News Round-Up: August 29, 2018

Go-go guy Teddy Bear

Some news items you might have missed:

• After the owner of West Hollywood's The Abbey asked his go-go dancers to take a pay cut, go-go guy Teddy Bear (above) raised his voice, and got fired & banned from the gay bar.

• The online fundraising platform ActBlue raised $100 million in August for Democratic candidates, marking their biggest fundraising month since they launched in 2004. The liberals are NOT losing any steam before the 2018 midterm elections, kids.

• Check out out Olympian Adam Rippon on the set of Will & Grace along with fellow-guest star Minnie Driver! Squee!!!

All our gay dreams are coming true! 😍 Welcome to #WillAndGrace @MattBomer, @Adaripp, and @driverminnie!
📷: @DebraMessing pic.twitter.com/FbtcoKBKc1

— Will & Grace (@WillAndGrace) August 28, 2018

• The California legislature has passed a resolution condemning intersex surgeries on children in an attempt to halt procedures that would try and 'normalize' children's sexual characteristics.

• Openly bisexual Halsey (one of my favorite out recording artists) clapped back at anti-LGBT folks who come to her concerts saying, "People bring anti-LGBT religious propaganda to my concerts alot and it's like, I feel like I've done enough good in the world that God's gonna forgive me for eating some p*ssy." #LOL

• Rupaul has announced a new Christmas album coming this fall! This will be Ru's 3rd collection of holiday songs following 1997’s Ho Ho Ho and 2015’s Slay Belles.

Finished recording my 3rd Christmas album. Debuts in October!

A post shared by RuPaul Charles (@rupaulofficial) on Aug 28, 2018 at 12:02pm PDT

Do You Know What It Means To Be Interesex?

This comes at a convenient time - I just had a discussion with a friend about this very topic.

There is still a lot of confusion about Intersex and what it actually means, so with the help of activist Ela Xora, Gay Star News has put together an infographic which explains it all.