6 Explicit Miley Cyrus CANDY Covers That Are 'Transversal'

Neal Broverman

www.advocate.com/music/2015/11/16/6-explicit-miley-cyrus-candy-covers-are-transversal

Gay marriage takes effect in Ireland

More than 300 gay marriages are expected in Ireland in the next two weeks after the new marriage law comes into effect on Monday (16 Monday).

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will sign the commencement order for the Marriage Act 2015 at 2.15pm, and the Irish Independent reported that gay marriages are planned in Dublin, Cork and Galway on Tuesday.

At 2.15 the first lesbian and gay couples will recognised as married in Ireland! What a great wee country! #MarRef t.co/x98UFhECca

— Tiernan Brady (@Tiernanbrady) November 16, 2015

‘There are a lot of people who probably thought that this day would never arrive,’ MP and Yes campaigner Jerry Buttimer told the newspaper.

‘But it is a wonderful endorsement of a modern, inclusive and caring Ireland that this day is finally here.’

The order comes six months after the Ireland become the first country to legalize gay marriage by referendum, with 62.1% of voters in favor of allowing marriage between two people ‘without distinction as to their sex.’

Gay marriages registered abroad will be automatically be recognized, and the 2,054 couples who have entered civil partnerships can convert them into marriages with just a few days notice.

Senator Katherine Zappone, who lost a 2006 case to have her Canadian marriage to her wife recognized in Ireland, sent her love and best wishes to the other couples celebrating the recognition of their marriages.

‘The Marriage Act 2015 is now commenced. We rejoice as our Canadian marriage is recognized,’ she tweeted.

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Darren Wee

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Gospel singer Kirk Franklin apologizes to gays for homophobia in black church

Gospel singer Kirk Franklin has apologized to the LGBTI community for homophobia in the black church.

The Grammy winner said he was embass some who had turned the Bible into a ‘homophobic manual’

‘I want to apologize for all of the hurtful and painful things that have been said about people in the church that have been talented and gifted and musical, that we’ve used and we’ve embarrassed… and all this other horrible crap that we’ve done,” Franklin told The Grio.

‘We have not treated them like people. We’re talking about human beings, men and women that God has created.’

‘The Bible is not a book that’s an attack on gay people,’ he added. ‘It’s not a book written to attack gay people.

‘It is horrible that we have made it where the Bible is a homophobic manual. That’s not what the Bible is.’

Franklin said God sent Jesus saved all people, regardless of their sexuality.

‘I mean you want to talk about things that God gets at… pride and jealousy and envy and arrogance,’ she said.

‘But what we also see is God sending his son to save us all, because we were all… straight, gay or whatever, lost and in need of a savior, and there’s room at the cross for all of us.’

The Black Church is complex. There’s Donnie McClurkin, an “ex-gay” on one end and Kirk Franklin, an apparent LGBT ally, on the other.

— Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) November 12, 2015

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Darren Wee

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Sam Smith Joins Disclosure for SNL ‘Omen’ Performance: WATCH

Disclosure were the musical guests on last night’s Saturday Night Live and Sam Smith joined them to perform the hit single “Omen”. They were also joined by Lorde for a performance of their newer track “Magnets”.

Watch:

“Magnets”:

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Andy Towle

Sam Smith Joins Disclosure for SNL ‘Omen’ Performance: WATCH

Boy Stars in New Barbie Commercial

The new Moschino Barbie is a huge hit (currently sold-out!), and its commercial is breaking boundaries by featuring a young boy in it.

“Moschino Barbie is so fierce!” the boy screams as he and two female friends laud the doll, done up in designer Jeremy Scott’s sleek glamour. Barbie’s cellphone goes off and the male child says, “It’s for you, Moschino Barbie,” before winking at the camera. Watch the ad below.

The strict gender lines of toys and children’s accessories have slowly been breaking down, with Target moving to make its signage more gender-neutral.

Neal Broverman

www.advocate.com/youth/2015/11/15/boy-stars-new-barbie-commercial

SNL mocks people opposed to trans rights

Hopefully the residents who voted down Houston’s anti-discrimination proposal watched this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Earlier this month, the city’s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) failed at the ballot box.

Campaigns against the ordinance focused on the fact that it would bar discrimination in public accommodations – allowing transgender people to use bathrooms in fitting with their gender identity. Campaigners for repeal dubbed it the ‘bathroom ordinance’ and said that it would allow predatory men to use female washrooms.

During a Weekend Update segment, Pete Davidson took the comical axe to the hysteria.

‘The theory is that men, in their relentless quest to watch women go to the bathroom, are going through years of hormones, surgery, changing their name, their wardrobe, coming out to their family. All for that big payoff of peeing in a room without urinals.’

Watch the whole thing. It will make your night.

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James Withers

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