Tom and Abby from Queer Eye just got engaged and love is not dead
The loveable bear, Tom Jackson, from the first episode of the rebooted Queer Eye has had an emotional rollercoaster of a love life, especially since the show went to air.
One of his main motivations to get a Queer Eye makeover was to woo back his third ex-wife Abby.
Things seemed to go pretty well in the episode called ‘You Can’t Fix Ugly’, when Abby turned up to support him at a car show and seemed to enjoy Tom’s cooking efforts.
But last month, Tom announced on Twitter that the pair had split up in September last year and proceeded to post multiple, heartbreaking photos of the pair.
I just watched my episode for about the 20th time. I cry
like a baby
ever time I watch it. Just to let the world
know, Abby and I are no longer together. She will always be the love
of my life. I will always love
— Tom Jackson (@TomJack20176306) February 28, 2018
Just a week later though, Tom lifted all our spirits when he announced that he was back together with Abby.
We were all happy for the pair and it rekindled our belief that love was not cancelled.
We hear wedding bells
And in even greater news, Tom has just announced the pair is officially engaged.
‘It’s official, Abby and I are engaged. What a Netflix special the would be. If the Fab 5 planned and attended our wedding!!!!!!!!!,’ Tom wrote on Twitter less than two hours ago.
It’s official, Abby and I are engaged. What a Netflix special the would be. If the Fab 5 planned and attended our wedding!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/4KV4u9Rji4
— Tom Jackson (@TomJack20176306) March 13, 2018
He also posted a photo of the pair together with Abby wearing a gorgeous engagement ring. It is not known whether it is the same engagement ring from when they first got married in the mid-90s.
Let’s hope he doesn’t serve redneck margaritas at the wedding, but this is definitely one Netflix special we would watch.
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Tom and Abby from Queer Eye just got engaged and love is not dead
Tom and Abby from Queer Eye just got engaged and love is not dead
Bisexual boxer Nicola Adams turned into Barbie doll
Bisexual boxer Nicola Adams has inspired a Barbie doll, released for International Women’s Day.
The two-times Olympic gold medal winner is the first UK and bisexual star to be a ‘Shero’.
Mattel says they chose Nicola to honor her and inspire other women.
Nicola Adams is first ‘bisexual’ Barbie
‘I am so excited and honored to be… first ever boxer Barbie,’ Nicola said.
The Nicola Adams doll has boxing gloves, gear embroidered with her ‘Lioness’ nickname, and her cropped hairstyle’.
‘My hope is that everything I do helps more people realise they can do anything they put their mind to,’ Nicola added.
‘Without my own role models, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
‘Growing up, my biggest role models were my mum and Muhammad Ali – there were no female boxers in media when I was a kid, and I might have discovered my passion sooner if I’d seen other women boxing.
‘That’s why empowering the next generation of kids is something I’m passionate about. It’s great to work with Barbie to share my story now.’
Other Barbie ‘Sheroes’
Mattel has chosen 14 other women from across the world to be a Barbie ‘Shero’.
Others being honored this year include director Patty Jenkins, gold medalist Chloe Kim,and conservationist Bindi Irwin.
Also being turned into dolls are windsurfer Çağla Kubat, chef Hélène Darroze, volleyball star Hui Ruoqi, designer Leyla Piedayesh, golfer Lorena Ochoa, journalist Martyna Wojchiechowska, soccer player Sara Gama, actress and philanthropist Xiaotong Guan, ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan and fashion designer Vicky Martin Berrocal.
‘Barbie hopes to encourage girls to pursue their dreams,’ Mattel said.
Barbie have also introduced their Inspiring Women doll line – a range celebrating inspirational historical figures.
The first three dolls will be Mexican artist Frieda Kahlo, aviator Amelia Earhart and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the women depicted in 2017 film Hidden Figures.
International Women’s Day 2018 is on Thursday 8 March.
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Peppermint finally speaks out on RuPaul’s controversial trans comments.
The first openly trans woman on RuPaul’s Drag Race has broken her silence on RuPaul’s comments about trans queens..
Peppermint penned an op-ed in Billboard saying she disagreed with RuPaul’s comments.
‘Doing Drag Race was one of the best moments of my life. RuPaul kicked open so many doors for queer and gender non-conforming folks and is an absolute trailblazer in the world of drag,’ Peppermint wrote.
‘But recently, Ru made statements I disagree with.’
Earlier this week drag legend, RuPaul, created a wave of controversy after telling The Guardian that contestants who had undergone gender confirming surgery would not be allowed on his VH1 reality show.
