Gay Stereotypes About Tops and Bottoms Get Wrecked – WATCH

Stereotypes abound in gay culture. And in a new comedic sketch from Michael Henry, stereotypes about what an archetypal top and bottom look like get smashed.

The video parodies what might happen when two gay friends find out that their other friend is a top–a fact that baffles them because he embodies many of the qualities often associated with gay men who identify as bottoms. That is, in all but one way.

Watch as gay expectations are shattered, below.

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Magician Destroys the Transgender Bathroom Myth with the Help of Peanut Butter and Jelly – WATCH

Magician Justin Willman decided to use his magical powers for good and help educate America on why the transgender bathroom myth is a bunch of bullsh**.

Willman suggests that transgender bathroom rights really isn’t a complicated issue. And neither is gender identity. In fact, they are so simple that they can be explained with peanut butter and jelly.

Imagine, for instance, that a peanut butter jar was actually filled with jelly, and that a jelly jar was filled with peanut butter. While the jar in each case may not match its contents, the contents themselves do not change. The peanut butter is still peanut butter even though it’s in a jelly jar.

Says Willman, “I guess it doesn’t matter what it says on the jar. If it’s got peanut butter in it we should just show it some god-damned respect and call it peanut butter because it didn’t choose the jar.”

Get the picture?

RELATED: Debunking the Dangerous Myth Behind America’s Anti-LGBT ‘Bathroom Bills’ – WATCH 

Willman adds,

“I know this seems so simple but there are some f**king idiots out there who just can’t comprehend this. They think that the peanut butter is going to pretend to be jelly just so it can sneak over here and listen to the jelly pee and just jerk off–that’s not what this is about, Dad! If it’s peanut butter, let it pee with peanut butter. And if it’s jelly, let it pee with jelly.”

Watch, below.

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It Was Romance premieres music video with LGBT spin on 90's classic

www.glaad.org/blog/it-was-romance-premieres-music-video-lgbt-spin-90s-classic

Ride along (virtually) as GLAAD takes the Southern Stories Summer Tour to Texas

www.glaad.org/blog/ride-along-virtually-glaad-takes-southern-stories-summer-tour-texas

Yet Another Reason Joe Biden Is Everyone's Favorite LGBT Ally

The vice president tweeted a photo of him officiating a same-sex wedding.

www.advocate.com/politics/2016/8/02/yet-another-reason-joe-biden-everyones-favorite-lgbt-ally

Pulse Update: Slow Police Response May Have Cost Lives

The Washington Post report shows strong evidence that police delay proved fatal for several club-goers.

www.advocate.com/crime/2016/8/02/pulse-update-slow-police-response-may-have-cost-lives

Christopher Biggins, Renee Graziano’s “Big Brother” Biphobia Causes Backlash

Christopher Biggins and Renee Graziano. Photo via Big Brother, YouTube.

Celebrity “Big Brother” housemates Christopher Biggins and Renee Graziano competed recently to see who could be the bigger biphobe. In a fierce competition, they pretty much tied for worst.

Actor and television presenter Biggins asked “Mob Wives” star Graziano what her feelings were on gay people.

“I think it’s beautiful because it’s who you are and I think it’s natural,” she said. “But I think today in society, I think they kind of force things on people and confuse you.”

Related: Zach Rance On “Big Brother” Showmance: “Sexuality Doesn’t Define You”

“I think the worst type though, I’m afraid to say, is the bisexuals,” Biggins added.

“That upsets me,” Grazino said. “You have to pick a team.”

“Yeah,” Biggins said. “What it is, is people not wanting to admit they’re gay.”

“Please pick a team!” Graziano pleads. “You can pick any one you want.”

“I know, I agree,” Biggins said. “I totally agree.

Related: Former “Big Brother” Winner Says He Was Kicked Off Show For Being HIV-Positive

Yeah, just pick a team. So long as that team perfectly conforms to their false dichotomy where everyone is on one end of the spectrum or the other, despite what social science has taught us over the decades about the complexities of human sexuality.

Ironically, they seem unaware that what they are doing, displaying the type of biphobia that anyone not on “Team Gay” or “Team Straight” often receive from both communities, is the exact reason that few people pretend at being bisexual for very long.

It quickly becomes evident that identifying as bisexual is not going to make your life any easier and that it is probably easier to just identify as gay.

Unless, of course, you are legitimately bisexual and want to live your truth, in spite of the rampant biphobia present in society.

Related: “Big Brother 15” Houseguest David Girton Is Now Doing Porn On Twitter

The comments are inspiring many to join team “F*ck you, Biggins and Graziano.”

I hope the conversation between Biggins and Renee invalidating bisexuality causes controversy because that shouldn’t go under the radar #CBB

— tom (@thomas__don) August 1, 2016

It’s shocking for me especially as Biggins ‘supports’ the LG(B)T community! Cmon … he should know better #CBB t.co/WqzZLMzheV

— Lloyd Daniels (@LloydDanielsUK) August 1, 2016

Oh Biggins #CBB pic.twitter.com/X8UM7bSQap

— Becky Bedbug (@BeckyBedbug) August 1, 2016

@bbuk can renee and biggins pls get a warning for their biphobic discussion, they’d receive one if it was homophobic or racist

— cam / 31 (@OAKLEYSUPPERLIP) August 1, 2016

Disgusted at the attitudes of Renee and Biggins towards bisexuality ? #cbb

— Sophie Collacott (@s0phiecollacott) August 1, 2016

Oh my gosh! Shocked at Biggins blatant biphobia on #CBB wtf?!

— Juno Dawson (@junodawson) August 1, 2016

My opinion of Renee and Biggins has significantly altered. Sorry hun, “pick a team,” really? That is SO offensive. #LGBT #CBB

— Naomi (@NJRalph1) August 1, 2016

well i hate biggins & renee now! they can rot 🙂 #cbbuk

— ash (@ashlikesbands) August 1, 2016

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Trump Repeatedly Accuses New York Times Of Not “Writing Good”

Donald Trump caricature by DonkeyHotey, CC 2.0.

“The media is very unfair,” Trump told a crowd of rubes yesterday, “No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good.”

Well, he would know, wouldn’t he?

It’s always so hard to know if Trump knows what he’s doing. Could anyone actually be such a thick, crowing moron? He’s like a parody character in a second-rate improv show.

He even repeated his stupid grammar: “They don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t — they don’t write good,” he said. “They don’t know how to write good.”

This has gotta be a joke, right?

And yet the dummies who believe that he’s a leader, and not simply a rich idiot with no ideas, are still lapping up his rhetoric. They don’t read the New York Times; they don’t like the New York Times; they don’t care that he can’t put together a proper sentence. What does Trump have to lose by attacking a newspaper?

He later threatened to pull the NY Times‘ credentials, which would make it a lot harder for the paper to cover him. His complaint: the paper isn’t reporting fairly or accurately. This may be part of a longer strategy to have someone to blame when he loses the election: he can claim in November that the election was rigged and unfair, and he would have won if not for media bias.

Because of course, nothing bad that happens to Donald is ever Donald’s fault. He’s a perfect man who never does anything wrong, a precious little baby prince.

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Lesbian Drama, Legal Battles and ‘The Little Prince’ Streaming In August

Looking for something to stream while you Netflix and chill? Check out our picks for new additions to streaming services this month below, including gay love stories Holding The Man and Blue Is the Warmest Color.

Holding The Man (2015), Available on Netflix August 1

Timothy Conigrave’s memoir gets an emotional film adaptation in this sweeping gay Australian love story. Holding The Man chronicles Conigrave’s 15-year relationship with John Caleo while portraying the coming out process and the AIDS crisis against a backdrop of the 1970s and ‘80s.

Capote (2005), Available on HBO Now August 1

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar-winning turn as iconic gay author Truman Capote in this drama chronicling his writing of In Cold Blood, a sort of pre-cursor to The Jinx and Making A Murderer.

Legally Blonde (2001), Available on Hulu August 1

Now’s your chance to perfect your bend and snap! Reese Witherspoon’s classic comedy hits Hulu in all its wonderful pink glory. Cast includes gay faves like Victor Garber, Holland Taylor, Jennifer Coolidge and Ali Larter. (OK, maybe Ali Larter is a stretch, but have you seen Obsessed? Come on.)

The Little Prince (2016), Available on Netflix August 5

One of the most beloved children’s books ever, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is brought to life with stunning animation, featuring the voices of Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Jeff Bridges, Paul Rudd, James Franco and more. While not an expressly LGBT film, the fable will resonate with anyone who’s ever looked at the adult world and did’t understand why we do the things we do.

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), Available on Netflix August 26

Lauded for its raw realism (and notable for the graphic sex scenes that earned the film an NC-17 rating), this critical darling was the first film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes for both its director and its actresses. The French film follows young lovers Adèle and Emma from the beginning of their high-school romance into their turbulent adult relationship.

The State Of Marriage (2015), Available on Netflix August 29

Same-sex marriage may be the reality across the country today, but you can trace its roots to lawyers Mary Bonauto, Susan Murray, and Beth Robinson in Vermont. This documentary tells the story of the struggle behind Vermont Supreme Court case Baker v. Vermont, and reminds us how different things were not too long ago.

What are you streaming this month?

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