When Stripping Goes Really, Really Wrong

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        When Stripping Goes Really, Really Wrong
    In this clip from the HereTV series Work in Progress, a strained strip tease goes awry when a client reveals a secret. 
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Watch the first three episodes of the new queer comedy Work In Progress for free on HereTV. 

        
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When Stripping Goes Really, Really Wrong

In this clip from the HereTV series Work in Progress, a strained strip tease goes awry when a client reveals a secret.

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When Stripping Goes Really, Really Wrong

In this clip from the HereTV series Work in Progress, a strained strip tease goes awry when a client reveals a secret.

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Bottcher, a gay Democrat, easily won the state Senate seat last week.

It was supposed to be the event's 35th anniversary in June.

The hit show is an unexpected invitation for some older gay hockey fans to reflect on love, acceptance, and coming out.

Opinion: Bad Bunny proved through color, dance, and inclusion that love is more powerful than hate, writes John Casey.

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Most Popular

Turning Point USA is organizing a show headlined by Kid Rock for right-wingers upset with Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Opinion: "I have no problem with lip syncing, but you'd think the side that hates drag queens so much would have a little more shame about it," writes Ryan Adamczeski.

Opinion: The speaker reads the Trump Bible, while Pope Leo uses the King James Version, which teaches love, compassion, and acceptance, writes John Casey.

This pansexual skater is heating up the ice!

These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.

Strayhorn wrote many of Ellington's big hits and lived as an out gay man in mid-century America.