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Daily Mirror
01-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Ryanair-approved underseat cabin bag that's ‘deceptively big' slashed by 28%
Amazon has slashed the price of a Ryanair-approved cabin bag that shoppers are saying is 'deceptively big' by 28% just in time for the school summer holidays With all the rules and requirements that come along with airlines nowadays, it can be difficult to find a bag that fits them all. However, we think we've found the perfect sized cabin bag that meets the free hand luggage requirements of major budget airlines including Ryanair, EasyJet and Jet2. And the best part? It's currently on offer with nearly 30% off its original price, just in time for the summer holidays. The bag in question is the Hayayu Cabin Bag for Ryanair Underseat. Originally priced at a wallet-friendly £29.99, this handby bag is even more affordable at £21.55 in a limited time deal on Amazon. Measuring at 40x20x25cm, this bag is the perfect size for slotting underneath your seat or the overhead compartment. Featuring an anti-theft back pocket and a c onvenient charging port, all your essentials can be safely stored away, and you can even charge up your devices on the go - ideal for long journeys. There are also multiple compartments, including two easily accessible front pockets, dedicated slots for small items, two mesh pockets, one separate dry and wet bag, and one 13.3inch computer compartment. Shoppers have been praising this handy bag for being roomier than it looks and being perfect for overnight stays or short haul travel. One shopper wrote: "This bag is brilliant for the tight restrictions of Ryanair and hss an exceptional low price tag, I paid £20. It was recommended to me by a work colleague, it fully zips open, similar to a suitcase. It has lots of additional pockets, useful for keeping passport sage and accessible.". While a second added: "Honestly this little bag is deceptively big! I managed to fit so much into it and when I thought it was full, I managed to squeeze a bit more in." The main criticism came from shoppers who say the laptop compartment is far too small to fit a laptop. One wrote: "Its only flaw is that the laptop compartment is too small even to a 14" laptop, thus rendering it not a laptop compartment. Such a shame because there is certainly enough space in the bag to fit a laptop but the laptop compartment was purposely stitched too small." If you're looking for a wheeled suitcase that fits the free cabin handbag requirements, Tripp's hard shell under seat cabin case is currently on sale for £42. The dimensions of this bag would fit EasyJet and British Airways if you want a larger cabin case, the Logo suitcase from Antler was originally priced at £175, and is now down to £122.50, and is a lightweight, hard-shell suitcase that's as stylish as it is practical.
Indianapolis Star
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
Looking back at Logo TV: 1st LGBTQ+ network transformed queer representation
Brian Graden grew up in the Midwest, closeted through young adulthood because under his beliefs at the time, homosexuality was a sin. Queer representation was nonexistent at home, school or in his community. But seeing LGBTQIA+ people on television allowed him to accept a part of himself he tried to hide for so long. Graden, now 60, was the first president of Logo TV, the groundbreaking 24-hour LGBTQIA+ television network, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Monday, June 30. It was on Logo that the now internationally-beloved "RuPaul's Drag Race" aired for the first time in 2009. Not far away, Colt, who requested USA TODAY only use his first name for privacy reasons, was living a similar life. He remembers sneaking into his family room to watch Logo as a teenager. "I stumbled upon the Logo channel during a channel-surfing adventure. There would be a pause as I watched the TV before I quickly passed on to one of my regular shows. During the nights I stayed up late, while my family was asleep, I'd navigate back to Logo and felt that difference awaken," Colt said about his queerness. Over the past 20 years, Logo has changed since its launch on June 20, 2005, an anxious night Graden remembers well. Speaking with USA TODAY, Graden said the network had a nearly 200-page manual for call center employees that featured a decision tree for how to handle callers upset with the network. "The shocking thing is, when we premiered, there was zero noise, just positive press. And so something had changed ... we either tamped down or got in front of or found a way or it had dissipated," Graden said. 