White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been set to receive Outfest’s inaugural Achievement Award for Press and Media, the L.A.-based nonprofit’s highest honor, celebrating representation of the LGBTQ+ community in the media.
While she’ll be officially recognized with the honor during the Closing Night of the 41st Outfest Los Angeles Summer Festival this Sunday, July 23rd, a source close to Jean-Pierre clarifies that she will not be present in person at the ceremony amidst the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. She’ll instead have a statement read at the event, underlining her belief in the importance of fair pay and benefits for these creatives.
The news comes shortly after the announcement that Jean-Pierre’s fellow Outfest honorees Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone have backed out of attending the festival to pick up their James Schamus Ally Award, recognizing their support and advocacy for the Lgbtqia+ community,...
While she’ll be officially recognized with the honor during the Closing Night of the 41st Outfest Los Angeles Summer Festival this Sunday, July 23rd, a source close to Jean-Pierre clarifies that she will not be present in person at the ceremony amidst the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. She’ll instead have a statement read at the event, underlining her belief in the importance of fair pay and benefits for these creatives.
The news comes shortly after the announcement that Jean-Pierre’s fellow Outfest honorees Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone have backed out of attending the festival to pick up their James Schamus Ally Award, recognizing their support and advocacy for the Lgbtqia+ community,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Note: the following contains spoilers up to “The White Lotus” Season 2 Episode 6
As “The White Lotus” Season 2 comes to a close, Sunday’s episode will reveal which characters are killed as each subplot comes to its climax.
The season premiere opened with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) going for a final swim in the Sicilian sea before discovering a dead body floating in the ocean. As she cries for help on the beach, Rocco (Federico Ferrante) informs Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) that “other guests have been killed” for reasons unknown at the time.
The opening scene indicates that Daphne, Valentina and Rocco are safe from being killed, and the absence of other major characters have left fans to theorize how they think season 2 might wrap up.
If you’re dying to know what happens in the season finale, read on for the biggest fan theories.
Harper, Ethan and Cam are safe
While Daphne...
As “The White Lotus” Season 2 comes to a close, Sunday’s episode will reveal which characters are killed as each subplot comes to its climax.
The season premiere opened with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) going for a final swim in the Sicilian sea before discovering a dead body floating in the ocean. As she cries for help on the beach, Rocco (Federico Ferrante) informs Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) that “other guests have been killed” for reasons unknown at the time.
The opening scene indicates that Daphne, Valentina and Rocco are safe from being killed, and the absence of other major characters have left fans to theorize how they think season 2 might wrap up.
If you’re dying to know what happens in the season finale, read on for the biggest fan theories.
Harper, Ethan and Cam are safe
While Daphne...
- 12/9/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
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GLAAD has announced its inaugural cohort of 10 creatives for its newly launched Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative.
Alexander King, Brandon Nicholas, Brit Fryer, Ish Brown, Laquann Dawson, Michael Donte, Nyala Moon, Olivia Peace, Riley Wilson and Whitney Skauge will participate in the three-year program focused on developing and elevating the work and storytelling of Black LGBTQ+ creatives.
Created and led by DaShawn Usher, the director of GLAAD’s Communities of Color and Media department, along with associate director Julian J. Walker and junior associate Kayla Thompson, the initiative — which is also supported by Gilead Sciences — is designed as a pipeline program to help address, and begin to resolve, the existing gap in equitable representation onscreen and behind the scenes in Hollywood.
Each participating creative will be granted 10,000 to fund a current or new creative project to be produced during their time with...
GLAAD has announced its inaugural cohort of 10 creatives for its newly launched Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative.
Alexander King, Brandon Nicholas, Brit Fryer, Ish Brown, Laquann Dawson, Michael Donte, Nyala Moon, Olivia Peace, Riley Wilson and Whitney Skauge will participate in the three-year program focused on developing and elevating the work and storytelling of Black LGBTQ+ creatives.
Created and led by DaShawn Usher, the director of GLAAD’s Communities of Color and Media department, along with associate director Julian J. Walker and junior associate Kayla Thompson, the initiative — which is also supported by Gilead Sciences — is designed as a pipeline program to help address, and begin to resolve, the existing gap in equitable representation onscreen and behind the scenes in Hollywood.
Each participating creative will be granted 10,000 to fund a current or new creative project to be produced during their time with...
- 9/29/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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