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Laverne Cox’s MAGA Ex + David Geffen Divorce Gets Ugly + More

Laverne Cox in "Clean Slate"

Some news items you might have missed:

• Buzzfeed: Actress Laverne Cox revealed she dated a MAGA cop until last year, and people are not taking it super well.

• The Advocate: Caving to pressure from the Trump administration, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports. Continue reading “Laverne Cox’s MAGA Ex + David Geffen Divorce Gets Ugly + More”

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Ricky Martin Breaks Silence On Divorce + More News

Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin (screen capture via Telemundo)
Some news items you might have missed: • Billboard: Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef were married for six years, but Martin has now disclosed the decision to split had been in consideration since before the pandemic. https://twitter.com/billboard/status/1687491874343268352 • New York Times: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-DL) says the 2020 election wasn’t “stolen,” contradicting a central argument of  Donald Trump. “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true.” • The Advocate: A British gay couple and their young child fleeing a fire while on vacation in Greece were denied shelter in a local house after the homeowner saw they were gay. https://twitter.com/TheAdvocateMag/status/1687466169609998336 • AZ Central: Frederick Francis Goltz, a Trump supporter, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for threatening Arizona election officials and their families. “Someone needs to get these people AND their children,” he wrote on several occasions. “Dead children burn into the memories of people.” • New Music:  In May, Loreen made history as the first woman to win the Eurovision Song Contest for a second time with the song “Tattoo.” The song has surpassed over 210 million streams to date. Spice up your weekend with the new remix by Topic available now. https://youtu.be/UWKbrLXt2zU

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PEOPLE: Billy Porter & Husband Announce Breakup After 6 Years

Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Billy Porter and his husband of six years, Adam Smith, have announced they are going their separate ways, according to an exclusive to PEOPLE.
Billy Porter and Adam Smith at the Oscars (screen capture via Instagram video)
Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Billy Porter and his husband of six years, Adam Smith, have announced they are going their separate ways, according to an exclusive to PEOPLE. Continue reading “PEOPLE: Billy Porter & Husband Announce Breakup After 6 Years”

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News Round-Up: January 26, 2021

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Some news items you might have missed: • Right Wing Watch: Religious anti-gay loon Scott Lively told his radio audience that God removed Donald Trump from the White House because he was too pro-gay. #srsly • NewNowNext: Montana’s House of Representatives has voted in favor of two vehemently anti-transgender bills. The first is House Bill 112, which would bar trans student athletes from playing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity. The second is House Bill 113, which would block medical professionals from providing potentially life-saving gender-affirming health care to trans or nonbinary youth. • The Frontier: Last April, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered $2 million worth of hydroxychloroquine based, in part, on Donald Trump’s promotion of the malaria drug for use against the coronavirus. Now, the state is trying to unload nearly the entire shipment.

• Instinct Magazine: Nearly two months after coming out as a transgender male, Elliot Page and wife Emma Portner have filed for divorce. • NBC News: A gay New York City couple say they were harassed and asked to leave a restaurant this month because of their sexuality. Because the incident happened in New York, the men may have legal recourse, but in nearly half the states, they would not. • New York Times: Grindr has been fined 100 million Norwegian kroner, or about $11.7 million, for illegally disclosing private details about its users to advertising companies.

• Justice Department: The Wisconsin pharmacist who intentionally intended to render hundreds of doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine ineffective pleaded guilty to two charges filed today in federal court. Steven R. Brandenburg, an admitted skeptic of vaccines in general, now faces up to 10 years for each charge against him. • Reuters: The good news – By a vote of 55-45 the U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to stop former President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial on a charge that he incited the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. The bad news – Democrats need more than 5 GOP Senators to vote to convict Trump.