Some news items you might have missed: • Gay Times: Director Luca Guadagnino’s highly-anticipated movie Queer, starring Daniel Craig (above), has been picked up for distribution by entertainment powerhouse A24. • Boy Culture: Les Hommes, NYC’s oldest gay adult store on the Upper West Side, has closed forever. #GayHistoryInTransition • Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out Kenneth’s weekly round-up of the what’s what in LGBTQ publications including the Labor Day edition of HotSpots! Magazine. 
• LGBTQ Nation: In 2021, GOP veep candidate JD Vance accused Randi Weingarten, the out lesbian president of the American Federation of Teachers, of being childless and “brainwashing” kids. She has two stepchildren. Step moms aren’t moms? • Bloomberg: The latest New Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading or tied with Donald Trump in seven battleground states.
New Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll shows Harris leading or tied with Trump in seven swing states. Gift link here: https://t.co/935e30zUD4 pic.twitter.com/lgF6Gc8cFU
— Joshua Green (JoshuaGreen.bsky.social on ) (@JoshuaGreen) August 29, 2024
• The Advocate: A gay man in Ohio was the only applicant for a town council seat. But he lost anyway — because gay. • Outsports: There were two Team LGBTQ athletes on the podium in the first medal event of the Paris Paralympics. • Axios: GOP veep candidate JD Vance was booed by an audience of union fire fighters in Boston today. Democratic veep candidate Tim Walz addressed the same crowd yesterday and received a positive response.
here’s a longer video of JD Vance getting booed in Boston by a firefighters group pic.twitter.com/dHcCKbiUpR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 29, 2024
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