LGBTQ Brief October 16, 2019

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A federal judge has overturned Obamacare's transgender protections Judge O'Connor was appointed to the federal bench by former president George W. Bush, who was in the news last week for his friendship with daytime talk show host Ellen Degeneres. The 4th Democratic debate ended with a question about Ellen & people are mad about it The hosts didn't ask about climate change, immigration, or LGBTQ issues. But they asked about Ellen. Billy Porter will play the fairy godmother in the upcoming ‘Cinderella’ movie You might know him best from the TV series "Pose" and his repeated slayings of red carpets. Milo Yiannopoulos apparently sold his website because he’s starved for cash He was just saying that he couldn't "put food on the table." Now he has sold his website. Is he done? Saudi police arrest gay 23-year-old for wearing a swimsuit The police say he was arrested for "indecency," but he thinks he was targeted for being gay. A gay man was beaten, dragged & robbed after refusing to perform oral sex on a stranger “When I looked back, he grabbed his [genitals] and said, ‘You want this?’ I didn’t pay attention to it,” the victim said. You can buy official Golden Girls Halloween costumes now Will you be Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, or Sophia? Dave Chappelle said he ‘tested’ his jokes with trans comedian Daphne Dorman. She just died. Dorman posted her suicide note on Facebook and leaves behind a young daughter. The ballroom scene has been a place for LGBTQ people of color to grow for decades "Just seeing the joy and excitement of people when they hit the back of that runway, their talents come to life. It's overjoying for me." Ellen is so desperate to move past George W. Bush criticism that she kissed Howard Stern "Listen, I don't want to make you throw up or anything," Stern told Ellen.