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Published by Reuters By Joseph Ax and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The desperate search for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic entered a critical juncture on Thursday when air was expected to run out for the five people aboard, but officials vowed to continue scouring the remote North Atlantic. A remotely operated vehicle deployed from a Canadian vessel to the ocean floor discovered a “debris field” near the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday morning on Twitter, adding that experts were “evaluating the information.” Another robot from a French research ship was also sent diving toward the s… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story During an interview on SiriusXM's The Briefing with Steve Scully, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he thinks Russia acted in “good faith” with its invasion of Ukraine – and blamed the U.S. for the war. Kennedy, who is running as a Democrat for president, said that the solution to the conflict is “baby steps” towards negotiation. When the show's host, Steve Scully, pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for negotiation unless Russia can keep the territory it has claimed, Kennedy claimed that “Putin has repeatedly said yes.” “In fact, he negotiated — two times he agr… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story Attorneys representing E. Jean Carroll delivered a swift smackdown to former President Donald Trump as he demanded a new trial after she successfully sued him for defamation and sexual abuse. As reported by Law and Crime News' Adam Klasfeld, Carroll's legal team delivered a scathing court filing in which it ridiculed Trump for wanting a do-over of a trial where he was ordered to pay its client $5 million. “Trump's motion is nothing more than his latest effort to obfuscate the import of the jury's verdict by engaging in his own particular Trump-branded form of magical thinking,” argued attorney… Read More View the full article

Published by Al-Araby An Israeli lawmaker notorious for making inflammatory comments has said the country's LGBTQ+ community are more dangerous to Israel than the Islamic State (IS) terror group. Yitzhak Pindrus, a member of the Knesset from the United Torah Judaism political alliance – part of Israel's current far-right government – told Israeli television's Channel 12 earlier this week that the LGBTQ+ community is “the most dangerous thing for the State of Israel – more than IS, more than Hezbollah, more than Hamas”. “If it were up to me, I would prevent not just the pride march but also the whole movement,” Pind… Read More View the full article

Published by Fadeaway World By Orlando Silva The 2023 NBA Finals finished, but the Miami Heat keep making noise around the league, or at least one of their players. A member of the Floridian team was recently ‘exposed' for inviting an OnlyFans model to a three-way with another lady. However, the most curious part of the story is that the other lady was actually a transwoman. According to Hayley Murders, she was invited by a Heat player to have intimacy and when she first met him, the unknown player asked if she was willing to have a threesome with another woman. View the original article to see embedded media. Murders ag… Read More View the full article

Published by Cambridge Independent Award-winning comedian and author Rosie Wilby has helped thousands of listeners through heartbreak in her podcast The Breakup Monologues after suffering the indignity of being dumped by her girlfriend over email, writes Alex Spencer. And she now believes that a painful break-up could be a positive experience as so often it helps people discover new things about themselves or completely change their lives. Rosie, who is now happily married, wanted to help those coming after her through the trenches. Her own experience of being unceremoniously dumped happened more than 10 years ago, but it left … Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet British singer Elton John warned the United States is experiencing a “growing swell of anger and homophobia” as states like Florida see a rise in legislation that curtails LGBTQ+ rights, the New York Times reports. “There's violence, [discriminatory] laws enacted in Florida, which are disgraceful,” John said in an interview published by Radio Times. “There's a law now that, if you visit a doctor in Florida, they can refuse to treat you if you're gay, which I find just unbelievable. We seem to be going backwards. And that spreads. It's like a virus that the LGBTQ+ movement is suffering.” “I don… Read More View the full article

Published by uInterview.com YouTube took down a video of an interview that featured Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who made claims that there are chemicals in our water that are turning children transgender. YouTube stated that they took down the video of the Jordon Peterson podcast because it violated their terms of service about vaccine misinformation. Kennedy and Peterson tweeted about their interview being taken down. They also shared the video so that viewers can watch it on Twitter. Kennedy is currently a presidential candidate in the Democratic primary. He has spoken about his views on vaccinations many times in differe… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A Christian-owned wellness center is exempt from the federal law prohibiting employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The unanimous three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Braidwood Management, which runs an alternative health center in Texas, cannot be sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its policy that employees who engage in homosexual or gender non-conforming conduct will be fired. Circuit Judge Jerry Sm… Read More View the full article

Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — As politicians battle over gay rights in statehouses across the country, it's difficult to know exactly how many people even identify as LGBTQ — and experts say the missing data could be crucial. That's because the decennial U.S. census — the gold standard of who exactly makes up the U.S. population — does not ask about sexual orientation or gender identity beyond a strict male/female binary. There are estimates. Experts at nonprofits estimated in 2020 that there are more than 13 million LGBTQ people nationwide, but estimates can vary wildly based on methodology and likely undercount… Read More View the full article

Published by Euronews (English) Rihanna has joined a chorus of calls for global financial reform to help communities on the frontlines of climate change. The Barbadian superstar tweeted US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and World Bank chief Ajay Banga yesterday, asking them to “make bold commitments to finance and debt reforms.” As her popular tweet pointed out, Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty has done plenty to address climate change herself through her Clara Lionel Foundation. For over a decade, it has funded climate resilience and climate justice initiatives in the Caribbean and US. “Will you join Mia Mottley [Barbados' Prime Mini… Read More View the full article

Published by The Street By Daniel Kline The former Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) — the special district Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dismantled in his battle with Disney World — handled a lot of mundane government tasks. Yes, the district's management made decisions on allowing new construction, but it also handled all the basic services that any government has to take care of. Yes, Disney controlled the land Disney World sits on, but it also had to handle things like power, roads, police, and firefighters. Now, with DeSantis dissolving the RCID and replacing it with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight… Read More View the full article

Published by Global Voices Image by Cecilie Johnsen. Free to use under Unsplash License. After a six-year pause, this year's Trans Pride march took place on June 18 in Istanbul and was met with heavy police presence, intervention, and violence. Shortly after the group read out their statement and began to disperse, police used force and started detaining people. According to reports, at least eight people were detained on June 18. Trans Pride march in Istanbul, Turkey, 18 June 2023. The Turkish Government banned the Istanbul Trans Pride March as in previous years. #pride #Pride2023 #turkey @EPA_Images pic.twitter.com/Wq… Read More View the full article

Published by NJ.com Editor's note: This post has been updated with comment from the Office of the Attorney General and the Division on Civil Rights. The Middletown School Board on Tuesday night adopted a controversial parent notification policy that sources said would require schools to notify parents if a gender nonconforming student wants to be addressed by an alternative name or pronoun, inquires about participating on a different sports team or wants to use a different restroom. The amendment was to Middletown's policy 5756, which requires districts to accept a student's asserted gender identity without the c… Read More View the full article

Published by The Detroit News Greta Van Fleet’s Josh Kiszka came out in an Instagram post on Tuesday, saying he’s been in “loving, same-sex relationship” with his partner for eight years. “It’s imperative that I speak my truth for not only myself, but in hopes to change hearts, minds and laws in Tennessee and beyond,” the band’s frontman said in his post. The throwback Michigan rockers now reside in Tennessee, which in the last year has signed several pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation into law, “bills that threaten the freedom of love,” Kiszka wrote. Among those bills are curriculum censorship laws, bathroom bans and a ban… Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet The authors of a beloved children's book about gay penguin parents, And Tango Makes Three, are suing a Florida school board as well as members of the Florida Board of Education. One of the arguments is that the book, based on a true story, is implied to be obscene by the fact that it's banned. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, the two authors of And Tango Makes Three, along with six children who wish to read the book and their parents. It challenges Florida's Parental Rights in Education Law, also known as the “Don't Say Gay” law. The law bans education on … Read More View the full article

