Some news items you might have missed:
• Pink News: Gloria Gaynor, whose hit “I Will Survive” is seen as a gay anthem, has been announced by as a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, hand-picked by Donald Trump. Folks are now wondering whether she’s a Trump supporter and rewinding on some of her ‘problematic’ LGBTQ comments.
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out the latest in LGBTQ publications this week including Gay City News’s guide to NYC Black Pride 2025.
• Axios: Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, basically says that the jobs report should be canceled until the numbers match what Trump thinks they are.
• New Music: Out country music artist Chris Housman drops his latest, “Up and Down,” a whip-smart, knee-slappin’ country song that blends protest and poetry to kindly point out the absurdity of American wealth inequality, among other issues.
• Texas Tribune: Texas could lose political clout under Trump’s call for a new census that excludes undocumented immigrants.
• The Daily Beast: Far-right social media nut Laura Loomer in under-oath testimony: “Several of President Trump’s staff have told me in confidence that—that Lindsey Graham is gay.” Rumors about the 70-year-old South Carolina GOP senator – who has never been married and has no children – have swirled for decades.
Laura Loomer doubled down on her claim that the South Carolina senator is secretly gay.https://t.co/A31yGKNzRb
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 13, 2025
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