Ireland sets a date for gay marriage vote
Over two thirds of Irish people support same-sex marriage
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HRC Joins Civil Rights Community in March Against Police Violence
HRC Joins Civil Rights Community in March Against Police Violence
HRC joined the ACLU, NBJC and several other civil rights groups on Saturday in a march to protest police violence and brutality.
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THE STATE OF LGBT IN THE PHILIPPINES
THE STATE OF LGBT IN THE PHILIPPINES
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States Graded on LGBT Tobacco Cessation Efforts
States Graded on LGBT Tobacco Cessation Efforts
The LGBT community smokes at rates 65 percent higher than the general population and LGBT people experience significant health disparities in smoking-related disease and cancers.
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Attitude magazine announced as special guest at Gay Star Travel Expo
Attitude magazine announced as special guest at Gay Star Travel Expo
Coincides with travel-themed issue from gay men’s magazine
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/attitude-magazine-announced-special-guest-gay-star-travel-expo161214
Five Careers A&F’s Mike Jeffries Should Consider Now That He’s Out Of A Job
Five Careers A&F’s Mike Jeffries Should Consider Now That He’s Out Of A Job
Karma’s a bitch. And nobody knows this better than Mike Jeffries, the openly gay CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch. The 70-year-old, who has a long history of making disparaging comments about ugly, fat, uncool, unpopular people in the media, is officially unemployed after being forced out stepping down from his role as CEO last week amid sinking A&F sales.
“It has been an honor to lead this extraordinarily talented group of people,” Jeffries told A&F employees before packing up his office. “I believe now is the right time for new leadership to take the company forward in the next phase of its development.”
No word yet on what Jeffries will do next, but just in case he needed some help thinking of something, we’ve compiled a list of five careers he may want to consider now that he’s out of a job.
Guest star on American Horror Story: Freak Show
He’d fit right in alongside Bette and Dot Tattler, Jimmy Darling, Ima Wiggles and Twisty the Clown. And the makeup department would hardly have to do anything.
Become a Clairol hair dye model
Maintaining a youthful appearance has always been of the upmost importance to Jeffries. He once told a reporter, “Dude, I’m not an old fart who wears his jeans up at his shoulders.” At 70 years old, he’s all about the hair dye, the spray tans, the collagen, and the Botox. What better way to promote his message of eternal youth than by posing as a hair model for Clairol’s nice’n’easy “Born Blonde” brand of boxed hair dye?
Work the perfume counter at Macy’s
On his private Gulfstream G550 jet, Jeffries used to insist that the cabin constantly be spritzed with A&F cologne, among other outrageous demands. Clearly the man enjoys cheap, headache-inducing fragrances. So why not surround himself with the thing he loves by getting a job behind a perfume counter at Macy’s? He could spend his days spraying the air while gabbing with the salesgirls about the cute guys in the men’s department.
Audition for America’s Next Top Model
Over the years, Jeffries received criticism for A&F’s overtly sexual ads geared towards teenagers that often featured half-naked, gym-toned frat boys surrounded by bikini-clad female admirers.
When confronted about the raciness of A&F’s models, Jeffries once said: “Listen, do we go too far sometimes? Absolutely. But we push the envelope, and we try to be funny, and we try to stay authentic and relevant to our target customer. I really don’t care what anyone other than our target customer thinks.”
Since he has such strong ideas about models and modeling, perhaps he should consider auditioning for a spot on America’s Next Top Model. We’d be curious to see how far he’d make it in the competition, and whether or not he’d butt heads with judge Tyra Banks.
Become a volunteer spokesperson for Weight Watchers®
Jeffries has never cared for ugly, fat, uncool, or unpopular people. In 2006, he said he only wanted “good-looking people” in his stores because “good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don’t market to anyone other than that.”
“Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they’re about to jump on a surfboard,” he continued. “A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”
Now that he’s jobless, perhaps Jeffries should consider offering helpful solutions for folks who may want to lose weight, rather than just criticizing them for their sizes. We think Weight Watchers® would be an excellent company for him to consider partnering with as a volunteer spokesperson.
Assuming, of course, they’d take his call.
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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Conservative Kansas Lawmakers Primed to Reintroduce Religious Freedom Bill
Conservative Kansas Lawmakers Primed to Reintroduce Religious Freedom Bill
Kansas’s “religious freedom bill’ that would allow both public and private businesses to refuse LGBT customers service on religious grounds failed to make it past the Senate floor earlier this year following a deluge of complaints. Supporters of the proposed bill are gearing up to reintroduce it for legislative consideration following a federal court’s decision to overturn Kansas’s ban on same sex marriage.
Before dying in the Senate, the religious freedom bill successfully made its way through Kansas’s House of Representatives. Lawmakers like Kansas state senator Steve Fitzgerald (R) explained to the Wichita Eagle that the first iteration of the bill had been mischaracterized in such a way that derailed its advancement. Reintroducing the bill soon, he explained, would give conservative Kansans a chance at maintaining their religious freedoms.
“So what you’ve got is we’ll sue you and take everything you can get unless you participate in and help us celebrate what you consider to be gravely evil,” he said, recounting instances of conservative businesses being sued for discrimination. “So your freedom of religion is exactly, mmm, pay up.”
“You can be fired for being gay. You can be evicted for being lesbian. And you can be kicked out of a restaurant for being transgender. And you have no recourse,” said Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas.
“Should businesses that do business with the public have to serve everybody? Yes. That’s a principle of American society. You are open for business, then you’re open for business to everybody. And you don’t get to choose what classes of people you’re not going to serve.”
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Op-ed: The Harm and Shame of Negative Labeling
Op-ed: The Harm and Shame of Negative Labeling
Growing up Catholic left one young man with a label that restricted him for years.
Benjamin Brenkert
www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/12/16/op-ed-harm-and-shame-negative-labeling
Rosie O’Donnell: Having kids is ‘the best thing you can ever do for yourself’
Rosie O’Donnell: Having kids is ‘the best thing you can ever do for yourself’
The star and mom was offering advice to aspiring gay parents at Cyndi Lauper’s recent True Colors concert in New York
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