Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway Speak At Anti-Abortion March For Life (Video)
Kellyanne Conway promised the anti-abortion marchers that Donald Trump and Mike Pence “stand here with you.”
Daily Archives: January 27, 2017
Womens March by Christopher Grommesh
Womens March by Christopher Grommesh
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Womens March by Christopher Grommesh
Pakistan's Trans Community Holds Rare Party Under Police Guard (Video)
Pakistan's Trans Community Holds Rare Party Under Police Guard (Video)
The liberated women hosted a “birthday” party celebrating mid-life.
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The GLAAD Wrap: 'Supergirl' celebrates Valentine's Day, 'Queer Eye' returns, Adam Lambert Tours With Queen
The GLAAD Wrap: 'Supergirl' celebrates Valentine's Day, 'Queer Eye' returns, Adam Lambert Tours With Queen
Photo Credit: The CW
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
1) The Athena Film Festival, running February 9-12 in New York City, has announced their lineup and are offering a 30% off flash sale on tickets for GLAAD members this weekend. Some of the LGBTQ-inclusive films and series screening include Major!, Summertime, Political Animals, Southwest of Salem, The Revival: Women and the Word, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mezzo, Little Doll, Vámonos, and more. To get 30% off tickets, use code AFF17FL4 at athenafilmfestival.com. This offer expires at 11:59pm this Sunday.
2) Supergirl has returned this week, and the show has just announced more exciting news. They are developing a Valentine’s Day-themed episode centered on Maggie and Alex. The episode is set to feature Alex is who excited about her first Valentine’s Day with a girlfriend, while Maggie is not as enthusiastic about the day. The episode will air February 14th.
3) Netflix has announced an eight-episode revival of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The show originally ran on Bravo from 2003-2007. There will be a new “Fab 5,” and the series will focus specifically on Red states. In other TV news, Freeform has ordered additional episodes of the returning comedy Young & Hungry.
4) Out actor Jussie Smollet (Empire) and Issa Rae (Insecure) are executive producers on the new web series Giants. The series – which premiered this week, and will stretch over six 20-minute episodes – will “explore themes of mental health, sexuality, police brutality” and other timely issues.
5) The UK’s first LGBTQ-centric channel will begin broadcasting in February. The channel, Latest LGBT+ TV, will be available in the Greater Brighton area, with content also available globally online. Sophie Cook will be the face of the channel; she leads a news program in Europe, and is the first transgender person to do so.
6) Adam Lambert and Queen have just announced a new exciting summer tour. This tour is expected to hit 24 cities in North America, including Los Angeles and New York. The tour kicks off in Phoenix in June and runs till August, with the last stop in Houston. Tickets go on sale February 3.
7) Dustin Lance Black is releasing a memoir titled, Mama’s Boy: The Story of Two Americas. He will explain his relationship with his mother, who is from the South and religious, and how his upbringing shaped his LGBTQ advocacy work. There is no release date yet announced. Black’s next upcoming project is the ABC miniseries When We Rise, premiering February 27, which looks at the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lives of three prominent advocates.
8) The Devil Wears Prada is coming to Broadway and Paul Rudnick and Elton John have been hired to write the musical. Originally based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger, the novel became infamous with the 2006 film starring Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Meryl Streep. Elton John’s other popular musical work included The Lion King, Billy Elliot, and Aida. Rudnick is known for Sister Act and I Hate Hamlet. In other adaptation news, the upcoming film The Chocolate Money has hired out director Adam Shankman. The movie is based on a novel by Ashley Prentice Norton, and will star Kate Beckinsale.
9) The short film A Second Round has launched a new Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for their story about two lesbian women from different generations. Delivery girl Clementine meets Janet, a “vivacious older woman,” on her last delivery of her night shift. Janet is newly out, and convinces Clementine to hang around and teach her about the community. For more information, visit A Second Round’s Indiegogo page.
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How many hours per day do you spend on hookup apps? Take our poll and see what others say.
How many hours per day do you spend on hookup apps? Take our poll and see what others say.
How many hours a day do you spend on hookup apps? And how much time is too much time? That’s what one U.K. man wants to know.
“I am an out gay man living in an urban area,” he writes in a new confessional published by the Guardian. “I spend hours and hours online looking at hook-up ads on my phone. In addition, I hook up a lot. It is wonderful and awful in equal measure.”
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The man continues: “I’m sure this is a challenge for a lot of other people, too. Society has rarely had so many people with so many sexual opportunities in a short span of time. Any thoughts on how I should handle this time-wasting distraction?”
According to Dr. Greg Carson, a psychologist based in Los Angeles, becoming addicted to hookup apps isn’t all that unusual. In a recent article, he compared carrying a cellphone to having casino slot machine in your pocket that “continually [begs] for your attention with buzzes, dings and flashes.”
“Dating apps are the worst,” he continues. “Much like the more generic slot machines of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, dating apps give you unpredictable reinforcements like woofs, unlocks, and matches—and lots of ‘Hey’ and ‘Sup.’ But unlike those other platforms, dating apps center around one primary goal: sex.”
