The award-winning drag icon, actor and playwright tackled the song, which was introduced in 1979’s “ The Muppet Movie ,” as part of his June cabaret engagement at New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below . That evening was captured for posterity on Busch’s album, “ Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below ,” which hits retailers Dec. 2.

More support for the LGBTQ community has come to light. Lexi Magnusson, 34, covered her lawn in 10,000 rainbow Christmas lights after her neighbor openly expressed homophobic opinions. Magnusson snapped a photo of her lovely display and posted it to the content-sharing site, Reddit, this week. “Our new neighbors are bigots. Since regular aggression leads to assault charges, I went with passive aggression. 10,000 lights later,” she said in the caption of the photo on Reddit.

2016 might be marred with tragedy, social injustice and the rise of a cringeworthy president-elect, but on the flip side, it’ll also be known as the year that gave us John Early. That said, the fact that Early’s work is only now finding its way into the mainstream is a downright shame. The gay actor-comedian, 28, has been eliciting howls on the national stand-up circuit for years.

Billboard peak: No. 1 Wherever you are, the opening pings of the organ in "Like a Prayer" are like a call to action. If you're in public when it begins on your iPod, shove your hands in your pockets immediately to keep from undulating like a member of the song's gospel choir. If you're in a karaoke bar, someone better grab that microphone pronto, before another cross erupts into flames as penance for your pop-music sins. That's because "Like a Prayer" is among the best pop songs of all time.

Donald Trump has settled on billionaire Besty DeVos as his choice for Secretary of Education, a woman with her own, long anti-LGBTQ record. I’ll get to her further down, but first it’s important, because it reflects on Trump’s first instincts, to focus on the man who appears to have been Trump’s initialchoice for the job, and who says he passed on it: Loyal supporter and campaigner, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell, Jr.

And then, after all of this ridiculousness, you don’t even have the guts to sign your name and instead close with “A former Prairie School Student and Huge Donald Trump Support [sic] and Huge Supporter of the Christian Coalition.” Apparently you started a petition to get me fired because of my anti-Trump posts on Facebook and because you “don’t like Jewish people” and you “don’t like” me.

A Republican politician who sent sexual text messages to a teen boy said in a new interview that he is “not gay.” Mike Yenni, the president of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, who is married to a woman,admitted last month to exchanging “improper texts” with a boy who was 17 at the time, calling it a “bad decision” and saying he regretted his actions. He was the mayor of Kenner, Louisiana, when the exchange took place.

To the world, Taylor Swift is a country-pop,occasionally divisivesuperstar whose talent is matched only by white-hot ambition. But to Tyler Conroy, she’ll always be a role model who helped him through some of the darkest periods in his adolescence.

As we prepare for the many frightening ways the Trump/Pence administration may affectthe LGBTQ community ― and all minority groups ― it’s important that we begin to consider the best way to allocate funds, time and resources to protect the most vulnerable Americans.

President-elect Donald Trump spent the weekendderiding the Broadway show “Hamilton”on Twitter after the audience booed the arrival of Vice President-elect Mike Pence and the cast asked him to“work on behalf of all of us.” Trump tweeted that the “theater must always be a safe and special place,” though he ridiculed the notion of political correctnessthroughout his campaign.