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Sad news, Bravoholics. BravoCon 2021 is being postponed another year, the network announced today. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are postponing BravoCon 2021 until next year,” Bravo announced via social media on Monday, Aug. 9. “We are just as disappointed as our loyal fans to have to cancel this year’s event, but health and
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Megan Rapinoe (L), Tom Daley (C) and Laurel Hubbard are among the LGBT+ athletes representing their countries at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Alex Grimm/Matthew Stockman/Scott Barbour/Getty) If LGBT+ Olympic athletes competed as a team, they would have come 11th in this year’s Tokyo Games, research has found. A total of 55 out LGBT+ athletes
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Brooks Laich and Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir have found a way to make paradise even sweeter.  After they were spotted kissing earlier this month, the pair made their relationship Instagram official on Sunday, August 8, as both stars posted to Instagram about their romance. Brooks’ post included a photo of himself walking toward the 28-year-old Icelandic CrossFit athlete alongside the pool during their
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Silver medallist USA’s Erica Sullivan poses on the podium after the final of the women’s 1500m freestyle swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Getty/Odd ANDERSEN/AFP) Silver medalist Erica Sullivan has revealed that an interaction with her favourite singer on social media fuelled her Olympic dreams. The 20-year-old, who came out as gay in
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Demonstrators march during annual Pride parade in defiance of anti-LGBT+ campaign waged by Hungarian government on 24 July 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. (Getty/Janos Kummer) The Hungarian government has ordered shops to sell children’s books seen as promoting LGBT+ themes in “closed wrapping”. Reuters reported the government decree, which was published Friday (6 August), also included
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It’s time to bow down to a new queen. On July 30, Netflix released the first look of Harry Potter actress Imelda Staunton‘s transformation into Queen Elizabeth II, a much anticipated image as Staunton’s casting was first teased back in November 2019. In the first glimpse, Staunton donned the queen’s signature short bob, pearls and yellow-patterned outfit. But she’s
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Justin Timberlake is paying tribute to his late backup singer Nicole Hurst, who recently died at age 39. Hurst, who has also performed onstage with Kelly Clarkson and Janet Jackson, passed away after battling cancer on and off for eight years, although the official cause of death was not made public. “My heart is so heavy,” Timberlake wrote on Instagram on Friday, Aug.
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Fumino Sugiyama, a transgender man and former fencer, says he was forced out of fencing because of transphobia. (Instagram/@fuminosugiyama) Former elite fencer Fumino Sugiyama has opened up about deciding to quit his career in sport because of transphobia. Sugiyama told Bloomberg that he was a member of Japan’s national women’s fencing team before he started
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In the wise words of Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), “Friends don’t lie.” Although we haven’t been outright lied to by Netflix, we did think season four of Stranger Things would arrive prior to 2022. And it seems we aren’t the only ones desperately counting down the days for the Duffer Brothers-created series to return. Case in point: One
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Home really is where her heart is! Kourtney Kardashian revealed on Instagram that she and boyfriend Travis Barker returned to her place on Aug. 5 following “ten days of quarantine.” While the mother of three shared some NSFW pics from her time away, including the new haircut Travis gave her, Kourtney also posted an adorable letter from 6-year-old son Reign Disick.  The
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Protestor holds ‘Trans Lives Matter’ placard during protest in Warsaw, 2018. (Getty/Maciej Luczniewski) An investigation is being opened into the brutal murder of Cindy Jones Torres, a trans woman found dead with multiple stab wounds in the Philippines. The 39-year-old was found dead on 28 July in her salon in Guiginto, Bulacan. It is believed she was
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Protestors draped in trans Pride flags at the trans rights protest outside Downing Street in London. (Vic Parsons) A protest in London saw trans teens and elders standing alongside each other demanding justice, liberation, and the sacking of Tory equalities minister Liz Truss. Hundreds of trans and non-binary people and their allies went to the
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“Protecting Aaliyah’s legacy is, and will always be, our focus. For 20 years we have battled behind the scenes, enduring shadowy tactics of deception with unauthorized projects targeted to tarnish,” the statement, without naming names, read. “We have always been confused as to why there is such a tenacity in causing more pain alongside what
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Former president Donald Trump brands US women’s football team ‘leftist maniacs’ and targets Megan Rapinoe’s purple hair in a rant. (Getty/Brandon Bell/Laurence Griffiths) Former president Donald Trump tried to burn Megan Rapinoe and the “wokesters” on the US women’s soccer team after they won bronze at the Olympics – and it failed so bad. Trump
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Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit at Hong Kong Pride 2020. (Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) A gay pro-democracy activist from Hong Kong is facing a possible years-long prison sentence after being accused of subverting the state. Jimmy Sham Tsz-Kit, a prominent voice for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and a proponent of LGBT+ rights, was arrested
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Some of Meghan Markle‘s high-profile pals are supporting her efforts to help women strengthen their financial status.  In honor of her 40th birthday on Wednesday, Aug. 4, the Duchess of Sussex posted a video to her Archewell foundation’s website featuring herself and Melissa McCarthy. The clip asked fans and supporters to join her—along with the 40 friends she had singled out—in
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