Florida This article is more than 9 months oldDisney World hosts LGBTQ+ conference amid DeSantis crackdown on rightsThis article is more than 9 months oldHosting of Out and Equal Workplace summit is seen as response to governor’s fight against LGBTQ+ rights in Florida Disney is pushing back against Florida’s rightwing Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by hosting a major LGBTQ+ conference. The Out & Equal Workplace summit has touted itself as the “largest LGBTQ+ conference in the world” and draws more than 5,000 attendees annually.

UK newsLawrence 'obscenities' finally get a showingA collection of paintings went on display yesterday - more than 70 years after the images were banned - but there is no sell-by date on obscenity. In June 1929 a squad of embarrassed policemen raided the Warren gallery in London, and seized 13 paintings by DH Lawrence. They were spared from being burned on condition that they were never exhibited in Britain again.

SculptureObituaryRuth Ziolkowski obituaryDriving force behind a decades-long project to sculpt a vast memorial to Crazy Horse out of the Black Hills of DakotaRuth Ziolkowski, who has died aged 87, spent much of her life helping her husband, the Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, to achieve his dream of transforming a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota into a colossal sculpture depicting the 19th-century Oglala Lakota war chief Crazy Horse. When Korczak died in 1982, the project could have foundered; it had been in progress for 34 years and still, despite vast quantities of rock having been blasted away, the pink granite crag did not look even remotely like a warrior on horseback.

XFLXFL and USFL announce new, merged spring football leagueThe United Football League to kickoff in March 20242023 XFL and USFL champions will play in opening gameThe latest edition of a spring football league will be called the “United Football League”, after the merged XFL-USFL leagues confirmed they will be merging. Former XFL president/CEO Russ Brandon will hold the same position in the UFL. Former USFL president of football operations and current Fox Sports broadcaster Daryl Johnston will lead the new league’s football operations, the league announced in a press release.

ShortcutsSoap operaIt’s been suggested that soaps are in crisis because their ratings-chasing storylines have become too ridiculous. But it’s the unbelievable plot twists that we watch them for According to the writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson, it’s time for soaps to tone things down. The likes of Coronation Street and EastEnders are in crisis, he says in the latest issue of the Radio Times, because they are “[piling] catastrophe after crisis on the best-known characters” in order to boost flagging ratings.