If Stevie Nicks had been a lesbian, she says she would have been out and proud
‘I think that if you are gay, you just have to say “It’s great!”‘
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New Study Supports Puberty Blockers for Transgender Youth
VOTE: Stoli Guy San Francisco Winner Spencer Shakes What His Mama Gave Him
VOTE: Stoli Guy San Francisco Winner Spencer Shakes What His Mama Gave Him
Spencer, the Stoli Guy San Francisco winner, gave his hometown a memorable show at the GayCities-produced event that happened at Beatbox. He proved to the celebrity judges Andrew Christian, Sister Pat-n-Leather and Donna Satchet that he had the look, the charisma and the energy to make it far as a Stoli Guy.
Now Spencer is getting ready to travel to New York City for the national finale. Will he be the one to claim the $10,000 prize?
Can you give us a little teaser of what your original talent showcase will be at the finale on September 18?
A lip-synch for my life that by the end will have everyone on their feet or everyone on their phones calling the paramedics because I’ve somersaulted off the stage.
How did your friends and family react when you were named Stoli Guy 2014 in your hometown?
The first person I told was my 91-year-old grandmother who said, “Of course, or else they would have to face me.” And everybody else has is just happy that they have a direct connection to their favorite vodka now.
Being an LGBT ambassador for Stoli is an exciting job. Why do you think you’d be the best at it?
I think being an LGBT ambassador for Stoli means connecting to people by being outgoing and creative so they’re excited by the brand and the community it’s so involved with. I always have the best time meeting new people and think I would be a great representation of a brand that encourages people to connect every day.
Why do you think being “authentic” is important in the LGBT community?
I think everyone learns the hard way that being any other person besides yourself makes everything a lot less fun. Realizing that it’s okay to be different is what being LGBT is all about in the first place!
What inspired you to participate in Stoli Guy 2014?
The words “Authentic,” “Inspired” and “Original” had huge appeal to me because it meant that Stoli was going to let me do pretty much whatever I wanted. A creative outlet like that doesn’t really come around all that often, so it got me excited thinking about what me and my hot glue gun could put together.
Favorite Stoli Guy Cocktail: It’s hard to pick but I’ll say “Future Husband”(Stoli Original + Ginger Beer) and stick with that. I’m not afraid of commitment.
Oscar Raymundo
Alabama Mother Attempts To Deny Her Dead Son's Husband His Estate
Alabama Mother Attempts To Deny Her Dead Son's Husband His Estate
Issues like this are why legally-recognized gay marriage is so important. Alabama man David Fancher was killed in an auto accident in 2011 and left his estate to his husband, Paul Hard. He and Hard were married in Massachusetts just three months earlier after having been a couple for over six years. However, Alabama’s Sanctity of Marriage Amendment denies the validity of their marriage, so Hard is suing the state decrying the amendment as unconstitutional, and thus entitling Hard as Fancher’s legal husband to half of his estate.
Enter David Fancher’s mother Pat Fancher, who has been granted the right to intervene in the case and does not want her son’s name used to advance the cause of same-sex marriage:
I am a devout Christian and I am deeply disturbed that the death of my son David is being used by Dr. Paul Hard to advance the cause of same-sex marriage. I did not agree with all of the decisions that my son made, but I loved him very much and we always had a good relationship. It is wrong for David’s death to be used in this manner.
As such, she has enlisted the aid of the Foundation for Moral Law, who have filed an amicus brief to try and overturn the Tenth Circuit’s strike down of Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage:
The Foundation has an interest in this case because it believes that this nation’s laws should reflect the moral basis upon which the nation was founded, and that the ancient roots of the common law, the pronouncements of the legal philosophers from whom this nation’s Founders derived their view of law, the views of the Founders themselves, and the views of the American people as a whole from the beginning of American history at least until very recently, have held that homosexual conduct is immoral and should not be sanctioned by giving it the official state sanction of marriage.
The Foundation for Moral Law counselor who filed the brief is John Eidsmoe, a wingnut who tried to get the U.S. military to provide “ex-gay” therapy to gay soldiers who would otherwise rape kids. Unsurprisingly, he follows the American Taliban mentality of promoting rule by biblical law.
Christian Walters
www.towleroad.com/2014/09/alabama-mother-attempts-to-deny-her-dead-sons-husband-his-estate.html
Voto de Saudação pela Marcha LGBT Pride Azores
Voto de Saudação pela Marcha LGBT Pride Azores
O voto de saudação apresentado pelo Bloco de Esquerda foi aprovado com os votos de todos os partidos, à excepção do PSD, que se absteve.
Bill O'Reilly on Boy in Makeup: 'He Has to Look Like a Man!'
Bill O'Reilly on Boy in Makeup: 'He Has to Look Like a Man!'
The conservative talker defends the South Carolina DMV’s demand that a boy remove makeup before having his driver’s license picture taken.
Rebecca Juro
editorial.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/09/11/bill-oreilly-boy-makeup-he-has-look-man
Study Claims Hollywood Is Not So Gay Friendly
Study Claims Hollywood Is Not So Gay Friendly
Think Hollywood is some sort of queer utopia when members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community are free to be their authentic selves? Think again.
A new study from UCLA’s LGBT think tank Williams Institute interviewed 5,700 SAG-AFTRA members about their experiences with anti-gay sentiment and language within the industry. The study reportedly found that half of performers that identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual “have heard directors and producers make anti-gay comments about actors… and 53 percent of LGBT respondents believed that directors and producers are biased against LGBT performers.”
“Although our industry is heading in the right direction, there is clearly work left to do as certain attitudes and behaviors persist and continue to put pressure on actors to stay in the closet,” Traci Godfrey and Jason Stuart, national co-chairs of the SAG-AFTRA LGBT Committee, stated. “We are confident that this unprecedented study will have profound ramifications for the entertainment industry as a whole. By utilizing the data it contains as it reflects the realities performers face, we can identify the obstacles to equal employment opportunities and full inclusion.”
These findings support similar findings released nearly a year ago by The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists that claimed Hollywood is much less gay-friendly off-screen and over half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) actors surveyed felt directors and producers were biased against them.
Barbra Streisand to appear on The Tonight Show for first time since John F Kennedy was president
Barbra Streisand to appear on The Tonight Show for first time since John F Kennedy was president
Singer is promoting her latest album, Partners, to be released next week
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Congressional Democrats Call on HHS to Update Policies on Blood and Tissue Donations
Stevie Nicks On Her Gay Fans, How She’d Come Out If She Loved The Ladies
Stevie Nicks On Her Gay Fans, How She’d Come Out If She Loved The Ladies
“I can’t say that I’m so glad that gay people like my music, because I have never looked at gay people as different from any other people.”
Asked what she’d do if she was gay herself:
“The second that I knew, I would have said, ‘OK, everybody, this is how it is, and either you still like me or I don’t care.’ I think that if you are gay, you just have to say ‘It’s great!’”
–Stevie Nicks interviewed for Out Magazine
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