California Gov. Gavin Newsom is defending both his record on transgender rights and his evolving stance on transgender athletes competing in women's sports.
Newsom drew backlash from LGBTQ advocates and progressives after saying it was "unfair" for transgender teenagers to compete against cisgender girls in track and field, during a March podcast interview with the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Since then, critics have accused Newsom -- who's widely seen as harboring presidential ambitions -- of throwing the transgender community under the bus for political gain.
"The New York dating scene is like a sea of piranhas," declares Nova StClair in the first episode of Alphabet Soup, the boldly unpredictable queer dating reality show from filmmaker Shannon Alexander, streaming on Peacock and Prime.
"It's a dating docuseries," Nova clarifies, connecting over Zoom from the fairyland oasis of her bedroom in Brooklyn. The vivacious twentysomething, a delightful storyteller prone to switching up her look with Day-Glo hair or contacts, undeniably stands out as a screen presence, even among the cast of outrageous artists, club kids, and scenesters who populate the show.
Most fundraisers put on by Food & Friends are about putting calories into your body.
Think Chef’s Best, with its seemingly endless stations of tasty bites from local eateries, or the now-shelved Dining Out for Life, where a night out at a restaurant once generated much-needed revenue for the organization, which provides nutritious meals -- and yes, calories -- to people living with serious and chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and cancer across the DMV.
But now, Food & Friends is taking a different approach -- they want you to burn calories for a cause.
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