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A married gay couple from South Florida were among seven people killed Wednesday when a helicopter carrying tourists crashed in northern Kenya. Adam Hlavaty, 42, and Henry Parra, 55, lived in Coral Gables and married in 2017 at the city’s historic Biltmore Hotel. Friends remembered them as generous community members who built a life around family, travel, and service. “They were a loving couple…
Three former CIA officers are warning that President Donald Trump’s campaign against diversity initiatives and transgender federal employees threatens to recreate one of the darkest periods in the history of the nation’s intelligence agencies. In a historical account published Thursday by Lawfare , Trace Ballard, Julia Curlee , and Todd Johannessen trace the CIA’s transformation from an agency…
This story originally appeared on Them . The Drug Enforcement Administration, a federal agency, has joined the investigation into the August 16 death of actress Hayden Panettiere , a source familiar with the matter told The New York Times on Wednesday. As previously reported, Panettiere died at 36 years old in a Greenville, South Carolina apartment where she had been staying temporarily on Sunday.…
If you’ve ever taken a walk down Holloway Drive near La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood over the last few decades, chances are you spotted a silver-haired gentleman enjoying a glass of wine with his chihuahua on a second-story motel balcony. Occasionally, you might see a friend sitting and laughing with him on his perch, which is decorated with a string of colorful Christmas lights, a tiki…
A school district in Maryland has given in to Trump administration demands to out students’ sexual orientation or gender identity if revealed at school but not at home, regardless of the student’s wishes. Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell, in a letter to school personnel, said the district would amend its “Safe and Inclusive Environments for LGBTQ+ Students” regulation.…
Rosie O’Donnell was getting her hair done when she delivered a blunt message to Fox News host Jesse Watters : Leave her alone. In a widely shared TikTok video posted on August 6, the out comedian said Watters’s production team had approached her outside the New York theater where she was performing her autobiographical show, Common Knowledge . “So here’s what I want to say to Jesse Watters and his…
This story originally appeared on Out . Just weeks after launching a new gay dating app billed as "social-first" and "anti-algorithm," Derek Chadwick has revealed he quit Goose last week over a conflict of "vision for where this should go and the direction the company is going." What isn't known is whether his decision was in any way fueled by a report the app was using AI to trick gay men with…
The new school year in King George County , Virginia , was one day old when a 13-year-old student asked a federal judge to order their middle school to allow an LGBTQ+ student organization to meet immediately. The student, identified in court records as Z.J.W., is beginning eighth grade — their final year at King George Middle School. They spent much of the previous school year trying to form a…
For transgender students, a hostile school policy does not remain confined to a rulebook. It can determine which bathroom they use, whether teachers call them by the correct name, and, increasingly, whether they attend school at all. A new report from Glisten and The Trevor Project finds that 56 percent of transgender, nonbinary , and gender-expansive students surveyed attended schools with at…
Tourists are already taking photographs outside Nancy Pelosi’s office when I arrive at the Longworth House Office Building at 10:30 on a Thursday morning with photographer Mike Nelson . Inside, a staff member conducting a Zoom job interview asks an applicant, “Why are you interested in working in this office specifically?” One possible answer hangs nearby. A framed display shows the men who had…
This story originally appeared on Out. Sometimes, a totally normal moment between a couple is enough to warm your heart and make you believe in queer joy again. Prime Minister Rob Jetten went viral earlier this year when the liberal Dutch leader became the first out gay politician to hold the position in the Netherlands —and he did it with his fiancé, Argentinian field hockey player Nicolás Keenan…
This story originally appeared on Them . Jen-Chase Daniels, the co-owner of Atlanta lesbian bar My Sister’s Room, said she was arrested on Saturday night for alleged noise violations that she says did not come from the business. According to testimony in an incident report by arresting Atlanta Police Department officer Jayden Joseph, he was responding to a violation of a city noise ordinance. “I…
