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That other time Katy Perry acted creepy towards a young man is coming back to haunt her

That other time Katy Perry acted creepy towards a young man is coming back to haunt her

Singer Katy Perry is currently at the center of a #HimToo scandal involving the male love interest from her 2010 music video “Teenage Dream,” and it’s reminding people of that other time she was at the center of a #HimToo scandal involving a young male contestant on American Idol.

In a series of (now private) Instagram posts shared last weekend, actor Josh Kloss accused Perry of pulling down his sweatpants at a July 14, 2012 birthday party in Los Angeles and exposing him to partygoers.

“As I turned to introduce my friend, she pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as she could to show a couple of her guy friends, and the crowd around us, my penis,” Kloss alleges.

The accusations have divided Perry fans. Some are sticking up for the embattled singer…

I am very sorry your career didn’t exactly take off Josh Kloss. But I’ll never believe the things you’re saying about @katyperry. She was obviously just akwardly flirting with you if anything. This is boloney. I would consider it defamation of character.

— Amanda Long? (@AProscuitto) August 13, 2019

The fact that it took Josh Kloss 9 years to speak out against Katy Perry for “sexual harassment” says one thing about him, he wants money too! Very ridiculous. He was just praising her a few months ago on how “grateful” he was because Katy had him in his tennage dream video.

— Karina Sanchez (@kariisanc) August 12, 2019

I can ASSURE you that if @katyperry really assaulted that Josh Kloss guy at a PARTY, NINE YEARS ago, he would’ve spoken earlier. if he didnt others [at the party] would’ve. no he is just crazy obsessed with her. ever since shooting the video he wrote her songs, poems, had a…

— Haus von Katy (@HausKaty) August 12, 2019

While others are declaring her cancelled and using the hashtag #KatyPerryIsOverParty

I believe Josh Kloss. Men should be awarded the same respect women get when they cry “me too” #KatyPerryIsOverParty

— Irving (@IrvingWev) August 13, 2019

Take allegations seriously. Just because Josh Kloss is a man and the person he is accusing, Katy Perry, is a celebrity doesn’t mean the allegations are any less valid

— Audrey // Lover (@PetermanAudrey) August 13, 2019

so it turns out katy perry has sexually harassed josh kloss. #KatyPerryIsOverParty

— Craigs’ Sane Asylum (@CraigsSane) August 12, 2019

Regardless of whether the incident with Kloss actually happened, the situation has reminded people of a time Perry really did behave in a way many felt was inappropriate.

It happened during the premiere of last year’s reboot of American Idol…

All these people out here saying Josh Kloss is a liar clearly don’t remember when Katy Perry robbed that dude of his first kiss on American Idol and thought she was funny. I believe him.

— Nancy ? (@itsnannnn) August 13, 2019

eh i can believe it. When i saw Katy make that contestant on American Idol kiss her i knew something was fishy #joshkloss #KatyPerry

— young x’ster (@me1odicgal4xy) August 13, 2019

I believe Josh Kloss!! Does anyone watch @AmericanIdol @katyperry is a straight pedophile. She’s always saying sexual things about young male artist in auditions. #DailyMail

— Chrissy ?? (@cowboy_chrissy4) August 13, 2019

A clip from the episode has begun circulating online once again. In it, Perry can be seen fawning over 19-year-old contestant Benjamin Glaze during his audition.

When asked, “Have you kissed a girl and liked it?”, Glaze, who heralds from a small town in Oklahoma, replied that he hadn’t, and that he was saving his first kiss for his first “real relationship.”

That’s when Perry, who was nearly 15 years his senior, stood up and beckoned, “Come here! Come here right now!” Obviously nervous, Glaze walked over. Perry then proceeded to trick him into kissing her on the lips.

Afterwards, Glaze asked for water before performing for the judges, who ultimately declined to advance him to the next round.

Later, Glaze told The New York Times, “I was a tad bit uncomfortable” by the whole thing, adding that if Perry had actually asked him for a kiss, he would have declined, but that, ultimately, he didn’t hold anything against her as it helped give his music more exposure.

