LGBTQ news and entertainment
Teen Vogue‘s Phillip Picardi and newly out (and hot) Olympian Gus Kenworthy discuss the 8 things straight folks should never say to their gay friends.
I’m not so sure some of these things are actually “offensive” to say to the gays – like, “How did you come out?” is offensive?
But I’m having a thing about Gus lately, so I like the video 🙂
How teenage girl of me is that?
No, wait. This is brilliant. Seriously.
From the artist:
“My name is Anthony Vincent and I’m the voice of Ten Second Songs and I hope you all enjoy my cover of Adele’s “Hello” performed in 25 different vocal styles.”
Over 500,000 views in a day.
Amazing changes have happened in the world for LGBTs in the five years since Dan Savage launched the It Gets Better Project.
The question for today is: what will you do to help continue making things better over the next five years?
Raise you voice. Share your journey.
The juggernaut that is Adele keeps on killing it.
Adele’s newly released album “25” sold 2.43 millions units in less than four days.
The record for single week album sales had been held by boy band NSYNC since March 2000 when they released their massive “No Strings Attached” album, selling 2.416 million in the first week.
Adele was only about 100,000 copies shy of that number after just three days of sales: “25” dropped last Friday.
In case you missed it, check out Adele’s live performance of “Water Under The Bridge” on last night’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
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| Julianne Hough and Aaron Tveit in Grease Live! |
FOX has shared the first peek of Danny (Aaron Tveit), Sandy (Julianne Hough), and Rizzo (Vanessa Hudgens) from their upcoming live version of Grease.
I think this looks great! Clearly, the producers are paying respectful homage to the enormously successful 1978 film starring Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta and Stockard Channing. I like that.
Btw – I hear there may be a cameo from a certain “Pink Lady” in the upcoming television presentation. Wanna guess who?
Grease LIVE! will air on January 31 on FOX.
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| Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit and Vanessa Hudgens |
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| Julianne Hough as “Good Sandy” in Grease Live! |
It comes as no surprise that the Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact has researched Donald Trump’s now infamous claim that “thousands and thousands” cheered in New Jersey when the World Trade Center was attacked on 9/11.
Trump said he “watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed.
This defies basic logic. If thousands and thousands of people were celebrating the 9/11 attacks on American soil, many people beyond Trump would remember it. And in the 21st century, there would be video or visual evidence.
Instead, all we found were a couple of news articles that described rumors of celebrations that were either debunked or unproven.
Trump’s recollection of events in New Jersey in the hours after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks flies in the face of all the evidence we could find.
We rate this statement Pants on Fire.
Bolding is mine.
If you go to the link, you can read the extensive digging the folks at PolitiFact did to try and give Trump even a smidgen of leeway. But there was none to be found.
Trump even admitted to Bill O’Reilly on last night’s “O’Reilly Factor” that he doesn’t bother to check facts before he tweets or retweets things.
Hardly presidential here.
The crowd in Columbus, Ohio, was practically asleep until he insulted two hecklers. The insult – “You can get ’em the hell out” – got him his biggest response.
Red, White, and You PAC, a Nashville-based group, has released a country song called “Vote for Trump,” which seems to provide Donald Trump with the “official” anthem he really deserves.
“Our hope in branding ourselves as a political action committee is to make our song appear to be a legitimate anthem in support of Trump,” Tom Maxwell, the song’s co-creator, said in an email.
“Red, White, and You PAC and our song “Vote For Trump” are satirical and were created with the purpose of drawing attention to the absurdity of Donald Trump’s candidacy,” Maxwell continued.
“We haven’t raised any money and absolutely do not support Donald Trump for President of the United States.”
Take a listen below: