Pride in Helsinki, 2019. (NurPhoto via Getty/ Antti Yrjonen) The parliament of Finland will consider a total ban on conversion therapy, after an overwhelming number of Finns signed a citizens’ initiative. The initiative, which would ban efforts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of both adults and children, gathered the necessary 50,000 signatures
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The TV Scoop Awards are back and ready to celebrate the best television had to offer in 2020 and 2021! Once again, we’re honoring the best dramatic performances, reality stars, comedies and more by inviting you to vote for your favorites. Starting on Monday, Aug. 23, you’ll be able weigh in on the most impactful TV
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wants his fans to know they aren’t the only ones seeing double. After images of Patrol Lieutenant Eric Fields from Morgan County, Ala. went viral in recent weeks due to his stunning likeness to the 49-year-old Jungle Cruise star, Dwayne took to Twitter on Monday, Aug. 30 to offer his hilarious response. Dwayne
Robyn Lambird. (Athletics Australia/YouTube) Paralympics history has been made after Robyn Lambird became the first out non-binary athlete to win a medal. The Australian wheelchair racer, 24, won bronze in the Women’s 100-metre T34 sprint Sunday (29 August) with a triumphant score of 18.68 seconds. They trailed just nail-biting seconds behind Brits Kare Adenegan and
Jef Holm just rose above the drama. On Monday, Aug. 30, the former Bachelorette contestant confirmed to E! News that he’s no longer pursuing a civil harassment restraining order against fellow Bachelor Nation star, Robby Hayes. “Tensions died down as I hoped,” the reality TV star exclusively tells E! News about his decision to forgo the protection order. “I haven’t seen any reason
Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson was ready for her close-up—and her sister has her back. Following the 16-year-old reality star’s viral interview with Teen Vogue, which included a glamorous photo shoot of the teenage star, her older sibling Anna Cardwell has fired back at any trolls critical of her sister’s size. “Alana is beautiful,” Anna, Alana’s oldest half-sister,
Amelia Hamlin doesn’t know how to feel after discovering parents Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin relaxing in their birthday suits. The 20-year-old model shared a photo to her Instagram Story on Saturday, Aug. 28 that showed the longtime married couple facing her while soaking in their hot tub. According to Amelia’s post, Lisa and Harry were skinny-dipping
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Warning: The below features spoilers for several TV shows. Twists, turns and tear ducts that burn—this past season of TV has been an emotional roller coaster! For the next round of polls in the 2021 TV Scoop Awards, we invite you to vote for the best episode of the year, the most gut-wrenching farewell and the
The LGB Alliance supporter was escorted away from the Manchester Pride Protest by police. (Twitter/ Pudz890) When a man showed up to Manchester’s Pride Protest decked out in LGB Alliance merch, queer demonstrators told him exactly where to go. On Saturday (28 August), as the official Manchester Pride festival kicked off, an alternative Pride event
Viewers can add flowers to the Marsha P Johnson bust in Christopher Park. (Twitter/ EliErlick) Queer activists have put up a bust of Marsha P Johnson in a New York City park, after waiting years for the city to deliver a promised monument. Johnson founded the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR), which was dedicated to
Michael B. Jordan Hopes for “Friday Night Lights” Reunion Swap “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!” for “Do you want it?” and you’ve got your first parallel between Friday Night Lights and Netflix‘s newest docuseries, Titletown High. The eight-episode first season, which debuted on the streaming service Aug. 27, follows the lives of teenagers in
Jason Statham & Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Are Expecting Baby No. 2 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is serving bawdy and face! The supermodel, who recently announced that she and Jason Statham were expecting their second child together, showed off her growing baby bump during an event in Los Angeles. In fact, it marked the first time the Mad Max: Fury Road actress
It’s an extra special day in the Lowell-Baltierra household. Teen Mom OG stars Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra have welcomed another baby girl into the world. “She’s here & she’s perfect!” he wrote on his Instagram Story on Saturday, Aug. 28, sharing a short video of the couple’s newborn daughter squirming while swaddled in a blanket inside a
A TSA worker with the monitor for the full-body scanner at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A mother is suing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) after officials tried to strip search her trans daughter at airport security. The alleged incident happened in May 2019 when Kimberly Erway tried to take a flight
