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Out actor Luke Evans plays Wonder Woman's poly creator while out director Angela Robinson helms. 

The big-screen incarnation of Wonder Woman, from director Patty Jenkins, dominated the box office and the pop culture zeitgeist early this summer. But this October, look for a whole different kind of a Wonder Woman-themed movie, this one with a central LGBT storyline, from a lesbian director and a primarily female and queer producing team that also stars an out actor. The trailer for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, about William Moulton Marston, the man who created the Wonder Woman comics in the 1940s, his wife, and the Tufts University student with whom they enter into a polyamorous relationship dropped Tuesday and has already raked in nearly 1.5 million views.

The film, which explores the love affair between Harvard psychologist and inventor Marston, played by out actor Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast, The Girl on the Train); his wife, Elizabeth, played by Rebecca Hall (Christine, The Town, Vicky Cristina Barcelona); and the student Olive, played by Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) also delves into S&M and bondage, which were prevalent in the their private lives as well as in the original, scandalous for the time, comics. 

If the subject matter and star weren’t enough of an LGBT draw, the film is helmed by Angela Robinson, director of the queer-themed feature D.E.B.S. as well as several episodes of The L Word, True Blood, and How to Get Away With Murder.  Add to all of this the fact that the film was produced by Transparent and I Love Dick creator Jill Soloway; veteran producer Andrea Sperling, who’s been producing LGBT content for decades, including the beloved comedy But I’m a Cheerleader, D.E.B.S., Transparent, and I Love Dick; and Clare Munn, a producer who despite her body of work has made headlines primarily for her relationship with actress Maria Bello. 

Additionally, the always-welcomed Connie Britton (American Horror Story, Friday Night Lights, Nashville) costars as the woman who represents the moral majority of the era, interrogating Marston about the kinks in his comic book. 

Watch the trailer below. 

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Is the Year's Queerest Movie

Founders of San Diego's IndieFest, this bisexual couple faced down homophobia, discrimination, a seven year delay, and death itself in pursuit of family. 

Bisexual musicians Danielle LoPresti, 48, and Alicia Champion, 35, (who also identifies as nonbinary) became a couple the same year they launched San Diego’s IndieFest, a popular music fest that brings together LGBT and mainstream artists and fans.

Since 2004, IndieFest has grown from a small get together to one of San Diego’s premier events. While falling in love and putting on an annual festival, Champion and LoPresti were also dreaming of building their family. But it wouldn’t be until 2011 that their dreams began coming true. The couple, who married in 2014 and are now working on adopting a second child, share their story — and how it almost became a tragedy.

LoPresti: Once Alicia and I created IndieFest in 2004 and began the 10-year process of growing it, I felt like we became part of a San Diego family larger than anything we’d experienced before. It was beautiful, the way so many different people came together to stone-soup our way from one year to the next of celebrating the best of our communities. The closeness created over those years still informs our sense of what is possible when people join around a shared vision. What many people did not know was that for seven of those years, we were trying to adopt a child, something that had been a fantasy of mine since I was a kid. What we did not know was that we were walking a treacherous road — one filled with so many heartbreaks that I quite literally felt, those last two years, that I might not survive the process.

Champion: As a same-sex couple we ran into many hurdles not customary for heterosexual pairs. Because most countries — at the time — did not view us equally, I was irrelevant on paper. Danielle essentially applied for adoption as a single mother in every country we attempted — from Eastern Europe, Africa, Central America. Because of this, my financial information couldn’t be contributed to the household income requirements. We lived with a male housemate at the time, a dear friend of ours, whom I had to say on paper was my boyfriend to justify the three of us living under one roof on the applications. In the interviews, I had to vouch for Danielle’s ability to parent as a “friend,” not her partner, and I of course was never interviewed as a potential parent. It sucked.

LoPresti: We started looking internationally after a terrible experience I had with my first social worker at San Diego County adoptions, who actually told me I may never be seen fit to parent. After seven years of failed attempts and rejections, I felt like I was slowly dying of a broken heart. This feeling was actually the motivating force behind two decisions that eventually helped us break through the red tape that had been holding us back. First I found a free support group, though San Diego Youth Services, of adoptive parents. I will never forget the first day I went. When it was my turn to talk, I opened my mouth, began to cry, and asked for positive stories. I shared that for six years, all I’d been hearing was one sad, tragic, or negative thing after another. And I desperately needed to hear what I knew was out there — the happy stories of families being built. For over an hour one woman after another thrilled me with the most magnificent success stories of their kiddos and how their families came to be. These same women became mentors, angels, and the light at the end of a horribly long tunnel.

Next, in 2010, I went back to San Diego County Adoptions, reported what happened in my last experience, and asked to be assigned to someone different who would treat Alicia and I with respect. Once these two things happened, everything began to change for us. Now we could pursue adoption as a couple. Along with concurrent planning, we became part of the voluntary relinquishment program at San Diego County. We were told again and again that it could be years longer before we’d be matched. But finally, after only six more months, our luck changed, and Lucian was born into our lives.

Champion: This was also the first time both Danielle and I got to apply as a couple — as registered domestic partners, because Prop. 8 was in effect.

LoPresti: We named him Xander Lucian LoPresti-Champion, but call him “Lucian,” our light. To this day we maintain a close and loving relationship with his birth family. From the very first days of his life, Lucian began hearing his story. Adoption is celebrated in every way in our home. It’s the symbol of our worldview — family happens when love grows between beings. The presence or absence of blood ties have absolutely no bearing on what makes family for us. It’s love. It may sound like a gay Hallmark card, but the truth is, once you’ve lived this, you know with 100 percent surety that love does make a family. Magical, scary, transformative, boundary-busting love. And oh, my God, are we ever lucky to have finally found it.

Champion: We were on cloud nine for a long time, even with the sleep deprivation and hardship of learning how to be professional musicians within this new paradigm of motherhood. We gratefully thought that the worst was behind us, when Danielle developed a terrible cough. It lasted for a couple of months before she saw a doctor because we both just thought she was run down from the sleep deprivation. But then, on her birthday in 2013, when Lucian was just a year and a half, she was diagnosed with a hybrid form of lymphoma.

Mediastinal diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with some characteristics of Hodgkin disease, stage III B was the diagnosis. [That was an advanced stage of cancer.] Stunningly, there were seven tumors in her body; the biggest one was the size and shape of my heart, lodged between her heart and breast bone. We were utterly terrified. After almost a decade of being together, after those seven long, painful years searching for our little guy, this is one challenge we never anticipated would be part of our story.

LoPresti: All this trauma has morphed into a constant awareness of the miracles that led to where we are now. Not because we “make” ourselves think this way, but because it’s become our central truth. How can we survive so much disappointment and loss and not remember every single day how lucky we are that our child is finally here? The cancer, on top of all this, only further cemented what lies at the heart of the LoPresti-Champion family: gratitude. Total, absolute, unforgettable gratitude — for our son, for our marriage, for our lives.

Carter wrote a heartfelt post about how he'd been carrying a weight for half of his life. 

Singer Aaron Carter (Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter’s younger brother) came out as bisexual in a heartfelt Twitter post this weekend. Carter, 29, who recorded four studio albums and dated the likes of Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan at the peak of his career in the early to mid-2000s, wrote that he’d been carrying a weight around with him since he’d discovered he was attracted to men and women in his adolescence but that he couldn’t be open about it, according to People.

“There’s something I’d like to say that I feel is important for myself and my identity that has been weighing on my chest for nearly half of my life,” Carter wrote. “I grew up in the entertainment industry at a very young age, and when I was around 13-years-old I started to find boys and girls attractive.” 

Carter has been out of the public eye for several years, although he did make news in 2016 when he revealed that he would no longer support Donald Trump in the election, although he had previously backed him. 

Last month Carter made headlines when he was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, although he said that he was not under the influence but having car troubles, according to People. In June he was hospitalized for exhaustion. 

Carter’s post indicated he’s moving toward living openly and honestly, writing that he never wants to be a “figure of disappointment.” 

He ended the note with a Boy George quote. “I never felt as though I didn’t belong. I just acted as though I did,” Carter wrote, quoting George. 

Read Carter’s full coming-out post below. 

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— Aaron Carter (@aaroncarter) August 6, 2017

Carter wrote a heartfelt post about how he'd been carrying a weight for half of his life. 

