#LimitlessAfricans: PO

#LimitlessAfricans: PO

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#LimitlessAfricans: PO

#LimitlessAfricans: PO, Afro-Queer Congolese (Shot in Brussels, Belgium)

Q. How do you think your style incorporates/blends elements of your African and LGBTQ identity?

“The African identity is like… I feel like I don’t have to prove it – I’m black and that talks by itself. I think because I had this experience of always being identified as outsider because of black – [being] African – made me understand that I am incorporating African identity any way. It’s not enclosed but it’s just in myself. I like to add African accessories but when I look in the mirror I directly see my African identity.

And for the queer part it’s being able to wear whatever I feel comfortable and empowered in. Whatever is masculine, feminine or gender neutral or androgynous without having a second thought about it.”

– PO (she/they, IG: @po.b.k.lomami, Twitter: @lomamipo, Facebook: Po B. K. Lomami, Website: www.turbonegresse.org)

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Bearded Stud’s Sexy Pumpkin ‘Dudeoir’ Pin-Up Shoot is Going Viral

Bearded Stud’s Sexy Pumpkin ‘Dudeoir’ Pin-Up Shoot is Going Viral

There are plenty of ways to celebrate the arrival of the fall season but this stud’s 14-shot sexy ‘dudeoir’ pumpkin pin-up shoot has to be one of the best.

The model is Jake Thompson and the photos were taken by Thompson’s wife, who says the shoot was causing rural traffic jams.

Mashable reports:

“The only challenge was that the field is viewable from a public main road and people were starting to slow down and STARE at Ryan’s #PumpkinButt and he almost quit on me,” she told Mashable.

Well now there are plenty of other gawkers.

“We’ve done a couple more ‘dudeoir’ shoots in the past and they blew up on Facebook so that encouraged Ryan to work with me on more,” she told Mashable. We have to assume “dudeoir” is just the dudebro form of a boudoir photoshoot.

“They were all my idea but once we got started on them all he just freaking ROCKED it!” Thompson said. “There was no direction given. Just taking pictures of him doing his thing.”

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Bearded Stud’s Sexy Pumpkin ‘Dudeoir’ Pin-Up Shoot is Going Viral

Demi Lovato Says She Dates Guys and Girls in Search of a ‘Human Connection’ in Simply Complicated: FULL DOCUMENTARY

Demi Lovato Says She Dates Guys and Girls in Search of a ‘Human Connection’ in Simply Complicated: FULL DOCUMENTARY

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato, who has told fans to “watch her documentary” for news about her sexual orientation, released that documentary in full on YouTube last night. Lovato had suggested she would like to come out on her own time, rather than have it be a soundbite in an interview.

The documentary, Simply Complicated, which you can watch in full below, reveals that she’s interested in both men and women, and possibly those who don’t identify as either.

Says Lovato in the doc: “I am on a dating app with both guys and girls. I am open to human connection, so whether that’s through a male or a female, it doesn’t matter to me.”

Other things we find out: She uses the gym to fight her addictions and clear her mind; she was bullied ruthlessly in school; she has an eating disorder and has body image issues; Wilmer Valderrama was her true love; while a judge on X Factor she lives in a sober apartment with no phone and is committed to recovery; she binge drank the night before an American Idol performance and threw up in the car on the way to the airport; she has bipolar disorder; she once punched a backup dancer who snitched about her partying in the face on a tour plane; Nick Jonas thought he could save her from herself; she considered suicide when she was very young, and she started using cocaine at the age of 17.

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Lovato has spoken out numerous times in support of the LGBT community over the past few years.

Demi Lovato made a statement in support of the transgender community in May 2016 during a performance of “Cool for the Summer” at the Billboard Music Awards. Her sparkly mesh top was emblazoned with the familiar symbol signifying gender neutral facilities.

Lovato and her tourmate Nick Jonas canceled their concerts in North Carolina as a sign of opposition to anti-LGBT HB 2, which forces trans people to use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex at birth.

She and Jonas also surprised Pulse nightclub staff with free tickets to their show following the horrific massacre.

Lovato has proven herself a consistent ally to the LGBT community over the course of her career. She released videos in support of marriage equality in July 2014. Said Lovato in the video:

“I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes and colors. So whether you’re LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful and an incredible gift. So let’s protect love and strengthen the institution of marriage by allowing loving, caring and committed same-sex couples to legally marry.”

She also revealed her late grandfather was gay at a Logo Trailblazers event in June 2014:

“I’ve never spoken about this before, but my grandfather himself was a trailblazer. He was brave enough to come out in the 1960s, and I feel a lot of my spirit has come from him,” she said. “He passed away a few years later and I only wish he could have been able to see all the progress that has been made.”

Last September she explained to UK talk show host Alan Carrthat “Cool for the Summer” was about experimenting with the same-sex, suggesting to Carr that she might be bisexual herself.

Lovato also played a lesbian on the popular television series Glee.

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Demi Lovato Reveals Sexual Orientation in ‘Simply Complicated’ Documentary: WATCH

Trump Says He Has ‘Proof’ He Didn’t Tell Fallen Soldier’s Widow ‘He Knew What He Was Signing Up For’

Trump Says He Has ‘Proof’ He Didn’t Tell Fallen Soldier’s Widow ‘He Knew What He Was Signing Up For’

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Donald Trump told the widow of a fallen soldier that her husband “knew what he was signing up for” according to a congresswoman who was accompanying the widow as she awaited the body of Sgt. La David Johnson. Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in an ambush by ISIS-affiliated militants.

Local 10 reported:

President Donald Trump spoke to his wife, Myeshia Johnson for about five minutes. U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Florida, said Trump told the distraught widow Johnson “knew what he was signing up for…but when it happens, it hurts anyway.”

“Yeah, he said that,” Wilson said. “So insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn’t have said it.”

Johnson’s family — including his 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter — were at Miami International Airport waiting for the Delta Airlines flight that was bringing the casket with his remains. The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department welcomed him with a water salute.

Trump attacked back on Wednesday morning, claiming he had “proof” that he didn’t say that to the soldier’s widow.

Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2017

Wilson appeared on CNN this morning to refute Trump’s claim. We’ll post that video when it becomes available.

There is a probe into the attack underway, TIME reports:

The soldiers, part of a 12-strong Special Forces team led by Green Berets, were on their back from a meeting with local community leaders when they were ambushed by a group of 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades, according to CNN. The soldiers were reportedly only armed with rifles and their vehicles were not armored. The attack lasted 30 minutes until French air support dispersed the militants and helicopters evacuated American forces.

The four soldiers killed in the shootout— Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, and Sgt. La David Johnson — were the first American soldiers killed by hostile fire since the U.S. began providing training and assistance to local military forces, the New York Timesreported. Another soldiers two injured in the attack and were taken to Niamey, the capital, about 124 miles away.

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Trump Says He Has ‘Proof’ He Didn’t Tell Fallen Soldier’s Widow ‘He Knew What He Was Signing Up For’ – WATCH