LGBTQ news and entertainment
CBS Sunday Morning chats with “Hacks” stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder about saying goodbye to roles that were a match made in comedy heaven.
The Emmy-winning HBO comedy about the travails of comedian Deborah Vance and her writer, Ava, launches its fifth and final season on April 9. Continue reading “Inside The Fifth & Final Season Of ‘HACKS’”
MAX has released the official trailer for the upcoming Season 2 of The Last of Us, which picks up five years after the events of the Season 1 finale, with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) pasts coming back to haunt them. Continue reading “Trailer: ‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2”
Some news items you might have missed: • OUT: Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy has penned an open letter offering queer pearls of wisdom for LGBTQ+ athletes competing at this year’s Olympic Games. Continue reading “Gus Kenworthy Sends Support To LGBTQ Paris Olympians + More”
He’s only been expelled from Congress a matter of days, but a movie about truth-challenged George Santos and his wide-ranging lies is already in development. Continue reading “There’s A George Santos Movie Already In Development”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot (via official Facebook)
Brendan Fraser (via IMDB)
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• Billings Gazette: Kanye West’s sad, inconsequential bid for the White House is being funded/directed by the Trump campaign to siphon off Black votes from Joe Biden. “You want to help Trump?” one of the organizers called out. “We’re trying to take votes away from creepy Uncle Joe.” • KIT212: Check out Kenneth’s weekly round-up of the what’s what in local LGBTQ publications like Get Out!’s latest issue encouraging folks to ‘Flex Your Vote.’ (via GetOut!)
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L-R Donald Trump, Roy Cohn (screen capture)
The documentary draws on unearthed archival material and audiotapes to paint a portrait of Cohn’s life from the late 1950s as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy, through to the 1980s when he embedded himself in the Reagan White House as a “rabid anti-homosexuality activist and political mentor” to current U.S. President Donald Trump before dying of AIDS in 1986.
Interviewees include John Waters, Cindy Adams, Alan Dershowitz, Nathan Lane, and Tony Kushner, whose 2018 Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning revival of Angels In America featured Lane as Cohn.
“Roy Cohn made his name prosecuting and pushing for the execution of my grandparents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,” said director Ivy Meeropol. “Many years later he became Donald Trump’s lawyer, mentor, and close friend. If there was ever a time to reflect on how we got here it is now. I am so grateful for the opportunity to share the film with HBO audiences.”
“One thing I didn’t know until 1988 was that Cohn was gay and had succumbed to AIDS. Learning this about him made me want to know more about this man and the secret life he led. This clash of feelings, hating a man and believing he was evil while simultaneously feeling empathy for that same man who no doubt suffered in the closet, drove my approach in making this film.”
Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic in HBO’s ‘Welcome To Chechnya’
• Politico: More than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states during the coronavirus health threat will face a “hard stop” on their deployments on June 24 — just one day shy of many members becoming eligible for key federal benefits like education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI bill and/or early retirement. • Bloomberg News: Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus after recovering aren’t capable of transmitting the infection, and could have the antibodies that prevent them from falling sick again. • AZ Central: Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) dropped four percentage points in a month trailing Democrat Mark Kelly by 13 points, according to the latest tracking poll by OH Predictive Insights. The same poll in April favored Kelly 51% to McSally’s 42%, and now in May, it’s 51%-38%. The poll shows independents breaking more than 2-1 for Kelly. • TikTok: Since the fan on my two-year-old laptop sometimes goes into high gear for no apparent reason, I clicked on this. I had no idea computers could get so filthy inside.
In this week’s podcast: • Mayor Pete Buttigieg has surged to number one in the latest polling for the upcoming Iowa caucuses • Gay men in Malaysia have been sentenced to months in prison and being whipped with a cane for having sex at a private residence • A gay teen heard the slur ‘faggot’ one time too many – and took care of it. Link to story at The Randy Report – therandyreport.com/a-gay-teen-had-…g-called-fggot/ • Two male dancers were featured on the UK’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and the world didn’t end. Link to the story on The Randy Report – therandyreport.com/strictly-come-d…tunning-effect/ • Get ready small-town America – the queens are coming! • Representation for the LGBTQ community on TV rose to an all-time high according to the ‘Where We Are On TV report from GLAAD All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report. If you enjoy catching up on LGBTQ news in a quick podcast, I’d appreciate it if you would share The Randy Report with your friends. I like to think of the podcast as ‘the 60 Minutes of gay news…only shorter.’ Hit the play button and thanks for listening 🙂