A gunman killed two men outside a Tucson gay bar before fatally shooting himself in what police say was a targeted attack motivated by anti-LGBTQ hate.
According to Tucson police, officers were dispatched to Venture-N, a gay bar on Sixth Avenue, around 12:30 a.m. on August 31. They found three men with gunshot wounds in the bar's parking lot, including 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, who police say had confronted and shot the other two men before shooting himself.
Former Disney star Geno Segers has left the new Broadway cast of Hadestown, following backlash over social media videos in which he mocked transgender people and dismissed claims that their rights are under attack.
Segers, who previously starred in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings, was set to play Hades, god of the underworld, in the hit musical. According to the Broadway and community theater publication OnStage Blog, Segers had posted several videos to his social media channels with titles including "TRANS FAIRNESS?", "NO MORE TRANS?" and "HE...I MEAN SHE BROKE THE RECORD."
Lilly Wachowski is trying to get her latest project, The Hunted, into production. But the acclaimed filmmaker says no one in Hollywood wants to finance the film because of its all-trans cast.
"People like it, but they really don't want to make it because it's wall-to-wall trans cast," Wachowski, who came out as transgender in 2016, told KCRW's The Business podcast earlier this month. "I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people."