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WATCH: No, Colorado's Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt Hasn't Toned Down Antigay Rhetoric
WATCH: No, Colorado's Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt Hasn't Toned Down Antigay Rhetoric
The extremist preacher and Colorado state rep says a ‘demonic spirit’ possesses LGBT people and their allies.
Trudy Ring
Ryan Phillippe Is Glad You'll Finally Get To See His '54' Gay Kiss Scene
Ryan Phillippe Is Glad You'll Finally Get To See His '54' Gay Kiss Scene
Ryan Phillippe says he’s looking forward to a planned digital release of the director’s cut of “54” because it will restore, among other things, a steamy kiss between him and co-star Breckin Meyer that was left on the editing room floor.
“There was a part of us that was a little sad nobody ever got to see it,” Phillippe told New York Magazine’s Vulture of the same-sex kiss which, in case you’ve forgotten, would have been included in a 1998 film years before “Brokeback Mountain,” “Milk” and other Hollywood blockbusters that feature gay love scenes ever hit cinemas.
That fact is not lost on the 40-year-old actor, who played Studio 54 “It Boy” Shane O’Shea in the movie.
“We did something that was relatively bold for two young male actors, and we took pride in the places that the original story went,” he added. “So, it’s nice that people finally get to see Breckin and me kiss.”
Low-quality footage of the kiss made its way online in 2013, five years after writer-director Mark Christopher’s original cut of “54” played to a sold-out crowd at New York’s Outfest. For the screening, about 45 minutes of footage (including the aforementioned smooch between Phillippe and Meyer) were added back into the movie, which bombed at the box office in its initial release in 1998 and currently has a 13 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
That version, Philippe added, “captures the freedom” of the late 1970s and early ’80s, the time period in which the movie is set, but also “the impending sobriety that would come with AIDS. It resonates.”
Phillippe had previously expressed his regrets over the final version of the film in a 2010 interview with The Advocate’s Brandon Voss, noting that he had been “against the changes that were made because I feel like there was a better movie there to begin with.”
“We thought we were making something like ‘Boogie Nights‘ because it was about a time of complete sexual abandon, but the studio watered it down,” he said at the time, calling the original cut “more edgy and honest.”
In latest anti-gay rant, Pat Robertson compares gay weddings to man-dog weddings
HUD Issues Guidance on Equal Access Rule
HUD Issues Guidance on Equal Access Rule
Today’s guidance further implements the Equal Access Rule clarifying access to emergency homeless shelters for transgender individuals and reiterating placement and privacy obligations of providers.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/hud-issues-guidance-on-equal-access-rule?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Mad Max Is Back to Blow More S–t Up: VIDEO
Mad Max Is Back to Blow More S–t Up: VIDEO
It’s been nearly 30 years since Tina Turner (as Aunty Entity) first sent Max Rocktansky (Mel Gibson) on a high-stakes mission beyond the Thunderdome to save Bartertown. The latest international trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road wants to make sure that you know that Max is back and–as always–he’s here to blow things up.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Charles Pulliam-Moore
www.towleroad.com/2015/02/mad-max-is-back-to-blow-things-up.html
#safeAB : If I Was An LGBT Youth
#safeAB : If I Was An LGBT Youth
To officially submit your Gay-Straight Alliance support videos or to learn more about #safeAB please visit: www.antyx.org/safeab Executive Producers Antyx Community Arts Forest Lawn High…
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Jacqueline Alexander, Tennessee Mother, Allegedly Beat Son Because She Thought He Was 'Too Feminine' And Gay
Jacqueline Alexander, Tennessee Mother, Allegedly Beat Son Because She Thought He Was 'Too Feminine' And Gay
A Tennessee mother is facing assault charges after allegedly beating and punching her young son because she believed he was acting “too feminine” and gay.
While details in the case are currently scarce, Jacqueline Alexander has been charged with domestic assault after police discovered that her son had bruises on face when police arrived Feb. 17, WREG-TV is reporting.
The boy’s name and age have not been released. Reports cite local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocate Will Batts, who noted that the case was upsetting but not unusual.
“We certainly have lots of kids and adults who come into the [Memphis LGBT Community Center] who talk about being abused or hurt in some way by the people who are supposed to be the ones who care most about them,” he is quoted as saying.
Alexander’s court date was reportedly set for Feb. 19.
The allegations against Alexander seem eerily similar to the case of Jessica Dutro, an Oregon woman who was found guilty of murder, murder by abuse and second-degree assault last year in the 2012 death of her son, Zachary Dutro-Boggess.
Court documents cited by a number of media outlets at the time described a series of Facebook messages between Dutro and her boyfriend, Brian Canady, in which she said she believed 4-year-old Zachary was gay.
Using an anti-gay slur, she suggested Canady, 24, “work on” her son: “He walks and talks like it. Ugh.”
No Surprise: Majority of South Carolinians Find Marriage Equality Has “No Negative Impact”
No Surprise: Majority of South Carolinians Find Marriage Equality Has “No Negative Impact”
South Carolina has had marriage equality on the books since November, and voters are doing just fine, according to a recent Public Policy Polling report.
HRC.org
