Caitlyn Ridicules Ted Cruz After Taking A Leak At A Trump Hotel

Caitlyn Jenner mocked presidential candidate Ted Cruz after stopping by one of Donald Trump‘s properties to use the restroom. In a video posted to Facebook, the transgender celebrity popped into the Trump International Hotel to take a leak — and make a political statement.

Last week Trump was asked about his opinion of the discriminatory bathroom bans being pushed by the religious right. He responded by saying that Caitlyn Jenner could use any restroom she chose at any of his properties and blasted North Carolina‘s new law dictating which restroom transgender people can use.

“There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate,” he said. “There has been so little trouble.”

Cruz, however, has been using Trumps anti-discrimination stance against him on the campaign trail. “Grown adult men, strangers, should not be alone in a bathroom with little girls,” Cruz said, adding that it’s “just common sense.”

Cruz has continued to attack transgender people and Trump, bringing the subject up in speeches, selling derogatory merchandise on his campaign website, and pushing out attack ads with lines like: “Should a grown man pretending to be a woman be allowed to use the women’s restroom? The same restroom used by your daughter? Your wife?Donald Trump thinks so.”

H/t: LGBTQ Nation

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George Takei Urges Democrats to Unify: ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ – WATCH

Activist and actor George Takei is making an appeal for party unity as the Democratic primary season draws to a close.

Takei has been an outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders throughout the campaign. In a new video he posted on Facebook, Takei says that Sanders has connected to issues he feels passionately about such as income inequality and campaign finance reform.

Yet after Hillary Clinton’s 4 victories on Tuesday night in the ‘Acela Primary’, Takei believes that Clinton is the likely Democratic nominee and that all Democrats should unite around her candidacy. He urges, “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”

Takei says,

“…having been through many bruising primaries in my life, I’m also a realist. From where I sit, the math is clear: Hillary likely will win, and she will be our nominee. But that doesn’t mean Bernie didn’t also win. He won in a myriad of vital ways – none more so than energizing the Democratic base in a way no one expected.”

Young people in particular have become so passionate about this election, because they recognize its historic importance. At stake is nothing less than the very soul of our nation. So, I’m asking Democrats out there to take a pledge, along with me. Vote blue no matter who.

“Ultimately, we Democrats know that a bit of a tussle isn’t a bad thing. It makes us stronger. Keeps us sharp. And really, it’s like a family squabble, where only family, those very close to us, can truly get under our skin. But remember this, too: It’s precisely because we like and respect each other that the words and criticisms sting as much as they do.

“But here’s the other thing about family. We come together when threatened. And come together we will, in November. Bernie himself has said that, ‘On her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and president than the Republican candidate on his best day.’ If Bernie believes that, his supporters can too.”

Watch, below.

[h/t NCRM]

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NCAA Could Pull Tournament Games From North Carolina Because of Anti-LGBT Law

If North Carolina doesn’t say goodbye to HB2, it could say goodbye to March Madness.

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NCAA Says Future Final Four Host Cities Must Have LGBT Inclusive Non-Discrimination Laws

Today, HRC President Chad Griffin issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the NCAA will not host any future events – from Final Four championships to education conferences – in cities without LGBT inclusive non-discrimination laws.

“The NCAA has sent a very clear message that unfair and unjust discrimination against LGBT people will not be tolerated by the association, and we hope lawmakers are listening,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “In order for cities to even qualify to host these major sporting events, they must now have commonsense, LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination protections. We commend the NCAA Board of Governors for taking this critically important stand in favor of fairness and equality.”

“The higher education community is a diverse mix of people from different racial, ethnic, religious and sexual orientation backgrounds,” said Kirk Schulz, president of Kansas State University and chair of the Board of Governors. “So it is important that we assure that community – including our student-athletes and fans – will always enjoy the experience of competing and watching at NCAA championships without concerns of discrimination.”

In the announcement, the NCAA made clear that, “The Association considers the promotion of inclusiveness in race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity as a vital element to protecting the well-being of student-athletes, promoting diversity in hiring practices and creating a culture of fairness.”

This announcement could have major implications for the state of North Carolina, which according to the News & Observer has hosted NCAA events 17 times in the past two decades. North Carolina Gov. McCrory and state lawmakers have been coming under increasingly intense pressure to repeal a radical and discriminatory law – HB 2 – passed in a hurried, single-day session. H.B. 2 eliminated existing municipal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people and prevents such protections from being passed by North Carolina cities in the future. It eliminates the existing cause of action that allowed people protected by state law from discrimination, including on the bases of race, religion, national origin, and sex. The legislation also forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity and also compels the same type of discrimination against transgender people to take place in publicly-owned building.

