Some news items you might have missed: • Queerty: Out soccer star Zander Murray (above) defended a teenage goalie playing in the Scottish Women’s Premier League from an online middle-aged troll: “What an absolute scumbag.” https://twitter.com/ZanderMurray/status/1772006113480679463 • LGBTQ Nation: A Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) principal has been accused of viciously bullying and harassing a first-grade student for having gay parents. • Pink News: Mean Girls star Reneé Rapp, who “hard-launched” herself as a lesbian on Saturday Night Live in January, has made it very clear that she is, in fact, a lesbian. https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1772668947784970543 • F*ckedAroundFoundOut: Jeffrey Sabol, 53, was sentenced to 63 months in prison after he was convicted of three felonies related to his conduct at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. • NBC News: International pop star Ricky Martin reflects on his decision to come out publicly as gay. Martin, who came out in 2010, said the team representing him as a musician at the time discouraged him from coming out. But his father, a psychologist, encouraged him to come out. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1771258228027875512 • New Republic: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that he’s chosen a running mate for his third-party presidential run: Nicole Shanahan, a 38-year-old investor and lawyer mainly known for being married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. • Washington Post: Former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will no longer be joining NBC News as a paid contributor. Many of the company’s on-air personalities said that McDaniel’s promotion of Donald Trump’s media-bashing and false election fraud claims disqualified her for a role in their news divisions. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1772747246435774495
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