Good Trouble’s Sherry Cola on Staying Put & Her Carole Baskin Painting

Out comic and actress Cola discusses shopping protocol and loving her community and castmates on Inside With the Advocate.

www.advocate.com/television/2020/4/24/good-troubles-sherry-cola-her-carole-baskin-painting-staying-put

WATCH: ‘Unusual Attachment’, a gay quickie about the horror of internet dating

In case you need a scream, a smile, or both (and we know you do)…

Queer horror impresario Michael Varrati has just dropped his latest endeavor, a short film about gay dating on the web during public lockdown.

Unusual Attachment follows Hunter (played by actor Ben Baur), a gay guy on the hunt (pun intended) for the perfect man. When Hunter resorts to ManBingo, a Chat Roulette-type webcam program, to find his evening date, things take a bizarre–and apocalyptic–twist.

Related: From sexy to scary: The Queerty must-see Halloween screening list

“When the stay at home orders due to Covid-19 were issued, so many of us were at a loss,” Varrati said in a statement. “My natural response when I’m feeling listless is to make something, which is easier said than done when you can’t leave your home. We were able to build a cast and crew of remarkable artists spanning three different cities who weren’t willing to let a little thing like being stuck inside stop them from making a movie.”

The resultant short takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to horror–something that has become Varrati’s signature–while still commenting on the era of social distancing.

Have a look. You might think twice about that next Zoom date…

www.queerty.com/watch-unusual-attachment-gay-quickie-horror-internet-dating-20200424?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Trump Forces 1,000 West Point Cadets to Return to New York So He Can Deliver Commencement Address

After closing down and sending students home due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Military Academy at West Point is being forced to bring back 1,000 cadets to its campus in New York — an epicenter for the virus — so President Donald Trump can deliver a commencement address.

The New York Times reported Friday that West Point had postponed its commencement, and school officials were unsure whether to hold one, before Trump announced that he would be speaking there.

From the NYT: And so last Friday, the day before Mr. Pence was to speak at the Air Force ceremony in Colorado, Mr. Trump, never one to be upstaged, abruptly announced that he would, in fact, be speaking at West Point. That was news to everyone, including officials at West Point, according to three people involved with or briefed on the event. The academy had been looking at the option of a delayed presidential commencement in June, but had yet to complete any plans. With Mr. Trump’s pre-emptive statement, they are now summoning 1,000 cadets scattered across the country to return to campus in New York, the state that is the center of the outbreak. “He’s the commander in chief, that’s his call,” said Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate and former chairwoman of the academy’s Board of Visitors. “Cadets are certainly excited about the opportunity to have something like the classic graduation, standing together, flinging their hats in the air. But everyone is leery about bringing 1,000 cadets into the New York metropolitan area for a ceremony. It’s definitely a risk.”

The ceremony is now set for June 13.

Read the NYT’s full story here.

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