The studio behind the upcoming live-action “Super Mario” movie is teasing Chris Pratt’s “great performance”.
01.06.2022 - 19:39 / usmagazine.com
Paving the way. LGBTQ+ athletes have been breaking down barriers and challenging prejudices for decades, but it wasn’t always easy.
Tennis player and LGBTQ+ rights advocate Billie Jean King won the famous “Battle of the Sexes” match against Bobby Riggs in 1973, more than 40 years before same-sex marriage became legal throughout the United States. During a 2007 interview with The Sunday Times, King said she once feared that acknowledging her sexuality could hurt her career.
“I wanted to tell the truth but my parents were homophobic and I was in the closet,” the Women’s Tennis Association founder revealed. “As well as that, I had people tell me that if I talked about what I was going through, it would be the end of the women’s tour. I couldn’t get a closet deep enough.”
In addition to prejudices regarding sexual orientation, gender identity discrimination has also been prevalent throughout sports history. During the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, transgender and intersex athletes competed for the first time in the Games’ history. In November of that same year, the International Olympic Committee got rid of policies that had previously required transgender and intersex athletes to undergo “medically unnecessary” procedures, including hormone level modifications.
“This Framework recognizes both the need to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their gender identity or sex variations, can practice sport in a safe, harassment-free environment that recognizes and respects their needs and identities,” a document released by the IOC read at the time.
LGBTQ+ athletes, including sprinter Chris Mosier, the first openly transgender athlete to compete on a U.S. national team, and Canadian soccer gold medalist Quinn, the first openly transgender
The studio behind the upcoming live-action “Super Mario” movie is teasing Chris Pratt’s “great performance”.
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Bad Bunny and Tyler, The Creator are set to headline this year’s Made In America music festival. View the full line-up below.Pusha T, Lil Uzi Vert and Burna Boy are also taking the stage at the Philadelphia festival, which takes place this year on September 3 and 4 at Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Matthew McConaughey, describing himself as “a father and a gun owner, the son of a kindergarten teacher, and a Texan from Uvalde” now living in Austin,” is calling for Americans to “step up” for change in “gun responsibility,” including enacting background checks, Red Flag Laws and age upping the requirement on semi-automatic firearms to 21.
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EXCLUSIVE: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke (A Discovery of Witches, Bancroft) attached as writer/showrunner.
Heidi Montag is expecting her second child with husband Spencer Pratt. The Hills star, 35, announced the happy news on Wednesday 31 May, revealing that she "couldn't be more excited" to be welcoming a second baby with Spencer, 38. The couple, who have been together since 2007 and tied the knot in 2008, are already parents to four year old son Gunner Stone, whom they welcomed back in 2017.
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Bad Bunny will not compromise.
Magnolia Pictures acquired U.S. rights from TrustNordisk to King’s Land, a period epic starring Mads Mikkelsen and produced by Danish production house Zentropa. The film will be directed by Nikolaj Arcel, and is written by Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen. Jensen and Mikkelsen most recently collaborated on Riders of Justice, and Arcel and Mikkelsen on the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair. Production starts this summer.
It was nearly impossible not to catch a glimpse at Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker’s Italian wedding — even for his ex-wife, Shanna Moakler, who is speaking out in an exclusive statement to Us Weekly.
Tim McGraw, Chris Pratt and Selena Gomez were just a few of the stars to speak out on the Texas school shooting, where 19 children and two teachers were killed during an attack at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday. At least 17 people were also wounded by the gunman, who used an assault rifle and was killed by responding police.The shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is now the third most deadly school shooting in American history following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, where 28 people were killed in 2012, and the Virginia Tech shooting, in 2007, where 33 people died.