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Michelle Obama has just defended Ellen DeGeneres being friends with George W Bush, and discussed her own bond with the former president. DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi were photographed joking around with Bush and his wife in the VIP stand at an NFL game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers in . DeGeneres received a huge amount of online backlash after the photos emerged, but strongly rejected criticism of her friendship with Bush, who tried to amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage and fought to...

A Brazilian comedy group have released a Netflix special Christmas film, a parody about gay Jesus bringing his boyfriend home to meet Mary and Joseph, and religious conservatives have reacted with great anger and furious vengeance. Almost a million people in the predominantly Catholic country have signed a petition against the parody gay Jesus Netflix film, A Primeira Tentação de Cristo, or The First Temptation of Christ, for “seriously offending Christians”. Porta dos Fundos, which literally means “back door”, is a comedy group of five people from Rio de Janeiro who...

Netflix has sparked outrage from religious conservatives in Brazil over The First Temptation of Christ, a holiday comedy special depicting Jesus as a gay man. God i love this.. hahahahha… Seen "The First Temptation of Christ" on Netflix yet?https://t.co/7WgKzFlu1m— nadiah najib (@najib_nadiah) December 10, 2019 Nearly one million people (and counting, as of this posting) have signed a Change.org petition calling on Netflix to pull the show. The NY Daily News reports: “The First Temptation of Christ is the second satirical take on Christmas brought to the web screen by...

EMILIANO ZAPATA. Effeminate painting of Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata draws protests: “We are not going to allow this,” said Jorge Zapata Gonzalez. “For us as relatives, this denigrates the figure of our general (Zapata), depicting him as gay.” JUDAISM. Trump executive order to classify Judaism as a race or nationality: “The order will effectively interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion, to prompt a federal law penalizing colleges and universities deemed to be shirking their responsibility to foster an open climate for minority students. In...

EMILIANO ZAPATA. Effeminate painting of Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata draws protests: “We are not going to allow this,” said Jorge Zapata Gonzalez. “For us as relatives, this denigrates the figure of our general (Zapata), depicting him as gay.” JUDAISM. Trump executive order to classify Judaism as a race or nationality: “The order will effectively interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion, to prompt a federal law penalizing colleges and universities deemed to be shirking their responsibility to foster an open climate for minority students. In...

A conventional, religious straight couple secretly ran an LA gay porn empire in the 1980s, and now the family have spoken out about their double life. Karen and Barry Mason met at a Jewish singles night, had three children and began their careers in regular jobs. Karen worked as a journalist, and Barry was a special effects engineer for films like Star Trek and 2001 Space Odyssey.  But according to the BBC, when the family ran into some financial problems Karen saw an advert in the LA Times looking for a...

Kevin Hart, who chose not to host the Oscars when his historical homophobic jokes were exposed, has now changed his mind and wants to host them again. Hart will feature in the new film Jumanji: The Next Level alongside Dwayne Johnson. At the premiere on Monday December 9, the pair were interviewed by Variety and Hart indicated that he was hoping the Academy Awards might have him back. Asked whether he and Johnson would consider hosting together in 2020, Hart said: “Hey look, I have nothing but love for the Academy. “I...

Non-binary Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness, who made history recently as the first non-female person on the cover of Cosmopolitan in 35 years, has opened up about pronouns. Talking about pronouns, JVN – who is happy to be referred with he, she or they – stressed how important is is to address people with the correct pronouns. Emphasising that he doesn’t mind which pronouns people use for him, JVN said that people who use they/them pronouns, like Sam Smith, must have those pronouns used for them correctly and without...