Former HRC Director Stands Up for The Equality Act
Elizabeth Birch, former HRC president, reaffirmed her commitment for LGBT equality yesterday in The Huffington Post.
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Is Gay Sex Like “Cramming A Bagel In Your Ear?” This Priest Thinks So
Is Gay Sex Like “Cramming A Bagel In Your Ear?” This Priest Thinks So
We’ve heard a lot of ridiculous analogies when it comes to gay sex, but the latest from Father John Riccardo (pictured), a Catholic priest from Detroit, takes the bagel, er, cake.
While speaking earlier this week at a Catholic conference called “Welcoming and Accompanying Our Brothers and Sisters with Same-Sex Attraction” which was aimed at offering gay and lesbian people “skills” to remain celibate, Riccardo compared gay sex to “cramming a piece of bagel in your ear.”
Related: 10 Hysterical Things Conservatives Have Said About Anal Sex
Riccardo was participating in a lecture called “HIV and Other Health Risks Associated with Men Who Have Sex With Men.” During the talk, he said that he’s counseled many junior high students over the years who often ask him why God hates gay people. His response has always been: Because gay sex is unnatural.
To help illustrate this point, he said he offers students the following analogy: “If I just rip open a bagel. I take it and I cram it in my ear. What would you say? That doesn’t go there! It’ll ruin your ear canal!”
Nah. We’d probably just look at you like you’re crazy. Kinda like we’re doing right now.
Riccardo went on to say that he has a family member with a lesbian daughter, and has advised her not to have sex with other women.
“The goal here isn’t going from being gay to being straight,” Riccardo said. “The goal here is going from not knowing Jesus to knowing Jesus.”
And, of course, to refrain from cramming bagels in your ears.
Related: The Craziest Damn Shiz Conservatives Have Said About Gay People
h/t: Gay Star News
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Taiwanese Animators Take on America’s Gay Cake Baking Controversy: VIDEO
Taiwanese Animators Take on America’s Gay Cake Baking Controversy: VIDEO
The Taiwanese Animators are back with another wacky video, this time to take on the gay cake baking controversy playing out in states like Colorado and Oregon.
Previously, This Is How the Outing Scandal When Down at Gawker According to Taiwanese Animators
For those in need of a refresher on the Colorado case, yesterday the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled against Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop, for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple back in 2012.
Phillips cited his Christian beliefs were why he wouldn’t be willing to make a same-sex couple’s cake “just as he would not be willing to make a pedophile cake.”
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Kyler Geoffroy
Taiwanese Animators Take on America’s Gay Cake Baking Controversy: VIDEO
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TLC Bringing Duggars Back to TV For Child Sex Abuse Documentary
TLC Bringing Duggars Back to TV For Child Sex Abuse Documentary
The network was forced to cancel its number 1 show, 19 Kids And Counting, because of the family’s child abuse scandal, but now may reap new ratings rewards with a one-hour special.
Dawn Ennis
19 Men Go Shirtless And Share Their Body Image Struggles
19 Men Go Shirtless And Share Their Body Image Struggles
The fruitless quest for a “perfect” body isn’t unique to women, though based on the body image conversations we tend to hear, it’s easy to think so.
Rather than obsess over attaining thinness, however, men are more likely than women to consider themselves underweight, and focus on getting more muscle tone, studies suggest. But there is a range of expectations for what a “masculine” body should look like — and negative associations with the ones that fall short. One study found that men linked being fat with “weakness of will,” while being lean and muscular was associated with “feelings of confidence and power in social situations.”
According to mental health experts, men may have a harder time accessing communication tools to express their insecurities and work through them. While there’s recently been more cultural celebration of a diverse range of body types for men and women, for men to communicate openly about body concerns still carries a stigma.
In an effort to demonstrate that men of all ages and sizes struggle with body image, HuffPost Women photographed 19 men, from those in their 20s to their 60s, without their shirts and spoke candidly with them about their body hang-ups.
Spoiler alert: Men have body insecurities, too, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Photos by: Damon Dahlen
Produced by: Rebecca Adams & Tyler Kingkade
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Tab Hunter recalls his very real fear of being outed as a closeted movie star in the 1950s
Tab Hunter recalls his very real fear of being outed as a closeted movie star in the 1950s
Tab Hunter, now 84, came out publicly as a gay man nearly a decade ago.
