Dad Beats, Hurls F Word at Gay Designer After Daughter Cut From Runway

Pol’ Atteu says he is the victim of an antigay attack.

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LGBTQ Presidential Forum in Iowa: Biden, Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Gabbard, Harris, Klobuchar, Sestak, Warren, and Williamson — LIVE VIDEO

2020 Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Sestak, Elizabeth Warren, and Marianne Williamson will appear at an LGBTQ Forum at Coe College’s Sinclair Auditorium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa tonight at 7 PM CT.

The forum will be streamed live via the streams here. “The candidates will lay out their vision for accelerating LGBTQ acceptance,” according to GLAAD. “Each candidate also will answer specific questions on how they would address some of the largest issues affecting the LGBTQ community today if elected president.”

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Ukraine, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, The Crown, Alienstock, Asteroid, Celine Dion, Alvin Baltrop, Indonesia: HOT LINKS

UKRAINE. Trump tries to deflect the whistleblower complaint: “It doesn’t matter what I discussed, but I’ll tell you this, somebody ought to look into Joe Biden’s statement.”

Trump describes whistleblower who sounded alarm about his interactions with Ukraine as “partisan.” A minute later, he says, “I don’t know the identity of the whistleblower.”

“it was a totally appropriate conversation. It was actually a beautiful conversation,” he adds. pic.twitter.com/an57Vq7x2R

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 20, 2019

LITTLE SHOP OF GAGA. Lady Gaga offered part in the classic musical movie remake.

2020. Pete Buttigieg hires black outreach director. ‘Angela M. Angel, a former state legislator in Maryland, will take charge of the Buttigieg campaign’s outreach to black voters. So far, Buttigieg has sought to do so by touting his Douglass Plan, a set of proposals aimed at fighting systemic racism and helping black Americans. But Buttigieg’s polling numbers among African Americans have remained low.’

ALIENSTOCK. 30,000 people expected in Rachel Nevada, near Area 51.

ASTEROID MISS. Emails reveal how massive asteroid hurtling past Earth caught NASA scientists by surprise: ‘Spotted just 24 hours before a relatively narrow miss with Earth, the incident reveals holes in NASA’s surveillance network to observe incoming space rocks. The football-field-sized asteroid, dubbed “2019 OK,” is also drawing attention to decades of congressional failures to fix the problem, experts say.’

CELINE DION. I don’t date but I miss being touched and held.

INDONESIA. Country to outlaw sex outside marriage: “Indonesia is poised to pass a new penal code that criminalizes consensual sex outside marriage and introduces stiff penalties for insulting the president’s dignity – a move rights groups criticized as an intrusive assault on basic freedoms.”

PHOTO. Great White Shark breaches off Cape Cod. And this:

I SCREAM. NFL free agent Ryan Russell and Corey O’Brien got some ice cream together in Hollywood.

ALVIN BALTROP. He captured a clandestine gay culture amid the derelict piers. “Disintegration and rebellion dovetailed in a line of derelict shipping piers that stretched the Hudson River between Chelsea and Greenwich Village. Isolated from the rest of the city after the collapse of the southernmost section of the elevated West Side Highway, the piers became a preserve for gay sex and communion, and the primary subject of Mr. Baltrop’s surviving photographs.”

NEW TUNE OF THE DAY. Maroon 5 “Memories”.

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Dickinson.

NEW TUNE OF THE DAY. Hailee Steinfeld “Afterlife” from Dickinson.

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Carly Rae Jepsen “I Want You In My Room”.

TEASER OF THE DAY. The Crown Season 3.

FRIDAY FLASH. Anselmo Prestini.

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A Celebration of VisiBIlity in the Bi+ Community

To Basit Shittu, increasing bi+ visibility is essential to their work as an activist. 

“As a person of color, as a gender non-conforming person… all my life I’ve just wanted to see myself represented just [the] slightest bit — to not only see myself represented but to be the representation that I wanted to see,” Shittu, a Brooklyn-based artist and cast member of MTV’s “Are You the One?” said. 

Shittu was a part of HRC’s Bisexual Awareness Week panel on Sept. 19, moderated by HRC Deputy Press Secretary Elliott Kozuch, on bi+ visibility in the media. Alongside Shittu, bi+ panelists included Advocates for Youth’s Khadija Khan, HRC’s Helen Parshall and the National Center for Transgender Equality’s Charles Girard. 

Bi+ community members and advocates joined the evening of celebration to discuss bi+ visibility, support bi+ artists and address the barriers the community faces. 

Some of these obstacles were illuminated by data from the 2019 Bi+ Youth Report, which the HRC Foundation, in partnership with the University of Connecticut, released this week. The report found that bi+ youth are far less likely to be out about their identities to people in their lives — including family, friends, doctors, teachers and peers — compared to gay and lesbian youth. 

Further, research showed that:

• 68% of bi+ youth report being teased or treated poorly because of their sexual orientation; 

• Just 13% of bi+ youth received information about safer sex that is relevant to their identity;

• 58% of transgender and  gender-expansive youth identify as bi+;

• Only 11% of bi+ youth of color think their racial or ethnic group is regarded positively or very positively in the U.S.

The panelists shared some of their experiences handling the challenges that come with being bi+ and visible. 

“When you have this barrier already to coming out, which is people assuming that you are actually gay or you’re actually lesbian and you just don’t want to fully come out, that’s a lot of issues that young people run into,” Khan said. “I ran into it myself, and it’s really extremely invalidating and adds another layer to general widespread confusion that young people experience.” 

Because individual experiences differ, sharing stories can help youth who are grappling with or confused by their sexuality. 

“None of our stories are the same, but we’re all looking for that thing that connects us and how we can find that and find each other,” Parshall said. 

Girard echoed this sentiment, and he had simple advice for young bi+ people. 

“One thing I really hated hearing as a kid was ‘be yourself’ because what does that even mean? But my advice would be to be yourself in a way that feels safe and authentic,” he said. 

If you’re bi+ and looking for resources, visit hrc.org/bisexual.

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