The backlash to his comments was swift and he issued a statement a few hours later on Twitter, but stopped short of apologizing. He also incorrectly used a flag for trains rather than the trans pride flag in one of his tweets.
No one defines your womanhood
Peppermint said she has learned a lot since she started transitioning in 2012.
One of the most important lessons was that no one has the ability to define your gender identity or ‘transness’.
‘I also learned women should not be defined by what surgeries they have or haven’t had,’ she wrote.
‘The most important takeaway is that ones transition, the beginning, the middle, and end, is entirely personal and cannot be categorized or measured in the context of being blessed by someone else’s validation or approval.’
Peppermint did agree with RuPaul about one thing, that ‘drag is a big F-You to male dominated culture’.
‘Trans women and women, have always been directly and indirectly contributing to the art form of drag,’ Peppermint wrote.
‘My hope is that together, we can uplift all forms of drag, both on TV, and in the real world.
‘Gay men do not own the idea of gender performance.
‘Unfortunately it won’t be the first or last time we will hear a woman can’t do something a man can. I’m out to change that.’
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Peppermint finally speaks out on RuPaul’s controversial trans comments
Peppermint finally speaks out on RuPaul’s controversial trans comments
RuPaul is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month
RuPaul will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month.
The original drag superstar will be joining the Hollywood elite with the honor of a plaque on the most famous sidewalk.
The ceremony will take place on 16 March.
RuPaul’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star
This is a day after the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 finale. Season 10 will star the following Thursday, on 22 March.
It was originally announced by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce last year.
While the Los Angeles City Council still needs to approve it, that is often just a formality. The decision will be made on Friday 2 March.
‘Sweet Cheeses!’ Ru tweeted last year. ‘My heart is beating so fast right now!’
The star will be located at 6652 Hollywood Boulevard. This is outside the offices of World of Wonder Productions, which makes RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Other stars close by to Ru’s star include Leonard Nimoy, Debbie Reynolds, Harrison Ford, The Monkees and George Takei.
Other celebs given Walk of Fame star in 2018
Also being given a star in 2018 includes Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Lawrence, Lynda Carter, Gillian Anderson, Eric McCormack, Shonda Rhimes, Snoop Dogg, Weird Al, Minnie Mouse, Niecy Nash, Mary J. Blige, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Simon Cowell, and Kirsten Dunst.
Crocodile Hunter host Steve Irwin and comedian Bernie Mac will receive posthumous stars.
‘[We] looked carefully at each nominee and we feel that we have selected an eclectic group of talent that will appeal to the tastes of many fans around the world,’ said Walk of Fame committee member Vin Di Bona.
‘I know these honorees will remember the dedication of their stars with great memories and will be proud that they are part of Hollywood’s history now and forever.’
There are more than 2,600 stars embedded in the Walk of Fame, situated along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street.
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RuPaul is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month
RuPaul is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month
Kylie Minogue will play NYC Pride’s Pride Island this June
One of Australia’s biggest pop exports Kylie Minogue will play NYC Pride’s Pride Island party this June (the same year one of the US’s biggest pop exports, Cher, plays Sydney Mardi Gras!)
Wow singer Kylie will headline in New York City at the new Pride Island venue, Pier 97, on the Sunday night (24 June 2018.)
‘One of the iconic pop artists of all time’
Speaking to Gay Star News, Chris Frederick, NYC Pride’s Managing Director said: ‘Kylie Minogue is one of the most iconic pop artists of all time and we’re excited to have her perform live for the first time at NYC Pride!’
Kylie has scored two Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 since breaking onto the global music scene in the late ’80s.
The Loco-Motion reached number three in 1988. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – of course, the star’s biggest hit worldwide to date – reached number seven in 2002.
She recently returned with her Nashville-recorded new single Dancing.
It precedes the album Golden, due for release in April. It will be studio album number 14 for Kylie!
Tove Lo
Furthermore, Kylie will be joined at this year’s festival by Swedish star Tove Lo [above].
The singer is known for her hit Habits (Stay High), which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
Her other tracks include Cool Girl and Talking Body. She’ll headline the festival on the Saturday night, 23 June.
Joining Kylie and Tove Lo are Good As Hell singer Lizzo, and also Drop singer, Big Freedia.
Continuing, Frederick added: ‘As we prepare to welcome a record number of attendees for Stonewall 50/WorldPride 2019 NYC, our move to our new home on Pier 97 is just one of several new venues, new events, and new experiences we will launch in 2018 to prepare for next year’s massive crowd.’
