Justin Bieber, Rebecca Romijn, Donald Trump, Alan Turing, RBG\u2019s Mentor, Joy Behar In Black Face, A Transgender Reveal Party, and More: HOT LINKS<\/b><\/p>\n
DON\u2019T FORGET<\/strong> Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> tonight!<\/p>\n On a scale of Number One to Number One, how excited are you to see @RebeccaRomijn<\/a> tonight? #StarTrekDiscovery<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Star Trek: Discovery (@startrekcbs) February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n BELIEVE IN THE SINNER<\/strong> The\u00a0new Presbyterian moderator backs the church\u2019s gay marriage opposition<\/a>. But, he added the Church \u201cabhors\u201d homophobia and is \u201copen and welcome to anyone\u201d.<\/p>\n TRUMP\u2019S HIV PLAN<\/strong> \u00a0NPR says halting the U.S. HIV epidemic by 2030<\/a> is difficult but doable. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says Trump\u2019s initiative would aim to reduce new infections by 75 percent in the next five years and 90 percent in the next 10 years. That would avert more than 250,000 HIV infections by 2030. \u201cSeveral HIV\/AIDS advocates say that the goal is achievable, but only if the administration reverses course in several major areas of health care policy, including efforts to weaken the Affordable Care Act, cut funding for Planned Parenthood and limit LGBTQ and immigrant rights. The initiative\u2019s fate will depend on Congress, which will decide whether to fund the new proposal and, if so, by how much.\u201d<\/p>\n A KNIT KID\u00a0<\/strong>A Wisconsin boy is hooked on crocheting and giving back<\/a>. \u201cAfter a very hard, busy, chaotic day in this busy world with school, it\u2019s just nice to know that I can come home and crochet in my little corner of the house while sitting by the one I love most: my mom,\u201d 11 year-old Jonah Larson tells <\/a>NPR.\u00a0Jonah regularly donates some of his goods and money to the Ethiopian orphanage from which he was adopted as an infant.<\/p>\n WHO WAS THE GREATEST PERSON OF THE 20TH CENTURY? <\/strong>The BBC says that person was openly gay<\/a> mathematician Alan Turing. Attitude<\/em> remarked<\/a>: \u201cAlan Turing has been named \u2018The Greatest Person of the 20th Century\u2019 during BBC Two\u2019s\u00a0Icons<\/em>\u00a0series. The scientist and World War Two codebreaker won the public vote after being other finalists including Nelson Mandela, Ernest Shackleton, David Bowie, Dr Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Pablo Picasso. During the final episode of the BBC Two series, Chris Packham delivered a speech about Turing\u2019s tragic life and his legacy.<\/p>\n Packham says: \u201cAll he got for all of his toil and all of our trouble was a poisoned apple. A genius, a saviour, but he was also autistic and gay<\/a>, so we betrayed him and drove him to suicide.<\/p>\n WALLS DESTROY\u00a0<\/strong>Imminent border wall construction will destroy the most diverse butterfly center in U.S. <\/p>\n EcoWatch says<\/a>: Construction equipment has arrived to build a\u00a0border wall<\/a>\u00a0through the\u00a0National Butterfly Center<\/a>\u00a0in Mission, Texas, a protected habitat for more than 200 species of wild butterflies and other unique wildlife. A planned 5.5 mile section of concrete and steel border wall that is already funded will cut off 70 percent of the\u00a0100-acre property. The barrier will be built on top of a levee of the Rio Grande that runs through the sanctuary.<\/p>\n SELF CARE<\/strong> Single gay<\/a> guys<\/a> talk about self love. \u201cIf you don\u2019t take care of yourself first, then you\u2019re never gonna be able to give 100 percent to somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY<\/strong> This Black queer legal pioneer helped launch Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has emerged as just about everyone\u2019s favorite badass on the Supreme Court. But the notorious RBG stands on the shoulders of civil rights and gender equality champion Pauli Murray. <\/p>\n LGBTQ Nation says<\/a>: \u201cOne of Ginsburg\u2019s key legal accomplishments, was the 1971 case\u00a0Reed vs. Reed.\u00a0<\/em>The Supreme Court accepted Ginsburg\u2019s argument in the case that the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th amendment protected against discrimination based on sex<\/a>. But the groundwork for Ginsburg\u2019s argument came from Murray. Murray, a Howard University-trained lawyer, started arguing in the 1960s that the equal protection clause should apply to cases of sex<\/a> discrimination just as it did to cases of racial discrimination. Murray\u2019s \u201creasoning from race\u201d used racial analogies to underscore women<\/a>\u2019s subordinate status, and may even have been a forerunner of today\u2019s language of intersections between categories like race and gender.\u201d<\/p>\n Remembering Pauli Murray \u2014 lawyer, activist, priest and author \u2014 who spent her formative years in Durham, NC. t.co\/JXhOKCW5RK<\/a> #BlackHistoryMonth<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WV1RGseMp3<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Self-Help (@SelfHelpCU) February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n #TBT<\/strong> The cast of the Wonder Years<\/em> reunite for this adorable photo<\/a>!