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VIDEOGAMES: LGBT+ Creator’s Character With Vitiligo Is Added To Fortnite

Dalia Fortnite Skin Vitiglio

LGBT+ concept artist Dahja Cat is celebrating as their LGBT+ character skin with vitiligo will officially be added to Fortnite. Alongside its core Battle Royale mode, Fortnite Create Mode allows creators to produce custom content on their own Player Islands like maps and skins. And with the Fortnite Support-A-Creator programme, creators can even get paid when players purchase their creations using the in-game currency. Dahja Cat’s newly designed skin Joy has now been picked up by Epic for official inclusion in the game and will be added to the Item Shop very soon. Full Story from Pink News

SCIENCE: When Skin Turns to Stone

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A Colorado boy has an extremely rare condition that’s causing his skin to harden “like stone,” his parents say. The 12-year-old boy, Jaiden Rogers, has stiff skin syndrome, and his parents are hoping to stop the spread of the disease before he “becomes entombed within himself,” People magazine reported Wednesday (July 18). Jaiden was diagnosed with the condition in January 2013, when his father noticed a hard lump on the boy’s right thigh, Fox News reported today (July 20). Since then, the painful disease has spread to his hips, stomach and back. But as it spreads to his chest area, … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Skin, by Christian Baines

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QSFer Christian Baines has a new MM paranormal/horror book out: Kyle, a young newcomer to New Orleans, is haunted by the memory of his first lover, brutally murdered just outside the French Quarter. Marc, a young Quarter hustler, is haunted by an eccentric spirit that shares his dreams, and by the handsome but vicious lover who shares his bed. When the barrier between these men comes down, it will prove thinner than the veil between the living and the dead…or between justice and revenge Bold Strokes Books | Amazon Excerpt Kyle watched the last group of tourists leave the museum, … Read more