Bear Hunting Season Is Year Round at Bearracuda (Photos)

www.advocate.com/photography/2017/5/15/bear-hunting-season-year-round-bearracuda-photos

Does Kate McKinnon’s Debette Goldry Help or Hurt Women in Hollywood Today?

McKinnon’s aging actress is hilarious, but it’s not clear if the satire highlights ongoing issues for actresses.

www.advocate.com/women/2017/5/15/does-kate-mckinnons-debette-goldry-help-or-hurt-women-hollywood-today

ABC canceled her favorite Tim Allen show, so she went on a homophobic Facebook rant. Makes sense.
It’s a rough day for everyone, but Debbie had an especially hard time.

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“Flash” star proudly comes out as bisexual
“I like to change my hair, I like to take risks with how I dress, I like girls, & I like guys (yes).”

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The Gifted, Lana Del Rey, Syria, Callista Gingrich, James Comey, Katy Perry, Eurovision: HOT LINKS

THE TRUMP TAPES. Trump may have secret tapes from Oval Office.

TERRIFYING. How Trump gets his fake news. “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Trump. Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from the 1970s, warned of a coming ice age; the other, from 2008, about surviving global warming, according to four White House officials familiar with the matter.”

TRUMP’S FITNESS THEORY. Says a lot. “There has been considerable speculation about Trump’s physical and mental health, in part because few facts are known. During the campaign, his staff reported that he was six feet three inches tall and weighed two hundred and thirty-six pounds, which is considered overweight but not obese. His personal physician, Harold N. Bornstein, issued brief, celebratory statements—Trump’s lab-test results were “astonishingly excellent”—mentioning little more than a daily dose of aspirin and a statin. Trump himself says that he is “not a big sleeper” (“I like three hours, four hours”) and professes a fondness for steak and McDonald’s. Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.”

HACKED. ISIS Twitter accounts hacked again and filled with gay porn.

FLASHER. Bare Aussie butt wins Eurovision song contest.

MASS ATROCITIES. Syrian government killing 50 detainees a day and hiding remains by using crematorium near the Saydnaya Military Prison: “Although the regime’s many atrocities are well-documented, we believe the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass atrocities taking place in Saydnaya prison,” Jones said. “We are appalled by the atrocities taking place in Syria” with the “seemingly unconditional support of Russian and Iran.”

LOG CABIN REPUBLICAN. Gregory T. Angelo’s Reddit AMA.

STEPFORD ENVOY. Callista Gingrich named ambassador to the Vatican: “The White House hopes to announce her nomination before President Donald Trump meets with Pope Francis on May 24 in Rome.”

FUN HOME. James Comey steps out to the gay-themed Broadway hit following his firing.

Today James Comey and his wife Patrice joined us at #FunHome in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/W5HLrgKaPi

— Fun Home (@funhomemusical) May 13, 2017

ALASKA. Rep. Mo Brooks (R) to announce run for U.S. Senate: “On Sunday evening, Brooks’ political team released a set of four media events for Monday, all in Alabama. The move, according to top Alabama operatives close to the congressman or other declared or likely candidates for U.S. Senate, is Brooks’ plan to announce that he’s running for the Senate seat now held by Luther Strange.”

STEFANI. Lady Gaga will use her real name for A Star is Born.

CHELSEA MANNING. She’ll be on active duty after release: “While she appeals her court-martial, Manning will remain an active duty Army private, eligible for healthcare and access to commissaries and military exchanges, Army spokesman Dave Foster said. It is unclear to which Army post she will report.”

MALE MODEL MONDAY. Charles Melton. More here.

MONTANA AND GEORGIA. Special elections show healthcare agenda’s effect on local races. “The GOP nominees in both special elections have taken different positions on the bill, which has repeatedly polled at below 30 percent support. In Montana, Greg Gianforte publicly distanced himself, but in leaked audio of a private call, he was supportive of its passage. Meanwhile in Georgia, Karen Handel came out strongly in favor of the bill, which was embraced by President Trump.”

BRUCE, GET YOUR DICK OUT. Caitlyn Jenner hears transphobic taunt from photographer. “As she left the event at the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London an onlooker hurled transphobic abuse at her until she got into a car.It is also claimed that someone threw something at her while the vile comments were being made.”

ALBUM COVER OF THE DAY. Katy Perry, Witness. And a tour.

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Marvel’s The Gifted.

NEW TUNE OF THE DAY. Lana del Rey “Coachella – Woodstock in my Mind”.

MONDAY MUSCLE. Jerome Stark.

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Trump Expands “Global Gag Rule” Putting Millions at Risk Worldwide

HRC condemned the Trump Administration’s massive expansion of the so-called “Global Gag Rule” (GGR), which stops any U.S. aid to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide abortion information, referrals or services — even when they provide those services with their own, non-U.S. funding. The Trump Administration’s shameful announcement comes at the beginning of National Women’s Health Week, a week aimed at encouraging women to prioritize their health.

“HRC has long opposed the ‘Global Gag Rule’ and any policies that seek to limit access to critical healthcare services,” said HRC Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs, JoDee Winterhof. “This egregious expansion puts millions more lives at risk, including those living with HIV and AIDS. Withholding U.S. aid as a tool to limit anyone’s access to health is simply un-American and stands in direct opposition to our country’s role as a global leader for democracy and human rights.This is another reckless move by the Trump Administration designed to cynically please his extremist base without regard for consequences.”

While previous Republican presidents had applied the GGR, also known as the Mexico City Policy, only to U.S. funding for family planning services, it now affects all U.S. international health funding, whether that funding be for children’s health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, or tuberculosis. It will also apply to funding that comes from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. State Department or even the Department of Defense. Thus, an international organization that works to prevent the spread of HIV would no longer be eligible to receive U.S. funding because it also has a part of their organization that counsels women who were raped and may be seeking an abortion.

Earlier this year, HRC joined 137 other organizations in a coalition statement opposing the global gag rule. The statement illustrated the many consequences of the global gag rule: “when in place, the negative impacts of the global gag rule have been broad and severe: health services have been dismantled in a number of communities; clinics that provided a range of reproductive, maternal, and child health care, including HIV testing and counseling, were forced to close; outreach efforts to hard to reach populations were eliminated.“

The GGR was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan and has been rescinded by Democratic presidents only to be reinstated by Republican presidents. It not only blocks funding to community, science-based groups that have decades of medical experience, but it also has the effect of funneling additional funding to religious-based groups that are anti-abortion and spread a message of intolerance, homophobia and transphobia.

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Marriage Equality Support at All-Time High; Republicans Still Lag

A new Gallup poll finds record support, but a majority of Republicans still oppose marriage equality.

www.advocate.com/marriage-equality/2017/5/15/marriage-equality-support-all-time-high-republicans-still-lag

Breaking: Harry Styles does not identify as heterosexual
The 23-year-old singer says that he “never felt the need” to define his sexual orientation.

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