Tickets for Pride Island go on sale at noon on Thursday, 1 March at nycpride.org.
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How Ruth Coker-Burks became the angel of America’s AIDS crisis
The first time Ruth Coker-Burks saw an AIDS patient, he was near death.
Frail, sunken skin resting on hollow bones, the spark of life dwindling: his name was Jimmy.
All he wanted, in the world, was to speak to his mother. But she wouldn’t come.
Ruth Coker-Burks – the ‘cemetery angel’
Ruth was a 25-year-old young mother visiting University Hospital in Little Rock to help care for a friend with cancer. This was in 1984.
One day, she noticed a door telling her it was a quarantined room. She saw nurses would draw straws to check on the 100-pound man crying out inside.
She knew what it was, she had read about it. It was then known as GRID – gay-related immune deficiency.
A gay cousin in Hawaii had told her it was just the leather guys in San Francisco, but this was in Arkansas.
Ruth disregarded the warnings on the room, and said hello to the man dying on the hospital bed.
Meeting the first AIDS patient and his mother
‘I only knew him for about 13 or 14 hours,’ she tells Gay Star News.
‘When I met him, he was obviously near death. I went out to call his mother because that’s all in the world he wanted.
‘She wouldn’t come. She wouldn’t even talk to me.
‘I called her and said her son was very near death and wanted to see her before he died.
‘She said, “My son died years ago. I don’t know what you’ve got at the hospital but that’s not my son. Don’t call me back.”
‘So I called her back and said if she hung up on me again I told her I’d put her son’s obituary in the hometown newspaper and I’d list his cause of death.
‘I had her complete attention at that point.’
Pioneer in HIV and AIDS activism
From there, Ruth was a pioneer. Without any medical training, Ruth cared for dying gay and bi men abandoned by families.
She arranged appointments, picked up medication, and counseled them through their grief.
Often she would test friends herself and tell them the results. If they were positive, it was still considered a death sentence.
The AIDS advocate buried over three dozen of these men with her own two hands in the family’s private cemetery.
As an only child, she knew the grounds would never fill its 262 spaces. Across that decade, many of those spaces were used.
‘I did want to give him a proper burial because everyone deserves that,’ she says.
‘Everyone has the dignity of having their own space, saying, “look I was here too”.’
‘If you call this number she will help you…’
More patients kept coming. The hospital told these patients, ‘we don’t deal with you but if you call this number she will help you’.
Ruth dealt with hundreds of men.
‘They all stood out for me. They all did in their own ways,’ she says. ‘Some I don’t remember their names, but I remember their sweet faces.’
Church refused to help Ruth Coker-Burks
Ruth was very religious, but the Methodist church turned its back on her. They would throw away pens she touched and refuse to drink coffee she made.
‘They were horrible. It’s why I’m not religious anymore,’ she says.
‘There wasn’t a church that wanted me because I worked with AIDS patients. They didn’t want me.
‘I thought I was doing what God asked us to do, feed the hungry and take care of the sick and the poor.’
But Ruth doesn’t believe they were frightened of catching the disease, they just hated LGBTI people.
When the church failed her, she found a different kind of divine being to support her.
Getting help from drag queens
‘The first time I saw a drag queen, I thought I was in heaven,’ she says.
‘I thought, “this is the most fascinating thing I have ever seen in my life”. They’re so talented.’
Gay bars got organized and raised funds to support Ruth’s work. Many of the queens that first supported her later came to Ruth as patients.
One of these men was named Billy. He was in his early 20s, a drag queen.
His mother once called Ruth, demanding to know when he was going to die.
‘He’s holding up our lives,’ she said. ‘We don’t want people up here to know [he has AIDS]’.
By the time Billy died, he weighed just 55 pounds.
‘It’s a shame we let so many wonderful magnificent people die’
‘It’s a shame we let so many wonderful magnificent people die,’ she said.
‘Everyone that died of AIDS – so many of them were so talented. The world never got to witness to see how talented they really are.’
When the Center of Disease Control and the National Institute of Health finally decided to do something about HIV and AIDS, they sent people to Ruth as her patients were lasting two years longer than the national average.
‘The only thing they could figure out was that I loved them,’ she said.
‘The human touch was all it took to get them to live.’
In 2014, the Journal of American Medical Association, finally agreed with her.
Ronald Reagan ‘is to blame’ for AIDS crisis
This isn’t just about an sympathetic woman taking care of dying gay men when no one else would. This is about who is to blame.
‘We wouldn’t even have AIDS if it hadn’t been for Ronald Reagan,’ she said.
