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How John Waters and Patricia Highsmith Helped Sell ‘Claws’ to TNT
Creator Eliot Laurence recalled the imaginative pitches he gave executives to help bring to life a bold crime drama that centers on women of color and queer people.
www.advocate.com/television/2017/6/02/how-john-waters-and-patricia-highsmith-helped-sell-claws-tnt
The GLAAD Wrap: ‘Handsome Devil’ in theaters, new music from Halsey, Allison Weiss, and more!
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) Handsome Devil, an Irish coming of age comedic drama about two outsiders at a boarding school, is coming to select theaters on Friday. The film follows Ned (Finn O’Shea) and his new roommate Conor (Nicholas Galitzine) as they try to express themselves in their rugby-focused boarding school. One of the boy’s sexuality also comes into play as it clashes with the attitude of the school. Check out the trailer below, Handsome Devil will be available on iTunes June 6.
2) Documentarian Charlie Minn has just finished making One Pulse, documenting last year’s Orlando shooting. The film will not go into detail about the shooter, but instead focus on the victims and survivors of the tragedy. The documentary will also focus on the law enforcement response the shooting, and how long it took for the police to arrive. One Pulse is currently looking for US distribution.
3) Jeffery Schwarz, director of “Vito” and “I am Divine,” has finished his most recent documentary “The Fabulous Allan Carr.” The documentary looks into the life and work of legendary producer Allan Carr, who helped make iconic projects such as Grease and La Cage Aux Folles. The documentary is making the festival route now, and you can check out the trailer below.
4) In honor of pride month, Tyler Oakley is releasing an eight-part web series “Chosen Family: Stories of Queer Resilience,” where every week he will release a new video with an LGBTQ theme, and collaborate other queer content creators. The project will start rolling out next week, and you can watch the trailer below.
5) A trailer has been released for the upcoming fourth season of TV Land’s Younger, the comedy starring Sutton Foster posing as a younger women. The trailer reveals drama to come, as well as some romance for Maggie (Debi Mazar), the main character’s lesbian best friend. Check out the trailer below.
6) Halsey’s new album, hopeless fountain kingdom, was released today. The out singer’s second full length album is a follow up to 2015’s Badlands which reached #2 on the Billboard 200. Hopeless fountain kingdom features sixteen new songs including “Strangers” with Fifth Harmony’s Lauren Jauregui who came out last year. The album is available to stream and buy wherever music is sold.
7) Out singer/songwriter Allison Weiss has released a new song and video for “Runaway.” The song was co-written with Tegan Quin, and it has a signature upbeat indie pop feel, with an accompanying 8-bit music video. It’s Weiss’s first new song in a while, and hopefully it will lead to more.
8) Janet Mock has released a new podcast Never Before where she sits down and has intimate conversations with cultural figures. The first episode, out now, is a conversation with Tina Knowles-Lawson aka Beyoncé’s mom. There will be nine more episodes of the first season of Never Before, available on all podcast apps.
9) Bad Penny is a British comedy feature film about Penny, a 29-year-old lesbian car park attendant, going through a break-up and dealing with her boring job. The film is currently running a crowdfunding campaign.The writer’s set out to feature a lesbian protagonist, while not making her sexuality her only defining characteristic. Bad Penny is set to go into production this summer, and you can find out more about the project here.
www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-wrap-handsome-devil-theaters-new-music-halsey-allison-weiss-and-more
Mr Leather Europe: ‘I was in a physically abusive relationship for five years’
“My confidence was at an all-time low,” King says. “I secretly fantasized about the day I would be free of him.”
Michigan Apple Grower Banned From Farmer’s Market For Homophobic Facebook Post
A Michigan man says he was banned from an outdoor farmer’s market after he refused to allow gay couples to get married on his property.
Represented by anti-gay litigation group Alliance Defending Freedom [ADF], apple grower Stephen Tennes filed a lawsuit against the city of East Lansing on Wednesday. According to the city, Tennes was not invited back to the farmer’s market because vendors must follow a civil rights ordinance banning discrimination.
However, Country Mill Farms owner Tennes says that the ordinance violates his rights to free speech and religion.