'I am exactly who God made': Why travel is a battleground for drag and trans performers Sitting down with Jim Obergefell: He was at the center of a Supreme Court case that changed gay marriage. Now, he's worried. Before Logo was placed in Graden's lap, he served as MTV's president of entertainment, overseeing network programming. Graden said around 2002 or 2003, a "very pushy and pioneering internal exec" named Matt Farber presented the idea for Logo TV. "(He) really, really kept just advancing this idea, would not let it go," Graden said. Judy McGrath, the CEO of MTV at the time, asked Graden to take on the network as president. The Logo concept was solid, Graden said, but the first roadblock the team faced was securing advertisers. "I remember months before we were starting, we still had not a single advertiser," Graden said. "I was afraid we were going to have mesothelioma ads just filling every break constantly." But companies eventually come through, including Subaru, Miller Brewing Company and Tylenol. Graden said many of the companies didn't have advertisements dedicated to the queer community, so Logo created an in-house advertising group to help curate specific ads for the LGBTQIA+ audience. "It was very last minute when it came together, but we were able to go to market with enough advertisers that gave us credibility," Graden said. Getting started, the majority of Logo's content was pulled from a movie library, Graden said. This gave the network access to plenty of content for 24-hour broadcasting. Some of Logo's first original series were: "Noah's Arc," a fictional series about a group of gay Black men in Los Angeles, which Colt remembers watching at home; "Open Bar," a reality series about a gay man who opens a bar in Los Angeles; and "The Ride: Seven Days to End AIDS," a docuseries following the annual seven-day cycling event in California that raised awareness for HIV/AIDS. But without a doubt, the most popular original show to come from Logo was "RuPaul's Drag Race," a reality competition series that follows contestants of drag performers competing to be "America's Next Drag Superstar," hosted by none other than RuPaul himself. The series premiered in February 2009. In the beginning of Logo, Graden said he was hesitant about drag content on the network. "All I could see were the images of the gay Pride parades, and I knew how those images had been used against us," Graden told USA TODAY. "I always said, 'Look, drag content is fun and funny, but I don't think it's the first thing we should put out there.'" Graden also felt Logo had covered its drag basis by broadcasting movies like "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," the 1995 comedy about three drag queens on a road trip. But the pitch for "RuPaul's Drag Race" was solid. "They came in and they had thought through each beat remarkably, remarkably well. They knew how every minute of television was going to be filled," Graden said. "If you watch it now, you know exactly which beat is coming where and that skeleton was obvious then. That's how they pitched it." Unlike Logo's other original programming, the network couldn't produce a pilot and test how audiences liked "RuPaul's Drag Race." The competitive nature of the show made it was an all or nothing. "And so we went all in ... and it was one of the first shows to immediately have a pulse. It was thrilling. In a million years, I would've never imagined that it became what it became. Anybody who arrogantly says they know in the moment that it's (a television show) the biggest thing on earth, no way. I was just hoping it would hold its own and get a little bit of a number on Logo to justify spending all that money," Graden said with a chuckle. After a successful nine seasons, "RuPaul's Drag Race" left Logo and began airing on the celebrity television network VH1 in 2017. Then in 2023, the series moved to MTV. The series' leave from its original network played a significant role in how Logo operates today. Paramount did not respond to requests for comment about Logo TV when contacted by USA TODAY. Graden left Logo in 2010, a year after the "RuPaul Drag Race" premiere. He said he was interested in starting his own media company, which he did, and didn't "fit" with new network executives. In 2013, Logo pivoted, turning much of its original programming to social media. The network launched 10 original shows on its YouTube channel and continues to maintain new content on the platform. As for Logo the television network, original content is not produced for the network anymore and the bulk of its offerings are re-runs. Graden attributes this to the general decline of cable. Despite how Logo operates today, its impact on the queer community was transformational for people like Colt, who says Logo helped him process what he was feeling in a "proper way." "Queer representation is human representation. Growing up, I saw more fire safety ads (for) 'Stop, Drop and Roll' than I did anything LGBT. I wholly expected to catch fire more often than see a gay person," Colt told USA TODAY.
USA Today
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Looking back at Logo TV: 1st LGBTQ+ network transformed queer representation
"Growing up I saw more fire safety ads (for) 'Stop, Drop and Roll' than I did anything LGBT. I wholly expected to catch fire more often than see a gay person," a Logo viewer said. Brian Graden grew up in the Midwest, closeted through young adulthood because under his beliefs at the time, homosexuality was a sin. Queer representation was nonexistent at home, school or in his community. But seeing LGBTQIA+ people on television allowed him to accept a part of himself he tried to hide for so long. Graden, now 60, was the first president of Logo TV, the groundbreaking 24-hour LGBTQIA+ television network, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Monday, June 30. It was on Logo that the now internationally-beloved "RuPaul's Drag Race" aired for the first time in 2009. Not far away, Colt, who requested USA TODAY only use his first name for privacy reasons, was living a similar life. He remembers sneaking into his family room to watch Logo as a teenager. "I stumbled upon the Logo channel during a channel-surfing adventure. There would be a pause as I watched the TV before I quickly passed on to one of my regular shows. During the nights I stayed up late, while my family was asleep, I'd navigate back to Logo and felt that difference awaken," Colt said about his queerness. Over the past 20 years, Logo has changed since its launch on June 20, 2005, an anxious night Graden remembers well. Speaking with USA TODAY, Graden said the network had a nearly 200-page manual for call center employees that featured a decision tree for how to handle callers upset with the network. "The shocking thing is, when we premiered, there was zero noise, just positive press. And so something had changed ... we either tamped down or got in front of or found a way or it had dissipated," Graden said. 'I am exactly who God made': Why travel is a battleground for drag and trans performers Sitting down with Jim Obergefell: He was at the center of a Supreme Court case that changed gay marriage. Now, he's worried. The launch of Logo TV Before Logo was placed in Graden's lap, he served as MTV's president of entertainment, overseeing network programming. Graden said around 2002 or 2003, a "very pushy and pioneering internal exec" named Matt Farber presented the idea for Logo TV. "(He) really, really kept just advancing this idea, would not let it go," Graden said. Judy McGrath, the CEO of MTV at the time, asked Graden to take on the network as president. The Logo concept was solid, Graden said, but the first roadblock the team faced was securing advertisers. "I remember months before we were starting, we still had not a single advertiser," Graden said. "I was afraid we were going to have mesothelioma ads just filling every break constantly." But companies eventually come through, including Subaru, Miller Brewing Company and Tylenol. Graden said many of the companies didn't have advertisements dedicated to the queer community, so Logo created an in-house advertising group to help curate specific ads for the LGBTQIA+ audience. "It was very last minute when it came together, but we were able to go to market with enough advertisers that gave us credibility," Graden said. Getting started, the majority of Logo's content was pulled from a movie library, Graden said. This gave the network access to plenty of content for 24-hour broadcasting. Some of Logo's first original series were: "Noah's Arc," a fictional series about a group of gay Black men in Los Angeles, which Colt remembers watching at home; "Open Bar," a reality series about a gay man who opens a bar in Los Angeles; and "The Ride: Seven Days to End AIDS," a docuseries following the annual seven-day cycling event in California that raised awareness for HIV/AIDS. But without a doubt, the most popular original show to come from Logo was "RuPaul's Drag Race," a reality competition series that follows contestants of drag performers competing to be "America's Next Drag Superstar," hosted by none other than RuPaul himself. The series premiered in February 2009. The prominence of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' In the beginning of Logo, Graden said he was hesitant about drag content on the network. "All I could see were the images of the gay Pride parades, and I knew how those images had been used against us," Graden told USA TODAY. "I always said, 'Look, drag content is fun and funny, but I don't think it's the first thing we should put out there.'" Graden also felt Logo had covered its drag basis by broadcasting movies like "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," the 1995 comedy about three drag queens on a road trip. But the pitch for "RuPaul's Drag Race" was solid. "They came in and they had thought through each beat remarkably, remarkably well. They knew how every minute of television was going to be filled," Graden said. "If you watch it now, you know exactly which beat is coming where and that skeleton was obvious then. That's how they pitched it." Unlike Logo's other original programming, the network couldn't produce a pilot and test how audiences liked "RuPaul's Drag Race." The competitive nature of the show made it was an all or nothing. "And so we went all in ... and it was one of the first shows to immediately have a pulse. It was thrilling. In a million years, I would've never imagined that it became what it became. Anybody who arrogantly says they know in the moment that it's (a television show) the biggest thing on earth, no way. I was just hoping it would hold its own and get a little bit of a number on Logo to justify spending all that money," Graden said with a chuckle. After a successful nine seasons, "RuPaul's Drag Race" left Logo and began airing on the celebrity television network VH1 in 2017. Then in 2023, the series moved to MTV. The series' leave from its original network played a significant role in how Logo operates today. Paramount did not respond to requests for comment about Logo TV when contacted by USA TODAY. What is Logo TV today? Graden left Logo in 2010, a year after the "RuPaul Drag Race" premiere. He said he was interested in starting his own media company, which he did, and didn't "fit" with new network executives. In 2013, Logo pivoted, turning much of its original programming to social media. The network launched 10 original shows on its YouTube channel and continues to maintain new content on the platform. As for Logo the television network, original content is not produced for the network anymore and the bulk of its offerings are re-runs. Graden attributes this to the general decline of cable. Despite how Logo operates today, its impact on the queer community was transformational for people like Colt, who says Logo helped him process what he was feeling in a "proper way." "Queer representation is human representation. Growing up, I saw more fire safety ads (for) 'Stop, Drop and Roll' than I did anything LGBT. I wholly expected to catch fire more often than see a gay person," Colt told USA TODAY. Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her at gcross@
Time Magazine
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
Could 'The Ultimatum' Work With Gay Men?
