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Daily Archives: June 5, 2017
Elliot supports pride!
Elliot supports pride!
Pride 2017
Trump Fails to Acknowledge June As LGBT Pride Month
Trump Fails to Acknowledge June As LGBT Pride Month
After years of precedent set by former President Barack Obama, President Donald Trump is breaking from tradition by failing to recognize June as LGBT Pride Month. On the final day of May, the president issued five separate proclamations, choosing June to honor Caribbean-American heritage, African-American music, homeownership, the outdoors and the ocean. (Reporters and comedians alike…
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Proud and different
Drag-glam
Drag-glam
* RICHARD M (Over 6 million views) posted a photo:
Found in old file from the 2011 Liverpool Pride event.
I distinctly remember shooting this singing Drag Queen @ the city’s Erberle Street outdoor stage.
This hot, tatted up trans weightlifter’s motto: “Just be unapologetically you!”
This hot, tatted up trans weightlifter’s motto: “Just be unapologetically you!”
Elliot Dean is a CrossFit fanatic, a yoga and spinning aficionado, and an Olympic weightlifter. Oh, and he’s also trans.
San Luis Obispo Mayor’s Pride Flag Burned in Suspected Hate Crime
San Luis Obispo Mayor’s Pride Flag Burned in Suspected Hate Crime
San Luis Obispo mayor Heidi Harmon reported that the pride flag she had hung in front of her home had been discovered burned overnight Thursday.
In remarks she gave on Friday, Harmon explained the circumstances, according to local newspaper The Tribune:
“When I left my home in the morning, I saw something right in front of my house,” Harmon said in an interview Friday. “Someone had taken my rainbow flag and burned it.”
In addition to the flag, a yard sign containing what Harmon said was a “super positive” message was cut up, possibly with a knife, she said.
San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell said the incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime, and it will be reported to the U.S. Department of Justice as required by law.
Harmon said she didn’t want to overreact but that it’s important to take incidents like this seriously.
“This is not that dissimilar to burning a cross on someone’s yard,” Harmon said. She said somebody went to the effort to “meticulously burn a symbol of civil rights.”
The disturbing incident led Harmon to cancel a press conference in which she intended to clarify the California city’s response against the Trump administration’s move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. She also said it came in the wake of her city’s recent ordinance declaring itself “a welcoming and inclusive city.”
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San Luis Obispo Mayor’s Pride Flag Burned in Suspected Hate Crime
Pulling U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council Could Endanger Lives Around The Globe
Pulling U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council Could Endanger Lives Around The Globe
HRC expressed concern about reports that the Trump administration may withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which has taken historic steps to protect and promote the human rights and dignity of LGBTQ people around the globe. News of the threat comes amid scores of human rights crises around the globe, including the persecution and torture of LGBTQ people by the Chechen government, ISIS and other regimes worldwide. Last month, HRC submitted written testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in support of the UNHRC.
“Consider the message the United States would send to the world if it were to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council,” said Ty Cobb, Director of HRC Global. “U.S. foreign policy must protect and promote human rights. Turning away from the Council would signal to brutal regimes — and all those they oppress — that the U.S. is looking the other way. In fact, we have seen the Council at its worst when the U.S. is not providing leadership, allowing despotic leaders to control the agenda and push their own dangerous goals.”
The UNHRC has been a crucial partner in the fight to advance LGBTQ equality internationally, passing its first resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in 2011. Supported by the United States and other countries, the council passed a South African-proposed resolution that directed the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to report on “discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.” The ensuing report detailed violence and discrimination occurring against LGBTQ people in every region of the world. The report also “called on UN member states to repeal any laws criminalizing same-sex conduct; to investigate and report all incidents of violence against LGBTQ people and those perceived to be LGBTQ; and to take steps to counter homophobia and transphobia among the general public.”
In 2016, the U.S. and other nations passed a resolution at the UNHRC appointing an Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity. Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand is the first person to hold that position and is assessing LGBTQ human rights in various countries, meeting with LGBTQ advocates around the globe, and engaging with governments and civil society to help combat violence and discrimination targeting LGBTQ people.
