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Here’s A Gay Fairy Tale They Didn’t Teach You As A Kid
Each week online comedian, voice actor and chest hair model Sam Kalidi creates a new meme for Queerty readers. This week, he’s helped by the imagination of gay Mexican artist José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros, who puts a new spin on an old classic. Sam looks forward to all your hate mail. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and at your local glory hole.
Dan Tracer
Bryan Fischer on Being an Anti-gay Bigot: ‘I Was Born this Way’ – VIDEO
Hoary old bigot Bryan Fischer has said that because he was born that way he is entitled to peddle anti-gay hysteria at will.
According to Right Wing Watch, B-grade homophobe Fischer said that because was “born a Christian” with an innate ability for hysterical hate-mongering he should be entitled to have his rights respected and protected by the government.
Replying to a caller on his radio program who moaned that he has “fewer rights” than LGBT people, Fischer said:
“I think, actually, that’s a good argument. The way I am, I was born this way. And you know, you think about it…who would choose, at this time in our nation’s history, to be a Christian?
“You’re ridiculed. You’re mocked. You’re made fun of. You get fired … I mean, who would choose a lifestyle where you are the unending subject of ridicule, mockery, and contempt by liberals in society, by elites, by professors, on the media, by politicians? Who’s going to choose that? So our defense is, hey, I was born that way.”
Continuing his well tested obsession with gay sex, he added:
“I think that most of us have an instinctive, I think revulsion is not too strong of a word, to the act of homosexuality, what actually happens when homosexuals come together and engage in sexual congress. We look at that and there is just an inner revulsion to that.
“God has the same reaction that you and I do but that instinctive revulsion that we have when we think about homosexuality, I was born that way.”
Listen to the utterly bizarre discussion below.
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Michael Fitzgerald
Bryan Fischer on Being an Anti-gay Bigot: ‘I Was Born this Way’ – VIDEO
Meet The First Openly Gay Baseball Player
Each week HuffPost Gay Voices and HuffPost Live takes a look back at some of the biggest queer news stories from the past week. Check back every Friday for your queer news round-up in this regular feature titled “QueerView.”
Introducing David Denson: The First Openly Gay Baseball Player
Pro baseball now has its first ever openly gay player.
The White House Hires Its First Transgender Staffer
On Tuesday, the White House’s first openly transgender woman of color started her first day on the job.
Violence Against Trans Women At An All Time High
Saturday will be the second anniversary of the death of Islan Nettles.
Looking For A Femme? There’s An App For That
Megan Evans and Whitney Bacon discuss their app, Find Femmes.
An Open Letter To My Future In-Laws Who Won’t Be At My Wedding
James Yeager discusses his blog post “An Open Letter To My Future Parents In-Law Who Won’t Attend Our Wedding.”
Our #UnicornOfTheWeek Is Rugby Player Keegan Hirst
Rugby player Keegan Hirst is our #UnicornOfTheWeek. Josh Zepps explains why.
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Dustin Lance Black Teams Up with Coca-Cola Company for Anti-Bullying Ad Featuring LGBTQ Youth
Academy Award Winner Dustin Lance Black, who won Best Original Screenplay for the film Milk, wrote and directed a new ad for Coca-Cola in Latin America focusing on anti-bullying and young love.
HRC.org
Dan Savage: Ashley Madison Hack Victims Have Right to Privacy But Not Josh Duggar – VIDEO
Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last night in a segment on the Ashley Madison hack, sex advice columnist Dan Savage shared why he has sympathy for the victims of the privacy breach but not career homophobe Josh Duggar.
Explained Savage:
“Josh Duggar is not a private citizen. He is a public figure who has benefited politically and financially from attacking other people for their marriages, for their sex lives, for how they conduct themselves, for their alleged in his opinion “immorality.” And so his morality is germane and his hypocrisy makes him in this instance a legitimate target of an outing of this sort.”
Savage also elaborated on his thoughts on the eldest Duggar son in a blog post over at The Stranger:
Josh is a mess, thanks to his parents, a sad man torn between what he was both programmed to believe about sex (and imaginary friends) and the actual sex (and the actual friends) he wanted to have.
In related news, a source close to the Duggar family told People magazine that Josh’s wife Anna will likely not be leaving her husband, instead “turning more to her faith than ever” and possibly even trying to absorb some of Josh’s blame.
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Kyler Geoffroy
Dan Savage: Ashley Madison Hack Victims Have Right to Privacy But Not Josh Duggar – VIDEO
Ellen Page pays tribute to the film that was so monumental it helped her come out
Ellen Page has paid tribute to the film that was so monumental it helped her come out.
The gay actress said, seven years ago, she was sitting in a hotel room in Detroit with her then girlfriend when she received an email asking whether she was interested in being cast in a movie.
It contained a link to the trailer for Freeheld, the documentary about a New Jersey detective Laurel Hester, who, while dying of lung cancer, fought until her last breath to pass on her pension benefits to her partner Stacie.
She won her case weeks before her death in 2006.
Page was asked whether she would be interested in playing Stacie in a cinematic version, and after three minutes, said she was ‘in tears’.
‘I was moved, so unbelievably moved,’ she said. ‘I wanted to be involved.’
She then became a producer of Freeheld, and working on the project helped her to come out on Valentine’s Day last year.
‘I thought, “how can I make this film if I’m a closeted person?”’ she told Glamour.
‘Keeping that part of myself hidden was affecting my work, my ambition, my relationships. It was a constant burden—it was so toxic. As a gay woman, playing a gay character is a pretty monumental moment.’
Watch the trailer for Freeheld, starring Page and Julianne Moore, below:
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Joe Morgan
6 Gay Men You Never Want to Meet — Part III
Just when you thought it was safe to go on a blind date again …
Tyler Curry
www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/08/21/6-gay-men-you-never-want-meet-part-iii
Hawaii tourism officials brainstorming ways to attract your LGBTI travel spend – will you be going?
Some of Hawaii’s top travel movers and shakers met in Waikiki this week to brainstorm new ways to attract LGBTI tourists.
The meeting follows the formation of the LGBT Hawaii Tourism Association in June, comprised of over 40 stakeholders. The group’s founding members include Marriott Hawaii Resorts and Discover Hawaii Tours.
The activity follow the legalization of gay marriage throughout America in June.
However, some have questioned whether the government authorities are doing enough to welcome LGBTI travelers.
Questioning whether the state can make it as a hot new LGBTI destination, Jack Law, owner of Hawaii gay bars Hula’s Bar and Lei Stand, told Hawaii Public Radio-HPR2: ‘Hawaii [the state tourism agency] has done hardly any kind of reach out to this community. We’re simply not in the game.’
The Hawaii Tourism Authority told the outlet: ‘As an island community of diverse cultures, customs and backgrounds, Hawaii is a place of mutual respect and aloha for all. We welcome all visitors that want to experience and embrace the aloha spirit that makes our Hawaiian Islands so special.’
According to official figures, 767,408 people visited the 50th state in June 2015.
For more information on Hawaii, click here.
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Jamie Tabberer
50 Years of Transgender Models
Recently, a sister brand of H&M, called & Other Stories, launched a new campaign for their fall collection that features transgender models. In celebrate of this milestone, The Advocate compiled a 50-year history trans beauties that have been breaking barriers in the fashion industry. Take a look.
Daniel Reynolds
www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/08/21/50-years-transgender-models
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