Ramin Setoodeh oversees a newsroom that is on the pulse of the entire entertainment world and that has covered everything from awards shows to business deals to scandals to the recent writers’ and actors’ strikes. Since early last year, the co-editor in chief of the trusted and renowned trade publication Variety, which has been around 118 years, has shared the reins with fellow co-editor in chief Cynthia Littleton in overseeing editorial operations across all Variety platforms. Read on » Read on » By Leah Asmelash, CNN Read on » U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s got candid during a recent visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert about Speaker Mike Johnson, the relatively unknown Republican Louisiana lawmaker who was elected speaker after California Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted. He later doubled down on highlighting Johnson’s extreme views during an appearance on CNN Friday. Read on » Read on » An Oregon man who went on a “week-long crime spree” against the LGBTQ+ community in Boise, Idaho, was sentenced to over four years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday, according to a DOJ press release. Read on » Read on » Almost every day since Mike Johnson was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, some evidence of his virulently anti-LGBTQ+ views has emerged. Among the latest is that he promoted the familiar trope that the fall of the Roman Empire was caused by homosexuality. Read on » In the wake of numerous discussions, panels, and speeches at PFLAG’s National Convention in Arlington, VA. last month, a notable conversation took place to illuminate the shadows cast by disinformation on trans healthcare. Read on » As Danica Roem runs for Virginia’s Senate, she’s proud of the record she’s accrued over three terms in the state’s House of Delegates. But she’s finding her opponent is less interested in her record than in stoking transphobia against her, she says. Read on » House Speaker Mike Johnson’s conservative legal background before his congressional tenure is under scrutiny, along with positions he’s taken on critical issues before being under the spotlight. This includes the time he tried to stop a woman from adopting her wife's son. Read on »
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