Singer Aaron Carter (Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter’s younger brother) came out as bisexual in a heartfelt Twitter post this weekend. Carter, 29, who recorded four studio albums and dated the likes of Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan at the peak of his career in the early to mid-2000s, wrote that he’d been carrying a weight around with him since he’d discovered he was attracted to men and women in his adolescence but that he couldn’t be open about it, according to People.

“There’s something I’d like to say that I feel is important for myself and my identity that has been weighing on my chest for nearly half of my life,” Carter wrote. “I grew up in the entertainment industry at a very young age, and when I was around 13-years-old I started to find boys and girls attractive.” 

Carter has been out of the public eye for several years, although he did make news in 2016 when he revealed that he would no longer support Donald Trump in the election, although he had previously backed him. 

Last month Carter made headlines when he was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, although he said that he was not under the influence but having car troubles, according to People. In June he was hospitalized for exhaustion. 

Carter’s post indicated he’s moving toward living openly and honestly, writing that he never wants to be a “figure of disappointment.” 

He ended the note with a Boy George quote. “I never felt as though I didn’t belong. I just acted as though I did,” Carter wrote, quoting George. 

Read Carter’s full coming-out post below. 

pic.twitter.com/Zi6ahCtk4U

— Aaron Carter (@aaroncarter) August 6, 2017

Carter wrote a heartfelt post about how he'd been carrying a weight for half of his life. 

Singer Aaron Carter (Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter’s younger brother) came out as bisexual in a heartfelt Twitter post this weekend. Carter, 29, who recorded four studio albums and dated the likes of Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan at the peak of his career in the early to mid-2000s, wrote that he’d been carrying a weight around with him since he’d discovered he was attracted to men and women in his adolescence but that he couldn’t be open about it, according to People.

“There’s something I’d like to say that I feel is important for myself and my identity that has been weighing on my chest for nearly half of my life,” Carter wrote. “I grew up in the entertainment industry at a very young age, and when I was around 13-years-old I started to find boys and girls attractive.” 

Carter has been out of the public eye for several years, although he did make news in 2016 when he revealed that he would no longer support Donald Trump in the election, although he had previously backed him. 

Last month Carter made headlines when he was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, although he said that he was not under the influence but having car troubles, according to People. In June he was hospitalized for exhaustion. 

Carter’s post indicated he’s moving toward living openly and honestly, writing that he never wants to be a “figure of disappointment.” 

He ended the note with a Boy George quote. “I never felt as though I didn’t belong. I just acted as though I did,” Carter wrote, quoting George. 

Read Carter’s full coming-out post below. 

pic.twitter.com/Zi6ahCtk4U

— Aaron Carter (@aaroncarter) August 6, 2017

At least the network is not moving forward with a completely de-gayed version of the series. 

There is good and bad news for Xena: Warrior Princess fans who were thrilled about the proposed reboot on NBC. First the bad news  — the reboot of the beloved series that captured fans’ hearts in the ’90s has been nixed in its present form, but the good news is that writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who was committed to fully exploring a romantic relationship between Xena and Gabrielle, played by Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor respectively in the original, exited the project in April over "creative differences." So at least the network isn't moving forward with someone else's possibly less queer vision. 

NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke announced this week that the project was dead. "Nothing is happening on that right now. We looked at some material; we decided at that point that it didn't warrant the reboot," she told The Hollywood Reporter."I'd never say never on that one because it's such a beloved title, but the current incarnation of it is dead."

But Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, The 100) was intent on playing out the relationship between Xena and Gabrielle that was touched upon but never fully explored in the series that ran for six seasons, from 1995 to 2001. When he left the project in April he wrote: 

“I’m heartbroken to have left the Xena project over insurmountable creative differences. The character is dear to me, and to millions of fans worldwide, and I truly believe that now — more than ever — a land in turmoil cries out for a hero. I truly hope that the alchemy of creative elements that has to come together to make possible either a reboot or revival of this amazing property will someday coalesce, and that Xena will return in a way that does honor to what came before while looking to the future.” 

While he didn’t cite the queer relationship as a reason for his departure, in a 2016 interview he made it clear that the romance was central to his vision. 

"There is no reason to bring back Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s," Grillo-Marxuach said. 

Grillo-Marxuach, who is a producer on the CW’s dystopian sci-fi series The 100 and who wrote the episode in which lead character Clarke’s female love interest was callously killed off immediately after the pair had consummated their relationship, was at the center of the backlash from that episode and vowed to do better in his depiction of queer characters moving forward. 

