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Daily Archives: September 24, 2014
LGBT Workplace Inclusion Conference
LGBT Workplace Inclusion Conference
Last week, HRC partnered with ONE Community to host the third LGBT Workplace Inclusion Conference in Tempe, Arizona to discuss ways to promote a welcoming and fully LGBT-inclusive workplace.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/lgbt-workplace-inclusion-conference?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Barbra Streisand Overwhelmed To Received Historic 10th Number One Album
Barbra Streisand Overwhelmed To Received Historic 10th Number One Album
Hearing the news that Partners entered the charts at #1 was an overwhelming feeling of joy!!
Being told that I’ve had #1 albums in six consecutive decades makes me feel truly blessed and grateful to have such loyal fans. I feel you rooting for me and I so appreciate all of your energy and support.
It’s especially sweet since I get to share this moment with my wonderfully talented partners who I had the pleasure of singing with: Michael Bublé, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Babyface, Billy Joel, Blake Shelton, Lionel Richie, Andrea Bocelli, John Legend, Josh Groban, my beloved son Jason Gould…and last but not least, Elvis Presley…forever The King!
Finally, thank you to Rob Stringer and my Columbia Records family, my manager Marty Erlichman, my creative team on this project – Kenny Edmonds, Walter Afanasieff, Dave Reitzas, Bill Ross, and Jay Landers…and Ken Sunshine for getting the word out… we did it guys!!
With lots of love,
Barbra”
— Legendary entertainer Barbra Streisand in a note posted to her Facebook page after becoming the only performer in history to score a number one album in each of the past six decades with her latest release Partners
Jeremy Kinser
Alison Bechdel Opens Up on MacArthur Genius Grant and Assimilation
Alison Bechdel Opens Up on MacArthur Genius Grant and Assimilation
Alison Bechdel, celebrated cartoonist and inventor of the “Bechdel test,” has a new interview out with Buzzfeed. Bechdel discusses her recent receiving of a MacArthur ‘genius grant,’ awarded for “command of sequential narrative and her aesthetic as a visual artist” exhibited by her long-running comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For.”
Bechdel is humble in the interview, sounding more bemused than braggy:
This is so weird. My life has been so crazy. I’ve had about five lifetimes worth of good fortune. For six weeks, I’ve been at an artist residency in Umbria, living in a castle with a bunch of other artists. Now this?[…] You couldn’t pick a less likely career trajectory likely to lead to a MacArthur award than what I’ve been doing. A comic strip? It’s crazy.
Bechdel also touched her work’s specificity to LGBT people. She shared a particular concern of hers — the question of gay assimilation, due to the increasing acceptance of gay marriage. Says Bechdel:
At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the ‘old days,’ I don’t want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It’s a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.
Jake Folsom
www.towleroad.com/2014/09/alison-bechdel-on-macarthur-genius-grant-and-assimilation-video.html
14° Parada do orgulho LGBT de Campinas
14° Parada do orgulho LGBT de Campinas
Police Chief's Daughter Among Three Charged in Philly Gay Bashing
Police Chief's Daughter Among Three Charged in Philly Gay Bashing
Three suspects in a brutal antigay assault in City Center, Pa., earlier this month, have turned themselves in to police, including 24-year-old Kathryn Knott, the daughter of a local police chief.
Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez
Does Kathryn Knott, Suspect In Alleged Philadelphia Anti-Gay Attack, Have A Homophobic History?
Does Kathryn Knott, Suspect In Alleged Philadelphia Anti-Gay Attack, Have A Homophobic History?
The social media presence of one of three Pennsylvania-based suspects in an alleged anti-gay attack has come under intense scrutiny after the woman turned herself in this week.
Katherine Knott is reportedly being charged with criminal conspiracy and two counts each of aggravated and simple assault, and reckless endangerment, according to the Associated Press. Knott, 24, turned herself in on Sept. 24, along with 26-year-old Kevin Harrigan and Phillip Williams, also 24.
Knott, who was identified by local ABC affiliate WPVI-TV and other media outlets as the daughter of Chalfont, Bucks County Police Chief Karl Knott, is a suspect in the Sept. 11 beating of two gay men, ages 27 and 28, in downtown Philadelphia. The men, who have reportedly asked to remain anonymous, told CBS Philadelphia that they were attacked by a “well-dressed” and intoxicated mob that began taunting them with anti-gay epithets while they were on their way to dinner.
One of the two victims suffered a bone fracture in his face that will require surgery, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Among the many Tweets that have since come into question since Knott’s surrender:
Just found this on my phone this explains a lot lol @mbtemp @Dolge_C @chise1524 @jmal3688 @eeeski #bayfestdidusdirty pic.twitter.com/DXy3wvLjsz
— Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) April 28, 2013
@g0_nads he’s gonna rip me today for my hair..just wait. #dyke
— Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) August 29, 2013
Jazz flute is for little fairy boys
— Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) December 14, 2012
@krisssstenxoxo basketball shorts and the cheetah headband..ppl are staring at me in class #lesbian?
— Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) April 24, 2012
@krisssstenxoxo the ppl we were just dancing with just turned and mafe out with eatch other #gay #ew
— Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) March 18, 2012
Meanwhile, Knott’s attorney, Louis Busico, told WPVI-TV that the incident was not motivated by homophobia, and that his client “played no role in this other than going out to dinner with friends the night this happened.”
“We don’t deny that there was a gentleman who was assaulted,” he added. “We don’t deny that this gentleman was injured. But I unequivocally deny that my client did anything to hurt this man; she wouldn’t hurt anybody.”
The Huffington Post has reached out to Busico for comment and had yet to hear back at press time.
Iran arrests man for using Facebook to satisfy gay ‘sexual lust’
LGBT Inequality in Serbia
LGBT Inequality in Serbia
Last week, Senior Regional Field Organizer Ryan Wilson had the chance to meet with five journalists visiting from Serbia.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/lgbt-inequality-in-serbia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Big Brother 15 Houseguest David Girton Is Now Doing Porn On Twitter
Big Brother 15 Houseguest David Girton Is Now Doing Porn On Twitter
It has come to our attention that former Big Brother 15 houseguest David Girton is either searching for a porn contract or having a mental breakdown on Twitter — we’ll leave it up to you to decide.
You may not remember Girton as the clueless surfer dude from last season’s BB because he was the first houseguest evicted. Though he wasn’t around long enough to be privy to the extreme racism and homophobia that dominated last year’s game, he spent his first seven days developing a showmance with Aaryn Gries, who turned out to be the worst PR disaster (/ratings goldmine) in the show’s history.
We can’t say he was on our radar for long (or at all), but here he is now, posting fully nude dick pics, wearing women’s panties, cruising for a dick to suck and seeking weed on Twitter. Consider him back on our radar.
There’s really no explanation for what caused Girton to turn his profile into a XXX paradise, but some things are best left unexplained, right?
Check out some SFW version of his tweets below, and visit his page for all the uncensored goodness.
I prefer pussy pic.twitter.com/YHaXejsvbb
— David Girton (@davidgirton2) September 20, 2014
Blow job anyone pic.twitter.com/oIeeQgxhuH
— David Girton (@davidgirton2) September 18, 2014
How You Doin? pic.twitter.com/apen29DNRg
— David Girton (@davidgirton2) August 27, 2014
When you have a black gay dude that wants to fuck you. You know you have succeeded in life
— David Girton (@davidgirton2) September 23, 2014
Now show us how well you can read that wig in the comments below.
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