Some news items I thought worth your time: • People: With this week’s SCOTUS ruling allowing the Trump anti-trans military purge to proceed, I want to share this February interview with Paulo Batista, a Naval intelligence analyst, who is trans and was named Junior Sailor of The Quarter earlier this year. #MoreThanQualified
A Trans Man Waited Years to Fulfill Dream of Enlisting in Navy. An ‘Unnecessary’ Trump Ban Could Kick Him Out (Exclusive) https://t.co/vihHGFrJWT
— People (@people) February 11, 2025
• Washington Blade: in a moving personal essay, Joanna Hoffman – an out lesbian and published author – shares how LGBTQ books would have changed her life as a young person. Read this. • OUT: New music for your Friday – Grammy winner Miley Cyrus continues her new album rollout with the ethereal “More to Lose.” • Pink News: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 has arrived, and has already provided the “best Rudemption ever seen” for one queen, according to fans. • Xtra: The new podcast “Get Queer” is a six-part series looking at the history and impact of LGBTQ representation in reality TV from Lance Loud on An American Family to Zeke Smith on Survivor and the groundbreaking cast of Are You the One? • AP News: The news gets more and more extreme at the Pentagon as Defense Secretary has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21. • Politico: It probably won’t surprise you to learn Donald Trump has only sat for 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief since inauguration. Meanwhile, he’s reportedly played golf 16 times. 
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