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News Round-Up: August 14, 2015

Some news stories you may have missed:

• This Spanish businessman says viewing a bullfight is less dangerous for children than seeing a gay pride parade.

• A Catholic priest from Detroit says gay sex is like “cramming a piece of bagel in your ear.” I think he’s doing it wrong.

• ABC’s What Would You Do? explores how folks would react if they saw a gay couple talking to their surrogate mother get attacked by haters. Guess what happened?

• Politico’s panel of experts say Donald Trump can’t win in Iowa because his supporters won’t take the time to deal with the process of a caucus.

• Bonus Trump: The experts at FiveThirtyEight say The Donald’s much talked about lead in the polls isn’t big enough (historically) to mean he’ll win.

• Let’s face it – you want to watch Olivia Newton-John & daughter Chloe Lattanzi’s new hit music video “You Have To Believe” just one more time this week, don’t you?

• And finally – speaking of watching, the Dallas Cowboys are giving you junk in the trunk.

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News Round-Up: August 12, 2015

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne covers OUT and discusses his role as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.

• Former Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful has had to stop paying his campaign staff due to lack of funds.

• Former President Jimmy Carter revealed today that he has cancer.

• Folks are petitioning Proctor & Gamble to run their cute, award-winning gay couple Tide detergent commercial in the US.

• New poll shows Trump lost a bit of ground in Iowa after last week’s debate; Jeb Bush dropped from 3rd to 7th; Marco Rubio jumps from 8th to 3rd in the early election state.

• The governor of Puerto Rico has issued executive orders banning discrimination against transgenders regarding emergency room treatment and drivers licenses.

• The homophobe who attacked two West Point graduates in New York City (and got his ass kicked) has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime. That’ll learn him.

• Openly gay Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (the first openly gay poet to speak at a presidential inauguration) has been invited to read a new work at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

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News Round-Up: August 7, 2015

Some news stories you may have missed:

• The first gay couple to be married at West Point Military Academy got attacked by anti-gay hater who learned it’s not smart to attack West Point grads.

• Guess which boy-bander is looking to corner the legal marijuana market in Ohio?

• Caitlyn Jenner’s second episode of her docuseries  I Am Cait saw a 50% drop in viewers from it’s premiere.

• A Nebraska judge has struck down a policy which has kept same-sex couples from being foster parents.

• The U.S. economy added 215,000 jobs in July which means 65 straight months of positive private sector job growth.

• Northwestern University is working on research to develop an implant that could deliver PrEP meds continually over an entire year.

• NYC gets a big sexy billboard courtesy of Calvin Klein Jeans

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News Round-Up: August 2, 2015

Some news stories you may have missed:

• HBO programming chief Michael Lombardo acknowledges canceling LGBT series “Looking” was a painful decision.

• Just for the fun of it – here’s the best TV bloopers from local news reports in the past month. Folks are human, don’t you know?

• Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker still backs a Constitutional amendment allowing states to ban same-sex marriage.

• Anti-gay Congressman Steve King says the recent SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage means you can now marry your lawn mower.

• Donald Trump may be riding high amid his GOP competitors, but a new poll shows every Democratic nominee would beat him.

• Did former One Directioner Zayn Malik throw shade at his former bandmates?

• GOP hopeful Dr. Ben Carson doesn’t know if the Bible has “authority” over the U.S. Constitution.
(Here’s a clue – it doesn’t. Separation of Church and State and all that, don’t you know…)

• Two current NFL players say they would come out if the media wouldn’t make “a big deal out of it.”

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News Round-Up: July 31, 2015

Felippe and Marlon on the streets of Sao Paulo

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Sexy Brazilian couple Felippe & Marlon expose homophobia by exposing themselves via a nighttime nude photo shoot in Sao Paulo.

• Donald Trump joins the deniers on climate change: “It’s weather. You’re going to have bad weather. I don’t happen to believe it’s manmade.”

• The Republican Party scores it’s lowest approval rating in decades.

• The White House announces expansion to HIV strategy over the next five years that includes full access to pre-exposure prophylaxis services.

• The parents of a Texas gay man have filed a lawsuit against the Galveston police department after he was allegedly denied his anxiety medication, suffered seizures and eventually died while in custody.

• Right wing nut and U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas thinks he can prove a point by dropping four gay couples on one island and four straight couples on another. Not sure what it would prove, but I know which island I’d pick.

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News Round-Up: July 19, 2015

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Gov. Scott Walker says he doesn’t know if being gay is a choice. Did anyone ask him if being straight is a “choice?”

• This Mississippi newspaper banned same-sex marriage announcements and silenced writers on the subject – including their private social media

• Gawker wrongly outs CFO of major media company when blackmailing escort complains the CFO won’t help him with political issue

• Ted Cruz is getting hurt the most by Trump candidacy

• Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting marriage equality

• Bonus round from Gov. Scott Walker: he also says the ban on gay adult leaders in the Boys Scouts “protected” them, insinuating adult gay men are predators on young children.

• 23-year-old U.S. Army soldier Joey Vicente stands up (and goes viral) for Caitlyn Jenner’s Arthur Ashe ESPY Award Courage Award

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News Round-Up: June 22, 2015

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Sean Conroy, first openly gay player in professional baseball, gets his first start this Thursday; and it’s Pride Night!

• GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush says a pro-same-sex marriage ruling from SCOTUS won’t be the final word.

• 17 year old transgender teen killed in Mississippi becomes ninth transgender person murder victim this year.

• It appears Charleston church killer Dylann Roof was highly influenced by racist group Council of Conservative Citizens, who just happened to donate to the campaigns of Sen. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum.

• Yahoo News debuts a new 30-minute documentary, “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government’s War on Gays.”

• Let’s take one more look back at last night’s fantastic 25th Annual Broadway Bares – “Top Bottoms Of Burlesque” – which raised over $1.5 million benefiting Broadway Cares.

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News Round-Up: June 16, 2015

Bruno the wonder dog

Some stories you may have missed:

• Most importantly, Bruno the wonder dog turns 13 today! Happy birthday to the Brun!

• A new study shows children of same-sex parents are not negatively impacted by their parents relationships.

• Hillary Clinton has her own 2016 Campaign Playlist on Spotify.

• Big Brother announces it’s new cast – which includes the first openly transgender contestant.

• After ten years of being bullied, a transgender teacher in Milwaukee commits suicide.

• Boston Police Academy sees it’s first openly gay couple graduate.

Shawn Maclver (L) and Jimmy Moccia

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News Round-up: June 10, 2015

Laverne Cox

Some stories you may have missed:

• Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) will be the first transgender person to be immortalized at the famous Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum

• A straight couple in Australia plan to divorce if same-sex marriage is legalized in his country.
That’ll learn ’em.

• It seems McKinney resident Sean Toon, who stood up for the police officer who handcuffed a 14 year old girl over pool party chaos, might have had more to do with the incident that he has previously let on.

• There are 3,000 kids in Michigan waiting to be adopted and the state Senate just made that much more difficult.

• The new Netflix series Sense8 is pretty fab. And so is the handsome latin star Miguel Ángel Silvestrewho, who plays one of the show’s gay characters. Check out his teaser video below.

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News Round-Up: June 8, 2015

Some stories you may have missed:

• Caitlyn Jenner gets an invite to judge the Miss USA Pageant

• Ten years after ending it’s run, is there a reunion in the future for Showtime’s Queer As Folk?

• Pew Polling sees support for same-sex marriage at it’s highest point – 57% – in 20 years of polling on the subject.

• A former McKinney, Texas, police officer says his department has “a race problem.”

• Billy Graham’s anti-gay son wants haters to boycott gay-friendly companies.

• GOP presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham says he’d welcome Caitlyn Jenner’s vote. I’m betting he’d welcome anyone’s vote.

• In the afterglow of last night’s Tony Awards, here’s a glimpse into the Broadway Dreams Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing aspiring performing artists of all ages with mentorship, access and opportunity in order to fulfill their personal Broadway dreams.