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Published by Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health officials on Friday urged doctors to test for monkeypox if they suspect cases, saying there may be community-level spread but that the overall public health risk remained low. So far, there have been 21 cases of the disease in at least 11 states. Affected patients are isolating to help prevent spreading the virus, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials told reporters in a conference call. The CDC said it was aware of 700 cases of monkeypox that have been reported globally outside of parts of Africa, where the disease is endemic. No deaths have been reported so far. The agency is collaborating with global experts to learn more about how this outbreak began and how it is now spreading within the United States and elsewhere. In a detailed report of 17 cases published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, most patients identified as men who have sex with men. In many of the cases the monkeypox rash started in the genital area, which could lead some doctors to diagnose it as a more common sexually transmitted infection such as herpes or syphilis. Health officials believe community transmission is likely, which is why they want doctors to test patients if they have any reason to suspect monkeypox. The CDC stressed that monkeypox is transmitted by close contact with someone who has the virus and to monkeypox sores. “Anyone can get monkeypox and we are carefully monitoring for monkeypox that may be spreading in any population, including those who are not identifying as men who have sex with men,” Jennifer McQuiston, the CDC’s deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, told the briefing. So far, the United States has run 120 tests for monkeypox. Officials said the government has the capacity to run 1,000 tests per day. Currently, all U.S. patients are in recovery or have already recovered. Those who still have a rash are being asked to stay home until they are fully recovered, the CDC said. A patient is considered recovered when all of the sores have scabbed over, the scabs fall off and healthy skin has emerged. McQuiston said an analysis of the genetic sequences of U.S. virus samples found that in most cases it is similar to the variant circulating in Europe. However, U.S. scientists identified two genetically distinct variants of the monkeypox virus among the U.S. samples. Both share common ancestors with strains that have been present in Nigeria since at least 2017. McQuiston said it is possible that some form of the virus has been transmitting under the radar in the United States, albeit on a very limited basis. U.S. officials said the government has ample vaccines within the Strategic National Stockpile, and the government is offering those to people who have had high-risk contact with infected individuals to prevent transmission of the virus. The United States has so far delivered about 1,200 vaccines and 100 courses of treatment. (Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen and Susan Heavey; Editing by Bill Berkrot) View the full article

Published by Reuters By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A Republican congressman who came out in support of gun control after a mass shooting in his area dropped out of the race for his re-election on Friday upon coming under withering criticism from Republicans who saw his policy shift as a betrayal. Chris Jacobs, a first-term U.S. representative from suburban Buffalo, New York, said he decided to withdraw to avoid “an incredibly divisive election” for the Republican Party. Jacobs embraced a federal ban on assault weapons and other gun control measures a week ago in the wake of two massacres. Authorities say a white gunman killed 10 Black people inside a supermarket on May 14 in a racially motivated attack, and a gunman killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in another attack in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. “This has been a profoundly impactful event for me,” Jacobs told the Buffalo News, referring to the Buffalo shooting. The backlash was immediate. Gun rights groups posted his office and cellphone numbers on the internet and local party leaders began pulling their support, the New York Times reported. “The last thing we need is an incredibly negative, half-truth-filled media attack funded by millions of dollars of special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun violence and gun control,” Jacobs told reporters Friday upon announcing his withdrawal. Jacobs was elected to Congress in New York’s 27th District two years ago with the support of the National Rifle Association but now is in the redrawn 23rd District. The Republican candidate will be chosen in an Aug. 23 primary election ahead of the Nov. 8 general election, when the entire House of Representatives will be decided. Republicans are poised to regain control from the Democrats in the closely divided House, as the party in control of the White House traditionally loses seats in Congress in midterm elections. (Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) View the full article

Published by AFP A man carries a gun as he visits a memorial for the shooting victims outside the Uvalde County Courthouse in Uvalde, Texas on May 29, 2022 Washington (AFP) – From the Texas school massacre to a Tulsa hospital shooting and many less-reported incidents, a recent spate of gun violence across America bears out a trend police departments have long sworn by: murders go up in warmer weather. The link has been written about for decades by criminologists, with more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates. For those who have studied the question, there are common sense as well as potentially less obvious mechanisms at play. First, the more obvious: “It’s hard to shoot somebody if there’s nobody around,” David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, told AFP, explaining why gun crime is lower in bad weather. A second, more controversial idea is that heat itself — as opposed to weather that encourages people to be out — might rev up conflict. While there are many causes behind the rising tide of gun violence in the United States, weather could play an increasingly important role in world that is fast warming due to climate change. Warm days in cold months – Hemenway said he had long been interested in the relationship between heat and higher crime given stereotypes about the north-south divide within the United States and Italy, as well as between the northern European states of Scandinavia and southern Mediterranean countries. In 2020, he co-wrote a paper in Injury Epidemiology led by his then-graduate student Paul Reeping examining the city of Chicago between 2012 and 2016. The paper used reports from the Chicago Tribune to get the number of shootings per day, and then matched those against daily high temperature, humidity, wind speed, difference in temperature from historical average, and precipitation type and amount. They found a 10 degree Celsius higher temperature was significantly associated with 34 percent more shootings on weekdays, and 42 percent more shootings on weekends or holidays. They also found a 10C higher than average temperature was associated with 33.8 percent higher rate of shootings. In other words, said Hemenway, it’s not just heat that’s important, but relative heat: “In the winter, there were more shootings on those days which wouldn’t have been hot in the summer but were warm for winter.” Another recent paper, led by Leah Schinasi of Drexel University and published in the Journal of Urban Health in 2017, looked at violent crime in Philadelphia. “I live in Philadelphia, and I remember biking home from work on a very hot day and observing how cranky everyone seemed. I was interested to see if this observation translated to higher rates of crime on hot days,” she told AFP. She and co-author Ghassan Hamra did indeed find violent crimes happened more often in the warmer months — May through September — and were highest on the hottest days. The contrast was most striking on comfortable days in the colder months — October through April — compared to colder days in those months. When temperatures reached 21C (70F) during that time period, daily rates of violent crime were 16 percent higher compared to 6C (43F) days, the median for those months. – ‘Harm reduction’ – Hemenway believes that both of the main hypotheses on the subject — that more people being outside opens more possibilities of hostile interactions, and that heat itself makes people more aggressive — could be true. A striking study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2019 involved placing university students in Kenya and California in either hot or cold rooms and measuring the impact on a number of behavioral categories. It found “heat significantly affects individuals’ willingness to voluntarily destroy other participants’ assets” in the form of gift cards and vouchers. When it comes to the overall issue of gun violence, there are far bigger drivers than temperature, Hemenway acknowledged. These include the fact there were an estimated 393 million guns in circulation in the United States in 2020, more than the number of people, while many states have moved in recent years to ease rather than toughen restrictions. But better understanding the relationship with weather could have policy implications — for example finding more activities for young males to keep them off street corners on the hottest summer days, and boosting police presence in key areas based on forecasts. “It’s sort of a harm reduction,” said Hemenway. “But even if this wasn’t a gun problem, I suspect we would find the same thing if we had evidence about fights and assaults. What the guns do is make hostile interactions more deadly.” View the full article

