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Disney’s rebooting ‘The Proud Family’ with some amazing LGBTQ+ representation – Motherly Inc.

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May 14, 2021

Disney’s rebooting ‘The Proud Family’ with some amazing LGBTQ+ representation – Motherly Inc.

Disney’s “The Proud Family” is getting a reboot! Even though the original show was amazing (Beyonce and Solange Knowles performed the theme song–I mean come ON how cool is that?!) the reboot looks like it’ll be just as much of a crowd-pleaser.

Plus, the revival will feature LGBTQ+ representation, which will undoubtedly be incredibly meaningful for many families who will watch.

Disney‘s “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” will pick up the story of its central character Penny Proud and also include the rest of the Proud family: parents Oscar and Trudy, twin siblings BeBe and CeCe, and her grandmother Suga Mama (and Puff!) And of course, we can’t forget about Penny’s pals Dijonay Jones, LaCienega Boulevardez and Zoey Howzer.

The series reboot will be comprised of original cast members and a few new names: Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter. Quinto and Porter will play Barry Leibowitz-Jenkins and Randall Leibovitz-Jenkins, the adoptive parents of 14-year-old Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, voiced by the brilliant Keke “Sorry to this man” Palmer.

Come through, @disneyplus! 😍 @theebillyporter @ZacharyQuinto #TheProudFamily https://t.co/FEZix4t0N3

— Out Magazine (@Out Magazine)1620848173.0

For the last eight years, GLAAD has analyzed each of the major film studios on their representation of queer characters, and Disney has, unfortunately, landed at the bottom of the list every year.

The fact that a huge, globally-renowned entertainment company like Disney sees the value in queer representation for children and families but is actually executing it via one of their most popular shows, well, that’s worth noting. And honestly, there’s nothing Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter can’t do—raise your hand if you’re looking forward to their brilliant voice work!

The show is currently in production at Disney Television Animation and set to launch in 2022 on Disney+.

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From a Popular YouTuber Coming Out to OITNB Lesbian Couple Celebrating Mother’s Day Together, This Week in Beyond the G – SouthFloridaGayNews.com

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From a Popular YouTuber Coming Out to OITNB Lesbian Couple Celebrating Mother’s Day Together, This Week in Beyond the G – SouthFloridaGayNews.com

This week read about Gigi Gorgeous Getty coming out as pansexual, Sports Illustrated copy chief talking about her asexuality, and Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli introducing their new daughter on Mother’s Day via social media.

Youtuber Gigi Gorgeous Comes Out as Pansexual

Transgender YouTuber Gigi Gorgeous Getty isn’t a stranger to the LGBT community. In fact, coming out as pansexual is the sensation’s fourth time coming out.

She came out as gay initially, before she realized she was transgender. Then, the YouTube star came out as gay again.

After doing some soul-searching with her significant other, Nats Getty, Gigi came out as pansexual.

“It was actually through my husband Nats that this kind of was unlocked inside of me,” she said in a YouTube video. “It’s always been there, this girl has always been inside of me, but it took this stage of my life really to open up, and I’m ready to share this with you guys.”

Nats recently came out as transgender and nonbinary.

“Over the years, I’ve realized that I didn’t fall in love with Nats because of his gender,” Gigi explained. “I fell in love with the person that he is. I just want to let everybody know that I am pansexual.”

First Mother’s Day as Mothers for OITNB Lesbian Couple

Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli. Photo via Instagram.

Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli, who both worked on Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” introduced the world to their new daughter on Mother’s Day via Instagram.

“Four weeks ago today, our daughter came into the world and changed everything. We are so happy, so grateful, and so tired,” Morelli wrote on Instagram.

George Elizabeth was born on April 11, 2021, but Morelli and Wiley waited until Mother’s Day to break the news to their followers.

“Welcome to the world, babygirl. We love you and we thank you for giving us the best 1st Mother’s Day two ladies could ask for,” Wiley captioned her Instagram post of her daughter.

Fans of the couple left thousands of comments between the two posts celebrating the baby’s birth and wishing the couple a happy first Mother’s Day.

Sports Illustrated Copy Chief Speaks Out About Her Asexuality

Julie Kliegman. Photo via @jmkliegman, Twitter.

