Some news items for you as you head into the weekend:
• The Advocate: CVS Health has denied coverage for a new HIV prevention drug – Gilead’s Yeztugo, generic name lenacapavir (LEN) – despite it being nearly 100 percent effective, citing in part the medication’s high cost.
• Pink News: Drag superstar La Voix (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Queen of the Universe) will be kicking up her heels as a contestant on the popular reality dance competition Strictly Come Dancing.
EXCLUSIVE: Drag Race UK’s @LaVoixTheShow says she’s making history on Strictly: ‘It’s so exciting’ https://t.co/5g19ddYaQe
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) August 22, 2025
• LGBTQ Nation: The Trump administration has published a lame list of “woke” Smithsonian exhibits that all feature brown & queer people. Because, of course…
• Attitude Magazine: Rising out recording artist Fred Roberts, who made a splash on The X Factor: The Band back in 2019, drops his new single “Object of Desire.”
Roberts says the song was inspired after a hard break-up: “When you’re searching for love in someone who just can’t give it…it leaves you feeling like an object.”
• Gayety: The Minnesota Vikings’ recent addition of male cheerleaders has sparked a wave of controversy (so silly). Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn have now clapped back at the social media debates and conservative criticism. It’s worth noting that about a third of NFL teams currently feature male cheerleaders.
• Them: Gov. JB Pritzker announced this week that Illinois is launching a “first of its kind” state-operated resource guide and hotline to support LGBTQ+ residents – Illinois Pride Connect.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we’ll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion. pic.twitter.com/TdSsWs3ib8
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) August 22, 2025
• Washington Post: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency after his agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered Donald Trump. Another career trashed for not reaching the conclusions the White House wanted.
• ABC News: Ghislaine Maxwell told Justice Department officials that her deceased co-conspirator Jeffrey Epstein did not keep a “client list” and she never witnessed any inappropriate or criminal activity by Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, nor any of the well-known men who associated with Epstein. #Hmm…
“There is no list.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman thought to have the most knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, said she never witnessed any inappropriate activity by Donald Trump or Bill Clinton, according to a DOJ transcript.https://t.co/Z3rh65xNjn pic.twitter.com/moqDll6bh2
— ABC News (@ABC) August 22, 2025
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