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What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates, a five-episode series looking at cutting-edge technologies with the potential to reshape the world or society. The second episode addresses Internet misinformation, something that has become more prolific in the past eight years as political actors have sought to manipulate public opinion by spreading falsehoods in the hope of shaping world events.For insight, Gates interviewed Lady Gaga about her experience with Internet rumors.In June 2009, following the release of her debut album The Fame, the Grammy Award-winning singer performed at the Glastonbury Festival.Some concert-goers and self-appointed Internet sleuths began circulating footage from the performance, speculating that Lady Gaga was sporting a bulge under her skirt.

Red One.They’re hoping to keep the box office humming with Oscar bets and big stars: Tom Hanks re-teaming with Gump guide Robert Zemeckis for Here, Denzel Washington brushing off his period English in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga terrorizing Gotham in Joker: Folie à Deux.Big names aren’t the only draw, as big-time sensuality seeps through so many offerings this year. Erstwhile secret agent Daniel Craig leads the sexy charge this fall as a writer undone by his attraction to a younger man in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy Queer.

Comedy of Errors says, “We’re glad you’re here.” You will be entertained as if adored, yelled at with affection, and there will be no need to actually follow Shakespeare’s ridiculously convoluted shenanigans surrounding the reuniting of two sets of separated twins, although a pre-curtain read of the synopsis will help.Even better, you will be treated to Shakespeare delivered with a kind of natural energy, meaning you don’t have to be a die-hard fan of the Bard to fully understand the gist of what’s being said and why. Put simply, director Simon Godwin and this top-notch cast are out to give a warm and lovely embrace to anyone and everyone — and that’s a lot harder than it looks.Going for accessibility right out of the gate, Godwin opts for a flash-forward to the 1990s, cleverly predating cell phones (whose use would instantly thwart any “errors”) and allowing for a relatable vibe that invites everything from funky interludes to wittily-adapted asides.

Nonsense,” features clips of Harris speaking about her record as California’s attorney general with Mara Keisling, former executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Harris discusses whether transgender inmates would be allowed to receive treatments for gender dysphoria that their doctors had classified as “medically necessary.”“Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners,” a narrator intones.

Hill Rag in 1984, as a wide-eyed novice to the local performing arts scene, I remember thinking, “How much theater could there be to fill a weekly column?” A lot, it turned out.I still mourn the loss of the companies I once frequented, among them Leslie Jacobson’s Horizons and Bart Whiteman’s Source, where the work was always challenging, insightful, and fueled by passion and purpose.By the same token, I marveled at the slow but steady growth of companies like Woolly Mammoth, who went from performing in a church on G Street to operating their own gorgeous downtown space.And I was frequently left in awe by the soaring works of legendary directors like Joy Zinoman, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Michael Kahn.There was even a point in my reviewing career that I was at the Kennedy Center so often — back in the days when Peter Sellars turned the nation’s performing arts center into a mind-warping experimental playground — I used to joke it was my second home.In 40 years, I’ve watched the D.C. theater landscape evolve and only get bigger and more consequential.

sweeping law restricting the rights and visibility of LGBTQ people.The 36-year-old former Miss Trans Star International contestant became the first person to come out publicly in the country as transgender. The model and actress had more than half a million followers on Instagram.Abramidze had been an outspoken critic of the Georgian government, criticizing the ruling right-wing Georgian Dream party’s approach to domestic violence and women’s rights.

The Roommate. With fellow stage and screen star Mia Farrow, the pair are trying to breathe fresh life into a play that has been kicking around the theater world since 2015. The result depends on your ability to overlook well-worn themes and dated humor that makes it feel more like a ’90s sitcom.“Wait a minute!” you might think to yourself.

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Nonsense,” features clips of Harris speaking about her record as California’s attorney general with Mara Keisling, former executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Harris discusses whether transgender inmates would be allowed to receive treatments for gender dysphoria that their doctors had classified as “medically necessary.”“Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners,” a narrator intones.

The Nutcracker with Winter Stories, featuring world-premiere works inspired by the cold of winter.We’ll see several world premieres to go along with Nutcrackers performed in every style, from ballet to cirque. And humor and joy pirouette throughout the season, which also portends intriguing turns into the shadows with productions like American Ballet Theatre’s Crime and Punishment at the Kennedy Center, and Manassas Ballet Theatre’s Dracula at Hylton Performing Arts.Bursting with ballerinas and acrobats and tap-happy Santas, it should be a killer fall and winter for dance around D.C.1333 H St.

The 22+ Weddings of Hugo, currently at GALA Hispanic Theatre in José Zayas’ suspenseful D.C. premiere production.

anti-LGBTQ screeds, has been accused of allegedly writing sexually lewd and politically inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board over a decade ago.Robinson, who is Black, reportedly referred to himself on the message board as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, disparaged Martin Luther King, Jr., and made derogatory comments about the Black, gay, Muslim, and Jewish communities, according to a shocking report from CNN.The comments on the message board, which date back to a time period between 2008 and 2012, predate Robinson’s political activism and his stint as North Carolina’s current Lieutenant Governor.The online user, who CNN claims is Robinson, claimed to be a “perv” on the message boards of the porn website Nude Africa, allegedly writing graphic, sexually explicit messages talking about extramarital affairs, physical sex acts, and bodily fluids and claiming to be sleeping with his sister-in-law — all of which may or may not have been part of a fetish or roleplay fantasy scenario.Despite his repeated use of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on the campaign trail, and attempts to cast transgender females as predatory and a danger to women in restrooms, Robinson allegedly claimed, in posts written over a decade ago, that he loved watching pornographic scenes where transgender women have sex with cisgender women.“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s fucking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson allegedly wrote.

