EEOC Says Walmart Corp. Discriminated Against Trans Worker
The worker and the company will now try to settlte the case; if that doesn’t work out, she can sue.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2017/8/08/eeoc-says-walmart-corp-discriminated-against-trans-worker
Children of Rainbow: Lstrong
(model: Lstrong)
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WATCH: Drag queen knocks out rude man who snatched her wig
The queen is Dublin-based performer Heirless Blackstone.
Barbara Cook, Climate Change, Club Cumming, Marwan Kenzari, Cynthia Nixon, Cougar, Adam Levine: HOT LINKS
RIP. Broadway legend Barbara Book dies at 89.
CLIMATE CHANGE. It’s here, and its real: “The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now.”
NO ORIGINAL IDEAS? NBC plotting remakes of The Office, 30 Rock, ER and The West Wing.
NATURE MOMENT. ‘Pink rainbow’ spotted in England.
HUH? U.S. considering airstrikes against ISIS in Philippines.
CYNTHIA NIXON. She won’t deny a run for New York governor.
TEXAS. Anti-transgender bathroom bill falters. “Social conservatives and the state’s powerful lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, have backed the effort. Gay rights groups, business groups and the House speaker, Joe Straus, one of the few powerful moderate voices in the Texas Legislature, have opposed it. But after the State Senate, where Mr. Patrick presides, passed a bill, a narrower one is showing few signs of life in the 150-member House.”
MARWAN KENZARI. The live-action Aladdin remake has a hot new Jafar.
JIM BAKKER. End Times prepper invited to the White House: ‘Bakker revealed on his program today that he and his wife Lori were in the White House on the day that Anthony Scaramucci was fired from his short stint as White House communications director, noting that it was not a coincidence that Scaramucci was let go at the moment when George O. Wood, who heads the General Council of the Assemblies of God, spoke out against “unnecessary swearing” during a meeting with White House staff.’
CLUB CUMMING. Alan Cumming’s new nightlife spot is about to open in NYC’s East Village: “Cumming announced plans to open a cabaret club—he’s experienced in this type of performance; his Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs cabaret show debuted in 2015—back in April, but at that point, Eastern Bloc’s closing date was still up in the air. However, the East Village news blog EV Grieve announced today that Eastern Bloc would officially be shuttering on August 6th after 12 years in the neighborhood.
THE GANGWAY. San Francisco’s oldest gay bar sold: “Based on a pending liquor license transfer, the Tenderloin gay bar — which opened in 1910 and began publicly identifying as a gay bar in 1961 — is in the process of being sold to Sam Young, the man behind the quirky and sometimes controversial bar Kozy Kar several blocks away.”
DEREK HOUGH. You’d be shirtless all the time too looking like this.
TFW. Something is watching you.
THE VOICE. Adam Levine chose Joe Jonas because he’s a beautiful man.
TOO HOT TUESDAY. Kenromil.
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With Kayleigh McEnany as RNC Spox, Trumpism Advances within the GOP
The RNC extends Trump’s agenda by continuing to stack the GOP with anti-LGBTQ activists
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released the following background information on Kayleigh McEnany after the Republican National Committee (RNC) named her as their new national spokesperson. McEnany, who served as a surrogate on the Trump Campaign, appeared in a widely discredited video over the weekend on last month’s jobs report. Also, she has previously dismissed reports of LGBTQ discrimination as “farcical blabber” and used her past platform on CNN to push dangerous and inflammatory myths about the transgender community.
With this appointment, the RNC is now giving a platform to one of the staunchest supporters of President Trump and his administration’s work to erase LGBTQ Americans from the fabric of this nation. This includes appointing the most anti-LGBTQ administration in recent memory, deleting any mention of “LGBTQ” from government websites, and announcing a ban on the transgender Americans from serving “in any capacity” within the U.S. military.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Kayleigh McEnany’s Anti-LGBTQ Record
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www.glaad.org/blog/kayleigh-mcenany-rnc-spox-trumpism-advances-within-gop
105 Images of Wet n’ Wild Amsterdam Pride
www.advocate.com/pride/2017/8/08/105-images-wet-n-wild-amsterdam-pride
‘Arrow’ star Stephen Amell shows homophobic trolls how to be a real man
The actor has no time for antigay nonsense.
Sinead O’Connor’s Mental Health Struggles Revealed in Devastating Facebook Video
Singer Sinead O’Connor, who has been vocal about mental illness in the past, posted a desperate video to Facebook on Thursday about her situation. She’s living in a motel in New Jersey and staying alive for the sake of others, she said. The video was hashtagged #OneOfMillions.
“I’m now living in a Travelodge hotel in the arse end of New Jersey. I’m all by myself and there’s absolutely nobody in my life except my doctor, my psychiatrist — the sweetest man on Earth who says I’m his hero. That’s about the only thing keeping me alive at the moment. The fact that I’m his bloody hero. And that’s kind of pathetic.”
She added: “I’m fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting like all the millions and millions that I know I’m one of to stay alive every day.”
South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser said Tuesday that officers conducted a welfare check, but O’Connor wasn’t in her room at the time. He said she is no longer staying there and police don’t know where she is currently living. An email sent to her agent wasn’t immediately returned.
A Facebook post on Monday from an unknown person said the singer was safe and not suicidal.
In O’Connor’s video, she spoke about the devastating effect mental illness and its stigma has had on her:
“Mental illness is a bit like drugs. It doesn’t give a sh*t who you are. Equally you know what’s worse is the stigma who doesn’t give a sh*t who you are. All the people who are supposed to be loving you and taking care of you are treating you like sh*t…I’m fighting like all the millions I know to stay alive everyday which I’m doing because I love the people that are doing this to me. I’m not staying alive for me. If it was me I’d be gone straight away back to my mom because I walked this Earth alone for two years as punishment for being mentally f**king ill and being angry that nobody would f**king take care of me, specifically for being suicidal.”
O’Connor made national headlines in May 2016 after going missing on a bike ride, and in November 2015 was given medical assistance after posting on Facebook that she had taken an overdose.
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Sinead O’Connor’s Mental Health Struggles Revealed in Devastating Facebook Video
Elders React to the Gay Viral Short ‘In a Heartbeat’ — WATCH
The animated short film In a Heartbeat has been viewed nearly 22 million times in its first week online, and the well-known FBE “React” YouTube series has posted a touching clip of elders reacting to the gay romance.
Writes FBE:
We see many asking, “Why Elders for this episode?” Couple reasons. Reality is the Elders were the ones filming this week, so once we saw an overwhelming amount of you suggesting it, the Elders were the ones to do it with to cover it as fast as we could for you all. Doesn’t mean we won’t do it with another generation if there is want of it over time! Also, Elders can give us all a interesting perspective on this type of short since it would not even be possible earlier in their lifetime, and that is a compelling reaction and conversation to watch.
Will kids be up next? Given the popularity of this clip you can probably count on it.
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Elders React to the Gay Viral Short ‘In a Heartbeat’ — WATCH
This is what Gay Star Students is all about
Gay Star Students have partnered with National Student Pride, Deloittes and Clifford Chance to provide key content for LGBT students during their time at university and support on continuing their life journey. This is the first dedicated student space to be launched on any LGBT news platform.
Gay Star News have decided to launch Gay Star Students as they believe that students are at the forefront of liberation, social action and have the power to change the way the world views LGBT issues.
