NYPD Attack LGBTQ Peaceful Protestors on Stonewall Anniversary

A $17.3 billion buyout creating the world’s biggest casino company won final approval Friday, with New Jersey gambling regulators agreeing to let Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc. acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp.

NEW YORK -- Last year saw record representation of LGBTQ characters in the 118 films released by major studios, according to a new study by GLAAD. But for the third straight year, the racial diversity of LGBTQ characters has waned and transgender characters again went unseen.

Real Housewives of Orange County star Kelly Dodd has really enjoyed the month of July, so far. On July 2, Dodd revealed in an Instagram post that her fiance – Fox News reporter Rick Leventhal – was packing up his New York apartment and moving to Orange County to begin his new life with Dodd.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterRudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and personal attorney to Donald Trump, said an interview he was doing was crashed by Sacha Baron Cohen. Giuliani ended up calling the police on Cohen after he invaded the conversation wearing a pink bikini.On Tuesday, Page Six reported that Giuliani was invited to the Mark Hotel in Manhattan for what he thought was an interview about the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19.

Also Read: Sen Tammy Duckworth Claps Back at Tucker Carlson for Suggesting She 'Hates America'“Geroge Washington was a genuinely great man, but to morons like Tammy Duckworth, Washington is just some old white guy who needs to be erased,” he said.From there, he condemned Duckworth for denying a request to appear on the Tuesday show without an apology from Carlson.“What a coward,” he said, before also labeling her “a fraud.”Duckworth originally clapped back at Carlson Monday night after he

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWithin two weeks of David France reading an article in The New Yorker about the persecution of LGTBQ people in Chechnya, he was on a plane headed to Moscow.It’s there that he first met the men and women who are featured in his new documentary “Welcome to Chechnya,” which premieres Tuesday on HBO.

reports.Donnie Lee Barrigar, 36, filmed himself removing the flag on Saturday, June 20. He told the Waterdown Daily Times that it was a “peaceful protest” and expected his actions to be protected by the First Amendment.He told WWNY that the flag was “mocking God and it’s mocking all the good Christians we have in our community.”“I’m covered under the First Amendment right,” Barrigar said.

A member of the New York City Council is poised to become the first LGBTQ Latino person of African descent elected to Congress after he appears to have won his primary on Tuesday.

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Scissor Sisters’ “Let’s Have a Kiki” in the 21st century, music has helped LGBTQ people to both survive and thrive.On this Pride weekend without the parade and all of the parties, The Post asked six LGBTQ DJs — representing each color of the rainbow flag — to keep the music playing by sharing their picks for the songs that have provided the soundtrack of queer freedom, fierceness and fabulosity.The New York nightlife legend, trans activist and former dancing DJ

Barack Obama addressed the LGBTQ community and its allies at Pride Live's third annual Stonewall Day virtual event on Friday. The former president highlighted the civil rights movement that sparked social and political change as well as the ongoing right for equality.

Without a doubt, Taylor Swift, 30, has been an amazing LGBTQ advocate. The Lover singer appeared on Pride Live’s third annual Stonewall Day event on Friday, June 26, and blasted the U.S. Governments choice to not include an option for trans or non-binary people on current census forms. “I got my census the other day and there were two choices for gender. There was male and female. And that erasure was so upsetting to me, the erasure of transgender and non-binary people,” Taylor said.

"The Stonewall Inn has been such a symbol of rebellion in the face of oppression, and such a safe place for people," Taylor Swift said on Friday (June 26), addressing a virtual audience during Stonewall Day. The celeb-stacked Pride Live event honored the legacy of the six-day riots that took place at the New York gay bar in 1969, which launched the gay liberation movement — and today, Pride Month.

During the Stonewall Day livestream benefit, pop singer Katy Perry made a special appearance to speak directly to her LGBTQ fans, thanking them for their support and asking in return how she can help them this month.

June 2020 has been no ordinary Pride Month. What is typically a colorful commemoration of love, community, and the richness of LGBTQ+ identity has been largely overshadowed by an ongoing pandemic, which has forced gay bars to close, parades to be canceled, and people to celebrate from home.