Stranger Things actor comes out on TikTok
Noah Schnapp, 18, who plays the closeted Gay character Will Byers in the Netflix supernatural horror hit Stranger Things, came out as Gay through a TikTok video on Thursday last week.

The video was captioned, "When I finally told my friends and family I was Gay after being scared in the the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know.'" He also mentioned that he was "more similar to Will than he thought."

Fans speculated after the series' most recent season that Will's character was closeted, since he appeared to be in love with his friend, Mike Wheeler. Schnapp confirmed their suspicions in an interview with Variety, and said the theories go back to the beginning.

"Now that he's gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing," he said. "But before, it was a slow arc. I think it is done so beautifully, because it's so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be Gay."

DeSantis dissolves Disney government, Black voter rights
In retaliation for Disney's public opposition to Florida's infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Friday last week that would dissolve the private government of Walt Disney World in June 2023.

According to Richard Foglesong, an authority on the subject, the entertainment giant was granted the Reedy Creek district back in 1967, to avoid conflicts with local government (which had plagued the Anaheim-based Disneyland) and bring more tourism to the Orlando area. Currently, Disney World is a city in its own right, with its own power grid and other utilities.

Like the bill that started the conflict, the one that would dissolve Reedy Creek is unclear about what the process would involve, or how it would be enforced, and Republican lawmakers weren't much help during floor discussions when asked for details. The bill is just over a page long.

Some might fear for the health of the beloved theme park, but DeSantis signed an arguably more threatening bill alongside it: a new district map that would, according to CNN and ProPublica, put Republicans at a significant advantage in the country's largest swing state, and disenfranchise Black voters by excluding their neighborhoods from the 10th District. Several Black Democratic lawmakers have staged protests against the new map.

Wisconsin appoints first Queer cabinet leader
Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin announced on Monday, January 9 that he has promoted James Bond, the deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to the head of the agency.

Bond is a disabled veteran of the US Marine Corps and a long-time employee of the department, and he is also the first openly LGBTQ person to be the head of a cabinet agency in the state. In the Corps, he served as an administrative supply clerk for five years. He told the Associated Press that he qualifies as a disabled veteran due to a service-related injury to his right eye.

"James has been a dedicated leader at DVA for over a decade and has served the department of Wisconsin veterans well as deputy secretary," wrote Evers in a statement. "As a veteran himself, along with his decades of state service, I have no doubt he will bring a wealth of experience, knowledge, and expertise to this role as secretary."

Bond's promotion could be called timely, since the assisted living facilities and nursing homes of the Wisconsin VA have incurred a string of fines and violations. In particular, Milwaukee's Union Grove veterans home ranked among the worst in the country.