Julie Kliegman doesn’t hold back when it comes to writing about hard-hitting topics like mental health and personal identity. In fact, she came out as asexual after writing about asexual “BoJack Horseman” character Todd Chavez for The Ringer.

“Asexual people, it’s not that they lack a sex drive, but they aren’t sexually attracted to people, or they’re varying degrees of sexually attracted to people, but not in a way — I don’t want to say ‘typical person’ in this way — but a ‘typical person’ is,” Kliegman said on an Outsports podcast. “But that doesn’t make them any less human.”

Kliegman is not only asexual but also nonbinary. She didn’t always know it though — it took a long time for her to realize her identity.

“I think once you think about that long enough, you’re like, ‘Oh wait, cisgender people don’t really spend that much time thinking about this today,’” Kliegman said. “It’s not that I always rejected the label of ‘woman,’ but I always knew in the back of my head that it didn’t perfectly fit me either.”

Each week ‘Beyond the G’ looks at news featuring the many letters of our LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

Online beauty pageant for LGBT community – Telangana Today

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Online beauty pageant for LGBT community – Telangana Today

Hyderabad: Positivity has become the most wanted trait during these tough times and providing a whole lot of it, acting as a distraction from the pandemic apart from as a platform for people from the LGBT community to showcase their talents, is Mobbera Foundation, a city-based NGO. An online beauty pageant is how Mobbera is spreading positive vibes, with this year being the second season of the pageant.

A unique element of this pageant, the first round of which concluded recently, is its emphasis on inclusivity.

“Beauty pageants are infamous for their exclusionary ways but in this one, we are striving hard to break social and patriarchal barriers. This pageant challenges social norms by providing an inclusive platform for everyone, irrespective of their age, gender or sexual orientation. That is why we have titles — Transface Mobbera, Unicorn Mobbera (gender-fluid), in addition to the traditional titles such as Miss and Mister,” shares Sandipan of Mobbera Foundation.

Going a step ahead this year, the event has an HIV positive participant as well, one who is not afraid of being vocal about the condition. “We are taking the inclusivity further this year,” said Sandipan.

According to Sandipan, they didn’t have plans of conducting the pageant this year but based on the requests they received, they decided to take it up.

“We got a lot of requests asking for the pageant and that is how we ended up doing it again. We got a higher number of participants this time and we are gearing up for the second round, where the participants can showcase their talent, irrespective of what it is,” says Sandy.

The final result of the pageant will be announced on May 23, after the third round as well.

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Codes to access “secret” categories on Netflix – The Artistree

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Codes to access “secret” categories on Netflix – The Artistree

This list compiled by technology experts will make life easier for those who do not have a clear idea of what to see, even those who are just looking to have a good time with their family.
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Netflix has become an “ocean” of content, which can often be confusing for the casual user of the streaming service, even when there are categories. The good news is that there are codes that allow access to “secret” collections when using the platform through a computer and a browser.

This title filtering works because each category is associated with a specific code. To use them, just add the code to the end of the following URL in the navigation bar: http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/, for example, http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/ 10118, in this case, the category Comics and superheroes movies will be accessed.

The following list presents the codes that order the titles in a more specific way that will make life easier for the undecided, for the most demanding, or for those who want to share the platform with the smallest of the home or with the whole family.

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Welsh bishops welcome proposed ban on gay conversion therapy – Episcopal News Service

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Welsh bishops welcome proposed ban on gay conversion therapy

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[Church in Wales] The Bench of Bishops in the Church in Wales welcomes the announcement in the Queen’s Speech that the United Kingdom Government will ban gay conversion therapy.

We believe that human sexuality is a gift of God to be cherished and honored. It is an intrinsic part of who we are as human beings and an expression of God’s glorious diversity in creation.

Anything which seeks to suggest that there is something inherently wrong or sinful in those who are non-heterosexual or which seeks to force people to try and change their sexuality is, we believe, wrong. It is both abusive and traumatizing; as those who have experienced such “therapy” can testify.

Read the entire article here.

