Heath Thorpe (image via Instagram)Some news items you might have missed:
• Queerty: Out Australian gymnast Heath Thorpe and his teammates are headed to the World Championships after winning the Oceania Continental Championships. Thorpe won the floor event for the second year in a row and came in second in the high bar.
2023 Oceania Floor Champion! 5.7/13.933 pic.twitter.com/7NOzMX0lk8
— Heath Thorpe (@thorpeheath) May 6, 2023
• The Advocate: A new poll finds a majority of Americans support anti-transgender policies but also claim to oppose trans discrimination.
• Axios: Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he’s creating a new show and it will be hosted on Twitter.
• OUT: Project Runway is entering its twentieth year with a new, All-Star season premiering June 15.
• Pink News: West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins issued a groveling public apology after describing fans of a rival team as “Catholic f*gs” and accusing them of throwing rubber penises at a game.
• Washington Blade: Anthony Duncan, 42, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of Assault with Significant Bodily Injury for fracturing the nose and breaking several teeth of a gay man while shouting anti-gay slurs during a May 2022 attack near Logan Circle.
D.C. man convicted of assaulting gay man sentenced to 18 months https://t.co/9FyRJbg32u
— Washington Blade (@WashBlade) May 9, 2023