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A schoolyard clash over gay Pride flags got some students suspended and others expelled from their Florida middle school. The Pinellas County Sheriff's office is investigating, and a congressman got involved. It happened last Friday at Seminole Middle School, where some students displayed Pride flags at an outdoor lunch table. One draped a flag around their shoulders. Other students came over and grabbed the flags. A tug of war ensued, and a student fell down and was dragged on the ground. Pinellas County School District spokeswoman Isabel Mascareñas told the Tampa Bay Times that some students will be assigned to an alternative school as a result. "The students' behavior was inappropriate and unacceptable, and they were disciplined for it," she told the Times. "Pinellas County schools does not tolerate this behavior." Mascareñas said school officials are in contact with the families and have provided a safety plan including an adult to contact if one of the students feels bullied or unsafe. The incident gained attention on social media after a Twitter user posted that her sibling was dragged to the ground, "stomped on, and covered in water just for wearing a pride flag at school." Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️????
Japanese sexual minority groups and their supporters, in a last-ditch effort to get long-sought equality legislation passed before the Tokyo Olympics, submitted requests on Friday to the governing Liberal Democratic Party, whose conservative members have stalled the bill. The groups also have widened their campaign to gain corporate support for their cause in hopes of pressuring Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's pro-business party to support the legislation. "In order to protect the lives and livelihood of sexual minorities, enacting a LGBT law that states discrimination is not tolerated is an indispensable first step," said Kane Doi, Japan director for the New York-based group Human Rights Watch. "An enactment of such a law in Japan ahead of the Olympics is also necessary for the international community," Doi said, adding that Japan needs to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring equality for LGBTQ athletes, journalists and other participants in the Olympics, set to begin July 23. Support and awareness of sexual diversity has slowly grown in Japan, but there is still a lack of legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Japan does not legally recognize same-sex partnerships, and LGBTQ people often suffer discrimination at school, work and even at home, causing many to hide their sexual identities. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ????️? (?: Yuri Igarashi, right, a co-chair of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation speaks at a press conference in Tokyo / Kyodo News via AP)
On Disney+'s "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series," Larry Saperstein plays Big Red, a character who has a relationship with a female student named Ashlyn Caswell (Julia Lester). But in real life, Saperstein took to TikTok to announce he is bisexual, according to People. In the TikTok, Saperstein is seen in a close-up selfie with the words "Plays a character with a girlfriend on TV... is bi irl" appearing in subtitles as the song "International Super Spy" from the children's show "The Backyardigans" plays in the background. "Is it really that unexpected tho #pride," the 23-year-old actor captioned the post. He also promised in a tweet that he plans to get his drag game up and running before the end of the month, writing: "I have T minus 30 days to figure out how to do drag so I can turn out a look before the end of the month (#HappyPrideMonth I love you ALL SO MUCH." Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️?? (?: Larry Saperstein / Instagram / @larrysaperstein)
Actress Niecy Nash and wife Jessica Betts shared a sweet photo and message to kick off Pride Month. As reported by People, the newlyweds shared a photo to Instagram to celebrate their August 2020 wedding for Pride Month. Announcing: "Happy Pride Month! We feel the love and we are sending it right back!" The couple are decked out in shades of whie and sharing a laugh, but the rainbow color of Nash's sole adds a poignant pop of color. After announcing their wedding last year, Nash famously said that her marriage to Betts "has absolutely nothing to do with gender and it has everything to do with her soul." The photo says it all. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork (?️: Emell D. Adolphus / @goodnightdetroit , ?: Jessica Betts & Niecy Nash / Instagram / @niecynash1)
