Arts & Entertainment
Jennifer Lopez and Lin-Manuel Miranda record song for Orlando
all proceeds from track will be donated to charity
(Screenshot via Twitter)
Jennifer Lopez and Lin-Manuel Miranda joined forces to record a song in tribute of the Orlando shooting victims.
On Monday, Lopez and Miranda announced on Twitter they are collaborating on their song “Love Make the World Go Round.” The tweets included a video with behind the scenes footage recording the track and a sneak peak of the song.
“What we got is love even when the sinners hate us. We cannot let them diminish or intimidate us. We sing out, we got the rhythm and the true on our side. We cut through the divide and we do it with pride,” Miranda raps.
All proceeds from the track will be donated to the Hispanic Federation, which is helping the victims’ families. A release date has yet to be announced.
Miranda has already contributed to the Hispanic Federation for Orlando. He began selling T-shirts in June from his “love is love is love” Tony Awards acceptance speech with proceeds benefitting the organization.
Sooo @JLo & yours truly went in on a tune that will benefit https://t.co/ddyoy7e5T8 here’s a taste!#LMTWGR? pic.twitter.com/5CPJuZsgPL
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 4, 2016
Celebrity News
More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio
Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday
An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.
Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s Honório Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.
Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman Mônica Benício, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.
“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” said Associaçao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on its X account. “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”
The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.
The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Covering Gay Day at the Zoo for @WashBlade . Here at @NationalZooDC pic.twitter.com/LqgGNOOAiM
— Michael Patrick Key (@MichaelKeyWB) May 5, 2024
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(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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