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Published by Fort Worth Star-Telegram ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers are the only team in Major League Baseball without a Pride Night celebrating the LGBTQ culture and its history. The Rangers have various theme nights throughout the season for the Dallas Mavericks, Mexican Heritage and Shark Week among a multitude of others. Even among their fellow Texas professional sports team, the the Rangers are an outlier. The Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Astros, FC Dallas, Houston Dash, Houston Dynamo FC and Dallas Wings all have Pride Night celebrations. When asked about the lack of Pride Night celebration the Rangers orga… Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet President Joe Biden on Thursday afternoon defended calling the U.S. Supreme Court “not normal,” warned expanding it would “politicize” it, and suggested conservative justices are beginning to get the message of just how strongly their legitimacy is being questioned by the American people after numerous allegations of corruption and lack of transparency. “Do you worry that without court reform, this conservative majority is too young and too conservative? That they might do too much harm?” he was asked by MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Thursday afternoon on “Deadline: White House” in a rare in-studio … Read More View the full article

Published by uInterview.com Frank James Michael Grande Marchione, better known as Frankie Grande, is an American dancer, singer, actor, producer, television host and YouTube personality. He is the half-brother of pop singer Ariana Grande. FRANKIE GRANDE BIOGRAPHY: AGE, EARLY LIFE, FAMILY, EDUCATIONFrankie Grande was born on January 24, 1983 (Frankie Grande's age: 40) in New York City to Victor Marchione and Joan Grande. His father has been employed as a physician while his mother is chief executive officer of the telephone and alarm system company Hose-McCann Communications. Although born in New York, Grande was raised i… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters MADRID (Reuters) – Dozens of people sporting high heels, most of them men, raced down a cobbled street in the centre of the Spanish capital on Thursday as part of Madrid Pride, one of the world's largest LGBT celebrations. It was the 24th edition of the annual race in Chueca, a gay-friendly neighbourhood, which draws competitors from abroad and is one of the most eagerly awaited parts of the festival of the LGBT community. Heels must be at least 10 cm (4 inches) high, and the shoes are measured before the race. Moreover, participants must pick up a purse with a dress along the way and then to … Read More View the full article

Published by The Street By Daniel Kline Blame Kid Rock. The one-time rapper, sometimes rock star decided that Budweiser doing a small social media promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was an affront to anyone who drinks Bud Light. Rock responded to the beer company trying to reach customers in the LGBTQ+ community by releasing a video of himself taking an MP5 submachine gun to some cases of Bud Light. This led to Budweiser parent Anheuser-Busch (BUD) – Get Free Report facing a massive backlash where sales dropped by more than 20% and a number of country performers took stands on whether a beer company… Read More View the full article

Published by The Spun By Tzvi Machlin We're a few weeks away from the FIFA Women's World Cup and the controversy over the rainbow armband that created tension during last year's World Cup in Qatar has been renewed. According to ESPN, FIFA has decided against letting players wear the rainbow-colored armband most closely associated with LGBTQ+ pride this year and will instead offer a modified version as one of eight different armband options for players to wear throughout the tournament. Each armband will represent a different cause advocated by the United Nations. In a statement, FIFA president Gianni Infantino expl… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – In a blow to LGBT rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, ruling in favor of a web designer who cited her Christian beliefs in challenging a Colorado anti-discrimination law. The justices in a 6-3 decision authored by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch overturned a lower court's ruling that had rejected Denver-area business owner Lorie Smith's bid for an exemption from a Colorado law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientati… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson penned a blistering dissent taking her fellow SCOTUS justices to task for ruling the race-based affirmative action policies used by Harvard and other colleges as unconstitutional. In her dissent, Justice Jackson accused the court of treating racism as an ancient relic rather than something that still harms people of color to this day. While she acknowledged the conservatives' sincere desire for a colorblind society, she argued that such a society is not the one we currently have. “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ri… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is promoting her podcast with an image that shows her pulling up to the U.S. Capitol holding a high-capacity rifle. The Georgia Republican uses the stylized image as the banner for the Twitter account promoting her “Battleground” podcast. Greene boasted in December that the Jan. 6 insurrection would have succeeded if she and Steve Bannon had planned it, saying “we would have been armed,” and she has repeatedly expressed solidarity with the Capitol rioters. “I am one of those people,” Greene said in October. “That's exactly who I am.” Greene also recorded video of he… Read More View the full article

Published by Euronews (English) Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorised the creation of an institute for the “study of LGBT people” within the country's federal psychiatric unit. At the same time, the State Duma – Russia's lower house of parliament – unanimously approved a bill prohibiting the change of documents and sex-change surgery to be provided for transgender individuals. Human rights activists in Russia have sounded the alarm over this, and they warn that it could lead to individuals resorting to black market surgeries and a spike in deaths, as well as penalties and imprisonment. While Russia has had one of t… Read More View the full article

Published by City AM By Steve Dinneen It was that gloriously sleazy bard of synth-pop Marc Almond who captured it perfectly: “People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.” Soho is London's other Square Mile, filled not with the chatter of high finance, but with the clink of glasses, the whiff of Italian coffee and the thrum of a grand time had and a grander time yet to come. It is the swoop from glamour to grime, it is theatre and art and gossip and whisper; and it is dying on its feet. Yesterday the “night czar” Amy Lamé wrote in the Ga… Read More View the full article

