Some news items for you:
• What To Watch: Happy Birthday, Marsha! (lead image) is a “lush and speculative portrait” of iconic transgender artist and activist Marsha P. Johnson and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.
Frameline Distribution is offering free access to stream the acclaimed short film from August 21-24. Hit the link.
• The Advocate: Nancy Pelosi on AIDS, transgender rights, the legacy she resists claiming and why Democrats must “win big.”
On his way to photograph the former House speaker for The Advocate, Mike Nelson thought of his younger self — paying his dues and dreaming of this exact moment. Then he remembered an old photo. https://t.co/s3zvGvCXaP
— The Advocate (@TheAdvocateMag) August 20, 2026
• Uncloseted Media: Taking a look back at 32 years of gay hookup culture moving to the internet from Gay.com, Craigslist, and AOL chat rooms to Manhunt and Grindr.
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out this week’s round-up of LGBTQ (and adjacent) publications including the latest from Attitude Magazine featuring The Netherlands’ first openly gay prime minister, Rob Jetten.
• CNN: The number of US service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database. And no end to the conflict in sight…
• X: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent told reporters today, “We’ve got a spike in oil prices today that I don’t really understand.” Meanwhile, literally everyone else knows.
Bessent: We have a spike in oil prices that I don’t really understand pic.twitter.com/DbXkd4Tv3l
— FactPost (@factpostnews) August 20, 2026
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