What you need to know

• Forza Motorsport (2023), the next-generation reboot of the legendary simulation racing franchise, is slated to release on Xbox and Windows PC later this year.
• On Wednesday, people reportedly began receiving an Xbox Game Pass marketing email featuring the upcoming game.
• As part of the “on the way” section, Forza Motorsport (2023)’s cover art may have been revealed by this email.
• The cover art seems to feature a Cadillac V-Series.R hypercar and a Chevrolet Corvette (possibly the upcoming E-Ray).

One of the most anticipated titles in the upcoming Xbox Game Studios lineup is the reboot of the Forza Motorsport franchise. The latest in the hugely successful and critically-acclaimed franchise, Forza Motorsport (2023) is rebuilt from the ground up for modern platforms. There hasn’t been exciting news on the game for a while, however.

On Wednesday, fans were at least treated to a little something. It seems the cover art for Forza Motorsport (2023) has been revealed (leaked?).

People subscribed to the marketing emails for Xbox Game Pass may be getting an email that includes a short section titled “More day one games on the way” with both the next Forza Motorsport and Cities: Skylines 2. The email features a never-before-seen cover art, though, as the game has been using a generic screenshot of one of its tracks so far.

Racing games tend to make a big deal out of the cars they feature on the cover (Forza Horizon 5 certainly did), so it seems likely that this reveal is a little premature. Still, it’s here and it looks great, with a Cadillac R-Series.R hypercar dominating the foreground and a Chevrolet Corvette (some are speculating it’s the C8, Z06, or even the new E-Ray) in the background.

Forza Motorsport (2023) is expected to make an appearance during the upcoming Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase on June 11, 2023, so it’s very possible we’ll see the official reveal of this cover art (plus additional details) then. For now, put this down as a very plausible leak, seeing as it comes straight from the Xbox Game Pass marketing team.

Forza Motorsport (2023) doesn’t have a set release date, yet, but we know it’s still slated to arrive on Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and Xbox Game Pass later this year. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the game, but it stands a good chance of joining our list of best Xbox racing games if it delivers on its ambitious promises.

From minimal outlines in black thread, empowering portraits of Black women emerge in new large-scale textile pieces by Toronto-based artist Gio Swaby (previously). Vivid fabrics with an emphasis on florals dominate her new body of work titled I Will Blossom Anyway, on view now at Claire Oliver Gallery, emphasizing brightness, joy, and self-love. Centering on a number of self-portraits, her recent artworks reflect on personal identity, embarking on an introspective journey toward acceptance and compassion.

Swaby’s interest in textiles ties her to a childhood surrounded by the materials her mother often used in her work as a seamstress. She was born and raised in The Bahamas before moving to Canada, where she has spent most of her adult life, and she draws on conflicted feelings about a sense of belonging and navigating what she poetically describes as her “many selves.” She says, “I reflected a lot on my own path and started to recognize how many parts of myself exist in the in-between spaces.”

In her nearly-life-size self-portraits, the artist looks directly at the viewer yet always appears relaxed, embracing tranquil moments of rest. Loose threads occasionally abandon their outlines, dangling or wandering around the canvas as if they have a mind of their own, highlighting the never-finished process of growth, evolution, and self-understanding.

I Will Blossom Anyway runs through July 29 in Harlem and coincides with her solo exhibition Fresh Up at the Art Institute of Chicago, which continues through July 3. Find more on the artist’s website and on Instagram.

“Where I Know You From 4” (2023) cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 80 x 50 inches

“Where I Know You From 7” (2023), cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 52 x 62 inches

“Where I Know You From 3” (2023) cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 80 x 44 inches

“Where I Know You From 6” (2023), cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 40 x 78 inches

“Self-Portrait 6” (2023), cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 28 x 38 inches

“Where I Know You From 5” (2023), cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 50 x 96 inches

“Self-Portrait 5” (2023), cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 28 x 38 inches 

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In honor of Pride Month in June, social impact marketing firm TGW (This Good World) Studio is calling for submissions for its annual Spectra showcase. The event celebrates the voices and artistic talents of Rochester’s LGBTQ+ youth with a public art show.