Read the full NCAA announcement here.

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This is why a space dinosaur gay anal sex book is in the running for a prestigious science fiction award

A dinosaur gay anal sex book is in the running for a prestigious science fiction award, but why?

Chuck Tingle, the erotic fiction novella writer behind such classics as ‘My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass’, ‘Pounded In The Butt By Own Butt’ and ‘Happy Birthday Frankenstein, Now Pound My Butt’, is a finalist for a Hugo award.

He is nominated for his short story, ‘Space Raptor Butt Invasion’.

The Sad Puppies and Rapid Puppies movements, separate but similar conservative anti-‘social justice warrior groups’, have campaigned to get many of their preferred nominations on the final ballot.

Since 2013, the Sad Puppies has posted recommendations of works to combat the Hugo tendency to reward works that writer Brad Torgersen deemed ‘niche, academic, overtly to the left in ideology and flavor, and ultimately lacking what might best be called visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun’.

Supporters are encouraged to buy memberships to the annual World Science Fiction Convention, according to The Guardian, which enables them to nominate works chosen by the campaign and vote on the final selection for the Hugo awards.

The Sad Puppies and Rapid Puppies also managed to get My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Cutie Map Parts 1 and 2′ on the shortlist for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form).

But Tingle is not taking it that seriously.

To celebrate, he penned a new novella: ‘

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PHOTOS: Cole Monahan Leaves Nothing To Imagination Bursting Out Of Swimwear

Marcuse Swimwear has wisely chose to market their latest designs by showing what it looks like when something is achingly trying to bust from the suits’ stretchy fabric.

But not just any “something” — model Cole Monahan.

Check out Monahan as he shows off his absurd body in the Summer ’16 line:

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Six Dating Apps That Deliver, Including The Sexy New Kid On The Block

New Kid: LGBTQutie

Dating in 2016 is like a perpetual Valentine’s Day in elementary school. You sent a bunch of one-line messages to people, you hoped to get some back, you ignored the messages from the people you thought were annoying or weird. Hopefully you received a few from people you really liked, and those were the messages you saved. But really it was all about quantity over quality. All those messages piled in front of you meant you were loved.

Now in adulthood, we are back in the note-passing game; the little Valentine’s Day cards have been replaced with web sites and phone apps, but the idea is the same. You send countless one-line messages to a bunch of people you may or may not know, you hope you get some messages back.

There are few people here and there who you actually like, and messages from them are fun. These days, a lot of the messages you receive (and perhaps some that you send) may include a nude photo or two, but it is still a game of quantity over quality. You just hope you can make it through the day without being totally ignored.

There is a better way to make the most of the Internet dating game, and it begins with how you choose to play–and where. Picking the best site or app for your goals gives you a head start. There is no need to waste your time reading every profile of every person online everywhere. Start by choosing the sites and apps that work for what you are looking for. This isn’t elementary school anymore.

Go after the one you actually want and throw the rest away…

1. LGBTQutie

LGBTQutie fills a huge gap in the online dating landscape: those who want to settle down and end the dating drama. In this regard, it is the most clearly branded such app in our market, a great differentiator. Log in to LGBTQutie and find members on your terms. The app allows you to narrow down what you’re looking for based on sexual orientations and gender identities.

LGBTQutie goes beyond LGBT to include pansexual, asexual, queer, non-binary and intersex individuals. People can express themselves however they wish to find a mate. Our friends at LGBTQutie are dedicated not just to dating, but the kind of community that supports it: The app features events, blogs, and even news.

LGBTQutie gives you more options: full profiles and the Qutie FastTrack Swiping system. If you’re tired of the hookup grind, download LGBTQutie in the App Store and Google Play, and start making meaningful connections. The app promotes finding long-term love over short-term hookups, but of course it is inevitable that people will start sending each other video messages on the app and then it’s just a matter of time until they get together and do The Big Nasty. It’s 2016. There’s no shame in wanting to find sex, if that’s what you’re into.

But wouldn’t it be nice to have sex with someone you actually like?

2. The MATCH.COM Empire

Match.com is not just a website. Match Group, as it is known to investors on NASDAQ, reigns supreme in the mainstream online dating empire, with 45+ different sites and apps in their arsenal of technology. Match, OKCupid, PlentyOfFish, BlackPeopleMeet, LittlePeopleMeet, LDSPlanet, and Facebook-friendly Tinder are part of the family, all using slightly different methods of achieving the same goal: helping your lonely self find some companionship, in whatever form you want it to happen. Most of the platforms are free to use, but Match charges for a monthly membership, in exchange for accessing its logarithm-based questionnaire about your life goals and what makes you happy and all that other stuff. That questionnaire is really long and it can get pretty intense. Then the brainiac tech wizards use the info to match you with appropriate people to date. Although everyone knows you still spend hours sorting through profiles on your own anyway, but it’s nice to know you have those love-arithms guiding you along the way a little bit.

