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A series of wildfires continue to rage in the Los Angeles area, driven by dry conditions and high winds.
Unquestionably one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in recent U.S. history these fires are impacting hundreds of thousands of Southern California residents. According to The Advocate, "at least five people are dead and nearly 180,000 are under evacuation orders as multiple fires continue to spread in the Los Angeles area."
Given its proximity to the epicenter of everything, entertainment means that a number of LGBTQ+ stars who we love and follow have also been impacted by evacuations or even in some cases, heartbreakingly, losing thier homes to the fires. Here are the members of our community who have taken to social media to share how the fires have personally affected them.
For those in the affected area, here is a list of resources for assistance and information as well as information about how folks outside can lend a helping hand.
Chrishell Stause and G Flip
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Chrishell Stause and her spouse G Flip were forced to evacuate their home in the Hollywood Hills. Each posted to their Instagram stories sharing that they and their dog Gracie were safe.
Scott Evans
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Out actor Scott Evans shared that he evacuated his home along with his dog to a hotel and were safe. He also shared a shocking video of the popular hiking area Runyon Canyon ablaze with the caption “Anyone around Runyon Canyon, get out now.”
Gina Yashere
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Comic Gina Yashere shared the heartbreaking news that her home in Altadena was one of the houses lost to the Eaton Fire. “Despite this fuckin devastating loss, I'm glad all our friends and neighbours are safe. We put our hearts & souls into our home, & built many beautiful memories there & we are heartbroken, but at the same time we feel lucky. Love you all,” she wrote in the caption alongside a video.
Holland Taylor
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Actor Holland Taylor shared a photo of the fires burning near her neighborhood, sharing that she evacuated. “My street as I evacuated last night. Had the winds been what they were a mere 12 hours before, we would have lost our entire canyonette. Grateful beyond words- horrified by catastrophic unimaginable loss of homes of several THOUSANDS of families,” she wrote in the caption.
Rosie O’Donnell
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Rosie O’Donnell shared a haunting video on TikTok of the devastation in Malibu. “On pch in malibu — the whole of beach front homes gone — including the one i lived in,” she wrote in the caption.
on pch in malibu - the whole of beach front homes gone - including the one i lived in #thankyoufirefighters
Later on Instagram, she shared that she had evacuated safely to a hotel.
Farrah Moan
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RuPaul’s Drag Race star Farrah Moan posted a series of stories detailing her evacuation with her dog Mika. The two made it safely to a hotel.
Scarlett Bobo
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Canada’s Drag Race star Scarlett Bobo shared a video of fire lighting up the night sky in the distance, sharing that she had evacuated her home. “Just got evacuated from the Runyon Canyon fire. This is the most devastating event I’ve ever physically witnessed. I’m praying for everyone who’s been affected and everyone who’s evacuating. Pray for everyone in California check in on your friends in family. We’re safe. STAY SAFE! PROTECT YOUR COMMINUTY!!!” she wrote in the caption.
Rebel Wilson
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The out actor Rebel Wilson posted a photo of the fire on her Instagram Stories thanking her friend Ornela for saving her cat.
Fergie
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While singer Fergie has not personally posted about the fire, TMZ reported that her house was in the path of the quickly moving flames.
Dove Cameron
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Queer singer Dove Cameron shared that while she was out of the country her cousin who first fled to her home was now evacuating again. She shared a photo of him packing things up. “Taking my cat & a few childhood memories. Thank you to everyone who’s reached out, we’re safe & we weren’t in the country when it began. Praying that our home stays safe as these fires remain uncontained & praying for everyone who’s lost everything.”
Harvey Guillén
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Actor Harvey Guillén shared a terrifying video of the flames coming close to his home but with a hopeful message. “Thank u everyone who has reached out … the flames reached my back yard early this morning .. thank you to the amazing firefighters and volunteers. And thank u to my family who is safe and sound. We’re not out of the woods yet .. but keeping a positive attitude. Stay safe out there. Love you,” he wrote in the caption.
Emma Hunton
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Actress Emma Hunton, like so many, had to evacuate the fires. She shared that she was safe in her Instagram stories.
“Thank you to everyone who has reached out, we are currently in the middle of evacuating and trying to get out of Hollywood but traffic is bumper to bumper. Stay safe out there everyone and stay vigilant,” she wrote in her first Story. “Bowie and I are safe. Eating home cooked potatoes and trying to stay positive. Sending love to everyone affected by these horrible fires.” she later added.
