Some news items you might have missed: • LGBTQ Nation: Residents of an Oregon town banded together to make a giant Pride flag (above) after the Newberg school board voted to ban it and other “divisive symbols.” • Deadline: The Television Academy has announced that attendees at next month’s Primetime Emmys Awards and Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be required to provide a negative Covid test in addition to being fully vaccinated. https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1428494160730857484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1428494160730857484%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Fcollection%2Fcontent%2Fuser%2Ffd6bf860-11d9-45fb-87cf-d7d48c69ac3d%2Fcategory%2Fglobal.all • Pink News: An off-duty pilot hijacked an American Airlines public address system to rant to passengers (after the flight had landed) about being gay, how he was once suicidal, and a sex addict. • OUT: Brothers & Sisters star and Canadian heartthrob Luke Macfarlane will co-star in Billy Eichner’s upcoming (and history-making) gay romantic-comedy film Bros. https://twitter.com/outmagazine/status/1427982719850622978 • Edge Media: Sea Life Aquarium in Melbourne, Australia, announced that two same-sex pairs of gentoo penguins have started nesting together as the birds’ mating season commences. • Omaha World-Herald: Nicole Poole Franklin, a white Iowa woman, who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges. https://twitter.com/OWHnews/status/1428453376946229255
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