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In yet another thinly veiled attack on LGBTQ rights and representation, the Trump administration has denied requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag during Pride Month. Diplomats from Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia had petitioned the State Department to fly the flag during June, which was always permitted during the Obama administration. But they were soundly rejected.

The flag can (and will be) flown in other areas of the embassies, but they are not allowed on the official flagpole. Though the President recently paid some lip service tweets about celebrating Pride, his administration has been callously and cruelly rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community.

Trump has made it easier for homeless shelters to turn away trans people, and enacted the trans military ban.

German ambassador Richard Grenell, the highest ranking openly queer member in the administration, tried to downplay the rejection, saying “The President’s recognition of Pride Month and his tweet encouraging our decriminalization campaign gives me even more pride to once again march in the Berlin Pride parade, hang a huge banner on the side of the Embassy recognizing our pride, host multiple events at the Embassy and the residence, and fly the gay pride flag.”

Despite banning the flag on the official flagpole, embassies across the globe have been hanging the flag off the side of buildings, out of windows, and displaying the rainbow in lighted decorations. It’s yet another mean-spirited, dehumanizing move from the administration to make LGBTQ folks feel like second class citizens.

Nice to see the us embassy in Seoul displaying the pride flag even if it’s not on the flagpole. pic.twitter.com/UFTm4jlN1H

— decipherstatic (@decipherstatic) June 9, 2019

Here is the US Embassy in New Dehli, India showing up for #Pride after requests to fly the rainbow flag were denied by the Secretary of State and the Trump Administration. pic.twitter.com/FnDas8C2bD

— Kestin Page (@Kestin) June 9, 2019

Because the State Department is refusing permission to fly the Pride flag on US embassy flagpoles, the embassies are responding by hanging the flags off the poles. Bravo! pic.twitter.com/4R6zQ1pMke

— Bruce Campbell (@nytherapy) June 8, 2019

(via NBC News, image: ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)

• E3 is jam-packed with all sorts of news and announcements for gamers. Check out the rundown here. (via The Guardian)
• This interactive graphic helps you untangle the twisty timeline of Avengers: Endgame. (via CBR)
• Dark Phoenix had the worst opening of any X-Men film, stands to lose $100 million. (via Deadline)
• Yeah okay, we’re here for faces on ice cream.

I’ve been getting the exact same order from the local ice cream joint for 26 summers

today, it is my pleasure to introduce to you – my friend, Twist With a Face pic.twitter.com/DKOwmwkWfY

— ️‍ (@SydWeiler) June 9, 2019

• Elden Ring brings George R.R. Martin into the world of video games. (via Kotaku)
• Catch a glimpse of Loki strolling around in the new Disney+ series. (via Collider)
• James Wan doesn’t understand why Swamp Thing was cancelled, and yeah, neither do we.

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Don’t really know or understand why #Swampthing was cancelled, but I can tell you this — all the cast and crew, and producing/writing team poured their hearts into this. Really proud of everyone’s hard work. Go watch episode 2, and immortalize these 10 episodes. Swampy deserves it.

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Cue the victory fanfare. Final Fantasy VII Remake will release on March 3, 2020. Finally.

First announced at E3 2015, this fully reimagined version of one of the greatest video games of all time has long felt more like a delirious fantasy for diehard fans. On Sunday night during a special orchestral concert celebrating the music of Final Fantasy VII, Square Enix unveiled a brand new trailer for the long-simmering Final Fantasy VII Remake in advance of their keynote address on Monday evening. Showcasing a mixture of cinematic cutscenes and live gameplay largely taken from the game’s first mission to infiltrate and destroy a power plant in the bowels of the dystopian megalopolis of Midgar, the trailer ended with the sweetest sequence of numbers since Lost: 03/03/2020.



Now that Final Fantasy VII Remake is actually going to be a reality and not a cruel Truman Show-esque prank targeting me personally, one can expect to get a lot more information about the title at Square Enix’s press conference on Monday evening at 6PM PT. On Twitter, director Tetsuya Nomura said, “We will be making further announcements tomorrow, but for now, please have a look at the short version of the trailer we revealed today.” The trailer, which runs for a minute and change, reveals that the game’s original turn-based combat has been replace by a more modern, active style of combat that looks more in line with Final Fantasy XV‘s combat system. With stunning graphics, especially compared to the original’s notoriously goofy models, and fluid animation, Final Fantasy VII Remake is looking more and more like it was worth the wait. Barrett’s voice is still whack, though, but honestly we should have expected that given his dialogue in the 1997 original.

Not even Ruby Weapon could keep me away from this game. Stay tuned for even more details–as well as all the latest updates from this year’s E3–all week long, right here on Nerdist. In the meantime, I’m going to light a bunch of candles and start my summoning circle to will Final Fantasy Tactics Remake into existence.

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E3 isn’t just about the lucky few people who descend on Los Angeles to be the first to play the latest and greatest upcoming video games. It’s about all of us together online […]

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The cancelation of One Day At a Time came as a blow to fans and critics. A campaign to save the show, using the hashtag #SaveODAAT, spread across the Internet, as the fandom spoke of the show’s importance and expressed why it deserved a fourth season. While there has been no movement on that front for a while, at least the show’s creatives and cast are still holding out hope that the show can come back.

“All I can say is that there’s hope — there’s not not hope,” said showrunner Mike Royce at a panel at the ATX Television Festival as reported by Deadline. “I’ve been through three ‘save our show’ campaigns — they didn’t work. This is beyond miracle status. We just need to make sure it works out. We’re talking and we hope to have news sooner rather than later.”

In a video message record for the panel, star Isabella Gomez, she added “We are not dead yet Let these networks know you want us back!”

It’s nice to know that the showrunners and stars haven’t given up hope. The show is an uplifting, joyful, important piece of television, and it deserves to run far longer than for just three seasons. There’s more story to tell. So keep tweeting, keep pushing, and maybe we’ll get a miracle here, because the show deserved to come to an end on the writers’ terms.

Do you want to see One Day At a Time return? What network should pick it up?

(via Deadline, image: Netflix)

• A producer on Jordan Peele’s Candyman says the film will tackle how toxic fandom has become. (via Deadline)
• Bitch Media spoke to Anaïs Mitchell about Hadestown, the musical sweeping Broadway. (via Bitch)
• But Why Tho? reviews The Lavender Scare, a documentary about the 1953 hunt for “commies and queers.” (via But Why Tho?)
• What if an AI wrote the finale of Game of Thrones? College Humor has that covered. (via YouTube)

• Here’s what might have happened in an X-Men vs. Fantastic Four movie. (via io9)
• Check out Isabel Cole’s brilliant essay on Magic Mike XLL for Bright Wall/Dark Room. (via Bright Wall/Dark Room)

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