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Adam Rippon Gives Body Shaving Tips to NFL Star Danny Amendola: WATCH
Adam Rippon and Miami Dolphins star Danny Amendola appear in a new ad for Nivea Men in which they exchange some super awkward dialogue about body shaving after accidentally running into each other in a locker room.
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Adam Rippon Gives Body Shaving Tips to NFL Star Danny Amendola: WATCH
Vatican Pushes Back After Archbishop Accuses Pope Francis of ‘Lying’ About Meeting with Kim Davis
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who last week (in a months-long collaboration with conservative journalists and media) accused Pope Francis of covering up sexual misconduct by an American cardinal, launched another salvo on Friday. Viganò released a lengthy statement accusing the Pope of lying about the 2015 meeting with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis that made international headlines. Davis became a religious-right poster child after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple. Viganò set up the Davis meeting.
Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio who led the Holy See’s diplomatic mission to the U.S. and was named to his position by Pope Benedict, is a cultural warrior who shows up at anti-abortion rallies as well as NOM’s ‘March for Marriage’ in Washington D.C. His accusations against Pope Francis are the spearhead of an effort by conservatives in the Catholic church to damage the Pope.
The NYT reports: “They believe the pope is abandoning the church’s rules and traditions through his shift away from culture-war issues like abortion in favor of an emphasis on inclusion, including toward gays, whom Archbishop Viganò and his allies blame for pedophilia in the church.”
In his new statement, which was published by the ultra-conservative LifeSite News, Viganò accuses the Pope of lying about the meeting with Davis.
Wrote Viganò:
This is a summary of the events.
As mentioned at the beginning, on August 28, 2018, the New York Times reported an interview with Juan Carlos Cruz, in which Cruz reported that during his meeting with the Pope, in April 2018, the Pope told him about the Davis case. According to Cruz, the Pope said: “I did not know who the woman was and he [Msgr. Viganò] snuck her in to say hello to me — and of course they made a whole publicity out of it. And I was horrified and I fired that Nuncio.”
One of them is lying: either Cruz or the Pope? What is certain is that the Pope knew very well who Davis was, and he and his close collaborators had approved the private audience. Journalists can always check, by asking the prelates Becciu, Gallagher and Parolin, as well as the Pope himself.
It is clear, however, that Pope Francis wanted to conceal the private audience with the first American citizen condemned and imprisoned for conscientious objection.
The Vatican has issued a joint statement by Rev. Federico Lombardi and his English-language assistant, the Rev. Thomas Rosica, pushing back on Viganò’s claims.
The AP reports: ‘In the joint statement Sunday, Rosica transcribed what he said were handwritten notes from a meeting he and Lombardi had with Viganò the following evening. In those notes, Rosica quoted Viganò as telling them that the pope had actually chastised him for “deceiving” him with the Davis encounter, and for having withheld the fact that Davis had been married four times. In his part of the joint statement, Lombardi said Viganò initiated the Davis meeting, should have known about the furor that it would cause, and that even though Vatican officials approved of it, they were not sufficiently informed about the significance such a meeting would take on.’
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Vatican Pushes Back After Archbishop Accuses Pope Francis of ‘Lying’ About Meeting with Kim Davis
Former Vatican Official Accuses Pope of ‘Lying’ About Kim Davis
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said Pope Francis’s team approved of the meeting with the antigay county clerk.
www.advocate.com/religion/2018/9/02/former-vatican-official-accuses-pope-lying-about-kim-davis
Must-See LGBTQ: ‘Mayans M.C.” premieres plus an all-new ‘Killjoys”
Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the highlights LGBTQ on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBTQ-inclusive programming on TV.
FX’s spinoff of Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C., airs Tuesday night. The new show will follow the Mayans Motorcycle Club, and centers on a Latinx family. Santo Padre, where the show takes place, will have a lesbian mayor, and both she and her wife are promised to make regular appearances on the show. In the premiere, EZ’s fate is in flux as the M.C. and the cartel find a common adversary. Mayans M.C.: Tuesday, 10pm on FX.
On Friday, a new episode of Syfy’s Killjoys airs. Now in its fourth season, the adventure science fiction show follows three mercenaries around the planets as they fight bad guys, and uncover secrets from their past. The show has also introduced several queer characters over the years, including bartender Pree, who has become a staple of the ensemble. In this week’s episode, an awkward Jaqobis homecoming takes a deadly turn as Dutch and Zeph risk everything for science. Killjoys: Friday, 10pm on Syfy.
Sunday, September 2: Fear the Walking Dead (8pm, AMC)
Tuesday: Mayans M.C. (10pm, FX)
Wednesday: Burden of Truth (8pm, The CW); The Sinner (10pm, USA)
Friday: Wynonna Earp (9pm, Syfy); Killjoys (10pm, Syfy)
www.glaad.org/blog/must-see-lgbtq-mayans-mc-premieres-plus-all-new-killjoys
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California Denounces Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children
A resolution adopted by the state doesn’t have the force of law but does send a message, and California is the first state to take such a stand.
www.advocate.com/health/2018/9/02/california-denounces-unnecessary-surgery-intersex-children
Meghan McCain Blasts Trump’s ‘Cheap Rhetoric’ at Father’s Funeral
The daughter of John McCain, in her eulogy of him, delivered a forceful reproach of the president.
www.advocate.com/politics/2018/9/01/meghan-mccain-blasts-trumps-cheap-rhetoric-fathers-funeral
Texas Restaurant Apologizes, Fires Employee Who Taunted Customers with Homophobic Slur
Agave Jalisco / Facebook
Agave Jalisco, a Mexican restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas, fired an employee after a customer’s report of a homophobic incident went viral on Facebook.
Sandra Clement, a local high school principal, wrote in a Facebook post (since deleted) that she was at the restaurant with her gay son and his boyfriend when an employee began taunting them.
The Caller Times reported on Clement’s post: “(Clement’s son and his boyfriend) exchanged a hug as they entered the restaurant and a male employee pointed at them while talking to some female employees seated at a table and screamed ‘jotos.’ (The employee) proceeded to walk to the kitchen tossing his towel in the air loudly singing ‘jotos’ over and over again. “The other employees in the kitchen, the female employees seated at a table, and the waiter were laughing and looking at my son and his boyfriend.”
The restaurant fired the employee, releasing a statement:
On behalf of Agave Jalisco Restaurant on Ayers, the owners, and it’s employees, we want to make the following statement:
Agave Jalisco Restaurant wants to offer our most sincere apology. We want to make a statement regarding the event that happened on August 30, 2018. Where a young man and his boyfriend were allegedly called a derogatory slur in Spanish and taunted. Agave Jalisco is an independently, family owned, business. We the owner’s and management know the seriousness of this issue, and want to state that we do not condone or accept this type of homophobic behavior from any single person whom is a part of the team of Agave Jalisco.
In the incident, it is stated that the management was contacted and did nothing to fix the problem or apologize. This is true, but the wrong Agave Jalisco was contacted on accident. Again, we are independently owned and the Agave Jalisco contacted the day of, was the one located at 5922 S Staples St, not our restaurant located at 2001 Ayers St. If we would have known about this issue sooner we would have addressed it swiftly and aggressively.
Agave Jalisco restaurant is a full service Mexican restaurant that aims to please customers with good food, great service, and most importantly an atmosphere where you can enjoy your meal in peace, free of judgement. We are family owned, we have taught our family and children to go out into the world, and treat everyone, the same way that they would want to be treated. This matter was looked into for several hours, in order to find out how and why this happened.
Unfortunately we can not control the actions of our employees 100% of the time and sometimes we have issues come up. However in our findings we found that the employee who allegedly said these derogatory, homophobic statements, was no longer fit to give any type of customer service with Agave Jalisco and it’s team. This employee will be terminated. In order to ensure that this never happens again, we will also be making the entire Agave Jalisco team take a sensitivity class as soon as possible.
We want to reiterate that the actions of this employee in no way reflect Agave Jalisco Restaurant and it’s values or beliefs. The Clement family has been reached out too, in order to offer a personal apology. We are writing this statement now as a public apology the Clement family, Miguel Clement, and his boyfriend. We here at Agave Jalisco are truly sorry for what happened that day, and will strive to always make Agave Jalisco a loving, accepting business, free of judgement. We will make sure this never happens again.
Clement was pleased with the response, writing on Facebook: “Our son, his boyfriend, and our family applaud Agave Jalisco for taking swift action in addressing the unfortunate incident. Although they cannot control every employee, they have stepped up to ensure they are held accountable. Much appreciated! We encourage all community members to join us in supporting Agave Jalisco as they have shown true character and compassion. I will delete all social media posts I made on the incident so we can move forward as a community. I can’t put into words how thankful we are for all the love and support our son and his boyfriend have received. Above all else, let’s be kind.”
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Texas Restaurant Apologizes, Fires Employee Who Taunted Customers with Homophobic Slur
Haley Kiyoko, Laverne Cox Pay Tribute to Gay 9-Year-Old’s Passing
Colorado fourth-grader Jamel Myles died by suicide last week.
www.advocate.com/youth/2018/8/31/haley-kiyoko-laverne-cox-pay-tribute-gay-9-year-olds-passing
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