“I think it was a failure to recognize the cultural impact that this would have outside the context of the show,” he said of the episode. “The systemic failure to recognize it as an event of the magnitude that it would have … is the real subject of discussion. Perhaps if we knew, why did we still go through with it? Why did it not register with us? I think that’s a bigger issue.”

So while a Xena reboot that would have starred a new actress in the title role was highly anticipated, at least there is no plan to move forward with a story that fails to acknowledge the love between Xena and Gabrielle in palpable ways. 

NBC's Xena Reboot Is Dead, But It Might Not Be the Worst Thing for Queer Fans 

Most of us can't get to Toronto, but these movies should soon be arriving at your local theater.

The Toronto International Film Festival is a strong predictor of award winners to come.

Call Me By Your Name

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

A Fantastic Woman

Disobedience

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

My Days of Mercy

BPM

Gaga: Five Foot Two

Battle of the Sexes

The Gospel According to Andre

A Worthy Companion

Porcupine Lake

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Thelma

The Poet and the Boy

Montana

Occidental

17 LGBT Movies at the Toronto Film Festival to Watch

Most of us can't get to Toronto, but these movies should soon be arriving at your local theater.

This Week in the Resistance: Bisexual Edition

GLAAD Celebrates BiWeek With Alan Cumming and Other Celebs

The onetime campaign adviser to Donald Trump weighs in on rumors regarding his sexuality.

Days before Donald Trump's "dirty trickster" Roger Stone testified to Congress regarding his alleged role in the hacking of emails related to the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Republican adviser and conspiracy theorist announced he's "trysexual."

Stone was approached by activist Jeff 4 Justice in Los Angeles September 16; Stone was planning to attend a cannabis convention in the city but was disinvited after an uproar ensued over his long history of racist and sexist comments. Jeff 4 Justice asked Stone about rumors regarding his bisexuality, specifically insinuations in the recent Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone.

"Why is that anyone's business?" Stone says, as Jeff 4 Justice reminds him that's he's a public figure — one accused of colluding with Wikileaks to sink Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. "I'm a great believer, but here's the truth: I'm trysexual. I've tried everything." (See the video below.)

In his video, Jeff 4 Justice reiterates why it's important that Stone's sexuality is exposed.

"I think it's very relevant when you have people who in their own private lives are living sexually wild lives and yet they use their time, talent, and treasure to elevate people to power who utilize the religious right to go and do horrible things to other people," the activist says.

So what is a trysexual? Is it a kind of bisexuality?

"Stone's alleged sexual activity may or may not correspond with his sexual identity," bisexual activist Eliel Cruz tells The Advocate."He may have experimented and found it wasn't for him or he may actively engage in sex with men while not claiming a bisexual identity. Whether or not Stone is bisexual, his ideology and policies are dangerous to large swaths of people — including the LGBT community. That's far more important." 

October is LGBT History Month. Here are 20 queer women who paved the way in their fields of work. 

Queer Women from History Who Paved the Way

Astronaut Sally Ride

Model, Spy, and Arts Patron Toto Koopman

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry

Philanthropist and Arts Patron Winaretta Singer

Broadcaster and Journalist Nancy Spain

Journalist Lorena Hickok

Journalist Edythe Eyde

Nurse Florence Nightingale

Athlete and Professional Golfer Babe Didrikson

Politician Barbara Jordan

Building Manager, Artist, and Activist Louise Lawrence

First Lady and Diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt

Poet, Diarist, and Teacher Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Actress and Politician Nancy Kulp

Anthropologist Margaret Mead

Writer and Costume Designer Mercedes De Acosta

TV Journalist and Anchorwoman Jessica Savitch

Blues Singer Gladys Bentley

Director Dorothy Arzner

Nightclub Performer, Lecturer, and Author Christine Jorgensen

20 Queer Historic Heroines

October is LGBT History Month. Here are 20 queer women who paved the way in their fields of work.

Watch what happens when Kate McKinnon volunteers to help the women uncover their sexuality.

Wonder Woman was a huge box office success. And an island full of strong women has a certain appeal that sent two lesbians — played by Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon — in search of Themyscira. 

