Former Virginia Tech linebacker acquitted in death of Tinder date – VPM News

A jury in Christiansburg on Friday found Isimemen “Isi” Etute, a former Virginia Tech football player, not guilty of second-degree murder. Etute fatally beat Jerry Paul Smith in May 2021; the...

Facing employee burnout? Adopt agility principles to drive employee satisfaction – Human Resources Online

Once the domain of project teams, the agile methodology is increasingly becoming mainstream, Lim Chee Gay, Group Chief Human Resources Officer, TDCX, writes. Here are three reasons leaders should look at...

Former Washington County Circuit Clerk Vaughn Baker is remembered – Herald-Mail Media

Editor’s note: Each Sunday, The Herald-Mail publishes “A Life Remembered.” Each story in this continuing series takes a look back — through the eyes of family, friends, co-workers and others —...

Don’t be a do-nothing Democrat – Washington Blade

The State Department last month announced that it will allow Americans to use the neutral “X” gender marker on passports, if they are nonbinary. The new change on transgender passports was...

Brand Battles: Google Subsidiary’s ‘Tidal’ TM In Hot Water – Law360

By Tiffany Hu (May 27, 2022, 6:12 PM EDT) -- In Law360's latest roundup of new actions at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, X Development LLC, previously known as Google...

Could monkeypox bring a new wave of homophobia? – Slate

When news broke that monkeypox appears to be disproportionately affecting gay and bisexual men, Jih-Fei Cheng, associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College, thought: “Here we go...

ABBA Voyage show review: A thrilling experience unlike anything else – Gay Times Magazine

Photography by Johan Persson The prospect of an ABBA reunion tour was always going...

Former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute found not guilty … – ESPN

May 27, 2022David M. HaleCloseESPN Staff WriterACC reporter.Joined ESPN in 2012.Graduate of the University of Delaware.Tonya SimpsonCloseTonya Simpson is an award-winning writer for ESPN. She is based in Raleigh, N.C. and...

Four SGTC Diesel Technology students awarded Caterpillar Excellence Scholarships – Americus Times-Recorder | Americus...

From Staff Reports AMERICUS —Four students in the Diesel Equipment Technology program at South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) were awarded the South Georgia Technical College Foundation Caterpillar Excellence Scholarships recently in...
Fat Femmes On How They Show Their Queerness Through Fashion - www.autostraddle.com

Fat Femmes On How They Show Their Queerness Through Fashion – www.autostraddle.com

Fat Femmes On How They Show Their Queerness Through Fashion  www.autostraddle.com

‘I’ve got to dig deep’: Texas shooting tests Newtown parents – The Associated Press...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As the mother of a girl killed at Sandy Hook, Michele Gay was devastated by the massacre at a Texas elementary school, with its aching parallels...

Trial begins for former Virginia Tech football player charged with murder – WSLS 10

CHRISTIANSBURG, MONTGOMERY COUNTY – Wednesday marked day one of the trial against a former Virginia Tech football player, Isimemen Etute. He is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 40-year-old...

Victim’s brother, medical examiner take stand in first day of Etute trial – VPM...

CHRISTIANSBURG — Defense attorneys said Wednesday that a former Virginia Tech football player feared for his life when he fatally beat a person he met online in April 2021.Isimemen Etute, now...

Law banning ‘gay panic’ defense tested as former Tech football … – VPM News

A 19-year-old former Virginia Tech football player has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the death of 40-year-old Jerry Paul Smith. Attorneys said Isimemen Etute matched with Smith on...

Monkeypox ‘Not a Gay Disease,’ WHO Says – Newsweek

A sexually transmitted disease expert at the World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that monkeypox "is not a gay disease" after cases were identified in gay, bisexual or other men who...
Style Thief: How To Rock the Queer Maximalism of Hayley Kiyoko - www.autostraddle.com

Style Thief: How To Rock the Queer Maximalism of Hayley Kiyoko – www.autostraddle.com

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Karine Jean-Pierre’s Unlikely Rise to the White House Lectern – The New York Times

Her parents pushed her to become a doctor, and she studied life sciences as a commuter student at the New York Institute of Technology on Long Island. But Ms. Jean-Pierre performed...

Isimemen Etute Pleads Not Guilty To Jerry Smith’s Murder | Crime News – Oxygen

Several motions were filed ahead of the murder trial for a former college athlete accused of killing a man who allegedly posed as a woman during a sexual encounter with...

Broadcast TV’s reduced role made clear in fall presentations – The Associated Press

They never even made it onto the stage.There were constant reminders of the diminished influence of broadcast television networks this past week, when entertainment companies Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC...

Opinion | We Need to Take Back Our Privacy – The New York Times

I gave up — and I have been coding since I was a tween, have a degree in computer programming, have worked in the software industry, and have been reading and...

Lush Cosmetics Releases Gay is OK Soap to Support Equality Florida – PR Newswire

VANCOUVER, BC, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the alarming 'Don't Say Gay' law coming into effect in Florida, campaigning company, Lush Cosmetics jumped into action releasing a limited-edition Gay is OK...
Disney launches LGBT clothing line for kids; critics blast company for promoting 'sexual confusion' - The Christian Post

Disney launches LGBT clothing line for kids; critics blast company for promoting ‘sexual confusion’...

Disney launches LGBT clothing line for kids; critics blast company for promoting 'sexual confusion'  The Christian Post

Local Scouts Welcome First Openly Gay CEO in the Boy Scouts of America’s 112-Year...

Chosen from more than 130 applicants, longtime Scouting professional Gary Carroll returns to the Pacific Northwest to lead one of the largest programs in the Boy Scouts of America. PORTLAND, Ore.,...

Johnny Depp and the Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom – The Atlantic

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here....

Why the heck does big tech think human-level AI will emerge from binary systems?...

It’s time to stop training radiologists. AI can predict where and when crimes will occur. This neural network can tell if you’re gay. There will be a million Tesla robotaxis on...

Gay donor restrictions keep emergency blood crisis intact | Opinion – Tennessean

Kevin Gibas is an Infectious Diseases Doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as well as a Research Fellow with a focus in Health Policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.In...

Statement by President Joe Biden on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia –...

On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Jill and I stand in support and solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex, (LGBTQI+) people in the United States...

Introducing the Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 — and how it came … –...

When we set out to make a list of the most influential — and interesting — people in the local technology scene, we wanted to do several things. We wanted to...

At Biden’s Summit, Other Nations Pledge Billions to Bolster Pandemic Response – The New...

There were some proverbial elephants in the room: China’s ongoing Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine were not discussed. But J. Stephen Morrison, an expert in global health at the...

Bill Gates Is So Over This Pandemic – WIRED

We no longer have a supply problem with vaccines. The only question left is, are you limited by demand or by logistics. In less vaccinated countries, there isn't much demand. In...

Searching for Common Ground: The Parental-Rights Bill, aka the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill (Opinion)...

Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements...

Searching for Common Ground: The Parental-Rights Bill, aka the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill (Opinion)...

Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements...

Florida student suing over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law says school is trying to censor...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Zander Moricz is the senior class president at Pine View School in Florida’s Sarasota County. He’s set to speak at his upcoming high school graduation, but...

Searching for Common Ground: The Parental-Rights Bill, aka the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill (Opinion)...

Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements...