After Begging Others to Stay Home, Ivanka Trump Traveled 200 Miles to Her Father’s Golf Club: VIDEO

On March 29, Ivanka Trump posted a video to Twitter pleading with people to stay home to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

“Those lucky enough to be in a position to stay at home, please, please do so,” she said in the video. “Each and every one of us plays a role in slowing the spread.”

Days later, Ivanka Trump traveled from Washington, D.C., to her father’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. She was accompanied by her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three children.

While Kushner later returned to D.C., Ivanka remained at Bedminster, where she has been working remotely, according to reports. Their trip violated not only federal social-distancing guidelines, which call for people to avoid discretionary travel, but also a stay-at-home order issued by Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Muriel Bowser on April 1.

The New York Times reports: Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who is also a senior White House adviser, traveled with their three children to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey to celebrate the first night of Passover this month, according to two people with knowledge of their travel plans, even as seders across the country were canceled and families gathered remotely over apps like Zoom. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Kushner returned to the White House, where he has been helping marshal the forces of government for the war his father-in-law says he is waging against the coronavirus. Ms. Trump has continued to work from Bedminster, taking calls and spending time there with her children, the people said. Ms. Trump has told people that the club is currently shut down, making it more socially distant than her mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, where she had been spotted running on occasion in Rock Creek Park.

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After Begging Others to Stay Home, Ivanka Trump Traveled 200 Miles to Her Father’s Golf Club: VIDEO

GLAAD to present “Together in Pride: You are Not Alone,” a star-studded livestream event highlighting the LGBTQ response to COVID-19 and benefting CenterLink

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Gay Real Estate Agent Becomes 3rd Winter Party Attendee to Die from Coronavirus: VIDEO

Thom Carr, a 67-year-old real-estate agent and classical pianist from Fort Lauderdale, has become the third person to die from coronavirus after attending the Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach in early March.

“It is with overwhelming sadness that I share that our journey together has come to an end,” Carr’s husband, J. Heider, wrote Wednesday on Facebook. “For now, the parties, the cruises, the costume planning and trips together have come to an end. My memories from 35 years together, however, will never end. Over the years and especially at this terrible time for the world, Thom brought us joy, music, his special creativity and talents. For that we can be grateful.”

Heider also tested positive for COVID-19 but has recovered, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. Carr, a diabetic, spent three weeks in an intensive-care unit after being admitted to the hospital on March 23.

Carr was an accomplished pianist whose 2014 album, Broadway & Beyond, received rave reviews, according to the Miami Herald. Here’s a demo he posted to YouTube:

At least 38 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 after attending the weeklong fundraiser for the National LGBTQ Task Force that is among the nation’s largest annual gay parties. In an interview with NBC 6, Heider reflected on the couple’s decision to attend the event, which ran from March 4-10.

“I think that we were operating under the guidance of our leadership at that time, the president, the governor, other people were saying go about your lives, live your lives. At that time they were saying it’s no worse than the flu,” Heider said.

Earlier this week, a New York Times article also linked the outbreak of COVID-19 cases among Winter Party Festival attendees to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ delay in shutting down the state.

“Weeks before Florida ordered people to stay at home, the coronavirus was well into its insidious spread in the state, infecting residents and visitors who days earlier had danced at beach parties and reveled in theme parks,” the Times reported. “Only now, as people have gotten sick and recovered from — or succumbed to — Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has the costly toll of keeping Florida open during the spring break season started to become apparent.”

Israel Carreras, a 40-year-old Uber and Lyft driver from Miami, became the first Winter Party Festival attendee to die from coronavirus on March 26. Carreras was also the first COVID-19 fatality in Miami-Dade County. Ron Rich, 65, who had volunteered at the Winter Party Festival, died a few days later.

Watch NBC 6’s report below.

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Little Fires Everywhere’s Megan Stott on the LGBTQ Importance of Izzy

The 16-year-old actress discusses lessons she learned from portraying a queer ’90s teen in the hit Hulu drama.

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