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The New York Times published an article claiming that staff in the office of Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of health at the U.S.

The New York Times accused the GLAAD president and CEO of engaging in a pattern of lavish spending, including having the nonprofit pay for the renovation of her home office.According to the Times, which analyzed months of the LGBTQ media advocacy organization’s expense reports from January 2022 to June 2023, Ellis allegedly racked up charges for first-class flights, expensive black car services, stays at luxury hotels, a ski day that was part of a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a Provincetown summer rental, and nearly $18,000 in renovations to her home office, which was outfitted with a chandelier and other ornate accouterments.That spending was on top of Ellis’s salary, which began at $441,000 following the renegotiation of a five-year employment contract in 2022, with automatic 5 percent increases each year.The Times claims that as part of that final employment agreement, Ellis earned a $150,000 signing bonus, additional payments of up to $300,000 per year tied to GLAAD’s fundraising efforts, and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 40% of her salary.

Queer Eye host Jonathan Van Ness during a recent episode of the podcast Armchair Expert, which is hosted by actor Dax Shepard.The two stars seemingly didn’t mean to get into it about trans rights and how the community is being treated, but their conversation go to that point, and it didn’t take long before it became somewhat heated and certainly very emotional.Van Ness and Shepard started talking about The New York Times, and after the Queer Eye Emmy nominee stated that he didn’t feel that the paper was left-leaning, Shepard disagreed vehemently. That’s when Van Ness started talking about how the newspaper can sometimes use anti-trans language, and from there, they had a difficult time keeping it together.The crux of their discussion centered on the discomfort some people feel about teenagers who decide they need to go through a gender transition.

an interview with New York Times journalist David Marchese after the writer asked Momoa if he regretted filming a graphic rape scene during his breakout performance as Khal Drogo on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”The pilot episode of the series saw Momoa’s barbaric warlord Drogo assault and force himself on his would-be queen Daenerys Targaryen, played by Emilia Clarke, 34.When Marchese asked whether Momoa “thinks differently about those scenes today,” he replied, “Well, it was important to depict Drogo and his style. You’re playing someone that’s like Genghis Khan.”He continued, “It was a really, really, really hard thing to do.

Jodie Comer has “given up” wearing cosmetics while in self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lana Del Rey and Sean ‘Sticks’ Larkin are now “just friends” following the end of their romance.

Padma Lakshmi didn’t leave her home for days after writing an op-ed revealing how she was raped at the age of 16.In the editorial for The New York Times, written in 2018 in response to the sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Lakshmi revealed that she was a virgin when she was raped by her then 23-year-old boyfriend.The Top Chef host also shared she was molested by her stepfather’s relative when she was seven.And in a cover interview for Artful Living, the 49-year-old admitted “it was scary” initially to have people approach with their own stories of sexual assault after the article was published.“I didn’t go out for three days after I wrote the article,” she told the publication.