Open Question: How likely am I to be ostracized from ever being a metrosexual if the LGBT community ostracized me?
A bully has been defaming my name and character with harmful lies about ne being a pedophile, and now I’m being denied hairstyles while lady’s are also laughing at me
Monthly Archives: October 2015
What It’s Really Like To Be A Gay Latino
What It’s Really Like To Be A Gay Latino
While stifling one’s love of Shakira doesn’t necessarily make you a gay Latino, according to Gabe Gonzalez, it’s a strong indicator. Especially when compounded with always being your abuela’s dance partner at weddings and your aunt always asking about your “girlfriend.” Or so we hear.
Watch the equal-parts hilarious and real video below:
Dan Tracer
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Open Question: LGBT can i make myself fall in love with him? if so how?
Open Question: LGBT can i make myself fall in love with him? if so how?
so i’ve been dating this guy for a month now. he’s really sweet and kind and everything i want in a guy ON PAPER. however. i don’t feel that “love” connection with him.
like i don’t yearn to see him. I can go days even weeks without seeing him. he always tells me he misses me and i just don’t feel that way…i do have school and work but i don’t care to see him so often.
I feel so bad typing this and i feel trapped. I want to love him though. like he’s perfect everything i want. he’s sweet. kind. he accepts me for who i am. and loves everything about me. i feel like an ***.
is it possible to make myself feel the same way?
Troye Sivan Releases Heartbreaking Video 'Talk Me Down'
Troye Sivan Releases Heartbreaking Video 'Talk Me Down'
Out pop artist Troye Sivan’s Blue Neighborhood music video trilogy comes to a close with the release of “Talk Me Down.”
The groundbreaking series of videos, which includes “Wild” and “Fools” from his recently released EP Wild, depicts the evolution of a love relationship between two boys growing up together in a small town. However, they soon learn the connection they share is not enough as the different ways each deals with the truth of his sexuality leads them down separate paths in life.
“I think the most important thing to me at this point in my career is being able to be honest in my songwriting — and these songs are about boys,” Sivan told The Advocate in September. “Hopefully these videos will be the most viewed thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
“Talk Me Down” is the first single and music video from his upcoming album, also titled Blue Neighborhood, scheduled for release December 4.
Watch the heartbreaking video below.
Jase Peeples
www.advocate.com/music/2015/10/20/troye-sivan-releases-heartbreaking-video-talk-me-down
I saw this poster at my university today.
I saw this poster at my university today.
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As House Speaker, Paul Ryan Will Be as Antigay as John Boehner
As House Speaker, Paul Ryan Will Be as Antigay as John Boehner
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who now says he’ll accept the post of House speaker if his fellow Republicans unite behind him, promises to be no improvement over the outgoing speaker, John Boehner, where LGBT issues are concerned.
Ryan, who had said he didn’t want the job, today said he’ll take it if certain conditions are met, The Washington Post reports. “If you can agree to these requests and I can truly be a unifying figure, then I will gladly serve,” he said at a press conference after meeting privately with House GOP Conference.
Ryan apparently wants “a free hand to lead without a constant fear of intra-party reprisals” and “to delegate some of the job’s travel and fundraising demands,” the Post reports, based on information from Ryan’s allies.
House Republicans have been divided over the choice of a new speaker, who is drawn from the party holding a majority in the chamber. Boehner, a staunch conservative who is nonetheless mistrusted by the far right, is leaving the speakership and Congress altogether at the end of this month. Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, was for a time the front-runner for the speakership, but he withdrew from the race October 8, to the surprise of many.
Ryan has a conservative record that might be expected to make him a unifying candidate, but some of the farthest-right House members are still skeptical. “There’s still a race for the speakership,” Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a member of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, told the Post. And a fellow Freedom Caucus member, Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida, said he’s still in that race.
However, Utah’s Jason Chaffetz, another representative who had sought the speakership, today threw his support behind Ryan.
