Feature Photo of Lady Gaga, currently in talks to play Harley Quinn in Todd Phillips’ The Joker sequel, by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
OK listen up! I bought entirely too many strawberries today and I haven’t started googling “strawberry recipes” but if you have any suggestions, please please let me know.
Queer as in F*ck You
“How do you stop transmission of a casually transmitted virus moving among despised populations… without creating stigma and harming public health?” Blaming Gay Men for Monkeypox Will Harm Everyone by Dr. Steven Thrasher for Scientific American
DeSantis Weighs Ordering Child Protective Services on Parents Who Take Kids to Drag Shows
And related!
We talked to @LilMissHotMess, a storyteller who serves on the board for Drag Queen Story Hour, about her book being targeted in an effort by anti-LGBTQ activists and politicians to ban LGBTQ-inclusive books. #BooksNotBanshttps://t.co/hCtBHrpEh6
— GLAAD (@glaad) June 9, 2022
Here’s the full video:
Sheila Lopez Becomes LGBTQ Advocate in Navajo Community (this hot tip comes to you from Heather’s grandma, who saw it in AARP magazine!)
“’That’s the briefing you would get in Afghanistan or Iraq,’ says Stanley, who served in Afghanistan in 2005. ‘I got it in Missouri.’” “Don’t Go Here. They’ll Kill You.” LGBTQ Troops and Families Face Mounting Discrimination With New Laws
As a Queer Teacher in America, Violence Feels Inescapable
Report Reveals Generational Shift and Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.
They Came Out Slugging: The History of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance
We have quite a few Brittney Griner updates:
- Brittney Griner’s Sister Shekera Says WNBA Star’s Detention Has Been ‘Gut-Wrenching’
- State Department Officials Meet With Phoenix Mercury About Brittney Griner’s Detention in Russia
- And finally this came down today, fuck this very much. Russian Court Extends Detention for Wnba Star Brittney Griner
Saw This, Thought of You
Lady Gaga in Early Talks to Join Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips in Musical Sequel. All I asked for was that Harley get a girlfriend on the big screen, and this is how they repay me.
Obsessed with this news. Lena Horne Will Be The First Black Woman To Have A Broadway Theater Named In Her Honor
Google Misdirects One in 10 Searches for Abortion to ‘Pregnancy Crisis Centers.’ If you’re unaware of “pregnancy crisis centers” this might seem like a benign headline, but when I tell you that those crisis centers are actually often misnomers run by private orgs to encourage women in crisis to keep and deliver their pregnancies, it’s going to take on a whole new meaning, isn’t it?
Waking Up From the Nap Dress. “How the proudly personally privileged Nell Diamond convinced so many women to wear pajamas in public.”
The Potato Roll Empire Bankrolling a Christian Nationalist. Welcome to BBQ Season!!