News: Charleston Church Shooting, The Moon, Zac Efron, $10 Bill

> President Obama speaks out on the Charleston Church shooting:  “I don’t need to be constrained about the emotions that tragedies like these raise. I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times. We don’t have all the facts but we know innocent people were killed because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

> Charleston Church shooting suspect in custody, reportedly told Bible study group, “you rape our women, you’re taking over our country” before beginning his rampage.

> Dear White Men.

> The moon is engulfed in a permanent, lop-sided dust cloud according to NASA.

> For a brief moment in 2000, the Clinton White House contemplated endorsing marriage equality.

> Jim Parsons to produce TV show on what it’s like to be gay and disabled.

> Chris Pratt would like you to objectify him a little more.

> Adam Scott and Paul Rudd were kicked out of a wedding for flashing their male members.

> Pope Francis set to release historical encyclical on climate change saying there is no excuse for destroying the planet.

> Zac Efron in a wrestling singlet. 

> Lester Holt will replace Brian Williams as news anchor on NBC Nightly News.

> Treat yo’ self to some Marlon Teixeira hotness.

> The U.S. Treasury will put a woman on the $10 bill by 2020.

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Women Wingnuts Slam Sexy Chobani Ad Featuring Married Lesbians in Bed

One Million Moms says yogurt maker Chobani ‘should be ashamed’ of a TV commercial that they say tries to ‘normalize sin.’

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Dawn Ennis

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The 5 Emotional Stages Of Dudes Learning About Period Products
We’ll give them an A for effort… but that’s about it.

In a new video created by V.Point News and charity organization Plan U.K., six guys attempt to answer questions about different menstrual products and how each is used. From confused stares to worried looks, most of the dudes were underprepared for the period pop-quiz.

The dudes went through a whole spectrum of emotions on their crash course, including:

Confusion:

Fear:

Frustration:

Shock:

And, of course, awe:

“It looks like something the doctor checks your ears with,” one man said about a tampon. Another guy was having some trouble figuring out how women use a tampon: “This is some rocket science.”

When the host asked one man why he thinks people tend to not talk about menstruation, he responded: “The stigma around talking about menstruation is the bigger issue than [talking about] the tampon. No periods, no babies — no babies no future. So how important is it to understand about menstruation? It’s very important.” Preach.

Watch the full video above.

H/T Refinery29

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Madonna’s New Party Hardy Video: “Epic” Or “Just Plain Sad”?

Madonna just dropped the music video to her song “Bitch I’m Madonna,” the third single from her album Rebel Heart, and it has critics and fans divided.

The video, released Wednesday, depicts a pink-haired Madonna running amok in a hotel with a bunch of hard-partying 20-somethings, making out with guys and girls (shocking!), dancing on furniture, throwing drinks in people’s faces, sporting that g.d. grill again and generally behaving in a way a 56-year-old mother of four definitely should not. It seems like a giant fuck you to all her ageist haters, and we applaud the songstress for that.

Related: Madonna Kicks Everyone’s Ass In Her New Music Video

The video also features blink-and-you’ll-miss-them cameos (if you can even call them that) from Beyonce, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West and Rita Ora, as well as Madonna’s two sons, Rocco and David. Nicki Minaj also makes an appearance via green screen. Comedian Chris Rock and designer Alexander Wang are there, too, for some reason. Oh, and Diplo.

Yet despite having all the right ingredients (a catchy song, a colorful video, a star-studded cast), the Daily Beast called “Bitch I’m Madonna” “just plain sad.” Reviewer Kevin Fallon wrote, “At worst, it’s desperate. At best, it’s just dumb.” Meanwhile, Rolling Stone called it “epic” and a “blowout party.”

Those are two vastly different responses to the same 4:03 music video.

Related: Andy Cohen And Sandra Bernhard Hilariously Narrate Madonna’s Apocalyptic Musical Fantasy

Queerty Instagram followers had similarly polarized responses. When we posted about the video earlier today, people had a lot to say.

“It’s dreadful,” Instagram user grape_p0p wrote. “I am concerned she is not well and is being managed by a complete misogynist. Something is wrong.”

“It’s a fun party video for a fun party song,” jackbnimble80 commented. “It’s not that serious.”

Check out the video below and let us know what you think about it in the comments. (Then follow us on Instagram!)