US Restores LGBTQ+ Protections from Healthcare Discrimination – Verywell Health

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US Restores LGBTQ+ Protections from Healthcare Discrimination – Verywell Health

Key Takeaways

The HHS announced that the federal government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.
Several states have introduced or passed laws aimed at limiting health care for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Avoiding health care because of fear of discrimination can put LGBTQ+ people at risk of medical issues.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that it will take steps to protect gay and transgender individuals against discrimination in healthcare settings. This marks a reversal in rules set by the Trump administration in 2020.

The action by the Biden administration restores a policy established during former President Barack Obama’s administration. In 2016, the Obama administration introduced rules clarifying that LGBTQ+ individuals would be protected under the federal health care discrimination provision. Rules established by the Trump administration reversed provisions of the law that extended civil rights protections in health care to cover gender identity and abortion.

“The Supreme Court has made clear that people have a right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sex and receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in the agency’s statement. “Fear of discrimination can lead individuals to forgo care, which can have serious negative health consequences. It is the position of the Department of Health and Human Services that everyone—including LGBTQ people—should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.”

Experts praise the decision but stress that this is just the beginning for policies and work that needs to be done.

“This is an important and much welcomed first step,” Ellen LaPointe, CEO of Fenway Health, a multi-office medical practice that serves LGBTQ+ patients, tells Verywell. “But much more needs to be done to ensure that everyone—including the most marginalized and at-risk people in our communities—is afforded the same rights and access to healthcare.”

What Does the Rule Do?

In the HHS statement, Becerra states that the agency will now align with a Supreme Court workplace discrimination decision made last year. This case established that federal laws against sex discrimination on the job also apply to gay and transgender people.

Because of this, the HHS Office for Civil Rights will now begin investigating complaints of sex discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity once more.

“This is a critical moment for the LGBTQ community to know there are people fighting for them,” Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, division chief of adolescent medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, tells Verywell.

Paula Neira, JD, MSN, an attorney and the clinical program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health, tells Verywell that the action by the Biden administration potentially increases the consequences for healthcare providers, health systems, and insurance companies that discriminate.

Experts expect some state governments to legally challenge this rule.

Restricted Access to Health Care Under Trump

The Trump administration’s rollback of protections against discrimination in health care opened the door for a host of anti-transgender bills nationwide.

According to information from Fenway Health, since the rollback, over 250 anti-transgender bills have been filed, with eight signed into law and another 10 awaiting governors’ signatures. Examples include:

Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota have enacted laws permitting healthcare providers to deny service to LGBTQIA+ people
Arkansas enacted a law prohibiting the provision of gender-affirming health care (hormone therapy) to transgender and gender-diverse youth
Lawmakers in Montana passed a bill restricting access to gender-affirming health care for youth, but it has not yet been signed into law
An additional 35 bills have been filed that would restrict access to gender-affirming health care for youth; a bill filed in Alabama would make it a felony to do so

Denying medically appropriate health care to transgender youth leads to immediate harm, LaPointe says. Additionally, a 2020 study by researchers from The Fenway Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital found that lack of access to gender-affirming health care increases the odds of lifetime suicidal ideation.

Another 2020 study by researchers at The Fenway Institute published in LGBT Health found that frequent exposure to media coverage related to the filing of anti-transgender bills was associated with an 18% increase in symptoms of depression and a 26% increase in anxiety.

“As a physician, and as a queer person, I’m stymied that we continue to have this discussion,” Garofalo says. “Without these protections, we know that access to health care on the margins—which are the populations we’re talking about here—may choose to not seek out health care because they are worried about being turned away or being othered.”

More Work Needs to Be Done

“We’re celebrating this as a win, and yet all it does is open a door,” Garofalo says. “There’s still a lot to do to make sure everyone feels welcome coming through the door and is treated with empathy, cultural competency, and cultural respect.”

Many healthcare providers need to take personal steps to improve their care for people in the LGBTQ+ community.

“Healthcare providers may not be malicious, but may just not know how to provide culturally competent care for this population,” Christy Mallory, the legal director at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law, tells Verywell. “That’s sometimes exacerbated by the fact that people in the many people in the LGBTQ community tend to be insured at lower rates and many rely on Medicaid and other public benefits.”

