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HRC Calls for Pardon for Those who were Punished Alongside Alan Turing

HRC Calls for Pardon for Those who were Punished Alongside Alan Turing

Following the release of the Oscar nominated film “The Imitation Game,” HRC is proud to join British stars Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch in support of pardons for those who were punished alongside Alan Turing.
HRC.org

www.hrc.org/blog/entry/hrc-calls-for-pardon-for-those-who-were-punished-along-side-alan-turing?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed

NBA Player Blake Griffin Attempts Simulated Sex Act With Male Trainer: VIDEO

NBA Player Blake Griffin Attempts Simulated Sex Act With Male Trainer: VIDEO

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Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin was chilling on the sidelines during Thursday night’s game against the Brooklyn Nets when he apparently got a craving for some simulated head from a trainer in the wrong place at the wrong time.

See the faux-llatio in action, AFTER THE JUMP

Outsports is also running a poll asking readers their thoughts on the incident – with “Boys will be boys” currently leading in the poll’s answer choices. What do you think?


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/nba-player-blake-griffin-attempts-simulated-sex-act-with-male-trainer-video.html

George Takei Spoofs Controversial TLC Special With 'My Husband's Not Straight'

George Takei Spoofs Controversial TLC Special With 'My Husband's Not Straight'
“Star Trek” icon George Takei playfully skewers TLC’s recent controversy with “My Husband’s Not Straight.”

The parody “homosexual reality show” will follow “three same-sex married couples…with a twist,” Takei quips in the new clip.

“Do I like women? Yeah,” one of the men proclaims. “But I like pizza, too. Do I need pizza? No, no. I can live without pizza if it means I can have this life.”

Adds another, “What’s a little man-on-man action now and then, right? It’s just like acting.”

The clip is, of course, a spoof of “My Husband’s Not Gay,” a TLC special which focused on Mormon men who say they have chosen to marry women despite being attraction to men, which aired Jan. 11.

The pizza reference is a pointed wink at one of the TLC participants who compared gay sex to his love of doughnuts in an ABC News interview.

H/T Towleroad

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/24/my-husbands-not-straight-_n_6535446.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Beautiful Thing playwright Jonathan Harvey slams ‘quietly menacing’ bouncers of Soho restaurant Balans

Beautiful Thing playwright Jonathan Harvey slams ‘quietly menacing’ bouncers of Soho restaurant Balans

Security staff tell Corrie writer: ‘We don’t want your custom here’; restaurant responds when contacted by GSN

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jamiet

www.gaystarnews.com/article/beautiful-thing-playwright-jonathan-harvey-slams-%E2%80%98quietly-menacing%E2%80%99-bouncers-soho-restaurant

California Judges Barred From Joining Boy Scouts Due To Discriminatory Ban on Gay Leaders

California Judges Barred From Joining Boy Scouts Due To Discriminatory Ban on Gay Leaders

State judges in California can no longer be members of the Boy Scouts beginning next year — at least until the Scouts lift a ban on gay adult leaders. 

The California Supreme Court voted unanimously this week to eliminate an exception for youth nonprofits to a rule that prohibits judges from belonging to groups that discriminate based on sexual orientation. 

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: 

Scouts“The people of California have a right to an impartial and unbiased judiciary,” Richard Fybel, a state appeals court justice in Santa Ana and chairman of the high court’s ethics advisory committee, said Friday. “This is important to accomplishing that.” … 

In a statement that responded to the committee’s proposal last year, Deron Smith, a spokesman at Boy Scouts headquarters in Irving, Texas, said the Scouts “would be disappointed with anything that limits our volunteers’ ability to serve more youth. … Today, more than ever, youth need the character and leadership programs of Scouting.”

The proposal had drawn a mixed response from judges. In written comments to the court, one opponent said the prohibition would elevate “gay rights above religious freedom rights,” and another said it would interfere with judges’ rights to raise their children as they choose.

California judges have been barred from membership in groups that discriminate based on sexual orientation since 1996 — with the exception of youth nonprofits. In 2003, the state’s high court amended the rule to say judges who are members of the Boy Scouts must disclose their affiliation in gay-rights cases and recuse themselves if there’s a conflict of interest. 

Last year, the ethics advisory committee recommended eliminating the exception altogether, and the proposal was backed by the California Judges Association, which represents three-quarters of the state’s judges.

The Chronicle notes that judges can still be members of religious groups that discriminate, but not groups that discriminate based on religion. The Boy Scouts is not considered a religious group but does discriminate based on religion — barring atheists in addition to gays.

In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift a ban on gay youth but continue to bar gay adult leaders. The organization recently reported that membership dropped 7.4 percent in 2014 in the wake of the decision.  


John Wright

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/california-judges-barred-from-boy-scouts-due-to-gay-ban.html

Hartford, CT Mayor Celebrates High Score on HRC’s Municipal Equality Index

Hartford, CT Mayor Celebrates High Score on HRC’s Municipal Equality Index

Hartford, Connecticut Mayor Pedro Segarra visited the Human Rights Campaign earlier this week to discuss his city’s strong 92 out of 100 score on HRC’s 2014 Municipal Equality Index (MEI).
HRC.org

www.hrc.org/blog/entry/hartford-ct-mayor-celebrates-high-score-on-hrcs-municipal-equality-index?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed