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Daily Archives: July 17, 2017
Dr. Who, Daniel Radcliffe, Elon Musk, Martin Landau, Love Island, Texas, Chris Colfer, Jared Kushner: HOT LINKS
Dr. Who, Daniel Radcliffe, Elon Musk, Martin Landau, Love Island, Texas, Chris Colfer, Jared Kushner: HOT LINKS
JARED KUSHNER. Calls mount for Trump son-in-law to lose security clearance: “Calls for Kushner to lose his security clearance have mounted as congressional investigators probe whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation — run by the president’s son-in-law — coordinated efforts with Russian bots spreading fake news about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.”
RIP. Martin Landau. “Martin Landau, the actor whose gaunt, hangdog features graced films by film-makers as varied as Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen and Tim Burton has died. He was 89, and his death was confirmed by his publicist “following a short hospitalisation”.”
ACCIDENT OR PUBLICITY STUNT? Selfie taker destroys $200,000 worth of art.
GLAAD. 25 ways Trump has attacked LGBTQ community since taking office.
IBM. Lobbying against Texas bathroom bill: “Before state lawmakers reconvene Tuesday for a special legislative session, the technology giant is taking out full-page advertisements in The Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News and Austin American-Statesman opposing the legislation they say discriminates against transgender Texans.”
LONDON. Daniel Radcliffe helps victim of violent robbery: “It was a bit of the surreal moment, I said ‘you’re Daniel Radcliffe’ and he replied ‘I am.’”
ELON MUSK. Regulate artificial intelligence before it’s too late: “AI is the rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive. Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it’ll be too late,” Musk told the meeting. “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation.”
THE NEW DR. WHO. Is a woman.
Meet the Thirteenth Doctor #DoctorWho #Doctor13 pic.twitter.com/txHGz9tJEe
— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) July 16, 2017
LOVE ISLAND. The UK’s hit reality show is a society of perfection where straight men can be very gay: “In this perfect society – or society of perfection – everyone is a glamour model. But the men are more glamorous than the girls. They and their auto-airbrushed bodies are the tarty stars of the show (as the pectastic Love Island ident advertises). They are, as they never stop telling us, ‘the total package’. However, this can lead to problems in paradise – where everyone’s true love is their own reflection, and ITV2 is their selfie stick.”
LAITH ASHLEY. Trans model shares story on one of Argentina’s most-watched TV shows.
CHRIS COLFER. He’s got one more Land of Stories book to talk about.
MALE MODEL MONDAY. Jules Horn. More HERE.
MONDAY MUSCLE. JURRD.
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‘Teen Wolf’ star Ryan Kelley has something to show you. And it’s an eyeful.
‘Teen Wolf’ star Ryan Kelley has something to show you. And it’s an eyeful.
My boyfriend’s back.
Anti-Gay Washington State Florist Appeals ‘Religious Freedom’ Case to SCOTUS, Wants to Join Anti-Gay Baker
Anti-Gay Washington State Florist Appeals ‘Religious Freedom’ Case to SCOTUS, Wants to Join Anti-Gay Baker
As promised, Barronelle Stutzman, the Washington state florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding because of her allegiance to Jesus has appealed her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, KUOW reports:
Attorneys for Arlene’s Flowers and its owner Barronelle Stutzman filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court Friday. They want to join the upcoming argument involving a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple’s wedding because of his religious beliefs about marriage.
The Arlene’s Flowers case involved a florist who would not sell flowers for a gay wedding in Richland on the same principles. The Washington state Attorney General and the couple filed suit against the flower shop owner in 2013 for illegally discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
The state has prevailed at every level up to now.
Representing Stutzman, and also the Colorado baker, is the SPLC-designated hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, who heard a closed-door speech last week from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, promising them that new “religious freedom” guidance from the DOJ was coming soon.
ADF writes in a press release:
For more than four years, Barronelle has endured the litigation in this case with unwavering grace, humility, and faith – even as she faces losing everything she owns. Now she will take her last stand before the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to preserve her religious freedom and her right not to be forced to speak a message about marriage that violates her beliefs.
It’s hardly disputed that artistic expression, such as floral art, is speech. The Washington State Attorney General admitted as much. So, the real issue here is whether the state can compel her to speak a government-mandated message. The state claims that it has the right to do so – that it has the right to go after a 72-year-old grandmother for everything she owns just because what she believes does not fall in line with the state’s political agenda.
But that is blatantly unconstitutional.
If the government can demand that we speak a certain message or be punished, that should concern us all. That puts not just Barronelle’s freedom at stake, but everyone’s.
So, we are asking the Supreme Court to uphold Barronelle’s First Amendment rights.
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25 ways President Trump has attacked the LGBTQ community since taking office
25 ways President Trump has attacked the LGBTQ community since taking office
GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project Continues to Track Anti-LGBTQ Actions from Administration
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released a list of 25 ways President Donald Trump and his administration have attacked the LGBTQ community since taking office on January 20, 2017. The list stems from GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project, which tracks the Administration’s anti-LGBTQ movements and calls on media to expose them. From erasing any mention of the LGBTQ community from the White House website minutes after being sworn into office to just recently hosting at the White House a slew of anti-LGBTQ activists who repeatedly use so-called “religious exemptions” to harm LGBTQ Americans, the Trump Administration has been working tirelessly to systematically erase the hard-fought progress of the community.
From Day One of the Trump Presidency, GLAAD has been dedicated to hold this administration accountable, expose anti-LGBTQ policies, and stand together with every marginalized community to resist the attacks made by the most anti-LGBTQ administration in recent memory. Learn more of the anti-LGBTQ record of the entire Trump Administration by visiting GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 25 Ways President Trump has Attacked the LGBTQ Community
- 1.20.17 – Minutes after Donald Trump was sworn into office, any mention of the LGBTQ community was erased from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites.
- 1.27.17 – President Donald Trump issued an executive order to indefinitely ban Syrian refugees from entering the United States. This ban includes LGBTQ refugees fleeing the nation in fear of discrimination.
- 2.02.17 – ABC News reports that after previously committing to protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination, President Trump and his administration had drafted a “License to Discriminate” executive order which would usher in across-the-board discrimination against the LGBTQ community.
- 2.22.17 – With help of Attorney General Jeff Session, President Trump rescinded Title IX protections for transgender students in our nation’s schools.
- 3.20.17 – Trump Administration erases the LGBTQ community from The National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants and the Annual Program Performance Report for Centers for Independent Living, key surveys that are used to help provide care to American seniors – including disability, transportation, and caregiver support needs.
- 3.24.17 – President Trump appointed anti-LGBTQ activist and former Heritage Foundation employee Roger Severino to lead the Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office, putting the LGBTQ community at risk of losing access to critical and affordable health care.
- 3.28.17 – Under his proposed budget for the U.S. Congress, The Trump Administration offered to cut HIV and AIDS research funding under the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- 3.28.17 – The Trump Administration cancels plans to add the LGBTQ community to its upcoming 2020 U.S. Census, a survey conducted every decade by the federal government to help collect data about living Americans and the United States of America.
- 4.10.17 – A ProPublica investigation reveals the Trump Administration appointed James Renne, a key staffer involved in the Bush-era anti-LGBTQ purge of gay government employees, to a senior role at the Department of Agriculture.
- 4.14.17 – The Trump Administration files to dismiss a lawsuit accusing North Carolina of discriminating against the LGBTQ community in response to HB2, despite the similarities of the HB142 replacement.
- 5.4.17 – President Trump signs a “religious liberty” executive order. Although this EO does not target LGBTQ Americans, it is the first step in what could be a broader permission slip for discrimination against the overall LGBTQ community.
- 5.8.17 – Department of Agriculture issues new so-called “religious freedom” policy statement, a move praised by the anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council.
- 5.22.17 – The Trump Administration grants White House press credentials to a “reporter” from Infowars, a conspiracy outlet that regularly peddles dangerous, offensive, and anti-LGBTQ content.
- 5.23.17 – The Trump Administration reveals their budget which includes proposed slashes to programs and departments critical to the LGBTQ community, including Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Disease Control’s HIV and AIDS programs.
- 6.1.17 – President Trump declines to issue a presidential proclamation designating June as LGBTQ Pride Month, breaking with an eight-year precedent set by President Barack Obama to honor and support LGBTQ Americans during Pride Month.
- 6.15.17 – The Department of Education rolls back the Office for Civil Rights’ expansive approach to investigating civil rights complaints that protect LGBTQ students and other marginalized communities from discrimination at school.
- 6.15.17 – The Department of Education invites Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, two anti-LGBTQ organizations, to be speakers for a day-long conference on engaging fathers in their children’s education and welfare.
- 6.15.17 – Department of Commerce removes sexual orientation and gender identity from the agency’s Equal Employment Policy. Only after fierce opposition did Department of Commerce Secretary Ross change it back.
- 6.16.17 – An obtained internal memo from the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights reveals guidelines to dismiss complaints about bathroom access filed by transgender students.
- 6.17.17 – Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS resigned saying that President Trump “simply does not care” about combating the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
- 6.27.17 – The Trump Administration failed to mention the LGBTQ community in their National HIV Testing Day statement.
- 6.28.17 – The Department of Justice rejected reporters from covering a DOJ Pride event hosted by LGBTQ affinity groups for federal workers.
- 6.29.17 – Reports revealed President Trump hired anti-transgender activist, Bethany Kozma, to the Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights at the US Agency for International Development.
- 7.10.17 – In a closed-door and unannounced opportunity, President Trump poses for a photograph with notorious anti-LGBTQ activists who wish to promote so-called “religious exemptions” that would harm LGBTQ Americans across the nation.
- 7.12.17 – President Trump grants a one-on-one interview with Pat Robertson, a longtime anti-LGBTQ activist and Televangelist.
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Health Care Vote May Now Depend on John McCain
Health Care Vote May Now Depend on John McCain
Arizona Senator John McCain’s surgery for a blood clot above his eye has delayed a vote on the GOP’s health care bill until next week. Yet it’s not certain he will be back by then to support the bill as his condition may be more serious than thought. McCain underwent a “minimally invasive” surgery at the…
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E J Rosetta: Es ist an der Zeit, mit diesen 8 Mythen über Lesben-Sex in Pornos aufzuräumen
E J Rosetta: Es ist an der Zeit, mit diesen 8 Mythen über Lesben-Sex in Pornos aufzuräumen
Allen, die schon mal mit der verstörend düsteren Welt von Pornos mit nur Frauen in Berührung gekommen sind, dürfte aufgefallen sein, dass wir Frauen dabei nicht wirklich gut wegkommen.
Es ist offensichtlich… Die Pornoindustrie ist komplett männlich dominiert.
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The Voice UK star Vangelis talks coming out and new music
The Voice UK star Vangelis talks coming out and new music
Singer Vangelis sat down with Gay Star News to discuss coming out to his mum, being openly gay on TV and working on new music with Culture Club legend Boy George.
The new single Sweet Dreams in collaboration with RetroPhobia is available now, listen here: bit.ly/2qeqmzy
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