LaPointe says many LGBTQ+ individuals may not even know that some private practices and academic medical centers may have healthcare providers who are themselves part of the community or simply enthusiastic to treat this community. “And the options have expanded with telehealth,” LaPointe says. “At Fenway, telehealth has vastly expanded our reach, especially where there may be no providers for someone to turn to.”

What This Means For You

If you are seeking care and have trouble finding a physician, reach out to academic medical centers near you and ask if they have a center or providers who specialize in LGBTQ+ care. You can also find a list of health providers who welcome members of the LGBTQ+ community here.

New Bachelorette Katie Thurston sorry for ‘hurting LGBT community’ – PinkNews

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New Bachelorette Katie Thurston sorry for ‘hurting LGBT community’ – PinkNews

Katie Thurston, the star of the upcoming season of The Bachelorette, has apologised for ‘hurting the LGBT+ community’ over an Instagram post with her friend Casandra Suarez. (Instagram/@thekatiethurston)

New Bachelorette star Katie Thurston has apologised after facing backlash from LGBT+ fans over an Instagram post.

Thurston was criticised for queerbaiting after sharing a photo of her friend, Bachelor contestant Casandra Suarez, kissing her on the neck.

The two were sitting in front of “Girls, girls, girls” sign, and the now-deleted post was captioned: “Whatever floats your boat”. Suarez reportedly commented: “So did Katie actually end up with me, yes or no?”

Many thought Thurston, who appeared on the 25th season of The Bachelor, might have been dropping hints about her sexuality, with some hopeful that the reality show might be featuring queer Bachelorette.

However, she clarified the post was not a “statement about my sexuality” and was “simply a friendship post”.

She continued: “I’ve never spoken publicly about my sexuality nor am I doing so with this picture. Nothing but love for everyone.”

Amid criticism, Thurston deleted the post and issued an apology after realising “how many people from the LGBTQ+ [community] I hurt”.

She said she “read the comments” and understood why “the post was “offensive”.

“I will continue to learn from my mistakes,” Thurston wrote. “I want to always be an ally and today I’m sorry I let you down.”

Thurston’s comments come shortly after former Bachelor star Colton Underwood came out as gay, becoming the first lead in the franchise’s history to do so.

Underwood also recently revealed that he was being threatened after someone saw him at a spa known for catering to gay clientele.

The unidentified person threatened to “out” the former NFL player and claimed to have nude pictures of him.

The incident led to Underwood coming out in an interview with Good Morning America – and to him winning his own Netflix reality show with “gay guide” Gus Kenworthy.

The Bachelorette season 17, starting Katie Thurston, is set to start on 7 June.

WATCH: The trailer for the steamy gay romance ‘Sublet’ has arrived – Queerty

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WATCH: The trailer for the steamy gay romance ‘Sublet’ has arrived – Queerty

Anyone starved for a bit of romance, listen up: the trailer for the new drama Sublet has arrived.

We covered the movie at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, where its story of a May-December romance won us over. Sublet follows a travel writer named Michael (played by the great John Benjamin Hickey) on a trip to Tel Aviv. While staying there he rents an AirBnB from Tomer (newcomer Niv Nissim), a sex-crazed 20-something who becomes his guide to the city. An odd relationship develops between the two as generational attitudes clash, and as both Tomer and Michael begin to confront their own hidden pain.

Written and directed by Eytan Fox, Sublet arrives in theatres June 11 and on VOD July 9.

Have a look. We know you’re getting thirsty.

Sunderland landmarks to be lit in rainbow colours in show of support for city’s LGBT community – Sunderland Echo

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Sunderland landmarks to be lit in rainbow colours in show of support for city’s LGBT community – Sunderland Echo

Sunderland City Council is backing International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) by raising the rainbow flag at the civic centre.

The Mayor of Sunderland, Councillor David Snowdon, joined in the efforts to show solidarity for sexual and gender diversity ahead of the day on Monday, May 17.

More than 100 people have been killed in violent scenes in Palestine

Her comments come after days of violence in Palestine and Israel. The outbreak of violence has been blamed on a number of issues, including legal efforts to forcibly evict Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem.

Tensions escalated further when Israeli forces stopped Palestinian people from celebrating Ramadan at Damascus Gate, an old city entrance where people often congregate at the end of the fasting period.

