[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Toronto, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Melvin Iscove, Michelle Visage, drag kings

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• People interviewed by front-line police regarding the Church-Wellesley serial killer affair suggest that, if there was any problem, it was certainly not with the sensitive and informed front-line officers. The Toronto Star reports.


• Heather Havrilesky at The Cut interviews Daniel Mallory Ortberg and, in so doing, celebrates his outing himself as trans.


• The medical license of Dr. Melvin Iscove, who as a psychiatrist practiced conversion therapy without quite admitting to it, has been suspended following findings that he had sex with his male patients. The Toronto Star reports.


• In a wide-ranging interview, E. Alex Jung talks with Michelle Visage about RuPaul's drag ace, her life, and the changing lines between gay and trans, gender and sexuality, that she has seen since the 1980s, over
  
• Hazel Cills at Jezebel takes a look at drag kings. I'd not heard of them in a while: What are they doing? What is this genderbending cultural form evolving into? They need more prominence.