While Boehner has been no friend to LGBT Americans — among other things, he’s refused to bring employment nondiscrimination legislation to a vote — Ryan will likely be no better and could be worse. Ryan, who was first elected to the House in 1998 and was Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012, has often emphasized his conservative approach to economic matters, but his record on LGBT concerns and other social issues is just as far to the right.
He voted twice to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, voted against LGBT-inclusive hate-crimes legislation, voted against repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and voted to ban adoption by same-sex couples in the District of Columbia, over which Congress exerts some control. An exception to his general record: In 2007 he voted for a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation but not gender identity — but earlier he had tried to kill the bill.
In 2013, he reversed course somewhat, saying he had come to support gay couples’ right to adopt and would probably vote for ENDA (now replaced by the more comprehensive Equality Act) but would need to do further study of transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination legislation.
Quotes from Ryan on some key issues:
On marriage equality: “Marriage is not simply a legal arrangement between individuals. The institution of marriage is an integral part of our civil society and its significance goes well beyond eligibility for benefits and similar considerations. Its future should not be left to a few overreaching judges or local officials to decide.”
On the DADT repeal: “I talked to a lot of good friends of mine who are combat leaders in the theater, and they just didn’t think the timing of this was right to do this when our troops were in the middle of harm’s way in combat.” However, after the repeal, Ryan conceded that it was a done deal and there was no point in trying to reverse it.
The speaker generally does not vote on legislation or sponsor it, but he or she sets the agenda for each congressional session, and is next in line after the vice president to become president, should the president die or become unable to perform the duties of the office.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/10/20/house-speaker-paul-ryan-will-be-antigay-john-boehner
Open Question: Ahmed the Clock Boy complained about intolerance, does he realize Qatar is one of the most intolerant states regarding LGBT rights?
Open Question: Ahmed the Clock Boy complained about intolerance, does he realize Qatar is one of the most intolerant states regarding LGBT rights?
Talk about a self centered, egotistical “liberal” who really doesn’t mind seeing intolerance directed towards others as long as he doesnt suffer.
Chris Zylka Got His Pants Pulled Off; Paula Deen Tried And Failed To Out-Vogue Madonna
Chris Zylka Got His Pants Pulled Off; Paula Deen Tried And Failed To Out-Vogue Madonna
Bless her racist misunderstood Southern heart. Cooking guru Paula Deen gave it her all but was sent home from Dancing With the Stars last night after her interpretation of Madonna’s VMA performance of “Vogue” (perhaps the VMA’s all-time greatest performance) failed to impress the judges and the home viewers.
Who says blonds have more fun? The character played by Chris Zylka on HBO’s end-of-days drama The Leftovers was put through the ringer this week and got carted off wearing just a T-shirt. Crazy has never looked so hot. OMGBlog has the NSFW gif here.
The video interview shot in the NFL locker room that caught some of the players stripping down for the showers excited a lot of people but not the wife of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron, who said she’s unhappy her hubby’s penis is all over the internet. You know, we’re pretty good at spotting peen (see above) but we can’t find AJ’s in the video, can you?
John Boyega might not be a household name yet, but that’s likely to change when Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in December. Watch the handsome actor, reportedly the lead in the movie, react to watching the trailer for the first time.
We’ve told you about the amazing Hollywood Museum before, but the Los Angeles cultural landmark is now hosting special events like last night’s live reading of Georgia, a new trans-themed screenplay by Joseph Perales that featured an incredibly eclectic cast of acting talent such as soap opera stud Kevin Spirtas and Glenn Scarpelli (remember him from the classic sitcom One Day at a Time?). Watch Spirtas discuss the reading below.
Jeremy Kinser
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This Country Is Apparently Still Not Ready for Gay Parents
This Country Is Apparently Still Not Ready for Gay Parents
In a couple of weeks, our nation will turn to celebrate the 20th anniversary of National Adoption Month. It’s a time of year marked with an annual proclamation by our president, special events, family gatherings, and mass adoption finalizations. Television and radio programs will burst with stories both heartwarming and horrifying in an effort to draw attention to the glaring need to find homes for the 400,000 children that linger, on average, for nearly two years in the foster care system.