“Last year, we held our first-ever Spectra showcase and it was an amazing experience and an honor to host and organize,” says Courtney Brown, TGW Studio creative director. “We wanted to kick off Pride Month by celebrating the future of our community and show LGBTQ+ youth that we care about their voices and their experiences.” 

While TGW Studio welcomes all mediums and subject matter, pieces that explore topics such as gender, sexual orientation and identity are highly encouraged and digital works must have a physical presence.

Set for June 2 at TGW Studios, the Spectra Showcase will also serve as a fundraiser for the Center for Youth, which supports LGBTQ+ and other youth in need of housing and other resources. In 2022, the event raised over $2,000 from donations from attendees. (Submissions to the event, which can be made online, are due by May 25 and must be from artists 21 years old or younger.)

A recent report by the Trevor Project found that 28 percent of LGBTQ+ youth reported experiencing homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives with over half reporting that they ran away from home because of mistreatment or fear of mistreatment due to their identity.

“LGBTQ+ people of all ages have always existed and will forever continue to exist,” says TGW designer Lily Garnaat. “To be queer is to address that there is more to your being than what you were taught.

“Safe creative spaces allow marginalized communities, like the queer community, to explore their complex selves and to embrace what we may have learned to hide in fear of rejection. Young people deserve to be celebrated and encouraged to keep going, so they can become confident community members and changemakers in years to come.”

TGW Studios is LGBTQ+/non-binary/woman-owned and operated and a Certified B Corporation, which measures a company’s social, environmental, and community impact. It has worked with the Equal Rights Heritage Center, Trillium, and on the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial anniversary. The Spectra Showcase is one of the ways the studio supports the Rochester community.

“In recent years especially, there’s been a lot of discouraging discussion and legislation determining how the LGBTQ+ community and minors intersect. With queerness being seemingly synonymous with explicitness, this leaves LGBTQ+ kids and teens to sit with the apparent message that their very existence is inappropriate,” says Brown. “At TGW, we wanted to be sure to provide a place where that shame can be shed, and the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ youth can be amplified and respected.”

Beyond creating a safe creative space and fundraising, the Spectra showcase also includes other activities such as postcard design and letter writing to show support for LGBTQ youths.

Jacob Schermerhorn is a Rochester Beacon contributing writer. The Beacon welcomes comments and letters from readers who adhere to our comment policy including use of their full, real name. Submissions to the Letters page should be sent to [email protected]. 

The human conception of time is limited. We often think in hours, days, and years, units of measurement that are comprehensible when considering our lifetimes or those of generations past. Even decades and centuries, though, are only a minuscule fraction in the timeline of the universe and are wholly inadequate when assessing a nearly 14-billion-year history.

A new short by Alex Gorosh (previously) and Wylie Overstreet (previously) helps to visualize the immensity of cosmic creation beyond the clock and calendar. Four years in the making, “To Scale: TIME” takes the filmmakers to a 4.3-mile stretch across the arid Mojave Desert, where they install small lights to create a timeline of human civilization and the broader universe. Augmented with visuals of galaxies and historical events, the resulting work captures the magnitude of 13.8 billion years and is an awe-inspiring reminder of how small humans are in both time and space.

Watch the humbling film on YouTube, where Gorosh and Overstreet also share a making-of video that documents their process. “To Scale: TIME” is the second project in the duo’s series of model-based works and follows their striking visualization of the solar system.

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The Westchester community attracts an eclectic mix of residents who appreciate the artsy vibe, the charming homes and the proximity of the city.

Before discovering Pleasantville, N.Y., several years ago, Erin Williams lived with her husband and elementary-school-age daughter in a succession of Westchester communities. They bought a house in Ossining, N.Y., but found the commute to Manhattan too time-consuming. And getting around town wasn’t any easier. After selling their house and renting in Manhattan for a while, they moved into a rental in Tarrytown, N.Y., while searching for their next stop.

That’s when they hit upon Pleasantville, a village in the Westchester town of Mount Pleasant. There, the family found a three-bedroom 1880s colonial house for $600,000, in a close-knit neighborhood with residents of various cultures, near the village center.

“It checked all the boxes,” said Ms. Williams, 40, a graphic novelist, who likes the area’s walkability, the school system and the community. “We love our neighbors. One snow-blows our driveway without asking and another, a Korean lady, brings us cucumbers from her garden.”

