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Alan Reade
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Writer, independent film producer, recovering performance artist, photographer, instructional designer, business owner, and husband #losangeles #indiefilm #stem #steam #learningdesign #lgbtqia #democracy
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"Coffee House Chronicles: The Movie" is an LGBTQ+ comedy film that takes place over two busy days in L.A.

Available on these streaming platforms: #primevideo
@gagaoolala.bsky.social
#tubi

#CesarCipriano #MykeeSteen #StewartWade #indiefilm #lgbtfilm #bisexualcommunity #transfilm #queerfilm
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In case you’d like to read my story “On the Carcosa Metro,” here it is. (I must say, I am happy with the way this one turned out.)

www.underscoremag.com/issues/issue...
underscore_magazine - on the carcosa metro
The residents of this vast city drift through the dim, cavernous stations of our underground, lost to each other but not directionless. There are no tickets, no faregates. Nobody jostles; nobody runs....
www.underscoremag.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I wish I knew who the artist was.
June 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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20/20 ARRIVAL by ABBA

As an old punk/goth/whatever, I’m tempted to dismiss Arrival as a guilty pleasure, but that would undervalue the pleasure it brought me as a kid.

“Dancing Queen” and “Knowing You, Knowing Me” are classics. What’s your favorite ABBA song?

#MusicSky
#ABBA
#Arrival
#Disco
April 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Because I’m done with
Sad Wrath and
Angry Greed
in 2025 ✌️
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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There is no way to make yourself not trans. This is one of the few things I can say I've learned with many decades of experience.

Listen to granny. You are who you are. Just because they want to make you hate yourself, just because they might succeed, doesn't make you not who you are.
June 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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we make the idea of #adoption easy to swallow by pretending that adoptees are “orphans”. if we confronted the truth, then maybe we would perceive the cruel absurdity of forcing a person to decide whether they can even know, much less have a relationship with, *their own family.*
the emotional complexities are wrenching, but normatively, my viewpoint is uncompromising: participants in the private adoption industry who acquire someone else’s child have no claim to involvement in the adoptee’s path to a reckoning with their history. #Adoption is designed to scrub that history.
June 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Critics fear that anti-vaccine leader’s picks for crucial committee will be a ‘disaster for public health’

https://go.nature.com/3Tn7GgO
Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do?
Critics fear that anti-vaccine leader’s picks for crucial committee will be a ‘disaster for public health’.
go.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question.

Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.)

The Trump regime is out of control.
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Coffee House Chronicles: The Movie" is an LGBTQ+ comedy film that takes place over two busy days in L.A.

Available on these streaming platforms: #primevideo
@gagaoolala.bsky.social
#tubi

#CesarCipriano #MykeeSteen #StewartWade #indiefilm #lgbtfilm #bisexualcommunity #transfilm #queerfilm
April 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane, and Linda Lavin move into a house in Palm Springs… no, really. 'Mid-Century Modern' is Hulu’s chaotic new answer to aging with gay panic and perfect lighting. #MidCenturyModern tinyurl.com/mr6p3s34
Review: 'Mid-Century Modern' a Gay 'Golden Girls,' But Also a Valentine to a Golden Age of Sitcoms | EDGE United States
Review: 'Mid-Century Modern' a Gay 'Golden Girls,' But Also a Valentine to a Golden Age of Sitcoms
tinyurl.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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MOVIE: Queer love, family drama, and a Bollywood wedding—A Nice Indian Boy is a heartfelt win for LGBTQ cinema. Don’t miss this vibrant new film from Roshan Sethi.
shorturl.at/LJDhY
'A Nice Indian Boy' - A Welcome Addition to Queer Cinema
shorturl.at
April 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Read our interview with Andrew Ahn about THE WEDDING BANQUET, empowering his actors to make the characters their own, and what he hopes contemporary audiences take away from his spin on the material.
Andrew Ahn on 'The Wedding Banquet' and Queering Tradition
Andrew Ahn discusses how he empowered his actors to make the characters their own and what he hopes audiences will take away from the film.
www.slantmagazine.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
April 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.
How a mouse watching 'The Matrix' helped scientists create the largest map of a brain to date
Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.
buff.ly
April 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The real problem about science isn't about loss of trust. It's about not having a voice, a counter. @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Whai if the 300,000 scientists supported by NIH stood up? Or even half of them. Instead of <1%
Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
www.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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IN FOCUS | The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths
The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts could mean 4 million deaths
HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programs are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas
www.independent.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The order, experts warn, is a legally dubious federal overstep designed to undermine the rights of states and local authorities to combat climate change.
New Trump order would punish states for combating climate change
The order directs the government to "expeditiously" take action to "stop the enforcement of State laws" designed to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions.
www.motherjones.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.
Gaza territory shrinks drastically as Israel seizes huge swaths of land
Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport 238 Venezuelans to a brutal Salvadoran prison. They were accused of being gangsters, but couldnt see the evidence against them. This is the story of one—Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay make-up artist, who is innocent: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.
www.newyorker.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival of the best LGBTQ+ cinema and beyond. ⬇️
Sundance 2025: A Gay and Trans Festival Recap (LIVE UPDATES)
Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
www.autostraddle.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Google Maps 3D of the Palisades before and after the fire.
January 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally.
Trump directing the opening of Guantanamo Bay detention center to hold migrants in US illegally
President Donald Trump says he’s directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.
apnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM