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Dan Savage Points Out Hypocrisy Of Duggar Family Values
LGBT advocate Dan Savage noted the hypocrisy inherent in the Duggar family’s anti-trans agenda in light of Josh Duggar’s apparent admission that he molested five underage girls when he was a teenager.

“Particularly when religious conservatives want to talk about it, they want to point a finger at non-family. They want to point a finger at people that they define as the enemies of families or not from or having families of their own — LGBT people, particularly trans people increasingly with these anti-trans bathroom bills,” Savage said on Friday night’s episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.”

“That is what the Duggars have dug in on,” Savage continued, “is attacking trans people and opposing this LGBT civil rights bill in Fayetteville, where they were out there arguing that the threat to little girls in Fayetteville were transwomen when they knew, when they were covering for someone who had demonstrated, at least at that age, was a threat to little girls himself.”

Josh Duggar, executive director of FRC Action, speaks at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock on Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

In August 2014, the family’s matriarch, Michelle Duggar, campaigned against an anti-discrimination bill in her home state of Arkansas.

In a robocall, Duggar is recorded saying:

Hello, this is Michelle Duggar. I’m calling to inform you of some shocking news that would affect the safety of northwest Arkansas women and children. The Fayetteville City Council is voting on an ordinance this Tuesday night that would allow men — yes, I said men — to use women’s and girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, showers, sleeping areas and other areas that are designated for females only. I don’t believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls. I doubt that Fayetteville parents would stand for a law that would endanger their daughters or allow them to be traumatized by a man joining them in their private space. We should never place the preference of an adult over the safety and innocence of a child. Parents, who do you want undressing next to your daughter at the public swimming pool’s private changing area?

After the sexual abuse allegations surfaced this week, Josh Duggar resigned from his position as executive director of the conservative and anti-LGBT group Family Research Council Action, the Washington Post reported.

TLC pulled the Duggars’ “19 Kids and Counting” show in the wake of the controversy.

The network did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Huffington Post.

H/T Advocate

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An Oscar Wilde Tour Of The Metropolitan Art Museum’s Queer Hidden Treasures

All eyes were on the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Met Gala 2015 earlier this month as Sarah Jessica Parker, Rihanna, Cher and Beyonce took to the red carpet with some remarkable looks embodying the theme, China: Through the Looking Glass.

The Anna Wintour Costume Center’s highly anticipated exhibition of the same name, China: Through the Looking Glass, has many fashion fans excited, but the museum’s permanent collection houses some treasures that most people overlook. Visitors to the Met often check out the special exhibitions or go for a speedy tour attempting to hit all the highlights.

And while the Met is largely considered a “conservative institution,” historian Andrew Lear has discovered the gay nooks, crannies, and marble curves peeking out throughout the collection. Now, through Lear’s Oscar Wilde Tour, visitors can explore the sprawling museum through a queer lens.

Our small group ventured to the Museum’s collection of Greek and Roman art first. The collection comprises of more than seventeen thousand works ranging from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. Lear led us from the marble kouros to erotic Athenian vase paintings, to an extensive analysis on the sculpted bust of Antinous, the lover of Roman Emperor Hadrian. After we had our fix of the Greeks & Romans we ventured into the Melanesia Gallery, where Lear instructed us to look up to take in the surprising collection of ancestor poles from New Guinea. These bis poles are some of the most spectacular sculptures of the Asmat people, phallic in nature, and depicting male initiation and same sex rights of passage.

Lear weaves his guests in and out of decadent galleries and stops to point out significant gems, like Picasso’s “Gertrude Stein” and Michelangelo Buonarroti’s “Young Archer”. Upstairs, Rodin’s handsome “The Vanquished” sculpture caught our eye on the way to the discreet and overtly homosexual depictions of Renaissance and more modern lovers.

The tour is equally informative for those new to the Met’s collection as it is for the culture hounds looking for a closer look at just what makes this glorious museum uniquely homoerotic.

“It’s all part of the hidden gay story in one of the great museums of the world, which you’ll never look at the same way again,” Lear says.

Check out more pictures from our tour here.

Click here for more information about Oscar Wilde Tours and the Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Conchita Wurst Soars to New Heights in Eurovision 2015 Opening Performance: WATCH

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