In the sketch, Emmy-winning out comedian McKinnon volunteered to help Diana Prince determine her sexuality. It turns out neither feels a thing. Just a reminder, though, that the Wonder Woman character actually is bisexual— even if it’s not included in the blockbuster film. 

Comic book writer Greg Rucka acknowledged her bisexuality in a 2015 interview: “Are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women? …The answer is obviously yes.”

Watch Bryant and McKinnon wash up on the shores of Themyscira in search of answers in the video below.

SNL Sends Lesbians in Search of Wonder Woman's All-Women Island

"Do I tell him on the first date? Do I disclose to her after our first kiss?" The answers are never simple, writes Ariel Sobel.

When my mother visits my first real apartment, she comes with questions. Are you eating enough? Why don’t you have a vacuum? Where’s your toaster? Did you miss me?

But they’re not just for me, they’re for my friends. My straight male friends. Is Ariel cleaning her bedroom? Who's she dating? Who shouldn't she be dating? I sit at my kitchen table as the woman who gave birth to me and the boys who've seen me impregnated by too many burrito food babies toss around my sexuality over quiche. Three years into being an out bisexual, it’s old news. But my mom has a new question. So, as a guy, would you honestly want to know the girl you’re dating was bi?

The question is pointed, and I know exactly which direction it's leading. My adoring mother has been trying to protect me from the lethal Los Angeles dating game for years. Her number one defense: Don’t tell men you date women. She believes that to get a second date, I need to hold the first one in the closet.

The first time I came out, it was at a different kitchen table. A shitty college table; the room beginning to accelerate, fueled by very shitty college vodka. “I’m bisexual,” I said. Not much of a story.

As much as the LGBT community celebrates our momentous coming out memories, mine, from the phone call to my mom that started with “Please don’t be upset but…” to finally changing my “interested in” section on Facebook, has been insignificant. Rather than the first time I came out, I tend to focus on deciding on the next time I will have to.

When you’re bisexual, Coming Out Day is a lot like Groundhog Day. It happens over and over and over again.

Everyone you will eventually fall in love with is in truth a stranger, and stranger for whom you open emotional doors for until there’s an undeniable, terrifying intimacy. But as a bisexual woman, I have to actively decide to open a door that most people forget is a door — the closet. And it can be made of heavy, heart-pounding mahogany.

Do I tell him on the first date? Do I disclose to her after our first kiss? Or do I wait until we are bound by so many intricate memories that my bisexuality is just a stitch in the quilt of our relationship?

When is the right time? Is there a right time?

One of my guy friends is all about it. I think it’s hot, he tells my mom. She’s shocked. I’m not. I’ve dated guys who’ve been very into it, sometimes alarmingly so. Who? Where? What did you do? How did you do it? They never ask me to go into details about screwing other guys. But the image of me and another girl is a sexy scene they want me to play over and over.

But I don’t feel sexy. I feel like a fetish, or something worse. Who’s best in bed? Me, obviously. Have you ever had a threesome? Yes, you, me, and all my multiple personalities are about to get it on.

When did you know you liked girls? a fling probes, my naked body pressed against his chest. When I ask why he wants to know, he says it’s interesting. Interesting has a hollowness, a sense of shame. It’s the kind of word you use to describe an exhibit or podcast. Not the girl moments ago you called brilliant. Not the woman who makes you stay.

I start to tell him about the time I slept with my best friend freshman year, chanting I’m not gay like a priestess chasing off demons. I start to tell him about realizing I'm in love with my roommate and throwing up so brutally, breathing so full of panic until I was just a giant, terrified exhale. I finish telling him that no matter how far I wander from the first time, that saying I’m queer will always taste a little like yesterday’s shame.

I say witty things. Snarky things. I say I’m bisexual, by the way.

I’ve got all the retorts, all the ways to sass up my sexuality. I also have the silence. The "entire relationship and never telling him I’m queer" silence. The “I don’t want her to think I’m not queer enough” screeching silence.

But since I’ve started working full-time for The Advocate, I’ve lost my timing. Or at least control of it. What do you do? They ask. I write for a gay magazine, I answer. There it is, right out there on the table. So I offer up something else to chew on. I write from experience ...  from experiences I’ve had and am trying to have, or at least understand.

Somehow, coming out is easier when it isn’t a choice. Just like being queer is when you accept that it isn’t either. Being bisexual is much like my job here. It’s something I have to do. Not for anyone else. For myself.

And if someone doesn’t like it, why should I like them? And if someone thinks it’s sexy, I should too. The intense, rambling, unapologetically silly way I love other people certainly is.

This National Coming Out Day, people will tell the stories of finding the right letters to spell out their sexualities and also share how the people they love most read them. But, when I wake up tomorrow and have to restart this never-ending holiday, I won’t be giving the gift of my identity to other people. I’m giving it to myself.

ARIEL SOBEL is an editorial assistant for The Advocate.

Marvel Gets Its First LGBT Character in Thor: Ragnarok

Arizona senator Jeff Flake announced he's retiring, which improves the chances of Kyrsten Sinema capturing his seat next year. 

Although many were touched by Republican Senator Jeff Flake's passionate announcement that he will not seek re-election because of frustration over President Trump, the Democratic candidate for his seat, Kyrsten Sinema, may be moved the most. Sinema, who made headlines when she became the nation's first openly bisexual congresswoman in 2012, is that much closer to breaking the glass sexuality ceiling in the Senate. 

Sinema has a good shot at winning the Senate seat now that she no longer has to face an incumbent. It's not clear who Sinema will face in the November 2018 election, though conservative Kelli Ward is hoping to be the state's Republican nominee for the seat. A recent poll showed Sinema as much more popular than Ward; Sinema easily won reelection in 2014 and 2016.

Sinema is known for being a deft fundraiser with moderate politics that play well in the purple state of Arizona. Many have been moved by Sinema's compelling childhood — she spent three years living in an abandoned gas station while her family struggled with poverty. However, she is no by-the-book Democrat; she didn't vote for Nancy Pelosi as House leader and was a shaky supporter of Hillary Clinton. Sinema also known for leaning across the aisle, voting for Republican-led legislation about half the time.

Sinema, 41, is a supporter of women's rights though, listing equal pay, parental leave, child care, and women's health as priorities. Jobs, education, national security, and supporting veterans are other issues Sinema says she's passionate about.

Although the state hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1988, the state voted for Trump by a slim margin and he remains unpopular there. 

Sinema first publically announced she was a member of the LGBT community in 2005 after a Republican congressman insulted sexual minorities in a speech. "We're simply people like everyone else who want and deserve respect," she told reporters. When further pressed about her own sexuality, she replied, "Duh, I'm bisexual."

Should Sinema be elected next year, she would become the second out LGBT person elected to the Senate, following Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin.

Bi Congresswoman Has Real Shot at Being Elected Senator

The bisexual actor has been dropped from the independent feature film Raising Buchanan. 

Andy Dick is the latest Hollywood player facing accusations of being a sexual predator.

The bisexual actor has been fired from an independent film after people on set claimed he sexually harassed them, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Although the entertainment publication does not have statements from the alleged victims, two sources said Dick groped people's genitals and made unwanted advances such as kissing and licking at least four members of the production. 

Dick has denied groping anyone, but says it's possible he sexually harassed them in other ways: "I might have kissed somebody on the cheek to say goodbye and then licked them. That's my thing — I licked Carrie Fisher at a roast. It's me being funny. I'm not trying to sexually harass people," he told the Reporter.

Dick, who has a well-documented history of offending people in and out of court, joked about his reputation, stating, "My middle name is 'misconduct.' They know what they signed up for." He continued, "I don't grope people anymore. I don't expose myself anymore," referencing onstage acts where he has exposed his genitals. 

The actor claims that these allegations are a result of his defending disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein on set in Arizona. "They were so incensed by what I was saying. People are so sensitive," he said. The men made two films together.

The harassment claims was not the only problem Andy Dick had on the set of Raising Buchanan — he showed up a day late to the set after missing a flight, had not memorized his lines, and brought a friend who disrupted takes by snoring during shooting. Dick also admitted to asking people to have sex with him on set: "Of course I'm going to proposition people. I'm single, depressed, lonely and trying to get a date. They can just say no, and they probably did and then I was done."​

Dick said that if he is faced with more allegations he will retire, but if not, he will continue to promote his new documentary, Everybody Has an Andy Dick Story.

Andy Dick Fired From Movie After Sexual Harassment Accusations

The actress convinced Thor's director to shoot a scene that would have shown Valkyrie's queerness, but it was cut from the film. 

