πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ NCUTI GATWA TO STAR AS NEXT DOCTOR WHO ✊🏽

After much speculation, the BBC officially confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa will play Doctor Whoβ€˜s Fourteenth Doctor. Best known for portraying Eric Effiong in Netflix’s 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….

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…

🌈 THE ADVOCATE WINS GLAAD MEDIA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

The Advocate won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage at Saturday night’s 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. β€œThank you to GLAAD for this honor at a time when it’s especially incumbent upon LGBTQ+ news outlets…

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…

✊🏾 BLACK AIDS INSTITUTE MAKES HISTORY BY TAPPING TRANS WOMAN AS LEADER πŸ³οΈβ€βš§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….