Mike Pence's New Neighbors Protest Homophobia by Hanging Rainbow Flags (Video)

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Philadelphia Police Seek Person of Interest in Bombing That Injured Gay Man: VIDEO

Philadelphia police have released a photo and video of a person suspected of dropping off a package bomb to a gay man’s home last week.

The package was dropped off at the home of Jim Alden on the morning of November 20. Alden suffered injuries to his face and torso when he opened the package two days later.

According to police, the person of interest is male, Asian and aged between late teens and early 30s. The suspect is seen to be wearing a baseball cap and an Elmer Fudd-style cap with ear flaps

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Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. told Philly.com:

“We really do not have a motive right now, and that’s one of the challenges we’re dealing with. Right now, the victim does not appear to know who would want to harm him. We have had extensive conversations with him.”

California native Alden lives with his partner and had a rainbow “Love Trumps Hate” sign in the front window of his building.

He posted a note on a fundraising page on Tuesday saying he was overwhelmed “at the outpouring of love and support that I’ve received from my partner, family, friends, and coworkers.”

According to the fundraising page, Alden could have been blinded had he not put on his glasses prior to opening the package. He also lost parts of two fingers on his left hand and suffered damage to his face, chest, arms and eardrum.

A $10,000 reward is offered for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information is asked to call 215-686-TIPS.

You can donate to Alden’s fundraising page here.

Watch police CCTV footage of the suspect below.

(Images via YouCaring)

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The GLAAD Wrap: 'Nashville' trailer, 'Doubt' sets a premiere date and more!

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Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pick Opposes LGBT People, Women Serving in Military

James Mattis believes “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” shouldn’t have been repealed. 

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Oh Look, Another Antigay Skeleton In Trump AG Pick Jeff Sessions’ Closet

You’re not going to believe this, but Jeff Sessions has taken more actions to oppress LGBTQ people than we even thought. Sessions was just appointed as incoming Attorney General by Donald Trump — you know, the guy who’s supposed to be the most pro-gay Republican president elect in history?

Here’s the latest atrocity from our friend Jeff Sessions curtesy of CNN: back in the 90s, Alabama had a law that prohibited public universities from funding groups that promote “actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws.” When an LGBT conference was planned at the University of Alabama, Sessions did everything in his power as state Attorney General to have the conference cancelled.

Did the conference even indeed promote “actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws”? Well, maybe, if you consider an interfaith panel the height of taboo eroticism.

The battle dragged out for months, and ultimately resulted in the law being ruled unconstitutional and the conference getting a significant boost in attendance — so, a huge loss for Sessions. Still, it could easily have gone the other way; and there’s no way the conference organizers could have raised the millions of dollars it costs to bring a case before the Supreme Court.

Now Jeff Sessions is in charge of defending the nation’s laws, and deciding what side the Department of Justice will take in cases involving the government. And when LGBT issues come up in court — as they definitely will sometime very soon — which side do you suppose he’ll take?

Thanks again, Donald, for being such a good friend to the gays. Remember, it’s totally valid for queer people to support the Republican party.

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Hear Every Pop Hit of 2016 in One Mega Mash-Up: WATCH

2016 is finally drawing to a close which means it’s time for end of year lists, compilations and mash-ups.

DJ Earworm has just released his mega-mix of the 25 biggest pop songs of 2016 including:

Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
Calvin Harris and Rihanna – This Is What You Came For
D.R.A.M. and Lil Yachty – Broccoli
Desiigner – Panda
DJ Snake and Justin Bieber – Let Me Love You
DNCE – Cake By The Ocean
Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla – One Dance
Fifth Harmony and Ty Dolla $ign – Work From Home
Flo Rida – My House
Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling!
Lukas Graham – 7 Years
Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ – Cold Water
Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza
Rae Sremmurd – Black Beatles
Rihanna – Needed Me
Rihanna and Drake – Work
Sia – Cheap Thrills
The Chainsmokers and Daya – Don’t Let Me Down
The Chainsmokers and Halsey – Closer
The Weeknd and Daft Punk – Starboy
Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out
Twenty One Pilots – Heathens
Twenty One Pilots – Ride
Zayn – Pillowtalk

Which pop jam was your favorite this year?

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Woman Stands Up To Homophobic Neighbor… With 10,000 Rainbow Christmas Lights

A woman on Reddit said she’s sick and tired of her neighbor making disparaging comments about gay people, particularly gay youths, so she’s decided to take a stand this holiday season.

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“She had learned that we were Mormon from church,” the woman explains. “We are no longer Mormon, this issue is why I left. She came bouncing over and when my husband told her we no longer attend, she didn’t really get the message. She also must have missed the HRC sticker on my car.”

The women explains that her neighbor then proceeded “to tell us how horrified she was when her son got turned down for prom because the girl was already planning on going with her girlfriend.”

Gasp!

The neighbor then went on to express her utter dismay about how the local junior high had recently held an assembly to discuss transgender issues and trans inclusion.

