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Bellingham Herald. “I shouldn’t have had to ask. I felt that the fact that they didn’t call 911 is an absolute dereliction of their duty.”Ruben took her son to St.

Texas Tribune.The ordinance also allows individuals to sue those who enter the “wrong” restroom for at least $10,000, as well as additional damages for “harm” and all court costs and attorneys’ fees associated with bringing such a lawsuit.The ban applies to “any building, facility, or space owned, leased, or controlled by, or leased to, the city of Odessa.”These include community centers, libraries, airports, park facilities, and administrative office buildings. It contains exceptions for parents of the opposite sex who are accompanying minors under age 12, maintenance and custodial workers, law enforcement officials, and medical emergency staff.

While he ran up greater margins of victory or increased his share of almost every demographic group, President-elect Donald Trump actually bled support among members of the LGBTQ community in this year’s election.According to an NBC News exit poll, 86% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender voters cast their ballots for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, a 22-point increase over 2020, when Biden won 64% of the LGBTQ vote.Only 12% of LGBTQ voters cast ballots for Trump, a 15-point decline from four years ago, reports The Hill. The GOP presidential ticket captured fewer than 20% of LGBTQ male voters and just 8% of LGBTQ female voters.The results align with an earlier poll by the Human Rights Campaign, in which LGBTQ voters favored Harris over Trump by a 74% to 7.5% spread.

Lýkos Ánthrōpos.Led by a guide in a fright mask, our group trooped down a lantern-lit path, past stone grave markers of all sizes, some dating back to the early 1800s, to a wooded clearing. There, ringed by towering old trees and tombstones, in the presence of the dead, we sat, on folding chairs and blankets, in a circle surrounding actor Nicholas Gerwitz.Spotlit in the center, he portrays an anxious young man, who ventures into the night woods and encounters an alluring stranger, portrayed by Patrick Kilpatrick.

As if theater performers didn’t already expose several dimensions of themselves onstage, even while in the guise of fictional roles, Mosaic’s world-premiere The Art of Care demands an extra degree of emotional and individual nakedness rarely required of actors.No one in the cast has to strip down, per se, but each member of the seven-person ensemble bares intimate glimpses at some of their own most vulnerable, even painful moments. Conceived and directed by Derek Goldman, The Art of Care was developed with its cast, who weave oral storytelling, dramatic scenes, songs, and movement into a warm tapestry of testimony, both to the caregivers in their lives, and to the care they’ve given.They also perform the testimony of caregivers who were interviewed for the play.

The Other Americans.One of seven world premieres marking Arena Stage’s 2024-25 season, The Other Americans arrives in a powerhouse production directed by award-winning actor-director Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and led by Leguizamo as proudly Colombian-American laundromat owner and family man Nelson Castro.Nelson holds court in his expansive home in affluent, mostly white Forest Hills, Queens, having moved his family from what he calls “ghetto-ass” Jackson Heights. A scrappy business owner with a small empire of ‘mats all over the borough, he might say he’s living the American dream, but we’re here to witness him waking up to very harsh reality.Leguizamo’s play also aims for a dream, of the Great American Drama, angling to add the Castro’s to theater’s roster of families — à la the Loman’s, the Younger’s, or the Tyrone’s — whose trials and traumas profoundly reflect aspects of the American condition.The emphasis here is on the Latino American condition circa 1998, though the play’s sharp examination of assimilation and upward mobility, or social climbing, reflects roiling tensions that transcend generations and ethnicities.

Little Gay Pub at the corner of 11th and P Streets NW in the city’s Logan Circle neighborhood. Artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer‘s stylized British phone-box mural cheerfully hugs the corner of the building. Vice President Kamala Harris’s smiling visage is equally cheery on posters at the entrance, coupled with various Harris cutouts looking out of windows.

WTOP, Lascarro, a Colombia-born male model, had stopped by the burger joint to get something to eat after frequenting local gay nightclubs. But after waiting in lne for the self-help kiosk, he ultimately decided to leave because off the long lines. As he headed toward the door, a young woman screamed at him, allegedly claiming that he “needed to watch where the fuck he was going, and to say, ‘excuse me,'” according to Lascarro’s husband, Stuart West.

