photo by Joseph Lin Photography So, one of the things I do when I’m getting blue and frustrated due to the inertia that lockdown has placed upon us is find articles about interesting weddings, especially those that are taking place in this time of Coronavirus. I thought I had hit a gold mine when I found the headline “The Indian Wedding that Stopped Traffic on Fifth Avenue” with the pull quote, “Hordes and hordes of tourists were elbowing our family out of the way to film Tyl

On Thursday, June 25th, Disney announced that the ever-popular ride Splash Mountain would be re-imagined due to its ties to the banned, infamous 1946 Disney movie Song of the South. The log flume ride will not be shut down completely, but instead redesigned to align with the 2009 movie The Princess and the Frog, which stepped away from the traditional White princess, featuring instead the first black princess, Tiana. According to Vox.com, the project to “completely reimagine”

As we’ve promised here at Romance Daily News, we want to make sure you have all the information you need to celebrate Pride this year. We’ve written about what Pride might entail this year given the current circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic pressing on. Now, we bring to you more details on a livestream for Gay Pride TODAY. For today, June 27th, world leaders, human rights activists, musicians and drag queens will be coming together to host a 24-hour online celebration

A married South Jersey couple with two children bilked more than two dozen victims out of close to six million dollars in an international romance scam that used fake profiles on dating sites, federal prosecutors announced. Martins Friday Inalegwu, 31, and Steincy Mathieu, 24, both of Maple Shade, New Jersey, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. The couple and their co-conspirators, including several people who live in Nigeria, operated from October 201

Image taken from First Crowdfunding campaign With states reopening many patrons of restaurants, bars, pubs and taverns are discovering their favorite place is struggling to keep afloat, or shutting down completely. The Stonewall Inn, a New York City city favorite and a historic landmark for LGBTQ+ community is one such place struggling financially to survive. According to PinkNews, the owners said: “We are reaching out because like many families and small businesses around th

President Trump’s first campaign rally has received backlash from the very beginning of his announcement. Initially, the rally was scheduled for Juneteenth, the holiday which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. Issues came up even further as this year is the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, in which hundreds of Black people were murdered by a white mob, destroying and burning down what was known as a prosperous black community.. Due to the combinat

Jen Lewandowski with Tom Gidley. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian I am sure all of us have daydreamed about the “what if” we agreed to go into lockdown with the last person we went out on a date with, or that new person we are chatting and Zooming with now that we’ve been in quarantine for what is nearing four months. The Guardian interviewed a number of couples who did just that. A few didn’t work out, but there’s a charming tale of a middle aged couple that decided t

On June 15th, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of LGBTQ+ workers in the U.S., deciding that workers cannot be fired for being gay or transgender. Prior to the decision of SCOUTUS, according to a Buzzfeed article written on April 17th, 2019, as of last year, states including: Virginia, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, North Dakota, West Virginia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, it was completely lega

Throughout these past three months, we have been subjected to staying in our homes, ripped from our everyday routines and not allowed to access the outside world except for a limited number of activities due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. However, with infection rates and hospitalizations dropping considerably in the past month, many states have begun to reopen, with people arguing whether or not some states ordered too soon. Yet two states have been reluctant to reopen as quic

Image taken from Machine Gun Kelly's Instagram It was only a few days ago that we learned that Megan Fox, 34, and Brian Austin Green, 46, had separated after 10 years of marriage and three kids. This week, we learned on Instagram, that Megan Fox and rapper Machine Gun Kelly are now officially a couple. The pair were seen stepping out together holding hands and kissing in Los Angels on Monday, and the next day the 30-year-old rapper posted a video on his Instagram Story of th

Photo's from Linda McQueen Bazaar magazine No one can deny that we are living through turbulent times, so it is amazing and confounding to read about a couple who decided held their wedding in the midst of the current protests against the nation’s police brutality. They inspire me. Dr. Kerry Anne and Michael Gordon had to postpone their May 26, 2020 New Jersey wedding due to COVID-19. When they learned that The Logan Hotel in Philadelphia would loan their lawn to couples who

I learned about Juneteenth from Ralph Ellison, the author of what I consider to be the greatest literary novel of the 20th century, Invisible Man. Juneteenth was the title of his posthumous second novel published in 1999. To say I was floored that this holiday was completely unknown to me but considered the Black “Fourth of July” seemed like I had been living in a bubble. I grew up in New York City, went to public school, and lived in a household that read three daily newsp

As we enter the third month of the Coronavirus Pandemic, it has become more difficult to find ways to pass our time. While many of us have work, that still does not take away from the fact that it seems as though it is Groundhog Day, each day doing the same thing as the day before. And I have found this problem a nuance too: staring at my computer screen for hours each day brings about lack of motivation and a painful, consistent migraine. In these times of boredom and repeti

When I woke up this morning and began the daily ritual of checking my phone’s notifications, I was greeted with several news articles about a new Supreme Court ruling that was handed down. “What could it be?” I thought. “Something on abortion? Perhaps legal immunity?” Nope, it was a ruling upholding LGBTQ+ workplace protections. It slowly dawned on me, a transgender woman living in the American south, that I now had legal protections in employment via the Civil Rights Act of

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