Pixar’s ‘Onward’ Has a Lesbian Character Voiced by Lena Waithe

Waithe breaks ground for portraying the first clearly gay character in Disney/Pixar history.

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Boosie Badazz outraged after being banned from gym for filming transphobic rant in weight room

Rapper Boosie Badazz says he’s been banned from his local gym after making transphobic remarks about NBA legend Dwayne Wade’s daughter.

It all started when Boosie shared a video, filmed during a workout at Planet Fitness, with his 18 million Instagram followers in which he admonished Wade for going “too far” in his support for his own daughter.

“That is a male,” Boosie ranted. “A 12-year-old. At 12 they don’t even know what their next meal gonna be. They don’t have sh*t figured out yet. He might meet a woman, anything, at 16 and fall in love with her but his d*ck be gone.”

He then went on to confuse being trans with being gay, adding, “If he gonna be gay, let him be gay, but don’t address him as a woman.”

Now, Boosie claims that video got him 86ed from the gym where he recorded it.

In a new video, the rapper claims a gay manager, who he refers to as a “lil b*tch,” told him he was no longer welcome at the establishment.

“Manager who was gay refused to let me n planet fitness because of my past actions on social media about gender etc.,” he wrote in the caption.

“Do not go to Planet Fitness,” he says in the video. “They racist. They haters. They just put me out of Planet Fitness ‘cause of what I said about Dwayne Wade’s son.”

“They championing Dwayne Wade’s son, so don’t go to Planet Fitness no more. Nobody goes to Planet Fitness.”

Wade recently sat down with Ellen to talk about how his daughter, Zaya, has known her gender identity since she was three years old, and how he and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, have made an effort to be supportive.

“Me and my wife Gabrielle Union are proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ community,” he said.

The NBA legend then urged other parents of LGBTQ children to listen to their kids, give them the best feedback and support they can, and love them no matter what.

Related: Dwayne Wade cheers on 12-year-old son for having courage to come out

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Woman Murdered Shortly After Trying to Blackmail Closeted Gay Men, Outing Them on Facebook: WATCH

A woman who attempted to blackmail two apparently closeted gay men for $5,000 was murdered a short time later in Indianapolis, leading to speculation that they were somehow involved in her death.

Jane Waughfield, 40, recorded a Facebook Live video (below) on Monday after she said she discovered the two men having sex. She said she had gone to one of their homes because she had business with him, adding that she hooked up with him a few years ago.

In the Facebook live video, which is laced with homophobic rhetoric, she said she offered to keep the men’s sexuality secret if they sent her $5,000 through CashApp. She also said she feared for her life.

“They tried to kill me. They chased me out of the house,” she said during the now-deleted livestream. “If I die, let them people know they killed me.”

Waughfield was found dead after a shooting and motor-vehicle crash on Tuesday morning.

According to CBS 4, witnesses said Waughfield’s yellow Camaro was traveling at a high rate of speed before slamming into another vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle discovered her unresponsive inside the Camaro, with a gunshot wound, and police believe the shooting happened shortly before the crash.

“We believe this to be a directed and isolated incident,” a police spokesperson said.

As of Friday, there had been no arrests.

Watch a report from WISH-TV below.

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#BeardedButtigieg has the Gay Twitter™ feeling totally dehydrated

#BeardedButtigieg was trending last night on Twitter after people started sharing altered photos of Pete Buttigieg with a beard.

Filmmaker Jim Fall (director of Trick) kicked off the trend when he photoshopped pictures of Mayor Pete using FaceApp, adding a little extra fuzz to his regularly clean-cut face.

Soon, people began referring to Mayor Pete as “Mayor Woof” and photoshopping their own versions to share on social media.

All of this had many wondering what Mayor Woof’s husband, Chasten, thought about his husband with facial hair.

It didn’t take long for an old tweet from 2018, in which Chasten addressed this very issue during the month of “Movember,” to resurface:

What do you think of Mayor Woof’s new look? Sound off in the comments section below…

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Grenell, Trump Administration Have Failed Miserably in Year-Old Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality

One year ago this week, the Trump administration launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.

The campaign was to be led by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany who this week became the nation’s first openly gay cabinet secretary.

But NBC News reported Thursday that the campaign hasn’t accomplished much. In fact, one expert said the Trump administration isn’t even trying.

Currently, there are 68 countries where homosexuality is illegal. Only one, Botswana, has decriminalized homosexuality in the last year, through a court ruling in a case that began long before 2019.

Charlotte Clymer, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign, said there is no evidence of “meaningful efforts by this administration to decriminalize homosexuality around the world.”

“It would be different if they were trying, but it’s not even clear they are doing anything meaningful at all,” Clymer said. “It is yet another case of the Trump-Pence White House making promises to LGBTQ people, even while they enable discrimination and violence against us at home and abroad.”

In December, Grenell hosted a U.N. breakout session on decriminalizing homosexuality, but one LGBTQ activist cast doubt on its effectiveness.

“What came out of that, I don’t know, and who actually went there, I don’t know, because I have been asking around afterwards to LGBTI activists around Europe, and they all said, ‘We have not been invited,’” said Remy Bonny, a political scientist studying LGBTQ rights in eastern and Central Europe.

Of course, it also doesn’t help that Grenell has been busy propping up far-right European political parties that are hostile to LGBTQ people, helping to fuel the phenomenon known as “pink-washing.”

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The GLAAD Wrap: Outfest Fusion lineup announced; trailers for ‘Feel Good,’ ‘Vida,’ ‘We’re Here,’ and more!

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