Pete Buttigieg kissed his husband on some of the biggest political stages in the country. That would've meant the world to me as a closeted gay kid growing up in the South, and I know it still does for many, many scared kids staring at the ceiling in their bedrooms. It matters.
The Lion King trailer being released as millions of Millennials sit in their childhood bedrooms on Thanksgiving night, slightly drunk and vulnerable to nostalgia... someone give that marketing team a raise
The limewire generation learned quickly how to spot bad files and it’s honestly a big reason why Millennials have better internet literacy than the generations on either side
I’ve been a Taylor fan since 2006, so this is tough: I don’t think this is a good album. It feels like she internalized “more words = art” post-folklore. A 31-track album that boldly asks: what if there are two good songs on the front half?
Fun fact: after
@taylorswift13
posted on Instagram today directing her followers to register to vote on
@votedotorg
, our site was averaging 13,000 users every 30 minutes. 13! Let’s just say her reputation for being a mastermind is very well-earned!
#NVRD
INCREDIBLE: Taylor Swift just made a sizable donation to
@tnequality
and wrote a heartfelt note thanking the organization for its work in trying to defeat the anti-LGBTQ "slate of hate" in Tennessee.
#tnleg
It has come to my attention that people may think this tweet has something to do with something other than pasta. This tweet is literally about being socially isolated and making pasta!!!!
It’s starting to feel like Marvel. You can’t jump in if you aren��t deep in the lore. Too much content. And for every person who says this, there are two people dressing up for the midnight premiere who’ll yell at you for thinking, “maybe quality is suffering for quantity.”
Oh please let the Tina Fey redemption arc be a positive sign for our collective ability to recognize satire again rather than being so deeply literal and context-free in every aspect of popular culture
Few things in recent culture have resonated more with me than the unabashed movement to reclaim “America” after decades of “USA” chants and flags held up as a symbol of exclusivity. From Beyoncé to camo to the faces that represent us in the Olympics — it belongs to all of us, too
But dismissing criticism as “hating” allows both fans and artists to stagnate, or worse, not edit themselves. Fans criticize! Ask any fan of a sports team! Thrilled for you if you like it. But stans accepting and defending anything is how we got here.
Strange how losing male presidential candidate Mitt Romney is being immediately discussed as a replacement for Orrin Hatch’s senate seat and isn’t being told to take up knitting!
Fun fact: Katy Tur (who just did that bonkers interview with Sam Numberg) is the daughter of the helicopter pilot and reporter who filmed the OJ chase from the air in LA
My personal favorite of this genre is an episode of Downton Abbey where Edith learns her baby’s father has been killed by a Hitler-led mob and as she’s crying, Mary enters the room to debut a new haircut
The Crown is a wild series cause the Prime Minister will walk in and be like "Ma'am, 9/11 just happened" and then it'll cut to a B-plot about Prince Philip personally overseeing a remodel of the bathroom
BREAKING: Gov. Northam has signed into law the Virginia Values Act, making VA the FIRST state in the South to have comprehensive non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people. It's been a long, long road to get here, and today, Virginia has made history!
But if you made those albums, wouldn’t you hold a bottle, chasing that lightning forever? So, the product is this new album. It feels sonically stuck, like she hasn’t left the studio long enough to find a new direction, all while re-recording the past. Take a beat. Move forward!
Every one of us knows an addict, and most are familiar with how addiction can send emotional shockwaves through a family or a community. When Biden said “I’m proud of my son” for overcoming his addiction, I could almost feel parents across the country whispering, “That’s right.”
Raising Hunter Biden’s addiction as an issue on the debate stage was a colossal miscalculation on Trump’s part. Making it an official part of the campaign messaging, which Don Jr.‘s words confirm it to be, has to be (besides being evil) the dumbest strategy I have ever heard of.
Rachel Maddow and Kristen Welker are so effective at moderating, I want them to come to gay brunch to take the bill from the server and figure out how much everyone has to Venmo.
#DemDebate
Last thought: it feels like she’s (understandably) chasing the highs of 1989 and folklore — when she first worked with Jack and Aaron, respectively. I’ve seen “TTPD part 1 is midnights. part 2 is evermore,” and there’s a clean line from 1989 - Midnights / from folklore - evermore
The Scandoval NYT Mag piece is a lot of things, including a cautionary tale for young PR people. You should never find yourself, at 23, sitting with a publicly hated man who’s talking to a magazine reporter. And you certainly should never ask more questions during the interview!
The White House spends its time claiming that immigrants are coming to kill you, while LGBTQ people and people of color -- even successful, wealthy ones -- are being attacked and harassed in the street. There's a clear threat, and it's in the Oval Office, not at the border.
@svershbow
It’s gotta be because these are all posturing people who claim they want adventure but really just want to say they’re in Italy rather than BE in Italy
Nine years ago, Jim and I got in a car after SCOTUS affirmed marriage equality nationwide, fighting for recognition of his marriage to his late husband. The moment I’ll cherish forever: he took a breath, put his phone down, looked out the window and whispered, “we did it, John.”
Pete Buttigieg's campaign gives me hope not because I want to run for president, but because I want to be the snarky, beloved social media-obsessed husband of someone who does!
There are Appalachian stories worth telling. Hillbilly Elegy isn’t one. Give movie deals to actual Appalachians, or at least to someone who doesn’t use my people as an allegory, so he can throw his hands up and say systemic poverty is based in personal laziness. Bless his heart.
Can’t stop imagining Joe Biden having a pensive moment, looking out the window of his house in Rehoboth, only to see 50 DC gays on the beach wearing ratty wigs and blasting Chappell Roan
I miss the moment on a plane where I would lock eyes with the gay flight attendant and we both had to decide whether we’d be best pals or sworn enemies for the next 1 hour and 58 minutes
a few weeks ago I dropped a full iced coffee on the floor at Starbucks and asked "it is better if I try and help or if I... just leave" and the barista looked me dead in the eyes and said "go." still thinking about her
Legions of straight men have quote tweeted the original tweet with “I feel attacked.” The fact that all the reactions to this are carbon copies of each other is just... *chefs kiss*
A short-list of tweet-jokes I'd like to make about this:
Should've Said No (to discrimination)
Forever & All Gays
Blank Check (to the Tennessee Equality Project)
New Year's Gay
I Did Something Good
Bi Blood
End Gayme
We Are Never Ever Discriminating Against Trans People
Real conversation i just had at NYC Pride:
Him: you’d be so cute if you didn’t have that glitter on
Me: aww you’d be so cute without that internalized homophobia
@sc0rpioriah
The toughest pill for me is not only is it the same as those songs, but there are copy and pasted production elements from lorde’s melodrama, an album that came out SEVEN years ago.
omg this woman on my plane just yelled to the flight attendant, “are we on time? People are waiting for me...” oh they are?? Why didn’t you say so! We will take to the sky immediately!
it's great that Chick-Fil-A will not give to anti-LGBTQ groups anymore. It really is! It's also true that the company doesn't have non-discrimination policies that include LGBTQ people. The company should also fix that!
@dbert91
It clearly didn’t! I obviously spent a lot of time thinking about it. I get it because I’ve heard (and liked) the three albums before this one. This is how fanboys defend Rick & Morty lol you can understand something and think it’s not great
An incredible sight as the camera shows the diverse group of Democratic women wearing white, a group so large that they have to pan over their section with a wide lens.
#SOTU