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Zane Phillips Joins ‘LOOT’ + Grindr Unwrapped + More News

Zane Phillips in LOOT

Some news stories I thought worth your time:

• Apple TV: The third season of LOOT is here and no one is mad that Zane Phillips (above) has joined the cast as hunky boyfriend “Moro” to billionaire “Molly Wells” (played by Maya Rudolph).

• Erin in the Morning: The United Kingdom’s “Girl Scouts” organization—Girl Guiding—has banned transgender girls from joining.

• NPR: The Department of Justice has instructed prisons and jails to drop standards designed to protect LGBTQ people from sexual violence.

• Pink News: While Spotify is letting subscribers discover their most listened songs of the year, gay dating app Grindr is showing off its own 2025 stats including Ireland having the most bears, Switzerland is tops in twinks, and the U.S. boasts the most daddies.

Grindr Unwrapped 2025

• Forbes: Eric Trump is reportedly ten-times richer than he was the day before the Donald returned to the White House in January. But, but, but…. Hunter Biden…

• Axios: A Pentagon watchdog concluded in a long-awaited report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. operations and troops at risk during a strike in Yemen by sending sensitive information to a Signal group chat on an unapproved device,

• New York Times: A new survey found that 98% of U.S. diplomats say that workplace morale has fallen since Trump took office again in January. Eighty-six percent said it had become harder to carry out U.S. foreign policy.

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Matt Baume Explains New Rules Regarding Openly Gay Scout Leaders

Matt Baume explains the new rule change at the Boy Scouts of America allowing gay scout leaders, and whether that means any young scouts are now at more risk.

(Here’s a hint: nope)

While 79% of the National Executive Board of The Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its nation-wide ban on gay adult scout leaders, local chapters are still allowed to decide whether they will discriminate against gay scout leaders.

“The Boy Scouts are a private group, and they’re free to decide who can be a member. In fact, individual chapters are still allowed to deny access to LGBT leaders. Non-discrimination laws just don’t apply here, like they do for public facilities and businesses.”

Got that? Private and religious organizations are NOT under attack. Sorry to disappoint you there, Bryan Fischer.

A former scout himself, Baume explains why having openly gay scout leaders will make a difference in the lives of LGBT youth:

“I didn’t know that I was gay when I was a 7 year-old Boy Scout. I just knew that I was different. And nothing would have been more important to me than to know that I wasn’t alone. And when I got a little older to have seen that people like me aren’t a threat and are just as trustworthy, and helpful and loyal as anyone else.”