After much speculation, the BBC officially confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa will play Doctor Whoβs Fourteenth Doctor. Best known for portraying Eric Effiong in Netflixβs hit series Sex Education, the Rwanda-born, Scotland-raised actor will take the mantle from Jodie Whittaker, who made history as the first woman to appear in the role when she was cast in 2017….
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π³οΈβπ KARINE JEAN-PIERRE WILL BE THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ+ & BLACK PRESS SECRETARY βπ½
President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that Karine Jean-Pierre will replace outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki next week, marking the first time in U.S. history a Black and openly LGBTQ+ person has held the position. Jean-Pierre has been the deputy press secretary since 2021 and, when she first led a briefing in May…
WILSON CRUZ TO RECEIVE GLAADs VITO RUSSON AWARD FOR HIS WORK
Actor Wilson Cruz is set to be honored at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York. The May 6 event, to be hosted by Cody Rigsby and Peppermint, is the 33rd annual celebration meant to honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ+ people and issues. Cruz, who has had a long career…
π THE ADVOCATE WINS GLAAD MEDIA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE π³οΈβπ
The Advocate won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage at Saturday nightβs ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The magazine bested Entertainment Weekly, People, POZ, and Variety in the category. The Advocate had also won the category in 2020. βThank you to GLAAD for this honor at a time when itβs especially incumbent upon LGBTQ+ news outlets…
π WATCH THE DRAG RACE SEASON 1οΈβ£4οΈβ£ QUEENS SASHAY INTO THE WERKROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME π
Season 14 (can you believe?!?) of beloved, Emmy-winning reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race is a mere few days away, and to get us hyped for a brand new season of the Olympics of Drag, VH1 is giving viewers a sneak peek at this season’s premiere episode as the first half of the queens make their way into the werkroom…
CARL NASSIB’S CLEATS WILL BENEFIT THE TREVOR PROJECT
Carl Nassib, the only NFL player to come out as gay while active and signed to a team, has helped design rainbow cleats to raise awareness of the LGBTQ+ community and funds for the Trevor Project, which assists LGBTQ+ young people in crisis. Nassib did the design as part of the My Cause My Cleats…
π³οΈβπ KAL PENN COMES OUT AS GAY, ANNOUCES ENGAGEMENT TO PARTNER OF 1οΈβ£1οΈβ£ YEARS π
Kal Penn, an actor known for starring in the Harold & Kumar film franchise and who worked in the Obama administration, has come out as gay. The actor made the revelation in interviews surrounding the release of his tell-all memoir You Can’t be Serious. Penn has been in a relationship with his partner Josh for 11 years, according…
π³οΈββ§οΈ TRANS MODEL, SINGER ACTIVIST LAITH ASHELY ON SHAKING UP HOLLYWOOD π₯
When Laith Ashley decided to post some sexy snaps on Instagram from a photoshoot he and a friend conducted in 2014, he had no idea it would lead him to make history on the runways of New York Fashion Week less than two years later. Since then, the model, actor, singer-songwriter (βLike Meβ), and activist…
βπΎ BLACK AIDS INSTITUTE MAKES HISTORY BY TAPPING TRANS WOMAN AS LEADER π³οΈββ§οΈ
After the abrupt departure of Raniyah Copeland as CEO of the storied Black AIDS Institute, the nonprofit hired a trans woman to take her place, at least temporarily. The 23-year-old organization announced today that Toni Newman, currently the interim CEO at the San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ organization LYRIC, will soon be BAI’s new interim CEO. BAI also announced Dr. Kemal M….
π LIL NAS X TOPS DABABY AS SPOTIFY’S TOP MALE RAPPER π³οΈβπ
Congratulations to Lil Nas X! The Grammy-winning rapper and singer has just earned a new achievement. Lil Nas X has officially reached over 52 million+ listeners on Spotify. And even better, he has dethroned DaBaby as the most popular male rapper on the music streaming platform. As of August 10, Lil Nas X had 52.01million…