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☆ Carlin Dunne: Four-time Pikes Peak winner’s mom remembers her son on fifth anniversary of his death
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Romie Gallardo always knew the risks her son Carlin Dunne faced when he raced motorbikes. Carlin Dunne loved anything on two wheels -- BMX, mountain bikes, dirt bikes and street bikes. He was designed to ride that place.”According to his mother, Dunne was born with speed in his blood. I’m not in charge of your happiness and if you’re doing something that makes you happy then that’s all I can really ask for.’”The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb took place over a 12.42 mile course with 156 corners finishing at 14,110 feet at the summit of Pikes Peak. CNN's Don Riddell first interviewed Carlin Dunne just days before his death in 2019.

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☆ Key lines from CNN’s presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

CNN —In CNN’s presidential debate, President Joe Biden was halting and, at times, trailed off and confused words, feeding a nagging narrative about his fitness for the presidency. Trump said Biden couldn’t drive a golf ball 50 yards, and Biden challenged Trump to a golf match but only if Trump carries his own clubs. We’ve got to take a look at what I was left when I became president, what Mr. Trump left me. -TrumpBiden said Trump deserves blame for watching the riot at the Capitol unfold for hours without doing anything to intervene. They’ve had meetings and they voted who’s the worst president in American history.

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☆ Jonathan van Ness breaks silence over claims they were abusive on 'Queer Eye.' Here's a complete timeline of the drama surrounding Bobby Berk's exit.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Olivia Singh | Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The reboot, which premiered on the streamer in 2018, was initially hosted by Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, and Antoni Porowski. November 13, 2023: Bobby Berk reveals he's exiting 'Queer Eye' after 8 seasonsBobby Berk announced his exit from "Queer Eye" in 2023. AdvertisementHis full statement read:"To the Queer Eye Community who have become family to me. It's with a heavy heart that I announce that season 8 will be my final season on Queer Eye. According to one source, Van Ness' temper would hit a boiling point at least once a week.

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☆ OpenAI, Microsoft sued by Center for Investigative Reporting as news industry bolsters attack on AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The news industry just gained a powerful ally in its effort to take on OpenAI. The Center for Investigative Reporting, the country's oldest nonprofit newsroom, sued OpenAI and lead backer Microsoft in federal court on Thursday for alleged copyright infringement, following similar suits from publications including The New York Times , Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. In December, The New York Times filed a suit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI last year, alleging copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. Reddit also announced in May that it will partner with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.

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Frank Bruni: Olivia, Matt, I thank you for joining me and I wonder if you’re as disoriented as I am. A general-election presidential debate in June? Matthew Continetti: The dizziness you feel is the result of a truly strange presidential election. Biden and Trump are the oldest presidential candidates in history, and among the least liked. Olivia Nuzzi: I am usually disoriented when I look at our political landscape.

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☆ For Atlanta entrepreneurs, how to vote comes down to more than 'How's business?'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( J.J. Mccorvey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

He applauds the Biden administration's efforts to extend federal student loan relief and access to capital to entrepreneurs, for example. Today, Trump leads Biden in Georgia by 43% to 38%, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey of likely voters, an edge just outside its 3.1% margin of error. Social issues are business issues," said Molly Dickinson, founder of Banner Day, a branding agency that works closely with "traditionally underserved" entrepreneurs. "Small-business owners make business decisions based on how comfortable they feel in their home lives and in their everyday lives." "Business has been OK," Chey said, but food and labor costs have taken a toll.

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☆ Fact checking the CNN presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +69 min

CNN —President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off during CNN’s presidential debate in Atlanta Thursday night. From CNN’s Daniel DaleFormer President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024. From CNN’s Daniel Dale and Ella NilsenFormer President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden take part in the CNN presidential debate on Thursday, June 27. From CNN’s Alicia WallaceFormer President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024. Kpler found that China imported about 511,000 barrels per day of Iranian crude in December 2020, Trump’s last full month in office.

