Disney World hosts LGBTQ+ conference amid DeSantis crackdown on rights | Florida

 Posted on June 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  601 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Florida This article is more than 9 months oldDisney World hosts LGBTQ+ conference amid DeSantis crackdown on rightsThis article is more than 9 months oldHosting of Out and Equal Workplace summit is seen as response to governor’s fight against LGBTQ+ rights in Florida Disney is pushing back against Florida’s rightwing Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by hosting a major LGBTQ+ conference. The Out & Equal Workplace summit has touted itself as the “largest LGBTQ+ conference in the world” and draws more than 5,000 attendees annually. [Read More]

Musk believes in America: DeSantis defends X owner after antisemitic post | Ron DeSantis

 Posted on June 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  851 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Ron DeSantis This article is more than 1 month oldMusk ‘believes in America’: DeSantis defends X owner after antisemitic postThis article is more than 1 month oldFlorida governor claims he hasn’t seen the message in which Musk tweeted an enthusiastic agreement with antisemitic post Ron DeSantis defended Elon Musk as “a guy that believes in America” on Sunday as the Florida governor refused to condemn X’s billionaire owner for an antisemitic post that caused numerous key advertisers to desert the social media platform. [Read More]

Paul McCarthy 'butt plug' sculpture in Paris provokes rightwing backlash | Paul McCarthy

 Posted on June 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  604 words  |  Valentine Belue

Paul McCarthy This article is more than 9 years oldPaul McCarthy 'butt plug' sculpture in Paris provokes rightwing backlashThis article is more than 9 years oldAmerican artist slapped and artworked vandalised, as right-wing protesters accuse him of ‘humiliating’ Paris Shocked by McCarthy’s butt plug? You haven’t seen his phallic Pinocchio Paris has no shortage of towering columns that amateur psychologists like to view in sexual terms. But nothing here has made the link between monumental sculpture and sexual desire as literal as a green, abstracted Christmas tree that looked disconcertingly like a “plug anal” – the mildly more polite French term for a butt plug. [Read More]

Soft power: cardigans become male status symbol as sales soar

 Posted on June 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  752 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Fashion This article is more than 8 months oldThis article is more than 8 months oldCelebrities and TV characters are flexing their muscles in non-threatening cosy knitwear Until recently, a man in a cardigan might typically have signalled “retiree”. But now the cosiest of knitwear items has been given a makeover. Fashion-friendly brands such as The Elder Statesman, Ami Paris and Studio Nicholson are pushing the cardigan. Marks & Spencer reports that sales of cardigans are performing well for spring – up 90% on 2022, possibly due to the “inbetween” weather. [Read More]

Union Berlin are now a major irritant to the Bundesligas established order

 Posted on June 1, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1410 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

SportblogBundesligaUrs Fischer’s team were brutal and unforgiving against Schalke, not the cuddly club of football fables Those records keep tumbling. Their longest top-flight unbeaten run (now 11) was extended. This is the first time they have gone unbeaten in five Bundesliga away games. Add to that, of course, the big one – this was their biggest ever Bundesliga win, at the home of one of German football’s iconic clubs in front of a sold-out, 62,000-plus crowd. [Read More]

Woman who defied 300 neo-Nazis at Swedish rally speaks of anger | Sweden

 Posted on June 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  770 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Tess Asplund stands with raised fist opposite protesters from the Nordic Resistance Movement in Borlänge. Photograph: David Lagerlöf/Expo/TT News Agency/Press Association ImagesTess Asplund stands with raised fist opposite protesters from the Nordic Resistance Movement in Borlänge. Photograph: David Lagerlöf/Expo/TT News Agency/Press Association ImagesSweden This article is more than 7 years oldWoman who defied 300 neo-Nazis at Swedish rally speaks of angerThis article is more than 7 years oldTess Asplund, who was photographed with fist raised in lone protest against far-right activists, says she acted on impulse [Read More]

David Schwimmer: 'Im very aware of my privilege as a heterosexual white male' | David Schwimmer

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2073 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The G2 interviewDavid SchwimmerInterviewDavid Schwimmer: 'I’m very aware of my privilege as a heterosexual white male'David SmithThe actor and director on divorce, fatherhood, controversy – and whether he will ever return to Ross Geller David Schwimmer has finished a late lunch of salmon and brussels sprouts and is sipping a beer in an Italian restaurant in New York’s Lower East Side when the stranger approaches. “Friends are like family, so you always look familiar,” the man says. [Read More]

Fakes and fortunes: has the time come to forgive literary forger Lee Israel?

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2157 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

BooksIn the pre-internet era, Israel made a career from forging letters from stars including Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. As a new film starring Melissa McCarthy is released, Kathryn Hughes explores why she did it In 1993, New York author Lee Israel found herself staring down the barrel of a prison sentence. Following an investigation by the FBI, she had been busted as a literary forger. For the past two years, the 53-year-old biographer and journalist had made a killing – not a fortune, but enough to pay the arrears on her rent and get her beloved sick cat treated by the vet – by inventing letters from well-known wits of the mid-20th century. [Read More]

Great dynasties of the world: The Ronsons

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  621 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Great dynasties of the worldFamilyA clan with star-studded music connectionsIn their book Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (1996), Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli explain how they came up with the once-popular Kevin Bacon Game as college students. The Kevin Bacon Game was a pointless, popular 1990s celebrity-trivia version of Twenty Questions, in which participants had to link fellow actors to Kevin Bacon – a star of Sleepers and Mystic River – in as few links as possible. [Read More]

How to wear: burgundy with blue

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  560 words  |  Valentine Belue

‘Burgundy with blue: unexpected enough to look interesting, subtle enough not to look ridiculous.’ Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian‘Burgundy with blue: unexpected enough to look interesting, subtle enough not to look ridiculous.’ Photograph: David Newby/The GuardianJess Cartner-Morley on fashionFashionThis colour-blocking combo is top of fashion’s Premier League The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. [Read More]