Some news items you might have missed: • Queerty: The gays have a new favorite MLB player—mustached Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Davis Schneider. After years of working his way through the minor leagues, he became a team favorite last season when he hit a home run in his first at-bat. https://twitter.com/Queerty/status/1778230234292027543 • LGBTQ Nation: Donna Lee Parsons founded Rat Cage Records, the label that released the Beastie Boys’ first two EPs. Twenty years later, after Parsons came out as trans and the band’s meteoric rise to fame, the artists quietly paid for Parson’s gender affirmation surgery. • The Advocate: Seen as a move against the LGBTQ community, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared surrogacy as “inhuman” and is backing steeper penalties against the practice. https://twitter.com/TheAdvocateMag/status/1779540183274115357 • New York Times: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the film “Rust,” who loaded a live round into a revolver that went off on the set in 2021 and killed its cinematographer, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter. • Pink News: WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle Griner have announced they’re expecting a baby this summer, and everyone’s over the moon for them. The basketball star was famously held for 10 months in Russia after being arrested in February 2022 on drug charges. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5tr9V6vjXN/
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