Another draw was the arts scene. At the center of the village is the Jacob Burns Film Center, which has been attracting moviegoers from Westchester and beyond for more than 20 years. Three of the five screening rooms were recently revamped and there are plans to install a wine bar, said Denise Treco, the center’s director of marketing and communications.

The film center “put Pleasantville on the map,” said Hillary Landau, an associate real estate broker with Compass, attracting a “very eclectic” mix of residents, including “creative types, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers.”

Her clients from New York City and elsewhere in Westchester, she added, “want to walk into town, to the train and to the farmers’ market.”

That should be even easier come fall, when a state-sponsored project to widen downtown sidewalks and add more pedestrian-friendly streets is expected to be completed, said Eric Morrissey, the village administrator. And a 79-unit rental building currently under construction downtown will yield more housing — both market-rate and affordable apartments — a short walk from the train station. (Other planned development includes a handful of single-family homes on a 1.2-acre site outside the village center that once was owned by the Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson.)

Loretta Chiavetta, an agent with Coldwell Banker, wanted the same small-town experience for her family that she had as a child in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when she and her husband moved out of a Manhattan co-op 30 years ago. With prices too high in Hastings, she said, they visited Pleasantville at the suggestion of a relative. There, Ms. Chiavetta saw “kids in the street and bikes on the lawn,” and was hooked.

Her family settled into an 1890 three-bedroom colonial house on Washington Avenue, in the downtown area, within walking distance of restaurants, shops and the Metro-North station. Ms. Chiavetta still lives there with her husband and college-age daughter, and now has many clients seeking the same experience.

“There are so many from Brooklyn,” she said. “And I can see why — the charm of the houses, the walkability of the village and the closeness of the city.”

What You’ll Find

Pleasantville occupies less than two square miles in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, about 30 miles north of Manhattan. According to 2021 census figures, the village has around 7,400 residents, about 84 percent of whom identify as white, 14 percent as Hispanic, 4 percent as Black, 4 percent as Asian and 3 percent as multiracial. The median household income was $165,987.

The village is best known for its colonial-style houses downtown, but the inventory also includes ranches, split-levels and Cape Cod-style homes on lots of a third of an acre or less. While larger houses on bigger lots can be found farther from the village center, “you don’t come to Pleasantville to get an acre and a pool,” Ms. Landau said.

Attached townhouses are available at Club Court, a development bordering a nine-hole golf course operated by the Pleasantville Country Club, and at the Enclave at Pleasantville, a high-end Toll Brothers development. Foxwood offers condominiums in a multi-building complex, and there are garden-style condominiums at Greenwood and Pleasantville Gardens. As for co-ops, options include the Commons, Pleasant Manor and Ledgerock Gardens. Apartment rentals include lofts along Washington Avenue and one- and two-bedroom units at the Atwood, on Vanderbilt Avenue.

What You’ll Pay

With low inventory, high demand and rising mortgage rates, this is a “very competitive time for buyers,” said Ms. Chiavetta, who co-hosts “The Real Estate Connection,” a local cable show about real estate.

According to a Coldwell Banker analysis of data from the OneKey Multiple Listing Service, the median sales price of a single-family home dropped to $652,500 in April, from $784,000 a year earlier. This was due, in part, to fewer sales at the high end — and fewer sales overall — than during the previous year, Ms. Chiavetta said.

In April, there were 16 single-family homes on the market in the Pleasantville postal zone, including a three-bedroom, one-bath raised ranch listed for $599,000, and a five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath home listed for $3.999 million. Also listed were two three-bedroom townhouses (for $1.99 million and $1.050 million) and several condominiums ranging from $240,000 to $429,900.

Monthly apartment rentals can run $4,800 for a loft on Washington Avenue or slightly less than $3,000 for a one-bedroom at the Atwood, on Vanderbilt Avenue.

The Vibe

On nice days, students in middle school and high school stroll from their nearby campus to Frank & Joe’s Deli and the Black Cow Coffee Company on Wheeler Avenue, in the village center. Diners fill the outdoor tables at Pubstreet and Fatt Root, an Asian food shop recently featured in Westchester Magazine, while brown-baggers eat lunch on benches along Memorial Plaza. Cheese lovers praise Second Mouse Cheese on Manville Road. For casual dining, there is the Pleasantville Diner, on Memorial Plaza.

