disney World. In a new interview, the 19-year-old "Dance Moms" alum recalled making the "sweetest memories" during her visits to the happiest place on Earth.  "I have a lot of really fun memories here," Siwa told People magazine at the resort in Orlando, Florida.

Joe Harding, the now-former Florida Republican lawmaker who authored the extremist “Don’t Say Gay” bill could face up to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday afternoon to federal felony fraud charges in a scheme to obtain $150,000 in COVID-19 relief funds, according to Florida Politics‘ publisher Peter Scorsch.Harding, 35, was a construction project manager who started his own lawn care company. He quickly became a right-wing darling after his anti-LGBTQ legislation, officially the Parental Rights in Education Act, was embraced by Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed it into law.Harding was charged in a December federal indictment with six counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements in his plot to obtain $150,000 in COVID funds.He resigned from the legislature the following day.

rule, which prohibits minors from receiving hormone therapies, puberty-blocking drugs, or gender confirmation surgery, was adopted on March 16, based on guidance from the Florida Department of Health.The Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine is expected to adopt an identical rule later this month, and the state has already barred Medicaid from covering gender-affirming treatments for transgender adults wishing to transition.That guidance discourages transgender minors from transitioning — not only medically, but socially, warning medical practitioners that minors with gender dysphoria should not be allowed to present or dress in a manner that does not match their assigned sex at birth.But those restrictions are now leading some parents of transgender or nonbinary minors to consider fleeing Florida in order to ensure their children can present themselves as the gender with which they identify.One of those parents, Heather St. Amand, a Tampa Bay area resident whose lived in the state for nearly her entire life, says the state’s recent decisions targeting those who receive gender-affirming care is motivating her to leave the state, reports Tampa Bay area CBS affiliate WTSP.“For my daughter, if she hadn’t received gender-affirming care when she did, I don’t know that she would still be here,” St.

JoJo Siwa is recounting some of  her “happiest” memories at Walt Disney World.

Is there more to the story of model Jeff Thomas’ tragic death earlier this month? As we previously reported, the 35-year

Bill Burr is taking off on a quick eight-show arena tour from March through August this year.Midway through the short run of gigs, he’ll perform his audacious brand of comedy at Newark’s Prudential Center on June 24.Other notable stops include Los Angeles on March 21, Las Vegas on May 6 and Springfield, MA on Aug. 12.The 54-year-old Massachusetts native is coming off a big 2022 too — last August, he became the first comedian to headline Boston’s Fenway Park.

With the 2024 presidential election getting closer, twice-impeached former president is turning hard on his party (or at least, those who have fallen out of step with him). It’s getting to a point where Seth Meyers thinks it’s not outside the realm of possibility for Trump to eventually backtrack his long criticisms of Barack Obama.During his “A Closer Look” segment on Thursday night, Meyers mocked Florida governor Ron DeSantis for attracting “the bloodshot Eye of Sauron” as he potentially gets closer to announcing a presidential bid.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Stephen Sondheim’s final musical “Here We Are” is hitting the stage in the fall. The legendary musical theater figure, who composed “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Follies,” “Sweeney Todd” and countless other Broadway classics, died in 2021 at the age of 91. The musical, formerly known as “Square One,” was in the works prior to his death and took inspiration from two Luis Buñuel films, “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “The Exterminating Angel.” Joe Mantello, whose credits include Sondheim’s “Assassins,” as well as “Wicked” and “Take Me Out,” is directing “Here We Are.” The strictly limited engagement will begin September 2023 in The Shed’s Griffin Theater, an Off-Broadway venue near Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. Casting will be announced soon.

If Chelsea Handler had to take a guess as to who would survive for the GOP Presential ticket, it would be Florida governor Ron DeSantis over former President Donald Trump.

Florida Republican Congressman Greg Steube, wants to amend Title IX — the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on sex — to carve out an exception and discriminate by recognizing one’s sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Photo: Office of Greg Steube

Tiger Woods and his now ex-girlfriend Erica Harmon just became a whole lot messier, with yet another lawsuit in the works.Less than a day after it was revealed that the pro golfer's ex-girlfriend – the two were together for six years – was suing him to nullify an NDA she signed at the beginning of their relationship, another lawsuit has been revealed.Now the 38-year-old is suing him for $30million, alleging he unlawfully kicked her out of their shared home, where the couple lived with the athlete's children, Sam Alexis, 15, and Charlie Axel, 14. They are his kids with his ex-wife Elin Nordegren, from whom he had a highly-publicized divorce in 2010 following multiple affairs.WATCH: 8 most jaw-dropping celebrity homesMORE: Tiger Woods hospitalized after being injured in serious car accident in CaliforniaCourt documents reveal that Erica is suing both Tiger and his trust, the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust, for violating Florida's Residential Landlord Tenant Act.The suit was initially filed in October 2022 shortly after the two split, and she noted in the court filing that she has lived in the Florida home since it was purchased.MORE: Tiger Woods actually met Erica Herman years ago – inside relationshipIn it she claims that she was "tricked" by Tiger and his team into moving out.

Florida state Sen. Clay Yarborough on March 3 introduced a measure that would mandate state intervention in cases of transgender minors receiving gender-affirming care.

purported dating tactics, to his new book.“By the way, I have a little gift for our studio audience. Look under your seats, the gift is — it isn’t there!” Oliver joked.

Florida SB 1316 was met with blowback and confusion online with one Twitter user asking how the bill defines “blogger.”As proposed, the bill would not apply to newspapers or other traditional reporters and media but targets but to bloggers who the bill’s author says serve as lobbyists by using the internet instead the halls of Florida government buildings. “There’s no way this could be constitutional,” one Twitter user said, while another called it “a very fascist, anti-First Amendment thing to do!”See other replies to a WFLA-TV story tweeted Thursday by CNN anchor Jim Acosta.