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Next week, The Broadway Comedy Club is hosting an all-women comedy show celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. Entitled Rice & Spice, the show will take place on May 19 and will feature women in the comedy space with AAPI heritage. Hosted and produced by comedian Katy Lau, this is the fourth iteration of the comedy show and the first time it's coming to The Broadway Comedy Club stage.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas has issued a subpoena for the medical records of trans youth who received gender-affirming care from NYU Langone Health, a New York-based hospital system, since 2020.

“Sheryl's husband killed himself,” Gillis said. “Apparently Black does crack if its married to Sheryl and jumps off a fucking roof.” While nothing is off-limits in the context of a roast,the line felt especially harsh given many were unfamiliar with her tragic story - unlike, say, the night's many jokes about Davidson's firefighter dad dying during 9/11.

Caitlyn Jenner, known for Keeping Up with the Kardashians and the docuseries I Am Cait, ran as a candidate in California's 2021 gubernatorial recall election. She publicly campaigned as a Republican, drawing extensive LGBTQ+ media attention and debate. The recall ended with Governor Gavin Newsom remaining in office.

Legendary journalist, film and cultural critic Rex Reed died early this morning, Tuesday, May 12, at his home in Manhattan after a short illness, surrounded by his closest loved ones, the statement read.

Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917 to Jewish immigrants, spent roughly the first 40 years of his life in New York, aside from a stint serving in the military during World War II. Before enlisting, he'd already embarked on a career as a comics artist. He went on to become a key figure during the medium's golden age, a period that most scholars and fans agree began with the creation of Superman in 1938 and ended with the implementation of the Comics Code Authority in 1956, which heavily restricted content until enforcement weakened in the 1970s.

Today, the @nytimes chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press. In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused. The Foreign Ministry continued, Israel whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse is portrayed as the guilty party.

In the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the LGBTQ+ charity behind San Francisco's annual Hunky Jesus competition, decades of activism and raucous performances, members of the order dress in drag as nuns, taking names like "Sister Flatulina Grande" and donning robes and white face paint. Among a flock of nuns, Gordon, who joined in 1987, was designated the lone pope.

Iran's football federation is seeking a series of guarantees from FIFA over its national team's World Cup participation, including on flags carried by supporters in stadiums. Among a list of demands made by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is that only officially recognized national flags should be displayed during the team's games, extending to those flags carried by fans in the stands. If enforced, that would prevent the visibility of Pride rainbow flags at Iran's Group G match against Egypt in Seattle on June 26, which has been designated a "Pride Match" by the city's local organizing committee.

And look who's next coming down the runway, it's Jaafar Jackson, who had the gall to show up after starring in the Michael Jackson movie, he said. Jost interjected to note that some people were upset by the film. And they should be, parody Carlson quipped. The movie ends in 1988, so obviously they avoided something serious that needs to be acknowledged.

Gold House held its fifth annual Gold Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday night. With over 650 guests in attendance, the Gold Gala has become one of the most-viewed celebrations of Asian Pacific culture in the media, featuring groundbreakers and leaders in fields across entertainment, fashion and technology.

In 1982, Dan Broderick made the fateful decision to hire former flight attendant Linda Kolkena as one of his legal assistants. The pair began an affair, and the Brodericks were soon embroiled in a vicious yearslong divorce. As proceedings dragged on, Betty's behavior became more alarming. She left hundreds of threatening messages on Dan's answering machine, blew through restraining orders that banned her from seeing him and once even drove her car into his house despite their children being at home.

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is just around the corner, and with buzz building around the many features set to make their debut at the prestigious French soirée, we're finally- finally! -learning more about what should be one of the best & gayest movies at the fest. Premiering on May 20, The Man I Love is the latest from gay filmmaker Ira Sachs ( Passages, Love Is Strange). It's been described as a "musical fantasia" set in 1980s downtown NYC about an artist who "experiences a precious window between sickness and mortality-a time when beauty and love remain within reach."

The Broadway musical "The Outsiders" explores trauma, belonging, identity, survival, and brotherhood. In theater, trauma is often communicated through posture, hypervigilance, flinching, and physical withdrawal. De-roling practices such as breath work and meditation can help actors separate from demanding roles.

Survivors said that even after they were released, their struggle did not end as survival started another psychological battle, with the harrowing memories of imprisonment still haunting them. Survivor Mohammed al-Bakri was arrested during Israeli military operations in Gaza in March 2024 and was jailed for about 20 months. He was transferred between several Israeli detention centres before ending up in a prison in occupied East Jerusalem. There he remained blindfolded and handcuffed alongside other detainees for months, cut off from the outside world, he told Al Jazeera.

When the curtain of New York's Metropolitan Opera House rose for the closing matinee of Porgy and Bess in January, the boos that typically accompany the entrance of the show's villains were a mere murmur. The nearly 4,000 people who packed the space to capacity-175 of them standing-room ticket holders who remained on their feet for the opera's three-and-a-half-hour run time-had come to cheer.

A late night supergroup joined Abbey Romeo, star of Netflix's Love on the Spectrum, on stage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Thursday night. Backed by Jon Stewart on drums, Jimmy Kimmel on bass clarinet, and Conan O'Brien on guitar, Romeo covered White Stripes songs as part of the celebrity fundraiser "Night of Too Many Stars," including "Seven Nation Army" and "We're Going to Be Friends."

The lawsuit, which spans 17 pages, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and accuses the outlet of having 'unlawful employment practices on the basis of race and/or sex,' arguing that the NYT's DEI policies jeopardized his chances.

The Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026, advertised online, is part of a tour that includes locations like Flatbush and Queens, and is set for May 5 in Manhattan.

About 100 pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered outside a New York synagogue for the second time in six months to demonstrate against an Israeli real estate event featuring properties for sale in the occupied West Bank.

"I'm running on steam today," says disability activist and writer Sinéad Burke who attended the Met Gala on Monday evening.

The exhibition pairs 200 garments and accessories with 200 artworks from the Met's collection, inviting us to reconsider longstanding hierarchies and consider art in the context of the fashion pieces.

The first has a wicked sense of humor. Dark, gallows humor. Chris Rock-caliber comedy. When she's on and when she's sharp, she's ferocious Kathy and there's nobody funnier.

I'm having the time of my damn life. Little by little, I think the industry is realizing when you do make an effort to include someone with a different life experience, it can give a character such a fresh and nuanced perspective.

The Devil Wears Prada has become an iconic staple of millennial pop culture, resonating deeply with LGBTQ+ audiences and establishing a significant queer legacy since its release.