Sony’s “Caught Stealing” trailer shows Austin Butler navigating New York City’s criminal landscape in Darren Aronofsky‘s latest film.
Butler plays Hank Thompson, a former baseball player who “unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined,” per the official logline. Butler is joined by cast members Bad Bunny, Matt Smith, Regina King, Vincent D’Onofrio, Action Bronson, Liev Schreiber and Griffin Dunne. Zoë Kravitz plays Butler’s love interest.
The film is written by Charlie Huston and adapted from his book series. “I am excited to be teaming up with my old friends at Sony Pictures to bring Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked roller coaster ride to life. I can’t wait to start working with Austin and my family of NYC filmmakers,” Aronofsky previously said.
Aronofsky’s most recent film was 2022’s “The Whale.” He also directed “Mother!” (2017),” “Black Swan” (2010) and “Requiem for a Dream” (2000).”
“Darren is one of the most brilliant audiovisual storytellers in the world, and adapting these wonderful books by Charlie Huston for Austin to star was too exciting an opportunity to not be a part of,” Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, said in a previous announcement.
Butler recently appeared in the miniseries “Masters of the Air” and the Denis Villeneuve film “Dune: Part Two,” which won two Oscars at this year’s ceremony. Kravitz recently directed the film “Blink Twice.”
“Caught Stealing” will release in theaters Aug. 29. Watch the trailer below.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, broke his weeklong silence Thursday, claiming in a televised speech that his country had secured a victory over Israel and delivered a “slap in the face” to Washington.
Hours earlier, Iran’s government also approved legislation to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, a move that will stymie efforts to assess the damage from U.S. airstrikes and monitor uranium enrichment.
“The Islamic Republic emerged victorious and, in return, delivered a harsh slap to America’s face,” Khamenei said after eight days of silence.
The United States had “entered a direct war” because it felt like Israel would be “completely destroyed” if it didn’t, he said, adding that “it gained nothing from this war.” Israel “had to understand that attacking Iran would come at a heavy cost and thanks to God, that’s exactly what happened,” he said.
Israel’s strikes have killed a slew of top Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists. There is still debate, within the U.S. and internationally, about the extent of the damage of American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Khamenei claimed that “the Americans failed to achieve anything significant in their attack on nuclear facilities.” On assertions by President Donald Trump that Iran’s nuclear sites were “obliterated,” the supreme leader added, “It’s clear that the American president needs to exaggerate, they resort to exaggeration to cover up the truth.”
On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament voted to suspend IAEA cooperation with only one abstention among the 223 lawmakers and none voting against it. Thursday saw the bill’s approval by the country’s powerful Guardian Council, which includes theologians selected by the supreme leader.
“Iran’s peaceful nuclear program will continue with greater speed,” Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said later. While Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the bill “is a clear response to the illegal attacks against our country.”
It would mean IAEA inspectors “will not be allowed entry into the country unless the security of nuclear sites and the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities are guaranteed,” he said. And any inspections would also be “subject to approval by the Supreme National Security Council,” he added.
Lawmakers chanting during the Iranian Parliament’s open session in Tehran on Wednesday.IRINN / via AP
It would thwart efforts by IAEA Director Rafael Grossi, who told the French radio station RFI that he was “enormously” concerned at the development.
“The agency’s presence in Iran is not some kind of generous gesture,” he said. “It is an international responsibility.”
The CIA has cited credible intelligence that Iran’s nuclear program was “severely damaged.” While a Defense Intelligence Agency initial assessment leaked Tuesday found it may have only been set back several months, less than claimed by Trump.
At a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hailed a “historically successful strike” and criticized the media for what he said were overly negative reports of the strikes.
The Isfahan nuclear enrichment facility on June 16, top, and Sunday after it was hit by U.S. strikes.2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP via Getty Images
Iran says it is not trying to build a nuclear weapon, and it had been complying with the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which most experts said was successful in limiting its program, until that was effectively axed by Trump in 2018.
