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Shangela is 'Uptown Fish' in Her New Music Video: WATCH
How do you explain what “fish” is to someone who only understands beef?
Drag Race alum-turned-actress Shangela dropped a new music video this week, taking on Bruno Mars and explaining to her chickens of the sea how to describe “a diva so fabulous that she must have been sent by the mermaid goddesses of the ocean.”
Watch her school, AFTER THE JUMP…
Andy Towle
LGBT discrimination laws what the heck
WATCH: U.S. Surgeon General Opposes Conversion Therapy
More officials within the Obama administration are stating their support for growing efforts to ban so-called conversion therapy on minors nationwide.
Sunnivie Brydum
www.advocate.com/ex-gay-therapy/2015/04/10/watch-us-surgeon-general-opposes-conversion-therapy
Howard University Students Decry Hate With #BlackLoveMatters
Howard University students have a history of standing up for what they believe in.
Students of the historical black university in Washington, D.C., protested LGBT intolerance on Monday, congregating on campus with rainbow flags and holding signs that read “God Loves Everyone.” The demonstration was staged in direct opposition to the Westboro Baptist Church anti-LGBT event near campus.
#BlackLoveMatters also floated around Twitter Friday, a hashtag with echoes of #BlackLivesMatter and recent protests made in the wake of fatal police shootings of black men and women in the U.S. Universities across the country have drawn attention to the movement, including the design of academic courses devoted to it.
Young people these days know how to be heard.
See the Howard campus demonstration below, in pictures taken by student activists on campus.
Out at #HowardUniversity with @HeyyLyd. WBC isn’t welcome in our city. #BlackLoveMatters pic.twitter.com/CvgviXHsrl
— Farrah (@reallyfarrah) April 10, 2015
Howard students turn their backs to WBC #HUUnited #ThinkMoor #BlackLoveMatters #BlackOut pic.twitter.com/X4Ii7qs9GB
— Elsa (@naturallyelsa) April 10, 2015
#blacklovematters #blacklivesmatter #blackgirlsmatter #queergirlsmatter WE MATTER pic.twitter.com/NQmBiFF0Q9
— QWEEN EL (@ericabaduyou) April 10, 2015
Happening at Howard University RT @2LiveUnchained: #BlackLoveMatters pic.twitter.com/oZYpZGj5ix
— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) April 10, 2015
Standing in solidarity with students to stand up for #AllBlackLivesMatter #BlackLoveMatters #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/MuLg78cKIR
— Cydney Brown (@cydbrown) April 10, 2015
Yes it does! Thank you for all that you do! RT “@2LiveUnchained: #BlackLoveMatters #HowardUniversity pic.twitter.com/GKeVlSIAHS“
— LTkd_PRO (@LTkd_PRO) April 10, 2015
Howard students embrace after demonstration #HUUnited #BlackLoveMatters pic.twitter.com/LAjABC2DTy
— Elsa (@naturallyelsa) April 10, 2015
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White House Officials Make Powerful Video About the Harm Caused by Gay 'Reparative Therapy': VIDEO
In the wake of President Obama’s historic statement this week speaking out against gay “conversion therapy”, a group of White House staffers led by Amanda Simpson, Executive Director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives, and the first openly transgender woman Presidential appointee ever, created a video to discuss the dangers of this harmful practice.
Simpson also sent a message to the White House email list which you can read on the White House site.More powerful, however, are the voices of these staffers.
Watch the video, AFTER THE JUMP…
Additionally, the U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, M.D. released a statement today calling for state and federal action to protect minors from conversion therapy.
“Being gay is not a disorder. Being transgender is not a malady that requires a cure. Had I been Leelah Alcorn’s physician, I would have told her exactly that. And that’s the message I want other doctors, nurses, health professionals, and public health leaders to help get out to parents and children who may be confronting these issues.”
Participants:
Jay Davis, Advisor for Digital Strategy and Engagement, Environmental Protection Agency
Yohannes Abraham, Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs
Amanda Simpson, Executive Director, Army Office of Energy Initiatives
Megan Smith, Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Douglas Brooks, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President
Andy Towle
PHOTOS: Broadway Bares — Even the Stagehands Are Naked
Clever, sexy, and poised to raise funds, here are the first promo shots for Broadway Bares.
