LGBTQ news and entertainment
On Friday, Netflix was celebrating its deal to buy Warner Bros discovery for $83 billion.
But today, Paramount Global has apparently sweetened its offer to acquire Warner (and its sibling companies including HBO and CNN) with a hostile all-cash bid of $108 billion. Continue reading “Paramount Announces ‘Hostile Bid’ For Warner Bros.”
Some news items for your Sunday reading:
• Queerty: Andrew Christian has officially shut down his fashion brand after more than 20 years of outfitting gay men in bold briefs from coast-to-coast and around the world.
• Gay Times: François Arnaud says he and his Heated Rivalry co-star Robbie G.K. shot about ‘two days of sex scenes’ that aren’t in episode 3: “Maybe they’re saving it.” Continue reading “Andrew Christian Officially Closed + ‘Heated Rivalry’ Sex Scenes + More”
Some news items I thought worth your time:
• Washington Blade: A new report citing two dozen or more studies and surveys of LGBTQ people’s interaction with police and law agencies for the past 25 years shows “pervasive mistreatment of LGBTQ people by law enforcement.”
• LGBTQ Nation: Swiss tennis star Mika Brunold, 21, currently climbing the ranks of the men’s singles circuit, came out on Instagram with a heartfelt message becoming just the second active pro men’s tennis player to come out as gay. Continue reading “Study: Mistreatment Of LGBTQ By Law Enforcement + Pro Tennis Player Comes Out + More”
More petty bs from the Trump administration.
The Department of Health and Human services has deadnamed former Assistant Secretary of Health Adm. Rachel Levine on her official portrait. Continue reading “Health And Human Services Deadnames Former Asst Secretary Of Health”
During yesterday’s Congressional briefing by Adm. Frank Bradley regarding the US military ‘double-tap’ strike on September 2, the alleged drug boat was heading to connect with another vessel that was bound for Suriname (a small South American country east of Venezuela), and not the U.S. Continue reading “Report: Sept 2 ‘Double-Tap’ Drug Boat Wasn’t Headed To U.S.”
Some news items I thought worth your time as we head into the weekend:
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out this week’s round-up of the latest in LGBTQ publications including Hallmark Channel’s “gay king of Christmas” Jonathan Bennett (above) covering Metrosource Magazine. Continue reading “Jonathan Bennett ‘King Of Gay Christmas’ + More News”
Remember when Dan Bongino (before he became deputy director at FBI) was certain the Jan 6 pipe bomber was “an inside job?” Turns out the newly-arrested suspect is a MAGA 2020 election denier. Continue reading “Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Is MAGA 2020 Election Denier”
Some news stories I thought worth your time:
• Apple TV: The third season of LOOT is here and no one is mad that Zane Phillips (above) has joined the cast as hunky boyfriend “Moro” to billionaire “Molly Wells” (played by Maya Rudolph).
• Erin in the Morning: The United Kingdom’s “Girl Scouts” organization—Girl Guiding—has banned transgender girls from joining.
• NPR: The Department of Justice has instructed prisons and jails to drop standards designed to protect LGBTQ people from sexual violence.
• Pink News: While Spotify is letting subscribers discover their most listened songs of the year, gay dating app Grindr is showing off its own 2025 stats including Ireland having the most bears, Switzerland is tops in twinks, and the U.S. boasts the most daddies.
• Forbes: Eric Trump is reportedly ten-times richer than he was the day before the Donald returned to the White House in January. But, but, but…. Hunter Biden…
• Axios: A Pentagon watchdog concluded in a long-awaited report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. operations and troops at risk during a strike in Yemen by sending sensitive information to a Signal group chat on an unapproved device,
• New York Times: A new survey found that 98% of U.S. diplomats say that workplace morale has fallen since Trump took office again in January. Eighty-six percent said it had become harder to carry out U.S. foreign policy.
A deep dive by The Daily Mail into lowered recruitment standards by Immigration and Customs Enforcement found new ICE applicants who can “barely read or write” as well as those who lack basic physical fitness and even have pending criminal charges. Continue reading “Report: Many ICE Applicants Are ‘Fat, Illiterate And Violent’”
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that he is “deeply” troubled by the Pentagon’s double-tap strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean.
Having viewed video from the attack, Himes said it’s clear U.S. forces targeted survivors who posed no threat to American security. Continue reading “Congressman After Seeing Video Of Drug Boat Strikes: ‘We Killed 2 People In Distress’”