Margaret Cho
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Margaret Cho evacuated her home in Altadena and shared a photo of her cat Sacre Coeur who had hopped into her carrier in anticipation of leaving. “Sacre Coeur knew something was up so she got right into her carrier ready to evacuate! Animals are so wise. We are safe and sound. I don’t care about anything except my cats and my dog. I said goodbye to my house and thanked it for its service. All that matters is me and my babies are ok. Stay safe out there!,” wrote Cho in a post on Instagram.
Cho followed it up with an update, sharing that for the time being her home is safe. “My house is ok for right now. I’m just at the edge of the evacuation zone so I came back to assess. Thanks for all your support! We will get through this!,” she wrote.
Candis Cayne
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Actor and activist Candis Cayne shared that she and her daughter Charlie had evacuated her home in Altadena and that she feared that her home was gone. "I'm not sure if I’ll have Casa Cayne to come home too, in Altadena. My beloved Altadena. I still don’t know if my house is gone, it doesn’t look good. Charlie and I are safe,” she wrote on Instagram.
Julianne Hough
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Julianne Hough shared a series of videos about her decision to evacuate her Hollywood home, and encourage others in the area to do the same. “OK, so, there is a fire right by my house,” she says in the video. “We’re with friends, but anybody that’s in the Hollywood Hills, I’ve just been having this intuitive feeling that we’re in a bowl of how everything is surrounding Hollywood, and now this is at the center of Hollywood. Everybody needs to just evacuate. Go, go, go, go, go. Right now.”
She followed this with a video of her and her dog Sunny in her car leaving “Sunny and I are safe and we’re driving, but the reason why I say ‘evacuate now’ even if it’s not close to you, if you have somewhere to go, because: There’s traffic,” she said. “And you’re gonna be stuck in traffic. And that is not good. So everybody, just please be safe and send prayers to all of the first responders and firefighters and just come together — you know, like, all you can do is be there for each other.”
Gabby Windey
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Reality star Gabby Windey shared that she and her girlfriend Robby Hoffman had evacuated their home “due to heavy smoke and no power.”
“Feel incredibly lucky we have somewhere to go and praying for the everyone losing their homes, fire fighters and medical staff and patients,” she wrote in her Instagram stories.
11 times J.K. Rowling did something wildly transphobic, ranked
J.K. Rowling attends day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 20, 2025 in Ascot, England.
This story originally appeared on Out.
For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on social media, written a nearly 4,000-word anti-trans manifesto, donated some of her fortune to anti-trans causes, regularly misgenders trans women, and gleefully celebrates every time the transgender community has their rights stripped away.
The author, once revered for creating an inclusive fantasy world where good triumphs over evil, let her LGBTQ+ fans down by consistently doubling down on her transphobic rhetoric. She has painted trans women as predators who are lying about their gender to take away women’s rights and enter women’s spaces under false pretenses. This dangerous vitriol has even caused many of the stars of the Harry Potter franchise to come forward and call her out for her anti-trans takes.
For queer and trans fans of Harry Potter, this abrupt turn was jarring and has undermined their love of a fictional world where marginalized groups are loved and fought for. But Rowling hasn’t just disappointed her fans by spreading her hateful views; she’s also done so in some of the most bizarre ways, leaving many people not just outraged, but scratching their heads.
11. Tone deaf Dolly Parton tribute
Rowling joined the world in mourning Dolly Parton by posting a tribute on X that backfired when the country music legend’s fans came out in droves to point out that Parton loved the LGBTQ+ community and wouldn’t have supported Rowling’s TERF views.
After Parton fans flooded Rowling’s comment section with messages like, “She certainly would have thought of you as a nasty, hateful woman. Nice little tweet though,” Rowling attempted to hit back after a user called her “a fucking monster” by posting, “Well, joke’s on you, because neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”
10. Accidentally wrote “f*ck up some TERFs” on a child’s drawing
Seemingly by mistake, Rowling replied to post on X about a nine-year-old kid’s drawing of Ickabog, a monster from her children’s book, by including text she likely meant to copy and paste elsewhere.
“I love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes, and terrifying bloodstained teeth! In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f*** up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. #TheIckabog.”