It was the torrential “red wave” that never surfaced in 2022.It was the stinging rebuke of a toxic Democratic “brand.”It was a hard shift to the political right, fueled by working-class people angry about inflation, higher prices, and soaring housing costs, people anxious about a lax approach to criminal justice and unchecked immigration.It was the rejection of global and government elites, the pundit class, and the mainstream media that was seen as their cheerleaders and foreign entanglements abroad.It was the full repudiation of reasonable, liberal culture, from safe spaces to identity politics.It was, in essence, the “Florida-fication” of the United States.When history is written, that is how the 2024 presidential election will most likely be remembered.Donald Trump, running on a platform of personal grievances and memories of a robust economy in his first three years in the White House, didn’t just win the Electoral College, clinching the presidency — he became the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote for the first time in 20 years and the first convicted felon to become president-elect of the United States.His fellow Republicans appear to have won control of both chambers of Congress, picking up at least four Senate seats and maintaining what appears to be a narrow hold on the House of Representatives.While there were a few minor, legitimate quibbles that Wednesday-morning quarterbacks could take with Kamala Harris’s messaging and strategy, the Vice President essentially ran a strong, disciplined campaign in the brief 107 days between Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race and Election Day.

Fidelio, Francesca Zambello’s production lands right on time.From the opera’s theme of political imprisonment to S. Katy Tucker’s haunting intro projections of prisons, actual political prisoners, and snippets of poignant Constitutional rights, its relevance is given in no uncertain terms.Indeed, reports that a particular presidential candidate has discussed using the military to control the “enemy within” only adds to its prescience.That said, Zambello’s potent vision isn’t quite enough to lift this production beyond more than a few inspired moments and the chance to hear conductor Robert Spano deliver the composer’s only opera (an experience Beethoven hated so much, he vowed never to attempt another one).Of course, not all of this is on the interpretation.

Emilia Pérez hits some exhilarating highs. The score, a heady mix of marches, rock, electro, and hip-hop composed by Clément Ducol and French singer Camille, steps off to a strong start with “El Alegato” (“The Argument”).Zoe Saldaña, underrated for the heartfelt credibility she brought to three different billion-dollar fantasy film franchises, leads the song-and-dance as Rita Mora Castro, a principled but worn-down attorney in the public defender’s office of Mexico City.Throughout the film, Saldaña imbues Rita with the same gravitas that made her Gamora the emotional linchpin of The Guardians of the Galaxy, adding the charge of a trained dancer’s physicality to Rita’s presence even outside the musical numbers.In “El Alegato,” Rita, rapping solo in her apartment and marching with the public she defends, puts the final touches on closing arguments in defense of headline-grabbing client Gabriel Mendoza, accused of murdering his wife.

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Anora is also remarkably naïve, even for a stripper with a heart of gold. Played by Scream (2022) standout Mikey Madison, Anora, or Ani to friends and customers, honestly has no idea what she’s getting herself into when she accepts an offer from one especially enthusiastic customer to be his “horny girlfriend” for the week.Loaded, in every sense of the word, 21-year-old Russian heir Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov (Russian newcomer Mark Eydelshteyn) takes such a liking to Ani that he whisks her from the strip club to his mansion overlooking Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay to a penthouse suite in Vegas.Blasting bong hits and vodka shots, they party with his friends, ball like billionaires, have raucous sex all over the place, and fully submit to their Pretty Woman fantasy.But, in fluidly shot, snappily edited scenes of the ladies at work at the club, Baker’s already shown how smoothly Ani can hustle the floor.

Conclave, a simmering political thriller about succession, set at the feet of a dead Pope.“The throne of the Holy See is vacant,” so the College of Cardinals have convened at the Vatican for a Papal conclave, to elect a new pope. While some cardinals come to Rome determined to rally support for their preferred candidate, others arrive prepared to promote their own candidacy in an expectedly ruthless contest to garner enough votes in the conclave and become the next pontiff.Overseeing the contentious proceedings is Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, one of the late Pope’s closest associates, portrayed by Ralph Fiennes with an air of genuine loss and dutiful purpose, and just a flicker of personal ambition.For nearly everyone else inside the Vatican, ambition and animus seem to be the fuels stoking their fire.

