In this July 30, 2012 photo, Snoop Dogg poses for a portrait at Miss Lily's in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, file)
NEW YORK (AP) --
Snoop Dogg will be the keynote speaker during the music portion of the South By Southwest music festival.
The organization announced Tuesday that the conversation with the 43-year-old music veteran will take place March 20 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.
The fest runs from March 13 through March 22.
Last year's keynote speaker was Lady Gaga.
Snoop Dogg is planning the release of a new album called "Bush" this spring. It will be produced by Pharrell.
Hunter Schafer arrives at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Hunter Schafer says "it's important to just keep track of where things are in our country," a day after the "Euphoria" star posted a video in which she revealed her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker.
Speaking to The Associated Press on the red carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, the 26-year-old actor, who is trans, said she felt "it was a good, necessary point" to share. Schafer, also a presenter at the award show, was nominated for best lead performance for "Cuckoo. "
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office instituting a new and narrow federal government definition of the sexes. As part of the order, the federal government defines sex as only male or female and says that must be reflected on official documents, like passports. The State Department, responsible for passports, is no longer issuing passports with the "X" marker that's been available since 2021 and is not honoring requests to change gender markers between "M" and "F."
In an 8 ยฝ-minute video posted to TikTok on Friday, Schafer, who transitioned as a young teen, said the passport that was meant to carry her well into her 30s was stolen while she was filming in Spain. After receiving an emergency passport, she later had to apply for a new, permanent one in Los Angeles. Having had female gender markers on her license and passport since she was a teenager, Schafer marked "female" on her application โ but received a passport that identified her as male, she said. In the video, she said she had not had her birth certificate amended.
Schafer acknowledged the executive order in her TikTok video: "Because our president, you know, is a lot of talk, I was like, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' And, today, I... Read More