Graham Gremore

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Sandra Bernhard Will Officiate Lea DeLaria’s Wedding – VIDEO

(Image via Twitter)

Orange is the New Black star Lea DeLaria has announced that Sandra Bernhard will officiate her wedding to Chelsea Fairless.

I am checking off each day next summer @realleadelaria & @Cat_Party wedding? I’ll just keep it open t.co/yiArJJ2EbB

— Sandra Bernhard (@SandraBernhard) June 17, 2015

The wedding will take place “next summer or fall” and DeLaria intends to invite her Orange co-stars.

Speaking to Page Six, DeLaria said:

“Sandra Bernhard is going to marry us because she’s a really good pal. It’s going to be in New York, but we’re still trying to find the spot!

“We’re going to do a night wedding and we’re going to go right to the dancing. We’re not doing a sit-down dinner. We’ll have Mexican trucks…stuff like that.”

DeLaria and Fairless announced their engagement last February.

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Michael Fitzgerald

Sandra Bernhard Will Officiate Lea DeLaria’s Wedding – VIDEO

Does Partnership Registration Mean Taiwan Is Ready for Marriage Equality?

Partnership registration in two major cities is purely symbolic, but activists say it sends a message.

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Trudy Ring

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16 Women Show The Beauty In Body Modification
Body modification includes anything from piercings and tattoos all the way to surgical augmentations such as implants and injections. Photographer Roger Kisby recently captured some of the many women who proudly sport their bold and downright stunning body modifications.

Kisby just happened to be walking in Las Vegas on June 7 when he stumbled upon the Association of Professional Piercers Conference and Exposition. Though Kisby told The Huffington Post he himself doesn’t have any tattoos or piercings, he said he was drawn to the opportunity to highlight the beauty in everyone’s differences.

Kisby said he wandered around the convention asking people if he could take their pictures. “People were just really open to getting their photograph taken,” he told HuffPost. Many of the people Kisby spoke with at the convention worked in the body modification field at different tattoo and piercing parlors.

“I always like it when people are not afraid to be who they are,” Kisby said. “And especially when those people come together who individually out there in the real world have to deal with prejudices, it’s really heartwarming and nice to see people be able to celebrate themselves all together.”

Kisby tried to highlight a broad range of people who have piercings, tattoos and other types of body modification in order to show that “there’s no one type or style of person” at the conference. “I wanted to make sure that I could show each person in their own authentic way,” he said.

“The point of this project was not to point and say, ‘Look at these people, look at how weird they look,'” Kisby told Refinery29. “It was to show the range of people that practice piercing or do it for a living or are enthusiasts.”

Below are 16 images of women and their beautiful, colorful and creative types of body modification.

Head over to Kisby’s personal website or Instagram to check out more of his work.

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First Elementary School in Massachusetts Earns Welcoming Schools’ “Seal of Excellence”

A giant wall of paper hands spelling out “Welcome” greets visitors at Boston’s John F Kennedy Elementary School, the first in the state to fully engage in HRC’s Welcoming Schools program.
HRC.org

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Gay Dads Get Asked A Lot of Ridiculous Questions: VIDEO

Just in time for Father’s Day comes a new video from the website Gays With Kids that sheds light on all the questions (some ridiculous, some offensive) that gay dads often get asked by strangers. Things People Ask Gay Dads highlights a handful of some of the funnier examples, such as, “Your sperm? His sperm? How does that work?”, and “Who does the mommy stuff?”

Brian Rosenberg, a co-founder of Gays With Kids, spoke with OUT about the motivation behind creating the video:

“Our aim was to create content gay dads would enjoy that would also serve to inform and inspire others,” says Brian Rosenberg, co-founder of Gays With Kids, a website that helps gay dads navigate fatherhood from creating families to raising them. “Gay fathers share all the universal truths and challenges of parenting that are experienced by dads and parents everywhere, but we also face many that are uniquely our own, like dealing with homophobia, guiding daughters through puberty, and coming out. We have also traveled many different paths in order to become dads. In celebration of Father’s Day, we’re exploring these issues and more in the videos and e-book.”

Watch the video here:

To all the gay dads out there, what’s the most ridiculous question you’ve ever been asked?

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Sean Mandell

Gay Dads Get Asked A Lot of Ridiculous Questions: VIDEO