Published by Reuters By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) -Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday after a first-ever “spell-off” was required for a champion to emerge in the extremely close competition. Logan takes home $50,000 from Scripps, plus further money prizes and reference works from Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. She beat Vikram Raju, 12, of Denver after their neck-and-neck competition required a “spell-off” to decide the winner, a first in the history of the Bee. The second-place prize is $25,000. They claimed the top spots in the competition that pitted spellers ages 7-15 from across the United States and as far away as Guam for the 94th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year’s competition was held at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. In the spell-off, each competitor had 90 seconds to spell as many words correctly as possible. Raju went first and spelled 15 words correctly of the 19 he attempted. Logan, who waited for her turn in a sound-proof area, emerged to spell 21 words correctly of the 26 she attempted. Both had the same list of words read to them, ringing a bell to signal they were ready to advance to the next word. Most Bee contestants were middle-school age and all were required to test negative for COVID-19 to participate and were masked onstage except when actively competing. Logan is an eighth-grade student at The Montessori School of San Antonio. She loves creative writing and plans to publish a book in high school. When she’s not spelling, she plays piano, recorder and is learning the ukulele. This was her fourth and final year as a Bee contender. Last year, when Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from New Orleans correctly spelled “Murraya,” a genus of plants, she became the first African American to win the prestigious competition that began in 1925. Competitors this year included 105 girls, 128 boys, and one speller who identifies as non-binary. The Bee was televised live. Play-by-play commentary heightens the excitement as contestants rack their brains to come up with the correct spellings for often obscure words. After 27 years of being broadcast live on the cable sports channel ESPN, this year’s live show was moved to ION and Bounce, both networks owned by a Scripps subsidiary. The show’s host was actor LeVar Burton. In 2019, an eight-way tie included such mind-bending winning words as “erysipelas,” a skin infection; “auslaut,” the final sound in a word or syllable; “palama,” webbing on the feet of aquatic birds; “pendeloque,” a pear-shaped gemstone or glass pendant; “odylic,” related to a hypothetical life force; “cernuous,” drooping, “bougainvillea,” a climbing plant; and “aiguillette,” the braided ornament on military uniforms. (Reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien, Robert Birsel) View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Rachel Brosnahan was told she was “not funny” before landing the starring role on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.’ The 31-year-old actress stars in title role of aspiring stand-up comedienne Midge Maisel in the hit Amazon Prime series but was initially told to consider a different kind of acting career before landing the part. She said: “I spent the first couple years of my career being told I was not funny. It wasn’t like an insulting thing. It was really just a lot of people who were professionals kind of saying, ‘You might want to head in a different direction. Maybe consider something over here.’” The former ‘Manhattan’ actress – who eventually won a Primetime Emmy Award for her role in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ – went on to reveal that just hours before being offered the part, she had been rejected at another audition because casting directors wanted “someone funnier.” Speaking at Prime Video show’s FYC event, she said: “I think it’s been a really challenging and really incredible exercise over the last couple of years. But I’m eternally indebted to [executive producers] Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino for saying yes and taking that kind of chance on someone like me. “The day I found out I was going to be their Midge, [I] lost a role that morning because I wasn’t funny enough. They wanted someone funnier.” During the event, panel moderator Danny Strong recalled a conversation he had with producers about their challenge in finding the right person to take on the role and claimed that had they not found Rachel in the end, the show may “never” have happened. He said: “I was having dinner with them in the early part of the casting process. And Amy, she said, ‘Yeah, I can’t … I haven’t found my lead. And if I don’t find her, I’m just gonna not do the show because I need someone great or it’s just gonna be a waste of my time. Then we had dinner, I don’t know, a month later, three weeks later. And she was like, ‘I found her. We’re all good.’ So literally, if she hadn’t found [Rachel], there may never have been the show.” View the full article