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☆ Caspar Lee says young people are unlikely to make lots of money on YouTube and should do it for fun
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Caspar Lee advised young people who want to be content creators to do YouTube for fun rather than focusing on making money because the chances of financial success are low. Lee previously told CNBC Make It that YouTubers with millions of subscribers can make millions of dollars, typically by joining YouTube's Partner Program. Nearly half of creators earned an annual income of $15,000 or less in 2023, according to a survey of over 2,000 content creators by influencer marketing agency NeoReach. Lee encourages aspiring YouTubers to find a way to be successful without relying on followers or fame. Since his YouTube days, Lee has co-founded several companies in the creator economy including the influencer marketing company Influencer.com and a venture capital fund called Creator Ventures.

Persons: Caspar Lee, Lee, it's, that's, Goldman Sachs, YouTubers Organizations: CNBC, YouTube's, NeoReach, Ventures Locations: British

And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves. New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth. I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me. By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth. Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.

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☆ Opinion | Who You Calling Conservative?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

You know you’ve touched a nerve with progressive activists when they tell you not just that you’re wrong but that you’re on the other side. Such is the fate of any old-school liberal or mainstream Democrat who deviates from progressive dogma. New York magazine’s liberal political columnist Jonathan Chait was accused of lending “legitimacy to a reactionary moral panic” for critiquing political correctness. But the goal and the effect is to narrow the focus of acceptable discourse by Democrats and their allies. If liberals are denounced for “punching left” when they express a reasonable difference of opinion, potentially winning ideas are banished.

Persons: Republican ”, it’s, Jonathan Chait, Nellie Bowles, ”, ” Meghan Daum Organizations: Republican Locations: New York

☆ OpenAI and Time strike multiyear deal to improve ChatGPT with journalistic content
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI and Time magazine on Thursday announced a "multi-year content deal" that will allow OpenAI to access current and archived articles from more than 100 years of Time's history. OpenAI's use of Time's content will feature a citation and link back to the original source, the release said. In December, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent.

Persons: Reddit, OpenAI, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, News Corp, Street, The New York Post, The New York Times, Southern, of Locations: The, U.S, of New York

☆ Shotguns emerge as a low-tech weapon to counter commercial drones in modern warfare
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Travis Pike | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

World War I made them trench guns and World War II jungle guns. The war in Ukraine has cemented commercial drones as potent weapons . Much like aircraft in World War I, commercial drones started life as reconnaissance assets, but it wasn't long until they were weaponized. Given the size and price of commercial drones, they are remarkably efficient and extremely deadly. AdvertisementShotguns won't be the ultimate, end-all option against commercial drones, but they are an infantry and armor organic weapon that could be easily used in this role.

Persons: —, Coats, we'd, Sergey Bobok, Genya Savilov Organizations: Service, Business, Devices, Getty, French Ministry of, Armed Forces, French Armed Forces, Benelli Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Kharkiv, AFP, United States, Donetsk

☆ Gena Rowlands Has Alzheimer’s Decades After ‘The Notebook’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s disease, a late-life challenge for the Oscar-nominated actor who captivated Hollywood in the 1970s with her performance in “A Woman Under the Influence” and later portrayed a character with dementia in “The Notebook.”Rowlands’s son, Nick Cassavetes, the director of “The Notebook,” revealed the diagnosis in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, telling the magazine that she had been living with the disease for five years. “She’s in full dementia,” he said. “And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”A former theater and television actress, Rowlands, 94, made 10 films across four decades with John Cassavetes, the independent film pioneer who was also her husband. She was nominated for the Academy Award for best actress for two of them: “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974), in which she plays a wife and mother who cracks under the burden of domestic harmony, and “Gloria” (1980), about a woman who helps a young boy escape the mob.

Persons: Gena Rowlands, Oscar, ”, Nick Cassavetes, “, Rowlands, John Cassavetes, “ Gloria ” Organizations: Hollywood, Entertainment, Academy

☆ Casa Susanna: How an upstate New York home became a safe haven for trans women in 1960s America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Suyin Haynes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Her name is Susanna Valenti, and her home is Casa Susanna, located in the Catskills, in upstate New York. Pictured above, guests with Susanna Valenti (right) in her wife Marie Tonell's New York City apartment, circa 1960-63. Susanna (right) and two friends are pictured on a swing set at Casa Susanna, circa 1960. In discoveries of other Casa Susanna photographs, multiple copies of the same image have been found. I think people find it somewhere between charming and mind blowing.” Pictured above, guests at Casa Susanna circa 1964-68.

