Some news items I thought worth your time:
• Them: Dolly Parton’s chauffeur and assistant of 30+ years was a trans man she supported and loved. Dolly thanked Jason Pirro — who spoke to the press in 1990 — multiple times over the years in album liner notes and her memoir.
Here’s the text of the original Sun interview with Pirro https://t.co/vgTD1KYGxr pic.twitter.com/XAdWWGvcVo
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) August 25, 2026
• Gayety: An infamous anti-LGBTQ bar in Idaho, known for hosting the failed “Heterosexual Awesomeness Festival,” is for sale and locals want to make it gay.
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out this week’s round-up of LGBTQ (and adjacent) publications including Luke Evans chatting on Rocky Horror pushing his outside his comfort zone in the latest from Attitude Magazine.
• New York Times: A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were people who had not been charged with or convicted of a crime. Immigration arrests rose to a record high of 49,000 in July.
• Facebook: Stella Parton shared this beautiful tribute to her late sister, Dolly Parton. #perfect
• Livestream: Most of the U.S. will be treated to a partial lunar eclipse overnight as the Moon passes into Earth’s shadow. Check the sky tonight just after midnight Eastern Time, when about 96% of the Moon will fall into shadow.
• FirstAlert7: Diehard Trump supporter Nicholas Powell, of Andrews, Texas, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony, and possession of child pornography involving a child younger than 10 years old. Note – not a drag queen, not trans, not an immigrant, not a Muslim.
🚨Nicholas Powell, 34, of Andrews, Texas — diehard Trump supporter and neo-Confederate — has been arrested on child s*xual abuse charges.
Powell was arrested after the FBI’s Midland office tipped the Andrews County Sheriff’s Office to a possible s*xual assault in the county.… pic.twitter.com/F5LISi49D1
— Reich-Wing Watch (@ReichWingWatch) August 26, 2026
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