On Saturday mornings, the Pleasantville Farmers Market — considered by some the best in Westchester — draws crowds to Memorial Plaza. Popular annual events include the Pleasantville Music Festival, which will be held this year on July 8 at Parkway Field, and Pleasantville Day, a celebration of the village’s food, goods and services held in May at Memorial Plaza.

Favorite spots for young families include the playing fields at Roselle Park and Soldiers & Sailors Park, as well as the pool at Nannahagan Park. Mountain bikers enjoy five miles of trails in Graham Hills Park, off Route 117. Indoor activities are held at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, on Bedford Road, and the Recreation Center, on Marble Avenue. Older residents gather at the Senior Center on Clinton Street. For Ping-Pong fans, there is the Westchester Table Tennis Center, on Tompkins Avenue.

The Schools

The Pleasantville Union Free School District has an enrollment of about 1,635 at three schools. Bedford Road School serves students in kindergarten through fourth grade; Pleasantville Middle School and Pleasantville High School share a campus on Romer Avenue, serving students in fifth through 12th grade. Some high school students are from nearby Pocantico Hills, which does not have a high school.

“The school is the hub here,” said Tina DeSa, the superintendent of schools. “We care about the kids, and that’s why everyone wants to live in Pleasantville.”

According to New York State Education Department data from 2021-22, Pleasantville High School had a 97 percent graduation rate and the student body was 73 percent white, 15 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Asian, 2 percent Black and 4 percent multiracial. Average SAT scores for the class of 2022 reported by the district were 618 in evidence-based reading and writing and 622 in math, compared with statewide averages of 534 and 533. The high school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2021.

A 200-acre branch of Pace University is also in Pleasantville.

The Commute

The trip to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on the Harlem Line of the Metro-North Railroad takes a little less than an hour. A one-way ticket bought in advance is $14.75; a monthly pass is $322.

Annual parking passes are available for $600 to village residents and business owners only. For nonresidents, there are 12-hour and hourly parking spaces.

The History

In the 18th century, Pleasantville was an agricultural area known as the Manor of Philipseburgh. Early inhabitants included members of the Sint Sincks and Rechgawawanks Native American tribes, as well as Dutch settlers and Quakers.

In the mid-1800s, the village was known as Clark’s Corners. During the Civil War, it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Past residents include the writers Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, and the actor Sidney Poitier. Reader’s Digest magazine was co-founded by a former resident, DeWitt Wallace, and was headquartered in the village before it moved to neighboring Chappaqua and, later, to Manhattan. The Usonia Historic District, a planned community designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Ben Whitehair gauges his success as an actor by this standard: “Ultimately, am I happy and living my values?’”

“Personally, my core mission statement is to be a champion for social change through art and business,” he said.

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Whitehair grew up in Colorado as a “homeschooled cowboy.”

“I lived on a ranch,” he said. “I was a bull rider, a champion sheep and dairy cow showman, a team roper and calf roper.”

Since he was a kid, he’s always had an abundance of drive — an essential quality for a working actor. When he became passionate about technology, he sold his champion sheep to buy parts to build a computer. When he discovered an interest in business in college, he started a company to help out-of-state students qualify for in-state tuition. His interest in social justice led to a summer internship in Congress.

By the time he graduated, he was debating whether to work for the government in D.C. or pursue his love of theater.

“I joked that I heard there was a shortage of actors in L.A., and I headed west,” he said,

He credits a quote from author Howard Thurman for his decision: “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’”

What made him come most alive was performing, he said. The theater community also represented an accepting, inclusive space he craved, because he grew up in an environment that didn’t welcome vulnerability, he said.

Hollywood careers

What defines success?

This profile is part of a series about what success looks like to working actors in Hollywood.

But choosing to pursue acting as a career didn’t dim his other passions.

When he was figuring out how to navigate Hollywood, he wanted to help others by sharing the lessons he learned. He eventually co-founded Working.actor (pronounced “Working dot actor”), which publishes guides on how to create your marketing materials, get representation, build relationships and ultimately book more gigs.

