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News Round-Up: November 16, 2021
Some news items you might have missed: • Twitter: Target’s new ‘Pride Nutcracker‘ inspired artist Oricalcon to go ‘extra gay’ with his own version. Continue reading “News Round-Up: November 16, 2021”
News Round-Up: July 29, 2021
Some news items you might have missed: • Back2Stonewall: Tony Perkins (above), of the certified hate group Family Research Council, told followers in an email one ‘silver lining’ of the pandemic is children won’t learn ‘explicit LGBT curriculum.’ Continue reading “News Round-Up: July 29, 2021”
News Round-Up: July 25, 2018
A few news items you might have missed: • It’s Hump Day – need I say more? (see above) • Two gay dads were stabbed by their adopted son in Los Angeles, California. #MentalHealthIssues? • Someone did some serious damage to Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. • Twin gay models – the Zakar twins – have accused high-end photographer Rick Day of sexual abuse.
• Cher just dropped the track list of her upcoming ABBA cover album – check the list below.
SONGS 1.WATERLOO 2.GIMME,GIMME 3.DANCING 4.CHIQUITITTA 5. NAME OF THE GAME 6.MOMMA MIA 7. ONE OF US 8.WINNER TAKES IT ALL 9.SOS 10.⁉️— Cher (@cher) July 25, 2018
• Donald Trump is now turning his attention to booting HIV+ soldiers out of the U.S. military. • Virulently anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council president Tony Perkins misses the old days when it was illegal to be gay.
Anti-LGBTQ Organizations Signal ‘Religious Freedoms’ To Be Top Priority For SCOTUS Pick
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Since the announcement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, LGBTQ activists and advocates have expressed their deep concern about the community’s rights and protections being threatened by what will be a much more conservative successor.
Over the weekend, in an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, Trump said he was “putting conservative people” on the high court, but “probably not” ask beforehand how those nominees might vote on specific issues.
What he didn’t say in his answer is he doesn’t have to ask. Trump has a pre-selected list of 25 candidates that have already been vetted by the ultra-conservative Federalist Society. It’s a foregone conclusion that all of them have been screened for far-right positions on the law.
While its unlikely that marriage equality would ever be overturned in a wholesale manner, what many legal experts say consider possible is the Supreme Court handing down ‘carve outs’ in rulings regarding ‘religious liberty’ that would allow for legalized discrimination of LGBTQ people.
This morning, hate group leader Tony Perkins, of the virulently anti-LGBTQ organization Family Research Council, made clear on Fox News exactly what his faction of conservatives are looking at in a new Supreme Court justice.
“Given the fact that the left wants to make this all about abortion – I think it’s much bigger, I think we have religious liberty, we’ve got freedom of speech, the First Amendment in the crosshairs of the left.
“But they want to make it about life and if I were the president, I’d say, ‘Game on. I’m going to pick someone that’s beyond reproach.’ I think this supercharges the president’s base to get behind him in his pick and I think that spills over into the midterm election.”
Even though Trump falsely campaigned on the premise he would be an “LGBT ally,” his actions since taking office have demonstrated exactly the opposite.
Buzzfeed’s Dominic Holden has compiled a list of the many ways the Trump administration has worked against the LGBTQ community including:
• Reversed a federal policy that said transgender workers were protected from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Argued that its legal to fire LGBTQ employees for being
• Supported Colorado baker Jack Phillips at the Supreme Court for turning away gay customers
• Withdrawn guidance that said Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bans anti-transgender discrimination in federally funded schools
• Proposed banning transgender service members in the U.S. military
• Declined to appoint an LGBTQ liaison for the White House that would help communication between the administration and LGBTQ organizations and advocates
This is clearly a time that we, as a community, have to stay woke. We have to stay vigilant. We have to be involved.
And most importantly, we have to vote.
News Round-Up: June 8, 2018
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Some news items you might have missed:
• Participating in the AIDS/Life Cycle, InstaHunk Kevin Carnell (above) has raised over $15K! Just another of many obvious reasons to follow him on Instagram. #Woof
• Family Research Council president Tony Perkins is furious that a Crossfit exec was fired for being anti-LGBT.
• There’s going to be a calendar for America’s hottest gingers – you know you want to take a look 🙂
• Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller brought new obstruction charges on Friday against President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and added allegations against a close associate, who prosecutors suspect has ties to Russian intelligence. Manafort could have his current bail revoked as Mueller’s team caught Manafort contacting possible witnesses in his case which is seen as attempting to influence their testimony.
• Remember convicted gay basher Kathryn Knott who went to jail for leading an attack on a gay couple in Philly’s Center City neighborhood? Bucks County Commissioners approved a settlement agreement of more than $52K with a Norristown woman who claimed the county District Attorney’s Office retaliated against her because of disparaging comments she made about Knott on social media.
• Check out new music from Zach Adam Feat. Adam Joseph “Gravity,” from new LGBTQ music label, Magic Town Media.
The track is a gorgeous pop track about yearning to overcome addiction and depression. I like the track muchly.
If you are considering suicide please call and reach out – The Trevor Lifeline is a 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention phone service available at 1-866-488-7386.
