Month: May 2020

Zambian President Edgar Lungu. (DAWOOD SALIM/AFP via Getty Images) President of Zambia Edgar Lungu has pardoned two men who were jailed for having gay sex in November, 2019. Carrying a 15 yearslong sentence, the imprisonment of Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba by high court judge curdled into international outcry from LGBT+ advocates and diplomats towards
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‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic was jailed for trying to have an animal rights activist murdered. (Netflix) Tiger King – that Netflix docu-series that dropped just as a global, viral pandemic paralysed us all – might be in-line for a second season, according to Joe Exotic’s right-hand man, John Reinke. Speaking to The Sun, the 54-year-old
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson for $2.99 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote for $3.99 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini for $1.99 Intercepted by Alexa Martin for $1.99 This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab for
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Jakub and David created hundreds of rainbow masks. (jakubidawid/ Instagram) A Polish gay couple have been visiting the country’s horrific “LGBT-free zones” to fight homophobia and COVID-19 by handing out rainbow face masks. More than a third of Poland has pledged to become an “LGBT-free zone”, vowing to refrain from acts that encourage tolerance and
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Doja Cat performs during the SnowGlobe Music Festival 2019 at Bijou Park on December 30, 2019 in South Lake Tahoe, California. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty) Doja Cat has denied taking part in “racist conversations” on online chat rooms and apologised for singing a song that contains racial slurs in 2015. The #DojaCatIsOverParty hashtag dizzyingly snaked across Twitter
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JPEGMAFIA has shared another new song. His new track, “CUTIE PIE!,” follows recent exclamation point entries “BALD!,” “Covered in Money!,” and “BODYGUARD!” Peggy directed his new “CUTIE PIE!” video, which looks to have been shot in the desert. Watch below. JPEGMAFIA released All My Heroes Are Cornballs last year. Read Pitchfork’s Rising interview “Get to
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Director and cinematographer Benjamin Ree injected his deep interest with art theft in his latest feature The Painter and the Thief, which drops in virtual cinemas as well as VOD platforms starting Friday. The documentary debuted at Sundance earlier this year and went on to win the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative
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Just a quick note to all you Book Riot readers out there that we’re taking the day off for Memorial Day. Hope you all have an excellent, bookish Monday, and we’ll be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming. In the meantime, here are recommendations for books about military service and a history of the
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Rapper YNW Bortlen (real name: Cortlen Henry), was granted release on bond in Broward County, Florida yesterday (May 23). One of Henry’s attorneys John M. Phillips announced the news in a tweet earlier this evening, stating that “Jamell Demons aka @YNWMelly’s co-defendant Cortlen Henry aka @YNWBortlen was granted bond and house arrest.” Phillips clarified that
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