Alabama Legislature May Dismantle State’s Marriage License System
Although the bill would impact all Alabamians who wish to get married in the future, the proposal is clearly a misguided response to marriage equality victories earlier this year.
HRC.org
Comedian Joe Rogan’s Post About What Aliens Would Think of Kim Davis Wins the Internet This Week
Stand-up comic, podcaster, and former Fear Factor host Joe Rogan weighed in on the Kim Davis drama this week with a Facebook post speculating on what extraterrestrial intelligence would think of the Kentucky clerk’s anti-gay crusade:
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Kyler Geoffroy
Comedian Joe Rogan’s Post About What Aliens Would Think of Kim Davis Wins the Internet This Week
PHOTOS: Southern Decadence 2015
Neal Broverman
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2015/9/11/photos-southern-decadence-2015
19 Adorable Photos Show Just Why Grandchildren Are So Special
National Grandparents Day — coming up on Sunday, Sept. 13 — is the perfect time to showcase the precious bond grandparents enjoy with their grandchildren.
We asked you to tell us about your own grandparents — and your own grandchildren — and we were inundated with lovely stories. On Wednesday, we published our tribute to grandparents and, today, it’s the grandkids’ turn.
Check out these 19 gorgeous photos — as well as many more included in the slideshow below. What beautiful families!
Happy Grandparents Day everyone!
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The men and women of Austria’s Pink Lake
Imagine a few hundred LGBTIs taking over a peaceful and picturesque Austrian mountain town for a long weekend of swimming, sunbathing and partying.
This was Pink Lake – an annual LGBTI festival in the town of Velden, one of Austria’s most holiday resorts, set on the stunning Wörthersee lake.
The four-day event from 3 to 6 September saw three big parties. The first, a traditional Austrian affair with guys dressed in lederhosen and girls in dirndl, then a roller disco and finishing off with two party boats cruising over the 20km long lake.
During the day, festival-goers relaxed at the Pink Lake Beach Club. Even a day of rain didn’t stop the party – revelers just moved in to the club’s spa, alternating sauna sessions with a refreshing dip in the crystal-clear lake.
Check out the guys and girls of Pink Lake here:
Gay Star News was a media partner of Pink Lake for the fourth year. We booked our flights to Klagenfurt, a short taxi journey from Velden, via Cheapflights.
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Tris Reid-Smith
www.gaystarnews.com/article/the-men-and-women-of-austrias-pink-lake/
Which Hollywood Superstar Isn’t Happy With Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour?
Each week online comedian, voice actor and chest hair model Sam Kalidi creates a new meme for Queerty readers. This week, he ponders Madonna’s recently-launched Rebel Heart tour and the lingering resentment that one movie icon has at being left out of the singer’s classic anthem “Vogue.” Sam looks forward to all your hate mail. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and at your local glory hole.
Jeremy Kinser
The One Thing All LGBT Activists Agree On
How do I begin to even describe Lillian Faderman’s The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle? By saying it’s a book that nearly every reviewer and activist has described as the most well-written and researched, epic historical book about the LGBT movement? First of all, I want to confess: I am in this book. So is my wife. But were we not in this book, I would still regard it as the greatest literary achievement chronicling our struggle for equal rights, human rights, liberation, and finally, civil rights.
Most of us know —and if you don’t, you should, so Google — who Lillian Faderman is. She is a Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book award-winning author, scholar, and retired college professor. (She is also married to Phyllis Irwin, and they are mothers and grandmothers).
Faderman covers everything from the early witch hunts of homosexuals and the first attempts to fight back, to Stonewall to Anita Bryant to “don’t ask, don’t tell” to the marriage equality movement. But what makes Faderman’s book so compelling is that she did over 150 interviews, not just of the famous activists, but everyday LGBT people harmed by the hatred against us. She depicts the rise and fall of the early gay rights groups, compelling stories that have not been told very much but deserve to be.
She gets it right about Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, two people rightfully described as what they called each other: the mother and father of the gay rights movement. The book is a page-turner, very difficult to put down. But I am just one activist saying that this is a brilliant must read book. Why believe just me? So here are some quotes about The Gay Revolution:
“The Gay Revolution fills a yawning gap in history literature, providing readers for the first time with a history of the entire LGBT civil rights movement, from its inception in 1950 up through the current day. Anyone who reads Faderman’s passionate narrative will recognize it as a story that ennobles the human spirit and upholds the democratic ideals at the heart of this country’s founding documents.” — David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
“The Gay Revolution docments the momentous effort to decriminalize homosexuality and humanize homosexuals.” — Col. (ret.) Margarethe Cammermeyer, highest-ranking officer to challenge the military’s antigay policy
“Lillian Faderman has delivered the comprehensive account of one of the most extraordinary social movements in modern history. As gay people approach equality under the law, Faderman charts the course that brought such remarkable changes so swiftly. It is a dynamic book that matches the power of the movement it describes.” — Cleve Jones, founder of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
“The Gay Revolution is the definitive history of the gay rights movement in America. This book will play with your emotions as Lillian Faderman takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of the victories and sacrifices made by the LGBT community and its allies to arrive at this point in time. This is the story of civil rights for the 21st century!” — Rev. Troy D Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches
“The Gay Revolution will be the standard by which all subsequent histories are measured. The fact that it is written in clear English is in itself a cause for celebration.” — Rita Mae Brown, author (Rubyfruit Jungle) and lesbian activist
I have left out glowing remarks by Freedom to Marry’s Evan Wolfson and other fantastic reviews. What is so astounding about all of the reviews is — and I will let you in on an open secret — is that many activists (dare I say most) have fought with each other over the decades.