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☆ ‘The Last Safe Abortion:’ Photos show a rarely seen side of abortion care work
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Santoro’s death was one of many — all too many — which activists and healthcare workers sought to avoid by legalizing abortions and abortion care in the United States. Carmen Winant’s new photobook, “The Last Safe Abortion,” also seeks to memorialize the labor, advocacy and community-building of abortion care providers and women’s health care workers in the near-50-year period that the right to an abortion was legally protected across the US. “The Last Safe Abortion,” seeks to memorialize the labor, advocacy and community-building of abortion care providers and women’s health care workers in the near-50-year period that the right to an abortion was legally protected across the US. Carmen Winant/SPBH EditionsThough particularly salient at this time, Winant’s book isn’t a direct response to the Roe repeal, she told CNN. Notably, none show strife or confrontations with protestors, in contrast to the visual narratives that often surround abortion care.

Persons: Gerri Santoro, Santoro’s, Court’s Roe, Wade, Carmen Winant’s, ”, Carmen Winant, Roe, “, ” Winant, Winant, Emma Goldman, —, Harriet, ‘ Organizations: CNN, Magazine, Ohio State University, Modern, Emma Goldman Clinic, Chicago History Museum, Medical, Midwest, Clinic, Iowa, University of Iowa Locations: Norwich , Connecticut, United States, Chicago, Ohio

☆ Emma Roberts says people who call out nepo babies don't see 'all the rejection along the way'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewEmma Roberts says even Hollywood's nepo babies don't always have an easy path to stardom. On an episode of the "Table for Two" podcast released on June 25, Roberts spoke to host Bruce Bozzi about the public perception of nepo babies, or "nepotism babies." During the podcast episode, Roberts said it's not always true that nepo babies get everything handed to them on a silver platter. Many nepo babies and even their parents — particularly those in Hollywood — have pushed back against the title and its accompanying critiques. AdvertisementIn December, Meg Ryan defended her son , actor Jack Quaid, against "nepo baby" claims during an interview with Glamour.

Persons: —, Emma Roberts, Roberts, Bruce Bozzi, you'll, Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts, Johnny Depp's, it's, George Clooney, Clooney's, Nick Clooney, Rosemary Clooney, Meg Ryan, Jack Quaid, Lily Allen, Allen, Alfie Allen, Keith Allen, Bernard Arnault, Mukesh Ambani, Tim Draper's, Draper, Gaither, Anderson Organizations: Service, Business, Nickelodeon, New York Magazine, Reliance Industries, Valley's, Applied, Business Insider Locations: Hollywood, British

☆ Kaz Hosaka, 65, Dies; Led Two Poodles to Westminster Glory
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kaz Hosaka, a prominent Japanese-born dog handler who guided two miniature poodles to Best in Show victories at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — the second one just last month — died on Sunday in Langhorne, Pa. His wife, Roxanne Wolf, said the cause was a traumatic brain injury as a result of a fall. Mr. Hosaka was a masterly handler for more than 40 years. Edge, a lifestyle magazine, recently said he was “to the poodle world what Michael Jordan is to basketball. Smooth, clever, elegant and nearly unbeatable.”In a profile in The New York Times in 2009, he was described as “an artist who tends his poodles’ poufs as if they were bonsai trees from his native Japan.”Mr. Hosaka radiated intensity, from the backstage grooming area to the green carpeted show rings, said David Frei, a former voice of the televised Westminster show and the club’s former communications director.

Persons: Kaz Hosaka, —, Roxanne Wolf, Hosaka, Michael Jordan, ” Mr, David Frei Organizations: Westminster Kennel, New York Times Locations: Japanese, Langhorne, Pa, Japan

