Colton Underwood, âBachelorâ Star, Comes Out as Gay
The 29-year-old former football player had written about questioning his sexuality in a memoir, published in 2020.
Mr. Underwood at the Kidsâ Choice Sports Awards in 2019.Credit.Richard Shotwell/Invision, via Richard Shotwell, via Invision, via Associated Press
April 14, 2021Updated 11:50 a.m. ET
Colton Underwood, a star of âThe Bachelorâ and a former football player, came out as gay in an interview with Robin Roberts that aired Wednesday on âGood Morning America.â
He described 2020 as a year of self-reflection, one that âprobably made a lot of people look in the mirror and confront what they were running from or what theyâve been putting off in their lives.â
Eddy de Pretto Is the Proud Sound of a New France
Born in the Paris suburbs, the singer has made waves with two albums that draw as much from ’60s chanson as contemporary hip-hop.
Eddy De Pretto burst to fame in 2018 with his triple-platinum album “Cure.” His second album is “À Tous Les Bâtards” (“To All the Bastards”).Credit.Elliott Verdier for The New York Times
April 13, 2021Updated 12:36 p.m. ET
Eddy de Pretto is now 27, and these days he sings on some of the largest stages in France or he did, when the stages were open. When he was 21, he performed for a smaller audience: the tourists on the bateaux-mouches, the Paris sightseeing cruises that ply millions of people up and down the Seine.
Tools for Teens to Call Out Sexual Violence
A sex ed teacher talks about how young people can try to keep themselves safe from sexual assault and be allies to others.
Credit.Franziska Barczyk
April 13, 2021, 4:57 p.m. ET
I was making lunch when my 17-year-old son sat down at the kitchen table. “Hey Mom, is this real?” he asked, and showed me an Instagram post that read: “
97% of young women have experienced sexual harassment. If you are surprised, then you’re probably not listening.”
I asked to take a closer look and he handed me his phone. The statistic wasn’t completely accurate but it was close. It was pulled from a British study that found that among women aged 18 to 24, 86 percent had been harassed in public spaces, 3 percent didn’t recall ever having experienced sexually harassing behavior, and 11 percent chose not to answer the question. There was more to the post; when I swiped left, it demanded:
Interviews by Río Sofia
April 12, 2021
Linux: I really hope that we live to be old, old, old ladies one day no one is dying on us young. I hope we’re the oldest women to live in the history of old-age women. And when we look back at our 20s, I hope that we think, “Oh, honey, that was just the beginning! I can’t believe we used to be that poor, and that we used to struggle like that.” When we look around at each other much later, we’ll have lived a full life and have experienced so many things been onstage for millions of people, been pop stars, flown on private jets, lived the life. I hope all of our dreams manifest and materialize themselves. We’re getting interviewed by The New York Times now, but when we look back, I hope we think that these were our struggle days. It’s only the beginning.