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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for December 5 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation banning all LGBT "propaganda" on Sunday, according to Russian media. The far-reaching bill prohibits the creation or sharing of content depicting nontraditional sexual relations, gender reassignment and pedophilia in a positive lights, according to state-run media. The law reportedly extends to social media platforms, as well as mass media like films and advertisement. The law also has a provision pertaining to minors and empowers to country's media watchdog to implement systems preventing minors from viewing such content. The law went into effect the same day it was signed, on Sunday. USDA BLAMES RUSSIA FOR RISING PRICE OF THANKSGIVING DINNER Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the country's transport … [Read more...] about Vladimir Putin bans all ‘LGBT propaganda’ in far-reaching move

Julio Ramirez died in the back seat of a taxi in April after he left a popular gay bar in Manhattan with a group of men. They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body in the car with a distressed cabdriver. One month later, John Umberger was found dead in an Upper East Side townhouse after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar just three blocks from the last place Mr. Ramirez was seen alive. Surveillance footage showed Mr. Umberger sandwiched between the men as they guided him into a car. The Police Department and many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community at first regarded the deaths as isolated drug overdoses: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedies in a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the coronavirus pandemic has waned. But the men’s families soon discovered something more sinister: Credit cards in the men’s names were maxed out and their bank accounts drained of tens of thousands of dollars. Now, their deaths are being … [Read more...] about Druggings, Deaths and Robberies Put New York’s Gay Community on Edge

The deadly shooting at Club Q, one of the few refuges for L.G.B.T.Q. people in Colorado Springs, came at a time when drag events, and the venues that host them, have been subject to frequent threats across the United States. Drag events, which range beyond nightclub performances to include brunches and readings for children at libraries, have faced complaints for years , and have lately become a subject of increasing focus by right-wing protesters and media figures. In states across the country, drag events have been threatened with violence in recent months. Some have been canceled over safety concerns; others have been disrupted by protesters. An event in Oregon last month drew about 200 demonstrators , some of whom carried semiautomatic rifles. The Proud Boys, a far-right nationalist group, has protested events in California , Maryland and North Carolina . Club Q was scheduled to host a drag brunch on Sunday, marking Transgender Day of Remembrance, which commemorates … [Read more...] about Drag events across the country have often faced threats in recent years.

Once upon a time, at a public library in San Francisco, a drag queen arrived at story time and read to the children she met there. The children — no strangers to playing make believe — had fun, and soon the idea of drag queens hosting story time spread to New York. It was an unconventional idea, both for the normally staid libraries and the drag queens, many of whom were more accustomed to hosting night-life events than M.C.-ing daytime singalongs. But it quickly caught on. Today, four years after that first event, drag performers regularly entertain children at libraries and community centers in progressive enclaves like New York and Los Angeles as well as red-state towns like Juneau, Alaska , and Lincoln, Neb. But as the popularity of drag queen story time has grown, so has the backlash. It has emerged in liberal bastions like Brooklyn and more conservative towns like Cookeville, Tenn., with critics objecting to both the performers and the books they read, … [Read more...] about Drag Queen Story Hour Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash

COLORADO SPRINGS — The grief swirling through Colorado Springs’s tight-knit L.G.B.T.Q. community was still raw when Kevin Dexter gathered his staff members at Shuga’s, an eclectic downtown restaurant, to decide whether to open on Sunday. “We’re a queer staff,” said Mr. Dexter, who owns the restaurant with his husband. Many of his line cooks, waiters and bartenders knew people who had been inside Club Q when it was attacked , or knew some of the five people killed. Another gay bar downtown had closed in mourning as vigils took place across the city. But the workers at Shuga’s decided they would serve dinner in a kind of defiant love for their community, which has not always felt welcome in the county, a conservative area that was once a center of anti-gay activism . “We can be scared, or we can not run,” said Gerson Castillo, 31, a bartender who helped keep the restaurant running late into the night. “As terrifying as it is, we face this danger every single day.” All … [Read more...] about Colorado Springs’s gay community mourns friends, and a sense of safety.

COLORADO SPRINGS — A man shrouded in body armor and wielding an AR-15 style rifle attacked an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs on Saturday night, in a rampage that killed at least five people and injured at least 25 others. At least one person inside the nightclub, Club Q, tackled and subdued the gunman, the authorities said, helping to prevent further bloodshed. Mayor John Suthers of Colorado Springs said that a man had grabbed a handgun from the gunman and then hit him with it, subduing him. When the police burst into the club, the man was still on top of gunman, pinning him down, Mr. Suthers said. The owners of the club, who had looked at surveillance tape, lauded the actions of two patrons whom they said they did not know but who, together, had overpowered the gunman and held him on the floor until police arrived. “One customer took down the gunman and was assisted by another,” said Matthew Haynes, one of the club owners. Referring to the first person who acted, Mr. … [Read more...] about At Least 5 Dead and 25 Injured in Gunman’s Rampage at an L.G.B.T.Q. Club in Colorado