Open Question: Why do homophobic people use facebook?
Facebook, as i’m sure you know, highly supports the lgbt community and donates a lot of money to LGBT charities. But then there are people who say how they hate the community and go on pages to say all their hateful crap. I ask them why there on a sight that so strongly supports something they hate and never get a answer. I thought they boycott this kind of stuff. (Which I honestly think corporations do this to make homophobes starve to death) What do you think? I’m actually curious about this

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Yoko: John Lennon suppressed his bisexual side

John was bisexual but never found anyone attractive enough to hook up with, Yoko Ono says. 

Carlos Greer

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Bernie Sanders: ‘American People Are Sick And Tired of Hearing About Clinton’s Damn Emails’ – VIDEO

After debate moderator Anderson Cooper grilled Hillary Clinton on the controversy surrounding her emails that has lingered since the summer, Bernie Sanders jumped in to weigh in on the subject.

Said Sanders,

“Let me say something that may not be great politics. But I think the Secretary is right. And that is that the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails…”

Clinton then chimed in, “Thank you! Me too! Me too!” Sanders went on to add,

“…and let me say something about the media as well. I go around the country, talk to a whole lot of people, middle class of this country is collapsing. We have 27 million people living in poverty. We have massive wealth and income inequality. Our trade policies have cost us million of decent jobs. The American people want to know whether we’re going to have a democracy or an oligarchy as a result of citizens united. Enough of the emails! Let’s talk about the real issues facing America!”

Clinton appeared elated to receive Sanders’ support and thanked him with a smile and a handshake.

Watch below:

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Sean Mandell

Bernie Sanders: ‘American People Are Sick And Tired of Hearing About Clinton’s Damn Emails’ – VIDEO

Open Question: Why are gay people so loved in this generation?
I don’t get it it’s like everyone loves these LGBT freaks even so they are rarely discriminated against. I wish people just realize there are other groups of people who are being more discriminated against than LGBT people.. I think LGBT also cause problems for themselves.. I mean you see sometimes LGBT people hitting on straight people it really disgusts me. I am not even homophobic I just wish LGBT would stop complaining about their lives are so bad when there are other people who have it worse than them

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Tyler Posey And Teen Wolf Cast Try To Explain Gay Slang

Gay slang can confuse the most seasoned of us, but imagine if you’re a hetero actor in the cast of a hit series and get quizzed on the red carpet. The cast of Teen Wolf found out at New York Comic Con, when a Logo reporter asked Tyler Posey, Dylan Sprayberry, Cody Christian and series creator Jeff Davis to define simple queer terms like “otter” and “wolf.” We suspect at least one of these guys is just playing dumb.

Related: Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey And Dylan O’Brien Talk About Each Other’s Butts

Anyway, Posey has the right idea. When in doubt, just flash a nipple.

Related: Tyler Posey Confirms: “I Have A Grindr Account”

Find out how well they do below.

Jeremy Kinser

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Yoko Ono: John Lennon 'Had a Desire' for Men

John Lennon has long been rumored to have been bisexual, and now his widow, Yoko Ono, says he had a desire to have sex with men but she believes he never acted on it.

“I think he had a desire to, but I think he was too inhibited,” Ono told The Daily Beast in a wide-ranging interview published today. She noted that Lennon had to be both physically and intellectually attracted to a partner. “He said, ‘I don’t mind if there’s an incredibly attractive guy.’ It’s very difficult: They would have to be not just physically attractive, but mentally very advanced too. And you can’t find people like that.”

Despite rumors Lennon that had been sexually intimate with Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who was gay, Ono says Lennon was not sexually involved with Epstein or any other man.

“Uh, well, the story I was told was a very explicit story, and from that I think [Lennon and Epstein] didn’t have it [sex],” Ono told the Beast. “But they went to Spain, and when they came back, tons of reporters were asking, ‘Did you do it, did you do it?’ So he said, ‘I did it.’ Isn’t that amazing? But of course he would say that. I’m sure Brian Epstein made a move, yeah.”

The Beast noted that Lennon himself described his relationship with Epstein as intense. “Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite,” he said. “It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship.”
However, Ono believes Lennon’s lack of sexual intimacy with men had more to do with societal limitations than Lennon’s sexuality.