While the UNHRC has come under criticism from the Trump administration and members of Congress, the organization has been a crucial body for supporting the human rights of LGBTQ people. Despite any real or perceived flaws, the work of UNHRC is greatly enhanced when the U.S. is fully engaged in its work and provides leadership. The absence of the United States will allow other nations to steer the conversation, agenda and priorities of the organization.
GLAAD Award nominated documentarian Sheila Nevins pens love letter to Larry Kramer in new book
GLAAD Award nominated documentarian Sheila Nevins pens love letter to Larry Kramer in new book
Flatiron Books
Sheila Nevins, a multiple GLAAD Media Award nominee, has released a new book, ‘You Don’t Look Your Age… and Other Fairy Tales.” Nevins will be discussing her new book in conversation with Larry Kramer on June 7th and 7pm ET at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square.
As President of HBO Documentary Films for over 30 years, Nevins has rightfully been credited with creating the modern documentary, and working behind the scenes as a documentarian, Nevins has truly seen it all.
Nevins experienced obstacles at every path—as a daughter, a mother, and as a woman pursuing a career in an industry she loved. ‘You Don’t Look Your Age’ is Nevins’ chance to tell how things really were, and are, for countless women. Topics she tackles are: frenemies, infidelity, plastic surgery, dieting, Viagra, the heartbreak of young first love, the discomforts of growing old, and a celebration in the long run of what life has to offer.
When you read the book, also hear in your head the voices of the following people that are reading various chapters for the audio version of the book: Meryl Streep, Lena Dunham, Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Martha Stewart, Diane Von Furstenberg, Audra McDonald, Ellen Burstyn, Christine Baranski, Gloria Steinem, Gloria Vanderbilt, Edie Falco, Rosie O’Donnell, Liz Smith, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin, RuPaul, Leslie Stahl, Gayle King, Glenn Close, Jenna Lyons, and Janet Mock among others.
Below is a Q&A between GLAAD and Nevins:
GLAAD: What was your inspiration for ‘You Don’t Look Your Age… and Other Fairy Tales’?
Sheila Nevins: I had stories to tell that I had kept inside. I wanted them out. Hence the book. The timing was right.
G: Can you tell us a bit about your poem from the book ‘The Larry Kramer’?
SN: Larry was an idol. I loved his fight from afar. Close-up I appreciated his fairness coupled with his sense of outrage. He was and is a man for all seasons. He deserved my attempt at a poem.
G: What were some of the most memorable moments from the time you spent with Larry Kramer during the making of the documentary ‘Larry Kramer in Love and Anger’?
Mostly in the editing room. It was there that I could feel his fierce sweetness. His ability to fight for what he loved. In this celluloid room, I believed this man was someone I would dare to know.
G: What do you hope women and other marginalized communities take away from your new book?
Anyone can express what they feel in words, in deeds, in poetry, and in song. In Art, there can always be resistance.
G: How has the need for documentary films increased in today’s political and cultural climate?
Documentaries at their best speak truth. Never has there been a more important time for truth telling.
G: HBO’s ‘The Trans List’ and ‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards this year – what has inspired you to bring LGBTQ content front and center?
I’m for all underdogs. We are all one. We just have to find ourselves in people who appear different. No matter LGBTQ or straight or white or black or pink – we are all hopefully cut from the same human cloth.
G: What’s your advice for young LGBTQ documentarians?
LGBTQ Documentarians should champion those who need help in putting up a good fight against injustice. Don’t limit your creativity to your own personal fight. All fights for good and true are one fight.
Be sure to check out Nevins’ conversations with HIV and AIDS activist Larry Kramer on June 7th, at 7pm ET in the Union Square Barnes & Noble.
June 5, 2017
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What Is Pride Like in Ferndale, Mich.? (Photos)
What Is Pride Like in Ferndale, Mich.? (Photos)
www.advocate.com/pride/2017/6/05/what-pride-ferndale-mich-photos