LGBTQ news and entertainment
Always highly anticipated, this year’s holiday commercial for UK department store John Lewis has landed.
And like past years, there are some fans who love it, some not so much. I have to admit, the spot could be more “Christmassy” for me.
The ad features a little boy who spends his nights playing with a giant snoring monster named “Moz.”
I’ve added my favorite John Lewis spot as well 🙂
Watch below. Thoughts?
In this week’s podcast:
• Political history was made in elections across the country this week by LGBT candidates
• A new poll in the UK shows gay men have an issue with masculinity
• Australia looks poised to legalize same-sex marriage, but there could be a snag
• A Las Vegas father shoots and kills his 14-year-old son for being gay. Click here to contribute to a GoFundMe campaign aimed at helping pay funeral expenses.
• Pro soccer player Robbie Rogers, the first openly gay athlete in one of the “big four” professional sports, announced his retirement
• Star Trek star and LGBT icon George Takei accused of sexual misconduct
All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.
Those three gay bears – Matt, Joey, and Phil – are back in the second installment of Rowse Honey’s new commercials.
Clip description:
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During a recent appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Rosie O’Donnell told Andy Cohen that she knew about Whitney Houston’s longtime romance with Robyn Crawford.
“Everyone sort of knew it,” said O’Donnell, who also expressed surprise that Houston recording empresario Clive Davis had feigned ignorance about the relationship. “I don’t believe that for one minute,” she said.
Watch below.
Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep herself sat down to interview legendary Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour who Streep brilliantly portrayed in The Devil Wears Prada.
But it wasn’t Prada Streep was there to discuss. The main topic at hand was her role in Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, in which Streep portrays Wintour’s longtime friend, Kay Graham, the former publisher of The Washington Post.
Along the way, the duo discuss other current issues including the Mueller investigation, sexual harassment and dining room table chat.
Watch the two legends below.
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Some weekend eye-candy. Happy Saturday!
A post shared by Alex Lo (@alexlodj) on Oct 18, 2016 at 9:07am PDT
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After meeting privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Donald Trump said that he had asked whether Russia had meddled in last year’s presidential election.
According to Trump, Putin not only denied the allegation but appeared “insulted” by the issue.
From the New York Times:
“He said he didn’t meddle — I asked him again,” Mr. Trump told reporters traveling with him aboard Air Force One as he flew to Hanoi for more meetings. “You can only ask so many times. I just asked him again. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did.”
Mr. Trump did not answer a direct question about whether he believed Mr. Putin’s denials, but his account of the conversation indicated he was far more inclined to accept the Russian president’s assertions than those of his own intelligence agencies, which have concluded that Mr. Putin directed an elaborate effort to interfere in the vote.
“Every time he sees me he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’ and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Putin. “I think he is very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country.”
Mr. Trump heaped disdain on the former leaders of three American intelligence agencies — John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence; and James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired this year — appearing to suggest that they were less trustworthy than Mr. Putin.
“I mean, give me a break — they’re political hacks,” Mr. Trump said. “You have Brennan, you have Clapper, and you have Comey. Comey’s proven now to be a liar, and he’s proven to be a leaker, so you look at that. And you have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with that.”
So, to recap: Donald Trump believes a man who was trained as a KGB agent to lie successfully, and throws dedicated U.S. intelligence leaders under the bus.
Got it?
#Embarrassing
When the President of the United States believes Putin over our own FBI, CIA, and NSA it says something about who he likes and trusts. He prefers Putin over men and women who risk their lives for us. https://t.co/AMsPqttXLk— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 11, 2017
“[Putin] said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. And I believe… I think he is very insulted by it.”You know who else is insulted by it, Mr. President? The American people. You believe a foreign adversary over your own intelligence agencies. https://t.co/lZkQAch7CT
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 11, 2017
Things Trump believes: Putin’s denials about Russian meddlingThings Trump doesn’t believe: Obama’s birth certificate is real.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 11, 2017
Trump is a KGB officer’s dream. A perfectly indebted & fearful bootlick. His slavish loyalty to Putin is a clear & present danger to the Nation. #PeePeeTapesMustBeTrue https://t.co/7vgMquozXw— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) November 11, 2017
For the first time EVER, the Dotard-in-Chief who said:
🤡[McCain's] not a hero…
🤡Crooked Hillary
🤡He knew what he signed up for
🤡Pocahontas
🤡Liddle Bob Corker
🤡Throw that son of a bitch out
CARES that someone felt insulted…Putin.https://t.co/DCf4O4A5IB— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) November 11, 2017
CIA chief Mike Pompeo: Putin attacked 2016 election.
DNI Dan Coats: Putin attacked 2016 election.
FBI director Christopher Wray: Putin attacked 2016 election.
NSA head Mike Rogers: Putin attacked 2016 election.
