News: Jane Lynch, Barbie, North Carolina, Ted Olson, Taiwan

News: Jane Lynch, Barbie, North Carolina, Ted Olson, Taiwan

Road Miley Cyrus showed up at Wednesday’s amfAR gala wearing little more than duct tape

MeninoRoad Former Boston mayor and longtime LGBT ally Thomas Menino has died at the age of 71. 

Road The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus shoots down tabloid rumors he’s begging producers not to make his character Daryl Dixon gay

Road Jane Lynch’s expensive divorce from Lara Embry was finalized this week. 

Road SCOTUSblog looks at how the Puerto Rico gay marriage case will be a test of Baker v. Nelson – the 1972 gay marriage case dismissed by the Supreme Court for lack of a “substantial federal question.” 

Road E! News looks back on some of the biggest, groundbreaking LGBT moments in television history. 

Road The British colonial origins of Africa’s anti-gay laws. 

Road New poll shows 58 percent of North Carolina voters oppose the federal court decision this month bringing marriage equality to the state. 

Road Michael C. Hall shows off his short shorts for Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Road 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rules Tulsa County must pay the legal fees for Mary and Sharon Bishop-Baldwin, the gay couple at the center of Oklahoma’s marriage equality battle. 

DreamhouseRoad A fun look at how Barbie’s dreamhouse has changed over the decades

Road John Spinello, the creator of what would one day become the classic board game Operation, has reached his crowdfunding campaign goal to raise money for a medical operation of his own. Spinello famously sold the rights to his prototype to Milton Bradley for $500 back in 1964. 

Road 30 scary-good celebrity halloween costumes.

Road At The Atlantic‘s Washington Ideas Forum yesterday, Ted Olson shared his disappointment over the Supreme Court’s decision to not hear the gay marriage cases earlier this month. “I agonize over the court not making a decision,” said Olson, an attorney on one of the cases. “We give them lifetime appointments, and you’re supposed to make hard decisions. It brings tears to my eyes, actually physically, when I see people suffering … It seems inhuman to make people wait just for the Court to decide.”

Road Need to sort out all the controversy and drama surrounding Carl DeMaio’s campaign for Congress? Check out this in-depth report by San Diego’s KPBS station here.  

Road A Jackson, Michigan ordinance protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been tabled indefinitely after a city attorney warned the city would be in violation of state law if the ordinance passed.

Road An Indian man has been charged under the country’s anti-homosexuality law after his wife caught him with another man via spycam. 

SchockRoad Aaron Schock: farmer extraordinaire

Road Check out this interview with Paige Braddock, a lesbian cartoonist who serves as the creative director for Peanuts. 

Road First looks: Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer’s wedding kiss on an upcoming episode of Two and a Half Men and Matt Bomer’s upcoming appearance on American Horror Story:Freakshow

 Road The New York Times examines Taiwan’s role as a beacon of hope for Asia’s LGBT community. “When it comes to gay rights in Asia, Taiwan is a world apart. Openly gay and lesbian soldiers can serve in the military, and the Ministry of Education requires textbooks to promote tolerance for gays and lesbians. In recent years, legislators here have passed protections for gays, including a law against workplace discrimination”

Road Sen. Lindsey Graham jokes that white men will “do great” under his presidency


Kyler Geoffroy

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10 Things You Need to Know About the 16th Annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit

10 Things You Need to Know About the 16th Annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit
The 16th annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit takes place for the first time in San Francisco November 3rd through 6th at the Moscone Center West. Here are 10 things you need to know about it:

1. LGBT employees can be fired in 29 states solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity, 32 states if transgender.

2. Lee Daniels is giving the keynote address.

3. Billie Jean King will also address the attendees

4. Olympia Dukakis, an ally, will also address the attendees.

5. Armistead Maupin will be in attendance.

6. There will be 3,000 attendees from more than 30 countries, a majority from Fortune 500 companies.

7. “The Outies” recipients of Workplace Awards honoring both individuals and organizations that are leading the way to advance LGBT workplace equality. Past winners can be found here.

8. Out and Equal released the results of a poll conducted by Harris and Out and Equal saying that most Americans said employers should never discriminate.

