Treasury Secretary May Scrap Plans For Tubman on $20 Bill
Swamp monster Steven Mnuchin says he’s not focused on acknowledging the civil rights leader and suffragette.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/8/31/treasury-secretary-may-scrap-plans-tubman-20-bill
Disneyland Paris forbid this little boy from attending their ‘Princess for a Day’ Celebration
Their reasoning: Noah is a boy. Noah is not a girl. Princesses are girls and not boys. Therefore, Noah is not a princess.
Colton Haynes: ‘So Disappointed’ in Hollywood’s Attitude Toward Gay Actors
Colton Haynes, who made headlines this week after his Teen Wolf character came out in a scene with fellow out actor Charlie Carver, took Hollywood to task in a series of tweets earlier this week for discriminating against openly gay actors.
Said Haynes:
“Hollywood is so fucked up. So much of the focus is on your personal life & has nothing to do with the talent you have to bring to the table…Thank god for Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, & Jeff Davis. They believe gay actors are more than just their personal lives…So disappointed in how Hollywood cant understand that playing a character has nothing to do with how u live your personal life.”
Hollywood is so fucked up. So much of the focus is on your personal life & has nothing to do with the talent you have to bring to the table
— Colton Haynes (@ColtonLHaynes) August 30, 2017
Thank god for Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, & Jeff Davis. They believe gay actors are more than just their personal lives
— Colton Haynes (@ColtonLHaynes) August 30, 2017
So disappointed in how Hollywood cant understand that playing a character has nothing to do with how u live your personal life
— Colton Haynes (@ColtonLHaynes) August 30, 2017
Watch Haynes’s Teen Wolf scene HERE.
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Colton Haynes: ‘So Disappointed’ in Hollywood’s Attitude Toward Gay Actors
Judge: Richard Simmons can’t sue tabloids, since calling someone transgender isn’t defamatory
Tabloids published a photo and this quote: “[Not] just Richard Simmons in drag… Richard dressed as a softly spoken woman named Fiona!”
Aaron Rodgers Says Gay Players Still Fear NFL Execs: ‘Is it Better Just to Be Quiet and Not Ever Say Anything?’
In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN, Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers talked about Ryan O’Callaghan, the retired lineman who recently came out as gay.
Rodgers said that players still have fear about the consequences of coming out while active:
We talk about his friend and former Cal teammate, recently retired Patriots and Chiefs lineman Ryan O’Callaghan, who came out as gay in June. In an interview on OutSports.com, O’Callaghan described how he feared coming out, even contemplating suicide for years. “I’m incredibly proud of him,” Rodgers says. “I know he had a lot of fear about it, and how he would be accepted, and how people would change around him. I think society is finally moving in the right direction, as far as treating all people with respect and love and acceptance and appreciation. And the locker room, I think the sport is getting closer.”
He adds that players like O’Callaghan worry about retribution not only from their teammates but also from executives, again pointing to the absence of guaranteed contracts. “There’s a fear of job security,” he says. “If you have a differing opinion, differing sexual orientation, they can get rid of you. So is it better just to be quiet and not ever say anything? And not risk getting cut, with people saying: ‘Well, it’s because you can’t play’?”
In 2016, Rodgers blasted homophobic fan chants at games, saying “I don’t agree with any type of racist or homophobic language, any of that type of stuff from the crowd to the people on the field.”
Back in 2013, Rodgers chose to address rumors that he had been in a romantic relationship with his former assistant and roommate Kevin Lanflisi. Lanflisi and Rodgers met when Lanflisi was an intern for the Packers. Said Rodgers at the time, “I’m not gay. I really, really like women.”
Aaron Rodgers photo by Mike Morbeck is licensed under (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Hundreds of Christian Leaders Denounce the Nashville Statement in an Open Letter
Hundreds of Christian leaders, pastors, theologians and advocates have denounced the vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto “Nashville Statement” with a powerful statement affirming the inclusion of LGBTQ and intersex people within faith communities and broader society. The 10-point treatise, titled Christians United, holds “that every human being is created in the image and likeness of God and that the great diversity expressed in humanity through our wide spectrum of unique sexualities and gender identities is a perfect reflection of the magnitude of God’s creative work.”
In the first 24 hours of its release, the Christians United statement was signed by over 1,000 Christians from around the world, including top theologians and leaders of some of the world’s most influential Christian denominations.
Prominent faith leaders who signed the letter include the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ; Jayne Ozanne, General Synod member in the Church of England; the Rev. Rachelle Brown; Moderator of the Metropolitan Community Churches; Bishop Yvette Flunder, Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Dr. Jeffrey Kuan, President of Claremont School of Theology; the Rev. Dr. Derrick Harkins, Senior Vice President of Union Theological Seminary; and the Rev. Vanna Fox, Senior Vice President of Wild Goose Festival.
The international theological declaration came in response to the so-called “Nashville Statement,” released on Tuesday by a coalition of roughly 150 conservative Evangelical Christian leaders, including prominent members of the Trump-Pence administration’s Evangelical Advisory Board. The statement attacked LGBTQ people, asserting opposition to marriage equality and denying the dignity of transgender people.
The swift response by both faith leaders and the broader public to the Nashville Statement reflects the breadth of support among people of faith for LGBTQ inclusion and equality. Another open letter, spearheaded by The Liturgists, garnered more than 3,500 signatories.
According to Pew Research Research, almost all U.S. Christian groups are more accepting of LGBTQ people. Roughly half (51%) of evangelical millennials agree with the statement, “homosexuality should be accepted by society.”
Read the Christians United statement here: www.christiansunitedstatement.org/
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Pulse Nightclub Owner Seeks New Central Location to Reopen
ORLANDO, Fla. — The owner of Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were slain in June 2016, is seeking a new location to open a new nightclub with the same name. Club owner Barbara Poma is looking for a location somewhere in central or urban Orlando, a spokeswoman said. The closed nightclub is just south of Orlando…
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