Published by Reuters By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – As advocates call on Washington to curb violence after mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, its hometown team the Nationals are already taking up the cause. Professional teams across the United States are jumping into a national debate over gun control, with 75 teams expected to take part in “Wear Orange Weekend,” an annual event that kicked off Friday to advocate for an end to gun violence, according to non-profit Everytown for Gun Safety. While a far cry for the 180-some professional teams spanning baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer, it’s a considerable step up from last year, when 29 teams took part. Players usually wear a small orange ribbon on their uniforms. There are also numerous other U.S. organizations devoted to curbing gun violence with which teams can participate. “This is an unprecedented moment. It’s a tipping point,” said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, the head of movement building at Everytown for Gun Safety. “They’re also, you know, frankly, meeting their market, meeting the moment.” An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle last month in Uvalde, days after authorities said a white supremacist killed 10 people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. The shootings prompted renewed calls for Congress to curb gun violence though many Republican legislators have said they would resist restrictions on gun ownership. Nearly two-thirds of Americans said they would support moderate or strong regulations on gun ownership, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll last month, including 53% of Republicans. The Nationals, Houston Texans and San Antonio Spurs are among the teams working with Everytown for Gun Safety for the first time this year. The organization declined to provide a full list of the participating franchises. The Nationals on Friday wore T-shirts bearing the message “enough” as they took the field for warmups ahead of their road game in Cincinnati, joining six other D.C.-area teams to “call for an increased commitment to reducing gun violence.” The move came roughly a week after the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays used their social media accounts to publish facts about gun violence in lieu of game coverage. In the NBA, the Toronto Raptors on Friday started a petition to ask Canadian legislators to join the U.S. in observing the first Friday of June as National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Days prior, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr refused to talk about basketball at a pre-game news conference, using the time to call for stricter gun control. On Friday, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) said it was partnering with Everytown for a fourth straight year. “Is there risk involved? Yes. You can isolate your fan base. You can anger your management, you can anger your sponsors,” said Amy Bass, a professor of sport studies at Manhattanville College focused on the intersection of sports, culture and politics. “Or, you know, the reverse can happen: You can empower your fan base.” Bass said the Black Lives Matter activism in the Summer of 2020 created “a new rung on the ladder” for athletes to speak out, calling it a “catalyst” for athletes and teams. “Summer 2020 launched something in sports,” she said. Coco Gauff, who along with four-times Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka bought the Black Lives Movement to the global stage through tennis two years ago, made an appeal to end gun violence at the French Open Thursday. “Although we kind of are holding these athletes in really high esteem, they are they also are members of community,” said Ferrell-Zabala. “It feels like a natural progression for them to utilize their voices to really dig into this problem.” (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) View the full article

Published by DPA A woman walks past a house destroyed by the Russian military in the village of Andriivka in the Kiev region. 03 June is the 100th day of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine. Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Ukraine and Russia have exchanged the bodies of some 320 fallen soldiers, according to authorities in Kiev. The exchange took place on June 2 on the front line in the Zaporizhzhya region, with each side handing over 160 bodies, the Ukrainian government said on Saturday. Ukraine had repeatedly called on Russia to receive its fallen soldiers, accusing the leadership in Moscow of treating its own forces like “cannon fodder” and not caring about a dignified burial. Ukrainian intelligence services and the general staff of the armed forces were involved in the exchange. People inspect a destroyed Russian army tank about 40 km west of Kiev. 03 June is the 100th day of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine. Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa View the full article

Published by Reuters By Jarrett Renshaw and Costas Pitas (Reuters) -Former hedge fund executive David McCormick conceded to wellness celebrity Mehmet Oz on Friday in the Republican primary race for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, following a recount and securing another Donald Trump-endorsed candidate in a critical midterm election. Oz, who will square off against Democrat John Fetterman in the Nov. 8 midterm election to replace retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey, won by a margin of 916 votes, according to Edison Research. The race is crucial to Republican hopes of regaining control of a Senate now narrowly held by President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats. “I will do my part to try to unite Republicans and Pennsylvanians behind his candidacy, behind his nomination for the Senate,” McCormick said in conceding to Oz. Oz secured 419,643 votes versus 418,727 for McCormick, according to Edison Research. Trump has endorsed over 190 candidates in the midterm contests, trying to solidify his status as the Republican Party kingmaker. His picks have not always prevailed. Trump endorsed Oz in April, after his previous pick in the race dropped out when his estranged wife alleged physical abuse and he lost a battle over custody of his children. Oz and McCormick both positioned themselves as champions of Trump’s populist “America First” agenda. “I look forward to campaigning in every corner of the Commonwealth for the next five months to earn the support of every Pennsylvanian,” Oz said on Friday. Republicans are seeking to regain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in November. They are well positioned to regain control of the House, which could enable them to stonewall Biden’s legislative agenda. Democrats have a better chance of keeping their razor-thin Senate majority, but to do so will need to perform well in races including in Pennsylvania. Fetterman, the state’s current lieutenant governor, said on Friday that he “almost died” from a stroke suffered days before the May 17 primary and which has kept him off the campaign trail, indicating that his condition was graver than initially suggested. “I’m not quite back to 100% yet, but I’m getting closer every day,” he said. (Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw in Washington and Costas Pitas in Los Angeles; Editing by Eric Beech, David Gregorio and Leslie Adler) View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Robbie Williams thinks fame “should come with a health warning”. The 48-year-old singer is returning to Stoke-on-Trent for one-off homecoming concert at Vale Park and reflected on both the positive and negative sides of his career in the limelight – which started when he was a teenager in the boy band Take That. In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Robbie said: “I’m glad it happened to me when it did because there was nothing else happening to me.” The ‘Rock DJ’ hitmaker did liken “extreme fame” to an illness and feels younger people are particularly vulnerable to the perils of stardom. Robbie explained: “It’s something that happens outside of your own body, with people looking at you and behaving in a certain way, make you feel a certain way. “If you’re not that au fait with feeling good about yourself it can have a severe reaction, especially if you’re not old enough to cope with it.” 20,000 fans are expected to attend Robbie’s gig on Saturday (04.06.22), which comes at the home stadium of his football team Port Vale, and the star confessed that he feels a mixture of excitement and trepidation about the performance. He said: “I don’t know how Stoke’s changed really. I’ve got a gilded cage that I arrive and leave in. But out of the window things look quite similar. “Where I’m from, you’re not allowed to have a big head. “You’re not allowed to get ideas above your station. And even though the performance, the character I’ve played on stage really is full of himself, I’m not really – I’m Rob from Stoke. “They say you stop growing the day you get famous and I kind of get it, I’m like a 16-year-old inside a 48-year-old.” View the full article

Published by AFP This handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a human skin sample Washington (AFP) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday it was aware of more than 700 global cases of monkeypox, including 21 in the United States, with investigations now suggesting it is spreading inside the country. Sixteen of the first 17 cases were among people who identify as men who have sex with men, according to a new CDC report, and 14 were thought to be travel associated. All patients are in recovery or have recovered, and no cases have been fatal. “There have also been some cases in the United States that we know are linked to known cases,” Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the CDC’s Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, told reporters on a call. “We also have at least one case in the United States that does not have a travel link or know how they acquired their infection.” Monkeypox is a rare disease that is related to but less severe than smallpox, causing a rash that spreads, fever, chills, and aches, among other symptoms. Generally confined to western and central Africa, cases have been reported in Europe since May and the number of countries affected has grown since. Canada also released new figures Friday, counting 77 confirmed cases — almost all of them detected in Quebec province, where vaccines have been delivered. Though its new spread may be linked to particular gay festivals in Europe, monkeypox is not thought to be a sexually transmitted disease, with the main risk factor being close skin-to-skin contact with someone who has monkey pox sores. A person is contagious until all the sores have scabbed and new skin is formed. ‘More than enough vaccine’ Raj Panjabi, senior director for the White House’s global health security and biodefense division, added that 1,200 vaccines and 100 treatment courses had been delivered to US states, where they were offered to close contacts of those infected. There are currently two authorized vaccines: ACAM2000 and JYNNEOS, which were originally developed against smallpox. Though smallpox has been eliminated, the United States retains the vaccines in a strategic national reserve in case it is deployed as a biological weapon. JYNNEOS is the more modern of the two vaccines, with fewer side effects. “We continue to have more than enough vaccine available,” Dawn O’Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters. In late May, the CDC said it had 100 million doses of ACAM200 and 1,000 doses of JYNNEOS available, but O’Connell said Friday the figures had shifted, though she could not divulge precise numbers for strategic reasons. The CDC has also authorized two antivirals used to treat smallpox, TPOXX and Cidofovir, to be repurposed to treat monkeypox. “Anyone can get monkeypox and we are carefully monitoring for monkeypox that may be spreading in any population, including those who are not identifying as men who have sex with men,” said McQuiston. That being said, the CDC is undertaking special outreach in the LGBT community, she added. A suspected case “should be anyone with a new characteristic rash,” or anyone who meets the criteria for high suspicion such as relevant travel, close contact, or being a man who has sex with men. View the full article

Published by Raw Story By Tom Boggioni In an interview with the Guardian, filmmaker John Waters — creator of cult classics “Pink Flamingoes” and “Female Trouble” — lamented the rise of Donald Trump by claiming he ruined “bad taste,” a hallmark of Waters’s storied filmmaking career. Reflecting on his career during which he has been called “the Pope of Trash, the Sultan of Sleaze, the Duke of Dirt, the Baron of Bad Taste, the King of Puke and Queer Confucius,” Waters was asked about his influence on “camp” in the arts and why it has faded away as a cultural touchstone. As the Guardian’s Catherine Bray wrote, Waters’… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters (Reuters) – Ohio’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban transgender girls from school sports and require verification from a doctor if a student’s sex is called into question. The provision was a last-minute addition to an unrelated bill that passed in a marathon session late on Wednesday, the first day of Pride month. The bill next goes to a vote in the state Senate when it reconvenes in several months after a recess. The Ohio House’s Republican majority took a similar step last year but that effort ultimately failed. More than half a dozen states have passed or enacted similar provisions this year alone. Unlike most of the others, the Ohio measure would require students whose sex is “disputed” to provide a physician’s statement verifying “internal and external reproductive anatomy” and other criteria. Ohio schools that violate the proposed rules could face lawsuits. These provisions target “a handful of Ohio students and their families who simply want to play sports like everyone else,” LGBTQ rights group Equality Ohio said in a statement. The Ohio High School Association (OSHAA) has had a transgender policy in place for 10 years during which there have been “fewer than 20 transgender girls approved to play high school girls sports,” according Equality Ohio and OSHAA. Conservative Republican proponents of such legislation argue it is necessary to give girls a level playing field in sports. Democrats and other opponents say the laws are harmful, unnecessary and unjustly target an already marginalized, vulnerable group. (Reporting by Maria Caspani, Editing by Donna Bryson and Cynthia Osterman) View the full article

Published by Tribune News Service In Terence Davies’ “Benediction,” a moving portrait of English war poet Siegfried Sassoon, the blessing bestowed is both literal and cinematic. While older Siegfried (Peter Capaldi) receives a blessing from a priest while converting to Catholicism, much to the chagrin of his adult son, George (Richard Goulding), the true benediction of “Benediction” is much more than just the on-screen ritual. The blessing of the film is the film itself, and the extraordinary grace that Davies extends toward his subject, a poet who made his pain public but had to keep his intimate life private. Sassoon is know… Read More View the full article

[This post contains video, click to play] Published by Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — The romantic comedy “Fire Island” is a very gay, very horny, very charming riff on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” set on present-day Fire Island in New York. There is banter aplenty, a lot of it dirty. Both sweet and filled with spiky humor, it comes from screenwriter Joel Kim Booster, who also stars alongside Margaret Cho and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang, the latter of whom is one of Booster’s closest friends — on screen and in real life. Though it touches on everything from beauty standards to classism to racism — the snobs in the film are ripped, white and obn… Read More ‘Fire Island’ review: This gay rom-com offers a shallow dip into the ocean that is modern queer culture Fire Island Published by The Seattle Times It’s important for there to be bad queer rom-coms, because there are plenty of bad straight rom-coms. Every quote-unquote “gay movie” does not have to be “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” or “Call Me By Your Name.” In this sense, “Fire Island,” a new movie written by comedian Joel Kim Booster and starring Booster and “Saturday Night Live’s” Bowen Yang, is important. Based on a script originally written for the doomed TV streaming app Quibi, and a plot that feels more like a gimmick (“What if ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ but gay and modern-day?”) than a passion project, “Fire Island” is a mess with a few … Read More Fire Island Movie on Towleroad Kim Petras Covers Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ in Wake of ‘Stranger Things’ Success: LISTEN More If you’re in Berlin, head to Hollywood, at this photography exhibit More Biden says ‘Enough!’ on gun violence, demands action from Congress More Buckingham Palace REJECTS Kim Kardashian’s Pleas To Attend Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee Official Party More Choosing Sides? Sarah Jessica Parker’s ‘Hocus Pocus’ Costar PRAISES Kim Cattrall After ‘SATC’ Drama More NeNe Leakes Laughs Off Homewrecking Lawsuit, Claims She Never Stole Anyone’s Husband After Boyfriend’s Ex Takes Legal Action More A New Olivia Records — Not the 1970’s Lesbian, Feminist Label, The 2020’s Feminist One — Launches With 2 Queer Artists; Challenges Country More Kuwait summons US official over ‘pro-homosexuality’ tweets More Tennis-Billie Jean King receives France’s highest civilian award More School board candidate checks out all LGBTQ books from library to ‘preserve innocence’ More Ahead of U.S. midterms, Democrats struggle to find footing on violent crime More Rainbow Xbox Controller: LGBTQ Players Get Their Wish: Gay Xbox Controller Is Back For Pride (and With Pride); Available to All June 9 More Concerned that Amazon offers anti-trans guides for parents, workers shut down the company’s Pride Month kickoff More Load More View the full article

[This post contains video, click to play] Published by PopCrush In honor of Pride Month, pop singer Kim Petras has released a brand new cover of Kate Bush‘s 1985 track “Running Up That Hill.” The sparkling song is in collaboration with Amazon Music. The Amazon Original cover is featured on their PROUD playlist. Listen below: “Running Up That Hill” is one of Bush’s most famous records. It reached No. 3 on the U.K. Singles Chart and gave Bush her first Top 30 chart hit on Billboard‘s Hot 100. It was also featured in NME‘s “Tracks of the Year” in 1985, where it landed at No. 3. Watch Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” Music Video:The song is often misinterpre… Read More View the full article

Published by DPA A visitor walks past a picture by photographer Helmut Newton in the Helmut Newton Foundation’s “Hollywood” exhibition. In the 1980s and ’90s, Newton took portraits of many actors, directors and musicians in and around Hollywood on behalf of numerous magazines. But the Berlin group exhibition also features other photographers with their interpretations of Hollywood. Britta Pedersen/dpa You can see Elizabeth Taylor submerged in the deep blues of a pool in Hollywood, a green parrot perched on her hand. German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton created the portrait of Taylor during a shoot for Vanity Fair in the 1980s. It is just one of the many gems on display at an exhibition of works focusing on Hollywood, with many by iconic photographer Newton (1920-2004). They are now on show at the Berlin Museum of Photography, suitably, as Newton’s photographic estate is administered by Berlin, where he was born. The photographer made his name portraying celebrity actors and actresses, well-known directors and famous musicians for magazines in the 1980s. Many of his works resemble stills from famous Hollywood films, as he often staged photographs based on cinematic scenes. While Newton’s works are the focal point in the exhibition, you can also see photographs by Eve Arnold, Anton Corbijn, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Michael Dressel, George Hoyningen-Huene, Jens Liebchen, Ruth Harriet Louise, Inge Morath, Steve Schapiro, Julius Shulman, Alice Springs and Larry Sultan, all focusing on Hollywood. There are also publications by Annie Leibovitz and Ed Ruscha. The exhibition opened on Friday and runs until November 20. The “Hollywood” exhibition at Berlin’s Museum of Photography features works focusing on celebrities from the 1980s and 90s, with many by iconic photographer Helmut Newton (1920-2004). Britta Pedersen/dpa A photography of US actress Debra Winger on display at Berlin’s Museum of Photography. Britta Pedersen/dpa View the full article

