Man Arrested For “Knowingly Transferring HIV” After Spitting On Woman

Someone needs to give the Oklahoma City Police Department a crash course on how HIV is spread.

Over the weekend, they arrested a man for “knowingly transferring HIV” after he allegedly spit on a woman during an argument.

Related: Unfortunate New Study Finds HIV Stigma And Discrimination Is Alive And Well

The alleged “victim” told authorities that she and 32-year-old Apollo Gonzalez got into an argument on Saturday. During the squabble, Gonzaelz, who the woman claims was drunk, spit in her face.

“The [woman] said it is well-known that [Gonzalez] is HIV positive and [Gonzalez] admitted to me he had HIV,” the police report stated.

The cops arrested him at the scene for “knowingly transferring the HIV virus and assault and battery.”

For the record: Gonzalez did not “transfer” HIV virus. And he “acknowledged” he has HIV, he did not “admit” it.

Look it up, folks. According to AIDS.gov: “HIV is not spread through the air and it does not live long outside the human body.” In other words, The virus is not transmitted through saliva.

Related: HIV+ Man’s Photo With His HIV- Family Goes Viral, Combats Stigma

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Graham Gremore

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News: Ceres, South Carolina, Condoms, Dodger Stadium

> Harvery Fierstein to get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

> NASA spots “pyramid” looking peak on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres: “curioser and curioser.” 

> Mike Huckabee wants term limits for Supreme Court justices. 

> A look back the “Newport Sex Scandal of 1919″, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s so-called anti-gay sex crusade.

> Rachel Maddow might be “really happy” Brian Williams is coming to MSNBC but it seems others at the cable news network might not be so happy.

> Janet Jackson to be honored with a special BET award.

> Sean P. Diddy Combs arrested for assaulting his son’s football coach with a kettlebell.

> Not surprisingly, Seth MacFarlane slays at musical impressions.

> South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and conservative legislators come out in favor of removing the confederate battle flag from the state capitol. 

> And confederate flags keep falling elsewhere in the South.

> Ryan Gosling is appalled by Costco’s mistreatment of animals.

> Liam Hemsworth reveals a little too much (or maybe not enough) after surfing.

> Independence Day sequel to be titled, Independence Day: Resurgence.

> Teens invent condom that changes color if person has an STI.

> Maya Rudolph has the Rachel Dolezal impression you’ve been waiting for.

> Gay couples make the crowd go wild at Pride Night at Dodgers Stadium when they end up on the kiss cam.

Gay couple on the Kiss Cam and the crowd went WILD at Dodger Stadium @frontiersmedia

A video posted by @lgbthollywood on Jun 19, 2015 at 9:14pm PDT

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U.K. College Rewrites 650-Year-Old Dress Code to Accommodate Trans Students

St. Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge broke with tradition after listening to student campaigners led by trans woman Charlie Northrup.

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Mitch Kellaway

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Perez Hilton Will Play Danny Tanner In A 'Full House' Musical
Sorry Bob Saget, but Perez Hilton is taking over as Danny Tanner.

Saget may be reprising his “Full House” character in Netflix’s upcoming reboot, but Hilton will sing as the TV dad on stage. While visiting the “Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday, the celebrity blogger announced that he will be playing Danny Tanner in the upcoming “Full House: The Musical Parody.” The new musical is a National Lampoon production, the company behind “Bayside! The Musical!”, a similar song-and-dance tribute to “Saved by the Bell.”

The musical cast will include “Bayside!” alums Seth Blum as Uncle Joey, John Duff as Uncle Jesse and Amanda Nichols as D.J. Tanner, as well as Marguerite Halcovage as Stephanie Tanner and Marshall Louise as Michelle Tanner. The musical will debut in Toronto on Aug. 18 before it makes its way off-Broadway in New York City on Sept. 7.

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Russell Tovey And Sam Smith Romance Speculated On By British Tabloid

You gotta love the tabloids. They’re always trying to romantically link celebrities who are spotted out and about together. The latest victims of the rumor mill are Sam Smith and Russell Tovey.

According U.K.’s Mirror, Sam was “cozying up” to Russell this past weekend during a music festival in London’s Hyde Park. The publication goes on to state “the two chums were getting on like a house on fire backstage,” which must be some sort of British euphemism for flirting.

Related: Russell Tovey Baffled By Becoming “Worst Gay Ever,” Half-Apologizes For Comments

Alas, the speculation is just that — speculation. The Mirror also reported that Russell already has a boyfriend so nothing is going on between Smith and Tovey.

The tabloid quotes an anonymous source as saying, “‘Sam and Russell know each other through the party scene, but Russell is smitten with his new man so there isn’t room for romance.’”

The non-existent love connection is also pretty evident from the photo that accompanied the story. The group shot of Russell and Sam hanging out with British TV personality Lizzie Cundy and Dancing With the Stars judge Bruno Tonioli was taken Sunday night and posted on Cundy’s Instagram account. A picture is worth a thousand words and there is nothing that even remotely suggests there is an attraction between the crooner and the actor.

With the very lovely Sam Smith ,Bruno Tonioli #britishsummertime

A photo posted by Lizzie Cundy (@lizziecundy) on Jun 21, 2015 at 1:20pm PDT

Looks like we’ll have to put down the fire extinguishers since the alleged house on fire doesn’t even appear to be generating any sparks.

Newsflash to the Mirror: If two “chums” who happen to be gay are having a good time in public, it doesn’t mean they are hot for one another.

