WATCH: Your first, flirty look at ‘Love, Victor’, the new ‘Love, Simon’ spin-off

That milk sure is… steamed.

The first clip of Love, Victor, the Love, Simon spinoff/sequel TV series has just arrived, giving us a look at Victor in action. In it, Victor (Michael Cimino) applies for a job as a barista at a coffee shoppe, and finds himself a bit too distracted by the manager Benji’s (George Sear) grinding skills. Temperatures rise when Victor’s attempt to froth some milk goes horribly awry.

Related: Gasp! Disney announces ‘Love, Simon’ the TV series

That’s right, there’s both a grinder and an exploding milk joke in the 95-second clip.

Set at Creekwood High–Simon’s alma matter–Love, Victor follows its title character on a similar journey of self-discovery. The show was originally set to premiere on Disney+ before Disney unceremoniously moved the show to Hulu, possibly over objections to the LGBTQ content of the 10-episode show.

Love, Victor arrives on Hulu June 19.

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Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw on Carolyn Being ‘No Exception’ to Tragedy

The out veteran thespian chats with The Advocate about Killing Eve as a needed diversion from real life. 

www.advocate.com/television/2020/4/27/killing-eves-fiona-shaw-carolyn-being-no-exception-tragedy

Being Gay Means Having a Lost Love Like Buzz and Tommy

From the furtive lifeguards to the lesbians of A League of Their Own, we’re reminded how often same-sex couples fought for love (and often lost).

www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/27/being-gay-means-having-lost-love-buzz-and-tommy

Mayor Pete says he gets why it was ’empowering’ for some queer people to vote against him

Former presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg has opened up about the support–and pushback–he got from fellow LGBTQ people on the campaign trail.

During a GLAAD Livestream hosted by Billy Eichner, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana addressed his history-making candidacy as an out, married gay man on the campaign trail. He also talked about the criticism he received from some corners of the queer community.

“I think our LGBT+ community is going through that generational experience,” Buttigieg waxed. “I wonder if for some people it was empowering, in terms of a group that’s so close to the edge in terms of marginalization, to frankly feel empowered to be queer and to not vote for [an out-queer candidate]. One generation’s just astonished that there can even be a candidate who is queer, but I think for some others, it might have felt empowering to be able to be queer and not vote for a candidate who is queer. On some level, I get that. I just hope that people can have whatever their political views are and not be mean.”

Related: Forget the beard, Mayor Pete just shaved his head.

Buttigieg went on to elaborate on some of the “mean” views he and his husband Chasten endured during his run. While some of the criticism came from political opponents who attacked him for being gay, ironically, Buttigieg also had to suffer attacks from other LGBTQ people who found him too mainstream.

“People could say really, mean, awful, untrue things about you, but they don’t know the first thing about you,” Buttigieg said. “They don’t know what I went through or what my story was. I reminded myself I’m worthy of love and trying to do my best, and if people don’t like something about my husband, then that’s their prerogative, but I will never look down on myself for not meeting the definition of some gatekeeper somewhere, on am I gay enough, am I not gay enough.”

Buttigieg scored a major victory by winning the Iowa Caucus, the first Democratic contest for the 2020 Election cycle. He dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Joe Biden March 1.

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Conspiracy Theorist Trump Fans ‘Diamond & Silk’ Have Been Canned by FOX News: REPORT

FOX News commentators and vocal Trump supporters Diamond & Silk (aka Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson) have lost their gig on the FOX Nation streaming service after pushing too many lies about COVID-19.

ICYMI: FOX News Commentators ‘Diamond & Silk’: Rising Coronavirus Death Toll is a Media Conspiracy Meant to Hurt Donald Trump — WATCH

The Daily Beast reports: “The sudden split comes after the Trump-boosting siblings have come under fire for promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus. ‘After what they’ve said and tweeted you won’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon,’ a source with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.”

Diamond & Silk asserted that the coronavirus death toll was false, that the disease was made in a lab, caused by 5G networks, and was a product of the “deep state.” They pushed for people to expose themselves to the virus to make themselves immune to it.

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