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WATCH NOW: “Together In Pride: The LGBTQ Response to COVID-19” with Billy Eichner Lilly Singh, Kesha, Mj Rodriguez, and more!

WATCH NOW: “Together In Pride: The LGBTQ Response to COVID-19” with Billy Eichner Lilly Singh, Kesha, Mj Rodriguez, and more!

Click here to watch GLAAD’s “Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone” now. Event begins at 8pm ET/5pm PT.

GLAAD’s “Together in Pride: You are Not Alone” will highlight the LGBTQ response to COVID-19 and amplify messages of acceptance and affirmation to the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV during this unprecedented time. The livestream will raise funds for local LGBTQ community centers that are members of CenterLink. Watch and share it here. 

LGBTQ community centers are providing critical services such as medical care, mental health counseling, virtual support groups, hot meals, HIV testing and more during COVID-19. Given the current financial crisis, these centers could be forced to shrink their services, meaning the tens of thousands of LGBTQ people who use the centers each week could go without care and community. Support your LGBTQ neighbors by donating to your local center today here.

Billy Eichner and Lilly Singh will co-host the event, which will include performances from Kesha, Mj Rodriguez and George Salazar, Melissa Etheridge Alex Newell, and the cast of Broadway’s “Jagged Little Pill.” 

Participants include Barbra Streisand, Billy Porter, Mayor Pete & Chasten Buttigieg, Rosie O’Donnell, Matt Bomer, Wilson Cruz, August Getty, Gigi Gorgeous & Nats Getty, Sean Hayes, Adam Lambert, Dan Levy, Tatiana Maslany, Ross Mathews, Javier Muñoz, Tyler Oakley, D.J. “Shangela” Pierce, Bebe Rexha, Brian Michael Smith, Patrick Starrr, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Van Ness, and Michelle Visage. We’ll also spotlight executive directors of local centers and other LGBTQ heroes on the frontlines of helping others during COVID-19. 

“At a time when some LGBTQ people could be isolating in homes that are not affirming, GLAAD is bringing together the biggest LGBTQ stars and allies to send messages of love, support and acceptance,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. “So many LGBTQ people, especially our youth, depend on support from local community centers around the country, and during this time of financial distress, we must come together as a community to ensure that all LGBTQ organizations can continue their life-saving work.”

“LGBTQ centers are the heart of the community, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic these centers have continued to provide vital connectivity and services, pivoting to virtual programming, modifying in-person services when possible, and ensuring that their communities have resources and support when they need it the most,” said Denise Spivak, Interim CEO of CenterLink.

 

April 26, 2020

www.glaad.org/blog/watch-now-together-pride-lgbtq-response-covid-19-billy-eichner-lilly-singh-kesha-mj-rodriguez

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Daily Dose: The immortal appeal of Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn

Daily Dose: The immortal appeal of Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn

Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.

The Screamer: Death Becomes Her

Audiences didn’t quite know what to make of this dark fantasy comedy back in 1992. Beyond the groundbreaking visual effects, the twisted humor–satirizing Hollywood, femininity, wealth and obsessing over youth–didn’t land with moviegoers flocking to titles like Batman Returns and Home Alone 2. Thank goodness then, it’s found the fault following it deserves.

Death Becomes Her casts real-life besties Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as a pair of lifelong rivals, Madeline and Helen respectively. Madeline, an actress of dubious talent, can’t stand the thought of Helen’s happiness, especially when Helen falls for a handsome surgeon named Ernest (Bruce Willis). Madeline steals Ernest away, leaving Helen alone to get fat and live with cats. Years later, as Madeline’s career has waned and Ernest’s alcoholism pushes him from surgeon to mortician, Helen reemerges as a bombshell beauty, and begins to seduce Ernest away. Madeline then turns to a mysterious potion that will grant her eternal youth and beauty, though at a very odd price.

Death Becomes Her has quotable zingers to spare, and Hawn and Streep kick their comic talents into high gear. Likewise, Willis gives his best-ever performance as the neurotic Ernest, a man caught between two forces of nature. Angelenos (and those familiar with the city) will get the most out of the movie’s ribbing of Los Angeles and its beauty standards, though anyone who has ever fretted over looks or success (and face it, if you’re reading this, you have) will empathize with the story. Hollywood humor seldom gets this black and bitchy…or this fun.

Streams on Amazon, Hulu, iTunes, YouTube, and VUDU

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