Trump Inauguration, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Scarborough, Hollyweed, John Berger, Leslie Jordan: HOT LINKS

UNPRECEDENTED. Trump complains about book cover photo.

@CNN just released a book called “Unprecedented” which explores the 2016 race & victory. Hope it does well but used worst cover photo of me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2017

Oh, and he also provoked China and North Korea:

China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the U.S. in totally one-sided trade, but won’t help with North Korea. Nice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2017

North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S. It won’t happen!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2017

HATE PREACHERS. Donald Trump books anti-gay clergy for inauguration. “Among them are Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Bishop Wayne Jackson, who draped a prayer shawl from Israel over Trump’s shoulders when Trump made a campaign stop at his Great Faith Ministries International church in Detroit for a scripted interview. Here’s more on the other announced speakers: Paula White, Franklin Graham, Samuel Rodriguez and Timothy Dolan.”

ANOTHER INVITE. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu being courted for inauguration.

DON LEMON. Wasted on New Year’s Eve:

SAD GOODBYE. President Obama to say goodbye from city of Chicago: “The presidential farewell will take place on the evening of Jan. 10 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. In an email expected to be sent out Monday morning, Obama said he was taking his cue from George Washington, who “set the precedent for a peaceful, democratic transfer of power” and penned a farewell address in 1796.”

JOE SCARBOROUGH. Photographed partying with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after attacking reports that he partied with Trump. “His tweet-storm targeted Sopan Deb, who covered Trump on the campaign trail and will soon be joining The New York Times as a culture writer. Deb posted a screenshot of a paragraph from a New York Times report that noted Scarborough and MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski’s presence at Trump’s Florida party. ”

So @JoeNBC was at the party.

This is hilarious. All those tweets for naught. pic.twitter.com/seyYtK2Z8R

— Grace Lidia Suárez (@gracels) January 2, 2017

REP. TRENT FRANKS. If Russia was behind the hacks, they did a public service: “But the bottom line is if they succeeded, if Russia succeeded in giving the American people information that was accurate, then they merely did what the media should have done.”

Rep Franks:”If Russia succeeded in giving…info that was accurate…they merely did what the media should’ve done” t.co/NSZqUJz81Q

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) December 29, 2016

DANIEL WENGER. Gay America’s harrowing, heartening, year. “What to make of a moment when L.G.B.T. Americans are both so empowered and so threatened?”

HAMILTON. At the White House. Selections from the March performance.

ROSE PARADE. Float honors Orlando Pulse nightclub victims:

RIP. Art critic and author John Berger dies at 90: “Art and the wider world seemed to make more sense after watching Berger on the BBC, with his piercing blue eyes, steady delivery and groovy seventies shirt, eloquently explain perspective or the idealisation of the nude.”

TROPICAL BEAR. Jake Gyllenhaal’s Caribbean plunge.

MALE MODEL MONDAY. Giovanni Bonamy. More HERE.

 

BEVERLY LESLIE. Leslie Jordan spills the beans on Will & Grace? “Here’s the way it works: [NBC] has ordered 10 [episodes]. It’ll be for next season, so they’ll go in in July.”

HOLLYWEED: Iconic Hollywood sign revised. “Los Angeles residents awoke New Year’s Day to find a prankster had altered the famed Hollywood sign to read “HOLLYWeeD.” Police were investigating after someone used giant tarps to turn two of the iconic sign’s white Os into Es overnight.”

MANNEQUIN CHALLENGE. In space.

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Beauty and the Beast.

MONDAY MUSCLE. Marlon McKenzie.

 

 

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ゲイをカミングアウトするまで「24時間、臨戦態勢だった」渋谷区の課長に半生を聞く
日本ではLGBT当事者であることを周囲に打ち明けられない人も未だに多い。しかし、永田さんは性的指向をカミングアウトした上で、自らのキャリアアップに繋げた。それだけ考えると順風満帆な人生のように見えるが、Gap時代にカミングアウトするまでは「自分を守る為に透明な壁を作っていた」と振り返る。

もっと見る: ダイバーシティのつくりかた, ライフスタイル, Lifestyle, Japan-Lgbt, 永田龍太郎, 渋谷区 永田龍太郎, 同性パートナーシップ, Gap 永田龍太郎, 渋谷区 男女平等・ダイバーシティ推進担当課, カミングアウト, 永田龍太郎 カミングアウト, Japan News

www.huffingtonpost.jp/2017/01/01/tranparent-wall_n_13921570.html

Rosie O'Donnell: 'Donald Trump Is Mentally Unstable'

The out entertainer is getting louder about her criticism of the president-elect as the date of his inauguration nears.

www.advocate.com/people/2017/1/02/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump-mentally-unstable

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Documentary, Golden Globes and More TV This Week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

Remember how we all bitched about Finding Prince Charming? (Or was that just me?) Well, remind yourself that straight dating shows are just as bad (if not worse) with the return of The Bachelor tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC.

