Morning Brew – Wed. July 11: Jane Lynch & Billie Jean King launch LPAC, Melanie Griffith plays Sandra Bernhard’s ex
Happy Wednesday!
Evan Rachel Wood got her nose pierced (again, she says) and caught it all on camera for your viewing pleasure.
The Advocate‘s new issue focuses on the inequality of the Boy Scouts and there’s a really great photo of ousted den mother Jennifer Tyrell.
Lesbians: We’re everywhere — including the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria. And we’re winning second place! Well, out contestant Magdalena O’Connor did. Congrats!
Out filmmaker Tiona M. has shot a film called Bumming Cigarettes which she says is about “the need to have a real and honest dialogue between black gay men and lesbians in regards to how HIV/AIDS has affected our communities, and how we can work together to work against stigma and provide better space for members of our community who live with the disease.” Here she is talking more about the project.
So the big news of the day: Jane Lynch has teamed up with Chicago Cubs owner Laura Ricketts, Billie Jean King and activist Urvashi Vaid to create LPAC, an organization that will help to back pro-lesbian political candidates. Can you say HELL YES?
Sandra Bernhard and Melanie Griffith
