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Get to Know Cuba's Santa Mariela
Mariela Castro, the Cuban president’s daughter, has made the country safe for LGBT people on the island. Now that Americans hope to visit more freely, what’s next?
Jerry Portwood
www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2015/07/10/get-know-cubas-santa-mariela
Watch Jennifer Hudson gatecrash a gay wedding to serenade grooms
Singer Jennifer Hudson teamed up with W Hotels and Human Rights Campaign to help make one gay couple’s wedding day extra memorable on Wednesday.
The former American Idol winner and Grammy-winning star has been working with W Hotel and Human Rights Campaign since last year on a marriage equality initiative called Turn It Up For Change.
Following the US Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality in late June, paving the way for same-sex couples to wed in all 50 states, Hudson gatecrashed the celebrations of one couple who were among the first to marry in Dallas.
Hudson sings for the grooms in Dallas
Scott and Chris Lindsey have been together for 14 years and have four children, reports Hollywood Reporter. The two men finally got the opportunity to exchange vows at the W Hotel in Dallas on Wednesday.
The grooms were told that Hudson had sent a video message of congratulations, which was duly played. However, after the video finished, a curtain dropped away to reveal Hudson herself, who went on to perform her song, ‘I Still Love You’.
The grooms and their guests danced and sung along to the performance.
Afterwards, Hudson posted Instagram pictures of the event, while a video of the gig has now appeared online. Watch it below.
Congrats to Chris and Scott ! They said girl where the hell u come from!
A photo posted by Jennifer Hudson (@iamjhud) on Jul 9, 2015 at 4:12pm PDT
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David Hudson
www.gaystarnews.com/article/watch-jennifer-hudson-gatecrash-a-gay-wedding-to-serenade-grooms/
Op-ed: Let's Not Forget About Those Who Can't Marry — Kids
Everyone’s focused on the next LGBT battle — e.g., employment, housing, poverty, transgender rights — but what about our incredibly beleaguered youth?
Daniel Duty
www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/07/10/op-ed-lets-not-forget-about-those-who-cant-marry-kids
Ukraine tennis pro: ‘Definitely no gays’ in men’s top 100, but ‘every other’ female player is lesbian
A Ukrainian tennis player has said there are ‘definitely no gays’ in the sport – but ‘almost every other’ female tennis player is a lesbian.
Sergiy Stakhovsky, who is best known for knocking Roger Federer out of Wimbledon in 2013, said he would not let his daughter play tennis for this reason.
The world number 49 made the claim in a interview with the Ukrainian Xsport website published on Wednesday (8 July).
Asked on if there were any ‘sexual minorities’ in tennis, Stakhovsky replied: ‘I think not.’
‘You see, on the ATP we have a normal atmosphere,’ he said, according to a translation by letsecondserve.com.
‘If there was anything, we’d know about it, because it’s a very closed circle.
‘Earlier there used to be talk about Gasquet, about Nadal. Even about Federer. I won’t sacrifice my hand for the whole tour and the new guys, who are just joining, but in the backbone of the top 100 there are definitely no gays.’
Stakhovsky then took a shot at tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who earlier this year said she couldn’t believe that no male tennis players are gay,
‘She can think that in the women’s locker room,’ he said.
‘She has no clue at all what men’s tennis is. And she’s has nothing to do with it. On the WTA tour, almost every other player is a lesbian. Can you imagine – half of them!
‘So I for sure won’t send my daughter to play tennis.’
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How Joe Biden Helped Win Marriage Equality
Speaking at a Freedom to Marry event, Biden recalls his role as a U.S. senator in keeping Robert Bork off the Supreme Court — and bringing Anthony Kennedy on.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/07/09/how-joe-biden-helped-win-marriage-equality
Brazilian Military Police Suspected of Covering Up Trans Teen's Murder
Laura Vermont, 18, died of suspicious head trauma. A ‘witness’ alleges two military police officers coerced him, under threat of violence, not to implicate them.
Mitch Kellaway
Married since 2007, lesbian teacher fired from Catholic school after 8 years because two parents complained
Margie Winters is finding out that she has many friends and supporters. What she doesn’t have anymore is a job.
Winters was fired last month from Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania, after eight years, because she is married to a woman.
She’s been married since 2007 and was upfront with school officials when she was hired and was advised then to keep a low-profile.
‘So that’s what I’ve done,’ she told The Philadelphia Inquirer. ‘I’ve never been open. And that’s been hard.’
But it wasn’t enough in the end.
The parents of a few students found out about Winters having a wife, one complained to school officials and the other went directly to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
On 22 June, Winters was fired.
‘The primary consideration that guided my decision-making process was to sustain the Catholic identity of Waldron Mercy Academy,’ Principal Nell Stetser said in a statement to the newspaper.
Stetser was not principal when Winters was hired.
A Stand With Margie Facebook page has been created and has more than 6,600 ‘Likes’ and a Go Fund Me page for Winters has raised more than $6,200.
The funds will go directly to Winters for her to cover any costs involved with the loss of her job.
‘I can only hope and believe that much good will come out of this, that Margie can continue to educate but in a place that RESPECTS her and her marriage, where she does not need to hide who she is,’ wrote Miriam Edelstein who pledged $50.
Carrie and Joe Santoro pledged $250 and wrote: ‘We stand with Margie. You are An amazing inspiring woman we are proud to know, and we will help you in anyway we can to fight this injustice in a merciful way.’
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Greg Hernandez
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