When it comes to picking the greatest movie star, there is only one choice: Joan Crawford. Sure, Katherine Hepburn had class and Bette Davis the courage to act outside her comfort zone; but no other actress from Hollywood's Golden Age personified star quality more than Crawford. She became a star during the silent era and held onto it for five decades with such a determination that Stephen Sondheim had her in mind when he wrote "I'm Still Here," the ultimate anthem of show business survival. Today Crawford's numerous film performances are overshadowed by an artful impersonation — that of Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest." The film, directed by Frank Perry, was based on her adopted daughter Christina's 1977 best-selling memoir about how she was adopted by the actress at an early age then endured decades of emotional and physical abuse. (Crawford also adopted a boy, Christopher.) The film, to say the least, does not show the demanding, neurotic Crawford in a good light, qualities Dunaway embraced with unusual fierceness in a performance she feels seriously damaged her career. But what of Crawford? How did she maintain her stardom for nearly five decades, and what were the movies that defined her numerous comebacks as she, as Sondheim put it, careered from career to career? Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ???️ (?: Joan Crawford with her Oscar for "Mildred Pierce")
Kelly Osbourne is opening up about her battles with drug and alcohol addiction, stopping by "Red Table Talk" to discuss getting hooked as a teen and relapsing after the pandemic. The TV personality said she ended almost four years of sobriety in in April 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic was waning, triggered into drinking alcohol again after seeing a couple sipping champagne. "I was alone, sitting by a pool and waiting for somebody to come have a meeting with me. And I saw this woman and her husband had a glass of champagne. It looked really nice and I was like, 'I can do that, too,'" she said on the Facebook Watch show. "And the next day, I had two glasses. And the day after that, it was bottles." Osbourne's episode of "Red Table Talk" airs on Facebook Watch on Wednesday at 9 a.m. PDT/noon EDT. Osbourne also told the hosts — Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter, Willow Smith; and her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris — about the origins of her addictions. Her first opiate-based drug addiction was with Vicodin which was prescribed to her after an operation to remove her tonsils when she was 13, sending her on a lifelong battle. "That was all I needed," she said sadly. Osbourne said the drug silenced her insecurities. "It felt like life gave me a hug." Pinkett Smith responded wryly: "Vicodin will do that." Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ❤️ (?: Kelly Osbourne / Instagram)
A Nobel laureate, a Netflix star and a fashion model are among the board members who helped launch an initiative Tuesday to raise money for LGBT rights groups in Poland, where gay men, lesbians, and bisexual and transgender people face a backlash from the country's conservative government and Catholic Church. The Equaversity Foundation plans to seek international donations to fund organizations working on the ground in Poland. Activists with the foundation say the help is needed to counter homophobic rhetoric from the highest levels of Poland's government and from Catholic leaders. "We can't count on aid from within the country," said model Anja Rubik, who is one of the board members. Along with Rubik, the foundation's board includes Nobel-winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, film director Agnieszka Holland and Antoni Porowski, a Polish-Canadian cook who is one of the stars of the Netflix show "Queer Eye." During an online conference Tuesday, several initiators described the new foundation as a way to push back against a rising tide of anti-LGBT discrimination that they view as part of a wider assault on democratic values in Poland, a nation wedged between Western Europe and eastern autocracies. Polish President Andrzej Duda said last year while running for reelection that the term "LGBT" is "not people" but an "ideology" more dangerous than communism. The country's education minister has said LGBT people are not equal to "normal people." Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️??? (?: Antoni Porowski / Instagram / @antoni)
"In brightest day, in blackest night, forget that 'Stonewall' movie's blight?" That's the question for English actor Jeremy Irvine, who has just inked a deal to appear as a gay Green Lantern in the upcoming HBO Max series, according to Entertainment Weekly. "Irvine starred in 'Stonewall,' which was criticized for its whitewashing of the Stonewall riots, as Danny Winters," EW recalled of the 2015 Roland Emmerich-directed drama. "The character was fictionalized and not based on any one real-life figure." Noting the film and its central character being castigated for reframing the Stonewall riots, EW writes: "One scene even saw the character take the famous Stonewall brick from the hands of a queer person of color and throw it himself to spark the movement — a perfect symbol for how the film took the story of Black and Brown queer people away from them and claimed it as something else." Irvine has drawn accolades for his body of work, including the film "War Horse" and the "Jason Bourne" TV spinoff, "Treadstone." However, his role as Danny in Stonewall still looms large for some gay members of the LGBTQ audience. With that, EW questioned Irvine's casting as the iconic Alan Scott. Created in 1940, Scott was the first of a number of fictitious comic book characters to bear the "Green Lantern" moniker. The character was reinvented in the 2000s as an out gay superhero. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️???♂️? (?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi , ?: Jeremy Irvine / Instagram / @jeremy.irvine / DC)