‘How could the President of the United States not know his constituents are dying of this horrible disease?
‘No one is his entire cabinet. They don’t even mention the word AIDS until years in his term?
‘And then they’re joking about it.’
And it’s true, you can you can still watch video of Reagan’s press secretary and chief of staff laughing about AIDS patients.
Ruth believes if they had treated the disease the same way they did tuberculosis, or the way the US government tackled ebola recently, thousands of lives could have been saved.
Is the US on the brink of another AIDS pandemic?
‘I am afraid that right now we’re at the beginning of an another AIDS pandemic in the United States,’ she said.
‘The way things are going, especially as they’re cutting out medication for HIV.
‘Vice President Pence, he’s from Indiana, and that state has the highest rate of HIV transmissions.’
This is why Ruth is campaigning for sex education in schools.
‘You’ve got a computer and you’ve got that little computer in your hand. You can learn yourself how to put a condom on, how to protect yourself,’ she says in a message to readers.
Importance of sex education
‘Keep your body healthy because it is yours and yours alone. Do the best you can and don’t get caught up in the heat of the moment.’
Ruth now lives a quiet life in Arkansas. She’s a grandmother and is often invited to give speeches at HIV awareness events.
In 2010, she had a stroke. A casual observer would assume she’s fully recovered although she tells us she still has some small issues.
It was thanks to her friends that she got through it.
Remembering them, she said: ‘They all had a unique story that would make any life better.
‘They were so kind and loving and gentle people that the world doesn’t have enough of.
‘We have to take care of people.’
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Gay dating app that makes users appear ‘more manly’ come under fire
A gay dating app has been criticised for allowing its users to ‘photoshop’ their bodies to appear ‘more manly’.
The app, ironically called Manly, offers users the option to exaggerate body tone and add facial hair, among other things.
Available for £4.99, the app is accused of reinforcing damaging and ‘unrealistic’ body image stereotypes in men.
This is exactly the kind of social media app that gives anxiety to normal-looking girls and robs them their confidence . Screw the perfect body image! Why can’t one be as one is?
— TheEBG (@The_EBG) February 13, 2018
Manly is also criticised for its ‘upsetting’ social media content that shows edited versions of people after using the app.
Hi, there is our Android version, welcome to download! Android: https://t.co/A9NFR1IkLM…
IOS: https://t.co/5GTk2WHnHK pic.twitter.com/2B5Tg6GTHp— ManlyApp (@ManlyApp) January 4, 2018
Body confidence issues affect men as well as women
The news comes at a time when society celebrates body confidence in people of all shapes and sizes.
Denis Hatton, co-founder of the Be Real Campaign, told the Independent the app’s functions may have a negative affect.
‘A lot of people think body image struggles only affect women, but we’ve seen an increasing number of men desperately trying to live up to the male beauty ideal.
‘Just when we finally started to see progress with brands becoming more responsible and reducing excessive airbrushing, then along comes an app like Manly.
‘This app and others like it are a massive step backwards in creating a society less focussed on appearance and more on who we are.’
Gay Star News has contacted Manly for comment.
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Cara Delevingne closes Burberry’s rainbow-themed fashion show.
Bisexual model Cara Delevingne closed Burberry’s West London fashion show wearing a giant rainbow cape.
The Show
The show, the last for Christopher Bailey who is retiring as president and chief creative officer for the brand, took place in a giant warehouse. The collection included a lot of streetwear-inspired pieces, a bit of nostalgia, and a socially progressive message—one of LGBTI acceptance.
Burberry collaborated with United Visual Artists on creating the atmosphere at the venue. The warehouse was decked out in long, swinging spotlights hanging from the ceiling and a giant prism of rainbow lasers the models walked through during the show’s finale.
The Collection
‘It’s quite a poignant collection just because it’s my last one, but it made me start thinking about the importance of time. I think we are living in such an interesting period, chaotic and upsetting and changing,’ Bailey said before the show. ‘I wanted to try and reflect that in some way in the collection.’
Bailey utilized Burberry’s archives and brought back prints the brand did in the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s. ‘It’s a real mishmash of things. A mélange of all of that. The sentiment of the show is about the future and how exciting and positive it is. I hope it is. I’m an optimist, my glass is half full,’ he said.
This season, Burberry also reissued popular pieces from the 80s and 90s that went on sale immediately. The fashion show also featured many pieces from the Rainbow Check Collection, which supports charities that help LGBTI youth.
