George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003. “There is no program more pro-life” than PEPFAR, he wrote.
Though PEPFAR is estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, its funding is set to expire on September 30. Congressional Republicans are falsely claiming that the program promotes abortion and using its re-funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. Republicans have threatened to defund the entire federal government at the end of the month unless they’re allowed to slash military diversity programs and military aid to Ukraine and to increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word,” Bush wrote in a Wednesday opinion article in The Washington Post.
Bush said that his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, his White House chief of staff Joshua Bolton, and his senior policy advisor Michael Gerson had advised him to begin PEPFAR. Gerson reportedly told Bush that it would be “a source of national shame” if the U.S. didn’t try to help end the worldwide HIV epidemic.
Bush’s opinion article cited words that Gerson himself had written in defense of PEPFAR in November 2017: “Are Republicans in Congress prepared to squander a legacy of GOP leadership that has won the United States considerable goodwill around the world? Among evangelical Christians, what definition of being ‘pro-life’ does not include saving millions of lives from preventable disease and death?”
Adding his own thoughts, Bush wrote, “There is no program more pro-life than one which has saved more than 25 million lives. I urge Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR for another five years without delay.”
During his presidency, Bush backed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, and used bans on same-sex marriage to help him win re-election in 2004. While he served, 27 states banned same-sex marriage.
Despite Bush’s anti-gay record, PEPFAR was “a sound investment in U.S. security,” Ben Plumley, the former CEO of the now-defunct international HIV organization Pangea, said in a now-deleted interview with Hornet.com. Plumley said the program “generated very significant goodwill towards the United States” and countered “the spread of radical Islam or radical anti-Western attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Plumley also noted that most HIV transmissions in sub-Saharan Africa are heterosexual, meaning that conservative Republicans could support PEPFAR without worrying about seeming too overtly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.
1. Ricky using Kristoff's Lullaby to express his love for Gina without having to directly express it to Gina.
2. Gina clearly stares at Ricky during the performance with the possible realization light bulb hitting, then sees EJ watching her across the way ( a day after a breakup)
3. Nini looking proud of Ricky. Telling him how much he has grown abd wondering the inspiration behind the performance.
Also thinking, tge final scene of the season is Zac and Vanessa outside of the school staring at one another, cut to black.
Whispers tenderly in her ear, “You are the music in me.”
A warm smile appears on Mid's lips at the second Joshua whispers in her ear. They're sitting next to each other at the piano like they enjoy doing. Well, Joshua is mostly the one playing, but Mid is getting better at it now. She learns quickly, always. It's just another thing they have in common.
She closes her eyes. "Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na," she sings, almost in a whisper before she looks at him, keeping that soft smile on her lips. "You are the music in me." Her voice is louder now, but not too much because she wants to hear the piano. She leans her head against his shoulder. "It's like I knew you before we met. Can't explain it. There's no naaaame for it!"
— SUNGHOON: accounting major @ decelis university because he claims he wants to be rich enough to be one of those people that plays golf every weekend even though he barely knows how to golf. actually wants to be a barista and make silly latte art all day long. best friends with jay and jake since high school!
— JAKE: applied physics major @ decelis university and is currently dying because of that choice but also not really. thinks of himself as somewhat adjacent to troy bolton because of his constant internal dilemma because he’’s both a physics nerd and on the rugby team. his most listened to songs during his freshman year of university were getcha head in the game, break the status quo, and breaking free from the hsm soundtrack.
— JAY: business major @ decelis university but wants to transfer to a different major because he feels like soul being sucked away in every business related course he takes because the people are unbearable. has a constant culinary school application tab open on his computer but never goes through with it. also has been warned to not help yn and joshua with their uranuspaste business because its supposedly a pyramid scheme, but they don’t seem like the type, so what’s the harm?
— HEESEUNG: women’s studies major @ decelis university and is very proud of it! he loves women, so why wouldn’t he study and get a degree in them? met jake in general physics class and nearly sobbed when jake offered to help him make sense of the lectures. often disappears from the group to hang out with some tall kid named riki from the dance team
— JUNGWON: biochemistry major @ decelis university with a premed course. is constantly questioning whether or not the money is worth the pain (it is he’s just dramatic) also has frequent nightmares about the mcat even though he still has a few years until he needs to take the exam. is sunghoon’s roommate and is still in shock that sunghoon is an accounting major because in jungwon’s eyes, stem and sunghoon don’t match.
Quite random selection audios from my recent theatregoing experiences. I don’t know if anyone is interested but I figured it’s better than hoarding them. Reblog if you download, gift to anyone if requested.
WICKED 2nd National “Munchkinland” Tour / June 29th, 2022 / Boston, MA, USA / Lissa deGuzman (Elphaba), Jennafer Newberry (Glinda), Jordan Litz (Fiyero), John Bolton (The Wizard), Lisa Howard (Madame Morrible), Kimberly Immanuel (Nessarose), Jake Pedersen (Boq), Michael Genet (Doctor Dillamond) / Note: A cellphone went off during the Fiyero reveal.
Google Drive (2 untracked M4A files)
THE BAND’S VISIT 1st National Tour / June 16th, 2022 / Worcester, MA, USA / Janet Dacal (Dina), Sasson Gabay (Tewfiq), Ramin Doostdar (u/s Haled), Ali Louis Bourzgui (u/s Itzik), Coby Getzug (Papi), Hannah Shankman (u/s Iris), Yoni Avi Battat (Camal), Joshua Grosso (Telephone Guy), David Studwell (Avrum), Billy Cohen (Zelger), Dana Saleh Omar (u/s Julia), Marc Ginsburg (Sammy)
Google Drive (1 untracked M4A file)
1776, Pre-Broadway / May 28th, 2022 / Cambridge, MA, USA / Gisela Adisa as Robert Livingston, Nancy Anderson (George Read), Becca Ayers (Col. Thomas McKean), Tiffani Barbour (Andrew McNair), Allison Briner Dardenne (Stephen Hopkins), Allyson Kaye Daniel (Abigail Adams/Rev. Jonathan Witherspoon), Elizabeth A. Davis (Thomas Jefferson) , Rose Van Dyne (u/s Charles Thomson), Joanna Glushak (John Dickinson), Grace Stockdale (u/s Richard Henry Lee), Eryn LeCroy (Martha Jefferson/Dr. Lyman Hall), Crystal Lucas-Perry (John Adams), Liz Mikel (John Hancock), Patrena Murray (Benjamin Franklin), Oneika Phillips (Joseph Hewes), Lulu Picart (Samuel Chase), Sara Porkalob (Edward Rutledge), Sushma Saha (Judge James Wilson), Brooke Simpson (Roger Sherman), Salome Smith (Courier), Sav Souza (Dr. Josiah Bartlett), Imani Pearl Williams ( u/s Caesar Rodney) /
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everything relating to HSM - filming the show on location at East High, only to put on a musical about the very movie, bringing back original actors for cameos, referencing alum as V Hudge and Zefron, calling the original film a “period piece”, and going so far as to name the show “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”
EJ’s “They would never call the show that. It’s way to long and complicated a title.”
Making a documentary of a play based on a movie (Frozen) in a show (HSMTMTS) inspired by a movie (HSM), which is already filmed in mockumentary style, to air on the same streaming service (Disney+) the show (HSMTMTS) literally airs on 😮💨
Singing Camp Rock songs simply because the season takes place at a camp
having an original HSM alum of the show return to play a heightened version of himself (as an actor, not character) (+ two other cameos in previous seasons) (meanwhile having another Disney alum play a fictional character despite said alum being in a Disney series, Hannah Montana, whose existence has been acknowledged within the show’s universe (The Climb, 2x05)(Miley cameo in HSM 2))
The hypothetical possibility that Joshua and Julia’s characters might be queer-coded
The line of “We’re blocking this as a love story, not a SARS epidemic” (1x04), only to later film an entire season during one, with Zoom scenes and all
“Holly will” is WILD I don’t even know what to say
okay the choreographers outfit is cute
”helping Ricky tie his shoe?” Girl how old do you think he is? Ricky may be a lil stupid at times but he definitely knows how to tie his shoe… Ricky should definitely get her those improv lessons (btw I love how this is a running joke)
”it’s a joke. You can tell because I laughed.” Still not funny. TROYELLA FOREVER!!