So what finally brought so many of us to agree on one thing? It was Lillian Faderman’s book. The Gay Revolution should be taught in every civil rights class in every high school and on every campus. And everyone, all of you, should buy it and read it. I won’t ask you to do it for us, the old ones who gave so much for so many decades (although I want to ask, but I don’t need to guilt you). I will ask you to do it because this is the most honest, compelling history of our movement, and if you participated, you will love remembering, and if you did not, it will inspire you to passionately rise up and get involved.
ROBIN TYLER (left) is a longtime Los Angeles-based LGBT activist, and with her wife, Diane Olson, was one of the original plaintiffs to sue for the freedom to marry in California.
Robin Tyler
www.advocate.com/books/2015/9/11/one-thing-all-lgbt-activists-agree
Liam Payne slams Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson gay rumors: ‘It’s like a conspiracy or a cult’
One Direction’s Liam Payne has spoken out about the longstanding rumor that his band mates
Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson are gay lovers – saying it drives him ‘insane’.
In a new interview with Attitude magazine, the Drag Me Down Singer says: ‘When the law changed in the US, there were loads of rainbow flags flying at our shows, but I think that was mainly because people think of the Louis and Harry thing, which is absolutely nuts and drives me insane.’
A romance between Harry and Louis – or ‘Larry’ as followers call them – is frequently featured in fan-made slash fiction on the band.
He continued: ‘It becomes like a conspiracy or a cult, the people that watch them and think that every move they make is a gesture toward them being together, and I know it’s not true and it makes me mad.’
The star also spoke out on the fans posting sexually explicit drawings of the band, saying: ‘I remember one time I was sitting next to my dad and I see this picture of me on top of Niall [Horan], which is intimidating. It’s just really weird to have people drawing these sexually-explicit pictures of us in strange situations.’
Discussing the young age of 1D fans, Liam said: ‘I don’t think it’s the right hobby for these girls to be enjoying. I find it very strange that someone so young can think of these stories or even imagine these things going on. That, for me, is the sad and sorry side of what we have done.’
After some fans took issue with the Drag me Down singer’s comments on Twitter, the star hit back: ‘It’s funny, I thought people appreciated honest they days.’
It’s funny I thought people appreciated honesty these days
— Liam (@Real_Liam_Payne) September 10, 2015
Can see people saying I’m playing ‘the victim’ I don’t feel even 1% a victim at all I had a wonderful time doing the shoot …
— Liam (@Real_Liam_Payne) September 10, 2015
And am blessed with the best job in the world massive thank you to @AttitudeMag for having me along and for everyone who enjoyed reading
— Liam (@Real_Liam_Payne) September 10, 2015
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Jamie Tabberer
Someone Is Distributing Antigay Fliers Around Queens Neighborhood
Antigay fliers were being distributed throughout a Queens neighborhood, tucked into car windows near 82nd Street and 34th Avenue and even pushed under apartment doors in various buildings throughout the area, the Jackson Heights Post reports.
Written in English and Spanish, these fliers quote Romans 1:18-32, which reads in part:
“Men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error… deserve to die.”
Though an investigation is ongoing, councilman Daniel Dromm points out there’s not too much that can be done legally; the biggest offense the flier distributors could face is a littering ticket. Still, he encourages residents to speak up if they see this happening.
“We have to teach that love is a good thing,” he said. “We have to eradicate this hatred against gay people.”
H/t: LGBTQ Nation
Jeremy Kinser
Watch: Trans woman denied driver’s license in Louisiana for not looking male
A video of a transgender woman being denied a driver’s license for not looking like a man has forced Louisiana to change its policy towards transgender people.
Alexandra Glover, 21, was turned away from the Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) in Baton Rouge when she went in to replace a lost ID card wearing a dress and makeup.
The exchange was filmed by her friend and at the time of writing had more than 30,000 views on Facebook.
Glover, who was upfront about being transgender, was told she had to remove her makeup before she could take an ID picture.
‘You can’t present as a woman if you’re listed as a man,’ an employee says in the video.
‘If you have makeup on or anything like that you’re supposed to take all that off, because you are actually a man.’
Glover points out that if she was pulled over for speeding, she could be arrested because she would not look like the person in her ID picture.
‘This is such discrimination,’ she says.
‘If a goth guy came in with all his black lipstick and makeup, you wouldn’t tell him to take it off.’
Louisiana OMV Commissioner Stephen Campbell initially defended the decision, citing a 1986 state law that bans applicants who ‘misrepresent’ their gender.
But he has since changed his stance and said a new transgender rule would be formulated ‘in the next 24 hours.’
‘It has brought to light that we may not be up-to-date, and we are in the process as we speak – and I mean it, right now – revising our policy,’ he said.
‘And we will contact the individual who feels that he was wronged and will attempt to make it right.’
Watch the video below:
My friend Alex Glover was getting another license at the Baton Rouge DMV and was denied her license for being transgender. Telling her that she’s not allowed to look female in her drivers license and must present as male when she’s clearly a female with or with out make up. So what are we to do? Something must be done.
Posted by Harlee Poitra on Saturday, 5 September 2015
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Darren Wee
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