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First-Ever LGBT Military “Spouse Of The Year” On ELLEN

Matthew and Brian Alvarado with Ellen DeGeneres

Now this is way-super-cool news.

For the first-time ever, a same-sex spouse has been named “Navy Spouse of the Year.”

Named Armed Forces Insurance’s “Navy Spouse of the Year,” Brian Alvarado is husband to U.S. Navy servicemember Matthew Alvarado. Brian is the first same-sex spouse named as a branch winner in the program’s 11-year history.

Thanks to that honor, Ellen welcomed Matthew and Brian Alvarado on her show today.

The Dallas Voice has more details:

According to a press releases from Armed Forces Insurance and Military Spouse magazine, “As a male military spouse in a same-sex, interracial marriage, Alvarado’s recognition illustrates to the world that our military community is a strong, supportive, diverse and resilient community. Like other branch winners, he was nominated for his work in the community as a U.S. naval ombudsman at Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center and volunteer work with Hiring Our Heroes Military Spouse Professional Network.

“In his role as an ombudsman, he reports to the command leadership and acts as a liaison between the command and the families of the sailors who serve on base. He is also very passionate about his work with Hiring Our Heroes, working to improve the nationwide 16 percent unemployment rate within the military spouse community both on a local and national level.”

The press release notes that Alvarado was named the 2016 Naval Base Coronado Base Spouse of the Year, and has since “lead the conversation on equality within the military community and looks to further promote the Department of Defense’s Equality Initiatives.”

The Alvarados are stationed at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego. Matthew is a 19-year veteran of the Navy.

Brian tells Ellen in the video below that his main focus is working with Hiring Our Heroes which works to help veterans and transitioning military members find work in the civilian workplace.

As part of honoring Brian and Matthew, Ellen donated $10,000 to Hiring Our Heroes.

Brian also shares that Ellen publicly came out during his senior year in high school, and so her visibility as an out and proud lesbian has been an inspiration to him his entire adult life.

Watch below.

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Mid-Day Brain Break: Gus Kenworthy Crowd Surfs At Miami Beach Pride

Woofy Gus Kenworthy checked crowd surfing off his bucket list this weekend as he handled his Grand Marshall duties at Miami Beach Pride.

Watch below as Gus totally trusts his fans to “handle” him.

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Sarah Palin: I Would Run For Office Again “In A Heartbeat”

Has it really been almost ten years since John McCain inflicted former half-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, on the U.S.?

After her spectacular splash, crash and burn as the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, Palin spent years stretching out her 15 minutes in the spotlight.

Talk about not getting off the national stage…

Well, it looks like Palin wants more time in the limelight as she recently told Fox News host Mark Levin she would run for public office again “in a heartbeat.”

“Oh yes. I would do it again in a heartbeat,” said Palin on the Life, Liberty and Levin show. “I will push back harder on some of those who were trying to mold me into something that I was not during the campaign. I would’ve pushed back and gotten more truth out there, but yes.”

The problem is no one wants Palin to run for anything.

Palin also shared that the negative press she received while running in 2008 was a gosh-darn “surprise” since her ratings in her home state of Alaska were “very high.”

Additionally, she was “mostly shocked” by how little the McCain-Palin campaign did to defend her.

“That aspect was perplexing and frustrating,” she continued. “But I have learned a lot in these 10 years and I don’t put up with as much as I had back then and I don’t let things bother me. I obviously didn’t let a lot of things bother me then either otherwise I’d be crawled up in a fetal position under that table and just want to go away.”

As we all recall, Palin’s missteps became daily fodder for political pundits.

From her woeful lack of foreign policy knowledge to straying off-message while stumping on the campaign trail to pricey wardrobe receipts.

All of that and more was chronicled in the best-selling book, Game Change, which was adapted into an HBO political drama film of the same name in 2012.

(source)

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Wrestling Superstar Finn Bálor Makes His Wrestlemania Debut With Huge Show Of LGBTQ Support

Irish WWE wrestler Finn Bálor made a huge rainbow splash this weekend as he competed in his very first Wrestlemania in New Orleans.

Bálor entered the Mercedes-Benz SuperDome stadium surrounded by members of the New Orleans LBGQT community spreading a huge message of inclusion. His entourage was decked out in “For Everyone” t-shirts with a rainbow design.

Profits from Bálor’s entrance t-shirt – black with a rainbow design – will be donated to LGBT advocacy group GLAAD, whose motto is “To promote understanding, increase acceptance, and advance equality.”

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New Randy Rainbow Parody: “You Can’t Stop His Tweets”

Ah yeah, Monday gets kicked off in sassy 60s-style as Randy Rainbow rocks a riff on “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from Broadway blockbuster Hairspray.

Randy’s high-energy, rapid-fire lyrics are totally on point as he tweaks the Tweeter in Chief with “You Can’t Stop His Tweets.” And Marc Shaiman’s melody was totally built to bop to.

This may be Randy’s best parody song yet.

Watch below.

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VICE: Conspiracy Hoaxers Say Every Mass Shooting Was A “False Flag,” Victims Never Existed

A “false flag” hoaxer tells the pastor of a Texas church his daughter’s death is a “hoax”

This is truly hideous.

On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

These two “false flag” hoaxers claim that it never happened. They say all mass gun massacres are fake, made-up events featuring “crisis actors” with the goal being to demonize and eventually take away folks’ guns.

During the segment from VICE, the insane hoaxers confront Sutherland Springs Baptist Church Pastor Frank Pomeroy, who lost his own 14-year-old daughter in that deadly shooting

The two hoaxers, who go by the handles “Side Thorn” and “Conspiracy Granny,” inform Pastor Pomeroy that not only is he lying, they claim his daughter never existed.

Welcome to Trump’s ‘Merica.

Watch the report below.

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Podcast: “Will & Grace” Finale; New Documentary On The Life Of Sir Ian McKellen “Playing The Part;” MGM Resorts Releases Gender-Flipped Love Songs

In this week’s podcast:

• MGM Resorts released a new collection of wedding songs for LGBTs from Kesha, Bob Dylan and more.

• The finale of Will & Grace aired this week with some surprise couplings.

• A new documentary of the life and legacy of Sir Ian McKellen – Playing The Part.

• Natti Vogel’s new music video “Brown Rice” starring Matthew Wilkas explores the pressures of Instagram fame

• Maryland’s state legislature moves closer to banning so-called “conversion therapy.”

• Anchorage, Alaska, says “no” to transgender discrimination.

All that and more on this episode of The Randy Report.

If you enjoy catching up on LGBTQ headlines in 15 minutes with The Randy Report podcast, please share it with your friends.

I like to think of my newsmagazine podcast as “the 60 Minutes of gay news” – only shorter.

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Gay Teen Flick “Love, Simon” Is An Unequivocal Hit At The Box Office

Gay teens not only have a hit movie they can relate to in coming-out/coming-of-age flick Love, Simon, but the film is also an unequivocal box office hit.

BoxOfficeMojo reports that in 24 days the gay-centric rom-com, which cost $17 million to produce, has grossed over $37 million domestically.

According to Buzzfeed senior film reporter Adam Vary,  Love, Simon is the most successful teen movie in four years.

(h/t Boy Culture)