Some news items you might have missed: • The Advocate: Colman Domingo, nominated for an Oscar this year for playing civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in the biopic Rustin, has been announced for two more film roles as real-life figures: iconic singer and actor Nat King Cole and Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson. • Kenneth-in-the-212: And speaking of Colman, make sure to check out Kenneth’s round-up of the what’s what in LGBTQ publications this week, including the dashing Mr. Domingo on the cover of OUT Magazine. 
• CNN: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is warning in a new letter that the emerging border deal being developed in the Senate is “dead on arrival” in his chamber if it resembles anything close to what has been reported. So much for wanting to solve the border issue… • JoeMyGod: Bill Donohue, president of The Catholic League is oh-so concernstipated that the NFL is teaming up with GLAAD for “A Night of Pride” during Super Bowl Week in Las Vegas. https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1750933336237748295 • LGBTQ Nation: A jury has convicted a queer couple for murdering, torturing, and poisoning a gay couple’s adopted adult son and then conspiring to hide his crime. • NPR: Corey Harvard, an LGBTQ activist, grew up in a deeply religious family in the 1990s. In this clip from Story Corps, he talks with his mother about coming to terms with his sexuality as a teenager in Alabama and coming out to his her and his dad.
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