Despite all the free dating technologies out there, the pay-for-play business model works, in part because members who pay for profiles are on a mission to find a mate. Those people are pro-active. It cuts down on those people who are online because they, shudder at the thought, just want to “chat for fun” and have no interest in actually meeting anybody. Ugh. Says D.F., a loyal Match subscriber: “People who are willing to pay for a membership are there because they are really looking for a relationship. They’re not just sitting around online, wasting time…and mine…”

3. SCRUFF

Scruff is one of many apps that sort members based on GPS coordinates, and display profiles in order of proximity to your current location. No questionnaires, no matchmaking logarithms, you just upload a photo of yourself and hopefully the person down the street thinks you’re sexy. (But that sexy photo can’t be X-rated. Nudity is forbidden as per Apple and Android guidelines.) No luck? Change your feng shui and drive across town, and suddenly you have an entirely new batch of potential mates popping up on your phone. Granted, lots of guys toggle among multiple GPS apps at the same time, so the guys you see on one app will be the guys you see on the others, but Scruff separates itself from the crowd by attracting men who are theoretically a little rougher around the edges than the average pretty boy. This is, of course, a facade. Go to Chicago during International Mr. Leather, and witness the packs of big burly men covered in hair, who look tough, until they go window shopping on Michigan Ave. and squeal with delight at a pair of Gucci shoes.

But back to the topic of online dating.

Besides the photos you upload to your profile, on Scruff you can send additional photos directly to a specific recipient and, because they’re private, those photos can show all sorts of your naughty nakedness. You can also send a short video of yourself, which is a rare feature on dating platforms. Should you wish to catch someone’s attention but you don’t know what to say, you can send him a “Woof,” like blowing him a kiss across the room but far more objectifying, which for some reason members do not consider degrading. Then hopefully that guy will appreciate the compliment and also realize how desirable you are and initiate a conversation, although usually nothing will happen because those Woofs are really easy to ignore. That Woof feature aside, Scruff is an important service in the landscape of LGBT dating, where youth-obsessed culture objectifies young, fit lads as sexual playthings. Sometimes a guy is looking for a mate, whether for life or just for a day, who has a little bit of life experience and perhaps a little bit of meat on his bones. Running your hand through a nice patch of chest hair can feel really good. And maybe he does like Gucci shoes, but so what?

4. ADAM4ADAM

Adam4Adam is an old-fashioned hookup web site, where members are grouped in rooms based on the city they choose as their location, and everyone is displayed in order of who logged on most recently. This helps weed out people who park themselves online for days at a time but don’t check or respond to messages, which is one of the most annoying downsides of online dating. If you are a person who does this, stop it. No one wants to get a message from someone that says “hi,” respond to that message, and then have to wait 6 hours just to get back a lame “what’s up?” Pay attention! Or go away!

Adam4Adam doesn’t have a downloadable app, so they allow nudity in their photos; they do have a mobile version of the site, Adam4AdamRadar, that will show your distance in miles from other mobile users, but it seems a lot of members still communicate on the computer. This appeals to a very different sect of online dater: it is for the man who has a spouse, perhaps a wife, who has access to his phone, so he can’t have any pesky apps saved on there. Using a computer, you can log on, find a dude, show him photos of your various body parts, and have a tryst now and then. There are certainly men on Adam4Adam who are relationship oriented, looking for Mr. Right, but they are mixed in with the gentlemen looking for a Mr. Right Now. There’s also a lot of porn ads, which can be distracting in ways good and bad. You can pay a member fee to have them removed.

It’s also a fun way to find low-rent hustlers, who don’t have the money to pay their phone bills and are using the computer at the local LGBT community center to turn a trick or two. Don’t judge. Everybody’s got to make a living.

5. Craigslist

Gay men around America have a spot in their hearts for Craigslist’s “men seeking men” personals. Once the dominant player in the matchmaking world, because it was (and still is) totally anonymous and totally free to use, its personals ads are filled with postings from people looking to engage in all sorts of tawdry behaviors. The site has very few restrictions–basically anything that is legal is fair game–so reading an ad may include seeing a photo of, perhaps, someone’s body part with instructions of what the person wants to do with it or have done to it. Lovely. Craigslist has perhaps fallen into the shadows behind the newer, app-based technologies that promise more respectable methods of meeting a mate, but it is still very much a part of the spectrum. If you’re looking for a lunchtime romp with a construction worker who is helping build the nearby highway exit ramp and wants to stop by on his way home after his shift ends, Craigslist is the place to go. Don’t ask how we know this. We heard it from a friend.

