For Trump, a Lifetime of Evading Responsibility Comes to an End

The fraud may finally get caught, but it’s us who will pay the price.

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Memers read Sherry Pie for filth

You’ve likely heard by now that RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Sherry Pie (a.k.a. Joey Gugliemelli) was disqualified from the competition last week after being accused of catfishing multiple young men.

Related: BREAKING: “Drag Race” disqualifies Sherry Pie over catfishing scandal

Gugliemelli allegedly pretended to be a casting director named Allison Mossey and tricked the aspiring young actors into sending degrading videos of themselves.

Yesterday, Queerty published an in-depth investigation into the story. We spoke to several of Gugliemelli’s accusers, including actor Ben Shimkus, who was the first person to blow the whistle on the predatory drag queen.

Related: We investigated the sexual misconduct of Sherry Pie. What we found was a decade of lies & video.

Drag Race fans have responded to the scandal by rallying around Gugliemelli’s accusers, showing their solidarity through humorous tweets and memes, and letting the world know that catfishing isn’t cool.

First, there were the tweets…

And now, the memes…

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Pro Wrestler Curdin Orlik Comes Out as Gay, Makes History

Swiss wrestler Curdin Orlik has come out as gay, making him Switzerland’s first openly gay male professional athlete.

Orlik came out in Switzerland’s Das Magazin (The Magazine).

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Wow, ich bin überwältigt von der grossen Anzahl positiver Reaktionen, die ihr mir über die verschiedensten Kanäle habt zukommen lassen⁣ Mit euren wundervollen Feedbacks starte ich nun in einen neuen, offenen und freien Lebensabschnitt. ⁣ Merci vielmals – von ganzem Herzen Ein besonderer Dank geht an meine Eltern und alle anderen, die mich im Vorfeld unterstützt haben.⁣ Foto: @annemorgensternphoto ⁣ #loveislove #thankyou @das_magazin

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Said Orlik (translation via Outsports): “For far too long I have pushed out who I really am. I am not someone who kisses in front of people, but I want to lie down with a man and be able to touch him. … I always knew that I was gay, for sure since I was 12. But I thought: this is wrong, it cannot be. I heard things on the school building square [like] ‘you gay pig,’ ‘you faggot.’ Or in soccer, ‘such a gay pass!’ Even when wrestling. Sure, nobody really meant that, but if you’re like that yourself, you think, ‘Sh*t, that’s not a good thing.’ I thought: I don’t want to be gay. But it’s me. Now it’s out.”

Orlik responded to praise for his coming out on social media, writing: “Wow, I am overwhelmed by the large number of positive reactions that you have sent me through a variety of channels⁣ With your wonderful feedback, I am now starting a new, open and free period of my life. ⁣Thank you very much – with all my heart . Special thanks go to my parents and everyone else who supported me in advance.⁣”

The 27-year-old competes in “swing wrestling,” Outsports adds: “Swing wrestling is a sport peculiar to Switzerland and very popular, with its champions becoming household names. It’s a derivative of folk wrestling where the wrestlers wear special clothes that allow for holds and throws and the action takes place in a circle covered in sawdust.”

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Second person in the world ever to be cured of HIV finally breaks his silence

The second person in the world ever to be cured of HIV has just revealed his identity.

Until now, Adam Castillejo was simply known as “the London patient.” Last year, he made international headlines when he was declared free of HIV following a bone marrow transplant to treat blood cancer. Now, he’s ready to share his identity.

“This is a unique position to be in, a unique and very humbling position,” Castillejo tells the New York Times. “I want to be an ambassador of hope.”

40-year-old Castillejo first tested positive for HIV in 2003, at the age of 23. In 2012, he was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma. The treatment required a bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant.

Castillejo’s doctors located a donor whose stem cells had two copies of a mutation that prevented HIV from entering cells. As a result, the transplant effectively replaced Castillejo’s immune system with one that was resistant to the virus.

The story made international headlines, though Castillejo asked doctor’s to keep his identity private. He remembers seeing the news after the story broke.

“I was watching TV, and it’s, like, ‘OK, they’re talking about me,’” he recalls to the Times. “It was very strange, a very weird place to be.”

Only one other person in the world, Timothy Ray Brown, a.k.a. “the Berlin Patient,” has ever been cured of HIV, though there have been many failed attempts over the years.  Because of this, Castillejo’s doctors initially hesitated from using the word “cure” and instead called it a “remission.”

Today, they feel much more confident.

“We think this is a cure now, because it’s been another year and we’ve done a few more tests,” says Dr. Ravindra Gupta, Castillejo’s virologist from the University of Cambridge.

Castillejo doesn’t take his story for granted. Especially since people living with HIV are often not good candidates for cell transplants because the procedure is invasion and carries serious risks.

“I don’t want people to think, ‘Oh, you’ve been chosen,’” he says. “No, it just happened. I was in the right place, probably at the right time, when it happened.”

Castillejo recently started a Twitter page to share his story.

“Eventually when my case becomes more wildly available to the HIV community,” he tweeted last month. “Hopefully this allows to have a more achievable cure in the future.”

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Trevor Noah Has Questions About Kamala Harris’s ‘Hostage-Style’ Biden Endorsement Video: WATCH

The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah ribbed Senator Kamala Harris for her “hostage-style” endorsement video for Joe Biden which she released on Monday.

Said Noah after playing a clip of the video: “‘Now, please send $10,000 in unmarked bills so that my family can see me again.’ I don’t understand why Kamala Harris shot this hostage-style video to show her support for Joe Biden. It looks weird. It really does. I bet even the Taliban is looking at this video, like: ‘We had better lighting and we were in a cave! Much better, much better.’”

But Noah had further questions: “Also, it’s a little strange for me. I’m not going to lie. How is Kamala gonna endorse Joe Biden, and not acknowledge that she once called him a ‘friend of racists who opposed integrated public schools?’ Like, for me, you have to at least say ‘look, I know we’ve had our differences, but’ or something like that. Otherwise you make it seem like we’re crazy. Like you’re gaslighting us. … This is like when you were a kid. Did you ever sleep over at a friend’s house and you could hear their parents screaming at each other in the next room? And then they’d come out like, (happy voice) ‘hey, you guys want pizza for dinner?”

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It’s more important than ever to make sure we are not erased
When the NOH 8 Campaign started, I was still discovering my identity. Seeing LGBTQ people standing up for their rights gave me the confidence I needed to continue to explore myself, so that I could see myself in that future. I hope that young people will find their courage through the movement to help fight for a better future. I wear the red ribbon in solidarity

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