Published by The Street By Daniel Kline Ron DeSantis has made his top political target the largest single-site employer in the state where he serves as governor. Florida's top elected official has decided to use Walt Disney as the proxy for his so-called War on Woke, when he easily could have picked Starbucks (SBUX) – Get Free Report — which has more than 800 locations in Florida — Target and countless other companies. That's either a bold choice designed to show that DeSantis's values trump his desire to appease big businesses that benefit his state; or it shows that he does not like when a company challenges him… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story The conservative group Moms for Liberty was founded as a “parental rights” group that focuses on protecting students from content that deals in race or gender and electing conservative candidates to school boards. But according to Vice News, the group is forging ties with extremist groups such as the Proud Boys. The connection follows a pattern of conservative MAGA-aligned groups being infiltrated by more extreme right-wing movements, Vice reported. “There's an ongoing campaign by these neo-Nazi groups to radicalize some of these more benign patriot MAGA groups—and it's working because I've se… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Debbie Harry has insisted “most women” would have “died” to have David Bowie flash his penis at them. The Blondie frontwoman memorably revealed in her 2019 autobiography ‘Face It' that offering cocaine to Iggy Pop and the late ‘Ziggy Stardust' hitmaker – who died of cancer in 2016 – during a tour in 1977, her pal had thanked her by taking out his “notoriously” large member. She wrote at the time: “David's size was notorious, of course, and he loved to pull it out with both men and women. It was so adorable, funny and sexy.” And at the suggestion some people may have not wanted to see it, she l… Read More View the full article

Published by AFP Paris (AFP) – As he prepared the biggest fashion show of the year in Paris on Tuesday, musician-turned-designer Pharrell Williams told AFP he was conscious of the traumatic history behind black culture’s ascent. “We wish that our culture and our people didn’t have to suffer so hard in order to get us here,” said Williams, who was set to make his debut as menswear director for Louis Vuitton later that day. “It’s not lost on me that a lot of people died, a lot of people lost their lives and suffered… to get us to these positions.” The singer-producer is the second successive black American t… Read More View the full article

[This post contains video, click to play] Published by New York Daily News At 77, Dolly Parton is singing her heart out and her face off on two new songs from her forthcoming debut rock album. On Friday, the country music superstar gave fans another sneak peek at the star-studded album, releasing collaborations with Judas Priest's Rob Halford and Heart's Ann Wilson. Both tracks will be featured on “Rockstar,” due out Nov. 17. Following last month's debut of the album's first single, “World on Fire,” comes a remake of Heart's 1975 classic “Magic Man,” featuring original group member Wilson. Parton added new elements to the song to transform it into a tribute to Carl T… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters UK By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) – London's Victoria and Albert Museum draws inspiration from some of the world's best-known performers for its summer exhibition, celebrating their talent, creativity and influence. Titled “DIVA”, the exhibition features some 60 costumes and 250 items from screen sirens and stage stars from the 19th century to today, many displayed for the first time. Highlights include a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the 1959 film “Some Like it Hot”, Maria Callas' costumes from her first and last performances at The Royal Opera House and Franco Zeffirelli's “Tosca” in 1964,… Read More View the full article

Published by The Moscow Times Russian authorities have charged a popular movie portal owned by the country's largest tech company Yandex with distributing so-called “LGBT propaganda,” independent media reported Tuesday. Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court registered an administrative case against Kinopoisk, a film database and streaming service with more than 150 million monthly visitors, according to the news website Mediazona. The plaintiff is listed as Russia's state media watchdog Roskomnadzor, which enforces the LGBT propaganda ban. It was not immediately clear which content was ruled to be in violation of Russian … Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English George Michael blamed the break-up of Wham! on him wanting to come out of the closet. The ‘Last Christmas' singer, who died aged 53 on Christmas Day 2016, realised he was gay or at the very least bisexual aged 19, but said he was left feeling “trapped” when he didn't publicly come out while his band with Andrew Ridgeley, 60, became one of the world's biggest acts. George says in an unaired interview in the upcoming Netflix documentary ‘Wham!': “In reality, the turning point of Wham! was nothing to do with Wham! “The turning point of Wham! was me as I suddenly thought, ‘Oh my God, I'm a massive… Read More View the full article