On Wednesday, Vivica Fox channels Jada Pinkett Smith in Magic Mike XXL when she attempts to form her own all-male exotic revue. Lifetime’s new reality series Vivica’s Black Magic premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on Lifetime.

It’s the same old song and dance when the TV musical Nashville moves from ABC to its new home on CMT. Rayna (Connie Britton), Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) and the rest of the gang make the jump (along with Chris Carmack’s gay singer Will Lexington) with the remainder of season five starting Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Get the tissues ready: HBO moved up the premiere of the Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds documentary Bright Lights following the stars’ recent deaths. Dive deeper into one of the most beloved mother-daughter pairs Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Jimmy Fallon takes the helm of the Golden Globes Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern on NBC. Nominees include La La Land, Moonlight, Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Transparent and Ryan Murphy’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

What are you watching this week on TV?

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Why I'm Proud to Be a Hollywood 'Sissy'

Sorry, Bristol Palin. The choice for entertainers not to perform at the inauguration is nothing if not courageous.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/1/02/why-im-proud-be-hollywood-sissy

Pat McCrory Takes a Few Last Desperate Shots at HB2 Opponents as Door Slams on His Governorship

Pat McCrory released a video message in his final hours as governor of North Carolina (Roy Cooper was sworn in shortly after midnight on NYE)  blaming everyone else for HB2, the anti-LGBT bill passed by Republicans in a rushed special session in March.

The News & Observer reports:

He said HB2 likely played a major role in his election defeat, and he blamed the Charlotte City Council – which passed a nondiscrimination ordinance that prompted HB2 – as well as the LGBT advocacy groups that backed economic boycotts of the state. He called it a “manufactured crisis.”

“I wish I would have been successful in convincing Charlotte not to start this masquerade of an issue, that no doubt had an impact on my future election and on North Carolina in a very unfair way,” he says in the video, adding that he was “unsuccessful in convincing the legislature maybe not to overreact.”

Watch the portion of his message devoted to HB2:

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Pat McCrory Takes a Few Last Desperate Shots at HB2 Opponents as Door Slams on His Governorship

Pulse Survivors March in Rose Parade

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation honored victims and survivors of the Orlando shooting in an award-winning float.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/1/02/pulse-survivors-march-rose-parade

This Englishman’s Search for Truth was about the Transformation of Spirit, and of Gender

At the age of 28, Dillon registered under the name of Lawrence Michael, becoming legally male. Over several years in the 1940s, he also underwent a groundbreaking physical transition from female to male through a series of surgical operations.

But all of that was just part of this Englishman’s remarkable story of personal transformation.

Dillon tells the story in a memoir called, “Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions.” The book was published in November, more than a half-century after Dillon’s unexpected death in 1962.

As a child, Laura always liked boy stuff, like a military coat with anchor buttons. But when Laura got a little older, people said it was high time to give up the tomboy thing and start acting like a young lady.

Dillon wrote about one incident that happened during the year before starting college. On a seaside walk, a boy opened up a gate and stepped aside to let Dillon walk through first. And Dillon felt crushed.

“He thinks I’m a woman,” he wrote much later in life.

A lot of trans people experience moments like these, says Jacob Lau, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine.

“The world acknowledges you as a kind of gendered being that you aren’t,” Lau says, “[And] sees you in ways that you don’t see yourself.”

Lau calls it “a moment of misrecognition.”

“That moment at the gate is one of the most striking moments in the book to me,” says Cameron Partridge, an Episcopal priest and former lecturer at Harvard Divinity School.

Partridge and Lau helped get “Out of the Ordinary” published and they wrote an introduction for the book.

During the 1940s, medical transition was almost unheard of, which made Dillon sort of a human guinea pig, says Lau.

“Testosterone … had just been synthesized, back in the 30s, and at that point, testosterone was given in oral tablets or pills, which is discounted because it destroys your liver,” Lau says.

A therapist who said he could help Dillon gave him the pills as sort of an afterthought.

But the hormones were a great help, Dillon wrote. They gradually helped him look more like a man, for example, by making it possible to grow a beard.