“John and I had a big talk about it, saying, basically, all of us must be bisexual. And we were sort of in a situation of thinking that we’re not [bisexual] because of society. So we are hiding the other side of ourselves, which is less acceptable.”

As for Ono, she’s not as open to being intimate with the same gender as most people believe her to be. Ono says she doesn’t have “a strong sexual desire towards another woman” but that both she and Lennon always appreciated beauty.

Read the full candid interview here. 

Eliel Cruz

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The Epigenetics of Sexuality – Wrong on So Many Levels
Another day, another truly execrable epigenetic report. Epigenetics is the study of chemical modifications to our genetic material which influence how genes are expressed. It provides the mechanistic link between our genes and our environment, and is a beautiful area of biology. It is involved in phenomena as diverse as the flowering times of certain plants and the gender of crocodiles, and from novel treatments for cancer to the coat color of calico cats. In the last few years scientists have developed new techniques to analyze the patterns of epigenetic modifications on the genome, and there is a tsunami of papers emerging. And unfortunately some of them are very bad indeed.

The latest awful study hasn’t even been published yet, instead it was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles took saliva samples from pairs of identical twins, some of whom were gay and some straight. They analyzed the epigenetic modifications and announced they had found five that together would predict the sexuality of the donor accurately 67 percent of the time. The authors also speculated that this may give us insights into the cause of homosexuality.

Does 67 percent of the time sound good to you? Try thinking of it another way. Would you bet anything beyond a dollar on something that will be wrong a third of the time? In yes/no situations, you could flip a coin and be right 50 percent of the time on average. Sixty-seven percent doesn’t sound so impressive now, does it?

And that’s not the only problem. The number of twin pairs was far too low to generate any genuinely meaningful statistical data. Saliva samples contain a mixture of cell types that may have different epigenetic modifications, and why would saliva be a relevant tissue in which to study sexuality anyway? And there are other technical problems, but I am pretty sure you’ve recognized my direction of travel by now.

So why am I wasting my time on an unpublished piece of badly performed science? By rights, this should have sunk without trace, not because it’s controversial but because it isn’t much good. But Nature, the world’s leading scientific journal, wrote a piece on it and then the non-scientific press picked this up and gave it a ridiculous amount of coverage. I can’t quite bring myself to castigate the popular press, but Nature? This really should be placed in your “What Were We Thinking?” filing cabinet of shame.

The ludicrous amount of coverage of a basically uninterpretable experiment suggests a surprising amount of interest in the basis of sexuality and I am even more irritated by this than I am by poor use of statistical analyses. I think of myself as a naturally curious person, it’s why I am a scientist. I wonder about loads of stuff all the time — how cell phone signals move, why dead dragonflies fade but butterflies don’t, why most people are more interested in life on Mars than in their own neighborhood. But with the exception of wondering what the Kardashians are up to, there is nothing that I am less curious about than why I am a lesbian. And I think that is very common. I know few gay people who waste any time on this. In contrast, it is almost always a straight person who asks this question of someone who is gay.

But here’s the thing. I have never heard a straight person wonder why they are straight. No matter how it’s dressed up, the question is always one of investigating the deviation from the norm. The defense that is usually put forward is that studies such as the recent one are just looking to explore the biological basis behind a range of human behaviors. But that position is both naïve and potentially dangerous.

I am old enough to remember a former chief rabbi in the UK stating, on the premier radio news program, that a test for homosexuality would be a good thing because pregnant women could choose to abort affected fetuses just as they would for any other disease. I can marry my partner now, but when we first got together our relationship was defined in British law as “pretend.” Although things have generally improved in the west, would you want to be gay or lesbian in Uganda? South Africa? Yemen? Tennessee?

Science doesn’t operate in a neutral vacuum divorced from wider society. Every one of us has a responsibility to think about how our research will be interpreted and used. The very questions that we phrase demonstrate our biases and assumptions. And the odd thing is that whenever we attempt to apply simplistic biological algorithms to complex and charged human conditions, we usually end up with bad science and a lot of hype. Look up any study on race and intelligence and you’ll see what I mean. Human cognition and emotions are essentially too complex to be properly modeled by childishly simple algorithms, however comforting those might seem at first glance.

I know some of the responses to this blog will be that I am a Luddite. I will try to respond quickly, but I should warn you that I may be too busy Googling the latest exploits of Kim and Kanye.

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