Uganda’s President Signs Anti-Gay Bill into Law

The Temecula school district, in the midst of a conservative Christian revolt over LGBTQ+ curriculum materials, has fired the superintendent. Behind closed doors before Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the Temecula Valley Unified School District, the board voted 3-1 to fire Jodi McClay. Her firing was mentioned to the public during the meeting. At that time, McClay left the dais, waved to the audience, and said, “Thank you.”

Jennifer Lawrence is continuing her global press tour for No Hard Feelings!

American Family Association publicly attacked U.S. Senator Ted Cruz over the Texas Republican’s opposition to the “Kill the Gays” law in Uganda.

Jennifer Lawrence looks so classy and chic at the London premiere of her new movie, No Hard Feelings!

Amid anti-LGBTQ+ extremists protesting at area schools, Los Angeles Unified School District President Jackie Goldberg, who identifies as a lesbian, spoke out against the vitriol this week. Photo: Screenshot of Los Angeles Unified School District board meeting.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jennifer Lawrence is ready to play the girl on fire again. The Oscar winner says she is open to returning to the “Hunger Games” franchise after she became a household name for her work as Katniss in the four movies. “Oh, my God – totally!” Lawrence told me Friday morning during a Zoom video interview while promoting her new coming-of-age comedy, “No Hard Feelings.” “If Katniss ever could ever come back into my life, 100 percent.” Looking off camera, she added, “My producing partner just clutched her heart.”

his Truth Social page, are true, the federal grand jury’s decision would mark the former president’s second indictment this year. He is the first former president to ever by criminally indicted.

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.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Laura Benanti has left Amazon’s upcoming TV adaptation of “Cruel Intentions.” The Tony-winner was set to appear in the recurring guest star role of Caroline’s (Sarah Catherine Hook) mother, Claudia. “Unfortunately due to a scheduling conflict, I’m no longer able to participate in ‘Cruel Intentions,’” Benanti told me Thursday afternoon. “I’m sure they’ll find a wonderful actress to play this role.” Benanti co-stars in the upcoming “No Hard Feelings,” the raunchy coming-of-age movie headlined by Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman. She’s also currently sharing the stage with Matthew Broderick in an off-Broadway production of A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters.”

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are laying down the law on the set of The pair were spotted filming one of the movie's high-octane action scenes, and were decked out in full tactical police gear, complete with body armor and prop assault rifles.The pair were all business as they shot the scene that was reportedly set at the Gatorland amusement park in Orlando, Florida.Smith and Lawrence first revealed  was in the works in January in a video Smith posted to Instagram.While the plans had been in motion for some time to get the fourth installment off the ground, the project, it seemed, experienced a bit of a speed bump after Smith's now-infamous Oscars slap.But back in July, Lawrence put fans at ease when he told  that «we got one more at least,» in reference to at least one more sequel.Then in April, Lawrence was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and after the ceremony he spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier about the hotly anticipated project.«It has the chance to be the best one of them all and everybody's doing their thing,» Lawrence shared with ET. «We got a lot of the team back from the last one.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are laying down the law on the set of The pair were spotted on set shooting one of the film's high-octane action scenes, and were decked out in full tactical police gear, complete with body armor and prop assault rifles.The pair were all business as they shot the scene that was reportedly set at the Gatorland amusement park in Orlando, Florida.Smith and Lawrence first announced was in the works back in January, when they announced the news together in a video Smith posted to Instagram.While the plans had been in motion for some time to get the fourth installment off the ground, the project, it seemed, experienced a bit of a speed bump after Smith's now-infamous Oscars slap.But, back in July, Lawrence put fans at ease when he told  that «we got one more at least,» in reference to at least one more sequel.Then, in April, Lawrence was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and after the ceremony he spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier about the hotly anticipated project.«It has the chance to be the best one of them all and everybody's doing their thing,» Lawrence shared with ET, adding, «we got a lot of the team back from the last one. Big Willie's doing his thing as always and so focused and, yeah, it has the chance to be the biggest one.»The fourth installment of the Bad Boys franchise has Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah returning to direct, and features a script by Chris Bremner. The previous entry in the franchise,  hit theaters in 2020, grossing $426 million at the box office.

William Earl Over five low-budget box office hits and a two-season TV series, “The Purge” saga — which portrays a not-too-distant-future America where all crimes, including murder, are legal for one night a year in order to satiate a bloodthirsty public — swelled into a $450 million franchise. But the first chapter was almost never made. While the film became the defining hit of writer and director James DeMonaco’s career, he says the script was passed over “40-50 times” for being seen as “too anti-American.” “I had this little, strange, dark indictment of American gun culture,” he said. “I hate guns. To me, the scariest thing in the world would be a night where everyone was armed and it was legal to use these firearms. To me, there was nothing scarier than that notion.”

Naman Ramachandran The first trailer has been unveiled for documentary “In the Shadow of Beirut,” executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Siobhan Sinnerton for HiddenLight Productions. The film is a cinematic portrait of modern-day Lebanon as seen through the eyes of four families living in the impoverished Sabra and Shatila neighbourhoods of the city, the scene of an infamous massacre in 1982. It filmed over four years with unique access to the families within these largely restricted areas and is co-directed by Stephen Gerard Kelly, in his debut, and Garry Keane (Sundance selection “Gaza,” 2019). Kelly built up his relationship with the families over a six-year period.

A fight broke out at Saticoy Elementary in North Hollywood Friday morning after adult protestors rallied against a Pride Day assembly. The violence outside the school followed weeks of hostility, including the burning of a transgender teacher’s LGBTQ+ Pride flag. Photo: Google image

Real Madrid will be given preference ahead of Manchester United to sign Harry Kane if he leaves Tottenham Hotspur this summer, according to reports.

Jennifer Lawrence and her husband Cooke Maroney both stepped out in New York City on Friday (June 2).

first obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Fowler wrote to the HCA’s board stating that, “for my own well-being I am stepping away.”Read Fowler’s memo to the membership below:Dear All,Sorry for the late hour as I am on France time.Please accept my resignation as President and as a member of HCA due to what I deem at times, in my opinion, a hostile, biased and dismissive executive work environment not in alignment with the original duties offered when elected President last year. As a woman in leadership, I attempted to assist the organization on many variables with many being dismissed which included calling for proper formation since last year, committees, spearheading sales, bias training and accountability on harassment.

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams shared her stance against Ron DeSantis while taking the stage in New Jersey this past weekend (May 27).While headlining Adjacent Music Festival in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the frontwoman declared that anyone who votes for the Republican presidential candidate is “dead” to her.“I’ll be happy to tell you I’m very fucking comfortable talking politics,” Williams told the crowd. “If you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re fucking dead to me.

Governor Ron DeSantis insists his recent remarks attacking U.S. Senator Ted Cruz should not be viewed as an endorsement of the biblical call for gay people to be executed.

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-comers Kue Lawrence (Beautiful Boy), Kai Cech (Dear Santa) and Max Malas (New Amsterdam) are set to star opposite Corbin Bersen (White House Plumbers) in the sci-fi horror mystery Marshmallow from director Daniel DelPurgatorio, which is heading into production in a couple of weeks.