☆ Paris Men’s Fashion Week: Bold statements, A$AP Rocky’s surprise debut and Dries Van Noten’s farewell
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Alice Pfeiffer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. This past week, fashion designers converged in the city for Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2025 menswear collections — but nothing was business as usual. Swan Gallet/WWD/Getty ImagesRapper A$AP Rocky, too, made a statement for his Paris Fashion Week debut — a secret show for his label AWGE, which launched earlier this year. On the runway, models marched with their heads covered by American eagle flags, wore slogans like “Don’t be Dumb” and carried plastic bags filled with cash. The latest Comme des Garçon collection featured lashings of Barbie pink and frothy tulle skorts.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Rick Owens, White, Love ”, ”, Swan, Karl Lagerfeld’s, Rihanna, Casey Affleck, Jonathan Anderson, Willy Chavarria, Louis Vuitton, Victor Virgile, Pharrell, Colm Dillane, Junya Watanabe, Peter White, Jeanne Friot, ” Friot, Garçons, skorts, ruffles, Taakk, Andy Warhol, Jean, Michel Basquiat, — Jérémie, Aurélien, —, Van Noten's, Daniele Oberrauch, Van Noten, Donna Summer’s “ Organizations: CNN, Paris, Paris CNN —, Summer, sport’s, Palais, Army, Paris Fashion, UNESCO, Air Afrique, XXL, Getty, Studio Locations: Paris, Paris CNN — Paris, Tokyo, Belgian

☆ 'Every trench' in Ukraine needs a close-range electronic warfare shield against drones and other threats, top official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewRussia and Ukraine have relied heavily on electronic warfare tactics throughout the conflict, leaning on cheap — but highly effective — technology to interfere with the targeting process of precision strike weapons like attack drones and guided munitions. With the battlefield full of such threats, especially the drones that threaten anything that moves, the need for electronic warfare systems is tremendous. "Different EW tools are needed to conduct strategic missions, but there is also a huge need for so-called 'close-range' EW," Fedorov said. Related storiesClose-range electronic-warfare systems would be particularly useful against enemy drones, specifically the small quadcopters that conduct reconnaissance and strike missions. "You can have the best drone, but what's the sense if it can't fly under electronic warfare?"

Persons: —, Mykhailo Fedorov, we've, Fedorov, Yar, Jose Colon, Doug Bush, Bush, Khrystyna Lutsyk, Nicole Petrucci, Petrucci Organizations: Service, Kyiv, Business, AP, 22nd Infantry Brigade, Anadolu, Getty, 24th Mechanized Brigade, US Space Force, Air & Space Forces Magazine Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, Donetsk, Kyiv, China

☆ For One Night Only, Paris Is Vogue’s (Disney)World
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Barnum meeting Florenz Ziegfeld and together they hatch a fashion show, and you’ll get the idea. Like the Met Gala, Vogue World, which was previously held in New York and London, is a live expression of Vogue’s power and an effort to position the magazine as an arbiter of influence, culture and people. Like the Met’s annual fund-raiser, it involves great eye candy, in terms of both clothes and celebrity. Unlike the Met, however, anyone who can afford a ticket, or wants to watch the livestream from afar, can get inside. Can be part, that is to say, of Vogue’s world.

Persons: Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, Barnum, Florenz Ziegfeld, you’ll, nob, Emma Chamberlain, Selma Blair, Russell Westbrook, Ms, Wintour, John Galliano —, —, Pharrell Williams, Louis Vuitton Organizations: Vogue, Ritz Locations: Paris, New York, London

☆ Flipping a famous fossil around reveals our earliest vertebrate ancestor, scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by using a topsy-turvy twist. In 2012, after decades of studying Pikaia fossils, researchers described its fossilized internal structures in great detail. However, recent analysis of Pikaia fossils by another team of scientists, published June 11 in the journal Current Biology, has upended this view and all other earlier studies about Pikaia. The presumed blood vessel was a nerve cord, a feature associated with the animal group known as chordates, in the phylum Chordata. While there are no living analogues for Pikaia, the fossil arthropod data gave the scientists a more detailed frame of reference for Pikaia’s nerve cord.

