
Some news items you might have missed:
• VICE: Photos and videos of Dr. Scott Liptzin (above), a licensed physiotherapist in New York (straight, married father of three), were stolen from his Instagram account and used by scammers in catfishing schemes as erotic masseurs. The scammers promised “body-to-body” naked sessions that would consist of erotic sexual encounters.
• The Advocate: Hundreds of same-sex couples were married in Mexico City last Friday. The city’s government hosted the large-scale wedding ceremony in its civil registry plaza as part of its annual Pride Month celebrations.
Around 100 same-sex couples traveled hundreds of miles to Mexico City to attend the mass ceremony. https://t.co/asMd46gkO0
— The Advocate (@TheAdvocateMag) June 28, 2022
• Pink News: Brazil Johnson, a 28-year-old Black trans woman, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 15 June. Ms. Johnson is the 17th known trans person to be violently killed in the US thus far this year.
• Washington Blade: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hinted at the possibility of legislation to codify the right of same-sex couples to marry, which many fear is in danger after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Pelosi hints at legislation to codify same-sex marriage rights https://t.co/QT2ogBDc0k
— Washington Blade (@WashBlade) June 28, 2022
• New York Post: Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 in prison Tuesday for her role in helping powerful pedophile Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, capping off a dramatic fall from grace for the British socialite turned-convicted sex-trafficker.
• Twitter: The social media platform had a field day after Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to Donald Trump‘s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified today that the Trumpster once threw his lunch at the wall in the Oval Office dining room after then-Attorney General Bill Barr told the AP he hadn’t seen any evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
“There was ketchup dripping down the wall and there’s a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.”
Donald Trump was so upset, he threw his lunch and ketchup dripped down the White House wall. pic.twitter.com/cnypEymBxn
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 28, 2022
"Ketchup dripping down the wall" – the most exquisite and perfect image of the entire Trump Presidency. How utterly appropriate.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 28, 2022
The walls of mar-a-lago are getting a new coat of Heinz right about now.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 28, 2022
The ketchup on the wall is how you know all of this is true
— Liz (Malloy) McCann (@LizMalloy5) June 28, 2022