PRIVATE DANCER. Tina Turner talks about her retirement: “I don’t sing. I don’t dance. I don’t dress up. I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy. That’s all I’d ever done in my life.”
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. City Council members support ban on gay conversion therapy. “A city that values diversity, equity and inclusivity can’t stay silent about a barbaric and abusive practice that targets LGBTQ+ youth. I am proud that members of Richmond’s City Council joined me in opposing the inhumane and regressive practice of conversion therapy and affirming the sexual orientation and identities of all Richmonders,” Mayor Stoney said in a statement.
CHARLESTON. The Candlestick murder trial of 1958 remembered. “Stony was a black man trying to make it home alive. Blake was a gay ex-con trying to keep both points a secret. Together, they were headed for Charleston.”
YEVGENIY FIKS. Photographer records the gay cruising sites of Moscow.
RuPaul makes a huge announcement about ‘Drag Race’ in 2020
With the RuPaul‘s Drag Race franchise not-so-slowly expanding all over the world with spin-offs like Drag Race Thailand and Drag Race U.K., the bicoastal DragCon plus world tour after world tour for the show’s alums, it’s only fitting that the little drag show that could is getting its own Las Vegas residency.
RuPaul’s DragRace Live will kick off (we imagine with an impressive high-kick) at the Flamingo Hotel on the Vegas Strip beginning in January 2020 for an eight-month run, with five shows a week.
RuPaul made the Ruvelation during DragCon in New York over the weekend, saying: “RuPaul’s Drag Race Live is an immersive, interactive thrill-ride for everyone who loves to laugh, dance and sing-along when a fabulous drag queen shakes her padded ass on stage.”
The show will be directed by RuPaul and Jamal Sims, and promises to be “the most sickening eleganza extravaganza in Las Vegas herstory.”
Already confirmed as part of a rotating cast of queens (as in, not every queen will be in every show) are: Aquaria, Asia O’Hara, Coco Montrese, Derrick Barry, Eureka O’Hara, India Ferrah, Kahanna Montrese, Kameron Michaels, Kim Chi, Naomi Smalls, Shannel and Yvie Oddly.
Donald Trump’s Spiritual Advisor Dedicates White House as ‘Holy Ground…by the Superior Blood of Jesus’ — WATCH
Donald Trump’s closest spiritual advisor Paula White boasted to a crowd at Morris Cerullo’s church in California about what she does when she goes to the White House. The remarks were highlighted by Right Wing Watch.
Said White: “You better believe I’m praying. You better believe I’m up there singing the name of Jesus. You better believe I’m walking around those parameters saying, ‘I lift this up and I dedicate every ounce of this place as holy ground and I dedicate it by the superior blood of Jesus.’ And every door that God opens for me, I invoke the name of Jesus. I release angels right now and the Holy Spirit and walls of fire. I burn up every demonic altar in the name of Jesus and I call it to crumble and any assignment by any principality, power, darkness, and wickedness against this nation, against other nations, is coming down in the name of Jesus. Let it all fall down, let it crumble, by the fire of God, let it be burned right now. I erect the altar of God right now, I renounce every demonic spirit, I renounce every covenant made with Satan.”