The New York Times.Meloni — a single mother who never married the father of her daughter — hypocritically has campaigned on the importance of promoting “traditional family values.”She and her fellow conservatives have railed against “gender ideology” and the “LGBT lobby” at political events, stating that children should only be raised in two-parent, heterosexual households. Last year, Meloni’s interior minister ordered local governments to stop transcribing certificates of children born abroad through surrogacy, citing a court ruling — which is currently being challenged.As a result, some children with same-sex parents have been denied access to citizenship, public schools, health care, and other benefits and services.Following the interior minister’s decree, prosecutors across Italy began contesting the birth certificates of all children born to same-sex parents — regardless of whether they were conceived through surrogacy or not — with the aim of erasing the names of non-biological parents from those birth certificates.

gender-affirming care for incarcerated individuals, a stance she adopted in 2019 when she was running for the Democratic nomination for president.“Kamala’s for they/them,” a narrator says in one of the ads. “President Trump is for you.”In a newer ad, the Trump campaign zeroes in on one transgender prisoner in custody in California, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, the first inmate in the United States to receive state-financed gender-affirming surgery.The ad, which misgenders Quine as a man, implies she received the surgery as a reward after having “murdered a father of three.”As Harris has previously noted, in a televised interview during which she was attacked by Fox mouthpiece Brett Baier, the Trump administration itself had adopted a similar policy of allowing transgender inmates to access gender-affirming care when such care was deemed “medically necessary.”Harris added that, as president, she would “follow the law” and allow such a policy to continue.The Lincoln Project has now come to Harris’s defense, cutting a new ad that lambastes Trump for his hypocrisy.“Have you seen this ad?” a narrator intones as a brief snapshot of Trump’s attack against Harris is shown.

18 + 1, the program concludes with Murmuration, Liang’s intricate ode to starlings in flight.First up in our discussion, Liang wants to share his enthusiasm for Spanish dance artist Sansano. “You may not know Gustavo right now, but you will,” Liang declares. “He is an epic choreographer, that once you see this piece, you will remember his name.” And that won’t be the only takeaway.“What I love about this piece is it really shows the range of the Washington Ballet dancers,” Liang says.

convicted on hate crime charges in February following a four-day trial for the murder of then-24-year-old Dime Doe, also known as Pebbles “LaDime” Doe, a Black transgender woman from Allendale, South Carolina.Ritter’s conviction was the first guilty verdict for violent acts committed against a transgender person under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.Passed in 2009, the act expanded federal hate crime laws to include incidents of violence against people based on their gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability status.While other individuals had been prosecuted for crimes motivated by anti-transgender animus, none ever went to trial.At trial, prosecutors presented evidence showing that Ritter had been involved in a sexual relationship with Doe, and became upset after rumors of their affair began to circulate around their hometown of Allendale, South Carolina.Ritter’s girlfriend discovered his infidelity to her, and his relationship with Doe.

Shakira.com for tickets.Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week before sales open to the general public on Friday, October 25, at noon. Citi, an official tour sponsor, will also offer cardmembers access to pre-sale tickets between noon on Wednesday, October 23, and 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, October 24.The Welcome Ceremony for WorldPride 2025 will kick off at Nationals Park, with remarks from key dignitaries and the welcoming of athletes competing in the Capital Cup, a multi-sports festival associated WorldPride, followed by Shakira’s performance.Interpride, the international association representing more than 400 global Pride organizations, along with the Capital Pride Alliance, celebrated the news of landing such a prominent headliner for the Welcome Concert, which will take place amid various Pride festivities between May 17 and June 8, 2025.“We are thrilled to welcome Colombian pop legend Shakira to D.C.

The word of the week at the 2024 HIV Research for Prevention Conference, held last week in Lima, Peru, was “choice.”As in PrEP choice, a driving concern for the more than 1,300 scientists, advocates, community representatives, and policymakers who gathered at the fifth annual HIVR4P conference, organized by the International AIDS Society.“This is the only global scientific conference focused exclusively on the rapidly evolving field of HIV prevention research,” said Dr. Beatriz Grinsztejn, the infectious diseases researcher serving as IAS president, addressing the event’s opening press conference.Attendees at HIVR4P 2024 — which included NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Jeanne Marrazzo, who succeeded Anthony Fauci in the role — spent the week at sessions poring over the latest advances in science and research that could expand the growing list of available HIV prevention options.Currently, those who want or need to take some form of pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV might opt for daily oral PrEP, long-acting injectable PrEP medicines, or, in Europe and a handful of African nations, a topical vaginal ring.

New York Times exposé that showed his own Justice Department held a very similar position.Trump is not being widely called out for his hypocrisy, however. Most Democrats, save Harris, sidestep any mention of transgender issues — appearing concerned that their support of transgender rights will hurt them among moderate and swing voters.