Must-See LGBT TV: Don't miss the 'Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce' season finale, Halsey guest stars on 'Roadies'

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'Carol' Fans Are Upset Delta is Showing Edited Version of Film

Carol fans are using the hashtag “#FreeCarol” to tweet at Delta Air Lines. 

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Hillary Clinton Responds to 40 Years of Sexist Questions (Video)

“Do you think the American people are ready yet to have a first lady who has strong opinions and an agenda?”

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‘Gay for Pay’ Actor Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Brutal Murder of Adult Film Producer

The “gay for pay” actor who brutally murdered a Dallas-area adult film producer — bludgeoning him 32 times before setting his body on fire — was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday.

Daeveion Mangum (right), 20, was convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of 60-year-old Michael Castagne (above), who was found dead inside his studio on Nov. 17, 2015. But the jury reduced Mangum’s sentence after determining that he acted out of “sudden passion.”

As we reported last week, Castagne had already paid Magnum to appear in at least three videos for his gay-themed adult website, JockTherapy.com. However, in what sounds like a form of the “gay panic” defense, Magnum’s attorneys argued that he acted out of self defense after Castagne asked him to perform with another man in a “massage therapy” video — which they likened to attempted sexual assault.

The Dallas Observer reports that the jury may also have been swayed by knowledge of Castagne’s 1985 conviction for sexual performance by a child and fondling of a child. Castagne, then 30, received five years of probation for asking a 16-year-old boy if he was interested in modeling and porn, and photographing his genitals.

According to the Observer, the defense argued that Castagne’s conviction “showed a pattern of manipulative behavior — ‘grooming’ — that would continue throughout Castagne’s interactions with clients, including Mangum.”

Mangum will be eligible for parole after completing half his sentence.

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Kentucky Official Evicts Gay Couple, Says She ‘Never Should Have Rented to the Faggots’

A gay Kentucky couple alleges that a city official called them “faggots” and assaulted one of them while she was evicting them due to their sexual orientation.

Joshua Melton and his husband James Feltner (above) had lived in a townhouse owned by Manchester City Councilwoman Esther Thompson for nine months when they were evicted in June.

“She said she should have never rented to the faggots,” Melton told WYMT.

Melton, who went to the emergency room after Thompson allegedly struck him in the head, has filed a criminal complaint against her for assault. Thompson told the couple she “owned the police,” who illegally took part in the eviction, according to the Kentucky Equality Federation, which is assisting the couple.

The Equality Federation also alleges that the county attorney, who serves as Thompson’s private lawyer, violated ethics rules in handling Melton’s assault complaint because he has a conflict of interest. In addition, Thompson is accused of using a fictitious corporation on the couple’s lease and illegally mishandling their security deposit.

The Equality Federation has asked federal prosecutors to get involved, saying the state attorney general refused to investigate “if local officials declined.” The group is seeking Thompson’s resignation, disciplinary action against police officers, and an investigation of the county attorney.

“Discrimination, we won’t tolerate it in any form in any part of the Commonwealth,” spokesman Jordan Palmer said in a statement. “It’s just unfortunate that it’s happened here in Clay County … again … but, we will see the case through to the end until justice is served.”

Thompson wrote in court documents that she evicted Feltner and Melton because they had six dogs and ruined a carpet, but the couple denies that, saying they had three chihuahuas that their landlady knew about. Thompson reportedly hung up the phone on a reporter from WYMT who was trying to get her side of the story.

Watch the report below.

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‘Little Men’ is a Must-See: Weekend Movie Review

“Little Men” is another winner from Director Ira Sachs

Feeling fatigued by summer movie season’s emphasis on loud and flashy but ultimately empty spectacles? You’re in luck.

LITTLE MEN, now playing in limited release, is the perfect antidote: quiet but insightful, memorable and substantive. It’s not a spectacle by any means but you should still see it inside the movie theater because it’s the kind of careful storytelling that benefits from being fully inside of it. Getting lost in a story is much easier to accomplish in the pages of a great novel or the dark of a movie theater than if you wait around to Netflix and chill.

The movie comes to us from one of our best LGBT directors, Ira Sachs. The New York based writer/director made his feature debut 20 years ago with The Delta (1996) but recently he’s been on quite a roll.

Little Men is not an adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott sequel to Little Women, but it does feel like a rich unexpected sequel to a more contemporary (future) classic. Ira Sachs’s last film was the moving gay seniors drama Love is Strange starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina whose marriage at the beginning of the film sets off a surprising chain of events which leaves them homeless and at the mercy of friends and relatives.

That beautiful movie ended, rather intuitively, with a wordless and narratively inconsequential scene in which we followed their young nephew on his skateboard down the streets of the city at magic hour. The image was rapturous and watery… or rather just rapturous; I was watching it through cascading tears was all.

It’s somehow perfect that Sachs followed that coda, at least emotionally, into a whole new movie that revisits the same plot catalyst (real estate and financial troubles disrupting otherwise steady lives) with young boys at the center this time. Jake and Tony (Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri, wonderfully natural first time actors) meet when Jake’s parents (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle) inherit a Brooklyn apartment building that belonged to his grandfather. A tiny storefront below the apartment is the livelihood of Tony’s mom (Paulina Garcia, the brilliant Chilean actress some of you will recognize from the arthouse hit Gloria), who was a longtime friend of the recently deceased.

Jake and Tony hit it off immediately, despite being nothing alike, but their parents are at odds from the start. The wedge between them? Why it’s money of course. The sordid topic of coin.

Greg Kinnear and Paulina García are parents at odds in “Little Men”

It’s often alarming when movies talk about finances in any relatable way but surely that’s because the subject remains taboo in entertainment beyond the broadest of strokes. The plot details of Little Men are occasionally maddening, primarily because they feel authentic — you can see social disaster and tense adult standoffs coming but can do nothing to prevent them.

You want nothing more than to see Jake, a sensitive lonely boy (whose parents obviously think is going to be gay  though the subject is not explicitly addressed) and Tony, more of an extrovert guy’s guy, grow up together as unlikely best friends pursuing their dreams; Jake wants to be an artist and Tony an actor, their artistic ambitions their only similarity beyond their age.

Fair warning: the movie is so truthfully observed and sensitive that it’s likely to bring back a flood of emotional memories of your own childhood even if your circumstances were wildly different, especially if you’re a gay man who once had an intense and loyal early adolescent friendship with a straight boy. Or, in fact, if you’re any kind of person who remembers that inexplicably painful sting when young friendships feel threatened by inexplicable (at the time) adult interference.

Little Men wraps up in just an hour and a half, the perfect length for movies and, not coincidentally, the length of a dream cycle. But Little Men is better than dreamy, it’s real. I’ll wrap up quickly, too. If you haven’t yet been fully convinced that Ira Sachs has become of our most important chroniclers of contemporary urban life, run to this third consecutive increasingly persuasive argument to that effect.

After the addiction drama Keep the Lights On (wildly acclaimed by most critics, though I confess I was a holdout), the touching senior citizen romance Love is Strange (raved right here) and this new poignantly observed gem (less explicitly an LGBT film than his other movies, but still beautifully inclusive) it’s safe to say that the New York filmmaker, who recently turned fifty, is in the midst of his peak storytelling years. Do not miss out on them.

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