Flung Out of Space

Carol Aird, most recently seen getting robbed of an Oscar a little over a year ago, recently turned up in the West Village at Stonewall Inn to perform a stunning rendition of “You Don’t Own Me” for a charity event benefiting the Newton Action Alliance.  The people who don’t own her include but are not limited to: Donald Trump and Fucking Harge. She followed up “You Don’t Own Me” by lending her voice to backup vocals for Adele’s “Hello” and lending her head to a pussy hat like what ladies wore at the Women’s March on Washington D.C. during presidential inauguration weekend.

I actually thought this was just a really good drag performance until I logged onto Slack this morning and saw a message from Stef saying SOMEONE WAKE UP HEATHER.

Teevee

+ I don’t know if I have the stomach to watch this season of Veep after the way last season ended and also the way our IRL presidential race ended, but here’s the first trailer for season six.

https://youtu.be/p37KETPpde0

+ Please enjoy these familiar faces in the new trailer for the queer web series Different Girls.

Movies

+ I do not believe we have yet talked about this new Kristen Stewart movie, the follow up to 2017’s Cannes Film Festival darling, Totino.

+ Excuse me. Julie Andrews almost DIED filming Mary Poppins?!

Queer Humans, Out and About

+ You’ve seen it by now, but just a reminder:

+ Brandi Carlile asked some big time stars to cover her “The Story” album for the War Child UK charity. ONE OF THEM WAS DOLLY PARTON. And also The Indigo Girls!

“This is a David and Goliath story,” Carlile said in a statement. “Since becoming a mother, the reality of a child’s beautiful life being torn apart by war felt like too big of a problem for me. So I asked my heroes and friends to help me launch a rock at the giant that is our refugee crisis and help in the only way we know how: through the power of music.”

+ Being out looks good on Sara Ramirez.

https://twitter.com/SaraRamirez/status/832361808384004096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/SaraRamirez/status/832359569867169793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

+ Roxane Gay is not here for Simon & Schuster’s equivocating about Milo.

+ Queer WNBA players are allies are not happy with former WNBA star Candice Wiggins’ recent claim that she felt discriminated against in the league because everyone else was gay and that  “you have to look like a man, play like a man to get respect.” Mechelle Voepel, the gold standard of sports reporting in women’s basketball, interviewed loads of past and present players about Wiggins’ remarks over at ESPN.