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John Russell

New York, United States

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Freelance Contributor at Vanity Fair

Freelance Contributor at Billboard

Contributing Writer at LGBTQ Nation

Some sort of journalist. Bylines: @vanityfair, @slate, @newnownext, @billboardpride, etc.

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  • President ends major HIV vaccine research program, setting progress back a decade

    3 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | John Russell

    The current presidential administration has ended funding for the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), a move that researchers say will likely set efforts to end HIV globally back by a decade.  The two teams leading the $258 million vaccine program at Duke University and the Scripps Research Institute were informed of the move on Friday, May 30, by officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The New York Times and CBS News reported.

  • Trump administration sent this gay makeup artist to a prison camp & he just lost his asylum case

    6 days ago | lgbtqnation.com | John Russell

    A judge in San Diego dismissed Andry Hernández Romero’s asylum case this week, a move that immigration attorneys say will likely make it even harder to ensure the gay Venezuelan makeup artist’s return to the U.S. from El Salvador. Hernández Romero was among more than 200 Venezuelan men that the Trump administration deported to the notorious Salvadoran supermax prison CECOT in March.

  • J.K. Rowling is personally funding attacks on trans women’s rights with her Harry Potter money

    1 week ago | lgbtqnation.com | John Russell

    Anti-trans activist J.K. Rowling is using the vast wealth she has accumulated through the success of her Harry Potter franchise to personally fund legal cases aimed at diminishing rights and protections for transgender women in the U.K. and Ireland.

  • Lesbian moms in Italy just won an important right in a “historic” court victory

    1 week ago | gaysonoma.com | John Russell

    International/ News/ Top Stories In a major victory for lesbian couples, Italy’s top court ruled this week that the same-sex partners of women who conceive via in vitro fertilization (IVF) have the right to be legally recognized as their children’s parents. As Reuters reports, in a ruling announced on Thursday, May 22, Italy’s Constitutional Court found that it is unconstitutional to deny legal recognition to the nonbiological mother of children conceived abroad via IVF. Doing so, the court...

  • Exec claims John Travolta's infamous exit from ‘American Gigolo’ was due to film’s "gay subtext”

    1 week ago | lgbtqnation.com | John Russell

    Among the headline-grabbing revelations in his new memoir Who Knew, Fox Broadcasting Company co-founder Barry Diller sheds light on John Travolta’s infamous exit from 1980’s American Gigolo, claiming that the star was spooked by the film’s “somewhat gay subtext.”As The Hollywood Reporter (THR) notes, hot off the success of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978), Travolta was originally attached to play the lead role of high-priced male escort Julian Kay in American Gigolo.

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John Russell
John Russell @john_russell
11 Feb 25

Bridget Jones’s Baby: Do I Kinda Love This Movie Based on My Least Favorite Bridget Jones Book? https://t.co/xUbAqfmCVp

John Russell
John Russell @john_russell
4 Feb 25

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: Do I NOT Hate This Bad Movie Based on One of My All-Time Favorite Books? https://t.co/PbI7Mxs7JL

John Russell
John Russell @john_russell
9 Mar 24

BTW, I’m on Threads now. https://t.co/sZIUsinpXZ