Jeremy Kinser

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Pentatonix Tracks The ‘Evolution of Michael Jackson’ In One Epic Mash-Up: VIDEO

Pentatonix, the Grammy-award winning group known for their aca-awesome covers of pop hits, are back with their latest YouTube mashup, “Evolution of Michael Jackson.”

Previously we told you about their “Evolution of Beyoncé” that charted Queen Bey’s musical journey from a child of destiny to today. Pentatonix has now done the same for the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and his impressive catalog of songs. The co-ed a capella singers cover everything from Michael’s Jackson 5 hits to his breakouts from the 80s including Thriller all the way to 1995’s “You Are Not Alone.”

Watch the evolution for yourself, below:

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Stonewall Inn Declared a NYC Landmark

The officials who determine which New York City buildings are historic declared the Stonewall Inn a landmark following a public hearing.

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Dawn Ennis

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Caroline 'Tula' Cossey, Who Became Playboy's First Transgender Model, Looks Back
Caroline “Tula” Cossey, who became the world’s first transgender model to pose for Playboy magazine in 1991, opens up in her first media interview in two decades for the publication.

In the 1970s, the British-born Cossey appeared in issues of Australian Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar before landing a role in the 1981 James Bond film, “For Your Eyes Only.” Shortly after the movie’s release, however, she was outed as transgender by the tabloid News of the World.

View a vintage shot from Cossey’s 1991 Playboy spread. Story continues below.

Although she opened up about her transition in interviews with Howard Stern and Arsenio Hall, Cossey, now 60, eventually walked away from the spotlight and now lives a relatively quiet life in Atlanta. “There’s a difference between being known as Tula the transsexual international model versus just a successful model,” she tells Playboy’s Shane Michael Singh in the July and August issue of the magazine. “It wasn’t the same. I felt like a circus act.”

Playboy officials say Cossey remains the only transgender model to receive a full spread in the magazine’s pages. Another trans model, Ines Rau, appeared in the magazine’s May 2014 issue, but hers was not a complete pictorial.

Cossey described her spread, photos of which are reprinted in the new issue alongside the interview, as a positive experience.

“Playboy’s readership is mostly male and heterosexual, so it allowed me to get out there and prove that people like myself can be sexy and attractive. That’s what I aimed to do at that point,” she said of her pictorial, which appeared in Playboy’s September 1991 issue.

The media interest that followed her spread, she said, “gave people the chance to get to know me, to feel the situation and hopefully gain empathy and understanding. That was my goal, and Playboy was a great platform for that.”

Despite the strides that the transgender community has made over the years, Cossey said she doesn’t know “if I’ll ever stop feeling like a second-class citizen. It’s embedded and instilled from birth. You grow up, you don’t fit in, you don’t belong, you’re bullied. That doesn’t go away in five minutes. I don’t think it ever goes away.”

Singh’s interview with Cossey was conducted before before Caitlyn Jenner made her now-iconic debut on the cover of Vanity Fair earlier this month. The model was pretty frank in her assessment, offering views some may deem controversial.

Read the full Playboy interview with Cossey here.

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If Gays Can Legally Marry, Why Can’t This Member Of Parliament Wed His Children?

There are questions. If gay people are allowed to get married, why can’t you marry your cat? Why can’t you marry Jupiter? Your old Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom DVD? The pi formula? If gays can get married, what’s to stop alpacas from marrying llamas?

Fortunately, the questions Australian MP Dennis Jensen posed to Parliament on Monday were far more even-keeled than those we’ve listed above. No, Jensen merely wondered why he couldn’t marry his entire family.

“I love my siblings, I love my children, I love my parents,” he said. “But does that mean I should marry them…?”

Related: Rand Paul Thinks You Can Now Marry Animals

Using the same logic as that obnoxious kid in first grade — “If you love chocolate, why don’t you marry it?” — Jensen asked all the tough questions and pulled no punches: “Why not allow incestuous marriage if one or both parties agree to be sterilized? How about the love of, say, two sisters who have lived together for most of their lives? Should that be called marriage?”

Graciously, he made clear that he thinks same-sex couples should be able to formalize their relationship in some vague and abstract way… Just so long as it wasn’t, like, marriage.

Not surprisingly, his baiting questions earned Jensen a number of negative comments online, prompting him to tweet, “Amazing how many who preach tolerance are themselves unbelievably intolerant!”

Which begs the question: If gays can get married, what’s to stop Dennis Jensen from marrying someone who preaches tolerance but are themselves intolerant? Well, smartypants…?

h/t: Gay Star News

Derek de Koff

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Stonewall Inn Voted a NYC Landmark: VIDEO

New York City’s famed Stonewall Inn was today voted an historic landmark by New York City’s landmarks commission.

The Greenwich Village bar is today considered to be the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement.

The AP reports:

The unanimous vote Tuesday marks the first time a site has been designated as a landmark in the city because of its significance to LGBT history.

Patrons fought back against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. The uprising is commemorated in gay pride events every year in New York and around the world.

Andrew Berman, executive director for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, spoke about the significance of Stonewall Inn in the trajectory of LGBT history:

“To me, the Stonewall Inn represents what Selma represents to the civil rights movement and what Seneca Falls represents to the women’s rights movement,” New York City Public Advocate Letitia James said before the commission. “It must be protected from rapacious developers who would destroy the history and what this place represents.”

Watch a video showing the unanimous vote, below:

Landmark Designation for @StonewallInnNYC @nyclandmarks vote unanimous @gaycivilrights pic.twitter.com/EfCXy7fmYT

— Michael Herzenberg (@MHerzenberg) June 23, 2015

[h/t TNCRM]

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