ricky in the background while Quinn is talking about her movie: “do you know? I don’t know 🤷🏼♀️”
QUINN HAS NEVER SEEN HSM HELP SHES FIRED
ricky mocking Mack is everything I’ve ever wanted and more “meh meh meh” “this guy 🙄”
oof. Emmy. Ricky totally was like “WHAT ARE YOU DOING”
PLEASE KOURTNEY IS FILMING
”moms holding area” is WILD 💀 don’t disrespect her like that
her scream was so real too
”it’s me, miss Jenn!” “Whaaat that’s crazy…”
“so.. you and Ricky. You AND Ricky. YOU AND RICKY.”
CARLOS IS A TRACK STAR
that transition was smooth as freak
mack better get his hands off Gina or I’ll slap him through the screen I swear
why does Quinn think Gina just jumped in to dance in place of Dani like Krystal legitimately asked her to
DANIS SIDE EYE AHAHAHAHA
AND GINAS LOOK OF DISGUST BACK IM SORRY
the camp shallow lake paper is WILD
POOF Richard is there.
POOF Richard is gone.
miss Jenn looks so disappointed when Carlos tells her that Emmy is her new assistant… until Emmy says she’s good at acquiring sensitive info. Then she’s interested. 😂
”has been sitcom actor” PERIOD
ricky hiding behind the homecoming sign is so Troy Bolton… or maybe that’s just his Joshua Bassett side
HE HAS LIPSTICK ON HIS CHEEK AWWHH
Dani and Mack are so toxic
Dani is so freaking stiff I can’t. I mean she’s really really bad
SHES READING THE STAGE DIRECTIONS I CANT
quinn should not knock mrs darbus’s monologues I loved those
THE RINA CUE
THE PUPPIES ARE SO ADORABLE
ginas look of amazement while Ricky is singing has me melting
Gina’s house is the new Ashlyn’s house and I don’t know how I feel about it
big red is so sweet
ashlyn is not gonna “steal his gay thunder” calm down although it is true that it’s not the kind of convo you have over text
ok Carlos is a savage “I drop bombs and then go on airplane mode” CRAZY
”welcome to MY BEDROOM”
emmy is a stalker or a hacker lowkey
ginas squeal!!!!
ashlyn trying to back up Gina and rina is absolutely crazy LIKE KOURT BACK OFF!!!
“You can’t stay in high school forever,” he told the Post-Gazette in a June interview. “I thought it might be nice to go out on top, on our terms, with complete stories. … It was such a return to East High in every way, and it felt like the cast was graduating.”
Season three ended with the East High drama club gaining some national notoriety due to their participation in a (again, in-show) Disney+ documentary chronicling their summer-camp production of “Frozen: The Musical.” Some of the documentary’s revelations test established relationships, including the bond between Carlos (Frankie A. Rodriguez) and Seb (Bethel Park native Joe Serafini).
It also helped solidify the long-gestating romance between East High drama club standouts Ricky (Joshua Bassett) and Gina (Sofia Wylie). Those two are an official item when season four begins, though they face plenty of tests throughout the season due to their own insecurites, diverging post-high school plans and Hollywood’s siren call.
As examples of how the show’s young cast were clearly ready for life after “HSMTMTS,” Federle cited Bassett’s then-upcoming world tour, Julia Lester (who plays Ashlyn Caswell) joining the cast of Broadway’s “Into the Woods” revival and Wylie’s starring role in the 2022 Netflix film “The School for Good and Evil.”
“I thought, ‘Let’s wrap this up on our terms and really graduate together,’” Federle said.
Unsurprisingly, season four mostly revolves around the theme of “figuring out the future,” as Federle put it. The teenagers’ stories take up the bulk of season four’s screen time, but they do have to share the spotlight with returning “High School Musical” talent like Lucas Grabeel (Ryan Evans), Corbin Bleu (Chad Danforth), Monique Coleman (Taylor McKessie), Kaycee Stroh (Martha Cox), Bart Johnson (Jack Bolton) and Alyson Reed (Ms. Darbus).