9. Out and Equal Workplace Advocates is a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving workplace equality.

10. Selisse Berry is the founder and CEO of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates.

Peace, love, compassion, and blessings.

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Two And A Half Men Stars Seal It With A Kiss

Two And A Half Men Stars Seal It With A Kiss

ashton-kutcher_jon-cryer_kissIf you’ve been glued to your television waiting for Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer to swap some spit on Two and a Half Men (or for Michael Bolton to make a comeback), your wish has been granted.

In a somewhat odd storyline, Walden (Kutcher) and Alan (Cryer) — both of whom are straight — have decided to marry each other so they can raise a kid together, and E! Online has provided a first look at their wedding kiss. (Hopefully someone will give us a look at what happens on their wedding night.)

The show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, says he thought it was “both very funny and heartwarming that these guys would go to such great lengths to get a kid out of the foster system and give him a home. Yes, there’s some subterfuge in doing that, they are gaming the system, but the intention is to give a child a home, and it brings the series back to being about two men teaching a young man to become a man.”

And since every gay wedding needs a fabulous wedding singer, Michael Bolton will be on hand to serenade them with “When a Man Loves a Man,” a sure-to-be cheeky revamp of his signature song.

Jon Cryer admitted to E! that he was initially thrown by the idea of his and Ashton Kutcher’s characters putting a ring on it. “The first time I heard it I said, ‘What?!’ And then I thought, ‘Oh yeah it kind of makes sense, because last season Alan’s wedding fell apart and Ashton’s wedding has fallen apart.’ The writers have a good idea and it opens up a lot of doors.”

Whether those open doors will provide enough room for shark jumping is anyone guess.

The two men take the plunge on the episode airing November 6.

Winston Gieseke

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Watercolor Artist Highlights The Humor, Mundanity of Grindr

Watercolor Artist Highlights The Humor, Mundanity of Grindr

GrindrMoMA featured Australian artist Adam Seymour is following in the footsteps of Grindr Illustrated, and painting a series of watercolors depicting Grindr profiles. Seymour’s been exploring the digital spaces around him since 2012, when he began painting the G-Force series. Unlike other artists’ work in this space, which tend to exaggerate the inherently sexual aspects of Grindr, Seymour’s paintings focus on the accidental humor and mundaneness that the platform sometimes creates.

“I began the project as I had become intrigued by the idea of our private worlds being made public through social media,” the artist told Buzzfeed in an interview. “We reveal our most wild, deviant, sexual, fantastical selves to the digital universe, for anyone to see, and yet, for some reason, maintain this subconscious expectation that only our desired audience will see it.”

Check out more of Adam Seymour’s Grindr portraits AFTER THE JUMP

 

 

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

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Anita Sarkeesian Explains The Truth About Gamergate To Stephen Colbert In Under 5 Minutes

Anita Sarkeesian Explains The Truth About Gamergate To Stephen Colbert In Under 5 Minutes
If you’re confused about Gamergate, media critic and feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian just simplified the controversy in less than five minutes.

Sarkeesian spoke with Stephen Colbert on “The Colbert Report” on Oct. 29 about the Gamergate controversy, which has brought to light the disturbing misogyny and harassment women are often subjected to in the video gaming world.

“I think women are perceived as being threatened because we are asking for games to be more inclusive,” Sarkeesian told Colbert. “We’re asking for games to acknowledge that we exist and that we love games.”

Sarkeesian has been speaking out about the treatment of women in video game culture for years, but it wasn’t until recently that she started receiving threats so violent that such harassment has ignited a public conversation. Sarkeesian has been forced from her home and has cancelled public appearances due to rape threats, death threats and even a bomb threat.

She explained to Colbert that Gamergate is “men going after women in really hostile, aggressive ways” and “terrorizing women for being involved in [the video game] industry.”

Towards the end of the clip, Sarkeesian clarifies that Colbert need not worry that feminism will scare off men from saving all those damsels in distress you see in video games, telling him, “Maybe the princess shouldn’t be a damsel and she could save herself.”

H/T The Daily Dot

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