News Round-Up: June 17, 2019

InstaHunk Gustavo Naspolini almost looks like he's in a Disney fairytale in this photo from Italy. #MyPrinceMyPrince!

Some news items you might have missed:

• InstaHunk Gustavo Naspolini almost looks like he’s in a Disney fairytale in this photo from Italy. #MyPrinceMyPrince!

• A thread on Reddit found gay men sharing that ‘ah-ha!’ moment when they realized they were gay.

• A new Gallup poll shows 53 percent of Americans believe we need the Equality Act passed in order to ensure LGBTQ people aren’t discriminated against. Forty-six percent said we don’t need such laws. Guess which 46 percent?

• Check out this first look at the upcoming Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story.

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• The State Department has announced that it is ending all aid to Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador until the countries take “concrete actions to reduce the number of illegal migrants coming to the U.S. border.”

• Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who raised over $7 million in April for his presidential campaign, told Axios on HBO that we’ve most probably already had a gay president, we just don’t know who.

• The fabulous Robyn drops her latest music video, “Ever Again,” set in a landscape she describes as “a dreamy place, somewhere undefined, somewhere in my consciousness.”

The new track celebrates the power of sensuality, human touch and self care.

Over two decades, the “Dancing on My Own” singer has wracked up 5 Grammy nominations, 4 Top Ten singles in the UK and literally hundreds of millions of streams.

News Round-Up: December 9, 2018

Some news items you might have missed:

• You could say things are going “swimmingly” down here in Puerto Vallarta. The views are very nice 🙂

• Speaking to OUT from the set of his new movie, Limited Partners, Billy Porter described the news of his Golden globe nomination for “Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama” for Pose as “unbelievable, it’s out of body, it’s surreal, it’s crazy. I’ve been in this business for 30 years, I’m speechless, and I’m a man of many words, so to make me speechless is a big deal.”

• GOP Sen. Marco Rubio warns a presidential pardon for former campaign chair Paul Manafort would be a “terrible mistake” and could “trigger a debate about whether the pardon powers should be amended.”

• Focus Features has acquired Michael Ausiello’s critically-acclaimed memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies with Dan Savage and David Marshall Grant to co-write the screenplay. The memoir is an emotional, often funny, account of Ausiello’s 14-year relationship that ends with the heart-wrenching death of his husband Kit, who succumbed to a rare form of neuroendocrine cancer in 2015. Jim Parsons is set to star.

• Vanity Fair: Donald Trump wonders if he should dump Vice President Mike Pence in 2020?

• Robyn has released the official music video for her hit, “Honey,” featuring dancers cast from a call sent out on her Twitter account.

The chosen dancers were flown to London for the shoot from all around the world.

According to press materials, “Robyn wanted the process of making the video to also embody her mantra of bringing people together and communicating in person…It is a testament to love, sensuality and the loose feeling during the after-hours of a great party.”

New Music: Robyn “Missing U”

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Swedish popstar Robyn is pop music royalty when it comes to making contemporary electronic synth pop. And the princess of EMD  just dropped her first single, “Missing U,” from her upcoming album.

The upbeat, synth-heavy track explores the yearning for someone who’s gone.

The Swedish-born artist said of the new track: “‘Missing U’ is a song about this trippy thing that happens when people disappear, it’s like they become even more clear and you see them everywhere.”

Written and recorded in Paris and Stockholm, the track re-teams Robyn with collaborators Joseph Mount (Metronomy) Klas Åhlund (Charli XCX, Madonna).

Music: Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique “Love Is Free” ft. Maluca

Via press release:

Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique – comprised of Robyn, Markus Jägerstedt, and the late Christian Falk – have premiered the first song from their forthcoming, yet-to-be-titled mini-album, which will be released on Konichiwa Records/Cherrytree/Interscope later this summer.

This love letter to early 90s house music, entitled “Love Is Free,” features New York-based, Mad Decent-affiliated Maluca, and was debuted as the “Hottest Record” with Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1.

Find this track on iTunes here.