Published by Orlando Sentinel A federal judge in Orlando has delivered yet another legal smackdown to Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP legislators, this time blocking the state's new anti-drag-queen law. It's hard to keep track of how many times these guys have been caught violating constitutional boundaries. Judges appointed by Republican presidents, Democratic presidents — even by DeSantis himself — have all ruled that legislators and the governor have tried to run roughshod over the state and federal constitutions they vowed to uphold. The politicians have tried to violate your rights and then spent your tax dollars trying to … Read More View the full article

Published by NJ.com By Rev. Alexander M. Santora For the sixth year, my parish, Our Lady of Grace in Hoboken, celebrated a Pride Mass on the last Sunday in June. We do it on the day Pride celebrations occur all over the world but for a different reason: Ours spiritually affirms the dignity of each person as a child of God. And for the sixth year, about a dozen people protested the Mass across the street from the church in front of the dog run in Church Square Park. For only one day a year, I wished the dogs drowned out the protesters yelling at people coming to and leaving church. This year, I decided to cross th… Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, during a Wednesday segment of The Five, insisted conspiracy theorist and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was right about his “nonbinary” theory. Media Matters for America shared a video of Gutfeld's conversation with his Fox News colleagues, including host Jesse Watters, about testosterone. Gutfeld said, “It's okay to cry, my fellow guys. A survey finds that 71% of modern men confess to being in touch with how they feel and 82% of women are saying the same thing. I can't even see who this survey is. 37% of men say being called sensitive… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) – Russian clinics will soon be staffed with sexologists to help patients “overcome” homosexuality and various sexual “mental disorders”, a health ministry order said, in the latest Kremlin attack on what it calls “non-traditional lifestyles.” The order, which takes effect on July 1, comes amid a clampdown on LGBT rights, which President Vladimir Putin has sought to portray as evidence of moral decay in Western countries and from which Russia must be protected. “The help of such specialists is necessary if a person wants to recover from frigidity, impotence, or such violations of sexu… Read More View the full article

Published by OK Magazine Madonna is determined to bounce back as soon as possible. On Wednesday, June 28, the superstar's manager announced her Celebration Tour was being postponed due to the singer contracting a “bacterial infection.” Though the mom-of-six is “still under medical care” after several days in the ICU, all she can think about is returning to the dance studio. “Madonna doesn't want to cancel her tour,” a source spilled to a news outlet. “She was having a blast in rehearsals and wants to get back to it when she's ready.” Despite the “Like a Virgin” crooner's eager attitude, her “team doesn't want to push … Read More View the full article

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court on Thursday banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African-Americans and other minorities. “The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. The justices broke six to three along conservative-liberal lines in the decision, which came after years of conservative antipathy to “affirmative action” policies that have sought diversit… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Lizzo broke down in tears after fellow pop star Beyonce paid tribute to her at a gig in Poland this week. The ‘Juice' star flew to Warsaw to catch the singer's show in the city on Tuesday (27.06.23) on the European leg of her ‘Renaissance World Tour' – and Lizzo cried on camera after seeing Beyonce read out her name as part of a tribute to iconic Black women in music during the track ‘Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)'. She posted the clip online on her Instagram page and wrote: “In that moment I was thinking about baby me, listening to ‘Happy Face' by Destiny's Child and crying myself to sleep… Read More View the full article

Published by AFP New York (AFP) – Madonna is recovering after falling ill with a “serious bacterial infection” that landed her in an intensive care unit for several days, her manager Guy Oseary said in a statement Wednesday. “Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care,” he said. “A full recovery is expected.” Oseary said the 64-year-old pop icon's “Celebrations” tour, due to start July 15 in Vancouver, Canada, was postponed until further notice. The global, nearly sold-out tour was billed as paying homage to her more than four-decade long career. Stops in the United States were to include… Read More View the full article

Published by OK Magazine Madonna's world tour has been postponed after the Queen of Pop was hospitalized less than one month before The Celebration Tour was set to begin. “On Saturday, June 24, Madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which led to a several-day stay in the ICU,” the 64-year-old's manager Guy Oseary announced in a statement shared to Instagram on Wednesday, June 28. “Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care. A full recovery is expected,” he added. “At this time we will need to pause all commitments, which includes the tour,” which was set to kick off on Saturday, July 18,… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Jonathan Van Ness says he feels most “beautiful” as his authentic self. The ‘Queer Eye' star – who came out as non-binary in 2019 – has learned to “express myself for me” and not for others. Speaking to ELLE, he said: “Until my mid to late 20s I thought beauty was how people responded to me – I was beautiful if people responded to me in a certain way. Then it transformed into I feel beautiful when I present authentically, when I express myself for me. It was around then that my gender journey started. That was when I first started to buck the masc idea. I started wearing tights and crop tops a… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story In some ways, one of the final decisions of the Supreme Court term, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, has echoes of another case that was decided a few years ago, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado. Both cases involve a small business owner (in the latter a baker, the former a website designer), who claim that Colorado's anti-discrimination law prohibits them from exercising their faith and conscience and compels them to endorse same-sex marriage in their services, and both are represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a far-right legal organization considered a hate group by the Southern P… Read More View the full article

Published by Euronews (English) On the evening of 31 October 1980, a Sicilian shepherd stumbled across two intertwined dead bodies under a lemon grove. The bodies belonged to Giorgio and Toni, two gay youths from the town of Giarre, who had gone missing weeks before. Victims of homophobia before and after their murder, the young men's deaths rocked the parochial heart of their town to its very core and shocked an Italy where anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes were still rife. But much like the tragic fate Giorgio and Toni faced, their murder case lay dormant for decades, without any true justice being served in both the courts of law and… Read More View the full article