6. Tinder

Let’s go back to the Match Group sites for a moment, and discuss in more details one of their largest properties, Tinder. The Tinder championed the “swipe” concept: while using a touch-screen phone, you see one photo of a person and make a snap judgment about whether he/she is worthy of you acknowledging he/she exists. Then you “swipe” the photo to the right to say the person in the photo looks promising, or to the left and the person’s profile is ignored. At some point in the game, that person will theoretically see your photo and hopefully swipe right as well, and then you are both “connected,’ which means you can send each other messages. Although nothing happens until one of you takes the initiative to send that first message, and that is the great hurdle to traverse since you will probably both wait for the other to make the first move, but congratulations! You both swiped right for each other. You both think each other is not hideous.

It seems like a trivial method of connecting to other humans, but those first impressions are a big deal. According to Princeton psychologists, it takes only 1/10 of a second to form an opinion of people based on their appearance.

So pick that photo carefully.

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Jordan Bans Lebanese Rock Band Because Their Singer is Gay: VIDEO

A Lebanese rock band has been banned from performing in Jordan because the lead singer is gay.

Mashrou’ Leila, who have been described as “the soundtrack to the Arab spring,” are known for lyrics covering such topics as homosexuality, gender equality, and political and religious freedom.

According to the Guardian, the band released a statement on Facebook informing fans that authorization for a performance in Amman tomorrow night has been withdrawn.

our official statement regarding the cancellation and ban of our upcoming show in Amman. please read and share. t.co/iyjpwBoikS

— mashrou’ leila (@mashrou3leila) April 26, 2016

The statement reads:

“The written justification officially provided is that the performance would have been at odds with what the ministry of tourism viewed as the ‘authenticity’ of the site, despite the fact that we had the chance to perform for you at the same specific site three times in the past and had followed the same permit procedure before the competent authorities.

“Informally, the story is much more problematic. We have been unofficially informed that the reason behind this sudden change of heart..is the intervention of some authorities. Our understanding is that said authorities have pressured certain political figures and triggered a chain of events that ultimately ended with our authorisation being withdrawn.

“We also have been unofficially informed that we will never be allowed to play again anywhere in Jordan due to our political and religious beliefs, and endorsement of gender equality and sexual freedom.

“We denounce the systemic prosecution of voices of political dissent. We denounce the systemic prosecution of advocates of sexual and religious freedom. We denounce the censorship of artists anywhere in the world.”

The band also praised Jordan for having some of the most “supportive, beautiful and kind people”, saying it was the “only place where we get to perform for our Palestinian audience”.

A few years ago I filmed @mashrou3leila rocking it in Amman.Now they’re banned t.co/65AHXTrGwf t.co/czaMWyIgNJ #LeilaInAmman

— Yaara Bou Melhem (@YaaraBouTV) April 27, 2016

Mashrou’ Leila’ singer Hamed Sinno has actively fought for LGBT rights in the Middle East.

Fans expressed their disappointment at the cancellation on Twitter, using the hashtag #LeilaInAmman.

RELATED: Jordanian Police Arrest 10 Gays and Lesbians for Holding Gathering

Watch the video for the track “3 Minutes” below.

(Image via Facebook)

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House Armed Services Committee Votes to Strip Away Important LGBT Non-Discrimination Protections

Today, HRC strongly condemned an amendment approved during the House Armed Services Committee markup of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Sponsored by anti-LGBT Representative Steve Russell (R-OK), the amendment would dismantle President Obama’s executive order prohibiting discrimination in federal contracting based on sexual orientation or gender identity, under the guise of religious liberty.

“Rep. Russell’s harmful amendment would strip away existing protections for LGBT workers by undermining President Obama’s executive order on LGBT non-discrimination protections in federal contracting,” said HRC Government Affairs Director David Stacy. “Evidently some House Republicans want to emulate their state legislative colleagues in undermining legal protections for LGBT Americans. House Republican Leadership must get this language out of the bill.”

The Russell amendment was approved by a vote of 33-29 early this morning. It would allow sweeping, taxpayer-funded discrimination in an attempt to promote anti-LGBT religious-based discrimination in the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. With far-reaching intended and unintended consequences, the vague amendment could even undermine existing nondiscrimination provisions that protect workers, and perhaps even beneficiaries, against discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and more.

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