Politico Compares Caitlyn Jenner to America’s First ‘Transgender Sweetheart’
For this magazine, it’s a rare look at a transgender pioneer who also transitioned in the public eye.
Dawn Ennis
Daily Archives: June 17, 2015
Channing Tatum Would Make Everyone Naked If He Had Super Powers
Channing Tatum Would Make Everyone Naked If He Had Super Powers
I wish that I could make anyone at any point just happen to be naked. Not for the reasons that everyone thinks. Because people get really nice when they get naked. Like okay, I can’t be an asshole. People aren’t assholes when they get naked (for the most part). They are thinking about what they look like. Shitty answer, I tried to do something funny and it didn’t work.”
— Magic Mike XXL‘s Channing Tatum asked what he’d like his super power to be during in an AMA on Reddit
Jeremy Kinser
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Rachel Dolezal Reveals She’s Bisexual, Compares Her Story To Caitlyn Jenner’s
Rachel Dolezal Reveals She’s Bisexual, Compares Her Story To Caitlyn Jenner’s
She’s black, she’s white and now she’s bi. The unusual case of former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal took an interesting turn yesterday during her interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC Nightly News when she revealed she has dated both men and women.
Dolezal, who has been embroiled in a race scandal that sent the Internet into overdrive this past weekend, finally broke her silence, and in the process, threw enough curve balls to give viewers a severe case of whiplash. Allegations of physical abuse, along with speculation that Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal might not even be her biological parents were just the tip of the iceberg. She also uses spray-on bronzer to achieve her darker completion, and she is “definitely not white.” Dolezal firmly believes she has never lied about her race; however, she does admit to “moments of some level of creative non-fiction.”
Okaaayyyy…
The big jaw-dropper about her identifying as the “B” in the LGBT came when Dolezal was discussing Caitlyn Jenner’s cover story in the current issue of Vanity Fair. Dolezal said she cried upon reading the piece. She went on to say:
“I resonated with some of the themes of isolation, of being misunderstood — to not know if you have a conversation with somebody, will that relationship then end because they have seen you as one way. And even in dating relationships…one of the things…you know… and I’m bisexual, and so, you know, I’ve dated men and women. And I will intentionally ask, like, ‘So do you just date light-skinned women? What’s your spectrum?’”
Thankfully, Dolezal avoided agreeing with the comparisons she has received from many ill-informed people who feel her situation is similar to that of a transgender person. People magazine reached out to a psychologist and racial identity expert who stated that being transracial is very different from being transgender.
Derald Wing Sue, a professor of psychology and education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, explained to the publication:
“Most people who are transgender, [when they are] as early as 4 or 5, believe already that at some level that they are a child born with the wrong anatomy. I don’t see this [with Dolezal].”
“I think [the comparison] is all an attempt to not really see the issue. The issue is deception, honesty and pretense. You have to get to the bottom of that.”
So Rachel Dolezal is still not willing to say definitively whether she is black or white, but she is bisexual.
At least she finally identifies as something.
Jeremy Kinser
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Antigay Russian Pol Denounces 'Game of Thrones' for 'Sexual Deviant' Characters
Antigay Russian Pol Denounces 'Game of Thrones' for 'Sexual Deviant' Characters
Vitaly Milonov, father of the nation’s ‘gay propaganda’ law, wants GOT off the air or at least labeled as harmful.
Trudy Ring
Rachel Dolezal Reveals She's Bisexual
Rachel Dolezal Reveals She's Bisexual
While embattled civil rights activist Rachel Dolezal remains evasive about certain questions pertaining to her background, she was remarkably candid about other personal matters in a Wednesday interview, casually sharing with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that she is bisexual.
“Even in dating relationships — and I’m bisexual, I’ve dated men and women — I’ve intentionally asked, ‘So, do you date light-skinned women, what’s your spectrum?'” Dolezal said.
Dolezal, who has publicly identified as a black woman for more than a decade — and continues to do so in the face of her biological parents’ insistence that she is white — also said she feels a connection to Caitlyn Jenner’s story. Jenner, the former Olympian who previously presented as male under the name Bruce, shared her story of living as a transgender woman in a recent Vanity Fair feature.
“I finally had a chance to read Caitlyn Jenner’s piece in the magazine and I cried. I cried,” Dolezal told Guthrie. “Because I resonated with some of the themes of isolation, of being misunderstood, to not knowing if you have a conversation with somebody, will that conversation then end because they’ve seen you as one way?”
Dolezal’s story made headlines after a local TV station reported that city officials in Spokane, Washington, were investigating whether the 37-year-old had lied about her race on an application.
After graduating from the historically black Howard University, Dolezal became a prominent civil rights activist in Spokane and served as president of the local chapter of the NAACP until stepping down Monday.
Buzzfeed reported Tuesday that the Dolezal family is in the middle of a legal fight over allegations that Rachel’s brother, Joseph, sexually abused their adopted black sister in 2001 or 2002. But the Dolezal parents, Ruthanne and Larry, deny the claims and say Rachel orchestrated them in order to win custody of her adopted brother Izaiah, whom Rachel now claims as her son.
Dolezal, meanwhile, said Wednesday that she doesn’t feel she has been deceptive about her race.
“I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction,” she told Guthrie. “I have kind of had to explain or justify some of the timeline and logistics of my life in a way that made sense to others.”
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Loretta Lynch Takes the Helm as the 83rd U.S. Attorney General
Loretta Lynch Takes the Helm as the 83rd U.S. Attorney General
Throughout her thirty-year career, Lynch has proven herself to be a tough, fair and independent lawyer.
HRC.org
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Big Brother’s First Transgender Contestant
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Big Brother’s First Transgender Contestant
The contestants of CBS’s 17th season of Big Brother were announced this week, and rounding out the cast — which includes a professional wrestler, a personal trainer, and a poker dealer — is Audrey Middleton, an attractive 25-year-old digital media consultant who used to be a boy named Adam. (Curiously, CBS chose not to take advantage of America’s so-called “transgender moment” and left this fact out of the official announcement.)
Middleton admits to a nerdy obsession with astrology, hiking and dressing up: “Fabulous hair, lashes, makeup, I’m the Beyoncé of my life story. As I should be, right?” She also hates spiders and compares herself favorably to Dexter Morgan. So there you go.
CBS promised Julie Chen will be returning as host, and claims the new season comes with a shocking twist that will “shake up the house all summer long.” Could the twist be that nobody’s watching Big Brother anymore?
h/t: Gossip Cop
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