Kylie Minogue, Pete Buttigieg, Mario Lopez, Great White Shark, John Paul Stevens: HOT LINKS

Kylie Minogue, Pete Buttigieg, Mario Lopez, Great White Shark, John Paul Stevens: HOT LINKS

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JUST A DRILL. Satellite photo shows massive Chinese naval drill in the South China Sea: “Dozens of Chinese naval vessels are exercising this week with an aircraft carrier in a large show of force off Hainan island in the South China Sea, satellite images obtained by Reuters show.”

2020. Gay South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg staffing up for possible presidential run?

LOUISIANA. No charges for two police officers who shot and killed black unarmed man Alton Sterling.

HEY FRECKLES. Make-up free Christina Aguilera  barely recognizable on PAPER magazine.

FORMER SCOTUS JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS. Repeal the Second Amendment: “That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform. It would eliminate the only legal rule that protects sellers of firearms in the United States — unlike every other market in the world. It would make our schoolchildren safer than they have been since 2008 and honor the memories of the many, indeed far too many, victims of recent gun violence.”

STILL TERRIBLE. Mitt Romney claims he’s more rightwing that Trump on Immigration.

Andrew Cuomo Chelsea bombingANDREW THE BULLY. Cynthia Nixon compares Cuomo to Trump.

TOXICOLOGY REPORT. Prince died from “exceedingly high” amount of fentanyl: “The amount in his blood is exceedingly high, even for somebody who is a chronic pain patient on fentanyl patches,” said Dr. Lewis Nelson, chairman of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He called the fentanyl concentrations “a pretty clear smoking gun.”

PORTLAND. Silverado, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest male strip club, is moving

alan cumming instinctSPICE GIRLS REUNION. Alan Cumming says it’s definitely happening.

MARCIA GAY HARDENFamily Equality Council’s Impact Awards had special meaning for the actress: “The cause is dear to me, yes,” Harden told Us Weekly at the event. “My son is gay. I just want to make sure he gets to have a family when he wants one.”

TED OLSON. The Trump turmoil is “beyond normal.”

MARVIA MALIK. Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor takes to the air.

WISCONSIN. Gay couple top open state’s first group home for LGBTQ youth: “Together with his husband and co-founder, Nick, Brad has spent the last two years raising money to open the eight-bedroom home in Milwaukee. It will be the one place these teens can go without fear of rejection, he said, noting that LGBTQ foster and homeless youth are rejected more often than their straight peers.”

GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT OF THE DAY. Great White Shark spotted off of Port Orange, Florida.

AUSTRALIA. Victoria rejects ‘GAYBOI’ license plate for being “offensive”.

DEAD OR ALIVE DANCER OF THE DAY. George W. Bush. “Uncle George W. Bush dances up a storm, Jenna Bush celebrates, and heavily pregnant Lauren Bush Lauren looks on as her brother gets married at a black tie wedding in Colorado Pierce Bush, 32, married Sarahbeth Melton at the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs”

TRAILER OF THE DAY. The House With a Clock In Its Walls.

COVER OF THE DAY. Kylie Minogue covers Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers “Islands in the Stream”.

TOO MUDDY FOR TUESDAY. Mario Lopez and his manager at The Dead Sea.

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Living Together: 5 Services That Take the Stress Off Your Relationship

Living Together: 5 Services That Take the Stress Off Your Relationship

Living together is fun and exciting, but it can also be stressful. Merging your life with someone else’s puts a lot of pressure on both of you. If you’ve always been messy and your partner is a exceptionally clean, suddenly one of you is always annoyed. Instead of letting these typical cohabitation issues get in […]

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HRC Mourns Amia Tyrae Berryman, a Transgender Woman of Color Fatally Shot in Louisiana

HRC Mourns Amia Tyrae Berryman, a Transgender Woman of Color Fatally Shot in Louisiana

HRC is saddened to learn the death of Amia Tyrae Berryman, a transgender woman of color who was fatally shot Monday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Transgender advocate Monica Roberts writes that Berryman, 28, was found suffering from gunshot wounds at 1:15 a.m. in a local motel.

Few details are known about the crime, and police report they have no suspects or persons of interest at this time. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday, according to WBRZ-TV 2, which sadly misgendered her.

Berryman’s death is the seventh known homicide of a transgender person this year.

Since 2013, HRC has tracked 112 incidents of fatal violence against transgender and non-binary people. Of these, 63 have been victims of gun violence. In 2017, 16 out of the 28 deaths were the result of gun violence.

HRC Foundation and the Trans People of Color Coalition released a report documenting the senseless acts of violence that made 2017 the deadliest year on record for transgender people, particularly for trans women of color.

To learn more about HRC’s transgender justice work, visit hrc.org/Transgender.

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Please, Daddy…

Please, Daddy…

Julie Bracken posted a photo:

Please, Daddy...

Please, Daddy, please be patient
Don’t spank me and don’t yell
I need your love and understanding
If I’m to learn things well.

Please, Daddy, spend some time with me
Let’s have some fun and smile
Don’t tell me you’re too busy
I’m only little for awhile.

Please, Daddy, could you take my hand
And kindly show me things?
Please don’t make me walk too fast
My little legs aren’t wings.

Please, Daddy, would you read to me
Answering my questions as we go?
Please don’t get impatient
How else am I to know?

Please, Daddy, if I make mistakes
Explain what I’ve done wrong
Don’t just yell and punish me
It hurts me all day long.

Please, Daddy, if I make you proud
Please tell me when I do
You’ve no idea how much it means
Because I’m also proud of you!