Putin: I did not attack 2016 election.
Trump: I believe Putin.— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 11, 2017
The president attacks those who serve to keep us safe, while he covers for a foreign adversary’s attacks on our freedom. We’ve never faced this kind of challenge before, but it’s every bit as bad as it sounds. https://t.co/SVFKPrjkkr— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) November 11, 2017
Anybody have a bridge to sell? https://t.co/FRJA7BEoN4— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) November 11, 2017
Can @realDonaldTrump try a little harder to fall under the influence of a KGB agent, or is that not possible at this point? https://t.co/yC4zorPTdQ— Seth Moulton (@sethmoulton) November 11, 2017
It’s staggering that the U.S. President takes the word of a Russian dictator who presides over the killings of journalists, over his own intelligence community. https://t.co/NhtJwvM472— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) November 11, 2017
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Some news items you might have missed:
• Woofy Instahunk Alex Abramov (above) is enjoying NYC’s autumnal weather. I’m enjoying the view.
• A new study of 21,000 children shows no increased emotional or psychological difficulties among children raised by gay or lesbian parents.
• One of the gay men who was refused a marriage license by anti-LGBT Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis says he may run against her in the 2018 election.
• A survey of more than 5,000 Attitude Magazine readers shows 71% of gay men say they are turned off from dating another if they have shown signs of femininity; 41% said that effeminate gay men give the gay community a bad image or reputation.
• Former Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has announced he’ll be joining the cast of the hit Broadway musical, Kinky Boots.
• I’ll close out this round-up with some Friday Superfruit “Fantasy,” the new music video from OUT100 2017 honorees Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi.
The video features a make-believe pool party, a trip to Paris, plus a cameo by K-pop star Amber Liu and some blue-wigged dancers. The tune, from the duo’s debut album Future Friends, is totally bopping. Dance into the weekend with Superfruit below.
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During an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show today, embattled Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore denied any truth to the allegations raised in an explosive Washington Post article in which 4 women detailed inappropriate behavior by Moore when he was in his early 30s.
Moore began with saying the entire reporting was “completely false and misleading,” but then muddied the waters as he continued.
Later in the interview, he admitted he remembered knowing two of the women.
So much for “completely false and misleading.”
From Business Insider:
Hannity went through the Post story and detailed the allegations of the four accusers. Moore claimed to know two of four, but denied any instance of misconduct with either. In response to the allegations involving Debbie Wesson Gibson, Moore said, “I don’t remember going out on dates. I knew her as a friend. If we did go out on dates, then we did. But I don’t remember that.”
Speaking of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Moore said he “dated a lot of young ladies” after “my return from the military.”
“I do recognize the names of two of these young women,” he said of Gibson and Deason, denying that he gave the latter alcohol when she was underage. “As I recall, she was 19 or older.”
Asked if he remembers dating teenage women when he was older than 30, Moore said, “Not generally, no.”
“I don’t remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother,” he said. He later pointed to The Post’s story and said, “These two young girls actually said their mothers encouraged them to be friends with me.”
After a commercial break, Moore became more forceful in his denials of dating teenagers. He said doing so “would be out of my customary behavior” and that he “never” would have dated a teen without her mother’s permission.
“Not generally, no” is not a “No.”
The Twitterverse had a field day:
“You ever burglarize vacant homes while their owners were on vacation?”“Not generally, no.”
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 10, 2017
“You ever eat human flesh?”“Not generally, no.”
— Patricia Bateman (@Trisha_Bateman) November 10, 2017
HANNITY: “Do you remember murdering that many people?”HITLER: “Not generally, no”
— Smaller, dumber Groot (@CodeReclaimers) November 10, 2017
Hannity lobs a softball and Moore swings and misses.— John Mize (@fishygod666) November 10, 2017
Roy Moore: Dating teens when I was 32 “would be out of my customary behavior. I don’t recall” if I did.— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 10, 2017
Moore issued a statement this afternoon:
Due to family medical emergencies, Lisa Harris and Hayley Angell of Great Britain had spent months living half a world away from each other.
Hayley’s father had grown ill and passed away due to cancer, and her mother had severe mobility issues requiring extra care.
Flying back to Britain was not in the couple’s budget, so after learning about British Airway’s “BAMagic” program, Lisa reached out to the airline.
Not only did British Airways get involved, the airline arranged to fly Angell and her mother to the UK for a vacation in high style.
“The magic of being able to be reunited with my wife is totally unexpected,” Hayley told British Airways. “The magic of being able to take my mum on the holiday that I’ve been promising her we would go on ever since we lost my dad.”
Via the BAMagic program, the airline has surprised people with travel all over the world. Hit the link for more stories of surprise travel.
Watch Hayley and Lisa’s smile-inducing story below.