Since the dawn of gay culture, generally when something has been described matter-of-factly as 'gay' or 'queer,' it has referred to the stuff of men. Gay bars and clubs, for example, historically have been distinct from lesbian bars and clubs. This gendered default has persisted even though 'gay' is not an inherently gendered term, and many women who love and have sex with women often describe themselves as such. But connotatively, this linguistic habit has worked to prohibit and exclude women, as part of a pattern that has left them under-examined and often ignored. And so, it is refreshing, and even progressive, that Netflix's reality series The Ultimatum: Queer Love, now in its second season, has focused on women (and a few nonbinary people) without further qualification. 'Queer' means a lot of things, and women in relationships with women is one of them. They have been underrepresented, among many other places, on reality TV. Bachelor rip-offs like early Bravo series Boy Meets Boy and Logo's Finding Prince Charming have, predictably, focused on men, as has Netflix's Japanese dating show The Boyfriend. The Ultimatum: Queer Love's creator, Chris Coelen (also responsible for the Netflix megahit Love Is Blind and the similar Married at First Sight, which now resides on Peacock), described the impetus for making a queer version of the preceding hetero-focused The Ultimatum to the Hollywood Reporter in 2023: 'The Ultimatum is super easy to do a fluid version, a queer version, a gay version, a straight version, whatever. As a format, it's totally built for that.' This implies that the producer believes an all-male version of The Ultimatum would be possible, and perhaps it's even in the pipeline. But Coelen's confidence about the ease of such a version of the show is as yet untested. For the uninitiated, The Ultimatum convenes a group of couples on the fence (in Season 2 of Queer Love, out on Netflix June 25, it's six). One partner, perhaps inspired by the simplicity of the show's path to a clear resolution, has issued an ultimatum to the other: We get married or we're through. In ostensible service of helping these decisions get made, the show puts everyone through a speed-dating process and allows them to pick new partners from the pool for a three-week 'trial marriage.' Then they reunite with their original partners for another three-week 'trial marriage,' after which they make The Choice to either stay together, leave with their first trial spouse, or exit the show alone. It is unclear exactly what inspired this rather inane process beyond the cliche that starts, 'If you love something, let it go…' It's not unlike Love Is Blind in the way its artificial, forced format fails to align with anything natural or organic about the process of pairing off. Both shows are a last resort when the natural methods have failed. If there is a modality here, it's one from the school of making (supposedly) good TV. (Whether or not you consider it good, it has been successful; Season 1 was Netflix's most watched series for four weeks, inspiring both the queer seasons and international spin-offs.) Why any of this intentional drama-conjuring would make its participants' lives easier is a mystery. Queer Love Season 2 participant Britney illustrates how muddled this is to her partner AJ: 'Like, I brought us here because I want you, and now I'm losing you to hopefully gain you forever.' No matter the logic or lack thereof, many participants talk about trusting the process and frequently use the show-issued terminology ('trial marriage,' 'The Choice,' ultimatum 'issuers' and 'receivers'). Squint and you can practically see their Kool-Aid mustaches. One guess as to why The Ultimatum has not yet been attempted with gay men is its relationship to monogamy. The show invests heavily in monogamy, albeit via non-monogamous means. Upon entering the first trial marriage (the one with a virtual stranger), the participants describe themselves as having broken up with the partners that accompanied them on the show. During the mingling process, several note how strange it all is. 'It's not normal to experience, like, your partner holding hands with someone else,' says Dayna. 'It's weird to see your partner dating other people,' says Marie. Well, sure—if you've never experienced ethical non-monogamy before. Given the rather commonplace discourse on open relationships, it's odd to encounter a show in 2025 that relies on its participants' oblivion to the matter. Odder still is it to encounter queer people who, by and large, don't wrestle with the very concept. Data analyzed from the 2012 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior showed that five percent of lesbians reported being in open relationships—more than twice the amount of heterosexuals. That number in gay men, in contrast, was a whopping 32 percent. The numbers have almost surely gone up since, given the increased social acceptability of non-monogamy, but a show that focused solely on gay men's fealty to monogamy might be at least somewhat more challenging to cast given the sheer statistics. Sure, you could find six gay male couples seeking monogamous, life-long marriages. But the balking at those who stray would be less likely in the community at large. Another guess? The Ultimatum depends on people thrusting themselves into dramatic situations and then reeling from said drama explicitly. The way this plays out is via a series of extremely earnest conversations about feelings, something women tend to be better at than men just given the way they are socialized. As psychologist Walt Odets puts it in his 2019 book Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives: 'Girls