Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, struggling to retain his number-two ranking in the 2024 GOP presidential primary race, framed supporters of same-sex marriage as a threat to America's religious institutions, and to the sacraments of Christian churches. “You have previously said that the definition of marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman. I'm curious, is that still how you feel today?” CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Gov. DeSantis at the network's town hall in Iowa Thursday night. “So that's just what marriage is with the church,” responded DeSantis, who is known for his anti-…

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Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) was slammed by columnist Chris Anderson of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Friday over his political reliance on a pair of Republican figures who are both accused of sexual offenses. One of those figures is Christian Ziegler, the Florida Republican Party chair who is facing a rapidly-expanding police investigation into allegations he committed rape. His wife Bridget is a high-ranking figure in Moms for Liberty, the far-right group known for working arm in arm with the Proud Boys to censor racial and sexual content in schools. “Landry's campaign paid Microtargeted Media — Zi…

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The View co-host Sunny Hostin recently criticized Nikki Haley after the GOP primary candidate made a series of controversial comments about her “Black friends,” RadarOnline.com can report. Haley's initial comments came on Thursday night during a town hall event hosted by CNN. The former South Carolina governor was discussing another recent controversy regarding her remarks about slavery and the Civil War when she emphasized how she “had Black friends growing up.” “I should have said slavery right off the bat,” Haley explained during the town hall event. “If you grow up in South Carolina, liter…

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Washington (AFP) – The United States on Friday criticized Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye after he called for public stoning of same-sex couples, the latest anti-gay broadside by an East African leader. “The United States is deeply troubled by President Ndayishimiye's remarks targeting certain vulnerable and marginalized Burundians,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. “We call on all of Burundi's leaders to respect the inherent dignity and inalienable rights, including equal access to justice, of every member of Burundian society,” he said. The statement d…

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Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski has fans asking all kinds of questions, including whether he has a “girlfriend” after he posted some snaps to social media recently. He’s set to star in the all-new season of Queer Eye season 8, along with the rest of the Fab Five, on January 24. Judging by Antoni’s Instagram comments section, he is not short of admirers. Some of the Queer Eye star’s loyal fans are urging others to “let him heal,” given that he recently broke off his engagement with his partner of four years, Kevin Harrington. Antoni Porowski fans ask if he has a ‘girlfriend’On January 5, Antoni sha…

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By Zara Woodcock Beloved Irish presenter Graham Norton is returning to our screens to host the iconic game show Wheel of Fortune. The star is best known for interviewing the biggest stars in the world on his BBC chat show, The Graham Norton Show. He has also been the BBC commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest since 2009. In 2019, he became a judge on legendary competition, RuPaul's Drag Race UK. When he's not busy presenting on TV shows, game shows, competitions and radio shows, the 60-year-old lives a quiet life with his husband, Scottish filmmaker Jonathan McLeod. Before marrying the fi…

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It seems like every project Jacob Elordi is in pushes the envelope. In a new interview discussing his flick Saltburn, the actor discussed some of the movie's most scandalous scenes, admitting he had no problem with any of the raunchy material. Elordi, 26, referenced one of the most viral moments in which after his character touches himself while taking a bath, Barry Keoghan's character drinks the bathwater. “I was just really excited when I read that scene because, you know, you don't really see things like that in mainstream movies a lot of the time,” he dished. “So it's just great that [dire…

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Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, has offered a response following the release of court documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case. These documents mentioned her uncle, among other names, raising questions and prompting reactions from various quarters. Mary, a vocal critic of her uncle, responded to the release of the court documents that mentioned the former president. “Donald was very close to Epstein in the '90s,” she wrote in her Substack blog, The Good in Us. She also brought up her uncle's interview with New York Magazine and his travel on Epstein's jets, writin…

