Columbus, OH

This review contains mild spoilers for English Teacher. Late into the first season of English Teacher, a new FX comedy premiering on September 2, an episode-long recurring joke reaches its ultimate punchline in the installment’s final few seconds, and it’s all about a concerning new teenage sex craze known as the “No Loads Refused Cumdump.” To reveal anything more about the joke’s context would be to potentially risk spoiling one of the greatest running gags I’ve encountered on television this year. But suffice it to say, you won’t see it creep up on you, and when it does, chances are you’ll laugh until you pee.

English Teacher Is the Hilarious Gay Workplace Sitcom TV Needs Right Now

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

Actor Van Johnson, who died in 2007, was one of Hollywood's ideal films idols. In the 1940s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury).

The Secret Gay Life & Horrific Car Accident of Actor Van Johnson: 16 Years After His Tragic Death

This article is being published in partnership with The 19th. Imane Khelif, a long-time competitor in women’s boxing, had come to Paris to represent Algeria at the Olympics for the second time. Algerians traveled hundreds of miles to support her. Algerian newspapers heralded her as a “heroine.” She beat one opponent after the next, winning gold in the women's welterweight tournament.

After Imane Khelif, Advocates Warn More Cisgender Women of Color Will Face Anti-Trans Violence

The Independent

  When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without means for survival. Though raised in a farming family, she struggled to get by in a community where access to land is customarily controlled by men.With little support for women in her situation, divorce being relatively rare in Chad, she fought for economic independence. She sold fruits and other goods. During the rainy season, she plowed fields as a laborer. Last year, however, a women’s collective arrived in her village and she decided to join,...

Women in Chad defy discrimination and violence to assert their rights to own and control land

Washington, DC

(Photo courtesy Washington Blade) Washington, D.C. | Local LGBTQ activists are considering staging a kissing protest outside the Dupont Circle Shake Shack restaurant following the report that as many as four or five Shake Shack employees assaulted a gay man at the restaurant on Aug. 17 after he and his male partner kissed each other while waiting for their food order.

LGBTQ+ activists considering ‘kissing protest’ at DC Shake Shack

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ABC News

Equality Florida’s Parenting with Pride aims to help parents address anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric in schools.

Florida parents of LGBTQ students band together to fight anti-LGBTQ bills

UPI News

A transgender woman in Australia has won a legal battle in a discrimination case against a social media company, after a judge ruled Friday the app's administrators wrongly banned her from the platform.

Judge rules in favor of transgender woman in landmark discrimination suit

Louisiana State

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, left, embraces Robert Taylor, head of Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish. Regan was in LaPlace on April 6, 2023, to announce proposed regulations for chemical plants. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator) The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana this week...

Court permanently blocks environmental civil rights protections for Louisiana’s Black communities

South Carolina State

The Center Square

(The Center Square) — Attorneys general from 17 states are suing to stop the federal government from implementing a program they say gives migrant agricultural workers rights that American citizens working farm jobs do not have.
                The coalition of states, led by South Carolina, contends that the U.S. Department of Labor's "Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States" rule effectively grants collective bargaining rights to agricultural migrant workers in the country under the H-2A visa program.
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Judge stops federal program for migrant agricultural workers

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Camilo Díaz

(MA) Meet Yoda, a tiny 9-pound senior Shih Tzu who is ready to steal your heart. This little pup is an older boy who has lived his life loved by a caring owner. Sadly, his owner recently passed away, and their family was not able to take care of Yoda. Luckily, Great Dog Rescue New England was able to take him in and place him safely with a foster. He still has a lot of life left in him, and he hopes to spend the majority of it snoozing in YOUR bed.

This Tiny Shih Tzu Who Lost His Owner Is Now Looking For New Family

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has broadened its restrictions on transgender members and banned them from congregational roles that involve children. Why it matters: The change is one of many new policies announced this week that single out transgender members for restricted participation and inferior status in Utah's dominant religion.

Mormon church bans trans members from working with children, broadens other restrictions

A gay man claimed a group of Shake Shack workers beat him up after he kissed his boyfriend while they waited in line for their order at the fast food establishment in Washington, DC. Christian Dingus, 28, told NBC News that the violent encounter happened inside the chain’s Dupont Circle...

Gay man says he was assaulted by Shake Shack workers after kissing boyfriend in line

POLITICO

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices kept in place lower court rulings preventing the Title IX rule from being implemented.

Supreme Court declines to lift blocks on Biden administration’s education anti-discrimination rule

Alabama State

It's been 21 years since actress/singer Nell Carter, best known for the 1980s NBC sitcom, Gimme a Break!, died of natural causes at only 54. This is her story. Nell Carter was born September 13, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama. After initially finding fame on and off-Broadway, and via a brief role in 1977 on the TV datime drama, Ryan's Hope, Carter took the lead in Ain't Misbehavin'!, a live stage revue of the works of composer Fats Waller.

The Brief Life & Tragic Death of Nell Carter ('Gimme A Break' & 'Ain't Misbehavin'): 21 Years Later

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The state of Texas has enacted a policy that bars transgender people from changing the sex listed on their driver’s licenses. According to The Texas Newsroom, Texans will be unable to change the sex on their license unless they are doing so to correct a clerical error, a policy change that was rolled out this week. Investigative reporter Lauren McGaughy, who broke the story, said in a Wednesday post on X that the change “was instituted, quietly, yesterday and is in effect.” McGaughy confirmed the policy change with Sheri Gipson, the chief of the Driver License Division at the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Trans Texans Can No Longer Change the Gender Marker on Their Drivers Licenses

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Video footage captured in 2015 by an anti-abortion activist that was suppressed by then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris was released Thursday, revealing discussions among Planned Parenthood executives about the handling of body parts of fetuses aborted in the late second trimester, which activists have alleged amount to an admission of wrongdoing. The video was recorded […]

Planned Parenthood sting video suppressed by Harris released after nine years

After the 2024 Paris Olympics boasted a record number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes — with at least 193 athletes who won a total of 42 medals — the 2024 Paris Paralympians are ready to make history, too. The Paralympic Games are an international competition for athletes with disabilities or impairments and are based on a series of classifications depending on the nature and degree of someone’s impairment.

20+ LGBTQ+ Athletes to Watch at the 2024 Paralympics Games in Paris

Salon

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold injunctions on the Biden administration's latest education regulations in 10 states and hundreds of schools and university campuses nationwide leaves transgender, pregnant and harassed students without crucial civil rights protections as the new school year approaches, experts told Salon. This year, more than two...

Supreme Court leaves LGBTQ+ students without crucial civil rights protections ahead of school year

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A total of 18 Republican states are asking a federal appeals court to overturn a decision that invalidates North Carolina’s law that limits the use of the abortion pill mifepristone.  On Monday, attorneys general from Iowa, Arkansas, and South Carolina headed the coalition of red states as they filed a brief to the U.S. 4th […]

Eighteen red states back North Carolina in lawsuit to reinstate abortion pill restrictions

Aurora, CO

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David Heitz

What exactly happened at a large gathering of migrants in Aurora last Sunday depends on who you talk to. And a showdown is imminent between City Council member Danielle Jurinsky and the Aurora Police Department, according to Jurinsky.

Migrant mayhem in Aurora? Showdown imminent between PD, council member Jurinsky

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Chappell Roan Fans Have Raised Over $160,000 For LGBTQ+ and Reproductive Rights

She might be the star of the Pink Pony Club, but she’s also pulling in a lot of green. Fans of Chappell Roan who are tapped...

Chappell Roan Fans Have Raised Over $160,000 For LGBTQ+ and Reproductive Rights

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