LGBTQ news and entertainment
Happy Sunday! Some links I thought worth your time:
• Queerty: “Gentleman farmer” and out entrepreneur Matt Baumgartner (above) is the owner of the idyllic June Farms, cited as upstate New York’s premier wedding & events destination. Amazon Prime Video’s new reality series “June Farms” takes you behind the scenes of Baumgartner’s business. Continue reading “Amazon Video Reality Series ‘June Farms’ + More News”
The Sacramento gay bar Badlands has announced MAGA attire will be banned from the club after a patron wore a “Make America Great Again” hat to the popular venue. The club’s owner, TJ Bruce, announced the new policy on the club’s social media this week, saying the hat “led to discomfort among some patrons.” Continue reading “Sacramento Gay Bar Bans MAGA Attire For Patrons Comfort”
Some news items you might have missed: • CBS47: 18-year-old Caleb James Williams (above) was arrested on felony charges of aggravated assault after he allegedly threatened voters with a machete at an early voting site in Neptune Beach, Florida. Continue reading “MAGA Man Threatens Voters With Machete + More News”
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Asked if he feels he might be inciting racial unrest by inviting his supporters to appear outside the White House tonight, Donald Trump told reporters today that ‘MAGA loves black people.’ “MAGA. Make America great again. These are people that love our country. I have no idea if they were going to be here, I was just asking. I have no idea if they were going to be there, MAGA is make America great again. By the way, they love African-American people, they love black people. MAGA loves black people. I heard that MAGA wanted to be there and a lot of MAGA was going to be there and I have no idea. They love our country.”
Question: With your tweet today, are you concerned that you may be stoking more racial violence? Trump: No not at all… I have no idea if they’re going to be here. By the way, they love African Americans, they love black people. MAGA loves the black people. pic.twitter.com/SCnTY3ZRhX
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 30, 2020
Yeah these guys love black people… pic.twitter.com/7BXCTcb9EP
— Justin Satzman (@jsatz23) May 30, 2020
No one could parody this. If you tried, no one would believe you.
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 30, 2020
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| Austin Wolf finds his light |
Some news items you might have missed:
• ‘Fitness obsessed’ InstaHunk Austin Wolf (above) knows how to find the dramatic gym lighting for maximum selfie impact.
• A man wrote in to an advice column after he met his girlfriend’s parents and realized he’d once hooked up with the dad.
• Donald Trump threw a Twitter rant over so-called ‘presidential harassment’ after the New York attorney general’s office issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for records relating to the financing of four major Trump Organization projects and a failed effort to buy the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League in 2014.
New York State and its Governor, Andrew Cuomo, are now proud members of the group of PRESIDENTIAL HARASSERS. No wonder people are fleeing the State in record numbers. The Witch Hunt continues!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 12, 2019
• Hate group leader Bill Donohue pens an op-ed for the Catholic League whining passage of the Equality Act will result in “affirmative action for the sexually confused.”
• A new app will help #MAGA Trump supporters find restaurants that are safe spaces for their red hats and white nationalist views.
• Media Matters for America has released several recordings of Fox News host Tucker Carlson calling into a favorite radio show in the early 2000s using homophobic, misogynist and racist slurs. #WhoIsSurprised?
• Dido drops a beautiful acoustic version of “Mad Love” from her new album, Still On My Mind.
I find her voice to be so pure; and her music has a chill, relaxing effect on me. Hit play below.
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| Covington Catholic High School student attempted to harass & intimidate a Native American elder and Vietnam Veteran |
Update on the hideous incident involving pro-Trump, MAGA hat-wearing high school students from Covington, Kentucky, who harassed Native American elder and Vietnam Veteran, Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial Mall yesterday.
Covington Catholic High School is the only Catholic school in the diocese, so the the church is definitely getting involved.
Thankfully, expulsion is on the table.
From local news station WLWT5:
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, along with the school, acknowledged the situation Saturday afternoon, saying the matter is being investigated.
Laura Keener, of the diocese, released the following statement:
“We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general, Jan. 18, after the March for Life, in Washington, D.C. We extend our deepest apologies to Mr. Phillips. This behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.
“The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.We know this incident also has tainted the entire witness of the March for Life and express our most sincere apologies to all those who attended the March and all those who support the pro-life movement.”
In related news, it turns out these hateful brats aren’t the only problems in Covington, Kentucky.
In December, former Covington Catholic High School basketball player Jacob Walter held a woman down and raped her until she bled according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department.
He was arrested and faces three felony charges: One of rape and two of sodomy.
This is some high school, huh?
Boone County deputies say Jake Walter, a one-time Covington Catholic basketball standout, held a woman down this weekend and repeatedly raped her until she bled.
"Walter dismissed the victim by laughing at her and telling her that she would be fine." https://t.co/mOhlgoFOMj pic.twitter.com/lH3pXgj9N5— WCPO (@WCPO) December 12, 2018
Trending on Twitter right now, a group of students, who some say are from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, appear to mock & intimidate a Native American protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March yesterday in Washington, DC.
Appalling. This is why that Gillette ad exists.
A group of students from @CovCathColonels harassed & bothered this Native American protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March. Appalling.pic.twitter.com/bYCdxApcLG— Simar (@sahluwal) January 19, 2019
On Covington’s Twitter account (which has been switched to private due to this video), the school describes itself as “Educating Young Men Spiritually, Academically, Physically and Socially.”
Does this kid look ‘spiritually’ educated?
The school’s online schedule shows students were in DC to participate in the March for Life. This episode apparently happened after they took part in that march.
Here’s another video of these kids harassing this Native American protestor. The ignorance, the bigotry, is infuriating. This is not the future of this nation.— Simar (@sahluwal) January 19, 2019
The Native American elder that MAGA racists mocked is Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips. He holds a regular ceremony for Native American veterans buried at Arlington.So the racists who claim kneeling dishonors Vets—just dishonored a Veteran to his face😑https://t.co/Mdb3Ng6Dho
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) January 19, 2019
Here’s a woman who was attending the march describing what happened in her own words. pic.twitter.com/2bKvvzONEw— Simar (@sahluwal) January 19, 2019
The Native American protestor showed true strength and integrity in the face of bigotry. He was not intimidated or defeated in any way. https://t.co/poUG0ivB8g— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 19, 2019
Dear Principal Bob Rowe of Covington Catholic High School in Covington Kentucky: your students acted like a gang of Brownshirt Nazis yesterday by surrounding, intimidating, and denigrating Native Americans.I’m an all-male Catholic high school alum. I am extremely disgusted.
— Christopher Cantwell (@ifyoucantwell) January 19, 2019
Racist and violent #MAGA youth are from Covington Catholic in Northern Kentucky:Covington Catholic High School
Phone Number: (859) 491-2247
Principal Robert Rowe email: browe@covcath.org
Tweet @supmikeclines pic.twitter.com/JrYBtebG44— Ove Poulsen (@ove_poulsen) January 19, 2019
Look at that “diverse” team of folks looking to MAGA!
Apparently, Donald Trump thinks a “great America” looks like eleven older white guys and one white woman.
A whole lotta white going on there.
@POTUS This picture is so white I need sunglasses.— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) February 17, 2017
@POTUS it’s oddly impressive that 1) this photo is this white in 2017 and 2) you are really proud of that fact.— Patrick Thornton (@pwthornton) February 17, 2017
@POTUS That’s a lot of white people…— Tim Wrobel (@Timotato) February 17, 2017
