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Daily Archives: December 5, 2016
Trans Musician Among Dead in Oakland Fire
Trans Musician Among Dead in Oakland Fire
Cash Askew of the band There Are Us Too is among the 36 confirmed dead in the Friday night fire at a warehouse turned performance space.
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Shopping For Your Sensitive (Possibly Gay) Nephew? Try This.
Shopping For Your Sensitive (Possibly Gay) Nephew? Try This.
This one hit close to home.
While last weekend’s Saturday Night Live made national headlines because of a certain sore winner unable to control his wounded ego — we won’t mention any names — another skit flew mostly under the radar.
There’s no giant punchline or payoff in “Wells For Boys,” a fake commercial about a new toy for sensitive young boys, but SNL’s writers hit the nail pretty squarely on the head.
“Some boys live unexamined lives,” the motherly narrator explains. “But this one’s heart is full of questions.”
Related: Maya Rudolph’s ‘Melania Trump Eating Diamonds’ More Relevant Than Ever
“On days when he’s had too much, he’ll lean on it and contemplate his reflection. Some kids like to play; others just sort of wait for adulthood.”
This gets real, quick.
Towards the end, another boy holding a football approaches and says, “That thing’s weird. I don’t get it.”
“That’s because it’s not for you,” says Mom, played by Emma Stone. “Because you have everything. Everything is for you. And this one thing is for him.”
Related: Gay Latino Comic Julio Torres Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ Family
The ad ends with, “Don’t just give him a Barbie. It is like that, but that’s just part of it.”
We have to wonder how heads this flew right over, but for everyone else, the sketch is gold.
Watch below:
Walter Scott, Al Gore, Jimmy Kimmel, Terrorist Content, Conor McGregor, Oakland Fire: HOT LINKS
Walter Scott, Al Gore, Jimmy Kimmel, Terrorist Content, Conor McGregor, Oakland Fire: HOT LINKS
OVER A BROKEN BRAKE LIGHT. Judge declares mistrial in Walter Scott murder trial: “[Michael] Slager is the former South Carolina police officer who was caught on tape shooting to death Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man who was running from Slager on April 4, 2015. Slager had stopped Scott for a brake light that was allegedly not working.”
LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Marlon Brando’s son defends deceased dad against rape allegations: “It’s not true. It’s 40 years ago, but why are they bringing it up now? It’s not true. That’s not the human being he is.”
WHITE SUPREMACIST HIPSTERS? Beware ‘stylish’ looking members of the so-called “alt-right”: “Nazis were ‘stylish,’ too.”
WTAF. Josh Brolin got naked on Instagram for Standing Rock? Is that a bad pun?
MEANWHILE, AT TRUMP TOWER. Al Gore met with Donald and Ivanka Trump to find “common ground”: “A full 90 minutes after he entered Trump Tower, the golden elevator doors in Trump Tower’s lobby opened and Gore emerged, according to pool reports. In a very brief statement to reporters staking out the lobby, Gore revealed that he spent most of his time upstairs meeting with Trump himself.”
OSCARS. Jimmy Kimmel is this year’s host: “Why it took an almost unprecedented amount of time to arrive at this most obvious of picks — Hugh Jackman was picked on Dec. 12 eight years ago, but most hosts have been chosen much earlier in the year than that — is somewhat hard to understand.”
AT THE MOVIES. New clip from Jennifer Lawrence / Chris Platt romantic sci-fi flick Passengers.
TELEVISION. After last night’s Westworld season finale, it turns out the show won’t be returning until 2018 (!).
TERRORISM. Social networks are creating a database of terrorist content: “The United States’ biggest social networks are working together to build a database of photos and videos used to recruit people into terrorism, the companies said. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube will create a shared database that identifies images via a unique digital fingerprint, making it easier for the platforms to identify and remove the imagery.”
OUTLINE. Boxer Conor McGregor favors very tight pants.
OAKLAND. Trans artist Cash Askew, 22, was among those killed in the Ghost Ship blaze: “According to Scout Wolfcave, founder of the Trans Assistance Project, two other trans women are also feared among the deceased: Feral Pines and Em Bohlka.”
PERSON OF THE YEAR. TIME magazine unveils finalists: Simone Biles, Hillary Clinton, CRISPR Scientists, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Nigel Farage, The Flint Whistleblowers, Beyoncé Knowles, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg.
MUSIC. The worst pop lyrics of 2016: “Remembering a year of yum yums, dick bicycles, and bleached a**holes.”
MISTER MONDAY. Victor Adeniran.
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SNL's 'Wells for Boys' Nails the Loneliness of Queer Kids
SNL's 'Wells for Boys' Nails the Loneliness of Queer Kids
The hilarious and heartbreaking skit presents a fanciful toy for “sensitive” young hearts.
www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/12/05/snls-wells-boys-nails-loneliness-queer-kids
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‘Moonlight’ Named Best Picture Of 2016 By L.A. Film Critics
‘Moonlight’ Named Best Picture Of 2016 By L.A. Film Critics
The path of Moonlight has been a great one to watch. At first it was making the rounds in arthouse theaters, then some smaller venues in big cities, and then its momentum just kept carrying it along until it seemed to be getting buzz from just about everyone. Well, now we’re creeping into awards season, and that buzz has done its job: Moonlight was just named best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
It’s been a better year for diversity in awards shows than years past; along with Moonlight‘s director Barry Jenkins, numerous other women and people of color won awards. That includes the makers of Certain Women, Toni Erdmann, and The Illinois Parables, all of which had female directors. And I am not Your Negro won best documentary, along with Your Name from Japan for best animated feature.
Related: 5 Reasons Moonlight Might Just Be The Best Movie Of The Year
The LA Film Critics Association awards will all be formally handed out in mid-January, though generally only other other film critics will be aware of them.
Hopefully when we get to the awards show that more people really tune into, Moonlight will have racked up even more attention. It’s really a lovely piece of work, from the performances to the challenging portrayal of masculinity to Janelle Monae’s cannot-look-away command of the screen.
‘Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas the Same Way As Gay Guys?’ – WATCH
‘Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas the Same Way As Gay Guys?’ – WATCH
Comedian Michael Henry’s latest viral-worthy video is a bit of a curve ball.
If you’re a fan of Henry’s sketches you know that they usually entail a gag — a monologue, some repartee, a scene even — about the divide between gay men and straight men in today’ culture. His latest video continues along that track but this time there are no jokes–at least not in the traditional sense.
“Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas The Same Was As Gay Guys” is like a video instillation you might see at a pretentious art gallery if said video and said gallery had a twisted gay sense of humor. It would make a funny replacement, for example, for the opening of Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals.
The narrative and the punchline, for this video are shaped by the video’s ending, which gives a definitive answer to the question in the title.
Watch below to find out what that answer is.
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HBO's “The Trans List” spotlights personal and powerful trans stories
HBO's “The Trans List” spotlights personal and powerful trans stories
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The Trans List is the latest in a series of documentaries by acclaimed photographer and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Like his previous films, which include The Black List, The Latino List, and The OUT List, The Trans List features a sincere, straightforward style of interviewing, giving a platform for people to share their life stories in their own voices.
From Bamby Salcedo (activist and founder of the TransLatin@ Coalition), to Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, Shane Ortega (U.S. Army Staff Sergeant), Nicole Maines (advocate, actor, and student), Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (advocate and community leader), Kylar Broadus (civil rights attorney), Amos Mac (photographer), Caroline Cossey (model), and Alok Vaid-Menon (writer, poet, and performance artist), each shares their personal story in detail, describing in their own words their relationships with identity, family, career, struggle, and achievement.
Janet Mock, TV host, journalist, advocate, and author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Redefining Realness: A Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More, co-produced the film and interviews each of the documentary’s eleven cast members, intimately from behind-the-camera.
On why people should watch, Alok Vaid-Menon told GLAAD:
“In a media moment saturated by cisgender people telling transgender stories it feels really exciting and beautiful to have trans people telling our own stories.
What the film shows is that there is no “one” trans narrative. We are all extraordinarily different and have different ideas about what gender even is! This film really complicates the idea that there’s only one way to be trans. […] I hope people take away that there are as many trans narratives as there are trans people — that each of us is extraordinarily complex and unique. This film is bringing trans and gender non-conforming life to a wide audience so I hope that people will be confronted with ideas and narratives that they’ve never considered before.”
Coming soon: read more of GLAAD’s interviews with Alok, Amos Mac, and Bamby Salcedo about their experiences participating in the documentary.
The film’s journey into each person’s life are short, but the sophisticated nature of the interviews, guided by Mock, render each person’s life so sharply and specifically that their stories become relatable and universal.
The Trans List premieres December 5 at 8 pm ET on HBO.
Through February 2017, The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles is hosting IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits, a special exhibition where portraits of people from The Trans List and several additional trans people photographed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, may be seen alongside portraits of people featured in The Black List, The Latino List, The Women’s List, and The Out List.
The gallery is also inviting some of the subjects from the photos to give lectures in conjunction with the exhibit, and making them available to view online. Currently you can watch lectures by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Alok Vaid-Menon, and the director of GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program, Nick Adams. Upcoming will be lectures from Bamby Salcedo, Nicole Maines and her father, and Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst.
December 5, 2016
Issues:
www.glaad.org/blog/hbos-trans-list-spotlights-personal-and-powerful-trans-stories
Lucas Grindley Named Editor in Chief of The Advocate
Lucas Grindley Named Editor in Chief of The Advocate
It’s an expanded role for Grindley, who will continue as editorial director and senior vice president for Here Media.
www.advocate.com/media/2016/12/05/lucas-grindley-named-editor-chief-advocate