Published by Reuters By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Declaring “Enough, enough!” U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other gun control measures to address a string of mass shootings that have struck the United States. Speaking from the White House, in a speech broadcast live in primetime, Biden asked a country stunned by the recent shootings at a school in Texas, a grocery store in New York and a medical building in Oklahoma, how many more lives it would take to change gun laws in America. “For God’s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept?” Biden asked. Biden described visiting Uvalde, Texas, where the school shooting took place. “I couldn’t help but think there are too many other schools, too many other everyday places that have become killing fields, battlefields, here in America.” The president, a Democrat, called for a number of measures opposed by Republicans in Congress, including banning the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, or, if that were not possible, raising the minimum age to buy those weapons to 21 from 18. He also pressed for repealing the liability shield that protects gun manufacturers from being sued for violence perpetrated by people carrying their guns. “We can’t fail the American people again,” Biden said, pressing Republicans particularly in the U.S. Senate to allow bills with gun control measures to come up for a vote. Biden said if Congress did not act, he believed Americans would make the issue central when they vote in November mid-term elections. The National Rifle Association gun lobby said in a statement that Biden’s proposals would infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. “This isn’t a real solution, it isn’t true leadership, and it isn’t what America needs,” it said. The United States, which has a higher rate of gun deaths than any other wealthy nation, has been shaken in recent weeks by the mass shootings of 10 Black residents in upstate New York, 19 children and two teachers in Texas, and two doctors, a receptionist and a patient in Oklahoma. Lawmakers are looking at measures to expand background checks and pass “red flag” laws that would allow law enforcement officials to take guns away from people suffering from mental illness. But any new measures face steep hurdles from Republicans, particularly in the Senate, and moves to ban assault weapons do not have enough support to advance. The U.S. Constitution’s second amendment protects Americans’ right to bear arms. Biden said that amendment was not “absolute” while adding that new measures he supported were not aimed at taking away people’s guns. “After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after Parkland, nothing has been done,” Biden said, ticking off a list of mass shootings over more than two decades. “This time that can’t be true.” PLEA FROM GRIEVING GRANDMOTHER Gun safety advocates have pushed Biden to take stronger measures on his own to curb gun violence, but the White House wants Congress to pass legislation that would have more lasting impact than any presidential order. Biden’s evening address was aimed in part at keeping the issue at the forefront of voters’ minds. The president has made only a handful of evening speeches from the White House during his term, including one on the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and one about the Texas shooting last week. More than 18,000 people have died from gun violence in the United States so far in 2022, including through homicide and suicide, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group. Canada, Australia and Britain all passed stricter gun laws after mass shootings in their countries, banning assault weapons and increasing background checks. America has experienced years of massacres in schools, stores and places of work and worship without any such legislation. A broad majority of American voters, both Republicans and Democrats, favor stronger gun control laws, but Republicans in Congress and some moderate Democrats have blocked such legislation for years. Prices of shares in gun manufacturers rose on Thursday. Efforts to advance gun control measures have boosted firearm share prices after other mass shootings as investors anticipated that gun purchases would increase ahead of stricter regulations. In the aftermath of the Texas shooting, Biden urged the country to take on the powerful pro-gun lobby that backs politicians who oppose such legislation. The Senate is split, with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, and a law must have 60 votes to overcome a maneuver known as the filibuster, which means any law would need rare bipartisan support. “The only room in America where you can’t find more than 60% support for universal background checks is on the floor of the U.S. Senate,” said Christian Heyne, vice president for policy at Brady, a gun violence prevention group. While Biden and Congress explore compromises, the Supreme Court is due to decide a major case that could undermine new efforts to enact gun control measures while making existing ones vulnerable to legal attack. Biden said he received a handwritten note from a grandmother who had lost her granddaughter in Uvalde that read: “Erase the invisible line that is dividing our nation. Come up with a solution and fix what’s broken and make the changes that are necessary to prevent this from happening again.” (Reporting by Steve Holland and Jeff Mason; additional reporting by Alexandra Alper and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Heather Timmons, Mary Milliken, Leslie Adler and Michael Perry) View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega Although she isn’t used to rejection, Kim Kardashian and beau Pete Davidson were reportedly rejected by Buckingham Palace this week after begging to attend Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee official party, Radar has learned. In a shocking development that no doubt left the 41-year-old reality star and businesswoman reeling, Kim and Pete were promptly rejected by Buckingham Palace after pleading to attend the Queen’s star-studded official party celebrating and commemorating her Platinum Jubilee. Mega According to Daily Mail, the Keeping Up with the Kardashian star’s representatives asked for tickets to the event, but were turned down by the Palace. Kim’s reps then reportedly turned to publicists at the BBC – who are broadcasting the show – in a last-ditch effort to score tickets to the royal extravaganza, but were also rejected by them. “Kim rarely gets turned down to attend any event, so this has been quite surprising, especially as she doesn’t visit the UK often,” a source familiar with the situation told Daily Mail. “Kim and Pete love the Royal Family and really wanted to be a part of this special celebration,” the source added. Mega Although Kim was rejected by both Buckingham Palace and the BBC, she reportedly vowed to obtain tickets for the Platinum Jubilee party by any means necessary – even if that means the tickets are “not VIP.” 10,000 tickets for the party were reportedly given out via a public ballot, in addition to 7,500 more tickets allocated to those in the Armed Forces, volunteers and charities, so it is not known how exactly Kim plans to get her hands on a pair of tickets for her and Pete. It’s no wonder Kim and Pete are desperate to attend the royal party, because the event is set to see performances by the likes of Diana Ross, Nile Rodgers and even the rock band Queen. Other celebrities set to make an appearance include former English soccer legend David Beckham, as well as English broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. Mega Despite not scoring tickets to join the Platinum Jubilee official party, Kim and her 28-year-old comedian boyfriend still reportedly made the best of their time in the United Kingdom. On Tuesday, the celebrity couple were spotted jewelry shopping in London’s Mayfair before enjoying a surprisingly low-key dinner date at London’s River Café. View the full article

Published by Radar Online Jose Perez/Bauergriffin.com / MEGA; Steven Bergman/AFF-USA.COM / MEGA; RCF / MEGA Kathy Najimy took fans by surprise by showing support to Kim Cattrall after her Hocus Pocus 2 costar Sarah Jessica Parker spoke out about the Sex and the City drama in a rare interview. SJP opened up about her “painful” rift with Cattrall on the Awards Chatter podcast, revealing her former SATC costar’s remarks over the years have been tough to hear, adding, “There just isn’t anybody else who has talked about me in this way.” Jose Perez/Bauergriffin.com / MEGA Hours after the interview made headlines, Najimy entered the conversation by tweeting directly to Cattrall, despite reprising her iconic role inHocus Pocus alongside SJP. Najimy and SJP portray two of the three Sanderson sisters in the spooky films. “@KimCattrall Sending you alll the love and support in the WORLD today!! One of the best, most authentic humans in the ‘business’ and maybe the world! dinner soooon my love!” she wrote on Thursday, also writing in a separate tweet, “Sending love to my brilliant authentic talented beautiful hilarious [@KimCattrall] today … miss you.” Eagle-eyed fans were keen to notice that Najimy also doesn’t follow SJP on Instagram but does follow Cattrall. “Hocus Pocus 2 press tour ’bout to be real fun!!!!” one social media user quipped. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA Najimy’s praise of Cattrall comes after SJP finally addressed her longtime feud with Cattrall as well as why her character Samantha Jones was not brought back, claiming it was more of a studio decision than Cattrall’s — contradicting her costar’s claims. SJP, known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw in the hit HBO series, said, “The studio, when we were going to do the third movie, there were things she requested that they were not able to do — they didn’t feel comfortable meeting where she wanted to meet.” In a May interview with Variety, Cattrall had said that she was never asked to return for the reboot after making her feelings clear on a possible third movie, stating she felt confident in her choice to say no after hearing where her plotline was going. SteveSands/NewYorkNewswire/MEGA “She did not ask her to be part of this because she made it clear that it wasn’t something she wanted to pursue and it no longer felt comfortable to us, so it did not occur to us,” SJP, in turn, said about why they didn’t reach out to Cattrall regarding the reboot. “It’s so painful for people to keep talking about this catfight,” Parker continued, adding that Cattrall was essential to the show’s success. “I’ve never uttered fighting words in my life about anybody that I’ve worked with ever.” View the full article

Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Parents of victims killed in recent mass shootings in New York state and Texas, as well as a fourth grader who survived last week’s attack, will speak before a congressional panel next week as U.S. lawmakers consider new measures to curb gun violence. The mother of one of the 10 people killed at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, will join the parents of one of the 19 children gunned down at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school at the House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee’s hearing on June 8, the panel said in a statement on Friday. Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader at the school, will also appear. The public hearing comes after the United States, which has a higher rate of gun deaths than any other wealthy nation, has seen a spate of especially horrific mass killings in recent weeks, including the largest mass school shooting in nearly 10 years. Two teachers were also killed May 24 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde by an 18-year-old gunman who was fatally shot by law enforcement officers. Two weeks earlier, 10 Black people were killed in Buffalo by an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist who was subsequently arrested. More shootings have occurred since then, including at a medical building at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital and at an Iowa church this week. Democratic President Joe Biden, in a prime-time address to the nation on Thursday, called for sweeping gun reforms and urged Congress to act. Next week, the Democratic-controlled House is expected to vote on a bill approved this week by the House Judiciary Committee that would raise the minimum age for purchasing semi-automatic weapons to 21 from 18. No Republicans on the panel voted for the measure, which would also outlaw high-capacity ammunition magazines for civilian use and crack down on gun trafficking and so-called straw weapons purchases. (Reporting by Susan Heavey and Richard Cowan; Editing by Katharine Jackson and Jonathan Oatis) View the full article

Published by AFP US President Donald Trump (L) and then trade adviser Peter Navarro in 2020; Navarro was indicted by the Justice Department for refusing to testify to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 assault on Congress by Trump backers Washington (AFP) – Former White House trade director and close Donald Trump ally Peter Navarro was indicted Friday for contempt of Congress after rejecting subpoenas by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 assault on Congress. Navarro, 72, was charged with refusing to appear for a deposition and for refusing to supply documents to the House Select Committee investigating the attack by hundreds of Trump supporters seeking to block congressional certification of Joe Biden as the 2020 presidential election winner. Navarro was taken into custody and was to appear in court Friday afternoon, according to the Washington federal district court. The committee, which is examining whether Trump, top aides and other senior Republicans instigated or directed the attack, believes Navarro could have information pertinent to the probe, the Justice Department said. The committee said it had information showing that Navarro worked with former Trump political advisor Steve Bannon “to delay Congress’s certification of, an ultimately change the outcome of, the November 2020 presidential election.” After collecting documents and interviewing hundreds of witnesses in private, the committee plans to hold public hearings on its findings beginning June 9. In a book Navarro published in November, he described creating a plan after the election, called the “Green Bay sweep” in a reference to American football, to reverse Biden’s victory by blocking confirmation in the House. He wrote that Trump was “on board with the strategy.” Navarro, an economist, was subpoenaed in early February but did not supply documents requested or appear for questioning scheduled for March 2. On Tuesday he sued the committee in Washington federal court alleging its investigation is illegal and it has no power to subpoena him. But on Thursday a judge found procedural problems with the suit and ordered Navarro to refile it. In convicted, Navarro faces 30 days to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000 on each contempt charge. He was the second Trump aide after Bannon to be charged with contempt for rejecting committee subpoenas. However, the Justice Department has not charged former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, even though he was found in contempt by the House of Representatives in December for refusing committee subpoenas. Meadows has claimed that as a former top advisor of the president he has immunity from being compelled to testify to the committee. But some believe Meadows, whose emails and text messages show he had numerous contacts and discussions with people linked to the January 6 violence, could be cooperating with the Justice Department’s own investigation. Another Trump aide, former social media manager Dan Scavino, was found in contempt by the House in April but has not been charged, either. View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega While Queen Elizabeth and the rest of the royal family celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, news anchors on Russian state TV mocked Elizabeth and suggested she was the reason for the “collapse” of the British Empire. Rossiya-1, a Russian news channel directly controlled by Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, aired a report this week claiming Britain’s “opulent” celebration and commemoration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is a ruse to mask the country’s alleged recent and sudden decline. Mega “The UK, which as a consequence of its sanctions against Russia is bracing for power cuts, has found the money for an opulent celebration of the Queen’s platinum jubilee,” the channel said in a recent evening report from straight out of London. The bizarre report also claimed that Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign saw the “final collapse” of the British Empire, citing examples like the recent independence of former-British colonies and the recent election of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland as a “threat to the realm.” Mega “The imperial functions of the Anglo-Saxon world long ago passed to the United States, even though Boris Johnson is trying to revive British influence on the European continent by actively interfering in events in Ukraine,” the Russian news report continued. “[The aim is to] deflect attention from domestic problems like Downing Street parties during lockdown and a general decline in living standards.” As RadarOnline.com reported, this is just the latest report broadcasted by the Kremlin-controlled Russian state TV and comes as the country’s war against Ukraine hits its 100th day. In April, the same Russian state TV channel claimed that World War 3 had already begun, and Russia was under attack by NATO for invading Ukraine. Mega “What it’s escalated into can safely be called World War 3,” Olga Skabeyeva – who is widely considered to be one of Russia’s leading propagandist presenters – said during the propaganda-filled broadcast at the time. “That’s entirely for sure.” “Now we’re definitely fighting against NATO infrastructure, if not NATO itself. We need to recognize that,” she added. Despite Russia’s claims of WW3, and the alleged “collapse” of the British Empire under Queen Elizabeth, she and the royal family continue to celebrate her 70 years on the throne, servicing the people of the United Kingdom. View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega NeNe Leakeslaughed off accusations she stole her boyfriend from his wife, with the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star saying that’s not in her DNA. As Radar reported, the 54-year-old was hit with a lawsuit by Malomine Tehmeh-Sioh, who claimed NeNe started a romance with Nyonisela Sioh when he was still married. NeNe isn’t allowing speculation to swirl — she’s taking action, as usual. She responded to the lawsuit with shade, taking to social media to deny the rumors. Posting a video of herself, NeNe addressed the lawsuit. MEGA; @NYONI_COUTURE/INSTAGRAM “I’m already out here a husband stealer. This is too much,” she said, referencing the accusations. “Ain’t nobody out here stealing husbands. I would never!” NeNe added. She didn’t stop there. “Nobody want to steal anyone else’s problem, honey!” NeNe said bursting out in laughter with her boyfriend seemingly reacting the same in the background. She later doubled down on her stance. @neneleakes/Instagram NeNe also took to her Instagram Stories to troll Nyonisela’s ex. “Yours, mine, ours,” she posted three clips showing her in the car with her man. The three words are lyrics from a Muni Long song. NeNe was slapped with the lawsuit in North Carolina last month. According to court documents, Malomine claimed she “enjoyed a genuine happy marital relationship” and had an “active sexual relationship” with Nyonisela until he met the RHOA alum. She also alleged her husband and NeNe “engaged in an ongoing romantic, uninhibited, and adulterous affair” without her knowledge or consent. Mega Malomine went on to claim she faced “embarrassment, humiliation, and disgrace” when NeNe shared “intimate pictures” with Nyonisela online. In the docs, she listed their date of separation as December 17, 2021, noting that NeNe first shared photos with Nyonisela two days before. “As a result of the adulterous relationship between [Leakes] and [Sioh], the love and affection which existed between [Tehmeh-Sioh] and [Sioh] was alienated, estranged, and destroyed,” she alleged. Malomine wants $100,000 in damages from NeNe for “alienation of affections” and “criminal conversation.” NeNe’s reaction makes it clear how she feels about the lawsuit. Of course, this isn’t the only legal woes NeNe is facing. As Radaronline.com reported, she’s suing Andy Cohen and Bravo, claiming she faced discrimination from the network and RHOA producers. View the full article