Those folks “slotted in perfectly” with Federle’s grand designs and desire to give the show’s actors and devoted fans “a really nice arc for everybody that pays off.” He especially enjoyed finally getting to map out eight episodes with Ricky and Gina as a full-fledged couple.
“It’s fun to write a no-holds-barred Ricky and Gina season. Even though there are always challenges in high school and exes and the future and anxiety and self-doubt ... it was a blast to finally flex our Rina as a show.”
Just as important to Federle was giving Seblos their time to shine as well. Serafini wasn’t in much of season three, and season four begins with those two trying to weather a rough patch stemming from the distorted way in which the “Frozen” documentary presented Carlos’ summer at Camp Shallow Lake. Don’t worry, Seblos fans: Serafini is around a lot more as Seb and Carlos navigate this messy situation.
“We sort of had a feeling when we were filming season four that it would likely be the last season,” Serafini told the Post-Gazette in June. “It wasn’t too much of a surprise. I think it’s been a great four years and we wrap it up pretty nicely. I’m excited to share it with the world and put a nice close on that chapter.”
Both Serafini and Federle are former Pittsburgh CLO Mini Stars who met at the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater held annually at the Benedum Center. Federle said that Serafini, who was back home last month starring as Jack in Pittsburgh CLO’s “Into the Woods” production, is blessed with “a wildly beautiful voice” and has been “an incredible member” of the “HSMTMTS” family.
“Seb and Carlos have been on a journey,” Federle said. “For a lot of our young audience, it’s the first real representation they’ve seen in the media that reflects them, or certainly on the Disney platform. That has been an honor to do that. ... You can’t do the show without Joe in a meaningful way, and it was so great to get one of Pittsburgh’s finest back on screen.”
Naturally, it’s bittersweet for Federle’s four-year “HSMTMTS” odyssey to be winding down — “with an emphasis on sweet,” he said. As he prepares to step into a future away from East High, Federle is celebrating where he came from by reflecting on how Western Pennsylvania institutions like the Pittsburgh CLO Academy and Center For Theater Arts gave him the skills he needed to thrive in the best part he’s ever known.
“My values are ultimately about trying to be a very fair and kind leader,” he said. “I learned that in Pittsburgh, which I think may be an East Coast city but has a Midwest heart. I think that Midwest heart beats at the center of this series.”
You said you’re working on so many stories. Could you tell us a few so we can get excited for them hehe
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I have currently more than 150 stories i am working on. That's why i spent times on it. I would like to thanks you for your interest on my stories.
I have stories about feet, about BNWO and also many surprises : there will be some sequels about stories. For example the awaited Part 2 of JONAS AND THE FAT MEN, and also a Part 2 of my gay story inspired by BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
By the way if you have suggestions and ideas about what could happen in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST part 2... : in this story you'll see the life of Beau (male version of Belle) is now a days that he is married to Gaston and he have two sons with him. I thought maybe i could add the French Revolution in it and Gaston and Beau and their sons have to travel around France to go to America.
There is also HUMILIATED BY A CELEBRITY and CELEBRITIES IN LOVE. I mainly got requests about these.
Paul Walter Hauser, Joshua Bassett....
I got a request about Kylian MBappe x Male reader, Nick Pulos x male slave....
Stories about Asian supremacy
Stories inspired by
There is also my MCU GAY INTERRACIAL project with my friend @blacksuperiority. I wanted to write about King T'Challa of Wakanda / Black Panther being in love with Agent Everett Ross, and we had a lot of ideas about this project which means a lot to us. Maybe Miles Morales with a gay version of Gwen Stacy as a slutty gay male snowbunny
Someone even asked me to write about Sam Wilson enslaving Steve Rogers. I answered him by an extract of a love story between them, even if not a lot of persons liked it
- I am also writing several collaborations. Mostly about farts, cuckold, feet...
- Stories inspired by tv series :
Glee : Kurt Hummel in love with David
Game of Thrones : Renly's feet slave
And many short stories about feet / farts.