On the same day as the official Pride festival headlined by Yungblud, activists marched through Manchester calling for “Pride not profit”. The official Manchester Pride is taking place this weekend (28 and 29 August) following a storm of controversy surrounding its finances. Earlier this month, the organisation dropped a life-saving safer sex scheme, distributing free condoms
Mormon university BYU is “reviewing” the incident. (TikTok/ amber_jane_9) The Mormon Brigham Young University (BYU) is “reviewing” a video of a man who defaced messages of support for queer students, insisting: “F****ts go to hell.” Rainbows and messages of support were emblazoned on the pavement outside a BYU campus in Provo, Utah, this week, following
Erika Jayne owes $25 million to her estranged husband’s law firm, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Aug. 26 and obtained by E! News. The trustee behind the Girardi Keese bankruptcy case sued the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 50, for more than $25.5 million plus interest, after Erika allegedly paid for her “extravagant
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Sex has three big payoffs. • Payoff number one. The male-female combo is a way of tapping into the power of what game theorists call “mixed strategies.” Males are gambles on wild exploration. Exploration so dangerous that less than one in a million sperm strike home. Females are bets on the safe, the tried and
The dad of four also explained that although he still has work to do, his recent milestone was absolutely one to celebrate. “I’m not exactly where I want to be,” he continued, adding, “but I have to remind myself to appreciate the journey & acknowledge where I started from.” Catelynn offered words of support and
Halsey is getting real about challenges they faced in the industry due to trying to promote a new album while pregnant. The 26-year-old singer dropped their fourth album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, on Friday, Aug. 27. To promote it, the star told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about losing out on media opportunities while expecting their first child, Ender,
Some relationships in Bachelor Nation may just be meant to stay platonic. As fans eagerly wait for Becca Kufrin‘s arrival on Bachelor in Paradise this season, some are wondering if ABC’s former Bachelorette would ever get back with ex Blake Horstmann. After all, the reality star insinuated that he still has feelings for her in
Gavin Grimm. (ACLU) After seven years of fighting Gavin Grimm, a trans man who was banned from using the correct bathroom at school, has finally received a $1.3 million payout from the school board that discriminated against him. In 2014, when he was just 15 years old, Grimm first told Virginia’s Gloucester County School Board: “All
Beyoncé and Rumi Carter are proving that they’re just girls that truly run the world. On Aug. 25, the “Formation” singer shared a fun little boomerang on Instagram of the mother-daughter duo walking toward a private helicopter and it’s just the energy fans may have been needing. In the clip—where the two are captured holding hands—the
And she’s grateful to have an experienced teammate in Bloom at her side. “I’ve got an incredible fiancé who has done this before—he has a 10-year-old son,” she explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Though she initially begged off hearing tales from Bloom and Kerr’s years of playing happy family, “they actually helped. They’re like, ‘Oh, you’ve
Addison Rae put on the ultimate poker face when trolls dragged her over the alleged rumor that she’s attending the 2021 Met Gala. It’s unclear where the speculation began, but in recent days, social media users have poked fun at the idea of the TikTok star attending this year’s prestigious event themed “In America: A Lexicon
The Ofcom headquarters in London, England. (Getty/ Bruno Vincent) Britain’s media watchdog Ofcom has been widely criticised for cutting ties with LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall because of a “risk of perceived bias”. The Office of Communications, a communications regulator otherwise known as Ofcom, announced that it would be pulling out of the Stonewall diversity champions
A post-partum scare. Mother of two Teyana Taylor halted her work trip in Miami after discovering she had lumps in her breasts in an exclusive preview of tonight’s We Got Love. The model-choreographer was even rushed to a medical center for emergency surgery. “It was a lot of lumps, which is really bad,” Teyana explains in
Thomas hasn’t yet fulfilled his dream of becoming the Bachelor, but at least he’s becoming a troublemaker on Bachelor in Paradise. On Tuesday, Aug. 24, the villain from Katie Thurston‘s season of The Bachelorette showed up just as the rose power shifted to the ladies. In addition to having pre-existing tension with the men from his season,