Some news items you might have missed:
• Miami-based InstaHunk
Andrew Serkin (above) took a break from the sun. #
LuckyUs
• An Oklahoma school district briefly shut down this week after people purporting to be parents of students used social media
to make violent, epithet-filled threats against a transgender girl. “If he wants to be a female, make him a female,” one user wrote. “A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.” Another post read, “You know we have open hunting seasons on them kind. Ain’t no bag limit either.”
• Regarding the still-unfolding and massive molestation scandal wracking the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania,
Catholic League president Bill Donohue today told followers the alleged victims were not raped: "they were groped or otherwise abused, but not penetrated, which is what the word 'rape' means." #
SRSLY
• A new twist in the #MeToo movement: An 11-month Title IX investigation recently found New York University Professor Avital Ronell
responsible for sexually harassing her gay student, Nimrod Reitman.
• GQ Magazine got in hot water for calling these guys "stocky."#
Stocky???
• Omarosa Manigault Newman‘s tell-all
Unhinged claims that Ivanka Trump hated the
Saturday Night Live sketch that labeled her “complicit” in March 2017. According to Omarosa, Ivanka was
"thin-skinned and could not seem to take a joke.”
• The California Senate
has approved AB 2943, a bill that could protect LGBTQ people statewide from undergoing gay conversion therapy. The bill passed in the state Assembly in April. After heading back to the Assembly for a concurrence vote, the bill will hopefully be signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.
• Donald Trump’s military parade this fall is shaping up to cost
$80 million more than initially estimated. The parade, slated for Nov. 10, is now estimated to cost $92 million, blowing way past the original $12 million estimate.
• Queer artist
Anthony Starble recently teamed up with The Klassiks to create an sexy EDM remix of his latest single,
"Paperweight." The new mix adds a catchy synth line and bass drops that kicks up the intensity from the original.
I like. Listen below and then head to
iTunes for more from Starble here.
