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elon musk's first wife says he told their trans daughter "i'll always love her," then took her off his health insurance the next day. love is a strong word. In Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, which opened in select US theaters ahead of a nationwide release on Oct. 16, 2026, Elon Musk's first wife Justine Wilson says Musk asked her to tell their transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson "I'll always... october 11 chappell roan put tinashe and amanda lepore on the same night of a benefit for trans kids. i have never wanted to be in los angeles more. Chappell Roan announced the lineup on Oct. 9, 2026, for The Super Graphic Spectacular, two benefit concerts for her nonprofit, the Midwest Princess Project, at the Shrine in Los Angeles on Oct. 21 and 22. Roan headlines both nights, comedian... october 11 the comedian snl once fired over gay slurs hosted again and closed on "you're either gay or you're hitler." we'll take gay. obviously. Shane Gillis, the comedian Saturday Night Live hired and then fired in 2019 after podcast clips with racist and anti-gay slurs resurfaced, hosted the show for the third time on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. He closed his monologue with a... october 11 a gay bar's trivia host crowned a rape joke "best team name." the host is now an ex-host. correct answer. Pint, a gay bar in downtown Jersey City, fired its trivia host after a team calling itself "Cornell 7 inches," a reference to the alleged 2024 gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity, won "best team name" at Wednesday trivia... october 9 the world's war crimes court wants the taliban's leaders for persecuting queer afghans. the paperwork calls them "non-conforming." close enough. On Oct. 5, 2026, the International Criminal Court unsealed arrest warrants for four Taliban leaders: supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, education minister Habibullah Agha and higher education minister Neda Mohammad Nadim. They are accused of the... october 9 trump's new press secretary went on fox last month to ask barack obama "what is a woman." the podium is hers now. pray for the press corps. President Trump named Katie Zacharia, a Trump Media communications adviser, attorney and Fox News and Newsmax commentator, as White House press secretary on Oct. 9, 2026, replacing Karoline Leavitt, who left at the end of August. On Fox News' The... october 9 we counted 15 out gay men with olympic gold. one of them hit his head on the diving board and won anyway. icon behavior. The Watering Hole counted fifteen men who have won an Olympic gold medal and said publicly, in their own words, that they are gay: John Curry, Brian Boitano, Eric Radford, Guillaume Cizeron, Greg Louganis, Bruce Hayes, Mark Tewksbury, Ian Thorpe,... october 9 someone said troye sivan's whole brand is being gay. he replied "i am gay!!!! gay gay gay gay" over madonna's vogue. no further questions. Troye Sivan responded to an X post saying "his entire brand being the fact that he's gay is so exhausting" by sharing it to his Instagram Story with the caption "I am gay!!!! Gay gay gay gay," set to Madonna's... october 9 the nba star who said "i hate gay people" in 2007 says he taught america not to be a bigot. he would also like a bank commercial. Former NBA star Tim Hardaway, who said "I hate gay people" on Miami radio in February 2007, said on the Crossover Podcast posted Oct. 7, 2026 that he has grown since then, that his remarks helped people understand "don't be... october 9 a category 3 hurricane canceled saturday at atlanta pride. the parade is still on for sunday. the gays will simply be outside. Atlanta Pride canceled all of its Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026 programming in Piedmont Park because of the threat from Hurricane Isaias, which the National Hurricane Center upgraded to a Category 3 storm on Friday. The organization says Sunday's festival and... october 9 a man shot a trans woman six times. a tennessee court says his jury should have been told her "biological sex." that's the whole ruling, and it's bad enough. On Oct. 5, 2026, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Samuel Ward Jr.'s voluntary manslaughter conviction for the 2022 shooting death of Paris Lee, a 36-year-old transgender woman in Memphis, and ordered a new trial. The unanimous panel held... october 9 trump called her a trans slur. three days later, the democrat ran an ad saying "biological men." her 2022 tweet is still up. ok. On Oct. 8, 2026, Annie Andrews, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in South Carolina, released a 30-second TV ad saying "I don't support biological men playing women's sports" and that she has never performed gender surgery on minors. It came... october 9