01 July 2025

West End “Hercules” Goes The Distance + Dating App Adopts Facial Recognition Tech + More News

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Some news items I thought worth your time:

• Axios: The dating app Tinder will now verify new users in California using facial recognition technology in an effort to reduce impersonation (“catfishing”).

• Broadway World: Review round-up for the new stage musical Hercules in London’s West End based on the 1997 animated Disney film. Here’s a tease of easy-on-the-eyes-and-ears leading man Luke Brady singing “Go The Distance” (photo – Matt Crockett).

• The Advocate: A group of House Democrats is urging gay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent not to scrap protections for LGBTQ federal workers: “It’s deeply troubling to see someone who has benefited from civil rights protections turn around and try to strip them from others.”

• New Music: Check out the title track for Frankie Grande’s debut album – Hotel Rock Bottom. The anthemic, introspective music video takes a deep dive into addiction eventually celebrating Frankie’s 8 years of sobriety now.

• LGBTQ Nation: The perpetually outraged One Million Moms freaked out that personal care brand Dove included a trans woman in a six-second ad for its hair repair products.

• JoeMyGod: NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani received wild applause as he marched In NYC Pride while waving a trans flag.

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people’s champ @TishJames ️‍ pic.twitter.com/66PbkGnTql

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) June 29, 2025

• Pink News: Anti-LGBTQ Hungarian Prime Minister was named ‘King of Pride’ after his government’s ban prompts his country’s largest ever Pride parade in Budapest.

• X: Watch White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gleefully announce the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s new concentration camp in the Florida Everglades which will house migrants scheduled for deportation.

Leavitt on DeSantis’s new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant camp that Trump will tour tomorrow: “The only way out is a one-way flight. It is isolated and surrounded by dangerous wildlife … This is an efficient and low cost way to help carry out the largest mass deportation campaign… pic.twitter.com/INFioVcLS5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 30, 2025

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