NYC party promoter Jason Wood puts the MADE Hotel stamp on the summer tea dance

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Shepard Smith, David Beckham, World Cup, Oakland Jogger, Robert Mueller, Fab Five, Liam Hemsworth, Philadelphia: HOT LINKS

SHEP SMITH. On what Trump gave Kim Jong Un. “He wanted the legitimacy that came with the event, the handshake with America’s president, and he wanted those military exercises with the Americans and the South Koreans that happen every year to stop. Kim Jong Un got it all for actually doing nothing.”

INVITATION ACCEPTED. Brutal dictator Kim Jong Un may be coming to the U.S. “The announcement was made via North Korean state media, according to the Agence France-Presse. Additionally, Kim has invited Trump to visit North Korea, the French news service said.”

POSH AND BECKS. Staying together for their £500 million brand?

TRUMPLAND. HHS considering “tent cities” to house thousands of children.

WORLD CUP. U.S., Canada, and Mexico beat out Morocco to host 2026 World Cup: “The soccer showpiece will return to the U.S. for the first time since 1994 after gaining 134 votes, while Morocco got 65 at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on Wednesday.”

OAKLAND. Jogger arrested after video of him throwing homeless man’s possessions into lake goes viral.

Yesterday in Oakland jogger found throwing a peaceful homeless man’s possessions in the Lake. . What has this town come to?! #JoggerJoe #BbqBecky #Oakland pic.twitter.com/QAldK6VIRy

— JJ Harris (@techboogie) June 9, 2018

AT&T-TIME WARNER MERGER. Why Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs fast: “But the second major story was the final (final final) repeal of the FCC’s net neutrality rules yesterday that will allow telecom companies like AT&T to prioritize their own content over that of competitors. In the past, AT&T didn’t have all that much content, but the addition of Time Warner now gives them a library encompassing Warner Bros. to TBS, TNT, HBO and CNN. Suddenly, that control over prioritization just got a lot more powerful and profitable.”

HE SHOULD TALK. Stefano Gabbana called Selena Gomez “ugly” on social media.

RUSSIA. Robert Mueller says Russia is still actively meddling in our elections in bid to protect evidence: ‘Mueller on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Washington for an order to protect voluminous evidence sought by lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting LLC, one of three companies and 13 Russian nationals charged in a February indictment alleging election meddling via social media. Prosecutors have uncovered evidence of other individuals and entities who are “continuing to engage” in similar activities.’

QUEER EARS. Queer Eye’s Fab Five prepared their own Spotify playlists.

REAL ESTATE. Madonna’s former Beverly Hills mansion for sale.

REP. STEVE KING. Nazi retweeter. ‘Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Tuesday retweeted a prominent far-right British activist who has described himself as a “Nazi sympathizer.” “Europe is waking up… Will America… in time?” King wrote in a quote tweet of Mark Collett, the former chairman of the Young British National Party (BNP).’

Europe is waking up…Will America…in time? t.co/GqZ3E1lCyh

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 12, 2018

SURFING SAFARI. It’s the other Hemsworth that’s shirtless for a change.

PHILLY. Man behind murder of three gay men in 1989 found dead in prison cell: “Arnold V. Mulholland, 50, was found unresponsive in his cell at State Correctional Institution-Mahanoy in Frackville, Schuylkill County, at 6:17 a.m. on Friday, according to a statement from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.”

PAKISTAN. Transgender community boycotts election: ‘The transgender community in Lahore has decided to boycott elections as the option for a separate section for gender was unavailable in the nomination papers. Transgender Neeli Rana told The Express News said that the community took the decision because the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) failed to include the section for them. “Since our different identity is not being accepted, hence there is no use of contesting the elections.”’

OPTICAL ILLUSION OF THE DAY. This “Lost Cat” poster that follows you as you walk by.

HUMP DAY HOTTIES. Milo Mo and friends.

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Open Photo Shoot in Louisville, KY

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Alaska Town’s City Council Meeting Canceled After Members Refuse to Attend Over Pride Month Declaration

A City Council meeting was cancelled in Homer, Alaska this week after several members declined to attend because the city was going to recognize Pride Month.

The Homer News reports:

Mayor Bryan Zak had been scheduled to read a mayoral recognition in support of Pride Month at Monday’s regularly scheduled city council meeting. After numerous emails poured in both in support and in opposition of the recognition, council members Heath Smith, Shelly Erickson and Tom Stroozas notified City Clerk Melissa Jacobsen on Monday afternoon to say they could not attend the meeting. With four members of the six members needed for a quorum, the meeting was canceled. Jacobsen said it is unclear if the absences can be counted as excused. Normally, the mayor rules on the validity of an absence, but because the meeting wasn’t held, he couldn’t do that.

The canceled meeting didn’t stop Zak from reading the recognition. At 6 p.m. — the time the meeting would have been held normally — a crowd of about 75 people listened in the Homer City Hall parking lot as Zak recognized June as Homer Pride Month.

The absent members claimed they did not oppose the recognition itself, but did not want to “promote discord and controversy within the community.”

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Hottest Day Of The Summer
Are you feeling the heat this summer? Spring flings are over and it is time to find that special someone to show off to your family at all of the weddings and barbecues filling the next few months. With June coming to a close, it is time to get serious about finding that special someone […]

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Anti-Gay Students Prompt California Teacher to Go on Mental Health Leave: WATCH

Averee Patton with Parents / ABC10

A California middle school teacher took a mental health leave of absence after she says students bullied her upon discovering she is gay, something she said she had not shared with them.

Estes, who teaches at Spring View Middle School in Rocklin, first revealed what had happened in a Facebook post in which she wrote: “At the start of the school year, some students found out that I am gay — a fact I had never shared with my students. They posted photos online and it became the talk of the campus. While it is dehumanizing and painful to be outed, my hope was that it would die down. Instead, it escalated to the point that I was being harassed in and out of the classroom. When I sought the help and support of my administration, I did not find it. The situation became so severe that I sought the support of the union, who hired me a lawyer to help me navigate this situation.”



The Facebook post prompted a local news station, ABC10, to interview Estes about the situation.

ABC 10 reports:

Estes says students started following her on YouTube and one night she got a comment from a person from Rocklin that read, “Don’t be stupid, be a smarty. You can join the Nazi Party. Now accepting dykes.”

A few months later, a student made a disparaging comment about gay marriage during a class presentation that included remarks about “homos” and comments that it is “Adam and Eve” not “Adam and Steve.”

Watch their report:



The school said it can’t comment on the situation since it involves litigation.

ABC10 decided to present the other side of Estes story and interviewed Averee Patton, the student behind the presentation that included gay marriage.

Patton and her parents are religiously-motivated bigots and stand behind the school district’s non-defense of Estes.

Said Averee’s mother Lane: “As far as we’re concerned, we back the school district 100 percent. She shouldn’t have her sexual preferences pushed on you and our religious views shouldn’t be pushed on anybody else.”

Averee explained that the school project which started this homophobic snowball rolling was one in which she was assigned to describe a Utopian society.

Said Averee: “I made my rules no abortion, no racism and no gay marriage….She told me it was disrespectful and I should have reworded it differently. I had gone over it with my family and their said it was OK.”

Averee later added: “My parents have taught me all that I need to know and I don’t think the school needs to teach me anything.”

Watch ABC10’s follow-up report:



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