Israeli police subsequently raided Aqsa Mosque, which resulted in 330 Palestinians being wounded. On Friday (14 May), Gaza was bombarded with artillery by Israeli ground forces.

Authorities in Gaza said there have been more than 150 air strikes since violence broke out, while the Israeli military accused Hamas of firing 1,800 rockets.

While Meena Harris has expressed her support for Palestine, the White House has done no such thing.

Earlier this week, Joe Biden said: “One of the things that I have seen, thus far, is that there has not been a significant overreaction. The question is, how we get to a point where – they get to a point where there is a significant reduction in the attacks, particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired into population centres.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are still together proving true love isn’t dead – PopBuzz

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are still together proving true love isn’t dead – PopBuzz

14 May 2021, 17:15

Yes, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are still married. And yes, we’re crying happy tears about it.

Life can be unpredictable and volatile at times, but one thing you can rely on is Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s relationship. Can you believe the Scooby-Doo icons are STILL together? Yes, you might not know it, but Freddie and Sarah have one of Hollywood’s longest-lasting marriages and, seriously, nothing brings us more joy.

Freddie and Sarah’s love story started in 1997 on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer. The pair got engaged in April 2001 and got hitched in Mexico in September 2002. That means they’ve been married for 18 years. And in Hollywood, that’s literally a lifetime.

Now, you’re probably thinking that Freddie and Sarah fell for each other whilst playing lovers, however, the couple didn’t have a lot of scenes together in I Know What You Did Last Summer. Their relationship actually started as a friendship with Freddie giving Sarah lifts to and from the set because she couldn’t drive.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are still together. Picture: @sarahmgellar via Instagram, Warner Bros Pictures

“She didn’t have a driver’s license. She didn’t know how to drive. And we were shooting in Southport, North Carolina, which was an hour’s drive from the nearest Wilmington, which was the biggest city that was closest to us,” Freddie told US Weekly in April 2020.

“It was an hour drive just to get to the gym. And when we transported the film down to South Park, she had no way to get up there. So, I started driving her, and that’s when her and I became friends. And we just would talk about life and stuff like that, and we had completely different philosophies on just about everything. ‘Cause she was a born and raised New Yorker and I was a born and raised L.A. kid, and we just looked at everything like night and day.”

But wait, it gets even more adorable. Freddie and Sarah bonded over their mutual love of food (if you’ve peeped on Freddie’s Instagram you’ll know he’s an excellent chef). He continued: “By the end of the movie, I just wanted to be friends with her because I thought she was too skinny and I wanted to cook for her. Because that’s what my family does. And so, we started this weekly barbecue thing at her house, and me and my cousins would come over and cook food for her and her friends. And then we’d make sure everybody ate, and that was kind of how our friendship began.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Picture: Warner Bros Pictures

As they say, the rest is history. Freddie and Sarah have continued to thrive and now they have two children together: Charlotte, 11, and Rocky, 8. They’ve also gone on to star alongside each other in more movies and if you can work with your other half, you know your relationship is pretty solid.

Both have starred in She’s All That, Happily N’Ever After, Robot Chicken and Star Wars Rebels. And of course, how could we forget the Scooby-Doo franchise. Freddie played Fred Jones and Sarah played Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

When they’re not acting, you can find them on Instagram sharing cute snippets of their life and adorable throwbacks to their younger days. Honestly, your heart might explode.

Freddie Prinze Jr. & Sarah Michelle Gellar during Kid's Choice Awards — Freddie Prinze Jr. & Sarah Michelle Gellar during Kid’s Choice Awards. Picture:
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc

And the secret to keeping their relationship thriving in Hollywood? Well, Sarah has dropped some relationship gems. She told US Weekly: “It takes work to have a good friendship. You have to call and check in and dedicate that time, and most people aren’t willing to put that work in. So to have a successful relationship, whether it’s marriage, whether it’s friendship, whether it’s business, you have to put the time, if you want to see the results.”

She added: “To keep a relationship, you have to have stuff that’s private and things that are your own and between the two of you.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have been married since 2002. Picture: @sarahmgellar via Instagram

So ladies, I think we’ve all learned a valuable lesson here. If you want to have a successful and long-lasting relationship there’s a few things you need to do: Keep your relationship private, find someone willing to cook for you (but is also a very good actor) and, most importantly, throw away your driver’s license.