But it almost happened 50 years earlier when he was taking off as a movie star and was very deep in the closet.
‘It all came about because Henry Willson, who “discovered” me and many other “pretty boy” actors, was upset when I left him to be represented by another agent,’ Hunter writes in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
Around the same time that Hunter left Willson, the agent learned that the scandal magazine Confidential was planning to out Rock Hudson who was still one of Willson’s clients.
‘He cut a deal with them to keep Rock out of their pages feeding them dirt on me instead,’ Hunter writes.
Willson made the magazine aware of the fact that five years earlier, a then unknown Hunter
had been arrested for disorderly conduct when police raided a party at which he and a number of other gay people were in attendance.
Confidential then ran the story on its cover and described it as “a pajama party” and insinuated that Hunter had been at some sort of gay orgy.
‘When the Confidential article came out … I thought my career was over,’ Hunter recalls.
But it wasn’t.
‘Thankfully, at just about the same time, Photoplay, which had a much bigger circulation, came out with an issue featuring me and Natalie Wood on the cover, identifying us as the year’s most popular new stars,’ he writes. ‘That probably saved me. After all, in Hollywood, everybody talks, but nothing matters more than the bottom line.’
Hunter went on to have a career high in 1958 as the lead in film version of the hit musical Damn Yankees. This came a year after Hunter topped the pop music charts with the smash hit single Young Love.
He remained closeted to the public but privately, enjoyed a robust romantic life. He had long-term relationships with actor Anthony Perkins and champion figure skater Ronnie Robertson before settling down with his partner of over 30 years, Allan Glaser.
A 2015 documentary about his life,Tab Hunter Confidential, was directed by Jeffrey Schwarz and produced by Glaser.
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Greg Hernandez
Positively Trans Launches Survey of Transgender People Living with HIV
Positively Trans Launches Survey of Transgender People Living with HIV
The Transgender Law Center’s Positively Trans project has launched a pioneering survey of the experiences and needs of transgender and gender-nonconforming people living with HIV.
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News: Kurt Cobain, Cuba, Sesame Street, Texas, Toy Story 4
News: Kurt Cobain, Cuba, Sesame Street, Texas, Toy Story 4
> Israeli newspaper Haaretz calls Sen. Al Franken “gay” in Tweet about Iran nuclear deal.
> World’s hottest math teacher Pietro Boselli models some underwear.
> VICE looks into the emerging fetish of dildos that “impregnate” you with fake alien eggs.
> Apple releases new employee diversity numbers.
> Philadelphia gay bashing court case delayed as lawyers for the three suspects haggle over a plea deal.
> TLC gears up for the return of the Duggars on an upcoming documentary on sex abuse.
> Kurt Cobain’s solo album to be released in November.
> U.S. and Cuban diplomats spar over human rights after flag raising at U.S. Embassy in Havana.
> This is officially the coolest baby gift ever.
> Nutty End Times televangelist Jim Bakker wants you to buy some horses before God sends an EMP attack as punishment for gay marriage.
> Rick Santorum calls Ben Carson’s fetal tissue research in the early 1990s “morally suspect.”
> Donald Trump thinks Rand Paul should exit the 2016 GOP race. “Rand should save his lobbyist’s and special interest money and just go quietly home.”
> Twitter reacts to Sesame Street heading to HBO.
> White House releases Obama’s Spotify playlist.
> Toy Story 4 will be a love story about Woody and Bo Peep.
> Astronomers discover the most “Jupiter-like” exoplanet ever.
> Alabama woman arrested trying to break into jail.
> Downton Abbey cast poses for final season promo photo.
> First look at Captain America and Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War.
> Maryland’s AG clarifies same-sex couples can commit adultery too.
> Texas has issued 1,000 same-sex marriage licenses since the Supreme Court ruling in June.
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Kyler Geoffroy
WATCH: Sean Hayes and Husband’s Hilarious ‘80s Lip-Synch Video
WATCH: Sean Hayes and Husband’s Hilarious ‘80s Lip-Synch Video
Sean Hayes and his hubby Scott lip-synching like it’s the ’80s? What more do you need?!?
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