Log Cabin Republicans: GOP Platform Is the Most Anti-LGBT Ever
“This isn’t my GOP,” said Gregory T. Angelo, president of the nation’s largest gay GOP group.
www.advocate.com/election/2016/7/14/log-cabin-republicans-gop-platform-most-anti-lgbt-ever
Monthly Archives: July 2016
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Sparkle 2016, Manchester’s gay village, for a whole weekend of bringing together and brining awareness to all the different aspects forms and problems associated with being Trans, helping people be themselves if only for a day or so.
“Take Your Pants Off”: Cops Investigate Bizarre Hate Crime Video
“Take Your Pants Off”: Cops Investigate Bizarre Hate Crime Video
“To think that somebody would be so brazen that they could point the weapon in the face of an unsuspecting citizen and then post it on social media — as if the Detroit police are going to stand idly by and do nothing.”
That’s Sgt. Michael Woody of Detroit police, commenting on their investigation into a potential hate crime in the wake of a bizarre and disturbing video that was recently posted online.
Heavy reports investigators are currently trying to track down the perpetrator and the victim. A man posted video footage on Twitter featuring him wagging a gun at a man he believes to be gay. To make matters worse, the suspect later posted another video featuring him bragging about the incident.
Related: Three Teens Arrested For Kidnapping Man They Met On Grindr
During the confrontation, which occurred outside Detroit’s Brightmoor liquor store, you can hear the suspect say, “‘Take your motherfucking pants off, n****r,” and then, “Gay-ass n****r.”
Thousands of people have viewed the video since it was posted on Twitter Tuesday evening by a man who goes by the handle @binswanson.
Related: Amid A Sea Of Violent Hate Crimes, Dallas Police Partner With Antigay Pastor
In the smartphone footage, you see a man point a gun at another man as he exits the store, erupting into a series of gay and racial slurs.
The description of the 32-second video, which quickly went viral, is simply “I hate gay n*****s.”
Police are currently investigating, but admit they have no idea who the victim is.
Watch the video here:
Kim Davis Loses Yet Again, Appeals Court Denies Her Request To Have Antigay Record Cleared
Kim Davis Loses Yet Again, Appeals Court Denies Her Request To Have Antigay Record Cleared
Another loss for Kim Davis.
The infamous Rowan County Clerk dedicated all of last summer to denying same-sex couples their legal right to marry despite the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality. This summer, she’s spending her time trying to scrub that illegal antigay behavior from her official record.
Related: Kim Davis Is Trying To Rewrite Her Antigay History; Too Bad The Internet Remembers Forever
Last month, Davis’ lawyers filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, where she’s been fighting a contempt order against her for nearly a year, to vacate the ruling and put the whole matter–everything–all of it–including the part when she stood in front of a jailhouse, raised her hands to the sky and declared herself a martyr–to bed.
Well, unfortunately for Team Davis, that won’t be happening.
Yesterday, the court declined her request. The three-judge panel determined that the district court judge’s September contempt ruling against Davis was justified and that Davis’ motion didn’t meet the legal requirements to have it vacated.
Sorry, girl.
Related: This Piece Of Work Is Suing Kim Davis For Not Letting Him Marry His Laptop
The court did, however, throw her a little bone by lifting an August 2015 injunction against her for refusing to issue any marriage certificates that bared her name, but only because the law she broke is being changed. Earlier this year, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill removing clerks’ names from the state’s official license form. That law will go into effect on Friday.
Despite clearly not winning their case, Davis’ lawyers put out a statement calling the ruling a “final victory” for them.
“The injunctions are gone and Kim Davis received the accommodation that she requested,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, said. “County clerks are no longer forced to compromise their religious liberty and conscience rights.”
Despite being over and done with, for some reason we don’t think this will be the last we hear from Kim Davis.
Related: Disgraced: A Look Back At Kim Davis’ ‘Greatest’ Moments One Year After Marriage Equality
h/t: The New Civil Rights Movement
Notorious RBG Apologizes for ‘Ill-Advised’ Trump Remarks
Notorious RBG Apologizes for ‘Ill-Advised’ Trump Remarks
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka the Notorious RBG) is walking back her criticism of Donald Trump, saying her remarks about the Republican nominee were “ill-advised.”