Piece of cake.

Gay penguins form couples at London aquarium ahead of mating season – Metro Weekly

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Gay penguins form couples at London aquarium ahead of mating season – Metro Weekly

gay, penguins — Gentoo penguins at Sea Life London Aquarium

A London aquarium will have a particularly special attraction for visitors when it reopens next week: two same-sex penguin couples.

Sea Life London Aquarium announced that four female penguins have formed two same-sex couples — Marmalade and Chickpea, and Marama and Rocky — ahead of the birds’ annual mating season.

According to BBC News, the penguins gift a pebble to a potential mate, which then forms part of their nest for eggs.

The aquarium said that same-sex pairings are common in penguins, with couples adopting eggs that have been abandoned by other birds.

“Without a doubt, our Gentoo penguins are one of our most loved creatures and we’re so pleased that we’re able to reopen our doors in time for guests to be able to witness their amazing courtship rituals,” Sea Life manager Catherine Pritchard said.

“Gentoo penguins are the ultimate romantics, and their dating techniques are truly unique — so much so that as humans, we could certainly learn a thing or two from their passion and commitment to finding a mate.

“As well as our male-female penguin couples, this breeding season we also have two female same-sex couples who are also going through their nesting rituals.”

In 2019, Sea Life London announced that Marama and Rocky would be raising their adopted hatchling “genderless,” something that is not unusual, because penguins often don’t show any signs of gender-specific behavior until they reach adulthood, according to Sea Life.

Last year, two female penguins at Oceanogràfic València in Spain celebrated the birth of a new chick that hatched from an egg they adopted and incubated together.

Lesbian couple Electra and Viola started building a nest together, which led zookeepers to provide them with an egg from another couple. They eventually welcomed a chick together on August 17.

Even though homosexuality is common in penguins, same-sex penguin couples have earned headlines in recent years. One pair of gay African penguins at the Netherlands’ DierenPark Amersfoort zoo gained notoriety in 2019 after grabbing another couple’s egg and trying to hatch it themselves.

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Joey from “Friends” was gay & closeted in joke cut from season 4 finale – LGBTQ Nation

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Joey from “Friends” was gay & closeted in joke cut from season 4 finale – LGBTQ Nation

A joke about Joey Tribbiani being gay was cut from an episode of Friends, an early version of the script revealed.

The magazine Grazia U.K. reported that a draft script for the season four finale, “The One With Ross’s Wedding,” had a joke in it where Phoebe said that Joey is gay. The draft was published as part of a book on the series.

In the episode, four of the six friends went to London for Ross’s wedding with Emily. Phoebe stayed behind because she was pregnant and Rachel stayed to help her… and because she didn’t want to attend ex-boyfriend Ross’s wedding.

Talking with Phoebe in New York City, she eventually realizes that she’s still in love with Ross.

“Oh my god. I still love him, don’t I?” Rachel says.

“Oh, sweetheart, you didn’t know?” Phoebe responds in the draft script.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Rachel asks.

“We thought you knew. It’s so obvious. Or, like, you know, ‘Monica likes things clean,’” Phoebe quips. In the aired version of the episode, that’s where the scene ends.

But in the draft script, she adds another joke: “Or ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay.’”

That joke was cut and some additional dialogue was added before the line about Monica liking things clean for the final version of the episode that aired.

Friends has faced criticism in recent years due to the show’s negative portrayal of LGBTQ people, including the dehumanizing way Chandler’s transgender parent was treated, the immature lesbian jokes Ross’s ex-wife Carol was the butt of, and the constant fear male characters in the show lived in of being thought of as gay, causing them to fear and laugh at boys and men who dance, take care of children, or play with dolls (gay, gay, and so gay that it’s OK to be mean to your own child over).

What’s unusual about Phoebe’s cut joke is that it was usually Ross and Chandler who were suspected of being gay, not womanizing Joey. And perhaps that’s why the joke didn’t make the final edit: it’s possible that Joey’s entire character was a carefully constructed facade for a closeted gay man, but that’s a long, arduous path for a sitcom to go down just for a rather un-funny zinger that isn’t even needed because it immediately followed one that made the same point.

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