(stock photo) Some news items you might have missed: • Out: The venerable LGBTQ publication offers a “Sex Party Checklist” for folks who may not know the yays and nays of party planning on the intimate level including making sure your guests know what they’re walking into. • Human Rights Watch: Vietnam’s Health Ministry officially confirmed that same-sex attraction and being transgender are not mental health conditions. The decision brings Vietnam’s health policy in line with global health and human rights standards. https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1561511020631412741 • USA Today: In my home state of Nevada, Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D) leads her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, by seven percentage points (45%-38%), according to a new poll conducted by Suffolk University and the Reno Gazette-Journal. And earlier poll in April indicated Laxalt led Cortez Masto by 3 percentage points (43%-40%). • CNN: Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty and are under investigation, their departments confirmed, after bystander video captured them appearing to throw punches at a suspect’s face and kneeing the individual in the side and back. https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1561580878765367296 • Boston Globe: About 100 white supremacists marched through downtown Boston wielding riot shields on July 2. Records suggest Boston police apparently did not conduct a single field interrogation of white supremacists even though there was an altercation with a Black man. • Washington Post: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented recognition as he helped lead the country through the coronavirus pandemic plans, to step down in December after more than a half-century of public service. Fauci, 81, has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. https://twitter.com/yabutaleb7/status/1561730616600809472
