Some news items for you: • The Advocate: With the news of the passing of Cheers star George Wendt, John Casey looks back at a seminal Cheers episode where Wendt’s “Norm” taught us gay stereotypes are the real joke.
At a time when gay representation on television was almost nonexistent or filled with caricatures, this Cheer’s episode was a radical statement.
[image or embed] — The Advocate (@advocate.com) May 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
• New York Times: Corporate sponsors are retreating from New York Pride. Some fear that the Trump administration could punish corporations it viewed as supporting a celebration of LGBTQ rights. • Broadway Cares: Click your heels (or heels off) as 200 of NYC’s most dazzling dancers erupt into full-out, larger-than-life production numbers at two Wizard of Oz-inspired performances at this year’s “Broadway Bares” event in New York City on June 22. • HuffPost: Target scaled back its DEI initiatives in January after they came under attack by conservative activists and the White House. As a result, sales at Target fell more than expected in the first quarter, and the retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025. • Reuters: The U.S. Army plans to alter the records of transgender soldiers to show only their sex at birth, according to internal guidance seen by Reuters that details a series of steps it will take as it pushes them out of the service.
Exclusive: US Army to change transgender soldiers’ records to birth sex reut.rs/4dvNxhZ
[image or embed] — Reuters (@reuters.com) May 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
• Axios: In a shocking moment during Donald Trump’s meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa today, Trump requested that propaganda videos be played purporting to show “evidence” of violence against white people in South Africa. While Trump watched the video, Ramaphosa looked away, appearing uncomfortable. • Erin In The Morning: A Montana judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of HB 121, which would ban trans and intersex people from using gender-separated public facilities, such as bathrooms or changing rooms, that differ from their sex assigned at birth.
1. A Montana judge has issued a PI against the bathroom ban in the state. This means it should be blocked for a long time while the hearing goes on.
He ruled that there was no evidence trans people were a threat in bathrooms. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. [image or embed] — Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) May 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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