‘Vice’ Faces More Accusations that it Fostered Toxic Bro Culture
A culture of serial sexual harassment spurred by Vice’s “Non-Traditional Workplace Agreement” has begun to emerge.
www.advocate.com/media/2017/11/15/vice-faces-more-accusations-it-fostered-toxic-bro-culture
‘스타트렉 : 디스커버리’가 프랜차이즈 첫 게이 키스로 역사를 만들다(동영상)
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Roy Moore’s Lawyer Uses Racism to Justify Pedophilia
The attorney for Roy Moore suggested that MSNBC host Ali Velshi’s ethnic background would help him understand why the Senate candidate broke the age of consent.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/11/15/roy-moores-lawyer-uses-racism-justify-pedophilia
Gay Couple Allege Bus Driver Made ‘Limp Wrist’ Gestures, Slammed Door In Their Faces
First Greater Manchester Bus by The Laird of Oldham is licensed under (CC BY 2.0)
A bus company in Manchester, England has launched an investigation after a gay couple alleged a driver subjected them to homophobic taunts.
John Mullarkey and Steven Crosbie say a First Manchester driver made an offensive “limp wrist” after they disembarked a bus on Monday.
The Manchester Evening News reports:
The couple say the driver had first seen them holding hands before the journey, as they queued at Shudehill Station, and closed the door in their faces as they went to get on board.
John and Steven ran up to the next bus stop, where they were able to board the same service, but say the same driver was then ‘abrupt and arrogant’ towards them.
It was shortly after, when they were getting off the bus in Heywood, that they say the driver made the offensive hand gestures.
Crosbie explained:
“He was thanking the customers in front of us, but he was just very abrupt and arrogant with us.
“He just looked away. I wouldn’t even call him a bus driver. I’ve never experienced anything like it before on public transport.
“As he drove away he was also shouting something at us, but as the windows were closed we couldn’t hear what it was.
“I was bullied for five years in school for being gay, but it’s 2017 and it shouldn’t still be happening.
“It’s not the first time this kind of thing has happened since I left school, but it is the first time it’s happened on public transport, that’s what shocked me the most. It was the worst experience of my life.”
“It was just disgusting,” added Mullarkey. “I only came out in 2016 and this was my first horrible experience, and from it to come from a bus driver, it didn’t feel nice.”
A First Manchester spokesperson confirmed the company is conducting a full investigation.
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Gay Couple Allege Bus Driver Made ‘Limp Wrist’ Gestures, Slammed Door In Their Faces
MPs Warn ‘Urgent’ Action Needed To Stop Customs Chaos In Event Of ‘No Deal’ Brexit
There must be an “urgent acceleration” in the contingency planning for a no deal Brexit if the UK is to avoid chaos at its borders, the government has been warned.
In a report published on Thursday, the influential Commons Home Affairs Committee told ministers to reveal early in the New Year how Britain will handle customs checks if trade talks with the EU collapse.
The MPs also warned it would be “extremely damaging”, including to national security, if any agreement on a Brexit transition deal was delayed beyond the first quarter of 2018.
It comes as the government admitted it would no longer try to build a 3,600-capacity lorry park holding park near Dover to deal with potential tailbacks.
Yvette Cooper, the Labour chair of the committee, said the government’s border planning for Brexit was “extremely unconvincing”.
Under the government’s Brexit plan, the UK will leave the EU customs union – the arrangement that allows goods to flow freely between Britain and the EU with very few checks.
Theresa May has said she wants to see “the freest and most frictionless trade possible in goods between the UK and the EU” after Brexit.
But the EU has dismissed the idea that a non-member state country can have frictionless trade.
The European Parliament’s Brexit spokesman, Guy Verhofstadt, has said it would be “a fantasy”.
It raises the prospect of long queues at Dover as goods vehicles are forced to wait to be cleared by customs officials before being allowed to travel to the continent.
In a separate report on Tuesday, the Commons Public Accounts Committee warned the failure to implement a new customs system by the end of March 2019 would result in “massive queues at Dover” and “food being left to rot in trucks at the border”.
In its report, the home affairs committee said if no deal is reached on customs arrangements it risked “either significant delays at ports of entry, or of inadequate checks taking place”.
“A major contingency plan is therefore needed for the border which sets out the volume and nature of checks that the Government would expect to operate in the event of no deal,” the report said.
“It should include plans for extra staff, additional infrastructure and new processes for businesses, and set out the costs of these plans.
“The long lead times that these changes require mean that, even if negotiations on a transitional arrangement continue throughout next year, the country cannot afford ‘no deal’ arrangements to be left until the last minute.
“Therefore, Ministers need to set out early in the New Year the timetable they will follow for decisions, including when extra staff will start to be recruited and trained on a contingency basis, and what the costs and funding arrangements will be.
“The Government will also need to provide detail to businesses on the checks they can expect on goods at the border in the event of no deal, so that they can put in place their own contingency arrangements.”
Cooper said: “There must also be an urgent acceleration of contingency planning in case there is no deal at all.
“We found the 4% increase in Border Force staff at the borders completely unconvincing.
“The Government must not allow bad policy decisions or poor contingency planning to mean that Border Force staff are pulled away from security, illegal goods and immigration checks to cover for customs chaos. Ministers must not allow Brexit implementation put our security at risk.”
In 2016, the value of goods traded between the UK and the EU was £382bn, compared with £393bn traded with the rest of the world.
About four million goods vehicles cross the Channel each year, with 2.5 million passing through the port of Dover alone in 2015.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mps-warn-urgent-action-needed-to-stop-customs-chaos-in-event-of-no-deal-brexit_uk_5a0c2284e4b0bc648a0eee74
Montana State Senate is targeting the trans community during special session with SB 10
Senate Bill 10 would undo rules that would allow Montanans to change gender markers on their birth certificates without discriminatory hurdles
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today denounced the Montana Senate for passing the anti-trans bill SB 10 that aims to undo the work by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (HHS) to make it easier for Montanans to change birth certificate gender makers.
“The Montana Senate is failing all their constituents by focusing their efforts on discrimination and bigotry during an emergency special session to fix the state budget,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “This bill is a clear effort to walk back progress and create complicated and discriminatory roadblocks for trans Montanans seeking documents that accurately reflect who they are.”
Senate Bill 10 was introduced as part of Montana’s current special session, called to address the state’s budget shortfall. The Montana HHS held a public hearing last month for a proposed rule change that, if enacted, would longer require a court order saying the person has completed gender confirmation surgery in order to correct the gender on their birth certificate. Now, the state legislature is working to stop the proposal from going into effect. After being introduced yesterday, today SB 10 advanced through committee and the Senate and is now moving the House.
www.glaad.org/blog/montana-state-senate-targeting-trans-community-during-special-session-sb-10
Twitter Trolls Hated Star Trek’s First Gay Kiss
The historic embrace on Star Trek: Discovery was met with a wave of homophobia.
www.advocate.com/media/2017/11/15/twitter-trolls-hated-star-treks-first-gay-kiss
Kenneth Cole, Josh Rivers, Difficult People, Mike Pompeo, Frank Bruni, Hurricanes, Rebels on Pointe: HOT LINKS
60 RUSSIAN PAYMENTS. FBI examining transfers by the Russian foreign ministry to its embassies labeled “to finance election campaign of 2016.”: ‘On Aug. 3 of last year, just as the US presidential election was entering its final, heated phase, the Russian foreign ministry sent nearly $30,000 to its embassy in Washington. The wire transfer, which came from a Kremlin-backed Russian bank, landed in one of the embassy’s Citibank accounts and contained a remarkable memo line: “to finance election campaign of 2016.”
KENNETH COLE. AIDS activists demand he quit amfAR over Weinstein deal: “More than 60 people — including Olympic diver Greg Louganis, playwright Larry Kramer and former amfAR board member Peter Staley — signed an open letter that was obtained by NBC News on Monday. They are asking for Cole to resign or be replaced as amfAR board chairman, and for New York’s top prosecutor to step in if it doesn’t happen.The letter takes aim at an arrangement by Cole and Weinstein to split the proceeds of some charity auction items between amfAR and a theater where a show produced by Weinstein had been staged.”
37 MILLION. One gay couple shielded a fortune from the IRS in the years before gay marriage.
MIKE POMPEO. CIA director could be new Secretary of State: “The CIA director’s favored status in the West Wing has made him the odds-on choice to succeed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, according to more than half a dozen administration officials and outside advisers familiar with the White House’s current plans. ”
DIFFICULT PEOPLE. The Hulu show starring billy Eichner and Julie Klausner has come to an end.
Yes it’s true. DIFFICULT PEOPLE has come to an end. Thanks to many people but above all my friend, @julieklausner. A singular comedic voice & the funniest person I know. I cannot WAIT to see what Julie creates next. Thanks to all of you Difficult People out there who watched.❤️
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) November 15, 2017
LOCAL LGBT RIGHTS. They are advancing: “At the U.S. Capitol and in most statehouses nationwide, supporters of LGBT rights are unable to make major gains these days. Instead, they’re notching victories in seemingly unlikely venues, such as Morgantown, West Virginia, and Birmingham, Alabama.”
ED WESTWICK. Third woman says Gossip Girl star sexually assaulted her.
GAY TIMES. UK magazine suspends new editor Josh Rivers over anti-Semitic tweets. ‘…he published a series of incendiary comments on his Twitter account between 2010 and 2015. The tweets, which have since been deleted, show Rivers describing Jews as “gross”, and sending numerous messages directing hatred towards lesbians, overweight people, and Asians and Chinese.’ The Buzzfeed article which discovered Rivers’ past.
DEEP SEA. Plastics found in stomachs of animals in the deepest places on earth: “The study, led by academics at Newcastle University, found animals from trenches across the Pacific Ocean were contaminated with fibres that probably originated from plastic bottles, packaging and synthetic clothes.”
FRANK BRUNI. Danica Roem is really, really boring.
TRAILER OF THE DAY. Rebels on Pointe.
VISUALIZATION OF THE DAY. The 2017 hurricane season.
HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Rugby player Kurtley Beale.
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