LGBT Icons Celebrate Love and Family
Today, HRC celebrates a big week for LGBT celebrities and icons.
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Neil Patrick Harris Made Out With 137 People And Never Got Sick
Neil Patrick Harris Made Out With 137 People And Never Got Sick
I ended up making out with 137 people. Which was not nearly as disturbing as the fact that I licked the stage, the floor of the stage, 137 times. That’s where most, if any, infection came from. I’ve never been on more handfuls of vitamins and trace minerals and pills. I think I did five rounds of antibiotics during the show? Just to make sure I was going to get through it. There were thousands of people who wanted to see the show, and I’m only there for a finite period of time, so I didn’t want to have to fall out, because that meant they would have to reschedule or not be able to see it, at least not with me.”
— Neil Patrick Harris explaining to Vulture why he never missed a show during his recent Tony Award-winning turn in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jeremy Kinser
International 'Pro-Family' Conference Ends With Call for Worldwide Gay Propaganda Ban
International 'Pro-Family' Conference Ends With Call for Worldwide Gay Propaganda Ban
An international ‘pro-family’ conference in Moscow featuring a number of prominent anti-gay figureheads including NOM’s Brian Brown and author of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law Yelena Mizulina (pictured below) concluded yesterday with delegates issuing a proclamation calling for similar ‘propaganda bans’ to be implemented throughout the world, Right Wing Watch reports:
According to a rough Google translation of the resolution — which was posted on the website of a foundation chaired by Putin ally Vladimir Yakunin, which also helped fund the event — the delegates expressed their “extreme concern [that] currently being implemented in some states of the world is extremely biased policies and unprecedented propaganda campaign, leading to the final undermining of the Institute of the natural family, which in a civilized society has always been considered as the basis for prosperity [of the] state.”
In the resolution, delegates vow “to uphold the interests of children and to work for the adoption of legislative bans on all types of propaganda concerning homosexual relationships in the environment of children and juveniles” as well as to support research on “the negative social and psychological effects and the consequences of raising children in same-sex couple.”
The ‘pro-family’ conference, originally organized under the name of the Illinois-based World Congress of Families before the organization “suspended” its planning following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, had a number of scheduled American speakers. This included representatives from Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Personhood USA, and Family Watch International.
In related news, the Human Rights Campaign has asked the U.S. Treasury Department to investigate whether World Congress of Families officials improperly collaborated with sanctioned Russian lawmakers (such as Yelena Mizulina) in the planning of the hate-filled forum.
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Kyler Geoffroy
HeyBitch?#18 Eleições | Politica – Religião x LGBT
HeyBitch?#18 Eleições | Politica – Religião x LGBT
WATCH: 26 Hustlers on Film
WATCH: 26 Hustlers on Film
It’s Friday. You know you’re goofing off at work. Why not be productive and watch some important film history?
Christopher Harrity
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Grandmother Quilts Giant Penises, Becomes Our New Life Inspiration
Grandmother Quilts Giant Penises, Becomes Our New Life Inspiration
We love ourselves a grandma who knows how to knit. But we have to say, even the most cozy of afghans can’t quite compare to the fruits of grandmother Holly Stewart’s labor. Because those fruits are giant, quilted penises.
Yes, a real life, Kansas City-based grandma has turned her passion for free love into an art endeavor that’s certainly got our blood pumping. It’s called “Local Grandmother Quilts Giant Penises” and it encapsulates so many of the things we cherish in this sweet, short life: sex positivity, fiber crafts and badass women of a certain age.
Stewart’s exhibition is currently on view at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, a vision made reality thanks to a Kickstarter initiative with one of the greater names in Kickstarter history. Again, “Local Grandmother Quilts Giant Penises.” In the video below, Stewart explains how her interest in decorative members sparked from her time working in a sex toy factory.
“I was looking on Craigslist for jobs and I saw an ad for a position that was sex positive and I had to know what that was,” Stewart explains casually, standing before a giant multicolored phallus. “When I looked at it it was to be a de-molder in a dildo factory. I just knew I needed to be able to tell my grandchildren I had even applied to be a de-molder in a dildo factory. When I got the job it was even better.”
