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Katy Perry, Sam Smith and More Set to Virtually Appear at 2021 GLAAD Awards
As the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards quickly approach, tons of celebs are getting ready to join in the celebration for LGBTQ inclusion. On Thursday (March 18), GLAAD revealed a new slate of special guests who will be attending the revamped, virtual ceremony this year. A bevy of stars will be joining in for GLAAD’s big night, including Katy Perry, Sam Smith, Jojo Siwa, Bob The Drag Queen, Shangela, Eureka O’Hara, Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox, Clea DuVall, Dan Levy and Jim Parsons. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back thei...
Elton John Condemns ‘Hypocrisy’ of the Vatican After Same-Sex Union Ruling
John, a fervent advocate for and member of the LGBTQ+ community, condemned the Vatican’s statement as “hypocrisy,” considering their financial investment in his 2019 biopic Rocketman, which depicts him coming out as a gay man and entering into a sexual relationship with his manager John Reid before eventually celebrating his marriage to husband David Furnish at the end of the movie. The couple, who’ve been together for 15 years, were married on Dec. 21, 2014, at their Windsor estate nine months after same-sex marriage became legal in England. “How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because they ‘are sin’, yet happily make a profit from investing millions in ‘Rocketman’ – a film which celebrates my finding happ...
Justin Michael Williams Plans Pre-Grammy Benefit for COVID-19 Victims
Williams partnered with Pandemic of Love and Covid Survivors for Change for “Love Over Fear,” and 100 percent of all proceeds from the concert will be split between both organizations. Williams also will debut his latest single “Believe” during the event, with all proceeds from the new song also being split between both organizations. “Music has never just been for entertainment—it’s how we transform suffering and pain into beauty Especially for people who have been marginalized in any way,” Williams tells Billboard of the event. “And that’s what we’re doing with this concert, we’re taking one of the most collectively devastating years in modern history and transforming the pain into l...
Lagos speaker: I’ll assist LASU to become world class institution
The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, says he will work toward ensuring that Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, becomes a world class institution through appropriate legislation. Obasa made the promise while receiving the institution’s Alumni Association led by its Vice President, Norrison Quakers, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on Wednesday in Lagos. He said this is to ensure that the institution catches up with the top tertiary institutions across the world. The speaker said the House had always ensured that requests involving LASU were prioritised in the budget to enable the institution to meet the accreditation requirements of the Nigeria University Commission (NUC). He said that currently, there was hardly any institution in the country that LASU could not...
First Out: New Music From Girl in Red, St. Vincent, Siena Liggins & More
Girl in Red, “Serotonin” Put a fast-rising talent like Girl in Red in the studio with one of the hottest producers of the moment, Finneas, and you get a song like “Serotonin.” Marie Ulven, the titular Girl who wears a lot of Red, has never sounded quite as good as she does on this upbeat, blown-out, bass-thumping anthem about clinical depression — yes, you read that correctly. Finneas adds his knack for off-the-wall production choices, including a dreamy, bedroom-pop guitar buildup that exists only to be thrown away for a chorus featuring floor-shaking beats and speaker-melting bass. Ulven’s incisive songwriting adds the final cherry on top, as she viscerally describes her dark thoughts, before concluding “From the corners of my mind/ I’m terrified...
‘Pose’ to End With Abbreviated Season 3 on FX
Pose was one of Murphy’s last remaining shows he created before he stunned the industry and moved his longtime overall deal from Disney-backed 20th Television to Netflix. In the time since, Pose exec producer and director Janet Mock followed Murphy to Netflix with a groundbreaking overall deal of her own. Co-creator Steven Canals, meanwhile, has remained at Disney and signed his own pact with 20th Television and is already prepping another LGBTQ-themed series for FX. “‘Write the TV show you want to watch!’That’s what I was told in 2014 while completing my MFA in screenwriting,” Canals said in a statement Friday. “At the time we weren’t seeing very many Black and Latinx characters — that happened to also ...
