It’s Monday (again). A lot happened over the weekend. Here’s just some of what you might have missed…
AVENGING ANGELS: After the LA Dodgers caved to conservative wing-nuts and disinvited a drag charity group to its Pride night, the nearby Anaheim mayor invited them to the Angels’ MLB Pride night. [NBC NEWS]
UN–BELIEVE-ABLE: Cher celebrated her 77th birthday by proving she is an ageless superhuman. [Today]
RESISTANCE U: Graduates at Florida’s New College turned their backs and shouted over the far-right commencement speaker after Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis fired the school’s board and installed his cronies.
NEVER FORGET: Long-term HIV/AIDS survivors share their stories of health, resilience and hope, while also disclosing the areas in which they still need support. [CBS News]
GRAMMAR POLICE: Two staff members at a university in New York claim they were fired for simply using pronouns in their email signature. [The Guardian]
BOXERS OR BRIEFS: Lil Nas X‘s latest shirtless thirst trap included an unexpected underwear reveal.
BROKEBACK PRIDE: Queer cowboys gather every year at this annual convention to celebrate community, sexual freedom and cultural identity. [LA Times]
BODY BY JAKE: Gays getting ready for #SpeedoSeason may want to ditch the treadmill for this piece of equipment that transformed Jake Gyllenhaal into a ripped muscle himbo. [Men’s Health]
HOUSE OF MINOGUE: Kylie Minogue turned the American Idol finale into a gay club by performing her new summer bop “Padam Padam” and her 2001 monster hit “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.”
Ari
I LOVE this new News Drop. Please keep it going!
abfab
I love the LA TImes link to the Mexican Fiesta. Who knew? Ole!
lather
Loved the story on the gay vaqueros of Mexico. Would love to attend. As abfab says, WHO KNEW?
Bengali
To those of you in LGBTQ+ community who proclaim yourselves to be GOP supporters, you should think twice about that proclamation. You are as meaningless to GOP as are people of color. GOP only wants you to give an air of tolerance for those that don’t meet the straight, white, christian-nationalist profile of the majority of GOP. Once they have your vote they will turn against you and hope for your demise. If you love yourselves you would never support GOP.
My2CentsWorth
What Bengali wrote is VERY true.
Not only do the LGBTQ+ community needs to keep this in mind but so do people of color. Even the “star” people of color such as the more prominent political leaders such as the infamous Lt. Governor of North Carolina, the Black senator [or whatever] of South Carolina who just announced his futile run for the presidency (heard his speech on CBC RadioOne’s “As It Happens” show) and even the ex-governor of South Carolina who was told by one of the leading talking heads that she should go back to her county. The talking head did not realize – or care – that Nimarata Nikki Haley was born in the U. S..
We are all in this together. All people are subjected to hateful bigotry and all people should do their best to fight it.
Pietro D
Ron Desantis – Suck my Eggs…..!
Pietro D
Jake the Snake is the Best!
barryaksarben
any gay who votes gop is an insane self hating fool
abfab
Ten times over! Will it ever dawn on them?
MSM
absolutely agree barry
i am a moderator in a gay men’s chat room. there are always a few of them and you cannot get it thru their thick skulls.
cuteguy
100 percent agree. It’s like a Jew who identified as a Nazi or a black person who supports the KKK. Self hating at its worst. Get help
Diplomat
I’m thinking Jake (“I wish I knew how to quit you”) Gyllenhaal never got over Heath Ledger as he doesn’t seem to have had a relationship since. I’m missing Heath too.
Kangol2
Huh? Gyllenhaal’s in a relationship with French model Jeanne Cadieu. They were out and about repeatedly last year.
Diplomat
That didn’t make it into my orbit but I bet there’s still a residue there for Heath. And I’ll put my money on its sexual+.
My2CentsWorth
I wondered if Jake and Heath were/are more than CIS men.
Kangol2
Those gay vaqueros win this news update, but 77-year-old stunner Cher, the longterm HIV/AIDS survivor telling their stories, the fierce students booing DeFascist’s grad speaker, and Lil Nas X modeling his boxers also merit a snap!
abfab
Hello! Winning news is what we need!
abfab
And Cher……………is she single and free again? Let’s hope so.
Brian
I wish that the pronoun news story were hitting more newspapers. The shocking detail is that the school fired *cisgender* people for mentioning their gender.
Imagine if your name were “Pat” or “Sam” or something else that is common among both men and women. Or imagine that you have a Chinese, Korean, or other foreign name that most Americans can’t immediately recognize as male or female. Christians are now making it a violation to explain in an email “Sam Jones (he/him).”
At my previous job, I would frequently get emails from people in China. Normally, I would respond to someone like “Hello Mr. Smith, thank you for your message.” But with unfamiliar Chinese people, I wouldn’t know their gender (and I also wouldn’t know whether they were putting their family name first, as some Asian cultures do). That’s why I appreciated the people who would sign off with their gender (which is actually becoming common in corporate offices of East Asia, probably in part because they recognize that this confusion can happen). Mentioning gender in a letter should not cause so many problems for these activist Christians. They are such terrible, nasty people. And now the victims of this fight are *cis,* which is so wild.