Coolest. Grandma. Ever.
It wasn’t long before Stewart’s work began inching its way into her creative headspace. Yes, dildos were on the brain.
“One time while I was painting and it wasn’t working out, I noticed I had some pins and foam core on my desk and added them in and brought it to my [art] professor for critique, and he immediately said ‘That looks like a dildo,'” Stewart explained. “So I had to be honest about what I was doing because I was way more interested about putting the pins in the foam core than I was in painting.”
An, voila, an art movement was born. Stewart’s Kickstarter raised $308, surpassing its $250 goal, thus bringing those textured members to the gallery space for all to see. The pledge levels wonderfully ranged from “Schlittle” to “Chub” to “Schlong” to “Hard On” to “Throbber” for the big spenders, and featured rewards including “a small bag of sequin semen.”
Now that the exhibition is up and running, we can officially report that the massive, quilted man parts are more wondrous than we ever imagined. The works are as feminist as they are hilarious, as affirmative as they are transgressive. Sparkly, colorful, big and small, hard and soft, the penises on display truly capture the manifold possibilities of a phallic shape when separated from the shackling confines of human flesh.
“I really like them,” a former UMKC student told the school’s independent newspaper. “I wish real penises looked like this.” So do we, anonymous former student. So do we.
See Stewart’s gloriously NSFW sculptures below and let us know how badly you wish she was your grandma in the comments.
Hollywood homophobia: Study finds that LGBTI actors still face discrimination
Hollywood homophobia: Study finds that LGBTI actors still face discrimination
Both LGBTI and non-LGBTI actors report hearing homophobia on set and think that the entertainment industry still has a problem casting gay actors in straight roles
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Gay Colombian Teen Bullied To Death By Catholic School Officials
Gay Colombian Teen Bullied To Death By Catholic School Officials
The mother of a 16-year-old gay Colombian boy who committed suicide last month has come forward with shocking allegations that officials at her son’s Catholic school had bullied him to death.
According to El Espectador, Sergio Urrego had endured relentless bullying and harassment from administrators at Gimnasio Castillo Campestre, a Catholic high school in Bogota, after they confiscated his phone and discovered a photo of him kissing his boyfriend on it.
School officials reportedly blocked Urrego’s requests for transfer and forced him to visit a school psychologist. After weeks of torture, multiple class suspensions and accusations of being an “anarchist,” an “atheist” and a “homosexual,” Urrego jumped from the roof of a shopping center in Bogota.
Shortly before he took his own life, Urrego posted the lyrics to Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Cruel World” on his Facebook wall:
“The school, Gimnasio Castillo Campestre, a Catholic institution, treated the situation in a deplorable manner,” GLAAD said in a statement. According to them, the boy’s mother is filing a complaint against the school with the help of Colombia Diversa, a local LGBT group.
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Chick-fil-A Banned From High School Fundraiser Over CEO's Opposition to Gay Marriage: VIDEO
Chick-fil-A Banned From High School Fundraiser Over CEO's Opposition to Gay Marriage: VIDEO
A Venture County, California high school has barred a booster club from selling Chick-fil-a sandwiches on campus because of the company’s position on gay marriage.
In the past, the fast food chain’s CEO Dan Cathy has made his displeasure with LGBT equality well-known.
CBS Los Angeles reports:
Ventura High School Principal Val Wyatt told the Ventura County Star that the football booster club could not sell Chick-fil-A sandwiches at Wednesday’s back-to-school night because the restaurant’s beliefs could offend some students and their parents.
“With their political stance on gay rights and because the students of Ventura High School and their parents would be at the event, I didn’t want them on campus,” Wyatt told the newspaper.
Every principal has the discretion to invite community groups or businesses onto their campuses.
“We value inclusivity and diversity on our campus and all of our events and activities are going to adhere to our mission,” Ventura Unified School District Superintendent Trudy Tuttle Arriaga said.
Check out CBSLA’s report on the story, including reactions from parents and students on both sides of the issue, AFTER THE JUMP…
Last week, we reported S. Truett Cathy, the Chick-fil-A founder who shaped the fast food chain’s corporate culture around his Southern Baptist belifs, had died.
Kyler Geoffroy
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