Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown Sounds Off on Antoni’s Thirst Trap Photo Shoot, Shania Twain’s Trump Views: WATCH

Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown Sounds Off on Antoni’s Thirst Trap Photo Shoot, Shania Twain’s Trump Views: WATCH
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Queer Eye‘s cultural guy Karamo Brown sat down for a wide-ranging Facebook Live interview with Marc Malkin where he was grilled about topics past and current, the most current being Shania Twain, who apologized this week after saying that she would have voted for Trump.

Asked Malkin: “Do you think she can redeem herself with the gay community because the gays were not having it on social media.”

Said Brown: “As a community, we are very forgiving. It’s in our nature, because we have been treated so bad by people in our family and our friends who didn’t accept us as we go on our journeys that we’ve learned how to be empathetic and to forgive, and I believe that as a community we will again.”

Malkin also asked Brown whether he, or any of the new ‘fab five’ identify as ‘queer’: “I don’t. I describe myself as gay. I come from an old school where gay used to be a negative. It’s not negative anymore to me. Through the years, I understand the reclaiming the power with it, but queer is more an umbrella that encompasses so many other people and for me, I identify as a gay man. I have a lot of friends who identify as queer. I don’t know if any of the guys on [Queer Eye] identify as gay.”

Added Brown: “None of us identify as queer. I don’t know about Jonathan, We never asked if Jonathan identifies as queer. I know that me, Bobby and Tan identify as gay men. Antoni identifies as a gay man…I don’t know what Jonathan identifies as. I would assume gay but I don’t know.”

Brown was also asked about the recent Gay Times magazine featuring Queer Eye food guru Antoni Porowski in a variety of sultry thirst trap poses.

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“Is this Antoni when we don’t see [him], is he walking around like this all the time,” asked Malkin. “Because he seems very shy.”

Said Brown: “Antoni is full of thirst traps. Antoni is not shy. That is part of the Rob Pattinson, all those sexy guys who are like, I’m wounded, and dark and mysterious. But you wouldn’t be in front of the camera if you were that shy. He turns it on because he understands.

 

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Here’s a behind-the-scenes of the Gay Times photo shoot.

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Hornet Partners with Planned Parenthood and L.A. LGBT Center to Help Build a Culture of Consent

Hornet Partners with Planned Parenthood and L.A. LGBT Center to Help Build a Culture of Consent

New York, NY, April 20, 2018 — Sexual assault is an all-too-frequent occurrence in America, and this is true for LGBTQ people as well. Hornet Gay Social Network is partnering with Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Los Angeles LGBT Center to build a culture of consent and respect within the LGBTQ community. As the largest global LGBT newsroom, Hornet is partnering with the nation’s largest provider of sex education, Planned Parenthood, which is committed to helping people communicate about sex and consent respectfully and confidently, and engage in healthy relationships. In addition, Hornet is working with the Los Angeles LGBT Center to further that support to survivors and provide additional resources online and off.

Together we’ll be creating and sharing social media and editorial content to educate users on why and how to talk about consent. We’ll be highlighting an online videos series designed to explain and model to young people what consent is and what it looks like in different situations.   

“Sex education is where sexual assault prevention begins, for all people — not just LGBTs,” says Sean Howell, President of Hornet. “The public deserves this kind of information. We must work to take care of our community and will continue to provide helpful information that gives the community skills to navigate healthy relationships, sex and consent.  Sex should be fun and consensual.”

The LGBTQ community faces higher rates of marginalization, poverty and stigma. These factors can leave the community vulnerable to sexual violencel. LGBTQ people also face higher rates of hate-motivated violence, which can sometimes take the form of sexual assault. In addition, despite marriage equality, LGBTQ relationships remain stigmatized, and the portrayal of them are often hypersexualized, which can lead to intimate partner violence stemming from internalized homophobia and shame. The stigma that many LGBTQ people face can make it more difficult for survivors to report. (Despite marriage equality, LGBTQ relationships remain stigmatized making it difficult for survivors to report assault and expect to be treated failry and compassionately)

“Education and community support can help LGBTQ people feel more empowered around their sexuality. LGBTQ survivors of sexual assault must be affirmed and together we can highlight their experiences so as to demonstrate it is nothing to be ashamed of and that they are being heard.”

For LGBTQ survivors of sexual assault, their identities — and the discrimination they face surrounding those identities — often make them hesitant to seek help from police, hospitals, shelters or rape crisis centers, the very resources that are meant to help them.