Reuters that the bill would likely force her organization to shut down.The bill also bans access to gender-affirming care for all people — even adults — and prohibits changing the gender marker on people’s official documents to align with their gender identity rather than their assigned sex at birth. Parliamentary leaders of the governing Georgian Dream party say the legislation is needed to uphold traditional moral values, foster and support the family unit, and protect minors from being unduly influenced by visible displays of LGBTQ identity.As in Russia, the restrictions on LGBTQ rights and visibility are strongly supported by the Orthodox Church, which wields great influence in Georgian society.

report from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.Additionally, no openly transgender or nonbinary judge has ever been nominated, let alone confirmed, to the federal bench. An openly LGBTQ person has never served on nine of the 13 federal circuit courts, or on 77 of the country’s 94 federal district courts.An openly LGBTQ person has also never served as a lifetime district court judge in 39 states — or within the borders of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction extends to the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.“Having more judges, including openly LGBTQ judges, who come from all of our communities helps to build more trust in the judiciary and brings vitally important perspectives into our justice system,” Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement.“As LGBTQ rights are being subject to litigation across the country, it is increasingly clear that we need judges at all levels of the judiciary who understand what’s at stake.

2023 study by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ crisis intervention and suicide prevention nonprofit, found that 15% of LGBTQ youth reported being subjected to conversion therapy, with that subgroup being more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide over the past year than individuals who never underwent conversion therapy.Beshear, an LGBTQ ally, noted that he still hopes Kentucky lawmakers will take action to ban such practices but issued the order due to a lack of action by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature.Lawmakers previously overrode a veto Beshear issued of a sweeping anti-LGBTQ bill that bars gender-affirming care for minors, prohibits schools from acknowledging student’s gender identities and pronouns, and blocks LGBTQ-related content from being talked about in schools.“To me, [the issue is] not even about gender or sexuality. It’s about protecting our youth from an inhumane practice that hurts them,” Beshear said during the signing on September 17.He pushed back on critics who claim that banning conversion therapy infringes on anti-LGBTQ individuals’ free speech rights or forces individuals to adopt beliefs that may conflict with their religious views.“Today’s action does not force an ideology on anybody.

wrote on X, adding, “There’s nothing wrong with Gay people.”She was posting in response to criticism from the South Carolina senator, who had issued a response to Loomer’s racist online posts about Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris.Loomer, a failed congressional candidate and one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters, had shared a post of Harris speaking about her Indian heritage.Loomer claimed if Harris wins the election, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand.”Graham, along with U.S. Sen.

alarm over reports of violence requiring police to respond to the LGBTQ club, which operates 24 hours a day.According to Birmingham Police Sgt. Kenneth Knight, police have been called to The Quest Club 109 times in the past year, and 44 times in the past six months, including a double homicide in May, in which two local residents shot each other inside the club following an altercation.Other incidents included the shooting of a Birmingham police officer, a separate homicide in which two people were shot, and a physical altercation between a police officer and a patron.The city council questioned the club’s owner, Don Sparks, and its attorney, Richard Mauk, asking why the city should not take action to shut the club down due to the dangers to public safety that the club appears to pose.“I believe that you all are very unserious about this situation,” Council Member J.T.

study has found that lenacapavir, an injectable medication administered twice a year, is more effective at preventing HIV among gay, bisexual, and transgender people than a daily regimen of Truvada, taken orally, as a form of pre-exposure prophylaxis.The study examined cisgender men, transgender men and women, and nonbinary individuals who have sex with partners assigned male at birth.

same-sex marriage and protections for gay and lesbian individuals from discrimination. He is also pro-choice and recently praised the U.S.

26-year-old singer — who has charted several songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and drawn massive crowds to her concerts — read a speech she had written in her diary should she win. In it, she thanked the LGBTQ community, of which she is a part.“Thank you MTV and Island Records and my team and my family and friends,” Roan said.

disastrous debate performance in late June.Trump cast Harris’s plans as overly simplistic, saying her economic policy was as short as “four sentences,” summarizing it as “Run, Spot, run.”What appeared to be another pre-rehearsed line was a Trump statement that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison,” combining two issues that fire up Republican-leaning voters.Trump delivered the line while trying to cast Harris as a “radical left liberal,” referencing a CNN story, dropped a day before the debate, regarding Harris’s response to a 2019 questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union.In the questionnaire responses, Harris reportedly affirmed her support for allowing state funds to cover health treatments deemed medically necessary for incarcerated transgender individuals and publicly supported cutting funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.While the two issues are separate, they have been conflated as the same issue within right-wing echo chambers.