Equality Issues The Black History of Stonewall (This is the latest installment of our Long Reads series. For more entries, please click here.) TRIGGER WARNING: The following article has detailed descriptions of police violence and abuse, particularly towards LGBTQ+ and Black communities. Picture this. It’s a breezy Friday night in New York City’s Greenwich Village. By Prem • Jun 05, 2020 10:50 am
Top Reads Meghan Markle, the British Royal Family, and Black Lives Matter A video message from Meghan Markle to the students of Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles was released yesterday featuring Meghan voicing outrage over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others and declaring her support for Black Lives Matter. Dickie Arbiter, who used to be By Lainey • Jun 05, 2020 09:54 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 5, 2020 Dear Gossips, I am on the American Film Institute mailing list and since the end of March every day I get a message from the AFI about their Movie Club Movie of the Day that was launched in collaboration with Steven Spielberg so that people could gather virtually to celebrate By Lainey • Jun 05, 2020 08:56 am
What Else What Else? No, we don’t need any more fighting in this world. BUT. What if it’s, like, nature fighting. Sort of? Like animal kingdom? This is a video of a rat fighting a cat. That is not a euphemism for Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears’s dance-off where JT is By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 04:20 pm
Barack Obama Ranking the virtual commencement speeches In lieu of traditional graduations, the class of 2020 has been treated to a series of virtual commencement speeches from various celebrities and political figures. (Shout out to the class of 2020 who are coming of age in a literal nightmare but are hanging in there with the TikTok dances By Sarah • Jun 04, 2020 03:41 pm
Equality Issues The Goldings at the protest Henry Golding and Liv Lo were at the Black Lives Matter protest yesterday. Henry’s mother is Malaysian, Liv’s father is Taiwanese, and I’m bringing this up because as we know, the three other police officers involved in the murder of George Floyd have now been charged with By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 03:16 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 4, 2020 Amber Riley appeared on Instagram Live with journalist Danielle Young to talk about Black Lives Matter and addressed the Lea Michele stuff – she said this is the last time she will speak on it. You can read the recap here (“I’m not going to say that Lea Michele is By Maria • Jun 04, 2020 02:24 pm
Quiveration Omar and Ander get tested If you watch Elite, you know exactly who I’m talking about here because I’ve just referred to the names of the characters and not the actors. Omar on Elite is played by Omar Ayuso. Ander is played by Aron Piper. They are, spoiler alert, but not really, my By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 01:31 pm
Equality Issues Jodie and Joshua’s new haircut go for a walk These pictures are a few days old but you know what? There’s no one out there who’s going to complain about seeing them even if you’re seeing them again, right? It’s Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson. Seeing them is self-care for Kathleen. Every time they step By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 12:33 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s permanent retirement Have you watched Filthy Rich yet? It’s the Netflix docuseries about Jeffrey Epstein. Throughout the series, and right off the top, Epstein is seen in deposition footage repeatedly pleading the fifth. I’m not a lawyer and yes, I knowwwwwww that the fifth amendment has its value in legal By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 11:45 am
Equality Issues Meghan Markle speaks to the students In a new video first shared by Essence, Meghan Markle has spoken out about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, and the long list of Black victims who lost their lives or have been wounded emotionally and physically because of anti-Black racism and/or police brutality. She was By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 10:43 am
Equality Issues THR’s Pride Issue The Hollywood Reporter debuted its Pride issue yesterday morning with a cover story, “The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood”. THR Cover: The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood https://t.co/FXkONuuuXl — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 4, 2020 Now THIS is a Pride cover. For one, By Prem • Jun 04, 2020 09:36 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, John Boyega joined protestors in London yesterday in support of Black Lives Matter, delivering an impassioned, emotional speech denouncing anti-Black racism, calling for justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and so many more, and praising the contributions of Black women. He also made it By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 09:04 am
What Else What Else? Are clocks magic? Is time magic? No. It’s just math. For some, though, me included, math is like magic. I’m not actually bad at math. I’m just bad at remembering math – there is nothing mathematical that I can retain unless it’s gambling related. As soon as By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 04:09 pm
Mad Men Mad Men, Imperfect but Prescient Mad Men is leaving Netflix next week, on June 9. I knew this, and Lainey and I talked about me commenting on it, earlier this month. Then, of course, after the death of George Floyd, trying to find something to say about a show that was accurately criticized for focusing By Duana • Jun 03, 2020 03:44 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Working While Black For many Black people in Hollywood, much of the work they’ve been doing over the last week is defending their right to exist with dignity and protesting police anti-Black racism and violence. As Kendrick Sampson (Insecure) told The Hollywood Reporter, “Most of the organizers that I know have had By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 02:56 pm