“The impact of sexual assault on the LGBT community is frequently invisible, in part because assaults are under-reported and statistics are not available. Many times, media that caters to gay and bisexual male communities show men as hypersexualized, which further blurs the lines of what is consensual or unwanted,” said Jesse Proia, mental health clinician at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. “At the Center’s Male Sexual Assault Survivors Group, destigmatizing sexual assault is the first step of the healing process. Most survivors blame themselves, when really the perpetrators are solely responsible. At the Center, we try to help survivors heal from their traumatic pasts by helping them set their sights on, and work towards, brighter futures.”

Hornet is pleased to work with partners to make this kind of sex education within reach of people’s phone, on the Hornet app, and with health centers. Hornet supports a variety of educational programs around wellness for the LGBTQ community, including STI testing, HIV prevention medication (PrEP), PEP and mental health. For more information on this evolving space, head here.

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Garlic Bread, Tom Hardy, Takedown Rules, Kanye West, Golfing While Black, Amazon Key, Ariana Grande: HOT LINKS

Garlic Bread, Tom Hardy, Takedown Rules, Kanye West, Golfing While Black, Amazon Key, Ariana Grande: HOT LINKS
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JEFF SESSIONS. Attorney General won’t recuse himself from Michael Cohen probe: “By staying involved in the Cohen probe, Sessions is entitled to briefings on the status of the investigation, which is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. That could put Sessions in the position of being asked by Trump, who strongly condemned the FBI raid on his longtime lawyer, to divulge information about the Cohen investigation.”

BOOZE. New studies on drinking paint risks in starker contrast: “In particular, an impressive new meta-study involving 600,000 participants, published recently in The Lancet, suggests that levels of alcohol previously thought to be relatively harmless are linked with an earlier death. What’s more, drinking small amounts of alcohol may not carry all the long-touted protective effects on the cardiovascular system.”

SAD! Kanye West reveals his love for Donald Trump.

A HIGHER LOYALTY. Fired former FBI Director James Comey sold 600,000 of his books in the first week.

CHRISTOPHER WYLIE. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower meets with Democrats: “Wylie is meeting privately with Judiciary Committee members and staff, as well as staff from the Oversight and Government Reform panel. On Wednesday, he is scheduled to meet behind closed doors with House Intelligence Committee Democrats.”

TAKEDOWN RULES. Facebook reveals 25 pages of takedown rules for hate speech.

PORTSMOUTH, UK. Man says he was drugged and raped by man he met on Grindr.

GOLFING WHILE BLACK. Police called on group of black women golfers for playing two slowly. “The women said they were very familiar with golf etiquette, since they are part of a larger professional group called Sisters in the Fairway, and they were doing nothing wrong.A white co-owner of the club, they explained, came up twice to rush them along and complain about how they were playing. But they picked the wrong women to mess with that day. One of the women, Sandra Thompson, is an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP.”

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY. Anti-LGBT hate group says it changed its IRS classification to “Church” to protect the identities of donors: ‘Paul Batura, vice president of communications for Focus on the Family, told The Christian Post that the news stories on their reclassification as a church give “sinister and fictitious motives to our application.” Batura explained that the main reason for the reclassification was to protect the identities of donors to the conservative Christian organization.

BEHIND THE SCENES. Of Ariana Grande’s “No Tears Left To Cry” video.

COMET FLYBY OF THE DAY. Rosetta spacecraft flies by Comet 67P. “In August 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft pulled up to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and studied the gritty, duck-shaped object for 2 years.”



DINNER FROM SPACE OF THE DAY. Garlic bread.

IN-CAR DELIVERY OF THE DAY. Amazon Key will let people in anywhere. Would you feel safe using this?

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Tom Hardy in Venom.

TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY. Runssm.

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Diversity in the Spotlight on “American Idol”

Diversity in the Spotlight on “American Idol”

Jurnee and Ada Vox have become fan favorites during this season of “American Idol.” While both delivered show-stopping performances this week, neither was voted into the top 10. Instead, Jurnee and Vox,  both LGBTQ people of color, had to be saved by the judges to move on to the next round.

“Never have I ever seen a more qualified woman for the job and still not get the job. What’s the disconnect, America?” said Katy Perry, one of the show’s three judges and a longtime HRC supporter, when Jurnee did not qualify to move on.

On social media, many made clear that they believe the disconnect was due to the contestants’ race, sexual orientation and gender identity.