Christopher Harrity
www.advocate.com/broadway/2015/04/10/photos-broadway-bares-even-stagehands-are-naked
Let Them Eat Pizza. Really.
Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana is just a bad memory now.
The little pizza shop in the town of 2,200, about 20 miles outside of South Bend, Indiana where employees pray before their shifts, was the first business in the Hoosier State to brag that it would spurn gay and lesbian customers.
Now, however, Memories can no longer refuse to cater to or deliver pizza to gay wedding receptions.
That’s because the bigoted parts of Indiana’s Restoration Act also are just a bad memory now, eliminated less than a week after lawmakers perversely baked them into a law originally intended to protect religious minorities, not persecute sexual minorities.
Peeved that they couldn’t deny LGBT Americans marriage equality, lawmakers in Indiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina and a couple of other Republican controlled states cooked up a plan to prevent same sex couples from getting wedding cakes, flowers, doves… and pizza.
The Republican legislatures passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act with a new special section giving private individuals and businesses the right to claim their religion required them to deny services to LGBT Americans. After Indiana’s initial attempt, the Governor and his gay bashing legislature felt the heat of a 1000 brick oven as the NCAA, corporations, entertainers and lawmakers nationwide condemned the state-sanctioned bigotry and threatened economic sanctions, including cancelling concerts and business expansions in the state.
The owners of Memories Pizza felt the heat too, after one of them, Crystal O’Connor told a reporter, “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no.” Social media went crazy on her and the shop received threatening phone calls prompting it to shut down. They got a taste of what it’s like to be an openly gay high school student in a state that wants to officially sanction gay bashing.
Still, not everyone treated Memories with scorn. Some were downright supportive of the owner’s announced intention to discriminate against LGBT Americans. The conservative Christian right wing community gave money in an attempt to validate Memories’ anti LGBT bias via a fund set up by a conservative talk host. As of this writing, they claim to have raised more than $800,000. Of course, that hardly offsets the millions that businesses threatened to withdraw from Indiana if the legislature didn’t reverse its legislated bigotry.
Let’s be honest. Precious few people, gay or straight, are going to order pizza for their wedding reception. So it was unlikely that Memories would ever get the opportunity to exercise its (briefly) state-sanctioned right to behave cruelly.
But it’s a shame that more than $800k went for no good cause. That would buy a lot of pizza pies for the estimated 15.8 million American children who live in what are defined as ‘food insecure’ households, meaning the child and his or her parents don’t know where their next meal will come from. This means thousands of those children go to bed hungry. And, despite raising that money on GoFundMe, the establishment remains closed indefinitely and its operators have gone into hiding.
Instead of feeding these innocents, untold numbers of conservative Christians gave their money to support pizza shop owners who proclaimed their intent, based on so called religious beliefs, to discriminate against gay people. Maybe the problem for these religious conservatives is that if they buy pizza for food insecure children, some of those youngsters might be LGBT.
Frankly, these conservative Christians should consider the fact that Jesus hung out with hookers and told us to love our enemies, to pray for the sinner, to love the sinner not the sin. If this denial of service was really about Christian principles and values, wouldn’t Memories also have denied service to adulterers, fornicators and drunkards? How about the guy who downloads porn on Sundays when he gets home from church? Or how about the guy who slaps his wife around? Should the holy rollers at Memories Pizza be serving him?
Since none of us walks around with a ‘pure soul’ certificate to prove to places like Memories Pizza that we are worthy of their pie, why not look to the author of their faith? Jesus. WWJD? I’m sure he’d tell Memories to take that plank out of their own eye, tithe 10 percent of that big donation and use the rest of it to feed the poor… pizza of course.
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ABC Hypes Bruce Jenner Exclusive: “The Journey, The Decisions, The Future.”
Absent from the media shit storm surrounding Bruce Jenner’s personal life has been the one voice that actually matters: Bruce’s.
Well, a two hour (two hours?!) sit down with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer is fast on its way — Friday, April 24th — and the network has just released a teaser, promising insights on Bruce’s “journey, decisions” and “future.”
The camera pays special attention to Bruce’s long hair, something the tabloids have lasered in on as evidence of gender transition.
ABC News has described the interview as we would a private jet: “far-ranging” and “exclusive.”
Watch below:
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