are expected to maintain conscious connections to [their] feelings: they are allowed, even encouraged, to sustain a sense of vulnerability, to show emotional sensitivity, and to be expressive of their emotional lives; and they are often encouraged to remain dependent on men. In contrast, boys are expected to separate themselves from feelings of vulnerability and dependency, initially with the suppression of 'inappropriate behavior,' and, ultimately, an internal denial or repression of the feelings themselves. For boys, the objective is a false, socially constructed male sensibility of physical and emotional invulnerability and needlessness.' So much of Season 2 The Ultimatum: Queer Love is taken up by long conversations about jealousy, comparing and contrasting the current relationship to the previous one, and ideas about how love should work. Men socialized to be less expressive—without women partners drawing said expression out—could make for a less chatty experience. Sexual contact that occurs between the first trial spouses on Season 2 of Queer Love results in major drama when the participants reunite with their initial partners. Gay men, who by and large are more experienced in non-monogamy, might not provide such explosive reactions. They might be more likely to shrug and say, 'Well, you had us live together for three weeks. Of course we had sex.' This is, of course, pure speculation—Netflix did not respond to TIME's query as to why there hasn't been a gay-male version of this show. The above two possibilities, though, would have resulted from careful consideration from producers as to why that population might be less suited for this format. Bias, however, could also play a role here. A 2015 study regarding attitudes toward different types of relationships found that gay-male couples were seen as being less loving than heterosexual and lesbian couples. Could it be mere coincidence that The Ultimatum has only focused on the latter two populations? The Ultimatum: Queer Love is, above all things, a reality show. As invested in the process as its participants claim to be, the priority here is content, not necessarily giving people tools to work out their differences or think alternatively about their relationships. (If they wanted to do that while still being filmed, they might opt for Couples Therapy.) While some issues regarding queer life do come up (Magan's traditional Lebanese family tries to talk her out of being gay; Mel tells Dayna that her nails suggest she is a bottom; varying attitudes toward pregnancy and the convenience of having not one but two potential wombs), the show generally takes an agnostic approach to the culture. Host Joanna Garcia Swisher elucidates the guiding vagueness: 'I'm not in a queer relationship but I understand that there are different complications. The conversations are different.' Each couple is made up of a partner who wants to get married and one who isn't so sure, but what's truly surprising is that none of those who were issued the ultimatum discuss political reasons for not wanting marriage. They speak of it somewhat abstractly and some almost get there, but nothing explicitly political arises. Ever since gay marriage became a topic of conversation, there has been a visible anti-assimilationist segment of the community that is resolutely against such a traditional and heteronormative concept. Queer Love's title is probably the most revolutionary thing about it, but given the attitudes of its participants, the show is essentially queer in name alone.
Daily Mirror
12-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Antler's Ryanair-approved expandable cabin case is over £50 off in summer sale
If you're heading off on your summer holiday and are in need of a new suitcase, you're in luck as Antler has slashed the price of its expandable cabin case by more than £50 It's officially that time of the year when we're getting ready to jet off on our summer holidays. And whether you're heading off on a tropical getaway or keeping it a local, having a trusty, high quality suitcase is essential. We've just spotted a Ryanair and EasyJet-approved cabin case for 30% off on the Antler website. And it's even in a trendy mint green colour so not only can you fit in all your essentials but you can travel in style. The Logo suitcase was originally priced at £175, and is now down to £122.50, and is a lightweight, hard-shell suitcase that's as stylish as it is practical. Made from durable polycarbonate, it's built to handle all the bumps and bruises of travel, while still looking sleek thanks to its design, which means scuffs won't stand out. It's also got a few handy features that makes it standout from the rest. These include smooth double spinner wheels for easy movement through the airport, a built-in security-approved lock so you know all your items are safely stowed away, and an expander zip to give you that extra bit of room when you're bringing back more than you packed. There's also a there's two zipped compartments inside that helps to keep things organised and the dimensions are just right for fitting the paid for, 10kg cabin suitcase requirements on most airlines. If, however, you are looking for a slightly more affordable alternative that fits the free cabin handbag requirements, Tripp's hard shell under seat cabin case is currently on sale for £42. The dimensions of this bag would fit EasyJet and British Airways planes. Unfortunately, the Ryanair luggage allowance is slightly smaller than some other airlines so if you're in the market for a cabin to fit their free hand luggage requirements, a backpack like this one from Amazon, £26.99 here, would probably be the best option.
