Arkansas 'Emergency' Bill Allows LGBT Discrimin
Arkansas lawmakers have approved legislation that prohibits cities and counties from implementing anti-discrimination policies for LGBT people. The measure was inspired by the successful……
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Daily Archives: April 19, 2015
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The Cher-Elton-Bette Midler Performance You Need To See, Plus Darren Criss And Matthew Morrison Compare Beards
The Cher-Elton-Bette Midler Performance You Need To See, Plus Darren Criss And Matthew Morrison Compare Beards
If you need further proof that the 1970s were a magical decade, this clip of Cher, Elton John and Bette Midler tearing through a medley of the decade’s hits should end the debate for eternity.
Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson became immediate close friends when the photogenic twosome costarred in the 1956 epic Giant. People has a touching story of their final meeting before Hudson’s AIDS-related death in 1985, which spurred Taylor to become one of the most ferocious advocates to finding a cure for the disease.
The week’s best trailer wasn’t Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Batman V. Superman, it was Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre, which promises to be the epic adventure of our time. Come on, it’s Traci Lords v. landsharks, folks!
Speaking of the force, Carrie Fisher recently shared stories of partying with the Rolling Stones, playing Princess Leia with a hangover and generally being a huge space slut.
Every Carrie Underwood hit you can think of gets mashed together in this video by the brilliantly talented DJ Earworm.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Kim Richards was arrested for being drunk, disorderly and really horrible to people, which coincidentally is how we feel after watching her show.
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Shia LeBeouf, you make it so easy for everyone.
We’re just going to leave you with this: Darren Criss and Matthew Morrison recently compared beards.
Jeremy Kinser
Protesters, Supporters Rally Outside Anti-gay Michigan Auto Shop: VIDEO
Protesters, Supporters Rally Outside Anti-gay Michigan Auto Shop: VIDEO
A group of around 45 protesters and nearly as many supporters gathered outside Grandville, Michigan auto shop Dieseltec on Saturday, the latest update in the ongoing controversy surrounding the owner Brian Klawiter’s now infamous declaration that he “would not hesitate to refuse service to an openly gay person or persons.”
MLive reports:
Saturday’s protest was organized by a Muskegon pastor, the Rev. Robert Teszlewicz.
Most of the protesters brought signs. Some read “Love Wins,” “God = Love,” “Stop Bigotry. Spend your dollars where all are welcome,” “Gay is OK,” and “Who are you to judge God’s children?”
Teszlewicz said he wanted the protest to be peaceful.
“I don’t think you can consider yourself a Christian and deny service to someone else,” he said. “If you’re going to call yourself a Christian, then you need to respond in a Christian way.”
Supporters of Klawiter, meanwhile, gathered at the auto shop on Saturday for a barbecue. “He’s got a right to his own opinion,” said Bob Smith. “He’s not violating the law.”
Watch protesters verbally clash with Klawiter supporters, AFTER THE JUMP…
Previously, “Bankruptcy Lawyer Pens Brilliant Open Letter Smackdown to Homophobic Michigan Auto Shop Owner” [tlrd]
Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2015/04/protesters-supporters-rally-outside-anti-gay-michigan-auto-shop-video.html
Club Kali Fri 17 April 2015 – A LGBT Bonanza Party with a Purpose
Club Kali Fri 17 April 2015 – A LGBT Bonanza Party with a Purpose
Launch of charity walk The Journey to Find Acceptance by Naz and Matt Foundation. A night where we reached for the Moon and landed amongst the Stars! Fabulous Kali Night with our LGBTQ …
ASSEMBLAGE: Meet Queer Artist And Cultural Visionary Love Bailey
ASSEMBLAGE: Meet Queer Artist And Cultural Visionary Love Bailey
“ASSEMBLAGE“ is an inquiry into the different ways artists utilize performance and technology to explore and express different notions of identity. An effort to push forward marginalized artists with a focus on people of color, non-western nationalities and those along the queer/trans spectrum, “ASSEMBLAGE” provides a platform for analysis of how art and performance intersect with the lives of these individuals who are visibly and openly existing in the digital age. This is the fourth installment.