Which is precisely what makes them all the more enticing.
Related: Dating apps are turning people into sex addicts, doctor warns
So what can be done about this? The answer: Not much. At least according to Carson. Sure, you could delete your Grindr and SCRUFF accounts, but you’ll probably just download then again a week later.
“I’m not saying you need to enter rehab or give up apps altogether,” Dr. Carson writes, “but I am saying you might want to wake up to the fact that you’re less in charge of your obsession with that little brick in your pocket than you think. It’s hijacking your brain.”
How much time per day do you spend on hookup apps? Take our poll below…
How many hours do you spend on hookup apps per day?
GOP Congressman to Reintroduce ‘First Amendment Defense Act’, the Vilest Religious Freedom Bill of Our Time
GOP Congressman to Reintroduce ‘First Amendment Defense Act’, the Vilest Religious Freedom Bill of Our Time
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho, above left) will reintroduce the First Amendment Defense Act, and House and Senate members are also planning to file legislation to protect people with religious objections to same-sex marriage.
Labrador filed FADA last year with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT, above left). It had 172 co-sponsors.
Donald Trump has pledged to sign the bill in his first 100 days.
Buzzfeed’s Dominic Holden first reported on the developments.
JUST IN: Rep Labrador will refile 1st Amendment Defense Act to protect religious people & biz opposed to same-sex marriage, his office says.
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) January 27, 2017
I’ve confirmed House and Senate members plan to refile bills to protect people who have a religious objection to same-sex marriage.
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) January 27, 2017
The Human Rights Campaign explained what’s in the First Amendment Defense Act last year:
The legislation would prohibit any adverse action by the federal government against an individual or organization for discriminatory actions against legally married same-sex couples as long as they claim they are acting in accordance with their religious beliefs. “Adverse action” is broadly defined to include the denial or revocation of a federal tax status or deduction; denial of a federal grant, contract, loan, benefit or employment; or any other act of discrimination. The bill provides individuals and organizations the right to sue the federal government for monetary damages in federal court.
If passed, this legislation would create a breakdown of government services and runaway litigation. It would permit a federal employee, for example, to refuse to process tax returns, visa applications or Social Security checks whenever a same-sex couple’s paperwork appears on his or her desk. This legislation would also permit recipients of federal grants and contracts, including those for social services programs like homeless shelters and substance abuse treatment programs, to turn away LGBT people. It allows any of these individuals or groups, or anyone else who believes they have been somehow required by the federal government to approve of married same-sex couples, to file a lawsuit and potentially receive damages from taxpayer money.
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Lessons Learned: Surviving the Holocaust as a Gay Man
Lessons Learned: Surviving the Holocaust as a Gay Man
Rudolf Brazda, who died six years ago, recounted his experiences surviving Buchenwald. Watch him tell his story as we honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
www.advocate.com/world/2017/1/27/lessons-learned-surviving-holocaust-gay-man
TV pictures, Eastenders
TV pictures, Eastenders
brightondj – getting the most from a cheap compact posted a photo:
Colin – first gay man on a mainstream soap
Melania Trump eats diamonds on new VF cover, but didn’t Maya Rudolph already do that?!
Melania Trump eats diamonds on new VF cover, but didn’t Maya Rudolph already do that?!
It’s a question we suspect we’ll be asking ourselves a lot over the next four years: Who thought this was a good idea?!
Melania Trump, best known for her poor portrayal of a happy rich person, has graced the cover of the latest Vanity Fair Mexico.
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The magazine debuted the cover, and a portion of the accompanying photo spread, today.
In it, Melania joyously twirls some spaghetti from a bowl onto her spoon — but wait — that’s not takeout from The Olive Garden. Instead of food, her bowl is filled with precious diamond jewelry. Klassy.
This is off on so many counts, especially given the timing of her husband digging his heels in on the whole “Mexico will pay for our new border wall” spiel.
In another photo, she poses with a cup full of diamonds:
“We demand Vanity Fair Mexico not to distribute their magazine with Melania Trump on the cover; it’s a mockery and humiliation for Mexico,” Mic reports one woman tweeted in Spanish.
Related: Melania Trump totally botched her photo op with Michelle Obama
Obviously horrible optics aside — because what kind of message does the physical consumption of extreme wealth really send? — how, and we mean how in God’s name, did nobody ever say, “Hey, doesn’t this seem a lot like that skit that made the rounds last year?”
And if some wise aide had uttered that phrase, perhaps someone else would have said, “Oh yeah, the one with Maya Rudolph about Melania eating diamonds?”
“Yes!” a third would cry out (she has a lot of aides now). “It was literally called ‘Melania’s Diamonds.’ Maybe this photo shoot is a bad idea after all.”
But no such conversation was had, and now we get to direct you, once again, to a skit from NBC’s “Maya & Marty” titled, as mentioned above, “Melania’s Diamonds.”
Way back in July of last year, we ran a post titled “Maya Rudolph’s ‘Melania Trump Eating Diamonds’ more relevant than ever.”
We’ll be the first to say she one-upped us, bigly.