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Destiny's Child has been seen posing together in a snap taken at Beyonce's worldwide Renaissance Tour, but it's not the three you may think, in fact, it's five of them. Yep, some may have forgotten, but the band once had four members, and there are three who never made the final cut. The highly successful music group consisted of the final lineup, Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, who were together in the early 2000s. However, that's not what the original band looked like. It's widely known groups can disband sourly, but it looks like Destiny's Child are still alive and kicking fr…

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Adam Lambert wasn't sure he would “be able to do” ‘American Idol' after coming out as gay. The 41-year-old star shot to fame on the show in 2009 when he was 26, eight years after he came out in high school, but he was wary about taking part in the series – on which he finished runner up of the eighth season – because he didn't think other homosexual contestants had been “taken seriously”. In a new video profile with Them, he said: “I started pretty early kind of understanding that I was probably different than the other boys in school. “I don't think it really clicked for me until I was in abo…

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Rascal Flatts‘ Joe Don Rooney, 48, is setting the record straight regarding rampant social media rumors that he is transitioning. On Wednesday (Jan. 3), the musician posted a lengthy message to X (formerly Twitter) explaining why he has been away from the spotlight. He also shut down rumors that he is transgender. “First off, I am alive! There have been so many rumors and opinions thrown around about me … but I'm finally healthy and ready for the world. And NO, I'm not transitioning to be a woman,” he wrote on social media. “That thought has never entered my mind. Nothing against the trans com…

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The Vatican has defended Pope Francis' decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples after receiving backlash from more conservative bishops who called the move heretical. In a five-page statement on Thursday, the Holy See's office to safeguard doctrinal orthodoxy – called the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith – insisted that blessing same-sex couples is not heresy, though it said it understood that some bishops needed more time to adjust to the change. But while the office recognised the need for these bishops for “pastoral reflection”, it added that “there is no room to distance our…

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(Reuters) – Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the “N-word” countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on antisemitism and plagiarism allegations. Gay made the comments in a New York Times opinion piece on Wednesday, a day after she yielded to pressure from Harvard's Jewish community and members of Congress to step down over the Dec. 5 congressional hearing and allegations about her academic work. “My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My i…

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The last time Kimberly Dragoo of St. Joseph made major headlines was last summer when she and her husband pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing inside the U.S. Capitol as part of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Part of the evidence against her: a photo her husband shot of her stepping through a broken window at the Capitol. Now, photographed wearing her Donald Trump socks, alongside a note beginning “Okay Patriots,” Dragoo announced on social media that she is running for St. Joseph school board. “I only decided to run for the school board on the 26th of December,” Dragoo text…

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America is coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol. The attack upended the orderly and peaceful transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden during Congress' certification of the 2020 election and ultimately resulted in the loss of seven lives and dozens of injuries to law enforcement officers. The FBI has arrested more than 1,200 people on federal charges related to the siege of the Capitol. The leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — two far-right extremist groups — are already serving long prison sentences for…

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Madonna's 2023 might have been filled with a few ups and downs, but she certainly ended the year on a high note. On Monday, January 1, the Queen of Pop took to Instagram to wish her 19.2 million followers a happy new year while sharing a glimpse inside her end-of-year celebrations with all six of her children. Madonna's upload featured separate snaps of the mom-of-six posing with her kids: Lourdes Leon, 27, Rocco Ritchie, 23, David Banda, 18, Mercy James, 17, and 11-year-old twins Estere and Stella Ciccone. “Let Me Take You to a Place I know you want to Go — It's A Good Life……….Happy 2024 !! …

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Sam Smith is getting too good at saying goodbyes. The 31-year-old singer — who identifies as non-binary and goes by they/them pronouns — has ended their relationship with U.K. fashion designer Christian Cowan and is already looking for love again on the exclusive dating app Raya, RadarOnline.com has learned. Smith and Cowan were last photographed together on December 14 — and did not ring in the new year as a couple, and that's because they had split by then, according to Daily Mail. However, there are no hard feelings between the exes. “Sam and Christian decided to end their relationship befo…

