Released 57 years ago today, Frank Simon's groundbreaking documentary THE QUEEN ('68) offered many their first look at drag culture – showcaseing 1967's Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest. See it this month as part of our Celluloid Closet Classics on 6/30 at 6:45pm ET.

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Here at the cathedral, where Mahmoud Khalil is set to speak on the steps of the church. NYPD and organizers appears to be addressing something. Police presence is minimal, protesters from Times Square are supposedly marching to the cathedral. It’s hot!

He made it in 2014, but feels more pertinent than ever. There’s a beautiful and romantic world out there and it’s being erased by fascists who do not appreciate culture whatsoever. We can’t let them own our future and we can’t allow them to erase the past

A director of an immigrant rights group said that his organization had received around 4,000 calls regarding disappearances since June 6th. “Some we just don’t know where they’re at,” he said. “We keep getting reports that folks are missing.” nyer.cm/9SYJIxt

Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers bbc.in/4ef3OYM

Rewatching The Ox-Bow Incident. I didn't remember how good and how relentlessly uncompromising it was. And still is.

In gentrified neighborhoods nationwide, 520,000 Black ppl have disappeared, while the same places have gained millions of residents of every other race A groundbreaking study down to n'borhood level shows how 500 Black neighborhoods vanished in 45 years capitalbnews.org/black-displace…

Sooo, Elon Musk's lawyers said in a Sunday court filing that he "does not have a computer" But.... he's posted pics of a laptop and referred to it as his several times in recent months. Here's more, w/ Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ + Will Knight: wired.com/story/elon-mus…

Abbott vetoed a provision for Texas to join a federal summer lunch program for low-income children, citing uncertainty over federal funding of the program as his reason for the decision. An estimated 3.75 million children statewide would have qualified. bit.ly/4k0XxBz

I had a wonderful time reporting something community-centered - the well-attended #juneteenthday in Vallejo! The Vallejo Sun ☀️

The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its aid commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world and thrown refugee camps further into unrest, records show. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Vallejo city officials celebrated the grand opening of a new 125-bed homeless shelter on Monday after a year of construction and a series of delays and budget overruns that lasted for nearly a decade. vallejosun.com/vallejo-opens-…

Supreme Court, ruling for Trump, says criminal migrants may be deported to South Sudan latimes.com/politics/story…

I have no voice recordings, let alone video, of my mother. And this should not be done, period. You can’t replace a real person.

nothing beats a movie with a killer script that people keep coming back to again and again for the bangers

Breaking: Daniel Park, a suspect charged earlier this month in connection with the bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has died in federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday. cbsn.ws/4k74hxI

Stephen Miller reportedly has a financial stake in Palantir, which is helping ICE deport undocumented migrants. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

UPDATE: As of 3 p.m., the ICE office in San Francisco appeared to be shut down. ICE agents stood inside the building putting up "Closed" signs after some 30 protesters had gathered outside earlier, attempting to block immigration arrests.

A vote by the Solano County Board of Supervisors to approve an $11.2 million contract for sheriff’s deputies to patrol Vallejo was delayed on Tuesday amid concerns that the sheriff’s office would not be able to staff up or outfit its equipment in time. vallejosun.com/solano-supervi…