Persons: Charles Doolittle Wolcott, Giovanni Mussini, Pikaia, ”, Jon Mallatt, Mallatt, “ Pikaia’s, Jakob Vinther, Mussini, ” Mussini, we’ve, ” Mallatt, ” Mindy Weisberger Organizations: CNN, Smithsonian National Museum of, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Idaho, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, Scientific Locations: Burgess, British Columbia, macroevolution, United Kingdom, mudskippers, chordates

☆ Ukraine needs to stop fighting the war Russia wants
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Build up Ukrainian military power and compel Russia to agree to peace, argues a Ukrainian security expert. It's also clear that even with robust EU and US support, Ukraine is still at a disadvantage against the Russian war machine in a years-long fight. Related storiesDanylyuk also worries that political divergences between Ukraine and its allies are undermining Ukrainian military effectiveness. REUTERS/Sofiia GatilovaThe result is that the Ukrainian military isn't sure what kind of war to prepare for. Interestingly, Danylyuk blames the West for failing to adapt its equipment to the lessons of the Ukraine war.

Persons: Oleksandr Danylyuk, Danylyuk, Carl von Clausewitz, Biden, It's, Ukraine's, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Business, Royal United Services Institute, Century, [ Armed Forces, REUTERS, Ukrainian, Russian, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Ukraine, Russia, USSR, British, Europe, Ukrainian, Kostiantynivka, Donetsk, Crimea, Soviet, Afghanistan, Russian, Moscow, China, North Korea, Iran, Forbes

☆ Larry Ray was accused of starting a sex cult of college students at Sarah Lawrence. Here's where he is today.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewBack in 2019, The Cut published a bombshell investigation into a pattern of concerning student behavior at Sarah Lawrence College. After "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence" was published in April 2019, a joint FBI and NYPD task force began investigating the allegations. Ray (born Lawrence Grecco) was indicted on charges including sex trafficking, forced labor, conspiracy, racketeering, tax evasion, and exploitation. In early 2023, Judge Lewis Liman sentenced Ray, then 63, to serve 60 years in prison. Later that year, several of the cult's survivors filed a lawsuit against Sarah Lawrence, saying the school failed to protect them.

Persons: —, Larry Ray, Ray, Talia Ray, Hulu docuseries, Here's, Talia, Ray ., Santos Rosario, Sarah Lawrence, Lawrence Grecco, Claudia Drury, Drury, William F, Sweeney Jr, Judge Lewis Liman, Liman Organizations: Service, Sarah Lawrence College, Business, Hulu, FBI, NYPD, Prosecutors, New York Times, York Magazine Locations: New Jersey, Manhattan

☆ Taylor Swift kicks off UK Eras shows as some fans wonder if singer is ready to say ‘So long, London’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Taylor Swift performs on stage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Wembley Stadium on June 22, 2024 in London, England. Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesTaylor Swift fans enjoy parsing the singer-songwriter's lyrics for references to her romantic life and insights into her state of mind. The record's fifth track is titled "So Long, London." As Swift brings her blockbuster Eras Tour to London's Wembley Stadium this weekend, some Swifties therefore are wondering if they are witnessing the beginning of an extended goodbye. American pop singer Taylor Swift meets a fan while on stage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Wembley Stadium on June 22, 2024 in London, England.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Kevin Mazur, Swift, London, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, valentine, Maggie Fekete, Frank Styles, Benjamin Cremel, Stella Elgood, Harry Styles, she's, Elgood, haven't, Styles, Travis Kelce, Joe Alwyn, Alwyn, ELLE, lister, Naomi May, Tom Holland Organizations: Wembley, Getty, Poets Department, London, Afp, Kansas City Chiefs, Sun, Department Locations: London, England, Wembley, American, Europe, British

☆ Drag Goes Mainstream in the Philippines, a Bastion of Christianity
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Camille Elemia | Jes Aznar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before he put on the glittery neon yellow tasseled jumpsuit, donned the yellow wig, and lip synced and danced onstage under colorful spotlights, Paul Hidacan went through his preshow routine in a busy dressing room. “I grew up in my church,” said Mr. Hidacan, 21, who has attended service in cropped tops, skirts and boots, and started performing in drag last year. “I know there are some who raise their brows when they see me, but the pastors accept me.”In many places in the Philippines, drag is becoming more mainstream, and more popular. Drag queens are on fashion magazine covers, and are pitching name-brand products like MAC Cosmetics, Shell gasoline, Durex condoms and Samsung phones. Students of at least one public university recently held a drag competition.

Persons: Paul Hidacan, “, ”, Hidacan Organizations: MAC, Shell, Samsung Locations: Philippines

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