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

He got his SAG-AFTRA card after playing a protestor in “CSI: Miami.” As he continued to build up his film and TV résumé, he also became very active in the union. He founded the organization’s NextGen Performers Committee. After serving on the local and national board, he was elected as SAG-AFTRA vice president in 2021.

He’s not sure if his volunteer work in the union hurts or helps him when it comes to booking acting gigs. But he continues to be guided by a greater mission.

He was recently in charge of updating the new SAG-AFTRA Member Toolkit. He co-hosts the oranization’s podcasts and YouTube livestreams, as well as industry panels for his digital marketing company TSMA Consulting. He’s also been focused on addressing actors’ challenges with self-tape auditions and the threat of AI.

The reason he’s dedicated a lot of his career to helping actors understand the business of acting is because he thinks it gives actors more control.

There’s so much that is out of your control as an actor, he said. He’s been told he is too good-looking for a role. He’s been told he was not good-looking enough for a role.

“I got cast as a big role in a Civil War pilot years ago, the network said it was the best pilot they had seen in 20 years, and it didn’t get picked up — for reasons that have nothing to do with me,” he said.

Of course he has the same aspirations of many actors, he said. He’d love to tell bigger and better stories and eventually win awards.

But he already has the lifestyle in Los Angeles that he’s always wanted. He’s surrounded by sunshine and dreamers. And though there is undoubtedly more glitz and glamour in Hollywood, it still reminds him of his blue-collar ranch life in Colorado.

“The parking lot of a set looks like the construction lots I grew up on,” he said. “There’s pickup trucks. There’s equipment.”

“And I don’t know of anything that brings together so many different types of skill sets,” he added. “You need masters of lighting, costume, production, design and sound. You’re constantly surrounded by people who are at the top of their profession.”

Photo editing and design by Calvin Alagot.

In 1634, during the Dutch Golden Age, an unprecedented financial phenomenon began in the form of skyrocketing prices for rare and fashionable tulip bulbs. By 1637, the speculative bubble collapsed, and while the plummeting price of tulips may have bankrupted a few investors, it didn’t take a steep toll on the overall economy, unlike the U.S. housing bubble that spurred a global crisis and led to severe recession in 2008.

“Tulip mania” is a term still used today to describe when the prices of assets—such as mortgages or technology—rise exponentially from their intrinsic or general market values and present a threat to economic stability. For London-based artist Gordon Cheung, Dutch still-life paintings provide a lens through which to explore ties between historical socio-economic systems, modern capitalism, and China’s new power on the global stage. “In part, they are about the rise and fall of civilisations, as well as the romantic language of still-life painting: futile materialism and fragile mortality reflected by the transient beauty of flowers,” he says. 

Like much 16th and 17th-century Dutch painting, the artist’s still-lifes brim with symbolism and references to historical events. The linen surface is collaged with pages from the Financial Times, literally grounding the work in data and news about the global markets. The painting above, for example, references the Old Summer Palace of Beijing, also known as Yuanmingyuan, which translates to “Gardens of Summer Brightness.”

c Detail of “Gardens of Perfect Brightness”

The residence of Qianlong Emperor and his successors, the Summer Palace was home to celebrated gardens and an enormous collection of historic treasures and antiques dating back thousands of years. French and British troops captured the palace in October 1860 during the Second Opium War, which led to mass vandalism, looting, and eventually, total destruction.

In “Gardens of Summer Brightness,” the two holy mountains of Sinai and Song flank the vase in the background, suggesting a collision that may have led to the fractured pillar. A map of the park punctuated by an architectural ruin tops the pedestal, and the mille-fleurs or “thousand flowers” style, a popular motif in the Qianlong period, decorates the vase. The vessel also contains botanicals by the emperor’s court painter Giuseppe Castiglione and sunflowers to symbolize the face of the sun as a deity and energy source.

Combining inkjet printing methods, acrylic paint, and sand to create a variety of textures and three-dimensional features, Cheung’s flowers appear to delicately float across ethereal surfaces. He assembles each bloom by applying thick paint onto plastic that can be peeled off when dry and collaged onto the canvas. He is interested in what he calls the “Ozymandian eventuality” of grandeur and power to physically and metaphorically crumble over time, using sand to represent impermanence and the constantly shifting nature of the human condition.