HERE ARE IDEAS FOR FUTURES STORIES
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (2006-2008) : its my childhood and part of why i am so gay 😅
all these muscled men, the iconic Sharpay Evans, her twin brother Ryan who is supposed to be gay even though he dates a cute girl, Troy who was one of my first crushes, all the songs that i knew by heart and that i sang in song shamelessly with my friends 🤣
My ideas for an HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL story would be
-- Troy Bolton and his childhood Chad Danforth best friend falling in love / using a slave
- Why it could be good : they have a great chemistry and they are very dominant
- Why i may not write it : because i doesnt have any idea for the plot (them graduating and falling in love and / or using a loser slave when they are at university?)
-- Ryan Evans in love with Troy Bolton : maybe Ryan secretly loves Troy
-Why it could be good : because i love the (lack of) chemistry between these characters
, and i think a lot of gays guys would recognize themselves in the love of a gay guy from. It could be funny to see Ryan and Sharpay competing for the same guy
- Why i may not write it : because i don't want to be make this love story toxic, I want to show that Troy was secretly in loves with Ryan (maybe by alternating the pov)
-- Sharpay Evans and Zeke Baylor : because i am an addict to interracial porn and at the same time their love is pure and underrated. It could be a story where they finally become an official couple. It would be funny to see this rich asservative white woman date a black man who isnt even hunky or masculine but who is funny and kind, protective and loves he
-- Chad Danforth and Ryan Evans : of course there is their song I don't dance, but also it would be funny to see them dating.
- Why i find it intersting : because i love the contrast between the skinny effeminate classy rich white boy into arts and the muscular masculine poor black man into sports.
It could be funny to see Ryan dates Chad while Sharpays dates Zeke, so their conservative rich white parents see their only childs marry two muscular black men
--- DESCENDANTS (2015-2019) : it was interesting movies, not good, not bad, i hoped it would be better since it was made Kenny Ortega who directed HSM movies.
-- my idea would be to write about Chad Charming who would be a narcistic bully, a white privileged prince who uses a (male / female) loser as his homework slave as he did with Evie, or maybe he ends being in love with his loser slave.
I chosed him because he is the most handsome man according to me.
It could also be a femdom story about him being enslave by Audrey (Aurora's daughter), who could even humiliate him with Jay.
Chad could be Audrey and Jay's pet slave who lick their feet and follow them obediently
-- I had begun a story about Harry Hook being in love with Ben, Beauty and the Beast's son
This story would have been about their love story and Harry becoming Prince consort
I love the contrast between a prince charming and an evil pirate
There was such an homoerotism between them
i havent continued it because i wasnt inspired enough. But some people told me i should write about the handsome actor Thomas Doherty who plays Harry Hook, so maybe i'll continue it.
--- LIVE ACTIONS
i am far from loving all the live actions. there is live actions of animated movies, and there is movies with actors but not adapted from animated movies (Mary Poppins, Enchanted is my favorite, Pirates of the Caribean...)
There has been good propositions (Cinderella is the best, Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland, Cruella and 101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close) and some were kind of awful (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin). Maybe in some years we will see them and like them all
so i havent a lot of ideas with the characters of live actions
I am interested upcoming Hercules, and i planned on writing a Hercules multiverse story
My story would have been about the different cinematographic version of Hercules meeting and showing their differences (those who are bi, gay, straight, with slaves....).
-- Prince Anders from Aladdin (2019). A minor character but he is kind, sexy and funny.
I love furs coats and i imagine a servant smelling his furs 😍
-- David Gyasi as Percival in Maleficent - Mistress of Evil (2019) was an interesting character. He play the commander of the army of Uthread, the kingdom of King Henry and Queen Ingrith, Prince Philip's parents. He could be the bull of the Queen.
Percival could also be the lover of his son Prince Philip. You know how much i love interracial (gay) couples and hot tall muscled black men. As much as i love Prince Philip's character, i found Brenton Twaithes and Harris Dickinson's versions of him too... wimpy!
In this story Percival could be the bull, humiliates the cuckold dad and the wimp son, taking over the kingdom, (makes Aurora his fuck slave or wife), marry Philip and maybe enslaving him and so the kingdom is ruled by a strong black man.
--- ONCE UPON A TIME (2011-2018) : an amazing series, respectful of the fairytales and the Disney animated movies inspired by them
I already said i want to write a gay story about the Hunstman / the Sheriff Graham. It would have been about him in love with a boy, or him with a male version of Snow White