Published by AFP Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter appears to be moving slowly forward despite his tweet that the deal is on hold. San Francisco (AFP) – Advocacy groups on Friday launched a campaign to stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter as the proposed purchase cleared review by US antitrust authorities. Twitter said that the deal for Musk to acquire the company was a step closer to being sealed with the passing of a deadline for it to be challenged under a US antitrust law. The Tesla chief’s $44 billion deal to take the one-to-many messaging platform private still faces review by other regulators and must be approved by shareholders. A “Stop The Deal” campaign launched by a coalition of nonprofit groups aims to stop the takeover. “Elon Musk is a wolf in expensive sheep’s clothing whose Twitter takeover is motivated by ego and grievance,” Accountable Tech executive director Nicole Gill said in a release. “If we don’t stop this deal, he’ll hand a megaphone to demagogues and extremists, who will cheer him as they incite more hate, harm, and harassment.” The campaign will involve pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other agencies to closely scrutinize everything about the takeover deal. The coalition will also work to convince Twitter shareholders and advertisers to oppose Musk buying the San Francisco-based tech firm. The list of more than a dozen organizations involved in the campaign includes MoveOn, SumOfUs, Media Matters for America, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Musk became a major Twitter stockholder following his purchase of 73.5 million shares in early April, and less than two weeks later he launched a hostile takeover bid. The SEC has asked Musk to explain why he didn’t disclose within a required 10-day time period his increased stake in Twitter, especially if he planned to buy the company. “Your response should address, among other things, your recent public statements on the Twitter platform regarding Twitter, including statements questioning whether Twitter rigorously adheres to free speech principles,” regulators said in a letter. Musk also faces a lawsuit filed by shareholders accusing him of pushing down Twitter’s stock price in order to either give himself an escape hatch from his buyout bid or room to negotiate a discount. The suit alleges the billionaire Tesla boss tweeted and made statements intended to create doubt about the deal. The claim seeks class action status and calls on a federal court in San Francisco to back the validity of the deal and award shareholders any damages allowed by law. Musk is a frequent Twitter user, regularly firing off inflammatory and controversial statements about current events or other public figures with remarks that are whimsical or business-focused. He has sparred repeatedly with federal securities regulators, who cracked down on his social media use after a purported effort to take Tesla private in 2018 fell apart. View the full article

CJ Temple and Madeleine Kelson are not Cris Williamson. The new Olivia Records‘ first acts in their new assault on country music with talented artists. Stunning vocals, and Kelson just may be the Megan Stalter of Country Music. Enjoy, and mind the release dates… –Editor [This post contains video, click to play] Published by The Boot Sometimes, if you want to do it right, you have to do it yourself. It’s no secret that Nashville’s country music scene is stymied by sexism, but Erin Olivia Anderson of Olivia Management has an answer for that: get creative. Anderson launched the woman-led company in 2012, initially working with artists like Jill Andrews, Smooth Hound Smith, Amanda Shires, The Secret Sisters, Matthew Perryman Jones and Hush Kids. In March 2022, Anderson launched an offshoot record label: Olivia Records. LGBTQ+ music history fans may have an itch in the back of their brains: the Olivia Records of the ‘70s is fa… Read More View the full article