News Round-Up: August 28, 2018

Some news items you might have missed:

• Actor/model/InstaHunk Tyler James (above) offers this Tuesday tidbit of wisdom: "Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets."

• A 41-year-old straight correctional officer says he was taunted as "gay" for months in the workplace to the point he developed facial paralysis.

• The Telegraph is reporting that Facebook targeted young LGBTs with ads for so-called 'conversion therapy.'

• In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Australia pop star Sia admits she refused to take a photo with Donald Trump backstage at SNL. When asked for the photo op, she replied, "Actually, do you mind if we don’t? I have a lot of queer and Mexican fans, and I don’t want them to think that I support your views." #Bravo

• John Goodman confirmed to The Times that Roseanne Barr's character will indeed be killed off in the upcoming reboot of the rebooted Roseanne sitcom, now to be titled, The Connors.

•Porn star Stormy Daniels was asked by Vogue Magazine about her infamous one-night-stand with Donald Trump. Daniels reply - “How many details can you really give about two minutes?” #Ouch

• I'll bookend this News Round-Up with one more by the handsome Mr. James, who proves in this pic he has clothes, albeit they may be coming off in the photo...

Hold your own, know who you are, and go your own way... and everything will be fine. • • • Captured by @brandon_jameson. #MotivationMonday #MaleModelMonday #malemodelscene #malemodel #fantastics #MondayMotivation #GoYourOwnWay #MensEditorial #fantasticsmagazine

A post shared by Tyler James (@itsmetylerjames) on Aug 20, 2018 at 5:08pm PDT

News Round-Up: June 30, 2017

(via Instagram)

Some news items you might have missed:

• Actor Tyler James (above) is primed and ready for the holiday weekend. #dang

• People tried (and failed) to make #HeterosexualPrideDay a "thing."

• A Los Angeles radio station "Music Coordinator" named Kylie emailed pop-mega-star Annie Lennox to let her know she has "potential." May I remind you...?

• As Pride Month comes to and end, take a look at these photos from Prides all over the U.S. - Anchorage, Alaska; El Paso, Texas; and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Jay-Z's mom comes out as lesbian on the rapper's new "4:44" album.

• Ok, I may need a second after seeing New England Patriots' Julian Edelman's ESPN Magazine "Body Issue" cover...

Julian @edelman11 is a two-time Super Bowl champ — and now an ESPN the Magazine Body Issue cover athlete.

A post shared by espn (@espn) on Jun 30, 2017 at 7:03am PDT

News Round-Up: April 25, 2017

Instastud Tyler James

Some news items you might have missed:

• Well, hello Mr. Tyler James (above). Nice sheet you have there...

• Madonna is not very happy about a possible biopic about her early days in NYC that just got picked up by Universal. See her post from Instagram:

Nobody knows what I know and what I have seen. Only I can tell my story. 📚Anyone else who tries is a charlatan and a fool. 🤡. Looking for instant gratification without doing the work. This is a disease in our society. ✍️🙃

A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on Apr 25, 2017 at 10:26am PDT

• 51 Republicans have written to the President asking him to sign an executive order that would legalize LGBT discrimination based on "protecting religious liberty."

• Sen. Marco Rubio spoke out against the torture and murders of gay men in Chechnya from the floor of the U.S. Senate. #HellHasOfficiallyFrozenOver

• That pastor who declared that the victims of the Pulse Nightclub massacre "got what they deserved?" He just got 35 years in prison for child molestation. #GotWhatHeDeserved

• Xavier Jugele, the 37-year-old police officer who was gunned down in Paris last week, was eulogized by his partner today in a moving memorial ceremony.

Watch below with subtitles.

The husband of the policeman who was murdered last week in Paris delivers an emotional eulogy at his memorial service pic.twitter.com/yGfVNQ1IXZ

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) April 25, 2017