Daily Archives: June 16, 2015
Teacher and Assistant Principal Resign After Parent Outrage Over Gay Fairy Tale
Teacher and Assistant Principal Resign After Parent Outrage Over Gay Fairy Tale
A teacher and his assistant principal felt they could no longer count on administrators to support them after outraged parents objected to the reading of King & King.
Dawn Ennis
5/32 – Isonomia
Rupert Murdoch: Hillary Clinton 'Almost Fascist' In Her LGBT Advocacy
Rupert Murdoch: Hillary Clinton 'Almost Fascist' In Her LGBT Advocacy
The outgoing CEO of 21st Century Fox misquoted the Democratic front-runner in a series of tweets, claiming she had promised to ‘outlaw free speech about LGBT.’
Dawn Ennis
Pope Francis's Comments On Heterosexual Parenting Alienate Gay Catholics
Pope Francis's Comments On Heterosexual Parenting Alienate Gay Catholics
On Sunday June 14, Pope Francis addressed more than 25,000 faithful on the importance of heterosexual parenting during his general audience — just one day after thousands marched in Rome’s LGBT pride parade.
Heterosexual marriage makes for happier couples, the pope said, and is essential for healthy parenting.
“Children mature seeing their father and mother [happy],” Francis argued. “Their identity matures being confronted with the love their father and mother have, confronted with this difference.”
The pope called the differences between men and women fundamental, and said these differences make heterosexual couples strong. “What great richness this diversity is, a diversity which becomes complementary, but also reciprocal. It binds them, one to the other,” he said.
Francis’s comments may seem out of touch to many, particularly as several Catholic-majority countries have been among those leading the charge for legal same-sex marriage. Many of the nations that allow gay marriage — like Brazil, France and Spain — are also some of the most Catholic countries in the world.
Historically Catholic Ireland approved same-sex marriage by a popular referendum in May, leading Dublin archbishop Diarmuid Martin — despite voting against the measure — to say the church was in need of a “reality check.”
For LGBT Catholics, the pope’s comments are particularly hurtful. Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of Catholic LGBT advocacy group DignityUSA, is a parent of two adopted children. She told The Huffington Post that Catholics tend to be more progressive than church leaders on the issue of same-sex families. But not all LGBT families are willing to remain in a church they feel rejected by, she said. Attitudes like like those expressed in Pope Francis’s comments perpetuate a culture of exclusion.
“This leads to the refusal to honor and support families that don’t look like the model held up by church officials, and, even worse, the failure to see and address problems in families headed by heterosexually married couples,” Duddy-Burke told The Huffington Post.
LGBT families aren’t the only ones who might feel left out by the pope’s championing of heterosexual two-parent households, added Francis DeBernardo, executive director of Catholic LGBT advocacy group New Ways Ministry.
“Pope Francis’ message…is harmful to many others in the Catholic Church: single-parent families, families where emotional and physical abuse occurs, families who are separated geographically because of political or economic situations, to name a few,” DeBernardo told HuffPost. “In focusing his attention on a standard of male-female child-rearing, Pope Francis ignores the real economic, political, cultural, and psychological forces which harm contemporary families around the globe.”
To combat the bias against LGBT families, Duddy-Burke said she will travel to Philadelphia for the pope’s visit in September. She and a group of Catholic families and bishops from around the world will ask Pope Francis to meet with them and hear their stories.
“Sizable majorities of Catholics readily embrace their LGBT members, and have grown comfortable with a wide range of family configurations,” she said. “They are impatient for the leadership to catch up!”
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Is Michael Sam’s Football Career Already Over At Age 25?
Is Michael Sam’s Football Career Already Over At Age 25?
What’s up with Michael Sam?
The 6-foot-2, 260-pound, NFL hopeful/Dancing With The Stars contestant lasted less than three weeks with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. This is the third team that hasn’t worked out for the former college football star who just a year ago became the first openly gay player to be drafted by the National Football League.
