‘Sense8’ Brings Sexy Back to Sci-Fi, SNL, Andy Cohen Travels Time and More TV This Week

‘Sense8’ Brings Sexy Back to Sci-Fi, SNL, Andy Cohen Travels Time and More TV This Week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

If five nights of Watch What Happens Live isn’t enough Andy Cohen in your life, tune in to see the dapper host talk his way through pop culture’s past with Andy Cohen’s Then and Now Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on Bravo.

The boys are back on Fire Island, and tensions continue to mount. This week the guys are dealing with long-distance love, a drag pageant and, I kid you not, another guy named Brandon. Catch the new episode Thursday at 8 p.m Eastern Thursday on Logo. (Catch up with our recaps here.)

The Wachowskis’ brain-bending, sexually-fluid sci-fi drama Sense8 is back with a new season Friday on Netflix. We don’t want to miss a minute of smoldering Spanish star Miguel Ángel Silvestre or the spectacular trans actress Jamie Clayton.

With more and more cannon-fodder queens packing up their pumps each week, we’re starting to get down to the top performers on RuPaul’s Drag Race season nine. After last week’s Snatch Game, the ladies now turn their talents to a ‘90s teen soap challenge Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern on VH1.

Gird your loins, boys, because Hollywood hunk Chris Pine takes the hosting reigns on SNL, Saturday at 11:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC.

What are you watching this week on TV?

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‘Sense8’ Brings Sexy Back to Sci-Fi, SNL, Andy Cohen Travels Time and More TV This Week

Tech Jobs Tour Portland 2017

Tech Jobs Tour Portland 2017

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Tech Jobs Tour Portland 2017

The Tech Jobs Tour convenes America’s innovators across all areas of technology. Come for the speed mentoring and product demos, stay for the high-fives and ultra-diverse networking.

We’ll be in Seattle on May 24th: bit.ly/TECHJOBSTOURSEATTLEFB (Tell your peeps!)

Photo from Tech Jobs Tour Portland on April 27, 2017 at Coopers Hall (Portland, OR).

Tech Jobs Tour Portland 2017

Trump Says He’d Be ‘Honored’ to Meet With North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un

Trump Says He’d Be ‘Honored’ to Meet With North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un

U.S. President Donald Trump, after weeks of assailing North Korea’s nuclear weapons ambitions, said Monday he would be “honored” to meet with Pyongyang’s leader, Kim Jong Un, “under the right circumstances” to discuss the issue. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Trump declared, “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would…

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Shirtless Violinist Aces Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ While Swinging in a Giant Hoop: WATCH

Shirtless Violinist Aces Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ While Swinging in a Giant Hoop: WATCH

This is the chandelier everyone should have above their banquet table.

YouTube’s Shirtless Violinist has followed up his gay Beauty and the Beast extravaganza with a stunning acrobatic performance of Sia’s “Chandelier” in which he manages to remain perfectly composed while spinning through the air in a ring in all manner of positions.

SV explains:

I hope you like my cover of “Chandelier” by Sia. This is one of my all-time favorite pop songs and I think it sounds beautiful on the violin. I almost called this video “Shirtless Violinist In Space” – watch and you’ll see why. It’s kind of like that movie “Gravity” but with more violins and fewer shirts…

I have a confession: If I had any clue how much this was going to HURT before we filmed this video, I would have said “forget it!!” You guys, aerial arts are no joke! They require a lot of strength and skill and above all else…a willingness to take physical punishment! Those silks whipped my ass and that hoop pummeled me hard! When you watch the video it isn’t hard to see the red welts along my back – ouch!

However, I expected some pain – so I can’t say I was too surprised by that part. What I didn’t expect was the motion sickness!! I always thought I was impervious to such things. I’ve never been car sick and I love riding roller coasters. But neither of those things could have prepared me for playing my violin upside-down while spinning on a giant hoop for 4 straight hours! Note to self: You’re not 7 years old any more!

I have never felt so sick in my life! I spent every second between takes laying flat on my back.

But you know what? It was totally worth it, and now I have a ton of respect for the aerial arts. If you haven’t done it before, I highly recommend you give it a try. Just don’t do what I did…maybe take a beginner’s class? Yeah, that would be far more sensible…

Check out the beautiful track:

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Shirtless Violinist Aces Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ While Swinging in a Giant Hoop: WATCH

Why The Equality Act Can’t Wait Any Longer

Why The Equality Act Can’t Wait Any Longer

Today, millions of LGBTQ Americans still lack basic legal protections in states across the country – leaving our community vulnerable to discrimination that compromises our safety, families, jobs and our lives.

In fact, in a majority of states, LGBTQ people can get married on Saturday and risk being fired from their job on Monday because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That’s wrong and it’s dangerous- and that’s why Congress must pass the Equality Act.

Tomorrow, Congress will reintroduce the Equality Act with bipartisan and unprecedented corporate support. The Equalityl would extend existing civil rights protections to LGBTQ people by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity across key areas of life, including employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally-funded programs and jury service.

Discrimination is still a real and persistent problem for many LGBTQ Americans. HRC polling from 2015 found that nearly two-thirds of self-identified LGBTQ Americans report experiencing discrimination — including people like Carter Brown, a transgender man from Texas who lost his job after he was outed by his colleagues.

And Brown isn’t alone in his quest for non-discrimination protections — roughly 50 percent of LGBTQ Americans live in states where they’re at risk of being fired, denied housing, or refused service because of who they are. There is no federal law explicitly protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination and 31 states still lack fully-inclusive non-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community. Passing this law would not only protect thousands of LGBTQ people from losing their jobs, but will help our community to thrive in the workplace and in society.  

As momentum for full equality continues to grow, Congress must act to combat and extinguish LGBTQ discriminaiton once and for all.

Stay tuned to HRC’s blog and social media channels for more information about the Equality Act. 

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