It’s Monday (again). A lot happened over the weekend. Here’s just some of what you might have missed…
ON ICE: Anti-LGBTQ Rep. Matt Gaetz‘s teen sex trafficking investigation appears to be stalled. [NBC News]
“FASCINATING AND ABSURD”: Billy Eichner responds to backlash over his comments about Bros’ disappointing box office numbers. [Yahoo!]
CLOSET DOOR BUSTDOWN?: Madonna “comes out” on TikTok. Huh?
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FORGIVE AND FORGET: Evangelicals excuse gay-hating GOP candidate Herschel Walker for (allegedly) abandoning his family and paying for his girlfriend’s abortion. [New York Times]
HOT TAKE: Women’s Health magazine publishes bizarre “think piece” excusing Jeffrey Dahmer’s behavior by blaming it on his parents. [Women’s Health]
BRITNEY FREED: Britney Spears reflects on it being almost one year since she was released from her 13-year conservatorship.
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HIGH HORSE: Homophobe Ted Cruz gets called out by LGBTQ ally Kacey Musgraves during a concert in Texas… and the crowd goes wild. [Laredo Morning Times]
MOTHER AND SON: Prince Harry tears up when a nurse says Princess Diana would be “very proud” of him. [Hello]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: People are living for this newly resurfaced clip of Kathy Najimy talking about not wanting to offend real witches while promoting the first Hocus Pocus in 1993.
cuteguy
Prince Harry has a heart of gold. What a great man
DennisMpls
I’m both puzzled and flabbergasted by the incessant negativity being expressed by right wing outlets about Harry and Meghan. I subscribe to a daily “newsletter” from the far right Spectator because I like to keep an eye on what the right wing is saying, and they aren’t just straight ahead MAGA clowns. It’s amazing how often they are ripping into them, especially Meghan. You’d think she was an imminent threat to humanity.
Fahd
@DennisMlps
You don’t have to be right wing to dislike what Harry and Meghan are doing. Decent people with common sense disapprove of their lies and half-truths and their profiteering from their royal connection. She’s just not a good person, bottom line.
Fahd
Prince Harry gave the Oprah interview while his grandfather was dying in hospital. Prince Harry couldn’t be bothered to visit his 96 year old grandmother, even though she invited him twice to Balmoral. Now that Queen Elizabeth is dead, he’s trying to delete part of his memoirs and reality series. So that means he would have gone ahead with the most hurtful stuff had she lived. No, he’s not a great man, and Diana would not have been proud of him. He’s a selfish rich brat who has had everything handed to him on a silver platter (literally?) all his life. Not everything is Meghan’s fault. Also, the video’s probably set-up.
DennisMpls
That sounds rather remarkably one-sided. I haven’t researched enough to be too specific, but I’ve read enough to know there are at least two sides to all of this. I also know that the Royal Family is immensely controlling, structured, and not open to dissenting outlooks. Which of course almost destroyed another “outsider” with independent views, Diana.
Yes, everything certainly was handed to Harry on a silver platter, as is the case with all royals (and all people from wealthy families). I admire his alternate viewpoint of not being obligated to live his life in a pre-ordained way. There was clearly some racism in the royal family toward Meghan as well, and I admire his devotion to her. People should be able to follow the life path that feels right to them, rather than to a life imposed upon them by dint of birth.
It would have been so easy for the family to say something like: “We’re disappointed that Harry has chosen a path outside of the royal structure. But we understand, and we wish him well. He will always be a part of our family, and he and Meghan are welcome in our midst.”
MrMichaelJ
Billy Eichner is hugely unlikable and the interview he gave with Harvey Weistein where he suggested maybe he could have cast the other lead with a Hollywood A-lister was the most tone deaf response ever
jackscott
Sadly, Bros just wasn’t a good movie. I wanted to really like it, but was sooooo disappointing!
Oh Madonna, shame she always needs attention. Put more energy into making better music. She has had so many hits but she keeps trying to be young. It’s ok to be older and still making music, look at Cher!
Harry – never understood why people care about him or his family. Please no more of him or his horrible wife!
Dahmer – I’m sure his parents contributed to his issues, however, he had to be a little “off” on top of that seeing the horrible acts he committed.
Walker – it is crazy if people vote for this liar!
smittoons
I dunno, I thought Bros was pretty solid. Dialogue gets a little forced and there are too many soon to be dated pop culture references, but it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen from a studio romantic comedy, and I love that the whole cast is LGBT. It’s at once familiar like a Meg Ryan classic to suddenly raunchy and sexually frank, but all the time it felt genuine to me and often very funny. But comedic movies are so hard to get right as it’s the most subjective kind of film.
Once he’s the center of attention in something so high profile which he owns creatively, Eichner tends to get defensive and it’s a bad look, but the movie deserves its good reviews IMO and at least $30 million more at the box office.
scotty
it looks like matt gaetz’s plastic surgeon has a sense of humor trying to make him look more and more like glenn quagmire from family guy. also, he always looks like his buttplug is on too low a setting.
Prax07
Evangelical shitheads will forgive ANY thing as long as you’re straight. I’d Satan came up and proclaimed he’s a straight dude that will oppose gays and abortions the evangelicals would welcome him with open arms and wallets. Hell, Trumpie may be the actual AntiChrist and they lick his unwiped hole daily.
Jimmynj
Matt Gaetz is a disgusting pervert and should be in jail. Ted Cruz is a rotten excuse for a human being and should go back to Cancun and stay there. Neither is fit to hold public office ever again.
RIGay
Funny how Matt’s boy toy Nestor dropped out of the limelight once he “adopted” him. NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS. KEEP MOVING, NOTHING TO SEE!
RIGay
I never liked Billy Eichner and his form of screaming, commando comedy shtick. For that reason, I have zero interest in watching him on the big (or small) screen.
johncp56
Best thing he and his wife and children did is move to California, and drop the Royal titles,