Dan Clarendon

freelance journalist, storyteller, aspiring television writer, pilot penner, editor, blogger, Photoshopper, IB diploma recipient, City Year alumnus, Hampshire frog, cat lover, dog whisperer, television buff, mixtaper, colossus, klutz, southpaw, culinary wanna-be, cookie monster, cathedral-builder, punster, unabashed hedonist, frequent couch potato, queer husband


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After ‘Red, White & Royal Blue,’ Watch These Other LGBTQ+ Rom-Coms

Not many gay rom-coms start with a diplomatic incident, but Red, White & Royal Blue certainly does. Based on the bestselling book by Casey McQuiston, the movie stars Taylor Zakhar Perez as American first son Alex Claremont-Diaz and Nicholas Galitzine as U.K. royal Prince Henry, two men whose long-running feud boils over in spectacular fashion at a royal event and “sparks something deeper than they ever expected.” And once you’re done swooning over that transatlantic tale, check out even more LGBTQ+ rom-coms…
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Lily Gladstone Criticizes 'Delusional' Portrayal of American West in 'Yellowstone'

Lily Gladstone, who’s earning Oscar buzz for her role in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon, has two strong words for Yellowstone. In a new New York magazine interview, the actor — whose father is Blackfeet and Nez Perce — says that Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s version of the American West in the Paramount Network series is “delusional” and “deplorable.”
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'Great British Bake Off' Swears Off Country-Themed Episodes After 'Mexican Week' Backlash

The Great British Bake Off is going back to basics — and ditching its “national themes” — a year after angering viewers with a disastrous “Mexican Week” episode. “We didn’t want to offend anyone but the world has changed and the joke fell flat, executive producer Kieran Smith told The Guardian in an interview about the upcoming 14th season. “We’re not doing any national themes this year.”
New York Daily News •

AOC joins SAG, WGA members on picket line at Netflix in NYC for ‘fight against greed’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez picked up a picket sign Monday as she joined striking SAG-AFTRA and WGA members outside Netflix’s Union Square offices. Members of the Writers Guild of America have been on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers since May, and the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists started its strike against the the alliance this month.
TV Insider •

10 Most Hallmark Titles From the History of the Channel's Countdown to Christmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for Hallmark Channel executives! We’re honoring Hallmark’s holiday programming and also roasting it like a chestnut on an open fire with this chronological list of the most Hallmark titles in Countdown to Christmas history. If our eyes happened to land on these titles in the pages of TV Guide Magazine, we’d know right away we were looking at a Hallmark Channel listing.
LGBTQ Nation •

Young people are coming out in huge numbers. These families found beautiful ways to support their kids.

Paria Hassouri and her husband were thousands of miles from home, on vacation in Thailand, when they got a call from their daughter’s school. A teacher told them that Ava, then 13, was questioning her gender identity. During Ava’s coming-out experience, Hassouri educated herself about how best to support her daughter. Other parents are trying to do the same, as children and teens are opening up — sometimes even earlier in their lives — about their placement in a galaxy of queer existence.
Teen Vogue •

Gender Affirming Surgeries Are Being Delayed or Canceled Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

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