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Published by Radar Online The Log Cabin Republicans, the largest LGBT Republican organization in the United States, have publicly denounced Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for a controversial campaign ad that attacked former President Donald Trump's connections to the LGBT community, RadarOnline.com has learned. The ad, posted by the DeSantis War Room on Twitter last Friday, featured a 2016 clip of Trump promising to protect the rights of LGBTQ citizens. Trump's remarks following the tragic Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people lost their lives, were used in the attack ad against the former Presid… Read More View the full article

Hungry? In the past weeks we've done some dedicated deep dives into getting the most out of Miami for Sporty/Outdoors focused readers and another comprehensive set of guides for culture and art -focused traveller to South Florida will enjoy and that will contibute to making the most of your time there. For the foodie, we're focused on helping you and yours embrace the diverse flavors, cultures, and cuisines that have all come together in South Florida, creating a unique city while maintaining the special and unique cultures. This shoudl satisfy the passionate foodie on a gastro-driven hunt or for those who have some foodie tendencies or think they might There is no place like it. To life! FOODIE HEAVEN: Eat Miami Photo courtesy South Beach Wine & Food Festival TIME OUT MARKET MIAMI: Michelin-starred chefs, top local vendors, art installations and more at this ultimate food hall, with the best of the Miami all under one roof. STUBBORN SEED: Top Chef winner Jeremy Ford's Michelin-starred restaurant in South Beach has been ranked the top restaurant in Miami, with a signature tasting menu and passion for excellence. TONOSHI HOUR AT NOBU HOTEL: Select from bento boxes at the lobby bar, with original Nobu creations or traditional favorites, and specialty cocktails. No reservation is required. Nobu in Miami was founded in partnership with Rober DeNiro, and the buzz around it hasn't waned since it opened its doors. MICHAEL'S GENUINE FOOD & DRINK: Emphasizing locally sourced produce and ingredients, this farm-to-table restaurant and bar is located in the ever-enticing Design District of Miami. Feast on Festivals: Miami's Food-Centric Events Lineup Photo courtesy South Beach Wine & Food Festival SOUTH BEACH WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL: This mid-February, 4-day culinary festival is celebrating 23 years next year. Not to be missed is Wine Spectator's signature Best Of The Best, which this year paired over 60 of the nation's most acclaimed chefs with more than 65 first-rate wineries from around the globe. MIAMI SPICE: Every August and September, a wide array of top participating restaurants offer special menus around the Greater Miami area, during this annual celebration of Miami's diverse culinary scene. This is a great opportunity to be adventurous, and go either high or low with equally appetizing prices. GAY8 FESTIVAL: This one day free LGBTQ music, food and arts festival in Little Havana, also includes the Best of Miami Sandwich Competition. The nation's largest diversity and inclusion festival celebrates Miami's Hispanic and Latino community's zest for life. (February) SOUTH BEACH SEAFOOD FESTIVAL: It's stone crab season… and this is how Miami celebrates it (October 18-21) in Lummus Park and multiple locations through South Beach, including Joes Stone Crab. Don't miss the VIP Chef Showdown to see who makes the cut. CALLE OCHO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CARNAVAL: If you're planning to visit Miami mid-March, this 15-block party is an off-the-charts latin music festival/Carnaval Miami Experience, with the best of Little Havana's culinary traditions. Sip and Socialize: Miami's Bars & Clubs for LGBTQ Foodies Photo courtesy Marriott Hotels LIVING ROOM: Located at the W Hotel South Beach, this is not your average lobby bar. With specialty cocktails, a hip setup, comfy sofas and a terrace, it was listed by Food & Wine as a 50 Best Bars in America standout shortly after it opened. AZUCAR NIGHTCLUB: This LGBTQ+ club with pure Latin flavor always on the menu, is always shaking with weekend parties and cabaret. Al Fresco Feasting: Outdoor Dining Adventures in Miami Photo courtesy of the GMCVB OUTDOOR CUBAN COOKING CLASSES: Why not bring a taste of Little Havana home with you? Flavors of Miami offers a hands-on cooking lesson that includes an appetizer, a main course, and dessert, all while enjoying Miami's signature sunshine. EAT AL FRESCO: With an annual average of 249 days of sun, Miami is the perfect place to eat outdoors. Whether in a rooftop bar, sidewalk cafe, or private courtyard, there are hundreds of delicious opportunities to enjoy both perfect weather and global cuisine. Photo courtesy of the GMCVB Culinary Sightseeing: Explore Miami's Food Landscape Photo courtesy of GMCVB LITTLE HAVANA: Don't skip this world-famous Cuban neighborhood just because of the current news cycle, and risk missing its colorful street life, incredible music and mouth-watering island deliciousness. FRESH FISH MARKETS: With more than a couple to choose from, Garcia's and Casablanca Fish Markets offer the day's catch, and onsite eateries, and a taste of Miami. A Taste of Retail: Miami's Culinary Shopping Hotspots Photo courtesy of the GMCVB – http://MiamiandBeaches.com LINCOLN ROAD MALL SUNDAY FARMERS MARKET: A cruisy stroll on this pedestrian strip offers all the juicy goodness the sun brings to Florida's menus every Sunday, with shopping and plenty of places to stop and nosh along the way. AZUCAR ICE CREAM COMPANY: Unique flavors like marney and café con leche make this Little Havana haunt a fav among, well, everyone – locals and tourists alike. ORNARE: Leave it to Miami to have an intoxicating Latin vibe, and this high-end boutique from Brazil doesn't disappoint. You'll find unique kitchen and dining accessories in its Emporium, and salivate over its refined designs. Stay and Savor: Best Miami Hotels for Food Lovers Photo courtesy Marriott Hotels EDITION: Ian Schrager's heir to the Delano crown, Edition offers outstanding, widely lauded hotel dining, including the undeniably chic Matador Room from Jean-George Vongerichten THE BETSY SOUTH BEACH: Balance award-winning fare from former Bon Apetit “restauranteur of the year,” Laurent Tourondel, with yoga on the rooftop deck. Or order a Betsy picnic basket for a spread on the beach. View the full article

Published by OK Magazine Taylor Armstrong is revealing her most authentic self! The Real Housewives of Beverly HillsOG — who made the jump to The Real Housewives of Orange County as a “friend of” this season — revealed during the Wednesday, June 28, episode of the Bravo series that she is bisexual and was previously in a five-year relationship with a woman. During the cast’s trip to Montana, the ladies went around the dinner table revealing facts about themselves that not many people don’t know. Fellow newbie Jennifer Pendantri jokingly asked Taylor, “Are you [bisexual]?” “Now are you nervous about me being in the bun… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has received a “cease and desist” letter from an Iowa Republican leader after he was accused of busing in supporters to an Iowa event. The Messenger reported DeSantis received the “extraordinary” letter from Muscatine County's GOP demanding that the “Never Back Down PAC cease and desist all attempts to contact and collaborate with the Muscatine County Republican Party of Iowa.” The letter accused the DeSantis PAC of “unlawful and unethical collaboration … with Republican County Parties in the State of Iowa.” The controversy was created by the uniq… Read More View the full article

Published by Benzinga Top beer brand Bud Light has faced a challenging 2023 with public boycotts and backlash over a link to transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. What Happened: Sales of Bud Light have dropped after boycotts calling the company a “woke brand.”. Celebrities and musicians were among those who have turned their backs on the former bestselling beer brand. Bud Light, which is a unit of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) has seen sales drop in 2023, knocking the beer brand off the leaderboard as the top-selling beer in the U.S. In the most recent week ending June 20, sales of Bud Light have dropped 28.5% ye… Read More View the full article

Published by City AM By Adam Bloodworth A Strange Loop review and star rating: ★★★ A Strange Loop won every Best Musical award in New York, and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards. It was a New York Times Critics' Pick and won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; unusual for a musical, the accolade was previously taken by Hamilton. The musical closed in January on Broadway, and now writer Michael R Jackson's piece has transferred to the Barbican Centre. Buzz had been building around A Strange Loop for months ahead of its premiere, and in a way that felt unusually strong for a new piece of writing not yet staged in the … Read More View the full article

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