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Daily Archives: January 22, 2015
HRC Arkansas Welcomes First Interns in Arkansas
HRC Arkansas Welcomes First Interns in Arkansas
HRC Arkansas is proud to announce our Spring 2015 Interns, Nicholas Bradford and Zachary Baker.
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New Kentucky Bill Targets Trans Kids Using The “Wrong” Bathroom With $2500 Bounty
New Kentucky Bill Targets Trans Kids Using The “Wrong” Bathroom With $2500 Bounty
Kentucky Republican State Senator C.B. Embry has sponsored a bill that would effectively put a bounty on transgender students who are caught using the “wrong” gendered bathroom. Students who catch their trans peers using the facilities of their chosen gender would be entitled to sue the school for $2,500 worth of damages relating to “psychological and emotional damage.”
The bill would “require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females.”
Embry says he has no problem with trans students, adding that “they’re certainly welcome to live their lives as they choose, if they want to dress as the opposite sex and the school is OK with that, that’s fine.”
In his mind, you have to draw the line somewhere, and that somewhere is the little male and female signs on bathrooms. Because god forbid we educate kids on what it means to be transgender. For Embry, it’s much easier to appease the “normal” kids while pointing a finger at the trans ones, telling them their identity isn’t real.
But before you go calling him a bigot, allow him to shove his foot a little further into his mouth. “I have a friend, and we can all say these things, who is a homosexual and she agrees that she doesn’t want men in her bathroom,” he told US News.
We’re so happy your one lesbian friend with no experience of being trans agrees with you on this. The rest of us, however, do not.
h/t Raw Story
Dan Tracer
Even More Bad Lip Reading of the NFL: VIDEO
Even More Bad Lip Reading of the NFL: VIDEO
The geniuses behind Bad Lip Reading are back to once again tackle the sideline shenanigans of the NFL.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2015/01/even-more-bad-lip-reading-of-the-nfl-video.html
Mayor Bowser Announces Senior LGBT Leadership, 1/22/15
Mayor Bowser Announces Senior LGBT Leadership, 1/22/15
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the appointments of Sheila Alexander-Reid, as Director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Affairs, and Terrance Laney, as Deputy Director…
Sam Smith Reportedly Splits From Boyfriend Jonathan Zeizel
Sam Smith Reportedly Splits From Boyfriend Jonathan Zeizel
Just weeks after their romantic Australian vacation, singer Sam Smith and boyfriend Jonathan Zeizel have reportedly called it quits.
The 22-year-old Grammy nominee, who is currently in the midst of a U.S. tour, seemed to hint at an apparent split with an emotional Instagram post:
Une photo publiée par Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) le Janv. 20, 2015 at 9:30 PST
Many have interpreted Smith’s words at a Jan. 20 performance in Toronto as an implying that he and Zeizel had gone their separate ways, too. In the middle of the concert, he introduced his song “Good Thing” by telling the crowd, “This is about a very similar thing I had to do today with someone I’ve been seeing.”
“Good Thing,” a cut off Smith’s smash debut album, “In The Lonely Hour,” features lyrics which reference a breakup: “Too much of a good thing won’t be good for long/Although you made my heart sing, to stay with you would be wrong.”
The Mirror cites a new interview with The Sun, which quotes Smith as saying, “Hopefully I will find someone soon and when I do I think it will be a bit more difficult to sing songs because I will want to sing happy songs.”
In the interview, said to have been conducted following his Toronto performance, Smith added, “Right now when I’m on stage I feel like it is good for me, it is like therapy every night. The music comforts me.”
Smith, who nabbed six Grammy nominations in December, confirmed last month that he was in the “very, very, very early days” of a relationship with an extra he’d met on the set of his “Like I Can” video.
He went public with Zeizel, a dancer and model, in a series of cozy Instagram snaps over the holidays. The couple even re-enacted the iconic scene from “Titanic” in one image.
#Trailblazer: James Dreyfuss: 'I was called a "weird looking fruit" in Texas'
#Trailblazer: James Dreyfuss: 'I was called a "weird looking fruit" in Texas'
Former Gimme Gimme Gimme star and out gay actor on his travel heaven and hell, from Bombay to the USA
jamiet
www.gaystarnews.com/article/trailblazer-james-dreyfuss-i-was-called-weird-looking-fruit-texas220115
HRC Nebraska Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
HRC Nebraska Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
HRC Nebraska sends a huge thank you out to the many volunteers who helped to make our Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service a success.
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James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Charlie Carver's Sex Scene Revealed in New 'I Am Michael' Photos
James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Charlie Carver's Sex Scene Revealed in New 'I Am Michael' Photos
A set of new stills from the upcoming film I Am Michael, about former gay rights activist turned “ex-gay” poster boy Michael Glatze and starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Charlie Carver, gives us the first look at a three-way sex scene between the actors as well as other key moments.
Franco plays Glatze while Quinto plays his then boyfriend Bennett. The duo bed Carver’s character in a club, according to a November report from E!:
“They first meet in a club. The music is pumping. It’s the eighties!” a source said. “When Charlie’s character questions Franco about having a boyfriend, Franco says, ‘He’d like you, too.'”
Cut to the bedroom, where the three are naked, intertwined and “kissing,” the source said. “You see their asses.” […]
The three enjoy a romance, but when Michael leaves, the breakup is “disastrous and heartbreaking,” the source said.
The film, produced by Gus van Sant, is premiering at Sundance. It’s based on the Benoit Denizet-Lewis NYT article “My Ex-Gay Friend”. Denizet-Lewis is a co-producer on the film. The film is directed by Justin Kelly.
Additional stills show the main characters at a rave party, Carver and Quinto together, Franco alone and despondent in what appears to be a tiled bathroom, Franco and Quinto kissing, and Franco embracing Emma Roberts.
Check them out, AFTER THE JUMP…
Andy Towle
#TBT: The Mid-Century Paradise of George Quaintance
#TBT: The Mid-Century Paradise of George Quaintance
The everyday life of one of the greatest erotic artists of the last century is revealed in an excerpt from a new biography.
Christopher Harrity
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/2015/01/22/tbt-mid-century-paradise-george-quaintance