As someone who’s lectured at the university level about this system, of which I am a product, I have to admit I’ve never understood why so many of my foster care brothers and sisters continue to languish in the foster care system. In truth, they should have found homes a long time ago. At this very minute, there are an estimated 2 million LGBT adults who want to parent children, many of whom would love to do so through adoption. Research also shows that children growing up with LGBT parents fare as well as children raised by heterosexual parents. That means that in the LGBT population alone there may be more than enough ready and capable parents to provide families for our nation’s foster children.
And yet 11 states continue to bar same-sex couples and LGBT individuals from adopting. That means we have enough children needing homes to fill a city the size of Cleveland or Minneapolis. We have a surplus of parents who would like to adopt them. But we’re still seeking ways to prevent them from finding each other. That makes no sense.
It makes even less sense when you consider that foster care programs cost American taxpayers $22 billion each year. That’s about $68 out of the pocket of every one of the estimated 320 million people in the United States every year.
This is but one of the many ways that nation’s love affair with homophobia is devastating our nation’s foster children. And it gets worse when we consider the effects of homophobia on LGBT children in foster care. Consider this:
• LGBT children are overrepresented in the foster care system. In Washington alone, an estimated 19 percent of foster children identify as LGBT — a figure that is nearly double that of the general LGBT population.
• Once in foster care, LGBT children often receive worse treatment than their non-LGBT peers. A recent study in Los Angeles County found that LGBT children experience more foster care placements and are three times more likely than non-LGBT foster children to have been hospitalized for emotional reasons.
• Many foster care caseworkers and LGBT children report that foster care is not a safe place to question your orientation, and many foster homes and families are not thoroughly assessed to see if they can support LGBT children.
•In some areas, an estimated 56 percent of LGBT children end up running away from foster care when they encounter violence and rejection. Some have even been forced to endure so-called conversion “therapy” and exorcisms.
These are also some of the reasons that it’s critical that more adoptees, like me, stand up in support of same-sex adoption. Many people think that LGBT people adopting children will hurt them. It’s not surprising that many people have this view, including some adult children of same-sex couples who have spoken out against marriage equality. After all, institutionalized homophobia affects us all. It fools us into cherry-picking nonrepresentative examples in order to support a particular bias or agenda. It also fools us into buying our nation’s homophobic narrative in the face of a growing chorus of contradicting research and the real life experiences of many happy and well-adjusted people who have been raised by LGBT families.
As an adoptee and survivor of childhood abuse and neglect, I can tell you from personal experience a fact overlooked by too many people who oppose same-sex adoption: A parent’s sexual orientation has nothing to do with the love and care they give their children. My parents’ being straight did not prevent them from abusing and neglecting me any more than being LGBT would somehow cause other parents to abuse and neglect their children. Because of this, I see no reason why LGBT people shouldn’t be able to adopt. Being in LGBT homes isn’t what hurts children. What hurts many children is the homophobia that subjects them to unfair treatment and prevents them from finding loving homes in the first place.
Just a few short months ago, President Obama remarked that “all young people, regardless of what they look like, which religion they follow, who they love, or the gender they identify with, deserve the chance to dream and grow in a loving, permanent home.” But until we can overcome the homophobia that is hurting our nation’s foster children, those forever homes will remain forever out of reach. And until we can put the needs of our children above our bigotry and hate, our celebrations of National Adoption Month will ring forever hollow.
DASHANNE STOKES is an Eagle Scout, writer, commentator, civil rights activist, and member of Scouts for Equality. Follow him on Twitter @DaShanneStokes.
DaShanne Stokes
www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/10/20/country-apparently-still-not-ready-gay-parents
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