Cheung’s solo exhibition The Garden of Perfect Brightness opens at the Atkinson Museum in Southport, England, on June 3. You can find more on his website, and follow Instagram for updates.

“Augury of Dongguan” (2022), Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen, 87 x 52 x 5 centimeters

Detail of “Augury of Dongguan”

“Augury of Xi’an” (2022), Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen, 82 x 57 x 5 centimeters

“Augury of Hong Kong” (2022), Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen, 82 x 57 x 5 centimeters

Detail of “Augury of Hong Kong”

“Traveller From an Antique Land” (2022), Financial newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on paper, 135 x 100 x 5 centimeters

“Timeless Sands” (2022), Financial newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on paper, 135 x 100 x 5 centimeters

Detail of “Timeless Sands”

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Target takes ’emergency’ action to ‘avoid a Bud Light situation’ and removes ‘tuck-friendly’ women’s swimwear and LGBTQ products from display in Southern stores – as CEO DEFENDS the line

By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 13:22 EDT, 23 May 2023 | Updated: 15:44 EDT, 23 May 2023

Target’s CEO has defended the company’s controversial ‘tuck friendly’ female swimwear line, insisting the woke product rollout will be a success. 

The retail giant sparked backlash after releasing a new line of clothing to celebrate Pride month in June, which includes a label advertising ‘tuck-friendly construction’ and ‘extra crotch’ coverage. The design is made to help conceal a person’s private parts.

Despite facing sharp criticism for the release, which also includes items for babies and children, CEO Brian Cornell told Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast he approved of the campaign.

‘When we think about purpose at Target, it’s really about helping all the families, and that “all” word is really important,’ he said. 

‘Most of America shops at Target, so we want to do the right thing to support families across the country.’

Cornell’s remarks came as he was pressed on criticisms the company faced in the aftermath of its rollout.

‘I think those are just good business decisions, and it’s the right thing for society, and it’s the great thing for our brand,’ Cornell said. 

‘The things we’ve done from a DE&I (diversity, equity, and inclusion) standpoint, it’s adding value.

‘It’s helping us drive sales, it’s building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests, and those are just the right things for our business today.’ 

His comments come as some southern Target stores have reportedly been forced by the corporation to move its LGBTQ merchandise from view as customers revolt against the brand. 

The Pride product selection includes a variety of clothes and home goods, including a lime green adult romper suit with the word ‘gay’ emblazoned on the back, and a mug with a label reading: ‘Gender Fluid.’ 

Criticisms were also levied against the company after it was believed the ‘tuck friendly’ clothing was also for children, however a spokesman for the company told the Associated Press the swimsuits are only offered in adult sizes. 

Target has been contacted by DailyMail.com for further comment.  

Cornell insisted that the release would fuel profits despite the backlash, saying: ‘I know that focus on diversity and inclusion and equity has fueled much of our growth over the last nine years.’

However, some critics have said the brand ‘deserves the Bud Light treatment’ – a reference to the devastating boycott of the beer giant after it partnered with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Target’s campaign also comes amid criticism of Adidas for its decision to use biological males to model its women’s swimwear.

The sportswear giant has faced calls for a boycott after it used the male models to advertise its female product line for their Pride 2023 collection, leading to accusations the marketing campaign was ‘erasing women’. 

Both models, who are described as ‘they’ online, have hairy chests, visible bulges and their description says they are 6ft 2in with a 34′ chest and 27′ waist. Additionally, one of the biological male models posed in a sports bra. 

The recent push from some major brands to use woke marketing campaigns led ex- NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines to tell DailyMail.com that she is ‘hopeful that athletes will do the right thing and come out and denounce it.’

‘As a female swimmer, seeing these men and seeing these companies put these men in a position where they are advertising women’s clothing is not just heart-breaking, or belittling, but it feels like betrayal.

‘It’s something that we are seeing time and time again, but we are only seeing it one way. We only see men advertising women’s clothing and not vice versa.’

Gaines, a spokesman for Independent Women’s Forum, has become a leading voice against the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports, after tying for fifth against controversial trans swimmer Lia Thomas at last year’s NCAA championship.