Related: The Meteoric Rise And Fall Of The Mighty Michael Sam
For now, team officials are keeping mum about Sam’s reasons for leaving, but it doesn’t sound good.
“Everything that has been said is done,” head coach Tom Higgins said at a press conference. “A lot of things happened and unfolded. That’s not to be discussed. We’re putting that behind us.”
General manager Jim Popp added: “There’s nothing to tell you. He wanted to go home, and that’s what he did. I don’t know why. When a guy wants to go home, they go home. He had some personal things to take care of.”
Sam Joined the league with high hopes. Not only is the CFL considered a more tolerant place, but it can serve as a stepping stone to the NFL for many hopefuls once they prove themselves on the field. And what gay man wouldn’t want to live in Montreal? No word on whether Sam simply missed home cooking and his sexy BF, Vito Cammisano.
Teammates say Sam nonetheless had trouble adjusting to Canadian professional football and, according to one source, he “kind of stuck to himself.”
Team officials say they are baffled by Sam’s sudden departure, but that he is welcome to return. In fact, they hope he does.
“I’m surprised he left,” Popp said. “I was very surprised. If he doesn’t come back, I would think football’s over for him. He’s the one that has to face that.”
Related: Michael Sam Suggests He Was Booted From The NFL For Being Gay
h/t: Montreal Gazette
Graham Gremore
The 'Gay of Thrones' Recap of S5xE10 is Here – Mothers MRSA
The 'Gay of Thrones' Recap of S5xE10 is Here – Mothers MRSA
Sunday night saw the season 5 finale of Game of Thrones and it left us reeling. Thankfully, Gay of Thrones is back for its final installment this season, recapping all the hullabaloo that happened in Westeros this week and helping us get through this tough time.
As a special Pride bonus, Jonathan went on a little adventure to West Hollywood for LA Pride once the recap was wrapped.
Warning: spoilers ahead, AFTER THE JUMP…
Sean Mandell
www.towleroad.com/2015/06/the-gay-of-thrones-recap-of-s5xe10-is-here-mothers-mrsa.html
Tel Aviv Gay Pride 2015
LGBT Republican Group Makes Caitlyn Jenner Its Poster Woman
LGBT Republican Group Makes Caitlyn Jenner Its Poster Woman
The Los Angeles chapter of Log Cabin Republicans displayed Jenner’s image at L.A. Pride last weekend, bringing some criticism from Democrats.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/06/16/lgbt-republican-group-makes-caitlyn-jenner-its-poster-woman
All The Sex And Nudity In Season 5 Of 'Game Of Thrones' (NSFW)
All The Sex And Nudity In Season 5 Of 'Game Of Thrones' (NSFW)
Warning: The following video contains sexual content and many “Game of Thrones” spoilers. Those under 18 should not view it. Thank you.
On Sunday, “Game of Thrones” finished its fifth season, which means it’s once again time for a Huffington Post tradition: Our scholarly video round-up of all the sex and nudity on Season 5.
With roughly 6 minutes and 40 seconds of sex scenes and/or nakedness, the critically acclaimed show came back from its Season 4 “adult content” low of under 6 minutes. Still, it was unable to compete with the first three seasons’ excessive nudity, which inspired TV critic Myles McNutt to coin the term “sexposition”
In terms of the nature of the naughty, as is often the case with “Game of Thrones,” it was a mix of tantalizing and horrifying. Fortunately, perhaps learning from their previous experience, the showrunners spared us from witnessing the season’s most vile sex act –- the rape of Sansa Stark — on camera. But there were still plenty of uncomfortable moments, most notably Cersei Lannister’s dehumanizing “walk of shame.” It’s a sequence responsible for nearly a third of the nudity this season, and some very conflicting emotions for “Game of Thrones” fans in a love/hate relationship with the Queen Regent.
Check out the full, very NSFW collection in the video below. Hopefully all the body heat can keep you warm during the long winter before the premiere of Season 6.
You can also watch the “Game of Thrones” Seasons 1 and 2 sex and nudity compilation, the Season 3 compilation and the Season 4 compilation.
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