Politics, pop culture and entertainment news of interest to the LGBTQ community
President Joe Biden (photo: White House by Cameron Smith)President Joe Biden denounced the hideous shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, where a 21-year-old white gunman killed three Black people at a Dollar General Store on Saturday. Continue reading “President Biden Denounces White Supremacist Shooting In Florida”
(photo: Jeong Park/Hulu)Some news items you might have missed:
• Deadline: Hulu has announced the start date for Drag Me To Dinner, an unscripted series hosted by Neil Patrick Harris featuring two teams of drag queens going head-to-head to throw the most fabulous dinner parties of all time.
Continue reading “News: Neil Patrick Harris Heads Up New Unscripted Series + More”
Michael Dolce (screen capture)Some news stories you might have missed:
• LGBTQ Nation: Michael Dolce, a lawyer known for representing child sex abuse survivors, was recently arrested by FBI agents at his Florida home. Dolce, who founded a group called Protect Our Kids First Inc., was allegedly laying in bed downloading sexually explicit images of children when agents broke down his front door. Continue reading “News: ‘Protect Our Kids First’ Lawyer Arrested For Child Porn + More”
John Russell Howald (mug shot)After a four-day trial, a federal jury found John Russell Howald, 46, of Basin, Montana, guilty of hate and firearms crimes for firing an AK-style assault rifle at the residence of a woman, who identified as lesbian, and was home at the time. Continue reading “Montana Man Guilty Of Hate Crime After Firing Assault Rifle Into Lesbian’s Home”
Anderson Lee Aldrich (mugshot via Colorado Springs Police Dept)Anderson Lee Aldrich, the 22-year-old accused of killing five and injuring more than 17 others at the deadly mass shooting at Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs last month, was formally charged today.
Aldrich faces 305 counts including multiple charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault and hate crimes. Continue reading “Club Q Shooter Charged On 305 Counts Including 1st Degree Murder”
Club Q in Colorado Springs (screen capture)Some news items you might have missed:
• The Advocate: What happened – Club Q massacre survivors share their stories. Continue reading “Survivors Of Club Q Shooting Share Their Stories + More News”
Alex Jones (screen capture)US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay victims’ families $965 million in damages after branding 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax
Continue reading “Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Families Nearly $1 Billion”
Randy Rainbow parodies an A Chorus Line hit into ‘Thoughts and Prayers’Political satirist Randy Rainbow hits another one outta the park with his parody of “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three” from the iconic Broadway musical A Chorus Line taking aim at the GOP’s favorite response to gun violence. Continue reading “Randy Rainbow Skewers ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Response To Gun Violence”
Uvalde Elementary School (screen capture via WFAA)Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told state lawmakers that the response by law enforcement officials to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting was “an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre.” Continue reading “TX Official: Police Response To Uvalde Shooting ‘An Abject Failure’”
(photo: Maurício Mascaro/Pexels)The New York Times took a look at the federal legislative options being considered to curb mass shootings in the U.S. by analyzing the Violence Project Mass Shooter Database.
That analysis found 4 measures currently proposed by Democrats in Congress that might have changed the course of at least 35 mass shootings that killed a combined 482 people. Continue reading “4 Measures That Could Have Made A Difference In Mass Shootings”