<\/p>\n I got to see these guys<\/a> for lunch yesterday \u2013 it was so much fun to catch up and hear how their beautiful families are doing! And yes, @joshsaviano<\/a>, I totally agree \u2013 *you guys<\/a>* are like family\u2026 I mean, we DID grow up together, after all. #memories<\/a> #TheWonderYears<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/X1xVjVSs6T<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Danica McKellar (@danicamckellar) February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n LITTLE WOMEN REBOOT<\/strong> The perennial classic novel Little Women<\/em> gets a slightly queer revisit in out YA writer Rex Ogle\u2019s Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women<\/em>\u00a0 out now!<\/a><\/p>\n TRANSGENDER REVEAL! <\/strong>This\u00a0supermom praised her transgender son\u2019s coming out with \u201cIt\u2019s a boy\u201d <\/a>photo shoot. Kentucky mom Heather Green was so extra<\/em> for her son\u2019s 20th birthday photos this year.\u00a0Your son only comes\u00a0out as transgender once, after all.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Green\u2019s photo shoot\u00a0\u2013 which was themed as a baby gender reveal with\u00a0blue balloons, glitter, \u201cIt\u2019s a boy<\/a>\u201d messaging and a faux pregnant tummy to show\u00a0she was gaining another son\u00a0\u2013 is the ultimate show of support reported USA Today<\/em> via Facebook.<\/p>\n SPOILER ALERT\u00a0<\/strong>Marvel\u00a0Studios\u00a0has\u00a0released\u00a0the\u00a0synopsis\u00a0to\u00a0Avengers:\u00a0End\u00a0Game<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the devastating events of\u00a0Avengers: Infinity War<\/em>\u00a0(2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos\u2019 actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store,\u201d the synopsis reads.<\/p>\n The movie opens in theaters on April 26.<\/p>\n NOT SO VOGUE<\/strong> The cover of the new issue of Vogue featuring Justin Bieber and new wife Hailey Baldwin is getting shade<\/a> from other mags saying it looks more like a tabloid. <\/p>\n The newlyweds say married life is tough. \u201cThe thing is, marriage is very hard,\u201d said Baldwin, 22. \u201cThat is the sentence you should lead with. It\u2019s really effing hard.\u201d<\/p>\n They\u2019re now settling into a home Bieber purchased outside of Toronto. They bicker over decorating decisions and are in therapy to improve their communications skills. \u201cFighting is good,\u201d added Bieber, 24. \u201cDoesn\u2019t the Bible talk about righteous anger? We don\u2019t want to lose each other. We don\u2019t want to say the wrong thing, and so we\u2019ve been struggling with not expressing our emotions, which has been driving me absolutely crazy because I just need to express myself, and it\u2019s been really difficult to get her to say what she feels.\u201d <\/p>\n BIKING COAST TO COAST<\/strong> Will soon be a reality. \u201cThe Great American Rail-Trail has the potential to not just be a destination, but also a journey, and a journey through the heart of America,\u201d said Brandi Horton, vice president of communications for the\u00a0Rails-to-Trails Conservancy,<\/a>\u00a0a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1986, the group\u2019s mission is to work with trail-building groups and government agencies to convert former rail lines into a nationwide network of trails. When the group was formed, 250 miles of rail trails existed. Today, more than 23,000 miles of rail trails have been built\u201d says REI<\/a>.<\/p>\n WALLED OFF<\/strong> The bridge between Colombia and Venezuela has been blocked to stop humanitarian aid<\/a>. \u201cOn the Venezuelan side of an unused bridge to Colombia, freight containers have been positioned across the road and security forces have been put in place behind them. That border crossing has become the focal point of the effort by Juan Guaido, the lawmaker trying to oust Maduro with the backing of the U.S. and other countries, to get aid into the country to help starving Venezuelans and further undermine Maduro\u2019s grip on power, says Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n JOY BEHAR\u2019S BLACK FACE IS OK?<\/strong> Is it?\u00a0Page\u00a0Six\u00a0says,\u00a0\u201c<\/a>Behar showed her colleagues and the studio audience a photograph of herself with curly hair when she was 29. Co-host Raven-Symon\u00e9 asks, \u201cJoy, are you black?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJoy \u2026 are you my auntie, Joy?\u201d Raven-Symon\u00e9 quipped.<\/p>\n \u201cI was so cute,\u201d Behar responded.<\/p>\n Behar, now 76, explained that the picture was snapped at a Halloween party where she dressed up as a \u201cbeautiful African woman<\/a>\u201d and stressed that the hair was actually haira.\u201cDid you have tanning lotion on, Joy?\u201d Raven-Symon\u00e9 asked. Behar answered that she wore makeup \u201cthat was a little bit darker than my skin.\u201d Oy.<\/p>\n Joy Behar admitted during a taping of The View in 2016 to dressing as a \u201cbeautiful African women<\/a>\u201d at a Halloween party when she was 29 which involved makeup \u201cthat was a little bit darker than my skin\u201d<\/p>\n The show even ran an image of the old photo pic.twitter.com\/qKQqzDPxyn<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n DAWW<\/strong> Your daily dose of cute<\/a><\/p>\n HIM TOO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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