Daily Archives: June 18, 2015
New Polling Shows Indiana RFRA Fallout Continues
New Polling Shows Indiana RFRA Fallout Continues
A Republican-funded voter survey shows more Hoosiers support a statewide LGBT nondiscrimination law, and far fewer support the conservative governor.
Bil Browning
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The Truth About Living With A Micropenis
The Truth About Living With A Micropenis
When it comes to the size of a man’s penis, is bigger really better? Can a man be too big? And what about men who have small penises or micropenises? What’s life like for them? And why is our culture so obsessed with what’s in a man’s pants anyway?
In the latest episode of The HuffPost Love+Sex Podcast, co-hosts Carina Kolodny and Noah Michelson go in search of answers to all of these questions and more.
Kolodny and Michelson chat with a man with a micropenis, which he described to them as “inverted” when flaccid and “about two inches” when erect; a man who wields an eight-inch penis; and Ian Kerner, sex therapist and author of She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide To Pleasuring A Woman, who helps put everything into perspective:
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Sausage Party And Nine More Ways James Franco Is Good With The “D”
Sausage Party And Nine More Ways James Franco Is Good With The “D”
James Franco is an attractive, thoughtful and talented 37 year-old. Who can resist his charms? Girls and boys alike find the polymath irresistible, which naturally leads to a lot of speculation, and we mean a lot.
Is James Franco gay? Is he fake gay? Is he using the gay thing to advance his career? Do naked selfies mean he’s gay? If gays think he’s hot, does that make him gay? Am I gay because I’m talking about this?
But these questions miss the point for anyone wondering how Dave’s older brother really views homosexuality: James Franco is cool with a lot of stuff just because James Franco is cool with his own penis.
In honor of the great Frameline’s opening night showing of I am Michael, starring James Franco of course, here are 10 reasons James Franco is good with the D:
1. Sausage Party
This ani feature in production is an obvious example. You have to be comfortable with your own dick to be in a movie about talking sausages, because yes they really are talking penises, among them Seth Rogen, Michael Cera and hot young sausage Anders Holm. Ronald Reagan would not have been in a movie called Sausage Party.
2. Naked Basketball
In 2006, Franco went back to school to get his undergraduate degree at UCLA, and then some. He continued with an MFA in writing at Columbia and another in filmmaking at NYU, where he directed a 16mm short called The Feast of St. Stephen, based on a poem by Anthony Hecht, featuring a bunch of naked undergrads playing basketball before that turns into a sexualized beating in Central Park. There’s plenty of full-frontal college penis in the four-minute film, as well as some fine college ass, because that’s what you see when 18 year-olds are playing naked basketball. And Franco is cool with that.
3. Zac Efron Masturbating
James Franco is comfortable enough with his own D to talk with another sexy, younger leading man, Zac Efron, about his masturbation habits. On the faux chat show Skylark Tonight, Franco is fascinated, not repulsed, by Efron’s remarkable self-pleasuring. As you will be.
4. Interior. Leather Bar.
Franco collaborated with director Travis Mathews on an hour-long film called Interior. Leather Bar, which used the re-creation of 40 minutes of deleted scenes from Al Pacino’s 1980 starrer Cruising to talk about censorship, homophobia and the evolution of depictions of gay culture from then to now. If you’ve seen the film, you know the plot is pure gay-sploitation, but those cruising scenes below streets in the pseudo-Mineshaft are pretty much on the nose. There’s dick everywhere, which is fine because that’s what you’ll find if you’re ever underground in a leather bar at 3 in the morning in the Meatpacking District.
5. The Seth Rogen Paintings
Artist Franco appropriated some guy’s drawings of an imagined, and naked, and in one case maybe auto-fellating, Seth Rogen, because, he said, he and Rogen are buddies and if anyone should depict his buddy naked, it’s Franco. If you’re not cool with your own dick, you’re not going to paint Seth Rogen’s.
6. Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers
In Harmony Korine’s kaleidoscopic love letter to Spring Break and the Sunshine State, Franco’s corn-rowed Alien deep-throats an assault rifle and has a silencer-equipped Beretta thrust in his mouth by drug-heisting girlfriends Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. This act pretty much redefines “cocksure.”
7. Naked and Afraid
Last year, just before their Interview/Kim Jong Un debacle, Franco and Seth Rogen appeared together on the Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid, which of course is an oxymoron with a camera crew following you through the woods because you’re probably not really afraid of anything. But that’s not why you called. Guys with hang-ups about their dicks don’t hang out naked in the forest with their buddy for a cable TV show.
8. Instagram Selfies
Some people have labeled Franco a narcissist, and therefore probably gay, for his Instagram selfie habit, but in 2013 the social media maven made a compelling case in The New York Times for why posting pics of yourself is not only required celebrity currency, but desirable: “The selfie quickly and easily shows, not tells, how you’re feeling, where you are, what you’re doing. And, as our social lives become more electronic, we become more adept at interpreting social media. A texting conversation might fall short of communicating how you are feeling, but a selfie might make everything clear in an instant.” Like this one with Franco’s hand on his junk. “Selfies,” he continues, “are tools of communication more than marks of vanity (but yes, they can be a little vain).” Isn’t his self-awareness endearing?
9. Between Two Ferns
In 2013, an episode of Zach Galifianakis’ Between Two Ferns was the vehicle for a pro-marriage equality music video by Andy Samburg’s Lonely Island, wherein Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers sing they’ll be both “Crushin’ pussy, marry a man,” with Franco, Ed Norton, Jorma Taccone and friends illustrating the nuptials, without irony.
There’s also this exchange with Galifianakis and Franco on the Ferns set:
Galifianakis: Your face resembles James Dean.
Franco: Oh, thanks.
Galifianakis: Is it safe to say your sausage reveals Jimmie Dean’s?
Franco: Um, long and smooth?
Galifianakis: Tasty.
10. The Broken Tower
For Franco’s MFA thesis film, The Broken Tower, he tackled the story of died-too-young gay poet Hart Crane, who, after a sailor beat him up following his advances, threw himself overboard from a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, age 32. The 90-minute drama features Franco as Hart giving a student a blow job in a jalopy, and while the director says the phallus was fake, the actor sure makes it look real. Either way, sucking another man’s D in public says a lot about how cool you are with your own.
But what may be more revealing than a dick in Franco’s mouth is how his fellow students feel about it. In 2011, when the over-aged post-graduate was making that thesis film, a poll of incoming college students indicated 71.3 percent agreed same-sex couples should have the right to marry, and the numbers have only gone up. So while it looks like forever-student Franco is pathbreaking in his advocacy and provocations, it may be that he’s just co-opting the kids, and if we really want to know about how he feels about homosexuality, we should follow them, on Instagram, where it looks like everybody is cool with the the big D.
Chris Bull
‘We Don’t Serve Gays’ Exposes The Absurdity of Anti-Gay Discrimination: VIDEO
‘We Don’t Serve Gays’ Exposes The Absurdity of Anti-Gay Discrimination: VIDEO
A new comedic short quickly racking up hits on YouTube underscores just how ridiculous anti-gay discrimination and bigotry really is. Titled, “We Don’t Serve Gays”, the video was made by popular YouTuber Ray William Johnson.
Johnson describes the video on YouTube with a tongue-in-cheek sensibility that is true to the video’s comedy: “This one time [fellow YouTuber] Booze Lightyear and I served a gay guy in restaurant we were working at. Immediately afterwards, we all went straight to Hell. True story.”
The video is in essence a riff on all the ridiculous things a gay person might hear from a business in today’s current climate of anti-gay ‘right to discriminate’ bills. In it, a variety of servers berate a gay customer with a barrage of absurd reasons why their establishment cannot serve gays. For instance, the restaurant can’t serve gays because they don’t want the place reeking of vaseline and Madonna. Or have their internet crashing because of all the Grindr usage.
Watch the hilarious spoof below:
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Sean Mandell
‘We Don’t Serve Gays’ Exposes The Absurdity of Anti-Gay Discrimination: VIDEO
Woman Threatened by Christian Neighbor for 'Relentlessly Gay' Rainbow Lights Won't Take the Hate
Woman Threatened by Christian Neighbor for 'Relentlessly Gay' Rainbow Lights Won't Take the Hate
A Baltimore-area widow who received an anonymous note condemning her yard decorations is fighting hate with humor.
Mitch Kellaway
12 Baby Names Inspired By Famous Dads Who Welcomed New Babies This Year
12 Baby Names Inspired By Famous Dads Who Welcomed New Babies This Year
A hearty Happy Father’s Day to the celebs who welcomed new babies during the first half of 2015 — in particular the dads who put a lot of thought and care into their baby name choices. Here are the 12 names and namers we’d like to highlight.
Somehow this seems like the perfect choice for Irish comic actor O’Dowd — cool, wry, offbeat and quirky. It’s been rarely used on its own, but has worked as a nickname for Garfunkel, Carney, Pepper and Tatum. In addition to its creative word meaning, it relates to a couple of legendary High Kings of Ireland.
After joking with a talk show host that he was naming his and Blake Lively’s baby Excalibur Anaconda, or Butternut Summersquash, Ryan Reynolds finally announced a pick almost as surprising: a girl named James. But they are not the first to have gender-bent this boy classic — Brendan Fehr did it first, and several celebs have used it as their daughters’ middle.
Yes, there will be a lot of real McCoy jokes about this recent choice by “Hart of Dixie” star Scott Porter inspired in part by Texas quarterback Colt McCoy. Lots of parents are reevaluating the whole genre of Mc/Mac names for boys, from McKinley to MacGregor.
Sam Worthington and Lara Bingle went even more dynamic with their choice of word name Rocket. It was first used by director Robert Rodriguez for his son in 1995, then by rapper Pharrell in 2008 and last year by another musical pair — for their daughter. It seems that the sci-fi-ish Zot was the nickname of Bingle’s late father.
Interior designer and TV personality Berkus and husband Nate Berkus chose the up-and-coming vivid floral name Poppy for his daughter. Picked by a number of other celebs including Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, Anthony Edwards, Jamie Oliver and Jessica Capshaw, Poppy is a blooming Number 12 in England, 64 on Nameberry — and just ready to burst onto the US Top 1,000.
Silas Randall — Justin Timberlake
Silas, the handsome choice of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, was the middle name of daddy’s maternal grandfather, while Randall is Justin’s own middle name. New Testament Silas is getting to be a red hot oldie, shedding a onetime hayseed image to rise to Number 137 on the charts.
Montgomery Moses Brian — Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen and wife Isla Fischer have come up with unexpected and diverse choices for their kids. First came the trend-setting Olive in 2007, followed three years later by Elula, a Hebrew name, and now the mighty Anglo-Scottish surname name Montgomery for their latest.
The world was moved by the touching story of Vin Diesel naming his baby daughter Pauline in tribute to his close friend and “Fast and Furious” co-star Paul Walker, who died tragically in a car crash. Pauline has been off the baby name radar since the 90s, it was a Top 50 name for the first three decades if the 20th century and might be due for a comeback.
There’s a sweet sentiment behind Perez Hilton’s choice Mia Alma, via its meaning, “my soul.” Mia is now the sixth most popular girl’s name in the country, with will over 13,000 baby girls given that name in 2014.
Charlotte Elizabeth Diana — Prince William
Talk about name pressure! The popular Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had thousands betting on what their choice would be within the constraints on them. They pulled it off with three classics, honoring the baby’s great-grandma and beloved late grandmother.
The iconic name for the famed Vatican chapel, home of Michelangelo frescoes, provided inspiration for Sylvester Stallone and now to action star Kevin James for their daughters; Kevin James has another daughter evocative of Italy: Sienna–Marie.
Violet Moon & Knox Blue — Steve Howey
Steve Howey, the actor who plays Kev on “Shameless” and Van on “Reba,” picked what we consider a perfect pair of names for his girl-boy twins. We especially liked his combination of clearly defined, traditional first names, with more imaginative middles.
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In Case You Forgot, Here Are 26 Reminders The Magic Mike XXL Guys Were Sent From Heaven
In Case You Forgot, Here Are 26 Reminders The Magic Mike XXL Guys Were Sent From Heaven
Ahead of the July 1 release of Magic Mike XXL, Warner Bros. has unleashed a massive batch of promo photos featuring all your favorite fake male strippers and some you haven’t even met yet.
We went through and pulled the good ones (aka the ones with exposed nipples, shoulders or winning smiles), but you can find the rest here.
Enjoy:
Dan Tracer
Glamorous sailors
Eli Lieb Wins Award For Allstate's 'Out Holding Hands' Campaign
Eli Lieb Wins Award For Allstate's 'Out Holding Hands' Campaign
‘The act of holding hands with someone you love out in public should not be a scary thing,’ says Lieb.
Gina Vivinetto