Love Bailey is a queer artist, designer, performer and cultural visionary with heavy ties to the worlds of fashion and music. Having worked with the likes of Fiona Apple, Rihanna, Azealia Banks and Britney Spears, Love Bailey’s career recently brought the artist into a new realm of experience that focuses heavily on bringing like-minded artists and creatives together in a new practice in queer community culture: the formation of an artist community on a ranch outside of Los Angeles.
Love Bailey’s identity and passion for creative exploration finds its roots in his relationship with his showgirl grandmother, Betty Bailey, calling her his guiding light — his source of energy that gave birth to his eccentricities. “Dressing for pleasure and channeling characters was part of our daily routine,” Love Bailey explained. “Boundaries, rules, and judgement had no place in our lives as we fetishized about outrageously high heels, painted ourselves with every shade of lipstick, and danced to our own beat of unconditional love.”
Love Bailey followed in the footsteps of his grandmother’s career and began training as a dancer, eventually leading to his heavy involvement in the fashion world.
Medley curated by Elias Tahan featuring footage from Ryan Heffington’s disco fantasy
Following a rich career of glamour and luxury, Love Bailey recently shifted the focus of his work away from the fashion and music industries to the formation of Savage Ranch. The ranch is an artist community that serves as a central meeting point for creatives from around the world to come together and live, create and invest in community. In the eyes of Love Bailey, Savage Ranch represents much more than just a change in personal career direction — it is a shift to a more humanistic and compassionate focus to his work as a whole.
“I see my life transitioning and moving into a genre where it’s not about selling garments anymore — it’s about creating a lifestyle that inspires people to be better humans,” he told The Huffington Post. “To enrich themselves with beauty and light and life and love and making meals together, sharing stories together and exploring what it means to be part of a community -– to love someone and be present with them — and what it means to be present.”
With seven people currently living at Savage Ranch, the community is in its early, formative days. However, the goal is to create a space where artists can create, thrive and collaborate with a focus on the humanity of their work, while not necessarily having to exist day-to-day in an urban environment.
Manifested by Love Bailey & Remy Holwick/DP: Dylan Gordan // Family Members pictured: Simon Seapony, B.J. Dini Megan Edwards & Andi, Kyle Kupres, Master Slather
The changing nature of Love Bailey’s career doesn’t necessarily represent a de-emphasis on performance and the way that intersects with his queer identity. Rather, the role of performance is changing to fit a form of cultural production that emphasizes humanity through a socially responsible lens.
“For me, performing is a natural gesture,” Love Bailey elaborated. “It’s not something one does on stage anymore. For me, performing is performing to my best ability in this moment right now — who am I, what am I, what am I projecting, what am I serving, what’s the vibration I’m giving to the universe. That’s my performance and that’s what I’ve learned from being a competition showgirl to being a better human. I think that transition is my focus now.”
This changing role of performance, in the eyes of Love Bailey, involves turning a critical lens onto the worlds of fashion and music that he is currently moving away from. That is, questioning what purpose these industries are actually serving and how disconnected they seem to feel from a compassionate understanding of the human condition.
“Knowing what the fashion industry is and breaking it down into the illusion — it’s not the fantasy that we were sold as kids. Like, I just want to live in the open field and let my hair down and slather it up. You can’t do that in fashion because you have to sell a certain thing, pose a certain way and there’s this hierarchy that’s been created that’s not really doing anything for the good of humanity. We’re constantly putting forth Vogue after Vogue and it’s this revolving door of filth. Especially in the digital age, you would think that we would lessen. We have the knowledge to be better humans and to work towards a better environment but we choose not to use those tools that we learn.”
One of the most compelling parts of Savage Ranch is the opportunity to explore queerness and engage in cultural production in a very isolated setting, but then amplify this work to the world via the Internet and social media. Artists no longer have to live in urban meccas like New York City or Los Angeles in order to make the value of their work known. In fact, it is precisely the isolated nature of Savage Ranch that allows for this new experiment in queer community culture to manifest in such a unique way.
