'The Breaks' Tackles Homophobia and Suicide in Hip-Hop
The new VH1 show follows fictional rapper J. Mic from rap battles to sexual reconciliation.
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/3/13/breaks-tackles-homophobia-and-suicide-hip-hop
Daily Archives: March 13, 2017
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Dyke March. Toronto, July 2, 2016.
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John Lewis: Steve King's 'Somebody Else's Babies' Remarks 'Deeply Disturbing'
John Lewis: Steve King's 'Somebody Else's Babies' Remarks 'Deeply Disturbing'
Lewis said King’s statement must be condemned.
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The downside of being too handsome? Pietro Boselli explains
The downside of being too handsome? Pietro Boselli explains
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To ask a handsome man to explain the downside of being handsome is to set that person up for failure.
Related: Did Pietro Boselli accidentally show his wares during this photoshoot?
Yet physique model/math teacher Pietro Boselli rises to the occasion well, and manages to not completely cheese himself out.
“I don’t think there would be any direct disadvantage,” he says, “apart from maybe some stereotypes or the fact that people won’t necessarily focus on other aspects of your personality.”
Last week in Milan with @dsquared2 ?? #bitchwhere
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As for judging people by their physical appearance first, he says, “We cannot help it.”
“It’s obvious that if someone to you looks good, you’re more prone to being talkative to them or to approach them. When that happens, you overlook other things.”
As for how fellow academics have responded to his modeling career, he says:
“I felt like people in academe would look down on that. Only by growing up and maturing, you will learn how to embrace every aspect of your life and see that it is amazing, that you can do things that are so different. Explore a talent that otherwise wouldn’t be explored in academe at all.”
America's LGBT Centers Are Under Attack
America's LGBT Centers Are Under Attack
An attack in Washington, D.C., is the latest in terrifying trend, in which queer community centers have been shot at, smashed, and defaced since the presidential election.
www.advocate.com/crime/2017/3/13/americas-lgbt-centers-are-under-attack
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TV’s highest paid gay man is about to get a Mini-Me
TV’s highest paid gay man is about to get a Mini-Me
Jim Parsons isn’t just the highest paid gay actor on television, he’s the highest paid actor on TV, period. To the tune of $25.5 million in 2016.
People really, really like The Big Bang Theory — it’s one of life’s great unexplained mysteries.
The show has been on the air for an impressive 10 seasons, and now the BBT universe will expand into a look at Parsons’ character, Sheldon Cooper, in his formative years.
Young Sheldon, the aptly named spinoff series set to premiere in the 2017-18 season on CBS, will follow the trials and tribulations of 9-year-old Sheldon, played by Iain Armitage (who currently stars in HBO’s Big Little Lies as Shailene Woodley’s on-screen son).
Parsons will narrate as adult-Sheldon, and the whole thing just sounds like a total hoot.
Because everybody loves a spin-off, as evidenced by the below opening credits to Joey, the Friends spin-off you totally forgot existed (for good reason):
24 Million Will Lose Health Insurance Under Trumpcare: CBO
24 Million Will Lose Health Insurance Under Trumpcare: CBO
The much-anticipated report from the Congressional Budget Office on the Trumpcare replacement for the Affordable Care Act is out, and the news is not good.
The Congressional Budget Office on Monday projected that the House leadership’s American Health Care Act would result in 24 million Americans losing their health insurance while raising premiums for those covered on the individual market. Their bill would lower federal deficits by $337 billion over 10 years, largely as a result of cuts to Medicaid that would reduce its enrollment by 14 million, according to the estimate.
CBO is the official nonpartisan scorekeeper of legislation on Capitol Hill, and its projections on the impact of policy proposals can determine whether they have the political momentum to pass the House and Senate.
Prepare for the GOP to cast immediate aspersions on the report and for Trump to try and delegitimize the CBO.
ObamaCare is imploding. It is a disaster and 2017 will be the worst year yet, by far! Republicans will come together and save the day.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2017
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Trump’s Muslim Ban Could Be a Death Sentence for Many LGBTs
Trump’s Muslim Ban Could Be a Death Sentence for Many LGBTs
This revised travel ban remains completely unacceptable, writes Jessica Stern of OutRight International.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/3/13/trumps-muslim-ban-could-be-death-sentence-many-lgbts