Arts & Entertainment
‘GOT’ star Sophie Turner says she’s ‘experimented’ with her sexuality
‘I love a soul, not a gender’
Actress Sophie Turner opened up about experimenting with her sexuality in an interview with Rolling Stone.
The 23-year-old “Games of Thrones” star, who is engaged to Joe Jonas, explained how she knew that Jonas was the one.
“I think once youāve found the right person, you just know. I feel like Iām much older a soul than I am in age. I feel like Iāve lived enough life to know,” Turner says. “Iāve met enough guys to know ā Iāve met enough girls to know.”
When asked to clarify her comment about girls, Turner said “Everyone experiments. Itās part of growing up. I love a soul, not a gender.”
Fans were thrilled she got candid about her sexuality and praised Turner on social media.
sophie turner came out
— kiara (@asongofsansa) March 26, 2019
another win for the gays āØ
SOPHIE TURNER LOWKEY CAME OUT. I KNEW IT. I FUCKING KNEW IT.
— Ų§Ų³Ś©Ų§Ų± ŁŲ§ŪŁŲÆ? (@Olafindisguise) March 26, 2019
DID SOPHIE TURNER JUST CAME OUT OMG ADJSKFLSGMDL I'M SO HAPPY pic.twitter.com/0UVEsh72vB
— gabi; -71 dark phoenix; -19 game of thrones s8 (@sebshouIt) March 26, 2019
sophie turner really came out the gays keep on winning pic.twitter.com/0YbpWCb6bH
— rachel weiszās wife (@RETR0SES) March 26, 2019
However, other people didn’t think it was right to label Turner’s sexuality when she didn’t put a label on it.
Sophie Turner said she experimented as āpart of growing upā and everyoneās out here going āshe came out as bi ?!!ā so friendly reminder that bisexuality is not an experiment, a rite of passage for confirming being straight, or a synonym for questioning
— Emily M (@emilynm41) March 27, 2019
what sophie said is very validating for a lot of people and thatās cool but she sure didnāt label herself as pan or bi so itās probably not cute to act like she did
— david roseās b&w sweaters (@carrieandleia) March 26, 2019
sophie turner did NOT label her sexuality. this does not mean you can label it for her. sheās a real person not a fictional character.
— molls (@Igbtmaisie) March 26, 2019
Celebrity News
More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio
Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday
An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.
Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s HonĆ³rio Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.
Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman MĆ“nica BenĆcio, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.
“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” saidĀ AssociaƧao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association ofĀ TravestisĀ and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on itsĀ X account.Ā “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”
The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.
The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Covering Gay Day at the Zoo for @WashBlade . Here at @NationalZooDC pic.twitter.com/LqgGNOOAiM
— Michael Patrick Key (@MichaelKeyWB) May 5, 2024
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PHOTOS: Taste of Point
Annual fundraiser held for LGBTQ youth scholarship, mentorship organization
The Point Foundation held its annual Taste of Point fundraiser at Room & Board on May 2.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)