Pete Buttigieg (screen capture) Some news items you might have missed: • LGBTQ Nation: Folks are wondering if Transportation Sec Pete Buttigieg (who lives in Michigan) will run for the U.S. Senate now that longtime Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) has announced she won’t be running for reelection in 2024. • Variety: Noah Schnapp, who plays the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” has come out as gay. “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.” https://youtube.com/shorts/u1aGAS_V2Ik?feature=share • Gayety: Cubs and chubs and bears, oh my! Who doesn’t love a little extra tummy and a healthy helping of hair? Highlighting 55 illustrations that celebrate the big boys. • The Advocate: Texas’ new Don’t Say Gay bill, HB 1155, would require teachers to out students if they had suspicions a child was gay. It would also restrict instruction of topics on sexual orientation and gender identity. https://twitter.com/TheAdvocateMag/status/1611030694540742665 • Instinct Magazine: Out singer Sam Smith and their supporters had a few things to say after being body shamed. • Vice News: Joe Rogan has belatedly apologized after doing an entire segment about a clearly fake tweet about vaccines which was attributed to a doctor. Rogan pulled the segment from the episode, but an intensive care doctor based in Florid, is still facing a deluge of harassment over the faked tweet and has made her account private. https://twitter.com/ante_diluvian/status/1610385627425513474 • Queerty: Madonna is apparently planning an announcement. • House of Representatives: Just an update to say Republicans, the majority party in the House, still haven’t elected a Speaker of the House after 11 rounds of voting. This hasn’t happened in over 150 years.