Please, Daddy, won’t you hug me lots?
Let’s show how much we care
As I grow and learn each day
I need you to be there……

Makeup and styling by the talented Kelayla of www.transvista.co.uk/

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Guest Post: The Chance to Have the First Openly Gay State Supreme Court Justice in the U.S

Guest Post: The Chance to Have the First Openly Gay State Supreme Court Justice in the U.S

I stood only 5’5 but I was still tall for my age. Weaving in and out of middle schoolers as I made my way to the library, I tried to make as little impression as possible. I was only 12 years old, but the signs of puberty already started its war on my body and mind. I was already out the doors when the school bell rang and I rushed into the public library within minutes. I slowed my pace, struggling to catch my breath as I made my way to the young adult section. I felt sweat drip from my forehead, and I looked around nervously as I let my fingers glide over the books labeled “sexual education.” I already knew that this section contained the few gay and lesbian books in the library.

Earlier that day we had a career session with some parents of my peers. I had been uninterested in all but one, a lawyer. She spoke about changing the world as she sat sternly in her pantsuit with a wide grin every time I excitedly asked a question. I was filled with new found inspiration.

Now here in the library I asked the librarian, who by this point must have assumed my sexuality by the litany of LGBTQ+ books I returned, “Do you have any books on gay lawyers?” My voice cracked. She smiled tightly and said “No I don’t think we do, but we have books on normal lawyers right over here.” With no malintent she impressed something into my young mind. Gay lawyers weren’t normal — or even more concerning –perhaps they didn’t exist.

It would be years before I found LGBTQ+ peers also looking into becoming lawyers, because they wanted to become the role models we all felt missing. We bonded over our shared understanding of LGBTQ+ hardships. Each of us had hungrily scoured the internet, publications, YouTube videos to catch glimpses of LGBTQ+ lawyers, judges, or even legislators. All of us searching for a public face. All of us dreaming to become that face.

When Justice Andrew McDonald first came into the news, my friends and I all excitedly talked about what it would mean to have the first openly gay Chief Justice in the United States appointed in Connecticut. In the drudgery of writing college papers we were inspired because here was someone we could be. His qualifications have been affirmed by dozens of well-respected attorneys from all parties. His nomination should have been a simple matter, but it’s turned out to be just the opposite. Instead, organizations have turned the nomination of a qualified person who had earned their place in their chosen field, into a battle of political wills.

“We are standing up for Justice McDonald because we know him, know his intellect and his experience. We are working as hard as we can to get him confirmed as the first openly gay Chief Justice. “ @senatorduff #ConfirmMcDonald pic.twitter.com/wbGJ82RyDm

— ctEQUALITY (@ctEQUALITY) March 25, 2018

As students studying to take the LSAT this filled many of us with anger and others with hopelessness. If McDonald couldn’t do it, what chance did we have? While some look to television and celebrities for inspiration, we looked to these prominent out LGBTQ+ lawyers and judges who had carved a path, to motivate us through our studies and to give us hope to start the difficult journey of law school. For some of us in CT the venom of the public discourse that’s erupted from this confirmation process was a reality check of the world we still live in.  

Confirming Justice McDonald is not a partisan act, but a signal that our democracy works. Through his confirmation our institutions become stronger. Perhaps even more it is a call of hope that one day we may even have an openly LGBTQ+ U.S Supreme Court Justice. It is a step towards representation that generations before feared to even dream of. We have the chance to make this our shared reality. We cannot let it slip by – for past LGBTQ+ generations – for future LGBTQ+ generations – and even more imperative we can’t let this slip by for us.

We have waited long enough, let’s not wait any longer.

Justin Mendillo is a Connecticut College senior studying Government and American Studies. He works for Planned Parenthood and CT Equality, and is a GLAAD Campus ambassador.

March 26, 2018
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www.glaad.org/blog/guest-post-chance-have-first-openly-gay-state-supreme-court-justice-us

Grindr to Regularly Urge Users to Get HIV Tests

Grindr to Regularly Urge Users to Get HIV Tests

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The gay social app Grindr will urge its users to get tested for HIV every 3-6 months and direct them to the nearest testing place,

The NYT reports: “The company is making the move to “reduce H.I.V. transmission and support our whole community — regardless of H.I.V. status — in living long and fulfilling lives,” said Jack Harrison-Quintana, Grindr’s director for equality. H.I.V. experts greeted the announcement enthusiastically.”

Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, told the NYT that he predicts similar apps like Hornet and Scruff would do the same but said it would be particularly helpful if apps like Jack’d or Adam4 Adam, which appeal to users in minority communities which are more at-risk for HIV, would also follow suit.

In related news, Newsweek recently reported that an ultra-sensitive spit-based test could soon be available to detect HIV:

A super-sensitive, accurate spit-based test to detect HIV could be around the corner. Stanford researchers have developed a test that was 100 percent accurate in one study involving a handful of patients, according to findings published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS). If these results are confirmed in much larger studies, the test’s proponents believe it could be an important tool in the fight to eradicate HIV.

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James Comey’s Redemption Tour Should Include an Apology for Giving Us Trump

James Comey’s Redemption Tour Should Include an Apology for Giving Us Trump
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The fired FBI director felt the need to constantly talk about Hillary’s emails. Funny how he was silent on the Bureau’s investigation into Trump and Russia, writes former FBI agent Susan SurfTone.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/3/27/james-comeys-redemption-tour-should-include-apology-giving-us-trump