Christian Hypocrisy: Trump Gets A “Mulligan” For Personal Failings
In an interview with Politico’s “Off Message” podcast, anti-LGBT right-winger Tony Perkins said that conservative Evangelicals have basically given Donald Trump a “mulligan” for his personal failings regarding alleged affairs and the infamous “grab’em by the pussy” comment on video.
Perkins made it clear that as long as Trump’s policies stay in line with far-right conservatives, they’re willing to turn a blind eye to his personal issues and racist comments.
Similarly, in a recent CNN interview, evangelical leader Franklin Graham also swept Trump’s personal shortcomings aside saying, “These alleged affairs, they’re alleged with Trump, didn’t happen while he was in office.”
“This happened 11, 12, 13, 14 years ago,” he said. “And so, I think there is a big difference and not that we give anybody a pass, but we have to look at the timeline and that was before he was in office.”
Responding to those comments on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” former RNC chairman Michael Steele was not having any of that:
“I have very simple admonition: just shut the hell up and don’t preach to me about anything ever again. I don’t want to hear it, because after telling me who to love, what to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don’t matter, the grabbing the you-know-what doesn’t matter, the outright behavior and lies don’t matter, just shut up! They have no voice of authority anymore for me.”
Watch Steel’s comments below
News Round-Up: November 18, 2017
Some news items you might have missed:
• InstaHunk of the day (above) – Woofy Killian Belliard
• According to the FBI, hate crimes in the U.S. saw a 5% increase in 2016. Of the 6,121 incidents reported 1,076 were based on sexual orientation bias and 124 were based on gender identity bias.
• A new report from the University of Chicago found that LGBTQ young adults had a 120 percent higher risk of reporting homelessness compared to youth who identified as heterosexual and cisgender.
• Aides in Donald Trump’s White House pick and choose which polls to show him making sure he sees primarily the “good ones.”
• Anti-LGBT hate group leader Tony Perkins helped to cover up a sexual assault by now-disgraced GOP Ohio State Rep. Wesley Goodman back in 2015. Goodman allegedly invited an 18-year-old male to crash in his hotel room and when the teenager woke up Goodman had unbuttoned his pants and was pulling his zipper down.
• Miss Coco Peru, famous for her illuminating shopping trips, heads out to Walmart in search of a Wonder Woman crock pot. Watch below.
• Oh, and Simon Dunn did his laundry 🙂
Dirty Laundry Photographer: @dillingerphotography Underwear: @prowlerukA post shared by 🇦🇺 Simon Dunn (@thesimondunn) on Nov 17, 2017 at 9:49am PST
News Round-Up: June 20, 2017
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Some news items you may have missed:
• It’s 112 degrees here in Las Vegas – I can’t imagine grilling in my backyard. So, I’ll just look at fitness model Lony Pizarro tend to his grill 😉
• Virulently anti-LGBT activist Tony Perkins does NOT appreciate the irony that Rep. Steve Scalise, who has attended white nationalist events in the past, was saved at last week’s DC shooting by a married, black lesbian.
• Barbie’s boyfriend Ken got multiple makeovers including seven skin tones, three body types and even a man-bun. I wonder if Barbie knows all the Kens are attending Pride this year…?
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• Ryan Phillippe reflects on playing the first openly gay teenager on TV: “There had never been a gay teenager represented on television up until that point: It’s before Will & Grace, it’s before Ellen came out, it’s before any of that stuff. I remember the fan mail that we would get, my mother and I would get, from gay teenagers or from parents of gay teenagers who found a way in to relate to or talk to their child through the show. Entertainment media can do those things, it can make people think differently or see a different side of something and I do remember and appreciating that — even back then when I was only a teenager myself. But in terms of like the larger view, I didn’t have a full understanding of how important it could have been, but I’m proud to have done it, I’m proud that that’s something I can say was a part of my career.”
• Asked why White House press briefings are becoming less frequent and off-camera, Trump advisor Steve Bannon replied to The Atlantic, “Sean (Spicer) got fatter.”
• The woofy Kilted Coaches show their support for Pride Month via this “rainbow-y” (kilt-less) video:
Protestors Confront Hate Leader Tony Perkins: “You’re Lies Are Killing Us”
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Bravo Angela Peoples of GetEQUAL for calling out anti-LGBT activist Tony Perkins.
Perkins was one of several “faith leaders” who met with presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday at a private meeting where, it seems, Trump tried making the case that he IS indeed ‘Christian’ enough to be the president of the United States.
Via Raw Story:
The advocacy group GetEQUAL took credit for the demonstration in a statement sent on Tuesday afternoon, identifying the protesters as the organization’s co-directors, Heather Cronk and Angela Peoples.
“The incisive hate-mongering of Donald Trump and right-wing religious ‘leaders’ is responsible not only for the massacre in Orlando, but also for the systemic violence that trans and queer people of color face everyday,” Peoples said in the statement. “That violence doesn’t just happen in the streets or at nightclubs — it happens in the legislative chambers where right wing politicians have passed over 250 bills restricting the rights of LGBTQ people and people of color.”
.@mspeoples confronts Tony Perkins of the @FRCdc “what do you have to say for yourself Tony Perkins?” pic.twitter.com/V8XBov0iwF— GetEQUAL (@GetEQUAL) June 21, 2016