After that, Iran began enriching uranium to much higher grades, more than needed for energy and approaching the potency required for a bomb, the IAEA said.
Grossi also said the country, as a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is required have an inspection system.
“It is a legal obligation from the point of view of international law, which cannot be suspended unilaterally,” he said. “I hope that will not be the case, because otherwise we would be on the verge of a new major crisis.”
This 1970 international agreement says that any signatory is barred from developing a nuclear weapon and must be subject to IAEA inspections. Iran, which signed the deal in 1968, says it does not have nuclear weapons; Israel, which is estimated to have around 90 warheads, has never signed the pact.
Iran hard-liners in Washington and elsewhere have been pushing to impose a “zero enrichment” ban on Iran — meaning it would be prevented even from using enriched uranium for nuclear power. Iranian officials point to these arguments as reasons why the country should renege.
“If we are to remain a member of this treaty, we cannot accept only its obligations while being deprived of the rights it guarantees,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Baghaei said Wednesday. “These rights are clearly defined: the right to peaceful nuclear energy for non-military purposes.”
Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian held a call with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. “Iran is ready to cooperate in enhancing regional security and strengthening peace and stability,” Pezeshkian said, according to state media. “We support the establishment of a region free of nuclear weapons and even weapons of mass destruction.”
Daniel Park, the Washington man who was charged with providing large amounts of chemicals used in a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, last month, died Tuesday in federal custody, the Justice Department said.
Park, 32, was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, the Justice Department said. He was taken to the facility on June 13 after he was indicted and charged with malicious destruction of property.
“Responding employees initiated life-saving measures,” the Justice Department said. “Emergency medical services (EMS) were requested while life-saving efforts continued.”
Park was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, the Justice Department said. Officials, who did not reveal the cause of death, said the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service were notified.
“No employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger,” the Justice Department said.
Park, of Kent, Washington, was arrested in Polandlast month after he traveled there following the May 17 car bombing outside the American Reproductive Centers clinic in Palm Springs. He was taken to the United States, where he was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors alleged that Park supplied 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor commonly used to construct homemade bombs, toGuy Edward Bartkus, 25, the primary suspect in the bombing. Bartkus, of Twentynine Palms, California, was killed in the attack, and four other people were injured.
Officials said the bombing was an “intentional act of terrorism.” Bartkus was motivated by anti-natalist ideology, pro-mortalism and anti-abortion ideology, prosecutors said, and Park was alleged to share similar views, according to Akil Davis, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.
Investigators said that after the bombing, they learned that Park spent two weeks visiting Bartkus in Twentynine Palms from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, “running experiments in Bartkus’ garage.” Park had already sent shipments of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus in January, before his visit, authorities said.
A search warrant in Seattle also found that Park had “an explosive recipe that was similar” to the explosive used the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Davis said.
“We believe that Park had knowledge of how to create an ammonium nitrate-fueled bomb,” Davis said this month. “Social media posts indicate that he was attempting to recruit others of like-minded ideology and discuss these things on internet forums.”
The attack damaged the clinic building and left a 250-yard debris field. No one who worked at the clinic was hurt, and the center’s lab — which houses eggs, embryos and reproductive materials — was not damaged, according to the clinic.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court made it easier Mondayfor the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to “third countries” to which they have no previous connection.
In a brief unsigned order that did not explain its reasoning, the court put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that said those affected nationwide should have a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death if they were sent to countries the administration has made deals with to receive deported immigrants.
As a result, the administration will be able to try to quickly remove immigrants to such third countries, including South Sudan. Affected immigrants can still attempt to bring individual claims.
“The ramifications of the Supreme Court’s order will be horrifying; it strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death,” said Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, one of the groups that brought the legal challenge.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that the decision was a “victory for the safety and security of the American people.” She also criticized the Biden administration, saying its immigration policies allowed too many migrants into the country.
“DHS can now execute its lawful authority and remove illegal aliens to a country willing to accept them,” McLaughlin said. “Fire up the deportation planes.”
The three liberal justices on the conservative-majority court all dissented.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion that the court had stepped in “to grant the government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied.”
She said the court was “rewarding lawlessness” by allowing the Trump administration to violate immigrants’ due process rights.
The fact that “thousands will suffer violence in far-flung locales” is less important to the conservative majority than the “remote possibility” that the judge had exceeded his authority, Sotomayor said.
Massachusetts-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who has come under heavy fire from MAGA world for his decisions in the case, later clarified that people should have at least 10 days to bring a claim.
As Sotomayor referred to,Murphy recently said the administration had violated his previous order by flying eight migrants to South Sudan. The men are being held in a U.S. facility in Djibouti while the litigation continues.
The unnamed plaintiffs, Murphy wrote in his original April decision, are merely seeking “an opportunity to explain why such a deportation will likely result in their persecution, torture and/or death.”
All those potentially affected by the litigation are already subject to deportation but cannot be sent to their countries of origin. Murphy’s rulings, like other cases that have arisen as a result of the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policy, focus solely on what legal process they receive before they can be deported.
His order required detainees to be given notice if the government intends to send them to entirely different countries, to their countries of origin or to alternative countries that the government had indicated they could be sent to.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer had complained in a court filing that Murphy’s decisions imposed an “onerous set of procedures” that encroached on the president’s power to conduct foreign policy.
He said the government wishes to deport “some of the worst of the worst,” which is why their home countries are “often unwilling to take them back.”
Persuading third countries to accept criminally convicted immigrants in particular “requires sensitive diplomacy, which involves negotiations and the balancing of other foreign policy interests,” he added.
Lawyers for the four lead plaintiffs, identified by their initials, said in court papers that Murphy’s injunction merely “provides a basic measure of fairness” to ensure the government is following the law. The plaintiffs identified in the lawsuit are from Cuba, Honduras, Ecuador and Guatemala.
Under immigration law, the government can deport people to third countries only if it is “impracticable, inadvisable, or impossible” to send them either to their home countries or previously designated alternative countries, the plaintiffs’ lawyers added.
The Guatemalan plaintiff, identified as O.C.G., is a gay man who the plaintiffs say was quickly deported to Mexico this year even though it was not previously designated as a country he could be sent to. O.C.G. had said that was kidnapped and raped in Mexico last year.
The Mexican government sent him to Guatemala, where he was, until recently, in hiding.
On June 4, the Trump administration returned him to the United States.
Israel’s military strikes on Iran have struck at the heart of the country’s military leadership and nuclear program, creating a possible vacuum at the top of the regime that could hinder its ability to recover from the onslaught, experts say.
But — assuming that it still can — there is a scenario in which the strikes could lead Tehran to abandon negotiations over its nuclear program and instead rush toward building a bomb, according to analysts and former U.S. officials.
The killing of top Iranian military officers as well as several nuclear scientists will likely have sparked fears in Tehran that Israeli intelligence had deeply penetrated the regime and that other senior figures could also be in danger.
Smoke and fire billow from the site of an alleged Israeli strike in southern Tehran on Friday. Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images
Israel has previously pulled off brazen assassinations inside Iran, targeting senior government scientists involved in the country’s nuclear program and the political leader of the Iranian-backed Palestinian group Hamas when he was visiting Tehran.
“You have to assume the system is shell-shocked,” said Alex Vatanka of the Middle East Institute think tank. “They don’t know… how badly they’re infiltrated” by Israel.
Iranian media and the Israeli military said Israel’s strikes on Thursday killed Iran’s top military officer, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, as well as the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, and a major general in the Revolutionary Guards, Gholam Ali Rashid.
The senior military officers targeted had deep ties to Iran’s regime and were known personally by the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, particularly Bagheri, according to Vatanka. Khamenei promoted Bagheri to his post as chief of the armed forces in 2016.
“There’s a personal element here, which might be a factor in terms of what Khamenei decides to do,” he said.
Shahid Beheshti University said five professors were killed in Thursday’s attack as well as “some” family members.