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Expelled congressman George Santos has disclosed his New Year's resolution: It's that he wants Donald Trump to be elected so he can make him I.C.E. director. Santos, who was booted from his position as a lawmaker after being charged with crimes and accused of lying about his biography, has not slowed down his Trump support now that he's a private citizen. On Tuesday, Santos used the recent holiday to make a point about his immigration agenda. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? READ MORE: Five unresolved questions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack “My new year resolution is that Presi…

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Beyoncé brought in the New Year with a Clueless corset vibe while infusing her look with the silver aesthetic she has been sporting for the last year. The music star posted snaps posing in an outfit resembling Cher Horowitz's iconic style from the 1995 chick flick Clueless. It famously starred Alicia Silverstone and the late Brittany Murphy. She also gave the Beyhive a glimpse at how she spent Christmas with her husband, Jay-Z, and their three children, Blue Ivy and twins Rumi and Sir Carter. Beyoncé's Clueless corset look pays homage to movie star In the pictures posted to her Instagram, the …

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A new year brings cause for contemplation, resolutions, optimism … and a whole new slate of movies. In the spirit of that optimism, here are a handful of upcoming releases that sound intriguing; here's hoping all of them bring happy diversion. (Note that all dates are tentative and entirely changeable, depending on the whims of movie studios and the universe at large.) “Argylle” A spy thriller that involves an introverted novelist, a tabby cat and Catherine O'Hara? Sign me up. Matthew Vaughn (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”) directs; Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Bryan Cranston and Samue…

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Former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, the pentecostal evangelical Christian who made international headlines in 2015, has now been ordered to pay a total of more than $360,000 after refusing to issue a marriage license to a local same-sex couple that year, ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in support of marriage equality. Davis, who once told supporters she is a “soldier for Christ,” was ordered by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning on Tuesday to pay attorneys of the couple $260,104 in fees and expenses, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. She previously was ordered by a jur…

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It has been a challenging endeavor, yet we have dedicated an entire week to meticulously exploring the vast expanse of Instagram to present to you with Louis III, our selection for this week's celebrity Instahottie. We are aware that Louis III is one talented singer-songwriter, but let us be a little superficial for a moment and indulge in some of his hottest thirst traps. The out singer revealed to Man About Town, “When I first started putting out music, I was in the closet. I wish I could say that I was always comfortable with my queerness but in all honesty I wasn't and I rejected it for a …

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Sarasota police are expanding their criminal investigation into Christian Ziegler, the embattled chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, to include video voyeurism, a felony that carries a possible five-year prison penalty. Ziegler has been accused of rape by the same woman he and his wife, a Moms for Liberty co-founder and school board member who helped draft Governor Ron DeSantis' “Don't Say Gay” law, admit to having a three-way sexual relationship with. According to a search warrant affidavit, police believe Christian Ziegler unlawfully filmed his alleged rape of the woman, which he cl…

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Dave Chappelle “loves punching down” amid controversy over his trans jokes in new Netflix special ‘The Dreamer'. The 50-year-old comedian tackled a broad range of topics in his first full-length stand-up special in two years but spent the first 12 minutes taking aim at transgender people. He opened with a story about visiting Jim Carrey while he was filming the 1999 film ‘Man on the Moon;, where Jim stayed in character as comedian Andy Kaufman between takes. Dave explained that he spent the day pretending Carrey was Kaufman and was left feeling “very disappointed,” adding: “That's how trans pe…

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VfB Stuttgart CEO Alexander Wehrle expects active footballers in Germany to come out as gay in the near future because diversity has come a long way. No active footballer has come out in Germany to date. But former German international and Stuttgart player Thomas Hitzlsperger came out after his playing career, 10 years ago in January 2014. Wehrle told dpa that diversity efforts from clubs, federations and fan groups were “clearly visible” as “a lot has been prepared here in recent years for the coming out of an active footballer. “I am convinced that it will happen – maybe not by an individual…

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