LGBTQ news and entertainment
Some news stories as we get over Hump Day:
• OUT: Gay dating app Grindr Grindr says it supports an age-verification bill recently introduced to Congress.
• LGBTQ Nation: 25-year-old Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the July 2022 murder of gay University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee. Prosecutors said Herrington murdered Lee to hide their sexual relationship. Continue reading “Grindr Announces Support For Age-Verification Bill + More”
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| Abby Lee Miller of Dance Moms |
• Dance Moms Abby Lee Miller faces up to 2.5 years in prison for smuggling $120K into U.S.
• Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood may not appeal a federal judge’s ruling which squashed the state’s anti-LGBT law HB1523.
• Skittles UK drops it’s rainbow for Pride in London to let the gays bask in the rainbow glow.
• Dolly Parton thinks Hillary Clinton would be a great president.
• Gawker posits whether Donald Trump might be tweaking diet pills to get him through the presidential campaign.
• Moodys Analytics, which has correctly predicted presidential races since 1980, predicts Hillary Clinton to win White House in electoral landslide.
• When former half-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, runs out of real words she just makes up new ones like “splodey.” Crowd doesn’t seem to notice.
Reality TV celeb Abby Lee Miller, of DANCE MOMS fame, finds herself stepping in serious hot water as reports say she is the sole defendant named in a 20 count indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of bankruptcy assets and false bankruptcy declarations.
According to the indictment, Miller attempted to reorganize her dance studio’s debt via bankruptcy court in December 2010.
From WPXI:
She is accused of concealing income she earned between 2012 and 2013 from her performances on the show and related spinoff TV shows, as well as from dance sessions and merchandise sales.
The indictment alleges Miller created bank accounts to hide the income, and instructed others to conceal certain income from the bankruptcy court.
Miller is accused of concealing income totaling about $755,000.
If convicted, she faces a possible sentence of five years in prison, and a fine of $250,000 for each count of the indictment.