Some news items you might have missed:
• The Advocate: The Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered health facilities nationwide to eliminate healthcare programs created to help LGBTQ veterans.
• NBC News: Longtime entertainment critic Gene Shalit passed away yesterday at the age of 100. I know a lot of you grew up watching him as I did. Here’s a clip with my dear Carol Channing reducing Gene to tears with a story about Lady Astor and Sir Benjamin back in the day.
• Washington Post: Global HIV prevention programs have declined drastically after the Trump administration made massive cuts in aid. The number of people who received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) meds declined by 38% between 2024 and 2025
• Outsports: Three San Francisco Giants pitchers disgraced themselves at the team’s Pride Night, weaponizing the Pride rainbow and attacking the LGBTQ community.
3 Giants players attacked the LGBTQ community and weaponized the Pride rainbow – buff.ly/2lrw4z9
— Outsports (@outsports.com) June 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
• Axios: Team USA beat Paraguay 4-1 in Los Angeles last night in the World Cup opener on U.S. soil.
• New York Times: In his first extensive interview since his defeat by a Trump-backed challenger, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said the Senate was in for a “bumpy ride” as he and others flex new political freedom.
• Fox News: Republican Texas Congressman Brandon Gill repeating the current GOP talking point calling Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico a “more effeminate version of Beto O’Rourke…a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg.”
REP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O’Rourke … this is somebody who is really obsessed with children … I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg
KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and… pic.twitter.com/mTPGOcWrlh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 13, 2026
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