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“That, coupled with the school’s justifications for letting lesbians attend the prom together and doing an assembly that taught kids the facts about being transgender were just too much for her,” the woman writes. “She said that she had to move them away because she was so sick of the gays and transgenders and everyone making their ‘lifestyle’ okay.”

Even though the woman says she was steaming mad, rather than tell her neighbor to go to hell right then and there, she chose a more peaceful, passive aggressive method in dealing with the situation: Rainbow Christmas lights. 10,000 of them, to be precise.

“I know that I’m not going to change her opinion, no matter what I say,” she writes. “Having moved her kids to escape ‘the gays’, I’m sure me telling her my opinion on it won’t make a difference.”

But at least it makes her feel better.

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‘Hit Piece’ on HGTV Hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Views on Gay Rights Causes Controversy – VIDEOS

An article highlighting HGTV hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines’ membership in an evangelical anti-gay church has come under attack for speculating about the couple’s views on homosexuality.

In a post published on BuzzFeed earlier this week, journalist Kate Aurthur notes:

“[Fixer Upper hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines’ church] Antioch Community Church, is a nondenominational, evangelical, mission-based megachurch. And their pastor, Jimmy Seibert (right), who described the Gaineses as ‘dear friends’ in a recent video, takes a hard line against same-sex marriage and promotes converting LGBT people into being straight.

“So are the Gaineses against same-sex marriage? And would they ever feature a same-sex couple on the show, as have HGTV’s House Hunters and Property Brothers?”

The article goes on to detail Seibert and the church’s opinions on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. It notes that Seibert said “God defined marriage, not you and I,” that homosexuality is a sin and that “the statistics say that 90% of people who are in a full-blown homosexual lifestyle were abused in some way.”

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However, Brandon Ambrosino, a gay Christian writer who is about to marry his same-sex partner, has come to the Gaines’ defense in an article published by the Washington Post.

Ambrosino called BuzzFeed’s article a “hit piece”:

“I have heard from a few well-meaning Christian friends that they feel they can’t attend my [wedding] ceremony. I think that’s silly, I think it’s theologically misguided, and it hurts me deeply because it makes it seem as if they care more about abstract principles than me, their friend and family member.

“Still, I do not think these conservatives should be shamed or mocked. I do not think they should be fired. And I certainly do not think they should be the butt of a popular BuzzFeed article.

“The entire article is an elaborate exploration of that hypothetical question [do the Gaines’ support same-sex marriage]. And yes, it is very much hypothetical, by the reporter’s own admission…

“But that does not stop [Kate] Aurthur from writing almost 800 more words about the non-story. Her upshot seems to be: Two popular celebrities might oppose same-sex marriage because the pastor of the church they go to opposes same-sex marriage, but I haven’t heard one way or the other. (I can’t imagine pitching that story to an editor and getting a green light, by the way.)”

Ambrosino goes on to examine a number of problems he sees with Aurthur’s piece: it suggests that the one in four people who do not support gay marriage are unemployable and that as public figures they are not entitled to moral and religious opinions.

This targeting of Christians for their beliefs needs to stop. t.co/LO90sOEx1m

— Rep. Warren Davidson (@WarrenDavidson) December 1, 2016

Ambrosino also points out that the article backs up “everything that President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters have been saying about the media: that some journalists — specifically younger ones at popular digital publications — will tell stories in certain deceitful, manipulative ways to take down conservatives.”

He concludes that “it is no longer okay — indeed, it never was — to write cutesy articles shaming religious people as homophobic for simply being one of the many millions of Americans in 2016 who attend a religious congregation that does not support same-sex marriage. That is not a good move for activism or journalism.”

Writing for conservative publication The Federalist yesterday, Hans Fiene noted:

“This could be a great teaching moment for the crusading Left. It would be great for them to learn, via Chip and Joanna Gaines, that not all opponents of same-sex marriage are evil…

“But it seems that BuzzFeed and [other publications] have already chosen their path. Expect them to trash the reputations of yet another couple guilty of nothing but holding ‘unpopular’ opinions. And if this keeps happening for the next four years, expect Trump to win reelection with 65 percent of the popular vote.”

Yesterday, HGTV told the Huffington Post:

“We don’t discriminate against members of the LGBT community in any of our shows. HGTV is proud to have a crystal clear, consistent record of including people from all walks of life in its series.”

Chip Gaines responded in veiled fashion to the controversy on Twitter, saying, “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. DO EVERYTHING IN LOVE.”

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. DO EVERYTHING IN LOVE.

— Chip Gaines (@chippergaines) December 1, 2016

U know.. even as all hell “appears” to be breaking loose. All I have to do is look at my 4 precious babies sleeping, or kiss Jo good morning

— Chip Gaines (@chippergaines) December 1, 2016

Meanwhile Pastor Seibert has come forward to say his church is not anti-gay. “We are not only not anti-gay, but we are pro-helping people in their journey to find out who God is and who He has made them to be,” Seibert said to FOX News.

Watch FOX News’ report, below.

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

Watch the Seibart sermon quoted by Aurthur and an interview with the Chip and Joanna, below.

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Step inside one of the hottest clubs in Paris.

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