“The Internet and social media are these wonderful things that can be destructive tools or positive tools,” Love Bailey continued. “For me, I’m able to switch gears into focusing my efforts onto something that’s bettering humanity and not get consumed in ‘what’s my daily selfie.’ That’s not my fantasy. Our community, at the ranch, we share this similar vision where we can come together and build a life that hopefully one day will be sustainable and that we can give back to the universe what we take from it. A lot of times people, especially in America, they just take and they don’t give. The ranch goes beyond that built-in audience of a social network — it encourages you to look beyond yourself.”
VHS acid fantasy curated by Marina Fini & Tristan Wheeler featuring Ivy Levan // Music by Edward Vigiletti
Love Bailey and Savage Ranch represent an important intersection of the future of queer performance and technology. As we continue to deplete the world’s natural resources and isolate ourselves from one another within the framework of the digital age, community-based efforts to create and build work with an emphasis on social responsibility will become more important than ever.
“The universe will have its plan and that’s something you have to let manifest itself,” Love Bailey explained. “But I want Savage Ranch to be a sustainable farm where we can grow and cultivate the land and also share an artist collective where people can fly in from other parts of the world and create with a working studio, a recording studio — anything anyone would need to create their fantasy. I want to make that happen. I want to see to it that their fantasy gets brought to life. That’s the fantasy.”
Want to see more from Love Bailey? Head here to visit the artist’s website.
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Guys Reveal The Highs And (Mostly) Lows Of Online Dating
Guys Reveal The Highs And (Mostly) Lows Of Online Dating
Gay dating websites can be an awesome way to connect but can also be a real drag. Messages go unanswered, hours seem wasted scrolling through endless profiles and something that’s supposed to hook you up leaves you feeling as isolated as ever.
We’ve reviewed the apps and websites, offered tips on creating your best profile and given you the stats, but we wanted to hear what people were saying about the experience. Is is more soul mate or soul crushing?
Here’s what Whisper was able to round up:
Dan Tracer
Anti-gay Pennsylvania High School Students Wear Flannel, Harass Peers To Protest National Day Of Silence: VIDEO
Anti-gay Pennsylvania High School Students Wear Flannel, Harass Peers To Protest National Day Of Silence: VIDEO
A group of students at a Pennsylvania high school dissatisfied with the national Day of Silence event, which is designed to raise awareness of LGBT bullying, organized an “Anti-Gay Day” on Thursday before the Silence event on Friday, wearing flannel and writing the phrase “Anti-Gay” on their hands reports The Advocate. The national Day of Silence event is a largely peaceful event, but the students taking part in the “Anti-Gay Day,” hung posters on LGBT students lockers and physically harassed LBGT peers within the hallways of McGuffey High School.
The group utilized social media to spread the event, posting pictures of themselves in flannel and planned on enacting additional anti-gay events with the first event lasting a full week. Groups like Focus on the Family and the Illinois Family Institute have organized several of their own anti-gay day events such as walkouts and their version of the day of silence called “Day of Dialogue,” which they claim is designed to get Christians’ voices heard on the matter in what they deem a “loving, respectful manner.” However, LGBT students and their supporters at McGuffey High School encountered the complete opposite of a “loving, respectful” event.
Said student Zoe Johnson (pictured right):
“There was pushing, posters hung on homosexual students’ lockers. Teachers were having to run out and take them down. It hurts me to see how rude and cruel, and some of these people were my friends before this started.”
McGuffey School District administrators are currently investigating the incident with the school’s superintendent, Dr. Erica Kolat, announcing that the school will “follow our Student Code of Conduct, and file legal citations as warranted…We will resolve to ensure that all children can grow and learn in a safe, supportive environment free from discrimination.” However, students remain skeptical about returning to the school as a lynch list with students’ names on it is reportedly circulating throughout the school.
Watch WPXI-TV’s report on the incident, AFTER THE JUMP…
Anthony Costello
Being LGBT (Gay) in Japan【同性愛者（日本）】日英字幕
Being LGBT (Gay) in Japan【同性愛者（日本）】日英字幕
WATCH: Russian Army Sings 'Barbie Girl'
WATCH: Russian Army Sings 'Barbie Girl'
The surfacing of a YouTube clip of singing soldiers conjures an era when Russia didn’t automatically prompt thoughts of homophobia.
Thom Senzee
www.advocate.com/world/2015/04/19/watch-russian-army-sings-barbie-girl