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A gay couple hugging in front of a church in Mexico was sprayed with what appeared to be "holy water" by a woman who accused them of spreading immorality to the country’s youth. I’m going to call the police,” the woman said in Spanish while spraying the couple and making the sign of the cross. Posted over the weekend, the video had nearly 400,000 views as of Wednesday afternoon. Leonardo Hernandez, who posted the video, can be heard telling the woman in Spanish, “It is bad to hate, lady.”A bystander intervened to defend the couple, telling the woman, “They are not doing anything. Love is love.”

A former New York weatherman who alleged in September that he was fired after someone sent nude webcam photos of him to his employer is speaking out against online “predators” following months of silence. After he learned the photos were taken, Adame asked Unit 4 Media for more information about the user who shared them. It is also unclear if the “pictures and videos” Adame refers to in his latest Instagram post are the same images referred to in the petition or additional images. Toward the end of his latest video, Adame shared a message with his followers. Adame told NBC News that he still hasn’t found work since his departure from NY1.

November marks Native American Heritage Month, and the following 10 LGBTQ+ Indigenous trailblazers are bringing important representation to TV, challenging traditional gender expectations at powwows and elevating issues affecting Indigenous people, such as the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via AP fileRep. Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk nation, became the first LGBTQ Native American elected to Congress and one of the first Native American women to serve in Congress after winning her race for Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District in 2018. Scott, of Aurora, Colorado, who uses she and they pronouns, leverages her platform to highlight issues affecting the queer Indigenous community. “I just want to flood the industry with Indigenous people, Indigenous models, Indigenous stories, and Indigenous designers.”Kali Reis (KO)Kali Reis, who is Seaconke Wampanaak and Cape Verdean, is a trailblazing Indigenous two-spirit athlete who wears many hats. Native American Heritage Month invites non-Native folks in joining us in recognizing our histories and celebrating our communities.

The top runners in the New York City Marathon’s nonbinary division won cash prizes Sunday, a first for a World Marathon Majors race. Instead, it reported, the nonprofit New York Road Runners awarded the monetary prizes to the top nonbinary finishers. Last year, the NYC Marathon recognized its first nonbinary division winner, Zackary Harris, but the division did not receive a monetary prize. Harris came in second place in the nonbinary division this year, with a time of 3:09:41. Of the six World Marathon Majors races, five of them — New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin — have recently added a nonbinary category.

A former Miss Argentina and an ex-Miss Puerto Rico announced on Instagram over the weekend that they are married. The video included in their post features a montage of them traveling, their candlelit marriage proposal and a kiss outside a courthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Varela, 26, and Valentín, 22, appear to have met last March, when they competed in the Miss Grand International beauty pageant in Thailand. !” And Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2017 Danna Hernández commented, “Beautiful couple congratulations and blessings on your marriage!!! Same-sex marriage has been legal in Puerto Rico since 2015 as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.

A Hampton University football player came out publicly as gay, a first for a football player at a historically Black college or university, according to Outsports.com, an LGBTQ sports news site. Byron Perkins, a Division I defensive back for the Hampton University Pirates, came out as gay in an Instagram story shared Wednesday. Perkins told Outsports that he’d like to help other gay Black men who are struggling with their sexuality. “There hasn’t been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. “I’m sure the young man has heard his fair share of slurs from teammates unaware that he is gay.

Congressional Republicans introduced what some are calling a national version of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill — or what critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It would prohibit schools, for example, from providing sex education or library books that include LGBTQ topics to children under 10. Advocates say the law stigmatizes LGBTQ families and queer youths, who already face disproportionate rates of bullying and harassment at school. Let’s call this what it is, a national ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.”But some advocates say the federal bill would actually go further than Florida’s measure, because its impacts would extend outside just classrooms to any institution, program or event that receives federal funding or takes place on federal property. “No child should ever be exposed to sexual exhibitions like drag shows in public places, whether that’s at a public library or a public park,” he said.

California high school senior Landon Jones, 18, said he’s been bullied by his classmates since the fifth grade. “Does Landon live here?” the young man can be heard saying. His dad responds, “Yes, why?”“Someone said to come up here,” the young man can be heard mumbling, before loudly yelling, “because he’s a faggot!” and running off the property. Jones’ dad said the young man ran off and got in on the passenger side of a black Lincoln Navigator before it drove off. LGBTQ middle school students reported higher instances of bullying (65%) than those in high school (49%).

Drag entertainer and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alumnus Shangela made history Monday night on the hit competition show “Dancing With the Stars.”On the show’s 31st season premiere, Shangela, whose real name is D.J. Pierce, became the first drag queen to compete in the U.S. version of the international franchise. “We’ve never had anyone like Shangela,” Savchenko, who has been part of the show since season 16, said in an interview with E! The international “Dancing With the Stars” franchise is no stranger to bending gender norms. And in 2018, gay fashion designer Giovanni Ciacci and his dance partner, Raimondo Todaro, made history on the Italian version of “Dancing With the Stars” as the first male couple to compete regularly throughout the season.

A drag queen took concert-goers and security guards for a spin after Lady Gaga’s concert in Miami on Saturday. After Gaga’s final stop on her Chromatica Ball tour, held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, drag queen and Lady Gaga impersonator Penelopy Jean was seen being swarmed by concert attendees and several security guards in a now-viral Twitter video. “I’m a drag queen. I’m a drag queen,” Jean can be heard telling the large group following her. “I was leaving with my friends, and when I turned around, I saw six security guards with me.

News centered on the trans community is often dominated by such trends, but across the country, grassroots nonprofit groups led by transgender people are creating spaces for their communities to find safety and joy. Here are 11 grassroots groups that do just that by providing their communities with home-cooked meals, health care, space for creativity and other services. Transgender Education Network of Texas — Austin, TexasThe Transgender Education Network of Texas at a protest last year. Jamil-Jack AbreuThe group provides free chest binders to transmasculine people nationwide and Thanksgiving meals to those who need them. The Black trans-led LGBTQ organization provides low-barrier shelter to those experiencing homelessness, transitional housing, middle-age housing and senior housing.

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