Nuclear program’s future
The first wave of Israeli military strikes launched Thursday likely inflicted serious damage on Iran’s nuclear program, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that air raids will continue for “as many days as it takes” to ensure Iran does not develop a nuclear arsenal.
But Iran still has buried nuclear facilities at Fordow and elsewhere that it could potentially use if it chose to pull out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and rescind its commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons. In that case, Iran would need to enrich uranium to weapon-grade levels, a short technical step with its current stockpile, and then build a nuclear warhead. That effort could take roughly a year or more, most experts estimate.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands before members of the Iranian air force in Tehran on Feb. 7.Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AFP – Getty Images file
The CIA declined to comment as to whether there were any indications that Iran was moving to pull out of the NPT and pursue nuclear weapons.
U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be trying to use the Israeli military attack as leverage over Iran, pushing it to make concessions or else face even harsher military strikes. But Iran may calculate that the time for negotiations is over and opt to build nuclear weapons, according to Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group think tank.
“One of the strategic risks in targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is the potential for backlash,” Vaez said. The strikes “could incentivize Tehran to reconstitute its program with renewed urgency, driven by a heightened resolve to achieve a credible nuclear deterrent,” he said.
Iran has invested decades of effort and trillions of dollars in building its nuclear program, and Iranian political leaders portray it as a point of national pride, a symbol of the country’s independence and technological progress.
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday. Leo Correa / AP
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank, said Iran’s leadership will likely choose to develop nuclear weapons rather than give up the program it sees as a patriotic endeavor.
“It has become a symbol of national prestige and honor,” Miller said on MSNBC.
“When all is said and done, and this regime stays in power, which I suspect it will, the Iranians will probably make a decision to go all out in an effort to weaponize,” Miller said. “And the Americans and the Israelis are going to have to figure out, over time, how to deal with it.“
Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East at the U.S. National Intelligence Council, said that Iran may conclude that pursuing nuclear weapons is the only way to safeguard the regime.
Iran “may determine that the Israeli strikes mean time is up for the regime to decide whether to obtain a bomb, if it hasn’t done so already,” Panikoff, now at the Atlantic Council think tank, wrote in an analysis. “The conclusion could be that it can no longer sit on the proverbial nuclear fence, and that it has to rush for a bomb or risk never having one.”
To many Iranian political leaders, securing a nuclear weapon — or nuclear weapons capability — is vital for the survival of the regime itself, he added.
But it was unclear if Israel’s military strikes could deliver a knock-out blow that would make it impossible for Iran to build nuclear weapons, some experts said.
Alex Plitsas, a former senior Pentagon official and a fellow at the Atlantic Council, said it was likely that the Israeli assault, which included sabotage operations, had caused too much damage to Iran’s nuclear sites and equipment to enable Iran to rush toward building a bomb.
Iran was caught flat-footed by the Israeli attack, even though Israel had sent clear warnings for years and in recent months that it would not tolerate an advancing Iranian nuclear program, Plitsas said.
“The Iranians have misread the signals from Israel again and again,” he said.
Even a successful series of strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites might only delay Tehran’s ability to develop the bomb by up to two years, according to past comments by U.S. officials and estimates by experts.
“Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable,” Gates said at the time. “They would just bury the program deeper and make it more covert.”
Iran maintains its nuclear program is designed for purely civilian purposes to generate energy and research, but Western powers have long accused Tehran of laying the ground for a nuclear weapons project, citing enrichment activity far beyond what’s required for peaceful uses. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran had a nuclear weapons program but halted the project in 2003.
A report in May from the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded Iran was not fully cooperating with U.N. inspectors and that the agency could not provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program was “exclusively peaceful.”
On Thursday, the IAEA censured Iran for failing to comply with nonproliferation obligations designed to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. It was the first such censure in 20 years.
Democratic lawmakers have criticized Trump for pulling, during his first term, the U.S. out of a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran that imposed limits on its nuclear activities, saying that decision opened the way to the current crisis.
Looking for a hint for today’s Connections puzzle? Below, we have clues to help you unlock whichever category has you stumped for the puzzle on June 11, 2025.
