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Brooke Sopelsa

Brooke Sopelsa

Editorial Director, NBC Out at NBC News Online - New York Office

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  • English
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  • LGBT
  • General Assignment News
  • Entertainment
  • Politics

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Jodie Foster, Colman Domingo join short list of LGBTQ Oscar nominees - NBC News

Straight actors have a long history of being recognized by the Academy Awards for playing gay characters, but the list of openly LGBTQ actors who have had such recognition is much shorter. This year, however, Colman Domingo and Jodie Foster have joined that exclusive club. Domingo received a nomination for best actor in a leading role for playing the title character in “Rustin,” Netflix’s biopic about the gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the a…
11 months ago
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Kristen Stewart and ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ co-star on bringing lesbia...

“Love Lies Bleeding,” starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager besotted with a wayward female bodybuilder, is neither for the prudish nor the faint of heart. Set in the late 1980s in an unnamed Southwestern locale, the gritty, bloody anti-romance could arguably be described as a cross between “Thelma and Louise” and “Natural Born Killers.” The soul-crushing power of love — both romantic and familial — is a theme woven throughout the film, which debuts Friday. The central characters, Lou (Stew…
10 months ago
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Lady Gaga calls out ‘hatred’ over trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney's...

Pop star Lady Gaga did not mince words in a lengthy Instagram message Monday calling out the negative responses to an International Women’s Day post she was featured in last week with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The initial post, shared Friday from Mulvaney’s Instagram account, included several images and a video of Mulvaney and Lady Gaga with a message that said, “Happy international women’s day.” The day is celebrated annually on March 8. The post garnered more than 340,000 likes an…
10 months ago
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Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds

The percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in the U.S. continues to increase, reaching an all-time high of 7.6% in 2023, according to a new Gallup report. Broken down by gender, the survey of 12,000 people 18 and older across the country found that women were nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ. “Almost 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+, most as bisexual,” Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup, told NBC News. “That’s where a lot of the growth see…
10 months ago
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Australian soccer player is engaged after proposing to his boyfrien...

Josh Cavallo, Australia’s first openly gay professional soccer player, is engaged to his boyfriend after proposing on the soccer pitch. The Adelaide United player, who came out in 2021, shared the good news on social media. “Starting this year with my fiancé,” he wrote on Instagram Thursday. “Mr & Mr Coming soon.” He then thanked his soccer team for its “endless support.” “You have provided a safe space in football, one that I never in my dreams thought could ever be possible, and encouraged me…
10 months ago
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North Carolina Catholic school didn’t violate the law by firing gay...

A Roman Catholic high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, did not violate federal civil rights law by firing a gay teacher after he announced that he would marry his same-sex partner, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling. Lonnie Billard, a longtime teacher at Charlotte Catholic High School, shared a post on Facebook in 2014, shortly after the state legalized same-sex marriage, saying that he and his partner were engaged. He was fired several weeks later. Bi…
8 months ago
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Dakota Johnson plays a late-blooming lesbian in ‘Am I OK?’

In the newly dropped trailer for the Max comedy “Am I OK?” Dakota Johnson’s character, Lucy, laments, “I’m 32 years old; I should have figured this out by now.” What Lucy is seemingly figuring out, albeit later than some, is her sexuality. The revelation that she’s a lesbian appears to come as a surprise to Lucy, but not to her best friend, Jane (Sonoya Mizuno). When Lucy asks her friend if she ever suspected her to be gay, Jane replies, “You did want a Volvo in high school.” Lucy responds, in…
7 months ago
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UFC fighter says he’ll home-school son so he doesn’t ‘end up turnin...

American mixed martial artist Bryce Mitchell said he will be home-schooling his infant son because he doesn’t “want him to be gay.” “We’re going to have to home-school all our kids or they’re all going to end up turning gay,” Mitchell, 29, said in an Instagram video Wednesday while holding his son, Tucker, who he said was born on March 29. “That’s the reason I’m going to home-school Tucker, because I don’t want him to be a communist. I don’t want him to worship Satan. I don’t want him to be gay.…
7 months ago
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LGBTQ Pride Month: Everything you should know about its history

Here are the answers to some of the most common questions about LGBTQ Pride Month, annual LGBTQ Pride parades and the iconic 1969 Stonewall uprising. What is LGBTQ Pride Month? LGBTQ Pride Month is a commemoration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community that is part celebration and part protest. It is often associated with massive parades and parties that honor the community’s joys and accomplishments. But the rallies, marches and political actions can be just as important…
7 months ago
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Judge Rules HIV-Positive Americans Cannot Be Banned from Joining Mi...

The ruling strikes down the last remaining policy preventing asymptomatic HIV-positive people from military enlistment, service and promotion.
4 months ago
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Hundreds get honorable discharges after Pentagon 'don't ask, don't ...

More than 13,000 service members were forced out of the military under the now-defunct policy, which prohibited gay and lesbian members of the military from being open about their sexual orientation.
2 months ago