America needs to get it together. Jurnee and Ada Vox are both way too talented to not have received America’s vote. #americanidol

— Johnny Q. (@JohnnyQuaranto) April 24, 2018

. @katyperry Here’s the disconnect. Jurnee is a woman, she’s black, and she’s a lesbian. In much of America she has three strikes against her. One of the best singers on the show.

— David Hoffman (@atDavidHoffman) April 24, 2018

Millions of viewers tune in each week to watch “American Idol.” More than 10 million watched this year’s season premiere, according to a ratings breakdown released by Variety.

This means that “American Idol” is uniquely positioned to reflect the breadth and diversity of talent within our communities. Both Jurnee, 18, from Littleton, Colorado, and Vox, 24, from San Antonio, Texas, reflect that diversity.

And we thank the judges for acknowledging their incredible talent, and hope voters will, too, as the competition continues.

HRC stands committed to promoting racial diversity within the LGBTQ movement and to fighting bias and discrimination in all forms, including many of the unique challenges facing LGBTQ communities of color.

“American Idol” airs Sundays and Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Join us in rooting for Jurnee and Vox!

Photos via ABC/American Idol

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OH SNAP! Lively is Bringing Back the 90s With #Lively90sWeek

OH SNAP! Lively is Bringing Back the 90s With #Lively90sWeek

Put on your flared jeans and brush up on your boy band knowledge because the ’90s are coming to Lively, the fun team trivia app from Zoosk Labs. Starting Tuesday April 24th, Lively players will have the chance to win cool prizes or be on the same trivia team with some totally major ’90s icons

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Senate confirms anti-LGBTQ lawyer Kyle Duncan to a lifetime judicial appointment

Senate confirms anti-LGBTQ lawyer Kyle Duncan to a lifetime judicial appointment

Kyle Duncan has an extensive record combatting civil rights including being the opposing counsel in Gavin Grimm’s case and working to undermine marriage equality

NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today voiced outrage after the Senate confirmed anti-LGBTQ lawyer Kyle Duncan for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Duncan has a long ideologically-driven record seeking to undermine civil rights including fighting to undermine marriage equality and targeting transgender rights by defending North Carolina’s infamous anti-transgender law HB2 and serving as the opposing counsel in Gavin Grimm’s case.

“The U.S Senate is standing idly by as President Trump fills multiple branches of the U.S. government with people like Kyle Duncan, whose ideologically-driven record displays that he is a direct threat to LGBTQ Americans,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “Voters are watching and will not forgive Senators who allow President Trump to stack the courts with judges united in dismantling civil rights and rolling back our hard-fought progress.”

Throughout his career, Duncan has relied on the unscientific arguments of anti-LGBTQ hate groups in an attempt to undermine transgender rights, trying to delegitimize transgender identity by calling being transgender a “delusion” and advocating for parents not to support trans kids. This hate-mongering language is a strategy the Trump administration has also adopted in their ongoing efforts to ban open transgender military service. 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Kyle Duncan’s Anti-LGBTQ Record

  • Represented the Gloucester County, VA school board in its fight to prevent transgender teen Gavin Grimm from using the bathroom that matches his gender identity; Duncan argues that the matter is “really to let gender identity trump all other considerations of sex and privacy.”
     
  • In a 2016 speech to Heritage Foundation, reportedly bemoaned that “Our federal government is telling us—not merely what it thinks the law is—but what “is a man” and what “is a woman.” Something has gone wrong” (Note: Heritage has since deleted this event from its archives; it was here).
     
  • Wrote an essay arguing that the Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage decision “swept away the value of the democratic process” in states that had put civil rights up to a ballot.
     
  • As a special counsel represented Louisiana in challenges against the state’s discriminatory marriage ban.
     
  • Prior the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling claimed such a ruling would “do incalculable damage to our national civic life.”
     
  • Authored amicus brief arguing against marriage equality.
     
  • Defended North Carolina’s notorious anti-transgender law, HB2.
     
  • Represented a birth mother who wished to deny visitation to a same-sex spouse.
     
  • In making an anti-trans case as a lead counsel in in Carcano v. McCrory, he and his team relied on testimony from anti-trans doctor Quentin Van Meter who insisted that the “ethical and logical” course for trans children is for the “patient and family to rear the child in conformity with natal sex” (pg 211), insisted that “gender identity that does not match natal sex is a mental disorder (pg 215), and advocates for “recovery and a healthy, productive life” for transgender patients referred to him (pg216).

 

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April 24, 2018

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