Dillon also met sympathetic professionals, including physicians, who helped him legally change his name. That was in 1943, and Partridge says this was a turning point in Dillon’s life.

“It’s huge. And he wasn’t the only one who did it,” Partridge says. “He references when he went to re-register, whoever was behind the desk — and it makes me think about these little moments where we interact with the person behind the desk, how significant that can be — and he says, ‘Oh, we’ve had a few of these.’”

It’s hard to say how many people in the United Kingdom legally re-registered to change their names from one gender to another around that time. But Dillon was definitely a pioneer.

He found a plastic surgeon to perform a double mastectomy. And in 1945, Dillon became the first person born female to undergo phalloplasty surgery. He went through a series of 13 operations over several years to construct male genitalia.

But these details of Dillon’s physical transition are not the primary focus of his memoir. Partridge, who is also also a trans man, says this is one thing that fascinated him about Dillon’s book.

“Oftentimes, memoirs by trans folks are expected to kind of be framed by … transition,” Partridge says.

“That’s not the fulcrum of this book at all. It’s a journey and it’s a search after truth. And it has lots of different peregrinations. And it is saturated with [Dillon’s] spiritual quest.”

Dillon grew up in the Church of England and he credited men of the clergy with getting him to think seriously about the purpose of life.

That question propelled Dillon through different phases of his own life, as a student at Oxford, as a surgeon with the British Merchant Navy, and in the last phase of his life, as a novice Buddhist monk in India.

For Lau, who was going through transition himself when he started working on this book project, Dillon’s story helped him get through some difficult times.

“I was going through divinity school,” Lau says. “And I had a lot of personal resonances with a lot of his questions about transitioning.”

“Working on the project helped me get through a lot of … not great periods of my life as well.”

For Dillon, his lowest point came in 1958, when he was outed by the press. He was working as a physician on a French ship ironically named the Liberté. And suddenly, after 15 years, his secret was out.

Reporters showed up on the ship and wanted to take Dillon’s picture. He let them, and he answered their questions. Then, he made up his mind to flee to India.

At first, Dillon simply wanted to escape public scrutiny. But he soon found a new life path in Asia. He got serious about Buddhism and decided to become a monk. Partridge says this part of Dillon’s story resonated with him, as someone who also went through an ordination process as a trans man.

“I really connected with the memoir in a personal way,” Partridge says. “I knew some of the sense of uncertainty and fear of being someone who was openly trans in an ordination process and not really knowing how it was going to work.”

At one point in India, Dillon was outed by one of his own Buddhist teachers. Then came stories in the Indian press accusing him of being a British spy. But he wanted to stay in India to continue his spiritual quest for truth. And eventually, he was ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Dillon took on the name of Lobzang Jivaka — taken from the Buddha’s own personal physician. That was the name he typed, along with his Christian name, Michael Dillon, on the title page of his memoir, in May of 1962.

Two weeks later, Dillon collapsed on a hike and then died in a local hospital at the age of 47.

Later, Dillon’s literary agent in London received the manuscript in the mail. The agent was quoted in a British newspaper saying that, “Dr. Dillon felt there was no reason why, finally, his story could not be told.”

This article first appeared on PRI The World.

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50 Years After The Homosexuals

Decades after the airing of an antigay documentary that shocked the nation, one man tells his story.

www.advocate.com/current-issue/2017/1/02/50-years-after-homosexuals

LA Galaxy Player Robbie Rogers Engaged to Producer/Director Greg Berlanti

LA Galaxy player Robbie Rogers is engaged to writer, producer and director Greg Berlanti (Dawson’s Creek, Brothers & Sisters, Green Lantern, Everwood, Political Animals, Arrow, The Flash). The couple has been together since 2013.

Rogers made the announcement in an Instagram post on New Year’s Eve, writing: “”Thank you to everyone before us that made this moment possible… I feel extremely lucky and blessed to end 2016 engaged to the love of my life. ❤ Happy New Year!”

 

Berlanti made an announcement, as well, writing: “2016 was memorable for many reasons, for me it as the year my heart doubled in size. First, when my son Caleb was born. And second, a few days ago, when I got engaged to my soulmate ❤️ though I dreamed of both those things happening, i’m not sure I truly believed they were possible. Thanks to the friends and family who helped me find my way to this moment in my blessed life. a happy and healthy 2017 to all.”

 

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LA Galaxy Player Robbie Rogers Engaged to Producer/Director Greg Berlanti