Lele Pons is a social media star with over 40 million Instagram followers, 16 million YouTube subscribers, and a gay dad who she adores.
In the most recent episode of her web series The Secret Life of Lele Pons, she opens up about the time she learned her dad was gay after she accidentally walked in on him with another man.
“I came to his room and I saw him actually, like, sleeping with a man. And I was, like, 10 years old, and that for me was, like, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe it. Like, I saw… my dad,’” the 23-year-old Venezuelan recalls.
Pons goes on to say that learning about her father’s sexuality wasn’t an easy thing for her to grasp as a child.
“When my dad told me he was gay, it was a surprise but I didn’t judge him,” she says. “I tried so hard to understand him, and eventually I did.”
“I said, ‘OK, you’re gay.I want to understand how you feel and what made you decide to marry my mom and what made you decide to tell me now?’I just want to understand everything.”
Today, Pons says she and her father have worked through their issues and are “so close,” even joking that be’s since gotten revenge on her for walking in on him and his lover.
“I’ve seen everything, he’s seen everything,” she says. “That happened to me too. I think he came in one time, to me.… We’re even.”
The court’s May 13 decision prompted residents to flood bars — with many not wearing masks or social distancing — after the Tavern League of Wisconsin instructed members to feel free to “OPEN IMMEDIATELY!”
“We’re going to have more cases, we’re going to have more deaths, and it’s a sad occasion for the state,” Evers told MSNBC in response to the court’s decision. “We’re the Wild West. There are no rules, no regulations.”
Yahoo News reports: The state reported 599 new known COVID-19 cases on Wednesday with 22 known deaths, according to Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services, the highest recorded daily rise since the pandemic began there. … The previous record in new coronavirus cases was 528 the week prior. … Some local officials, including those in Milwaukee and Madison, have since instituted their own regulations.
More from ABC 9: State health officials said it was not clear if the stay home order being overturned on May 13 caused the spike in cases. Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday he cannot issue a mandate, but he can issue a plea: “One of the most important things you can do to help others is to wear a mask or other face covering in public. Wearing a mask shouldn’t be a political statement. It isn’t controversial, and it’s not hard to do,” he said.
NBC 15 notes that the trend continued with the release of Thursday’s data.
Cooper, a gayman who works as a comic book writer, found himself at the center of drama following an incident in New York’s Central Park on May 25. Cooper had gone to a specific area of the park called The Ramble known as a bird habitat. Cooper is an avid bird watcher.
While there, he encountered Amy Cooper (no relation), an investment banker walking her dog. She had her dog off-leash, violating the rules for The Ramble. Christian asked Amy to put her dog on a leash, so as not to interfere with the birds nesting in the area. She refused. Christian began filming her, sending Amy into a frenzy. She dialed 9-1-1 to say “an African-American man is threatening me and my dog.” Following the incident, Christian Cooper’s sister Melody posted the clip to Twitter, where it became a viral sensation.
In the aftermath of the incident, Amy Cooper had her dog reclaimed by a rescue organization. Franklin Templeton, her employer, also terminated her.
Now, in an interview with Gay USA, Christian Cooper has opened up about the incident, and the consequences for Amy Cooper.
“I decided to videotape her intransigent behavior,” Cooper says. “Up until then it was conflict between a bird watcher and a dog walker with their dog off-leash.”
Cooper went on to explain the problem of park-goers walking their dogs off-leash, and that he began to video record Amy Cooper’s actions to show authorities. During her call to 9-1-1, Amy Cooper yanked her dog about by the collar before finally putting him on a leash. Cooper then terminated the recording.
When it comes to the blowback experienced by Amy Cooper for her actions, Christian has mixed feelings.
“Her life went from normal to collapsed in about 60 seconds,” Christian observed. “For a lapse of judgment, a serious lapse of judgment, one that turned racist. I have very mixed feelings about the consequences for her, whether it’s proportional. I imagine she was trying to get a leg up in the confrontation… But she went to a racist place.”
At the time of this writing, Melody Cooper’s initial tweet of the video has more than 200,000 retweets and half a million likes.
Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Bramble in NY’s Central Park, where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs MUST be leashed at all times, and someone like my brother (an avid birder) politely asks her to put her dog on the leash. pic.twitter.com/3YnzuATsDm
NY Gov. Cuomo: “Today, I’m signing an executive order that authorizes private businesses to deny entrance to people who do not wear a mask or a face covering” t.co/hKf82dkUIfpic.twitter.com/g3yHnxXwmp
On @NewDay this morning, Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd: “They showed no empathy or compassion. Nobody out there showed it… I’m never going to get my brother back. We need justice. Those four officers need to be arrested. They executed my brother in broad daylight.” pic.twitter.com/GlfZhApMxz
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