Wole Soyinka to Nigerians: Don’t accept child hostage taking as a way of life
Following the Friday abduction of over 300 school children in Jangebe in Zamfara State, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday warned Nigerians against accepting kidnapping of school children in parts of the north as a way of life. Soyinka who lamented that the government and security agencies have failed Nigerians, said he did not know what else to recommend as panacea to the nation’s “abnormal times.” The octogenarian playwright spoke in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at the ANA Ogun award lecture and public presentation of ‘Chronicles of the happiest people on earth,’ the latest book authored by him. The event was put together by the Association of Nigerian Authors, Ogun State chapter in collaboration with Abeokuta Club. The 524 page book was launched by foremost indigenous ...
Listen to Shamir’s Thumping Cover of Billie Eilish’s ‘Ocean Eyes’
Shamir has put his own spin on Billie Eilish‘s breakthrough debut single, “Ocean Eyes” and it’s a jam. The sedate 2016 original is notable for its barely-there beat and spare, swirling instrumentation. But in the hands of Shamir, the whispery ballad is transformed into a percussion-heavy swoon, with the singer layering in more aggressive drums, thumping bass and ringing guitars under his soaring falsetto. The audio for the remake dropped on Tuesday, just weeks after Shamir teased it in a since-deleted Instagram post that read, “Have you ever said to yourself, ‘I love ‘Ocean Eyes’ by @billieeilish but I wish it was a haunted emo shoegaze rock song? Well come 2/23 I got you!” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Da...
Taylor Swift Jokes That She’s the ‘4th Haim Sister’: See More Reactions to ‘Gasoline’ Remix
“Gasoline” isn’t the first time Haim have teamed up musically with Taylor. Haim are featured on Swift’s Evermore, on the murder-mystery country track “No Body, No Crime.” Este, Danielle and Alana were more than happy to welcome their pal into the fold, writing in a tweet, “Since we released wimpiii in June, Taylor had always told us that ‘Gasoline’ was her favorite. So when we were thinking about ways to reimagine some of the tracks from the record, we immediately thought of her. She brought such amazing ideas and new imagery to the song and truly gave it a new life. Thank you @taylorswift for adding your incredible voice and spirit to a track that means so much to us.” The four musketeers weren’t the only ones lov...
Trace Lysette on Debut Rap Single ‘SMB’: ‘I Needed Another Outlet for My Artistry’
What made you want to get into music with “SMB”?In this business, we’re constantly evolving and showing the world more layers of who we are. I think that’s always a struggle with talent: this relationship of trying to figure out how to present your most authentic self to the world, and hopefully be loved for it. I grew up on hip-hop, had Lil’ Kim and Foxy Brown plastered on my walls as an adolescent, and I always wanted to dive into that space. Acting can be so limiting, especially as a trans actor. You just get what’s thrown at you, and a lot of times, it’s crumbs. I needed another outlet for my artistry. I really wanted the song to have a message. Sometimes I feel like it might be going over people’s heads, cis people’s heads. Maybe they don’t quite get the meaning of being a self-made b...
Lil Nas X Chronicles His Turbulent Road to Fame in Revealing ‘Life Story’ TikTok Series
So, in November of that year he moved in with his older brother into a situation where he says there was “domestic violence everyday.” The one-minute clips consists of a series of Lil Nas’ signature selfie videos, with part two kickinh off with the Dec. 2018 release of the mega-smash that would make Lil Nas a global phenomenon, the record-breaking No. 1 hit “Old Town Road.” With literally no money to promote, the rapper used silly memes to promote the song, which helped the track chart on Apple Music and unleashed an onslaught of label deal offers that he characterized as “terrible,” mostly because they were focused on the song, not him. He turned them all down and kept promoting “Road” in his own unique way and before he knew it the Ti...
Halsey Goes Full Regina George With Rico Nasty, Chris Mintz-Plasse & More in ‘Anti-VDay’ Makeup Ad
Lounging in a bathtub covered in roses while munching on a perfectly-styled tray of doughnuts, Halsey is on an inadvertent four-way call with Blackwelll, Maraduena and Nasty, asking them to come on board for what sounds like a very over-the-top commercial. Asked why she’s going to all these lengths for an anti-Valentine’s Day ad if she’s not even single, Halsey does her best Regina George eye roll: “I’m single, like, in theory. It’s advertising; you know how it works.” When the trio of girls decide not to join Halsey for her massive commercial (she gives us the classic one-liner “boo, you w—es”), Halsey calls on Mintz-Plasse, asking the Superbad actor, “You’re comfortable with on-screen nudity, right?” ...
