Debate: Rachel Maddow Presses Pete Buttigieg on South Bend Shooting

Joe Biden invoked LGBTQ advances to defend his civil rights record, and Eric Swalwell offered the only recognition of Pulse victims over two nights of debate.

www.advocate.com/politics/2019/6/27/debate-rachel-maddow-presses-pete-buttigieg-south-bend-shooting

Kristen Stewart Amps Up the Queer Appeal in New ‘Charlie’s Angels’

The fourth iteration of the franchise about beautiful undercover agents has the chance to be the queerest yet. 

www.advocate.com/film/2019/6/27/kristen-stewart-amps-queer-appeal-new-charlies-angels

Andrew Chael helped the world see the impossible while helping other queer scientists thrive

Name: Andrew Chael

Who He Is: A Harvard astrophysicist who helped capture the first ever image of an actual black hole in space.

How He’s Contributed: In April 2019, Chael and a team of over 200 international astronomers and computer scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) accomplished a feat once considered impossible: They captured an image of a black hole.

What does today’s black hole image news mean? Our @ChandraXRay Observatory team puts it into perspective and shares just what a difficult feat it was for @NSF and @EHTelescope to obtain the new black hole image. Read more about #EHTBlackHole: t.co/s9xoxt8l3S pic.twitter.com/TQD8HSdbGG

— NASA (@NASA) April 10, 2019

It initially seemed impossible because black holes emit no light, a complication made even more puzzling considering the photo’s subject would be millions of light years away. The team came up with an ingenious solution: Instead of trying to photograph the hole itself, they’d photograph hot glowing gas getting sucked into its perimeter.

Why We’re Proud: That the team was able to complete its herculean task is worthy of considerable recognition, but the way Chael conducted himself after his profile rose shows he’s more than just a brilliant scientific mind.

After the photo was released, Chael became wrapped up in an unlikely, sexist internet troll attack on one of his female colleagues, Katherine Bouman. In an effort to undermine Bouman’s role in the project, Reddit trolls created and amplified a false narrative that Chael — a white man — actually did all of the work.

Chael immediately took to Twitter to dispute the bizarre praise being shoveled in his direction and to give Bouman the credit she deserves. He later explained that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in the scientific community.

“Once I realized that many online commentators were using my name and image to advance a sexist agenda to claim that Katie’s leading role in our global team was invented, I felt I should say something to make it clear I rejected that view,” Chael told CNN.

Andrew is also a proud LGBTQ advocate within the scientific community. He is a member of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist and serves as a mentor for undergraduates on LGBTQ life at Harvard, among other subjects.

“As openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other gender/sexual minority (LGBTQIA+) members of the astronomical community,” reads the Outlist’s mission statement, “we strongly believe that there is no place for discrimination based on sexual orientation/preference or gender identity/expression.”

Now that’s some serious star power.

www.queerty.com/andrew-chael-helped-world-see-impossible-helping-queer-scientists-thrive-20190627?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Las Vegas Firefighters Investigate Arson at City’s LGBT Center

The center escaped damage, but it was obviously targeted by someone with “ill intent,” the executive director says.

www.advocate.com/crime/2019/6/27/las-vegas-firefighters-investigate-arson-citys-lgbt-center

Watch the Second 2020 Democratic Primary Presidential Debate: LIVE VIDEO

10 of 20 Democratic candidates face off in tonight’s second Democratic Primary debate from 9-11 pm ET in Miami, in the Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Pre-coverage starts at 8 pm.Watch it via this livestream. If you’d like to open it in a new tab, click HERE.

TONIGHT’S CANDIDATES: California Sen. Kamala Harris; Former Vice President Joe Biden; Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders; South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg; New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand; Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet; Author and speaker Marianne Williamson; California Rep. Eric Swalwell; Entrepreneur Andrew Yang; Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.

The other 10 candidates (split because there are just too many for one stage) faced questions Wednesday night at the same venue. The debates will be broadcast on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow, and José Diaz-Balart of Telemundo will be moderating.

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Watch the Second 2020 Democratic Primary Presidential Debate: LIVE VIDEO