LGBTQ news and entertainment
Some news stories to start your week:
• PEOPLE: Country superstar Dolly Parton accepted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a video message on Sunday Nov. 16 at the 2025 Governors Awards.
The win marks the first Oscar for Parton, who has twice been nominated for Best Original Song. Continue reading “Dolly Parton’s 1st Oscar + CHESS Opens On Bway + More News”
Rounding up some news items for you as we head into the weekend:
• TIME: The U.S. has turned its back on LGBTQ asylum seekers.
• TikTok: A MAGA TikTok user had a meltdown over a trans man wearing a pink dress sporting facial hair using the ladies room at a Barnes & Noble. The bathroom user told the woman he was assigned female at birth. Isn’t this what transphobes want? People using the bathroom that aligns with the gender they were assigned at birth? Continue reading “US Turning Its Back On LGBTQ Asylum Seekers + More News”
From the Chicago Tribune:
Business leaders in Chicago’s largest LGBTQ neighborhood announced Wednesday that they would stop marketing the area as Boystown, following complaints that the 30-year-old name excludes women and gender nonbinary people.
Boystown will be called Northalsted and promoted as “Chicago’s Proudest Neighborhood,” according to a statement released Wednesday by the Northalsted Business Alliance, the local chamber of commerce.
The announcement follows an online survey by the Northalsted Business Alliance, answered by 7,900 people.
Of those survey-takers, 58% favored keeping the Boystown moniker and 20% said they felt unwelcomed by the Boystown name, according to Northalsted Business Alliance spokesperson Jen Gordon.
The push for changing the neighborhood’s name began with a Change.org petition which currently has 1,400+ signatures. However, a competing petition – which calls for keeping the Boystown moniker – has over 2,000 signatures.
In this week’s podcast: • For the first time, HIV appears to be eradicated using only medications • Poland’s anti-LGBTQ president squeaks out reelection • White House press secretary raises eye-brows claiming Donald Trump’s “pro-LGBTQ” agenda • Chicago’s Boystown may get a new name All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report
Dallas’ LGBT community seems under siege by attackers in the city’s gayborhood of Oak Lawn which has seen over a dozen violent attacks in recent months.
Via Dallas Morning News:
Geoffrey Hubbard reportedly left work at the Tap House bar on Cedar Springs Road to have drinks with friends. Someone struck him in the head about 11:15 p.m. in the 3200 block of Knight Street, police said.
Hubbard rolled under a SUV parked nearby to protect himself.
“He grabbed my pocket and was trying to grab my wallet and I kicked him off and just yelled for help,”he told WFAA from his hospital room at Baylor University Medical Center.
An off-duty police officer happened to be driving in the area and helped Hubbard.
He remained in the ICU this morning with a skull fracture, according to WFAA.
Oak Lawn’s LGBT community was already on edge because of at least 10 attacks on people since September.
In one of the attacks, four men beat a man using a baseball bat after the gay pride parade and then robbed him. Police were investigating that attack as a hate crime because the suspects reportedly made “numerous derogatory statements referencing the victim’s perceived sexual orientation.”