Cost of HIV Drugs Inflated by Major Pharma Company, Lawsuit Contends
The suit accuses Gilead of conspiring with other drugmakers so they would have to use its brand-name meds instead of generics in combination therapies.
www.advocate.com/health/2019/5/15/cost-hiv-drugs-inflated-major-pharma-company-lawsuit-contends
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47 Dead (or Dying) Gay Bars in the United States
www.advocate.com/small-business/2018/7/03/43-dead-or-dying-gay-bars-united-states
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Britney Spears’s Manager Warns Fans She May Never Perform Again
The pop icon’s Vegas residency is on hold indefinitely as she seeks assistance with mental health issues.
www.advocate.com/news/2019/5/15/britney-spearss-manager-warns-fans-she-may-never-perform-again
Pat Robertson says there will be ‘atomic war’ if Christians can’t discriminate against LGBTQ people
Notre Dame Pool, Honey Dijon, Alvin Baltrop, Glenn Close, Vaccines, Dinosaurs, Milo Ventimiglia, Tolkien: HOT LINKS
HOLY WATER. Architects propose cross pool atop Notre Dame. “The ideas aired publicly so far are unlikely to please traditionalists who want the 12th century gothic cathedral complete with 19th century spire by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc put back the way it was.”
PARIS VS LINDSAY. The feud goes on…
DEAR LEADER. Florida radio stations to air two minutes of Trump speeches every hour from now until election: “Gulf Coast Media, Inc. senior management acknowledged that broadcasting the President’s speeches may not be consistent with conventional commercial FM radio, but we have taken this approach to show the community’s sincere appreciation for President Donald Trump’s work in Panama City and Bay County,” the station said.
CO2 ALERT. It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this weekend.
ROCKETMAN. Richard Madden said he only shot his sex scene with Taron Egerton because it made sense.
HONEY DIJON. Comme de Garcons launching fashion line: ‘A DJ popular with the fashion crowd, Dijon has 118,000 followers on Instagram and commands huge crowds for high-energy sets that mix various genres of dance music. The most recent one was a sold-out “Brunch in the City” event in Barcelona last weekend.
HISTORIC. NYC considers six LGBTQ sites for landmark status. “All six played a critical role in the gay rights movement. One was a storefront restaurant that New York City officials described as the city’s first gay theater and the place where Off Off Broadway got its start. Another was home to a number of lesbian and feminist groups in the 1970s and 1980s.”
ALVIN BALTROP. New retrospective showcases photographer who chronicled Brooklyn’s Gansevoort Peninsula: “For 11 obsessive years in 1970s and ‘80s, the Bronx-born photographer documented the alternative world that existed in this once-run-down part of the city, which became a haven for gay men, cruisers, nude sun-bathers, and members of the LGBTQ community having a blissful time after the Stonewall riots and before the explosion of the AIDS epidemic.”
GRANTS. Lambda Literary to receive $40K from NEA.
IRAQ. U.S. orders departure of non-emergency government employees: ‘On Tuesday, the U.S. military reaffirmed concerns about possible imminent threats from Iran to its troops in Iraq, although a senior British commander cast doubt on that and Tehran has called it “psychological warfare.”’
FACTOID. Glenn Close and Lady Gaga’s mom are friends.
VACCINES. Twitter launches new search features to stop the spread of misinformation: ‘We recently launched a new tool so when someone searches for certain keywords associated with vaccines, a prompt will direct individuals to a credible public health resource. In the United States, we partnered with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and point people to vaccines.gov. The new search prompt is available on iOS, Android, and mobile.twitter.com in the United States (in English and Spanish), Canada (in English and French), UK, Brazil, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. If you search on twitter.com, there’s a pinned Tweet with information from trusted partners.*’
PALEONTOLOGY. Scientists have unearthed most birdlike dinosaur ever found. ‘They called the new bird-like dinosaur Alcmonavis poeschli – from the old Celtic word for a nearby river and the scientist who discovered the fossil, excavation leader Roland Poeschl. The study, published in the journal eLife Sciences, said Alcmonavis poeschli was “the most bird-like bird discovered from the Jurassic.”‘
ALSO. Heeeeeere’s Scotty!
SMITHS FANBOY. Milo Ventimiglia was very nervous to meet Morrissey.T
TRAILER OF THE DAY. Tolkien. And read here about the gay subtext.
HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Guoyang.
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Senators Must Reject Wendy Vitter, a Danger to Women, LGBTQ People and Communities of Color
Today, HRC reiterated its call to the U.S. Senate to oppose the nomination of Wendy Vitter to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana given her record of undermining health care, opposing the fundamental rights of women and refusal to affirm the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, the historic case that struck down school segregation. Beyond her extremism on these fundamental civil rights issues, the American Bar Association has additionally rated her “not qualified” to serve on the D.C. Circuit.
“Wendy Vitter’s views are far outside the mainstream and pose a direct threat to the health and rights of women, LGBTQ people and communities of color,” said David Stacy, HRC Government Affairs Director. “She has a long record of opposing reproductive health care access and has failed to be transparent about her past public involvement with anti-choice, anti-woman protest organizations. With serious questions about her commitment to core civil rights law at the heart of her confirmation, her refusal to affirm the landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down school segregation is a major red flag. The Senate must reject this unqualified nominee.”
Vitter has long opposed the rights and health care of women and LGBTQ people, publicly voicing her opposition at anti-abortion rallies and panels, and representing organizations who work relentlessly to undermine reproductive rights and health care. She has spent her career promoting debunked science and spreading misinformation in order to attack Planned Parenthood and other organizations for providing basic medical services for marginalized communities.
Her record is so troubling that she attempted to cover it up during her nomination process, withholding 180 anti-choice, anti-woman speeches, articles, and interviews that should have been handed over to the Senate. She also failed to report her past anti-choice advocacy on a questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both of these would have blocked a judicial nomination in the past.
The Human Rights Campaign joins coalition partners in demanding the U.S. Senate block this nomination and all others offered by the Trump-Pence White House that seek to undermine the rights and livelihoods of LGBTQ people and other marginalized communities.
www.hrc.org/blog/senators-must-reject-wendy-vitter-nomination?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
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