Some news items you might have missed: • YouTube: Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps starring the oh-so-yummy Pedro Pascal. In theaters July 25. • OUT: The Human Rights Campaign will lay off approximately 20 percent of its workforce in a major restructuring effort in what the group’s leadership said is to adapt to the evolving political and financial landscape. • LGBTQ Nation: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy continued Donald Trump’s evisceration of “wokeism” from the federal government with an order to end all observances celebrating diversity at the department including Black History Month and Pride Month calling the events a “distraction.”
New TranspoSec Sean Duffy calls them a “distraction”. #LGBTQhttps://t.co/7VZRMep7sN
— LGBTQ Nation (@lgbtqnation) February 4, 2025
• The Guardian: Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger starred in Ang Lee’s groundbreaking “gay cowboy” film Brokeback Mountain? • Huffpost: As as a direct result of Donald Trump’s anti-transgender executive orders, the Social Security Administration has quietly stopped allowing people to change their gender identification.
The agency said it would no longer process “changes to the sex field” in the SSA database. https://t.co/QdEV7RJ05R
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) February 4, 2025
• Instinct Magazine: More than two decades after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its 7-season run, the supernatural drama is nearing a pilot order from Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar expected to return as Buffy Summers • Men’s Health: Two years after coming out as gay, Isaac Humphries says being the only out gay male pro basketball player in the world “weighs very heavily on me.” 
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