He added that he wasn’t happy with his audition, saying, “I should have picked another song to sing and calmed myself down regardless of the kiss. I should have been able to perform under pressure.”

Many pointed out the double standard in Perry’s behavior, saying that if the tables had been reversed, and it had been a male judge demanding a female contestant 15 years his junior kiss him at an audition only to cast her away moments later, people would have been outraged.

Perry, who has a large gay fan base, has featured drag stars in her live performances and became infamous for two of her early songs, “I Kissed a Girl” and her homophobic tune “Ur so gay,” never responded to the criticism.

She has also yet to respond to the allegations made by Kloss.

Related: Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” man-crush says she forcibly exposed his junk at a party

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Dan Levy to be honored with the Davidson/Valentini Award at the 2019 GLAAD Gala San Francisco

Dan Levy to be honored with the Davidson/Valentini Award at the 2019 GLAAD Gala San Francisco

Credit: Dan Levy

Today, GLAAD announced that Emmy®-nominated showrunner, writer, director, producer, and actor Dan Levy will be honored with the Davidson/Valentini Award at the 2019 GLAAD Gala San Francisco on September 28th. GLAAD’s Davidson/Valentini Award is presented to an LGBTQ media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting acceptance for the LGBTQ community. 

Dan Levy is best known for his work on the groundbreaking comedy series, Schitt’s Creek, which he co-created with his father, Eugene Levy. In addition to being the co-creator, showrunner, executive producer, and writer of Schitt’s Creek, Levy stars as the hilarious David Rose, one of the first openly pansexual characters depicted on television. Schitt’s Creek airs on CBC in Canada and Pop TV in the United States.

“Through his work on-screen and behind the scenes of Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy moves LGBTQ visibility on television forward in humorous, compelling, and necessary ways,” says Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “By featuring and celebrating a pansexual character, Dan and Schitt’s Creek are expanding representation of the spectrum of idenities within the LGBTQ community in a way that other content creators should model. Dan has been such a powerful advocate throughout his career, and continues to use his platform to uplift and inspire LGBTQ youth.”

Schitt’s Creek has earned its fair share of accolades just this year alone, boasting four Emmy® nominations, a TCA Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy and a GLAAD Media Awards nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series. Levy also won Best Comedic Performance at the MTV Movie & TV Awards for his role on the show, as well as a Canadian Screen Award for Best Comedy. In total, the show has garnered nearly two dozen awards and more than 50 nominations.

Levy, who identifies as a gay man, has consistently been recognized as a trailblazer in the LGBTQ community. In 2015, Levy was included in the OUT 100 list, a spotlight on the LGBTQ community’s brightest voices. In 2017, Levy used his online platform to call out a Globe & Mail reporter for using “offensive, irresponsible, and homophobic” language to describe him, and sent a message of positivity and love to youth who have ever been criticized for being different. In 2018, Levy and Schitt’s Creek created an online fundraiser called “Fight For Our Future,” which raised money for GLAAD to “continue to fight for the rights of LGBTQ people everywhere.” In June 2019, Levy was also honored in Queerty’s Pride50, a list of “50 trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people.” This year on Levy’s birthday on August 9, Schitt’s Creek fans raised over $20,000 for the LGBT Youth Line in Ontario, Canada, which will go towards providing resources to LGBTQ youth in rural areas and indigenous communities across the province. 

Previous recipients of the Davidson/Valentini Award include Ross Mathews, Don Lemon, Lee Daniels, Adam Lambert, Hannah Hart, Sandra Bernhard, Alec Mapa, Tyler Oakley, B.D. Wong, and Ilene Chaiken, among others.

The GLAAD Gala San Francisco celebrates and features storytellers and tech innovators who accelerate LGBTQ acceptance and helps fund GLAAD’s digital advocacy work to grow LGBTQ inclusion in digital and social media. 

The 2019 GLAAD Gala San Francisco, which will be hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race and Broadway star Peppermint, will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on September 28th. For more information on the event, including how to purchase tickets, visit www.glaad.org/events/2019-san-francisco-gala

The 2019 GLAAD Gala San Francisco is presented by Gilead, Ketel One Family-Made Vodka & Wells Fargo, with official partner Google. 

August 13, 2019

www.glaad.org/blog/dan-levy-be-honored-davidsonvalentini-award-2019-glaad-gala-san-francisco

GLAAD Responds to IMDb Revision of Birth Name Policy for Transgender Professionals in the Entertainment Industry: “it remains imperfect”

GLAAD Responds to IMDb Revision of Birth Name Policy for Transgender Professionals in the Entertainment Industry: “it remains imperfect”

Credit: IMDb

Today, GLAAD responded to IMDb’s revised birth name policy that will now allow some entertainment industry professionals to remove their birth names from the biography section of their profiles.

“Revealing a transgender person’s birth name without permission is an invasion of privacy that can put them at risk for discrimination,” said Nick Adams, GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Media. “IMDb’s new policy is a step in the right direction and gives some transgender professionals in the entertainment industry the dignity and respect that they’ve long deserved – however, it remains imperfect. Trans people with credits under their old name for work in front of or behind the camera will still be affected by IMDb’s determination to publish outdated information. The platform still has a long way to go in maintaining the privacy of all the entertainment industry professionals listed on the site. GLAAD and SAG-AFTRA, along with trans people working in Hollywood, will continue to advocate that IMDb create policies that respect everyone’s privacy and safety.”

An IMDb spokesperson explained the new policy to Variety, noting that: “IMDb now permits the removal of birth names if the birth name is not broadly publicly known and the person no longer voluntarily uses their birth name.” They continued: “To remove a birth name either the person concerned or their professional industry representative simply needs to contact IMDb’s customer support staff to request a birth name removal. Once the IMDb team determines that an individual’s birth name should be removed — subject to this updated process — we will review and remove every occurrence of their birth name within their biographical page on IMDB.”

It is important to note that, according to Variety, the IMDb spokesperson said for prior credits where a transgender person was credited as their birth name, that old name will remain listed in parentheses in the credits section of their own IMDb page and the title pages for the project. For actors and below the line professionals like cinematographers, editors, production designers, art directors, makeup artists, and costume designers, this policy means their private gender history is disclosed to potential employers whenever they apply for a new job.

It is good news that some transgender people whose birth name was added to IMDb without their consent are now able to have that name removed, but GLAAD reached out to IMDb and parent company Amazon for clarification around this policy and to explain the continuing harm caused by allowing prior credits to remain on the site unchanged.

In June 2019, GLAAD signed on to support SAG-AFTRA in the fight against IMDb from publishing performers’ private information. Other LGBTQ organizations including the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Transgender Law Center, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Transcend Legal, Inc, and the Equality Federation also signed on. GLAAD and other organizations called for change via numerous media appearances and at industry events. In a legal filing, the coalition of organizations joined SAG-AFTRA in speaking out against the continued publication of the birth names of transgender performers and people in the entertainment industry without their consent. Read the legal filing in full here

SAG-AFTRA has been fighting for enforcement of California’s anti-age discrimination law, known as AB 1687, which requires subscription-based entertainment casting databases such as IMDbPro to remove paid subscribers’ date-of-birth information from its websites, including IMDb.com, upon request. In February 2018, a judge stopped enforcement of the law. SAG-AFTRA and its allies are currently appealing that ruling with oral argument before the Ninth Circuit scheduled on Sept. 9.

Today, SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris also responded to the policy change: “While this half-measure is a step forward in protecting the personal safety of and reducing employment discrimination for transgender people, in revising its birth name policy, IMDb admits to invading the privacy of performers and putting them at risk for discrimination. IMDb can make no principled distinction to justify its arbitrary choices about when to invade the privacy of performers.”

Carteris continued, “IMDb has more work to do. SAG-AFTRA and its allies continue to fight to protect all performers and for enforcement of California’s anti-age discrimination law. This change in birth name policy should help make it clear to the appellate judges that the harm here is fundamental and compelling, and that California law AB 1687 is necessary in order to remedy IMDb’s discriminatory practice.”

August 13, 2019

www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-responds-imdb-revision-birth-name-policy-transgender-professionals-entertainment-industry

Odell Beckham Jr. shuts down homophobes mocking his thirst-inducing Calvin Klein photo shoot

Odell Beckham Jr. shuts down homophobes mocking his thirst-inducing Calvin Klein photo shoot

NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. is not having any of the homophobic nonsense currently being directed at him on social media.

This week, the Cleveland Browns receiver shared a thirsty photo from his upcoming Calvin Klein underwear campaign to Instagram, along with the caption: “Here’s a pic of me and a world class lamp.”

So far, the photo, which is part of a larger campaign that also includes Diplo, Gigi Hadid, Jacob Elordi, Lay Zhang, and Jelly Lin in “real-life” situations, has received over 800K likes and 22K comments, including several homophobic ones.

“Boy look gay as hell,” one person wrote.

“Omm he gay,” another added.

“He low key gay tho,” a third person said.

But it didn’t stop there.

“Bro that’s mad weird,” someone else commented.

“He tryna defend the fact that he’s gay,” yet another person added.

“It’s not too late to delete this breh,” wrote another follower.

Beckham directly responded to the criticism in a comment on the post that read:

Yallll chilllll mann damnnnn! It be a lot of y’all sayin sus and alll the other comments that realllly be a direct reflection of who u are! Im straight! Like beyond it. If I sit here and defend myself y’all gon say im tryna defend myself , if I sit there and say nothin yalll gon say ‘seee he didn’t say anything..’I’m good wit me. Which is dumb straightttt… Period. lol I don’t neeed to say this shxt no mooooo! Half y’all girls in these comments. This the last time ima break this shxt down for y’all. And lastly before I got hit the weight room! Much love to everybody out there! Fellas sorry man, gotta get a (bag) for it!

In a recent interview with GQ, Beckham addressed the gay rumors that have been following him around since 2015.

“I’ve never had an opportunity to talk about this,” he said. “Honestly wasn’t offended.  … It was almost more funny to me.”

Later in the interview, he added, “I have no problem with anyone’s sexual orientation. … Love is love. If you’re attracted to somebody, you’re attracted to somebody. There was such a stigma built up, [as though] I don’t like my own women. It’s like, no, I don’t like anybody who annoys me. [laughs]”

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Arizona County Supervisor Ron Gould: ‘Sinful’ Gay People Die Young Because of Their Sexual Orientation

Arizona County Supervisor Ron Gould: ‘Sinful’ Gay People Die Young Because of Their Sexual Orientation

Mohave County Supervisor and former Arizona state senator Ron Gould is under fire for remarks he made to the local newspaper Kingman Daily Miner (subscription).

Gould told the newspaper that gay men have a life expectancy of 42 years.

Asked if he believes they die younger because of their sexual orientation, Gould replied, “That’s why they die. We all have our sins, but we should try to suppress them. Alcohol is harmful, too, but we don’t see groups promoting alcoholism.”

Gould also said that marriage is not a civil right for gay people, adding, “It used to be ‘tolerate us,’; now it’s ‘accept us.’”

Ron Gould’s anti-#LGBTQ+ Rhetoric Needs to be Shut Down! t.co/hgKI1dyauA #LakeHavasu #MohaveCounty #Arizona pic.twitter.com/cBKdtu6Fon

— Stonewall Dems AZ (@StonewallDemsAZ) August 11, 2019

Of the ‘gays die at 42’ claim, the Phoenix New Times writes, “Gould probably got the number from an unscientific study conducted by the anti-gay Family Research Institute in 1994. Researcher Paul Cameron — who was terminated from the American Psychological Association over his research methods — counted obituaries in newspapers serving the LGBTQ community and allegedly found an average life span of 43 for gay men.”

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Arizona County Supervisor Ron Gould: ‘Sinful’ Gay People Die Young Because of Their Sexual Orientation