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July29March199028082015_032sm

DawnOne posted a photo:

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Post Sexgarage and Love-In Protest © July 29, 1990 Linda Dawn Hammond/ IndyFoto
peaceful protest march on Sunday, July 29, 1990. Organized by Lesbians and Gays Against Violence (LGV), it attracted 2,000 marchers and ended with a concert in Lafontaine Park. Montreal publicist Puelo Deir produced the outdoor-stage show at Montreal’s Parc Lafontaine. It followed LGV’s 1990 march from Montreal City Hall that, along with other SexGarage fundraisers, helped raise $5,000 to cover lawyer’s fees. La La La Human Step’s Louise Lecavalier performed an amazing dance piece with her regular partner, Donald Weikert. Popular Montreal rock band Bootsauce appeared, billed as Toe Jam due to their manager’s restrictions. Robert de la Gauthier DJ’d and Spiky sang an original song with Suzanne Downs.

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Jimmy Kimmel and Chelsea Handler Under Fire for Gay Jokes, Bottom-Shaming

Jimmy Kimmel and Chelsea Handler Under Fire for Gay Jokes, Bottom-Shaming

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel and comic Chelsea Handler have come under fire for separate insult tweets in which they used being gay as a punchline.

While trading barbs with FOX News host Sean Hannity, Kimmel tweeted: “When your clown makeup rubs off on Trump’s ass, does it make his butt look like a Creamsicle?”

When your clown makeup rubs off on Trump’s ass, does it make his butt look like a Creamsicle? t.co/DEhmfOh0Hn

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 6, 2018

He followed that up with another tweet: “Don’t worry – just keep tweeting – you’ll get back on top! (or does Trump prefer you on bottom?) Either way, keep your chin up big fella..XO”

Don’t worry – just keep tweeting – you’ll get back on top! (or does Trump prefer you on bottom?) Either way, keep your chin up big fella..XO t.co/R4QJCoGYCL

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 6, 2018

Kimmel’s followers called him out.

I’m physically ill over you making gay a punchline in 2018. With all the hatred out there, this is how you get laughs & RTs @jimmykimmel

— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) April 6, 2018

YOU THINK YOURE JUST FEUDING HANNITY, CONGRATS PAL YOU JUST ALIENATED YOUR LGBT VIEWERS @jimmykimmel

— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) April 6, 2018

So, it’s OK for you to make homophobic slurs? What an asshole.

— Zarba (@ZarbaNotZorba) April 6, 2018

Love ya Jimmy but I said this to @chelseahandler yesterday and you today. Suggesting awful people are “gay for each other” isn’t funny to us. You gotta stop.

— Joe Bua (@JoeWatchesTV) April 6, 2018

Unrelated to Kimmel and Hannity’s beef, Chelsea Handler tweeted this: “Jeff Sessions is definitely a bottom.”

Jeff Sessions is definitely a bottom.

— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) April 6, 2018

Handler was called out on it by another Twitter user: “So the joke is he’s shit because he’s a bottom. Because gay men who are bottoms are inferior. Funny. So many ways to make fun of Jeff Sessions and you went with this. Dude, this just sucks.”

Which prompted this tweet from Handler in response: “I’m a bottom, and I’m proud of it.”

I’m a bottom, and I’m proud of it. t.co/wPs7c7ZBb8

— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) April 6, 2018

So the joke is he’s shit because he’s a bottom. Because gay men who are bottoms are inferior. Funny.

So many ways to make fun of Jeff Sessions and you went with this. Dude, this just sucks.

— beth, an alien (@bourgeoisalien) April 6, 2018

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Mother, Police Seek Answers in Mysterious Death of Gay D.C. Attorney

Mother, Police Seek Answers in Mysterious Death of Gay D.C. Attorney
Daniel Potucek



Daniel Potucek, a 34-year-old gay attorney for the Transportation Safety Administration was found dead with no visible signs of injury in a Mazda SUV last Saturday morning. It is still unknown how he got there and how he died. The results of an autopsy have not yet been released.

FOX 5 reported:

Surveillance cameras at a restaurant in the 800 block of Florida Avenue may have captured the last moments of Potucek being alive.

“Then he was in that car from the time of closing until they found him at 7 or 7:20 [a.m.],” said Lorinda Potucek, the victim’s mother.

It was at roughly 7:30 a.m. Saturday when police discovered Potucek’s body in the passenger’s seat of a Mazda SUV. The car belongs to a Northwest D.C. man who said he has never met the victim.

He did not want to be identified, but told FOX 5 he parked his vehicle last Friday night just a block away from the corner of Florida Avenue and 8th Street when he went to dinner at Hazel. Instead of driving home, he took Lyft and planned to return for his car the next morning while out on a jog.

Potucek’s mother is still trying to understand why her son would seek out a random car.

FOX 5 did not mention Potucek’s sexual orientation.

Potucek frequented at least one of several gay clubs in the neighborhood, the Washington Blade reports:

As in all cases of an unexplained death with no signs of injury, the police Homicide Branch, which investigates such cases, is awaiting results of the autopsy and toxicology tests to determine the cause of death. Fields said the findings of the autopsy and results of toxicology tests were pending and she could not say when they would be completed.

Potucek’s mother, Lorinda Potucek, told NBC 4 News that she has many questions about the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son’s death, including how he got into a car that belonged to someone else.

“I’ve been told that somebody put him in that car” and that the car door had been unlocked, she told NBC 4 reporter Pat Collins. “We all think, with beyond a reasonable doubt, that there’s more to this story,” News 4 quoted her as saying. “Daniel always has made it home.”

In addition to Town nightclub, the gay bars located within a two block area from where Potucek was found dead in the early morning of March 31 are Nellie’s Sports Bar, the Dirty Goose and Uproar.

Potucek’s LinkedIn page, which was still online as of late this week, shows he was a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he received his law degree; and received a bachelor’s degree from Duke University in the field of international comparative studies. He has worked at the Department of Homeland Security as an attorney-adviser since 2013, his LinkedIn page says.

Another report from NBC Washington:

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