Daily Archives: March 10, 2015
Texas Doubles Down on Transphobic Legislation, Adding $2,000 Fine for 'Wrong' Bathroom Use
Texas Doubles Down on Transphobic Legislation, Adding $2,000 Fine for 'Wrong' Bathroom Use
A bill introduced in the Texas House today would award cisgender students who shared a bathroom with a trans student $2,000, in addition to legal fees, for any ‘mental anguish’ the cisgender student suffered.
Sunnivie Brydum
Musician Axel Winter Drowns Out Anti-Gay Protester With 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'
Musician Axel Winter Drowns Out Anti-Gay Protester With 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'
Video footage of musician Axel Winter drowning out at anti-gay protester with a rendition of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is going viral in the blogosphere after being picked up by Buzzfeed and other media outlets.
The clip shows Winter, 24, performing in the Pitt Street Mall in Sydney, Australia last week ahead of the city’s Mardi Gras parade.
“Yesterday, a man tried to yell hateful religiously inspired things about gay people in Pitt Street Mall,” Winter wrote on Facebook. “So, myself and the other buskers moved my stuff behind him and drowned out his negativity.”
He then added, “Whether you’re homosexual or transgender or even just confused, you’re still my friend.”
Post by Axel Winter.
See Bette Midler sing Kim Kardashian's tweets – the results are hilarious
See Bette Midler sing Kim Kardashian's tweets – the results are hilarious
The Divine Miss M uses her famous pipes to croon about flat shoes and falling asleep with make-up on
gregh
www.gaystarnews.com/article/see-bette-midler-sing-kim-kardashians-tweets-results-are-hilarious100315
Irish Bishop Sounds Off on LGBT Individuals and Parents
Irish Bishop Sounds Off on LGBT Individuals and Parents
In a recent interview with the NewsTalk Breakfast radio program, Irish Bishop Kevin Doran responded to a question about whether he believed people who are born gay are “as God intended.”
HRC.org
Why Did A Gay Man Drop Dead In A London Bathhouse? Nobody Knows.
Why Did A Gay Man Drop Dead In A London Bathhouse? Nobody Knows.
Police say they are investigating a bizarre episode that happened inside a 24-hour gay bathhouse in London over the weekend when a man dropped dead for no apparent reason.
The incident happened at Pleasuredrome in Waterloo on Sunday. The 37-year-old man had been enjoying the sauna when all of a sudden he collapsed. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors were unable to revive him.
Pleasuredrome, London’s self-proclaimed “best sauna for gay men,” has a drug and smoke free policy. The bathhouse boasts two large dry saunas, two steam rooms, a spa, tanning salon, 24-hour café, and 400-locker changing room.
A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard told the Standard: “Police were called at approximately 3:40 p.m. yesterday by staff at a south London hospital after a man who had been admitted there earlier in the day died…The death is being treated as unexplained at this time.”
This is not the first time something like this has happened at Pleasuredrome.
In 2012, 41-year-old Greg Page was found dead inside the sauna the same evening 46-year-old John Scott collapsed and was rushed to hospital, where he, too, died. A joint investigation found high quantities of dance drug GHB in both men’s systems. A third man was found dead inside the bathhouse later that year after overdosing on mephedrone and GHB.
As a result of Sunday’s death, the Pleasuredrome was forced to close temporarily while police conducted their investigation.
Related stories:
Bathhouses And Beyond: A Brief History Of Gay Cruising
PHOTOS: A Rare Glimpse Into San Francisco’s Infamous Fairoaks Bathhouse
Are Gay Bathhouses Going Extinct?
Graham Gremore
Watch Episcopal Pioneer Rev. Malcolm Boyd's Final Interview: VIDEO
Watch Episcopal Pioneer Rev. Malcolm Boyd's Final Interview: VIDEO
Episcopal priest, author and gay rights activist Rev. Malcolm Boyd passed away in Los Angeles last month at the age of 91. Now, thanks to MSNBC, we’re able to watch Boyd’s final interview in which he discusses his time in Hollywood (he wanted something more meaningful), his priesthood and also offers sage advice to young people.
Here’s what he had to say about the latter:
“I think older people with a certain kind of experience can be very helpful to non-older people, including ‘how did you make it?’ ‘What are you doing?’ Also, ‘how do you treat other people? Relax. Be yourself. Find out who you are. That’s a full time assignment. Have some fun. Enjoy life but also stand for something. There’s a lot to stand for. Keep learning. I would say keep your sense of humor and, if you don’t have one, get one. I really mean that.”
Wise words from a very wise man. Watch the entire clip, AFTER THE JUMP…
Steve Pep
www.towleroad.com/2015/03/rev-malcolm-boyd-final-interview-video.html
Premier Kathleen Wynne
Why It's So Important That Women Empower Other Women
Why It's So Important That Women Empower Other Women
Women’s empowerment starts with how women treat other women.
Created by SheKnows Media and BlogHer, a new video features a few of the women from this year’s BlogHer15 conference advisory board discussing the importance of women supporting one another in a collective effort to educate and empower female readers and content consumers.
BlogHer15 is an annual conference created in partnership with BlogHer and SheKnows Media that celebrates female content creators. This year’s expert advisory board, which attends and speaks at the conference, is made up of 37 people who are making an impact in the media world.
Four of these 37 members are featured in the video, including the founder of Digital Undivided Kathryn Finney, the founder of Femsplain Amber Gordon, managing partner of Greenroom Communications Kim Holderness and the founder and CEO of Pipeline Fellowship Natalia Oberti Noguera.
“We are our own biggest advocate, and if we can break that stereotypical girl versus girl mentality there’s so much that we can do,” Gordon says in the video.
Finney explains the impact that empowered women can have in media. “We have all of these platforms that are available to us, where there’s no longer the gatekeepers that tell us what we can write, when we can write, how we can write — we can do it any way we want to,” she says.
We couldn’t agree more.
Watch the full video below.
Regular Guys Try Out Magic Mike Stripping
Regular Guys Try Out Magic Mike Stripping
Watch as these regular Buzzfeed guys try their hand (and chest, crotch and ass) at Magic Mike-style male stripping.
Well, regular guys plus Eugene. He’s a dreamboat.
They do a pretty good job, considering it can’t be easy to work a crowd with that many cellphone cameras pointed at you.
Dan Tracer
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