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The Future Is Here: Mom Asks Son to Wait Till Commercial to Come Out (VIDEO)

The Future Is Here: Mom Asks Son to Wait Till Commercial to Come Out (VIDEO)

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I’m From Driftwood is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit archive for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stories. New stories are posted on the site every Wednesday.

The Macaraeg family is serious about the Seattle Seahawks. Robbie Macaraeg explains:

I come from a family of avid Seahawks fans. We’re very prideful. We’re very close too. And I think [that] a really good bond that we have is watching the Seahawks, watching our sports. On Sundays we’d be outside, running around, playing around, getting messy; my mom’s inside watching the game, and we’d come in. And same thing on Mondays: We’d go and pick up food from the grocery store and come back and watch the game. Then repeat on Thursdays.

Fortunately, the Macaraegs are also serious about being a loving and supportive family. After getting his heart broken on a date, Robbie went home in tears and knew it was time to come out to his mom:

My mom’s in her uniform — her jersey, her Seahawks jersey — screaming at the TV, “Go, Hawks! No! No!” Just screaming. And I walk in just crying, and she just stops everything, literally goes into mama-bear mode and is like, “What happened? Oh, my gosh! What’s going on? Are you OK? Oh, my God!” Hugs me, hugs me, hugs me. And I’m like, “Mom, I’m gay!” And she’s like, “Oh, honey, honey, that’s fine, but can we just wait till commercial?”

The LGBTQ community has been fighting for a future where coming out is no big deal. For some, that future is already here.

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www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-manske/the-future-is-here-mom-as_b_6004604.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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FINALLY, Video Of Channing Tatum As A Teenage Stripper

FINALLY, Video Of Channing Tatum As A Teenage Stripper

Screen Shot 2014-10-17 at 2.16.09 PMWe’ve all fantasized about the fact that Channing Tatum got his start as a stripper, but we assumed watching him strut his stuff in Magic Mike and its upcoming sequel was the closest we’d ever come to seeing him in all his gyrating glory.

But thanks to the magic of the internet, a video has surfaced of an 18-year-old Tatum, going by the stage name Chan Crawford, doing his best late ’90s hip-hop inspired seduction ballet.

And OK, we may have been secretly wishing for something like this to appear, but something about seeing a teenager grinding up and down a bunch of middle-aged women kind of makes the whole thing a lot less sexy.

Also, what 18-year-old looks like that?! Come on.

Here’s the video:

Dan Tracer

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With Gay Marriage Pushing Forward, Religious Conservatives Turn Attention to 'Religious Exemption' Bills

With Gay Marriage Pushing Forward, Religious Conservatives Turn Attention to 'Religious Exemption' Bills

B3bpkfhtj9z3errtvn8uWith the battle against gay marriage losing ground throughout the country, some religious conservatives are shifting their attention to “religious exemption” laws.

The post-Hobby Lobby ENDA is wide open to laws like Mississippi’s, or Arizona’s (ultimately vetoed) bill, which allow for the denial of service to people, if it’s based on religion (so, based on sexual orientation).

The AP reports: 

Sweeping carve-outs for faith-affiliated adoption agencies or individual wedding vendors will be an uphill battle. Public attitudes against exceptions have hardened, and efforts by faith groups in states where courts, not lawmakers, recognized same-sex unions have had little success.

Unfortunately, this may hold less true in some places. The AP article continues with a quote from Robin Fretwell Wilson, a legal specialist from the University of Illinois. She says:

Some of the states are so red — think South Carolina — that the legislature can likely lock down all kinds of religious liberty protections, even those we have not yet seen adopted anywhere, like protection for the small mom-and-pop wedding professionals, simply because they have the votes of like-minded colleagues.

Another example of Hobby Lobby-related problems presented by the article is that of Utah Republican State Representative Jacob Anderegg (pictured). The senator plans to come back to a bill he had held off on introducing for the last two years, while the fight on gay marriage was in full swing. Senator Anderegg’s bill would allow clergy and justices of the peace to refuse particpation in same-sex weddings.

Said Anderegg: The bill reasserts and re-establishes fundamental principles: I have a religious objection. You can’t force me or compel me to do it.” 


Jake Folsom

www.towleroad.com/2014/10/with-the-battle-against-gay-marriage-losing-ground-some-religious-conservatives-are-giving-up-the-ghost-by-shifting-thei.html

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