Progressive Reporter’s Claim That Maxine Waters Shoved Him Reeks of Misogyny
Michael Tracey claimed 78-year-old Waters shoved him, and then he used misogynist language to discredit her.
Daily Archives: June 6, 2017
Baptist Prof To LGBT Group: Our Kids Are Not Your Kids
Baptist Prof To LGBT Group: Our Kids Are Not Your Kids
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In a recent press release, a group called Faith in America has announced they will intrude into multiple public spaces of Phoenix during the yearly convention of the Southern Baptist Convention. Their goal is to demand that Baptists remove homosexuality from their list of sins and give Faith in…
TCM Salutes Gay Hollywood, ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Returns and More TV This Week
TCM Salutes Gay Hollywood, ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Returns 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.
This month TCM is celebrating Pride with a spotlight on gay Hollywood every Thursday. This week, you can catch Night and Day, a biopic of closeted songwriter Cole Porter at 8 p.m. Eastern.
It’s down to the final four on RuPaul’s Drag Race, which means we’re just weeks away from crowning the season 9 champ. Will it be Peppermint, Sasha, Trinity or Shea sashaying away before the finale? Find out Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern (and catch up with our recap).
You can debate whether or not Orange Is the New Black is technically a comedy, but, regardless, this season will be a riot. Season five, dropping on Netflix Friday, picks up at the tense moment last season closed on as Litchfield’s prisoners turn on the guards.
The fifth and final season of Orphan Black premieres Saturday at 10 p.m. Eastern on BBC America. The series has chronicled the struggle of a group of clones, including Cosima (Tatiana Maslany), Sarah (Tatiana Maslany), Alison (Tatiana Maslany), Helena (Tatiana Maslany), Rachel (Tatiana Maslany) and more. Maslany’s ability to play more than 10 unique characters earned her an Emmy Award in 2016.
Niecy Nash was the best part of both Getting On and Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, but now she’s back in a big way on Claws, debuting Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern on TNT. The new dramedy follows a group of manicurists who are cutting more than just cuticles.
What are you watching on TV this week?
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Don’t Forget the Long, Proud History of Transgender Activism
Don’t Forget the Long, Proud History of Transgender Activism
Trans folks are among the country’s greatest revolutionaries. So why do Americans keep forgetting we exist?
www.advocate.com/advocate50/2017/5/01/these-trans-revolutionaires-are-unforgettable
108 Photos That Show Buffalo Pride Is Everything
108 Photos That Show Buffalo Pride Is Everything
www.advocate.com/pride/2017/6/06/108-photos-show-buffalo-pride-everything
Turns out Zac Efron is one hell of a pole dancer–and he’ll prove it to you
Turns out Zac Efron is one hell of a pole dancer–and he’ll prove it to you
You gotta admit: He works that pole right good.
Gay Man Testifies Church Members Beat Him for Hours to Exorcise ‘Homosexual Demons’
Gay Man Testifies Church Members Beat Him for Hours to Exorcise ‘Homosexual Demons’
Matthew Fenner gave disturbing testimony this past Thursday in the North Carolina trial of Brooke Covington, leader of the Word of Faith Fellowship, on how she and church members physically abused him for hours to purge his “homosexual demons.”
The assault, in which around 20 members participated, came in January 2013 against the then-21-year-old following a service at the Rutherford County church based in Spindale. The Washington Post reports:
The attacks took place “to break me free of the homosexual demons they so viciously despise,” Fenner, who identifies as gay, told television station WSPA a year later. After the episode, he left the fellowship.
In December 2014, a minister and four members of the Rutherford County church were indicted on charges that they kidnapped, beat and strangled Fenner, then 21. They pleaded not guilty.
And on Thursday, Fenner was the first person to testify in the trial of Brooke Covington, 58, the church minister accused of leading the alleged kidnapping and assault of Fenner on that day, more than four years ago. She is the first of five church members to face trial in the case, the Associated Press reported. If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison.
Fenner said he thought he was “going to die” while the church members beat and choked him. He accused Covington of telling him, “God said there is something wrong in your life.”
Fenner’s own family members, who still belong to the church, contradicted his testimony before a grand jury in 2014, which nevertheless resulted in an indictment.
The Word of Faith Fellowship has been accused of mistreatment of its LGBTQ members before, but this is the first time charges have stuck:
When Fenner brought the allegations three years ago, it was not the first time the church had been accused of beating members over their sexual orientation. Two years earlier, former church member Michael Lowry said he was beaten and held against his will at the church as an effort to eliminate his gay demons.
Lowry testified before a grand jury, but about a year later, the same month Fenner says he was beaten and strangled, Lowry rejoined Word of Faith and took back his allegations. He has since left the church, and later said in a statement that his original claims are true.
It is part of a pattern of legal troubles the church has faced over the years for its harsh doctrinal behavior:
In the four decades since the Word of Faith was founded, it has been entangled in a series of lawsuits, criminal charges and custody fights surrounding its treatment of children. More than 15 years ago, the state and Rutherford County Department of Social Services launched a series of investigations into allegations the church abused children, the Charlotte Observer reported.
Attorneys for the church have claimed that Fenner was never harmed and has previously praised the church publicly.
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Al Franken Out, Michael Eric Dyson in for Bill Maher Show After ‘N’ Word Incident
Al Franken Out, Michael Eric Dyson in for Bill Maher Show After ‘N’ Word Incident
And now Maher also says he’s open to having Milo Yiannopoulos on Real Time again.