“On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them,” Ginsburg said in a statement issued by the court. “Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.”
Ginsburg slammed Trump three times in the last week, referring to him as a “faker” who “really has an ego” and “has no consistency about him.” She joked she might move to New Zealand if he were elected president.
“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” Ginsburg, 83, told the New York Times in an interview published online on Sunday.
Donald Trump blasted RBG for attacking him, saying she should step down from the Supreme Court immediately and that ‘her mind is shot.’
Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot – resign!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016
He also insisted Ginsburg should apologize to him and vowed that if he is elected he would “swamp” Justice Ginsburg with “real judges and real legal opinions.”
Is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg going to apologize to me for her misconduct? Big mistake by an incompetent judge!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016
If I win the Presidency, we will swamp Justice Ginsburg with real judges and real legal opinions!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016
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John Waters, Grand Theft Auto Gay Pride, Theresa May, Maya Rudolph, 23 Ways, Gus Kenworthy: NEWS
John Waters, Grand Theft Auto Gay Pride, Theresa May, Maya Rudolph, 23 Ways, Gus Kenworthy: NEWS
23 WAYS. Why it’s time to take action to heal the long history of systemic racism in America. “Using real-life examples, the video simply but devastatingly presents 23 separate ways that innocent black lives have been taken by police. Organized by Alicia Keys, the video features the aforementioned Beyoncé as well as the likes of Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Chris Rock and Pharrell Williams to read these tragic stories. We have all heard how easily a black life is taken at a traffic stop or in the hands of police custody, but these artists put context into just how shocking these deaths are in the face of innocent activities like selling CD’s or simply wearing a hoodie. This is not an instance of celebrities pandering to an issue, but rather a way to keep this issue at the forefront of our collective conscious.”
UK. Theresa May appoints anti-LGBT MP to cabinet: “Fox voted against equal marriage, describing the proposals as “absurd” and saying in a letter on his website that it “smacks of a form of social engineering of which Conservatives should be instinctively wary”. He was absent for votes on civil partnerships, gender recognition, equal age of consent, the abolition of Section 28 and the Equality Act abolition of Section 28. He also voted against equal adoption rights.”
HOUSTON. Texas gun range offers free training to new LGBT gun owners: “What we thought was going to be two classes, with maybe 40 people total, has now just totally blown up to 13 classes, and we’ve got over 550 signed up, with over a hundred done already.”
IRELAND. Lesbian couples five times more likely to split up than gay men: “The statistics show that 6pc of the 2,071 civil partnerships – the precursor to same-sex marriage – entered into between 2011 and 2015 ended up being dissolved. However, there was a huge disparity between the proportion of gay and lesbian couples formally calling it a day. Around 12pc of lesbian partnerships had been dissolved by the end of last year, compared with just 2.4pc of gay partnerships.”
MULTIPLE MANIACS. The return of the John Waters classic.
DUKE. Basketball game against Albany cancelled over HB2: “Holly Liapis, spokeswoman for the State University of New York system that includes Albany, says that game won’t be played because of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order banning publicly funded, non-essential travel to North Carolina.”
ISRAEL. Court restricts Gay Pride march in city of Beersheba: “Organizers sought to march down a main thoroughfare in the city on Thursday but the court said police intelligence assessments indicated the possibility of violence. It said there could be life-threatening violence against participants, and also that participants could contribute to violence in an effort to defend themselves. The court suggested the participants march along an alternative route but organizers declined, saying that would ‘hide’ them.”
ESPYS. Gus Kenworthy didn’t win the ESPY but he won in love.
GRAND THEFT AUTO. The new Gay Pride mod.
ROBYN COVER OF THE DAY. Emma Stone and Maya Rudolph hit “Call Your Girlfriend” right on target.
THIRSTY THURSDAY. Dallas model Marshall Price.
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WATCH LIVE: The 2016 Emmy Award Nominations Announcement
WATCH LIVE: The 2016 Emmy Award Nominations Announcement
Happening Thursday at 11:30 AM EST, Anthony Anderson and Lauren Graham will announce the nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards.
Watch a live stream of that announcement below.
