#lgbtq-representation

#lgbtq-representation

First, there's Will longing as he happens upon Robin ( Maya Hawke) kissing her girlfriend, Vickie (Amybeth McNulty). Later on, while on a mission, Robin, who is seemingly not completely out to everyone, hints that she saw Will. "[Vicky's] my friend, we're friends, good friends. But the thing is some people might not understand our friendship" explains Robin asking Will to keep it to himself.

Here's my theory why Avatar has no cultural impact even though they are the biggest selling films of all time. Gays cannot give a f**k about Avatar,

Set to the brooding voice of Nina Simone and her 1966 track "Lilac Wine", the Industry season four trailer opens with a bedraggled Henry (Harrington) slogging his way through the grounds of a manor house at dusk. The clip continues with his new fiancé Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) looking pained, and Henry sitting in a car, his hands bloodied and battered. Under the flashing lights of a sweaty club, Henry is then seen in a white vest, his hand running through the hair of an unidentified man, who is nuzzling Henry's neck.

The original Christy Martin script was incredible. Life changing. I was attached to play Cherry. Everyone had experience with the core material. Most of us were actually gay. It's part of why I stayed in acting. Rose then decried Sweeney and her team's statements about the film's box office. Rose claims Team Sweeney said they made the movie for "the people," meaning gay people, but that "None of 'the people' want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us.

"I think Aaron would be straight because I wouldn't want to change the narrative of Aaron Samuels because Jonathan Bennett is gay," the actor said. "You would keep the narrative of Aaron Samuels because that's the story."

It was a joke in the studio; everybody was saying, 'Prince Adam is gay.'

Boots follows 13 Reasons Why star Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope, a closeted teen who signs up to the marine corps after struggling to find a sense of purpose at home. While at boot camp, with his best friend Ray (newcomer Liam Oh), he learns that it's not just tough and gruelling, but homophobic too. The Netflix drama is set in 1990, when being gay in the US armed forces was still illegal.

For queer people though, there's a distinct selection of Keaton films that have shaped and inspired them more than any others. gained gay cult classic status in 1996 for its camp lesbian bar scene and queer representation in Annie's daughter, Chris. 2005's The Family Stone, in which Keaton played the mother of a gay and deaf son, was praised for its powerful, affirmative dinner table scene. The following year she dropped Surrender, Dorothy, featuring a dragged up Chris Pine.

Big Brother 2025 is well underway and there's been no shortage of drama already, keeping things interesting for the betting odds at least. And one queer housemate is the bookies' favourite. The current series started on Sunday 28 September and saw 12 people enter the house. Since then four more people have entered, two people have been evicted and a third, George Gilbert, has been kicked out of the house for "unacceptable language and behaviour."

"What is the relationship between you guys? Stark asks of the pair. They agree, "besties." Kilgore then adds, "Hailey and Roxie, when they're out in the field they have, like, their own language." Referencing "the way they have each other's back and they do have that shorthand," Stark relates it back to 'Buddie'. "It's the same thing," he shares. "There's almost that unspoken key part of being able to do the job. They know each other and trust each other so well. I'm excited to see that relationship continue."

There is no need to have a kissing scene, especially a lesbian kissing scene, in a children's show. This is pushing an agenda. There are other options. There are other streaming networks.

I've kind of dug into this a little bit more, and the way they do it is they do these scenes, and they switch them around very fast. In the old days [in the era of comedian and producer] Andy Griffith, it was just one camera and it was great. And [modern producers] do different scenes and it's moving around every second, and that releases certain things in young children's minds, and we need to find out why are they doing like this because this is contracting their brains, this is molding their brains.

➡️ In today's lead story, Virginia Republican lieutenant governor nominee John Reid is facing mounting political pressure after a report tied him to a Tumblr blog that reposted Nazi-themed pornography. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for a boycott against Netflix for daring to feature LGBTQ+ characters. Independent reporter Erin Reed has the latest. Columnist John Casey reflects on the government shutdown and previous standoffs with Republicans over the decades, and we take a look at how LGBTQ History Month began.

➡️ The government has officially shut down, the third time this has happened under President Trump's leadership - and Democrats in the Congressional Equality Caucus wasted no time blaming the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Trump ally Michael Flynn urged a federal appeals court to uphold Trump's renewed ban on trans military service in a filing that reads like a culture war manifesto, and Texas is cracking down on state universities teaching about gender identity.

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For nearly a decade, Ari Shapiro's voice has been a fixture of America's evening commute. As co-host of All Things Considered, he guided listeners through breaking news and the day's headlines, reported from around the world, drew out politicians and artists alike with genial intelligence, and offered a steady calm that helped sooth the masses in a world spiraling out of control.

The critically acclaimed film Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, was released in selected cinemas in China on 12 September. It follows the journey of a young couple who move to the countryside and encounter mysterious and grotesque changes to their bodies. In one scene, which features a wedding between two men, one of the men's faces was altered to look like a woman's.

A Chinese version of Dave Franco's new horror film Together has been digitally altered character so that a gay couple appear to be heterosexual, according to reports. Artificial intelligence appears to have been used in the Chinese release of the Australian movieto change the gender identity of the character, leaving no LGBTQ+ representation in the story. In the original film, audiences see a newlywed couple played by Charlie Lees and MJ Dorning.

Among them was bisexual Liverpudlian Leah, who told Diva magazine that walking down the aisle to meet a stranger was a thrilling opportunity. 'I was so excited... I couldn't wait to meet who it was, so the nerves weren't really there,' she said. Ahead of the weddings, she met one half of the second same-sex relationship in this series, Keye. '[He]' told me he was so scared walking into a room of men,' Leah went on to say.

The two stars of The Hunting Wives stars appeared to hand out the award for outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie, which went to Adolescence 's Stephen Graham. "Wow, that took me a while to get here. Sorry, I was really slow to come out," Snow said, referring to stepping on to the stage. Akerman cheekily replied: "Oh, I don't mind waiting for you to come out."

The Groomsmen: Second Chances stars Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett as former pro basketball player turned coach Danny, while his business manager and eventual husband Zack is played by This Biter Earth and A Night Like This actor, Alexander Lincoln. The bulk of the film focuses on Danny's attempts to suppress his feelings for his friend, while Zack plans his wedding to his partner Nolan (Adam Rhys-Charles). Yet, and this is a pretty hefty spoiler alert, on the day of the wedding, Zack confesses that Danny's feelings are reciprocated.

"I want to be a supermodel. Period. I've been practising my walks in the kitchen for years, my mom can show you all the videos I forced her to film."

As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems. There is a growing weaponisation of hate, said Alberto de Belaunde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally.

Angela, the daughter of Odin, full name (Aldrif Odinsdottir), is a gigantic warrior, who also happens to be a princess of Asgard and half-sister of the God of Thunder, Thor. In the comics, she is married to a former Anchorite (a male Angel) named Sera, who later transitioned to a woman, making the queer couple a Repulican's worst nightmare. Angela is being released as part of the first half of Marvel Rival's fourth season, named The Heart of the Dragon.

I think it's hard when you become representative of something to other people, and then you change or you are just following your heart, and then that means other people feel that they are not represented anymore. The pressure of that is so immense. As much as it's funny that Reneé Rapp is like, 'You'll never catch me dating a man.' It's like, 'Go off, queen! I love that for you.' But I also hold space for her in 10 years if she goes, 'Oops, I met the love of my life and it's this man, I didn't mean to.' It's like, that's okay!