Parents in Washington’s Cheney School District are speaking out after a ninth-grade English teacher introduced a gender identity lesson without clear approval from the school board.
Netflix is facing sharp criticism from the Pentagon over its new military drama Boots, which tells the story of a gay man joining the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1990s.
An art installation plastering graffiti-style questions for God across Canterbury Cathedral has provoked sharp backlash after one of its organizers, poet Alex Vellis, publicly celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and embraced a string of provocative, left-wing positions.
The Department of Homeland Security responded swiftly and scathingly when pop singer Chappell Roan used her stage time to lash out at U.S. immigration enforcement. During a performance Friday night at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, Roan shouted “fuck ICE forever,” triggering a rebuke from DHS officials who accused her of pandering and demanded she “get a grip.”
Openly gay comedian Jessica Kirson has issued a public apology after performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, a nation where homosexuality remains illegal and punishable by imprisonment or death. Kirson told The Hollywood Reporter that her decision to participate “has weighed heavily” on her conscience, saying she now “deeply regrets” performing under a government that “continues to violate fundamental human rights.”
