Some news items for your weekend perusal:
• Gay City News: Mpox cases are continuing to rise in New York City with 57 cases of reported from Aug. 10 to Sept. 11. The city saw less than a dozen cases per month in the first quarter of the year.
• Gr8erDays: Six-time Emmy Award winner Jean Smart (Designing Woman, Hacks) celebrates 74 trips around the sun today.
• LGBTQ Nation: The Florida Department of Transportation painted over gay mecca Key West’s Pride crosswalk in the dead of night this week. A second Pride crosswalk in Delray Beach was also painted over.
• New Music: Pop diva Kesha leans into a country music tilt with out recording star Orville Peck for their new collaboration “Tennessee.”
• Violence Prevention Project: A deep dive into statistics finds 98% of mass shooters are male, 2% are female, and less than 1% are transgender.
• X: Donald Trump mourned the loss of his friend.
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they’ve been trying to get… pic.twitter.com/Jrw4j2fnVZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2025
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