Robin, Nicki's Retirement, & 'Crazy Rich Asians' Salaries: Morning Tea
| 09/06/19
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Welcome to Morning Tea, PRIDE's morning round-up of the some of the most interesting news headlines you should read to help you get your day started!
So what's going on in the news today?
Season 2 of DC Universe's live-action Titans series drops today, and a new clip shows our lead hero Robin (Brenton Thwaites) fighting...another Robin (Curran Walters)? The drama of it all!
Iconic rapper Nicki Minaj took to Twitter yesterday to announce her supposed retirement from the music industry, but the original tweet has now been deleted and fans are just all sort of confused!
Adele Lim, the screenwriter behind one of last year's most sucessful and groundbreaking rom-coms, won't be returning to work on the two Crazy Rich Asians sequels after it was revealed that her white, male coworker, screenwriter Peter Chiarelli, made nearly 10 times her salary.
In a segment called "Deep Fake News," late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel revealed a video that uses AI technology to juxtapose Donald Trump's head on drag legend RuPaul's body. As Out's Rose Dommu points out, the video is just "another instance of straight folks thinking the most horrible way they can prank other straight people is by making them look queer."
Homophobic US vice president Mike Pence made a trip to Iceland this week to meet with the country's president Gudni Johannesson. To troll him in the best way, a tech company called Advania, whose headquarters is across from where Pence and Johannesson met, set up a bunch of rainbow Pride flags.
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel.
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel.