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Daily Archives: November 5, 2014
Despite Conservative Opposition, Marriage Equality Headed to Missouri
Despite Conservative Opposition, Marriage Equality Headed to Missouri
Antigay Missouri lawmakers may not like it, but they’re powerless to stop the state from recognizing gay and lesbian marriages this month.
Matt Baume
10 Things I Learned From Having Brunch With Billie Jean King at the 2014 Out & Equal Workplace Summit
10 Things I Learned From Having Brunch With Billie Jean King at the 2014 Out & Equal Workplace Summit
I attended the 16th annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, California. There were more than 3,000 attendees from 30 different countries. Billie Jean King spoke at the brunch plenary on election day, Nov. 4. Here are 10 things I learned about Billie Jean King:
1. Billie Jean’s brother, Randy Moffitt, played for the San Francisco Giants.
2. She was brought up in Long Beach, California.
3. Elton John wrote the song “Philadelphia Freedom” about her.
4. She described herself as a “public park rat” who didn’t start playing tennis until she was 11 years old and in the fifth grade.
5. At age 12, after playing tennis for one year, she had an epiphany and realized that everything in tennis was literally white. She wanted to know, “Where is everybody else?”
6. She knew that tennis would be her platform and cultivated three values that people who have inner and outer success need: “One, relationships are everything; two, never stop learning, and learning how to learn; and three, be a problem solver.”
7. After being outed in 1981, she was involved in the first trial requesting “galimony.”
8. She says that she didn’t feel comfortable in her own skin until just 20 years ago, when she was 51.
9. She doesn’t think life is a marathon but “a series of sprints and breaks.”
10. She encouraged all to be active listeners, telling us we are influencers and should “be alert” and adding that we need more inclusion, not just diversity.
Peace, love, compassion, and blessings.
Dallas voters approve protections for LGBT city employees
Dallas voters approve protections for LGBT city employees
The vote is the first time a Texas city approved nondiscrimination language by the ballot
Jamesw
www.gaystarnews.com/article/dallas-voters-approve-protections-lgbt-city-employees051114
Radical Anti-LGBT Leader Elected to Colorado Legislature
Radical Anti-LGBT Leader Elected to Colorado Legislature
A radical anti-LGBT activist was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives yesterday.
HRC.org
Steve Grand Drops Something Other Than His Pants: Two New Tunes
Steve Grand Drops Something Other Than His Pants: Two New Tunes
Out country singer Steve Grand, who seems to have become just as famous for jumping naked into bodies of water as he has for making music — not that we’re complaining — has just dropped something other than his pants: two new songs.
Actually, one is new, the other is a remake. Again, no complaints.
Grand, who became an overnight sensation when his “All-American Boy” video (which featured him skinny dipping with former Fratmen model Nick Alan) went viral in July of 2013, has just blessed us with “Time,” a yearning romantic-sounding tune produced by Aaron Johnson, and a cover of Elton John’s 1974 hit “Bennie and the Jets.”
The Huffington Post reports that “Time” will appear on the 24-year-old musician and former underwear model’s upcoming album, for which he raised more than $114,000 in less than 24 hours on Kickstarter.
Listen to the tunes below. Watch Grand jump naked into Lake Superior as part of a fund-raising effort for the ALS foundation here.
Winston Gieseke
The Cast Of 'Looking' Leathers It Up For The Out100 – PHOTO
The Cast Of 'Looking' Leathers It Up For The Out100 – PHOTO
As part of Out Magazine‘s annual Out100 honors, out gay actors Jonathan Groff, Murray Bartlett and Russell Tovey of Looking channeled the first Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco circa 1984. The boys seemed to have formed quite a bond working on what Out named the TV show of the year:
Groff and his rowdy band of brothers — […] Raúl Castillo, Murray Bartlett, Frankie J. Alvarez, and Russell Tovey — taunt and tease and riff off each other like they’ve been playing dress-up together their entire lives. Without missing a beat, Alvarez dubs Groff’s impish attitude “hashtag chapswag,” and the nickname sticks. The show’s creators and many of the crew are queer, but you’d need a cheat sheet to remember who’s not actually gay (Castillo and Alvarez, if you must keep score).
Sean Mandell
www.towleroad.com/2014/11/the-cast-of-looking-leathers-it-up-for-the-out100-photo.html
OFFICIAL LGBT TRAILER FOR THE FEATURE FILM "Romeo & Romeo"
OFFICIAL LGBT TRAILER FOR THE FEATURE FILM "Romeo & Romeo"
In this LGBT thriller, Zak Lawson was a pop star who came out of nowhere, and reached the top of the billboard charts at the age of 14. He met bad boy Trent at the peak of his career, bad news….
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7E2AJ54X-k&feature=youtube_gdata
Out Basketball Star Brittney Griner Faces Knife Attacker in China
Out Basketball Star Brittney Griner Faces Knife Attacker in China
Brittney Griner, who is playing basketball in China, was attacked by a man with a knife this week.
Annie Hollenbeck
www.advocate.com/sports/2014/11/05/out-basketball-star-brittney-griner-faces-knife-attacker-china
Your Least Favorite 'How To Get Away With Murder' Couple Always Has YouTube Fan Videos
Your Least Favorite 'How To Get Away With Murder' Couple Always Has YouTube Fan Videos
After only six episodes and what seems to be a consensus that their coupledom is peripheral to the plot of “How to Get Away with Murder,” we’d like to inform you that Laurel and Frank already have several homemade YouTube montages devoted to their relationship. We’d also like you to know that commenters on said videos have apparently nicknamed the pair “Flaurel,” as if that were a something the Internet has been doing all along. (Don’t worry, Internet, no need to start now.)
No affront meant to the creators of these videos, of course — they’re all quite well-made — but Laurel and Frank (sorry, we can’t bring ourselves to call them Flaurel) are hardly a couple most viewers have vested interest in. They don’t often appear onscreen together, and, when they do, their relationship is tertiary to almost everything else happening on the show. Of the more than 360 “How to Get Away with Murder” photos on ABC’s press site, we couldn’t find a singe shot of the pair alone together. That’s why we’re so tickled with these declarations of adoration. Usually this treatment is reserved for Sam and Diane types, but these days everyone is a fan favorite somewhere, apparently.
Without further ado, we now give you Flaurel: