Some news stories as we get over Hump Day:
• OUT: Gay dating app Grindr Grindr says it supports an age-verification bill recently introduced to Congress.
• LGBTQ Nation: 25-year-old Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the July 2022 murder of gay University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee. Prosecutors said Herrington murdered Lee to hide their sexual relationship.
• What To Watch: GLAAD rounds-up your must-see LGBTQ TV in December including premieres and returning queer-inclusive series.
• PEOPLE: Dance Moms reality personality Abby Lee Miller, 60, shared selfies on Instagram with the three stars of the Broadway revival of the comedy ART (Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden) after seeing the acclaimed play. But the filters she used to touch herself up made Harris almost unrecognizable. Harris commented, “Ummm… what did you do to my face..?”
• Them: A University of Oklahoma student filed a religious discrimination complaint after she received no credit for an essay that called trans identities “demonic” and claimed that gender roles are Biblically ordained. The teaching asst noted in her grade she’d deducted points for a paper that didn’t answer the questions for the assignment, contradicted itself, and used personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class. The TA has been placed on administrative leave.
• Washington Post: The Pentagon’s top independent watchdog has determined that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated security protocols designed to protect U.S. troops by sharing sensitive operational details on the unclassified messaging app Signal.
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