Will the Stonewall Inn Be Named a National Landmark? (Video)

www.advocate.com/pride/2016/6/01/will-stonewall-inn-be-named-national-landmark-video

Meet Mr. C, China's Transgender Advocate (Video)

www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/6/01/meet-mr-c-chinas-transgender-advocate-video

A Few Minutes with Lea DeLaria in Israel (Video)

www.advocate.com/world/2016/6/01/few-minutes-lea-delaria-israel-video

Mississippi Gov.: Christians Willing to be Crucified to Protect Anti-LGBT Law

Mississippi’s governor believes critics underestimated his ability to stand up for his beliefs. 

www.advocate.com/politics/2016/6/01/mississippi-gov-christians-willing-be-crucified-protect-anti-lgbt-law

Vermont Man Becomes 13th Trans Person Killed This Year (Video)

Amos Beede was 38 years old when he was viciously attacked last month in Burlington, Vt. He died of his injuries Sunday.

www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/6/01/vermont-man-becomes-13th-trans-person-killed-year-video

James Dobson: Be a Man, Shoot a Transgender Woman in the Bathroom

In a new column, the Christian right leader promotes the “bathroom predator” myth in a big way and suggests a violent reponse. 

www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/6/01/james-dobson-be-man-shoot-transgender-woman-bathroom

Writer Of THAT Notorious Gay Culture ‘Take Down’ Takes On His Haters

The self-described “gay, Jamaican, conservative Democrat” who penned a divisive takedown of gay culture is baaaaaaack, and he’s here to explain a bit more about his initial piece.

Honestly, we thought that with a title like Loveless, Narcissistic Sex Addicts: A Gay Man Critiques His Community, there wouldn’t be much more to say, but we guess we were wrong.

The Windy City Times caught up with DePaul University professor Jason Hill to discuss the backlash, his background, and, of course, those mean and nasty gays:

Hill told Windy City Times that the editors had changed his title and equally harsh subheads—one of which read, “We’re so lonely, we almost want AIDS”—but stood by what he wrote in the main text of his article. In an age of Grindr and Scruff, he said, gay men will be unable to find harmony in their relationships unless they can develop a stronger moral contract.

These are conclusions he came to because, of course, he’s an “ethicist by training”:

I’m a moral philosopher, an ethicist by training. I tend to look at things from an ethical standpoint. I thought I needed to write a piece that would hold those members, some members of the community guilty of these sorts of behaviors, accountable.

But I [also] wanted to talk about the culture itself, and what constitutes gay culture itself—the ethos, pathos, mores, norms and protocols under which the people that suffuse that culture under which people are socialized. There seemed to be something pretty skewed in many respects.

He also has the groundbreaking theory that apps like Grindr and Scruff foster sex addiction:

One, I think, is the way I think the culture fosters sex addiction, I think, through the proliferation of certain apps that I think are incompatible with the desires and aspirations of gay men who I think want a monogamous or sustained relationship. I thought there was a huge disconnect in the aspirations of those individuals who want a certain life for themselves, and have certain behaviors or habits that cultivate and foster it.

The two are diametrically opposed. One can’t have one’s cake and eat it as well. …If you are faced with a multiplicity of options, the impetus to get to know one person, to hone in on one person and now them intimately, and to build up a bond, is completely lost.

There’s plenty more self-righteous psychobabble where that comes from.

Feel free to take it all in.

We’re not as vociferously opposed to Hill’s ideas as much as our colleague Mr. Tracer, but the ick factor of a piece like this being penned specifically for a conservative outlet like The Federalist is pretty high.

Either way, it starts a conversation that should be had, but perhaps next time a less “highly trained” ethicist can break it down for the regular folk and be a bit less offensive while doing so.

Related: Self-Hating Gay Man’s Disastrous “Take Down” Of Gay Culture

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NYC Pride Guide, Gavin Newsom, King Tutankhamun, Deep Tunnel, Pietro Boselli, DNC: NEWS

PRIDE. NYC Pride releases its annual Pride Guide. 

CALL ME CAITLYN. Caitlyn Jenner celebrates one year since her Vanity Fair cover debuted. 

CALIFORNIA PRIMARY. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom reveals why he’s supporting Hillary Clinton and it stems back to his 2004 decision to allow same-sex couples in San Francisco to marry.

HOLLYWOOD. Directors defend Keira Knightley against accusations hurled at her by Begin Again director Jon Carney; Carney apologizes. 

DOMESTIC DISPUTE. Amber Heard gives statement to LAPD detailing her accusations of abuse against estranged husband Johnny Depp. 

ANCIENT EGYPT. Was King Tut buried with a dagger made from a meteorite? “Researchers who analyzed metal composition of dagger within wrapping of mummified teenage king say it ‘strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin’”

TEXAS. Gunman who went on shooting rampage on Sunday morning in Houston railed against homosexuals and Jews before being killed by police: “Dionisio Garza III, 25, also recently expressed anti-Muslim sentiments on Twitter, and repeatedly criticized House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment. Garza, a decorated Army sergeant who served two tours in Afghanistan, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was going through “a mental health crisis,” according to media reports. Garza fired 212 rounds in a middle-class west Houston neighborhood, injuring two law enforcement officers and setting a gas station on fire, before being killed by a SWAT team member.”

SWITZERLAND. Country opens the world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel (35-miles to be exact) which paves the way for high speed rail under the Alps: “The new route should cut an hour off the four-hour trip between the economic hubs of Zurich and Milan.”

GAY INDIE FILM. Final hours to support After Louie, a film by Vincent Gagliostro starring Alan Cumming, Zachary Booth, and Wilson Cruz.

LOS ANGELES. Celebrate Pride in LA with GLSEN, Lance Bass, Charlie Carver, Jason Collins, Rosario Dawson and Robbie Rogers. Event takes place next Wednesday, June 8th. Tickets are now on sale.

MUSIC. James Blunt explains how he owes his career to Linda Perry: “I was asked if i could change my speaking voice and my accent and I struggled to get signed in the UK because of that accent. I moved to America and a woman who is gay herself and had seen much harder prejudice didn’t give stuff about a speaking voice. She heard music instead and said, ‘Come on.’She put her arms around me, signed me and has given me a chance.”

INSTATHIRST. Pietro Boselli never disappoints.

“SO-CALLED RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.” DNC slams anti-LGBT laws in Pride month proclamation: “In some states, conservative lawmakers continue to push for so-called religious freedom laws and bathroom bills that threaten to legalize discrimination against members of the LGBT community. Religious freedom is important, but it’s already protected under the law, and the vagueness of these new laws means they’re ripe for abuse. We must remain vigilant, and Democrats will continue to stand against discriminatory laws wherever they appear.”

TRANSPARENT. Jeffrey Tambor talks about the responsibility that comes with playing his character on the award-winning Amazon show.

HUMP DAY HOTNESS. Sterling Walker.

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