Lesbian Couple Claim Their Son Was Forced to Watch Antigay Sermons

Their son was allegedly told these meetings were required in order for him to play basketball. Now they’re suing. 

www.advocate.com/news/2020/3/26/lesbian-couple-claim-their-son-was-forced-watch-antigay-sermons

PHOTOS: Chris Meloni leaves fans parched modeling just a kilt and tube socks

A momentary ray of sunshine burst through the algorithm when Christopher Meloni introduced the world to his “quarantine kilt.”

What, exactly, is a “quarantine quilt”? Who cares!? Christopher Meloni is posing shirtless in a kilt, this isn’t a time for silly questions.

The 58-year-old former Law and Order: SVU and Oz star took to Twitter to share two variations of his quarantine attire.

Related: Chris Meloni Tells Gay Teen Fan to Fantasize About Him In The Shower

We know which one we’re partial to.

In one photo, Meloni rocks some brown boots, the aforementioned kilt, a ruffly white shirt, and red-tinted sunglasses.

We give it a toot!

But sometimes the best looks are achieved by editing down, and Meloni’s second iteration certainly screams “yas, daddy.”

Here, he models just tube-socks and the kilt:

Two looks, one kilt.

“Quarantine Kilt. With glasses or without,” he wrote, as if there were any real competition between the two.

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Gay NYC Nursing Manager Dies from Coronavirus Due to Lack of Personal Protective Equipment: Reports

Kious Kelly, an assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai West in Manhattan, has died from coronavirus, after reportedly being exposed to the disease due to a lack of personal protective equipment.

The New York Post reports: The shortage of safety gear at one Manhattan hospital is so dire that desperate nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags — and some blame the situation for the coronavirus death of a beloved colleague. A stunning photo shared on social media shows three nurses at Mount Sinai West posing in a hallway while clad in large, black plastic trash bags fashioned into makeshift protective garb. … Meanwhile, staffers at the hospital near Columbus Circle on Wednesday tied the lack of basic supplies there to the death of assistant nursing manager Kious Kelly, who tested positive for coronavirus about two weeks ago. Kelly, 48, was admitted to Mount Sinai’s flagship hospital on the Upper East Side on March 17 and died Tuesday night, the workers said.

Andy Humm memorialized Kelly at Gay City News: Just five weeks ago — before all of this — I was sent by New Alternatives for Homeless LGBT Youth, where I’m on the board, to look in on a client hospitalized in Mount Sinai who was in terrible pain and not getting proper care. The nurses and doctors were pleasant enough, but they were not giving the young man the relief he needed as he was in constant agony and could not even sip water. After about five hours of advocacy, Kious Kelly, the assistant nursing manager, showed up with a rainbow pin and a calm, caring manner and made things happen for the young man — getting him pain relief and pulling him back from the brink of wanting to take his own life. He was an angel to this troubled, homeless, African-American kid. On Wednesday, I read that due to a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) — something that was a problem at Mount Sinai before all this — Kious was infected with COVID-19 two weeks ago and died the day before. … Today I’m mourning Kious Jordan Kelly, a 48-year old gay nurse manager who died from caring. I was only with him for 15 minutes, but it was enough to see his unique power of healing. An unforgettable character. Honor his memory by not letting even one more health care worker die.

Kelly’s sister, Marya Patrice Sherron, posted a heartbreaking response to his death:

Kelly’s nursing colleagues also remembered him fondly, and called for action. Read their posts below.

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Gay NYC Nursing Manager Dies from Coronavirus Due to Lack of Personal Protective Equipment: Reports

The Life of a Wrong and Wayward ‘War-Time’ President

Pack those churches, make that cash, lives be damned!

www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/3/26/life-wrong-and-wayward-war-time-president

Reality star Justin Lacko maybe probably just came out

Australian reality star Justin Lacko revealed that he loves men and women in a series of since-deleted Instagram posts.

Daily Mail was first to report that 29-year-old Lacko wrote: “Love who you want to! Doesn’t matter the sex.”

Then he added: “I won’t lie anymore within myself. I want freedom to be free. I respect myself to say this. I love me and always will.”

Shortly after that, he clarified: “This isn’t me coming out at all about being gay. This is me coming out today that I fall in love with a person not a sex. I love women and man [sic] that’s it.”

“Gay, bi, straight–just be who you are. I don’t care and neither should anyone else.”

It’s not totally clear what he meant, but many have interpreted the “I love women and men” remark to mean he’s either bisexual, pansexual, or sexually fluid.

Lacko has yet to elaborate on what he meant or to explain why he later deleted the remarks. Adding to the confusion, yesterday he shared an image of a black square along with a “peace” emoji.

Lacko, who was first cast on Love Island Australia and then later appeared on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, has said in the past that his grandmother refused to speak to him because she suspected he was gay.

“I have held onto a grudge with my grandma,” he said on I’m a Celebrity. “I say ‘hi’ to her when I see her at Christmas time, I acknowledge her, but that’s it.”

“She said something like, ‘I think it’s time we admitted that Justin is gay and in the closet. He never brings girls home.’”

He added, “Someone’s sexuality is none of your business. I don’t feel like it’s anyone’s business unless I choose to say it myself.”

Scroll down for more pics from Lacko’s Instagram page…

Related: Reality star Colton Underwood opens up about his struggles with his sexuality

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