Straightwashing and bi erasure in Hollywood are real, quantifiable phenomenon. Now Thor: Ragnorak star Tessa Thompson, who plays the fearless Valkyrie, a character who is bisexual in the comics, has confirmed that a scene she convinced director Taika Waititi to shoot that would have confirmed her character’s queerness was left on the cutting room floor. 

Thompson, who proclaimed on Twitter last month that her character was bisexual and said that she played her that way, told Rolling Stone that she convinced Waititi to shoot a scene that depicted a woman leaving Valkyrie's bedroom, which did not make the final cut of the movie because “it distracted from the scene's vital exposition,” according to the publication. 

The actress, best known for Dear White People, Creed, and Westworld, said she was inspired by an illustration in the comics of her character and the anthropologist Annabelle Riggs. "There's this great illustration of them in a kiss," she said. 

[RELATED: 19 Queer Characters Straightwashed for TV and Film]

While the scene of Valkyrie’s female romantic partner exiting her bedroom was cut from the film, Thompson said, "There were things that we talked about that we allowed to exist in the characterization, but maybe not be explicit in the film.” She then described a flashback scene in which Cate Blanchett’s villainous Goddess of Death murders Valkyrie’s warrior clan. 

“There's a great shot of me falling back from one of my sisters who's just been slain. In my mind, that was my lover,” Thompson told Rolling Stone. 

It’s not unusual for entire storylines to be cut from the final version of a film, but the choice to cut out a key scene confirming Valkyrie’s attraction to women feeds into the larger Hollywood problem of bi-erasure and straightwashing that’s been a staple of big-screen adaptations of other source material for decades. 

This summer, the big screen adaptation of Wonder Woman, which drew raves and big box office, failed in terms of portraying its titular character as bisexual as she’s depicted in the comics. But Wonder Woman wasn’t the first female superhero whose bisexuality was erased. Mystique, played by Rebecca Romijn and Jennifer Lawrence in the X-Men franchise, was completely de-queered by the time she hit the big screen. 

But queer erasure goes back to the beginning of film and television. Quite famously, the female lead characters of Fried Green Tomatoes, who engaged in a years-long romantic relationship in the book, were depicted as just friends in the film from 1991. Meanwhile the big-screen Troy turned a romantic relationship between Brad Pitt’s Achilles and the character Patroclus into simply a friendship. 

While Valkyrie’s bisexuality was not depicted openly in Thor: Ragnorak, in theaters this weekend, Thompson, who is slated to appear in Avengers: Infinity War, told Rolling Stone that she hopes her character’s sexuality is fully depicted in the future. 

A Scene Cut From Thor: Ragnorak Bi-Erased Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie 

After being tortured by the tabloids, Al Reynolds is embracing his identity.

Al Reynolds, the ex-husband of former The View co-host Star Jones, has come out as bisexual.

During Jones's tenure on The View, tabloids often wrote about her husband's sexual orientation.

"Ever since I have been in the public eye, people have been speculating on my sexuality. And ‘speculating’ is a kind word for how it actually played out. With anger and disdain, people have been calling me out as gay, closeted, a sham and even nastier; much nastier," Reynolds told RadarOnline.com, "Today, I accept myself as a bisexual man. I have learned that sexual orientation is not binary, at least for me. I am capable of loving both sexes, and I have done both."

Jones and Reynolds divorced in 2008.

When explaining why he remained in the closet so long, Reynolds said, "I am the youngest of six children in a Southern Baptist family. We grew up in a three-bedroom mobile home in Horsepasture, Virginia. We were deeply religious; when we weren’t in church we were in school or an after-school activity."

His conservative Christian beginnings let to him feeling being bisexual was a sin. "People who were intimate with others of their own gender were the worst of all with no chance of redemption, or the glorious afterlife that I was taught awaited us all."

In the interview, Reynolds also described how race played a strong role in his struggle with homophobia: "As a black man, that message and the hate and homophobia were multiplied to the nth degree."

Now Reynolds is embracing his bisexuality. He told RadarOnline.com, "I will not live in fear or shame any longer. I will revel in the light of my truth and bask in the light of my Savior Jesus Christ who loves me and accepts me exactly as He created me."

Al Reynolds, Ex-Husband of Star Jones, Comes Out As Bi

Video provided by The LGBT Community Center in New York.