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ben shapiro is making a movie out of the ice shooting of a queer mom. the script calls her "a fat blue-hair." subtle king. "Pawn Shop," a Daily Wire film backed by Ben Shapiro and starring Danny Trejo and Harvey Keitel, is shooting in Livingston, Montana, through Oct. 10, 2026. Its leaked script includes a protester called "MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair" who is... october 9 the bear app got sold and lost its live streams in the same 24 hours. the new owners say: not us. be so for real. Perry Street Software, the independent company behind SCRUFF and Jack'd, announced on Oct. 6, 2026 that it has bought Growlr, the dating app for bears, from The Meet Group and plans a multi-million-dollar rebuild with a new app in early... october 8 The World's First Gay Magazine Came Out in 1896. It Ran for 36 Years. Gay print media does not start where most people assume. It does not start with The Advocate in 1967, or with ONE in 1953, or with anything American at all. It starts in Berlin in 1896, with a magazine called... october 8 Berlin Had a Trans Clinic in 1919. Students Burned Its Library in 1933. You have seen the photograph, or one like it. A bonfire in a Berlin square in May 1933, students in uniform pitching armfuls of books into it. It runs in every documentary about the Nazis taking power. What almost nobody... october 8 a jackson councilman called a colleague a sissy. when a neighbor petitioned to fine him $500 for it, he asked reporters if she's gay. twice. be so for real. Jackson, Mississippi, Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes, asked about a 90-signature petition seeking his censure and a $500 fine for calling Ward 4 Councilman Brian Grizzell "a sissy" at a Sept. 8, 2026 council meeting, responded by asking whether the... october 8 the justice department wants trans kids' medical records from two hospitals. an appeals judge asked if this is all just a pressure campaign. say it louder. On Oct. 7, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston heard the Justice Department's appeals in two cases over administrative subpoenas for records about gender-affirming care for minors, one to Boston... october 8 he came out as gay in the '70s and as hiv-positive on tv in 1991. he was booked for a coming out day show this sunday. somebody read his lines. Michael Kearns, the actor, writer and AIDS activist who was out as a gay man from the start of his career in the 1970s and who came out as HIV-positive on national television in 1991, died on Monday, Oct. 5,... october 8 a gay man who grew up in phoenix was deported to equatorial guinea and locked up. a federal judge just ordered the government to go get him. at its own expense. On Oct. 6, 2026, U.S. District Judge John C. Hinderaker in Arizona ordered the Department of Homeland Security to facilitate the release of Ahmed Soliman, a gay man raised in Phoenix, from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return him to... october 8 a lesbian congresswoman lost her senate race and has applied, on the radio, to run the wnba. honestly? hire her. Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, who lost the 2026 DFL Senate primary to Peggy Flanagan and leaves Congress in January, told WCCO radio on Oct. 2 and the Minnesota Star Tribune that the open WNBA commissioner job, vacated by Cathy... october 8 the bbc told millions that two gay men pressured their staff to be surrogates. today it apologized unreservedly in the high court. took them two years. On Oct. 8, 2026, the BBC apologized unreservedly in the High Court in London to Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James, the married founders and executives of PinkNews, for false and defamatory allegations made in its December 2024 documentary "PinkNews: Behind... october 8 a heated rivalry star paid full price for a cree designer's cardigan. it sold $12,000 in an hour. this is the assignment. Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams wore the Journey knit cardigan by Justin Jacob Louis, a Samson Cree Nation designer who founded the Indigenous streetwear label Section 35, at a New York event on Sept. 30, 2026, Canada's National Day for... october 7 the new york post says mamdani signed $8.9 million for trans kids' care. nobody has signed anything. we read the paperwork so you don't have to. On Oct. 6, 2026, New York City's Health Department published a notice of intent to negotiate contracts worth an estimated $8,879,218 with Callen-Lorde and the Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Initiatives to provide puberty blockers and hormone therapy to patients under... october 7