Fox Business reports:
Tennes’ farm, 22 miles away from East Lansing in Eaton County, is a popular place to have weddings. In a Facebook post in December, he said he believes in heterosexual marriage and reserves the right to reject weddings that conflict with his beliefs.
“If the government can shut down a family farmer just because of the religious views he expresses on Facebook … then no American is free,” said Tennes’ [ADF] attorney, Kate Anderson.
East Lansing said in a statement that the farm is violating the city’s “long-standing ordinance that protects sexual orientation” and can’t sell fruit at the market.
In a statement, the City of Lansing said:
The Country Mill has been excluded from the East Lansing Farmer’s Market because the East Lansing Farmer’s Market policy requires that all vendors comply with the City’s Civil Rights ordinances while at the market and as a general business practice.
Contrary to this policy and the constitutionally protected rights of all couples, The Country Mill has advertised that their business practice is to prohibit same-sex couples from holding weddings at their orchard in Charlotte, MI.
Their business practices violate the City of East Lansing’s long-standing ordinance that protects sexual orientation as well as the Supreme Court’s ruling that grants the right for same-sex couples to be married.
Tennes – who says he runs his business to “glorify god” – has said that he wants a judge to order East Lansing to allow him back at the market and to stop the city from extending policies to businesses outside the city.
Stephen Tennes doesn’t want to serve everyone. In fact he violated East Lansing’s civil rights ordinance by stating that he refuses LGBT biz
— Pablo Johnstone (@Ptotheftothej) June 1, 2017
“True tolerance,” he said, “is a two way street. The government should not eradicate people of faith from the marketplace.”
Watch ADF’s report on the case below.
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Michigan Apple Grower Banned From Farmer’s Market For Homophobic Facebook Post
Ireland Will Have a Gay Prime Minister
Leo Varadkar was elected leader of the nation’s governing party, and as such he will become prime minister.
www.advocate.com/world/2017/6/02/ireland-will-have-gay-prime-minister
Sapporo Is the First City In Japan To Recognize Gay Relationships
Sapporo has become the first city in Japan to officially recognize same-sex partnerships.
According to Kyodo News, on Thursday the city also became the first to recognize partnerships between heterosexual couples with gender dysphoria.
The initiative is another step towards legalization of same sex unions in Japan and comes after Tokyo’s Shibuya and Setagaya districts became the first to recognize same-sex partnerships in 2015. Iga, Takarazuka and Naha also recognized same-sex partnerships in 2016.
The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that large Japanese corporations have also started adopting labor laws that ban discrimination in the workplace.
A 32-year-old woman who received recognition of her same-sex partnership said:
“I am delighted. I was finally able to do it. It may be self-satisfaction but I want other people to use the system without caring what people around them think as they can become happy.”
Upon signing a “partnership vow,” the couple receives copies of their vow and a receipt from the city. These documents do not confer legal rights or obligations, but enable them to become recipients of life insurance money and use family-member discounts for mobile phone and other services.
Japanese civil law does not recognize any rights for same-sex couples. The country’s constitution specifies that marriage should be based only on mutual consent between opposite-sex couples.
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Trump’s Proposal to Dismantle ACA Contraceptive Mandate Puts Employers in Charge of Women’s Health
HRC condemned Trump’s proposed regulation that could strip millions of women and LGBTQ people of access to critical contraceptive care previously guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Vox reported on a leaked draft of the proposal that would allow employers — including for-profit companies — to refuse to provide insurance coverage of birth control on the basis of religious or moral objections.
“Trump is inviting employers to exert control over critical health care choices for their employees,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “By providing cover to employers who wish to deny contraceptive coverage based upon religious or moral disapproval, he is placing millions of women and LGBTQ people’s health at risk.”
Many in the LGBTQ community, particularly lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender men, have a real need for access to contraception for various healthcare needs including the prevention of pregnancy and family planning, as well as for the treatment of medical conditions like endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and migraines. Without coverage as part of their health insurance plan, millions will be shutout from these critical services.
The leaked regulation greatly expands the religious exemption currently available to churches and religious organizations under the ACA to any private employer in the country. These exemptions will undoubtedly limit access to care that so many in our community rely on every day.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the ACA’s contraceptive mandate attributed to 63 percent of the overall decline of out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs. The same report also shows that at 71 percent, the contraception mandate has more support than President Trump’s current approval rating.