Internet sleuths figured out that in the post, Rowling was misgendering Tara Wolf, a trans woman accused of assaulting Maria MacLachlan, who was at an anti-trans protest in 2017.
9. Accused Olympic boxer Imane Khelif of being trans
When Algerian boxer Imane Khelif took home gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Rowling joined fellow wealthy bigot Elon Musk in spreading the rumor that the cisgender boxer was secretly a man, leaning hard into the ever-present transphobia and anti-intersex hate in women's sports.
Even after both Rowling and Musk were named in a criminal complaint filed with French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment,” Rowling refused to let it go and continued to post anti-trans posts accusing Khelif of lying about her gender.
8. Transvestigated another athlete
Less than five months after harassing Olympic boxer Imane Khelif for supposedly being trans, Rowling joined in on another transvestigation of a woman in sports when she accused cisgender Zambian soccer player Barbra Banda of secretly being a man — she is not.
Rowling took exception to the BBC naming Banda the 2024 Women’s Footballer of the Year. “Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces," Rowling wrote on X.
7. Smoked a cigar to celebrate being a TERF
After donating £70,000 (roughly $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 to help them fight against a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women, Rowling celebrated in a ghoulish way when the U.K. Supreme Court decided that trans women aren’t considered women under the nation’s Equality Act.
Rowling responded to the court decision by posting a photo of herself with a drink in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other. While people like right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly commented “God bless you,” the post was also full of people slamming her for her cruelty in the face of people having their rights taken away. Pedro Pascal even called her out for doing “Voldemort villain s---" and referred to Rowling as a "heinous loser."
6. Accidentally turned herself into a meme
Rowling accidentally turned herself into a meme when she changed her profile pic on X to a photo that showed what looked like black mold-covered walls inside her mansion.
While the photo most likely shows wallpaper and not mold, users ran with it and began joking that the black mold had infected her brain as an explanation for her hateful anti-trans views.
5. Whined about being doxxed
On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2021, comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy protested Rowling’s anti-trans views by staging a demonstration and posting a photo holding signs in front of the author’s home near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rowling took exception to her house numbers being visible in the photo and accused the “actor activists” of “doxxing” her in an eight-tweet rant on X. But is it doxxing if the information is already public? Rowling claimed she received “so many death threats I could paper the house with them,” but both of her residences are historical landmarks, and one even has its own Wikipedia page.
4. Wrote a transphobic character that sounds an awful lot like herself
Under her pen name Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote The Ink Black Heart, where a character gets harassed and doxxed because of their transphobic and racist views.
Rowling claimed that the character wasn’t based on her own experience, despite Rolling Stone writing that the character is doxxed “with photos of her home plastered on the internet” and subjected “to death and rape threats for having an opinion,” which probably sounds pretty familiar to people who have been following the author’s anti-trans outbursts.
3. Called David Tennant the "gender Taliban"
Rowling called Harry Potter actor David Tennant and people like him the “gender Taliban” in a post on X after he spoke out at the British LGBT Awards, where he called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon” and said they are on the “wrong side of history.”
In response, Rowling leaned into hateful anti-trans rhetoric that conflates being transgender with being an abuser of women. “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders,” she wrote.
2. Dared police to arrest her
Rowling spoke out against Scotland’s new hate crime act in 2024 by daring police to arrest her for misgendering trans women. The act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” regarding age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics, which can result in a fine or a seven-year prison sentence.
Rowling then went on a lengthy tirade on X — something she is known for at this point — where she accused lawmakers of protecting trans women at the expense of “the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.” She finished by telling the police to come and arrest her if what she wrote “qualifies as an offense” under the new law. “I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.
1. Posted an upskirt photo
Rowling, who claims to be a protector of women and rails against trans women being allowed in women’s restrooms, targeted a transgender British podcaster who she disagrees with by posting an upskirt photo of her. Freda Wallace became Rowling’s latest target when she refused to engage with the transphobe online.
Rowling responded by misgendering Wallace and posting a photo of her originally taken by anti-trans activist and fellow transphobe Maya Forstater, from slightly below Wallace to show her upper thigh. Rowling said that Wallace refused to debate her but to prove she has “no hard feelings” she posted the photo of another debate. “I hear he left an indelible impression on the audience. And the chair,” Rowling wrote.