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in his just-released Netflix special “SuperNature.” The British “Office” creator’s name was trending on Twitter Tuesday as the LGBTQ community urged viewers to boycott the special — with some folks vowing to cancel their Netflix subscriptions.“I love the new women,” Gervais snarks in the special, which has only been on the streaming platform for several hours as of Tuesday morning. “They’re great, aren’t they? The new ones we’ve been seeing lately.

who attacked him on stage during the now-viral assault Wednesday. The 48-year-old “Chappelle’s Show” creator had been performing at the “Netflix is a Joke” festival in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, when an unnamed spectator bum-rushed the stage and tackled the comedian to the ground, as seen in shocking footage.

faced death threats and calls to be canceled over her remarks.“There isn’t one answer to all these trans questions,” Margolyes told the UK’s Radio Times magazine, according to Yahoo News.“We all know people who are slightly pansy or a bit butch or whatever you call it,” the actress said, saying that “there is a spectrum and people can be anywhere along that.”“But I think the vituperation J.K. Rowling has received is misplaced,” she said of the vitriol directed at the author.“I admire her as a human being.

Missouri State Representative Ian Mackey, a Democrat, has gone viral for his defence of transgender young people during the debate on whether to allow transgender girls to compete on all-girls sports teams.Talking to the amendment’s sponsor, Representative Chuck Bayse, a Republican, Mackey even brought up Bayse’s own gay brother to make his point. “Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he?” Mackey asked.Bringing up the fact that Bayse’s brother was afraid to come out to him, Mackey said “If I were your brother, I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you too because of stuff like this – because this is what you’re focused on.“This is the legislation you want to put forward.

most successful trans and female contestant in Jeopardy! history.Schneider also amassed one of the highest earnings totals, holds the second-longest consecutive winning streak, and became the first trans Jeopardy! competitor to qualify for the annual Tournament of Champions.After dominating game after game since debuting during Transgender Awareness Week last year, Schneider’s streak was finally broken Wednesday by Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago.A Final Jeopardy question on Bangladesh tripped up Schneider, who had led up to that point, while Talsma — who is also LGBTQ — answered correctly to clinch the win.Schneider said in a statement that it had been an “honor” to appear on Jeopardy!.“To know that I’m one of the most successful people at a game I’ve loved since I was a kid and to know that I’m a part of its history now, I just don’t know how to process it,” she said.Schneider had thought that Talsma “was going to be tough going into it.”“I loved hanging out with him, we had great conversation before the taping, but I could tell that he was here to play and that he was going to be good,” she said. “I still came very close to winning, but I did feel like maybe I was slipping a little bit.

Olympia High School in Orlando, Fla., has crowned its first transgender homecoming queen.Evan Bialosuknia, a 17-year-old senior, ran her campaign on social media with help from the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance.“Every year, a beautiful girl wins homecoming queen, and that’s how it always is,”  told CBS News.

upcoming recall election, made the comments during a Fox Nation interview.Jenner told host Tomi Lahren that entering the race for governor as a Republican led to a greater backlash than when she came out publicly as trans in 2015.“You know what? It was easier to come out as trans than it is to come out as a Republican,” Jenner said.

Pantene has released an ad celebrating the relationship between a transgender girl and her lesbian moms.In the two-minute commercial, Sawyer, a transgender girl, and her two moms, Ashley and Ellie, celebrate their family motto, “Everybody loves everybody, no matter what path you follow.”The family dynamic between Sawyer and her proud moms is the core of the ad, which is one of a number of recent ads aimed at providing positive representation of the LGBTQ community.Sawyer’s mom Ashley also talks about the importance of her daughter’s hair to her transition.“Once she told us that she identified as a girl, she immediately wanted to grow her hair out,” she says in the ad.“I remember the first time she was out in the community wearing the

Saturday Night Live‘s Michael Che has been accused of transphobia over a joke he told during the show’s Jan. 30 episode.It came after President Joe Biden signed an executive order last week reversing Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military.Che, SNL’s co-head writer, joked about transgender people’s bodies while hosting “Weekend Update” and referenced the military’s former “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy — repealed in 2010 — which required LGBTQ people to remain closeted in order to continue serving in the U.S.

New York magazine writer and former New Republic editor made the claim in a column titled, “Where have all the lesbians gone?” for conservative magazine The Spectator.In the column, Sullivan complains that lesbians won’t be able to “take care of [gay men] when we get sick” and argues that tomboyish lesbian teens are “being told that whatever obstacles [they] may encounter…can be resolved through male hormones.”“I miss lesbians,” he writes. “It is true that most homosexual men don’t have too many integrated in our lives, but most of us have a few.

Human Rights Campaign.At a vigil held on Sept. 20 to remember Burnett’s life, friends and family released balloons and shared memories of her.

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