The Looks
Check out images and videos from the show, including of Delevingne, as well as the Rainbow Check Collection below:
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Gus Kenworthy makes history at Winter Olympics with gay kiss on live TV
In one kiss, screened live on TV, Gus Kenworthy has broken down barriers.
The US freestyle skier kissed partner Matt Wilkas at Pyeongyang before competing at the Sochi Olympics.
Screened live on NBC, it was shown in the US and around the world.
Commenters referred to the actor as his boyfriend and even showed supporters waving rainbow flags.
Gus Kenworthy on the historic gay Olympic kiss
‘It’s something I was too scared to do for myself,’ Kenworthy said after the competition.
‘To be able to do that, to give him a kiss, to have that affection broadcast to the world, is incredible.
‘The only way to really change perceptions, to break down barriers, break down homophobia, is through representation.
He added: ‘That’s definitely not something I had as a kid.
‘I never saw a gay athlete kissing their boyfriend at the Olympics.
‘I think if I had, it would’ve made it easier for me.’
Prior to the event, Kenworthy spoke about how proud he was to have his partner there.
Matt Wilkas on the historic kiss
And while Kenworthy didn’t get a medal, likely due to breaking his thumb in practice this week, he is still a part of history.
‘It’s good that it’s televised because it normalizes it more,’ Wilkas told Time.
‘I would imagine it would be a huge moment for a young gay kid to see an awesome athlete so open and proud of himself and not caring what anyone thinks of his sexuality.’
Following up success in Sochi
While this may be Gus Kenworthy’s second Olympics, it is his first as being an openly gay athlete.
Winning a silver medal in Sochi, he said he felt ‘horrible’ about being closeted at the Russian Games.
He came out in 2015, and has become a high profile star. And with this kiss, he has made history.
(H/T Outsports.com)
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Gus Kenworthy makes history at Winter Olympics with gay kiss on live TV
Gus Kenworthy makes history at Winter Olympics with gay kiss on live TV
A transgender woman was able to breastfeed her partner’s child after a hospital put her on a regimen of drugs licensed in Britain and Canada, but banned in the United States.
How did it happen?
The drugs included progesterone and estradiol, which are hormones that influence lactation and are typically found in pregnant people, and domperidone, an anti-nausea drug known to increase production of breast milk. The woman used a breast pump to stimulate her breasts.
The trans woman and her partner obtained the medications on their own from Canada, and were advised on dosage by doctors at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. The couple’s names and hometowns were not disclosed.
According to the Transgender Health medical journal, the 30-year-old was producing droplets of milk within a month. Within three months, two weeks before the baby’s due date, she had increased her production to eight ounces of milk a day.
In the end, according to the study, ‘she was able to achieve sufficient breast milk volume to be the sole source of nourishment for her child for six weeks.’
The impact
The study’s authors were Dr. Tamar Reisman of New York’s Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery and Zil Goldstein, a nurse practitioner and transgender activist. They believe the case illustrates that in some cases, modest but functional lactation can be induced in trans women who did not undergo surgery or give birth.
‘We believe that this is the first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman,’ the authors stated.
Trans men, including Kayden Coleman, Thomas Beatie, and Trystan Reese have made headlines after giving birth. But breastfeeding among trans women has not been documented before.
‘This is a very big deal,’ Joshua Safer of Boston Medical Center told New Scientist. ‘Many transgender women are looking to have as many of the experiences of non-transgender women as they can, so I can see this will be extremely popular.’
‘There have been self-reported cases online of transgender woman trying to D.I.Y. regiments to induce breast-feeding, but this is the first case of induced functional lactation in academic literature,’ Dr. Reisman wrote in the Transgender Health journal.
‘We all want to have the same experiences as women,’ Maria Clifford, a 38-year-old British transgender mother who has been using a surrogate to breastfeed her child, told the New York Times. ‘We need further testing and evidence to show that these drugs aren’t going to cause harm to the baby.’
The baby’s growth and future studies
During the six-week period the trans woman was able to breastfeed, doctors noted the child’s growth, feeding, and bowel habits were developing normally. After this period, the woman began using formula to supplement the milk due to concerns about milk volume.
The woman’s hormone regimen is considered safe and similar to ones used on cisgender mothers who are unable to produce milk. However, she continued to take the drug spironolactone, a testosterone blocker that’s actually excreted in human milk.
According to the study’s authors, future areas of research will include ‘the optimal dosing of estradiol, progesterone and galactogogues in inducing lactation, as well as the optimal frequency and duration of pump use.’
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This trans woman was able to breastfeed her child after hospital induces lactation
