Lea Michele takes her first bow as Fanny Brice in ‘Funny Girl’ (screen capture) Some news items you might have missed: • Out: Former GLEE star Chris Colfer threw shade at his former co-star Lea Michele when asked about seeing her in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. “I can be triggered at home…” • The Guardian: A legal quirk allows same-sex couples in China to get married online via Utah. At least 200 Chinese couples have tied the knot by way of Utah officiants thanks to no residency requirements for marriage licenses and allowances for international Zoom weddings. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1578283268000153601 • Gothamist: New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan says that significant progress had been made in containing the spread of monkeypox, as cases have continued to drop since late this summer. • Washington Post: Since losing his primary, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) apparently isn’t showing up for work, has missed 86 votes, his offices aren’t staffed, and nobody can find him. It wasn’t about ‘America First’ – it was always about him. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1579883404056997889 • Nevada Independent: Fourteen members of Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt’s family announced Wednesday that they would collectively endorse his Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, in the heated race for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat. • LGBTQ Nation: Republican members of Congress who voted against President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed last year are now begging out gay Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for some of the bill’s funding. • White House: LGBTQ staff at the White House took a group photo and shared it on Twitter in observance of National Coming Out Day yesterday. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1579899396732243968