Connections first launched on the New York Times in June 2023. The premise is deceptively simple: Players have to find the thematic connection of four groups of four words … without making more than four mistakes.
Today’s Connections has categories about crescent kin, milk’s best friends and more.
Below are the hints, categories and answers for today’s Connections game, puzzle #731, on June 11.
A hint for each Connections category today, June 11
Yellow group hint: In other words, to peacock
Green group hint: Think arched forms
Blue group hint: Iconic breakfast characters
Purple group hint: Used for footnotes
A word in each Connections category today, June 11
Yellow group word: Bluster
Green group word: Banana
Blue group word: Leprechaun
Purple group word: Asterisk
Connections categories today, June 11
Yellow group category: Boast
Green group category: Arc-shaped things
Blue group category: Cereal mascots
Purple group category: Ways to denote a citation
Here are the answers to Connections today, June 11
President Donald Trump does not like protests, but he definitely likes to use them for his own ends.
Former Trump aides have been vocal for years that the president thinks protests make the country look weak and, by extension, make him look weak. At the same time, he views cracking down on protests as a way of projecting strength.
This familiar dynamic has played out in California over the last few days, as the White House made a show of sending the National Guard and then Marines without a request from the California governor to quell protests over his immigration policies. Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller went even further, calling the protests a “violent insurrection” on social media.
Trump has been champing at the bit for a fight like this since returning to the White House.
It’s obvious that Trump has been champing at the bit for a fight like this since returning to the White House.
He and his administration believe the public is on their side in this dispute. To them, it’s symbolic of everything the president and senior aides think that their supporters hate: undocumented immigrants, urban unrest and Democratic elected officials. On the other side, they see a president using the military to send a message of strength.
In his 2022 book, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that Trump was so enraged about protests in the summer of 2020 that he asked in a meeting: “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”
Just this past weekend, we had Miles Taylor, who was chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in Trump’s first term, on “The Weekend” warning that Trump’s sending the National Guard was not only “the single most significant act” of the administration but also likely a pretext to going further and invoking the Insurrection Act, the 1807 law that allows the president to get around the usual restrictions to having the military enforce criminal law within the country.
“We had stopped Donald Trump in 2019 from invoking the Insurrection Act because we and our lawyers didn’t think the way he wanted to do it was legal,” Taylor said. “In fact, I rushed to the White House as he was planning to make the State of the Union address and he wanted to insert a line about how he was invoking the act and deploying the U.S. military on U.S. soil. We felt like that was a dangerous slippery slope.”
Taylor believes the White House knew that the reaction in Los Angeles to last week’s extensive immigration raids would be “protests and then they could use the protest as a response to use the Insurrection Act.”
That has not happened yet, but Trump has sent signals that he would like to do it. In the president’s memo over the weekend, he invoked a little known federal law in Title 10 of the U.S. Code that gives the commander in chief the power to deploy National Guard units if the U.S. is invaded or there is “rebellion or danger of rebellion,” or if the president is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”
To understand this moment, you also have to understand Trump’s love of theatrics. When he hires a Cabinet official, it’s important they are loyal but also, just as important, that they look like they are out of “central casting.” He loves the joint sessions of Congress speeches because of the pomp and circumstance. He fell in love with the idea of a military parade after watching Bastille Day in France.
For him, any opportunity to look tough is one he rarely passes up. And being able to give red meat to his base, which is the lifeblood of his presidency? Those are the fights he seeks out.
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There were 932 anti-LGBTQ incidents across the United States over the past year — from hate speech and bomb threats to fatal violence — with more than half of these acts targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people, according to a new report from the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD.
The report found a year-over-year increase in incidents targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people, state and local governments, and educators and librarians. It also found a decrease in incidents targeting drag performers and pride symbols.
“This really goes toward showing these kinds of shifting tides in hate and what extremists like to focus on at the moment,” Sarah Moore, an analyst of anti-LGBTQ extremism at GLAAD, told NBC News. “They really are kind of beholden to the new cycle of the day.”
This is the third year GLAAD has published an annual report based on its Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker. The 932 incidents tracked in this latest report occurred between May 1, 2024, and May 1, 2025. This is a 20% drop from last year’s 1,173 incidents and an 80% increase from the 521 incidents tracked in its inaugural report in 2023.
GLAAD defines anti-LGBTQ incidents as both criminal and noncriminal “acts of harassment, threats, vandalism, and assault motivated by anti-LGBTQ hate and extremism.” Incidents are tracked through self-reports, media reports, social media posts and data sharing from partner organizations and law enforcement and then validated by a team at GLAAD.
Moore cautions that the incidents tracked in the report are “just a drop in the bucket in terms of what is actually happening when it comes to anti-LGBTQ hate.”
“This is more of a snapshot of what the lived experience of LGBTQ people is, as opposed to being an exact accurate representation of every incident of hate in the U.S.,” she said.
One of the most surprising findings from this year’s report, Moore said, was the sharp decrease in incidents targeting drag performers, which dropped to 83 tracked incidents from 185 the year prior.
“This really goes to show the resilience of the drag community, and that we’ve seen them take all of these amazing steps toward protecting their own personal safety, protecting the safety of their audiences and working with community security organizations,” she said.
Coinciding with this decrease in anti-drag incidents is an increase in incidents targeting local and state governments and educators and librarians.
“We saw a number of our incidents, actually, going after city council officials, going after political candidates who are either LGBTQ or who support the community, going after legislators at the state level who are trying to protect or enshrine LGBTQ rights and going after educators and librarians that are offering safe spaces for LGBTQ youth in their classrooms and in their libraries as well,” Moore said.
Anti-LGBTQ incidents take place more frequently in June, according to the past two years of reporting by GLAAD’s Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker.
“That is most likely attributed to the fact that June is Pride Month, and that’s when we’re going to have the biggest number of LGBTQ events and the most visible events,” Moore said. “This June, for example, D.C. is holding WorldPride, which is going to be a really massive event and really massive showing of support for the LGBTQ community in the U.S. and globally.”
When asked if GLAAD has safety tips for those planning to attend Pride Month events this year, Moore noted that one of the hallmarks of the LGBTQ community is its “resilience and strength.”
“This hate, unfortunately, is not new to us. We have been dealing with persecution, with oppression, with these acts of hate against our community for centuries,” she said, adding that the first Pride marches were protests held on the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
“So I think just really carrying on those legacies of pride as a form of protest, pride as a form of resistance, pride as a refusal to allow others to define us and to legislate our bodies and tell us that we have to be kept in private spaces and not display our true authentic selves to the rest of the world.”
After kicking off her highly anticipated event in late April, Beyoncé made a fan’s day when she assisted them with their gender reveal on stage during her May 28 show.
“This is important. A once in a lifetime gender reveal,” she said while walking to the fan in the pouring rain at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. “I have to take my time.”
In videos that were shared on X, Beyoncé is seen opening an envelope that someone gave her in the crowd.
While wearing a black jumpsuit that has the design of the American flag at the bottom, Bey struggled to open the envelope. However, after tussling with the package for a few seconds, she then managed to get it open.
“My hands are sticky,” she told the crowd.
Inside of the package was a piece of paper that read, “COWBOY.” While showing the parcel, Beyoncé flashed a big smile on her face and said, “It’s a boy! God bless you. Congratulations! Thank you so much for letting me be a part of it.”
“I’m keeping this,” she jokingly added, while referring to the torn package.
Beyoncé’s tour has been making headlines ever since she kicked off the event at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 28.
That night, she brought her daughters, Blue Ivy, 13, and Rumi, 7, with her on stage as she sang a couple of songs from her catalog.
Beyoncé shares her daughters and Rumi’s twin brother, Sir, with her husband and music mogul, Jay-Z.
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album helped the “Crazy in Love” singer win her first album of the year award at the Grammys, as well as the Grammy for best country album.