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards will air on Sunday, September 18. Jimmy Kimmel will return as the show’s host this year.
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Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Campus Safety
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Campus Safety
Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on campus safety. The hearing took a hard look at bullying, harassment, hazing, and violence on campuses, and it particularly focused on the needs of LGBTQ students.
One of the witnesses was Jane Clementi, the mother of the late Tyler Clementi and the founder of the Tyler Clementi Foundation. Jane told the Committee the story of her son Tyler, who was a freshman at Rutgers University in 2010. Without Tyler’s knowledge, his roommate streamed video footage on the internet of Tyler in his dorm room with another male. After his roommate attempted to stream another such interaction a few days later, Tyler ended his life.
Jane implored the Committee to include the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Act in any reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. This legislation would require colleges and universities receiving federal student aid funding to enact an anti-harassment policy that specifically prohibits harassment based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. The Tyler Clementi Act was introduced by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) – the Ranking Member of the HELP Committee – as well as Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).
Sen. Baldwin asked the witnesses to explain how their schools support their LGBTQ students. Washington State University’s Dr. Melynda Huskey spoke about the unique needs of LGBTQ students at her university, sharing her perspective as a mother and a lesbian. Joseph Storch of the State University of New York system talked about their long-standing efforts to ensure that transgender students are treated with respect. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) detailed the extent of harassment of LGBTQ people on campus, and focused her questions about the need for better data collection.
This inclusive hearing was in stark contrast to a hearing in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday promoting a deeply discriminatory piece of legislation, the First Amendment Defense Act, which would allow taxpayer funded discrimination against LGBTQ people.
HRC thanks Sen. Murray – who has long been a champion for the LGBTQ community – for hosting this hearing which truly focused on the needs of vulnerable students as well as all of the Senators and witnesses who participated.
www.hrc.org/blog/senate-committee-holds-hearing-on-campus-safety?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Targeted Interventions Found to Increase Healthy Habits of Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Targeted Interventions Found to Increase Healthy Habits of Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Post submitted by Ashley Jeffrey, HRC Foundation Coordinator
A groundbreaking study found that programs designed specifically for lesbian and bisexual women helped participants significantly increase their physical activity and reduce their body weight.
Healthy Weight in Lesbian and Bisexual Women: Striving for a Healthy Community (HWLB) conducted the study, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The study tested the effectiveness of culturally tailored weight and fitness interventions for lesbian and bisexual women. Intervention processes for the study enrolled overweight lesbian and bisexual women ages 40 and older in weekly group meetings, nutrition education and physical activity. Participants also completed pre- and post-intervention surveys.
HRC’s collaborative resource Health Disparities Among Bisexual People noted that bisexual women face significant health disparities compared with the general population of women in the U.S. Most notably, bisexual women face higher rates of obesity than heterosexual women, but also higher rates of heart disease than heterosexual women and even higher rates of breast cancer and all cancers than the general population of women.
“Some groups of lesbian women are more likely to be overweight and obese than females of other sexual orientations,” a 2012 publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) noted. “Specifically, higher prevalence rates of obesity have been found among lesbians who are: African-American; live in rural or urban areas; have lower levels of education; and are from a low socioeconomic status.”
The HWLB study found that participants in the pedometer and mindfulness programs were more likely to increase their total minutes of physical activity by 20 percent, and those in the gym group were more likely to experience a 5 percent decrease in waist-to-height ratio.
“Nearly 60 percent of the HWLB participants increased their weekly physical activity minutes by 20 percent while 29 percent decreased their waist-to-height ratios by 5 percent,” the HWLB found. “95 percent of HWLB participants achieved one of their health objectives – which included nutrition goals as well as targets for physical activity and weight loss – while 58 percent achieved three or more.”
The HWLB initiative’s findings suggest that targeted weight and fitness interventions are effective in improving the health behaviors of lesbian and bisexual women. This research points towards a productive strategy to reduce obesity among women in the lesbian and bisexual community.
HRC Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is the national LGBTQ benchmarking survey and report that helps healthcare facilities provide more equitable care to their LGBTQ patients. Please visit www.hrc.org/hei for more information on LGBTQ-inclusive healthcare facilities.
