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Gay Couple Featured In Cottonelle Commercial

Gay Couple Featured In Cottonelle Commercial

Cottonelle made the first gay toilet paper commercial.

The message: If you’re going to meet your partner’s parents, you probably want a clean bottom.

The Voice Over says, “Down there care from Cottonelle…down there because today you meet the parents. So before they sit you down give your bootie a confidence boost with cleaning ripples that remove more at once for a superior clean…”

Stay confidently clean and “Down There Care” with Cottonelle®. Cottonelle® Toilet Paper is designed with CleaningRipples Texture for a superior clean that’s soft, strong and effective. Septic and sewer safe, Cottonelle® Toilet Paper uses a patented SafeFlush Technology® that starts to break down immediately after flushing. Start feeling cleaner today with help from Cottonelle®!

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This Black History Month and All Year Round, Join HRC Foundation’s LGBTQ HBCU Network

This Black History Month and All Year Round, Join HRC Foundation’s LGBTQ HBCU Network

For Rishard Butts, providing a space for alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) who identify as LGBTQ to gather online and beyond is key to promoting inclusivity within intersecting communities.

That’s why HRC Foundation and HBCU Buzz have created the first-ever HBCU LGBTQ Alumni Network, which aims to cultivate interest in and support for the HRCF’s HBCU Program, encourage LGBTQ inclusion at HBCUs and provide a space for alumni to connect, activate and collaborate on common and relevant issues.

“It’s important for us to solidify our community of individuals who have shared experiences graduating from historically Black colleges and universities and identifying as LGBTQ,” said Butts, the program coordinator of HRC Foundation’s HBCU program.

Said Leslie Hall, director of HRC Foundation’s HBCU program: “The network will really provide a force for us to continue our work of building inclusive, supportive and safe campuses for the LGBTQ community.”

This Black History Month we celebrate HRC Foundation’s HBCU Program, which empowers LGBTQ young people who are HBCU alumni.

Through a combination of an annual leadership summit and year-round support, HRC trains students to lead effectively at the intersections of race, religion, gender identity, class and sexual orientation on their campuses and in their communities.

Learn more about the network and how you can join at hrc.org/HBCU.  

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Kamala Harris: ‘Sex Work Ought to Be Decriminalized’

Kamala Harris: ‘Sex Work Ought to Be Decriminalized’

California Senator Kamala Harris recognizes how the criminalization of sex work perpetuates stigma and leads to more criminal behavior and the silencing of victims.

Which is why she agreed when asked that sex work should be decriminalized.

“There is an ecosystem around that that includes crimes that harm people, and for those issues I do not believe that anybody who hurts another human being or profits off their exploitation should be free of criminal prosecution,” she told The Root.

For Harris, who has been widely criticized for her support of SESTA (The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017) and FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017), her willingness to explore decriminalization may be welcome news.

But some think she’s taking the position to solidify her progressive base but won’t actually act on it.

“Her progressive achievements and championing for the underprivileged are completely overshadowed by her hostile initiatives against sex workers,” Lee Jennings, the CEO of online sex worker directory Slixa, told The Daily Beast. 

Harris’ call to decriminalize sex work came as New York state works to introduce a bill to do just that in the Empire State.

“Decriminalization is critical to protecting the rights and safety of people who trade sex, no matter where they are on the spectrum of choice, circumstance, and coercion,” NY State senator Brad Hoylman tweeted Monday.

Decriminalization is critical to protecting the rights and safety of people who trade sex, no matter where they are on the spectrum of choice, circumstance, and coercion. #DecrimNY

— Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) February 25, 2019

An activist collective called DecrimNY, is working with them to “decriminalize, decarcerate and destigmatize the sex trade in New York City and state,” according to its website.

“The mere introduction of decriminalization legislation marks a major and hard-won point of progress in the public discussion around sex workers’ rights, said The Intercept. “It is a welcome statement for those who have been long disappointed in politicians with allegedly progressive agendas standing on the wrong side of history when it comes to sex workers’ rights.”

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Kamala Harris: ‘Sex Work Ought to Be Decriminalized’