In 2018, "A Quiet Place" pleasantly surprised us. It was a film that overcame its glaring plot holes and banalities (and boy, were there plenty) with ambitious world-building, strong performances (especially by Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds), great setups and executions (that nail!), and absolutely stellar sound work (perhaps the scariest thing about the whole film is how it lost its deserved Best Sound Editing Oscar win to - *checks notes* - "Bohemian Rhapsody"). It was an effective chiller and thriller alike; it knew when to fine tune the moments of silence, and when to pull out the big guns when the volume eventually increased. Three years later, "A Quiet Place Part II" left us unfulfilled and underwhelmed, despite the film sharing many of the first installment's strengths and even building on them on multiple occasions. After an extremely solid opening sequence that shows us the inciting events of the alien invasion we were plopped into during the first film, "Part II" picks up exactly where its predecessor ended. But it meanders from there, not finding much footing until there's about a half hour left in the run time and things finally start getting a bit interesting. And that's completely fine. If anything, the strikingly familiar mediocrity of watching an immediately forgettable blockbuster horror sequel in a shoddy, corporate multiplex made us experience a sense of normalcy we haven't felt in quite some time. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ??️? (?️: Greg Vellante, ?: Evelyn (Emily Blunt) braves the unknown in "A Quiet Place Part II.” / Paramount)
In an intimate photoshoot for Calvin Klein's Pride capsule collection, young LGBTQ stars are front and center, including Omar Ayuso, Arca, Isaac Cole Powell, Kai Isaiah Jamal, King Princess, Raisa Flowers, Honey Dijon and Samuel de Saboia. As reported by Teen Vogue, the campaign, unveiled on May 26, includes a photoshoot and a short film focusing on the global LGBTQ represented by each subject's journey. "As part of the #ProudInMyCalvins global campaign, the images and accompanying films focus on different parts of the world and at different points in time," Teen Vogue reports. "Shot by six different photographers, the images revisit transformative moments for each member of the Pride campaign." Klein's Pride collection includes a cotton bralette, boxer briefs, cropped T-shirts, crewneck sweatshirts, denim bottoms, truckers and jock straps. Aside from showing support through clothing, Calvin Klein has also has ongoing partnerships in support of multiple LGBTQIA+ organizations, Teen Vogue reports, including ILGA World, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, and the National Pulse Memorial & Museum. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ???? (?️: Emell D. Adolphus / @goodnightdetroit , ?: Omar Ayuso / Instagram / @omarayuso)
When speaking to Hedda Lettuce this week, EDGE's Matthew Wexler mistakenly said the drag icon had been performing in New York for nearly three decades. She promptly corrected him, adding, "I think you're reading Lady Bunny's bio." Hedda Lettuce, the drag persona of Steven Polito, is from the generation of New York City drag queens — such as Lady Bunny, Sherry Vine, and Varla Jean Merman — who made careers in a time before social media or YouTube makeup tutorials. One of the more ingenious ways Hedda found her audience was by hosting screenings of classic films in a Chelsea movie theatre for years. Called "Hedda Presents the Classics," it featured Hedda introducing and making commentary about a camp Hollywood classic to a packed house of mostly gay men. By far, one of the most popular titles Hedda showed is "Mommie Dearest," the 1981 biopic of Joan Crawford that starred Faye Dunaway in a performance the actress later said ruined her career. It was so popular that Hedda would present it twice a year — during Pride and at Halloween. So, naturally, when Paramount Pictures was planning the 40th anniversary Blu-ray edition (to be released on June 1), they turned to Hedda to provide a new commentary track. In addition to Hedda's commentary, there is also one by John Waters, along with a feature on the film's director, Frank Perry, by his biographer, Justin Bozung, and additional features about Crawford. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ???(?: Hedda Lettuce, @heddalettucenyc)
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