Wednesday, August 12, 2015

News Round-Up: August 12, 2015


Some news stories you may have missed:

• Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne covers OUT and discusses his role as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.

• Former Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful has had to stop paying his campaign staff due to lack of funds.

• Former President Jimmy Carter revealed today that he has cancer.

• Folks are petitioning Proctor & Gamble to run their cute, award-winning gay couple Tide detergent commercial in the US.

• New poll shows Trump lost a bit of ground in Iowa after last week's debate; Jeb Bush dropped from 3rd to 7th; Marco Rubio jumps from 8th to 3rd in the early election state.

• The governor of Puerto Rico has issued executive orders banning discrimination against transgenders regarding emergency room treatment and drivers licenses.

• The homophobe who attacked two West Point graduates in New York City (and got his ass kicked) has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime. That'll learn him.

• Openly gay Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (the first openly gay poet to speak at a presidential inauguration) has been invited to read a new work at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana.


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