Some news items you might have missed: • OUT: Lots of love for queer recording artists in today’s 2024 Grammy Award nominations including Victoria Monét, boygenius, Brothers Osborne, Troye Sivan and more. https://twitter.com/outmagazine/status/1723068103133679699 • The Advocate: Oscar winner (and mother to a trans daughter) Jamie Lee Curtis had a specific message for anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers and their supporters as she accepted this year’s Advocate of the Year Award: “Back the f*ck off.” • The Atlantic: Out gay tech billionaire Peter Thiel now says he got it “wrong” with his support for Donald Trump. • Kenneth-in-the-212: Kenneth rounds up the what’s what in LGBTQ publications this week, including Hotspots Magazine’s restaurant issue. 
• AP News: Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot bid for the presidency as a Green Party candidate, bringing back memories of 2016, where she won about 1% of the vote which may have contributed to Donald Trump’s razor-thin victory. • New York Times: The F.B.I. seized two cellphones and an iPad from New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part of a federal corruption investigation into whether his 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government to funnel money into its coffers. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1723077086129033533
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