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Person of the Year: The Finalists
While The Advocate‘s Person of the Year will be named tonight on MSNBC, the other nine finalists are presented here in no specific order.
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More Than Two: Examining The Myths And Facts Of Polyamory
We live in a society in which monogamous pairing is the norm.
We’re taught to desire and seek one other person – namely, our “soulmate,” the one person who will make us whole and happy. And supposedly, when we find that person, we will no longer have desires for others.
Pro golfer uses anti-gay slur during tournament in China – on himself
Patrick Reed calls himself a ‘faggot’ after missing a shot and it’s all captured on live television
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/pro-golfer-uses-anti-gay-slur-during-tournament-china-himself061114
Radical Anti-LGBT Advocate Elected to Michigan State Legislature
The author of Michigan’s constitutional amendment banning marriage equality was elected to the Michigan State Legislature on Tuesday.
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Meet The Gay Demon-Hunting Homophobe Who Wants To Spank The Queerness Out Of You
If you’re feeling bummed about Republicans taking control of the government this week, don’t be. Their reign will be short-lived, we promise. In part, thanks to guys like “demon hunter” Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt, who was just elected to the Colorado House of Representatives for what is sure to be a single term.
The former Navy chaplain is poised to become the next national laughingstock (along with Ms. Joni Ernst) with comments that make even Michele Bachmann sound semi-intelligent.
Klingenschmitt believes that gay people are “possessed by demons” that want to “steal your soul” and “visually rape your children.” He also once bragged about having attempted to rid of female soldier of the “foul spirit of lesbianism” through an exorcism. And he wrote a book claiming President Obama is possessed. (By demons, of course!)
We could go on and on about all the crazy shit “Dr. Chaps” has said, but that would take forever, so we’ll just do it in bullet points. It’s quicker.
Here is a list of just some of Klingenschmitt’s views:
How could someone so bat shit crazy possibly get elected? you wonder.
Well, Klingenschmitt heralds from the El Paso County district, where Republicans outnumber Democrats two to one, which enabled him to beat his opponent by nearly 40 points. But that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be around for long. Coloradans are smart people. (They voted to legalize pot, after all.) We’re confident Dr. Chaps won’t last more than a single term or two in office, and, honestly, we’re kinda looking forward to hearing more of the unintentionally hilarious nonsense that comes spewing from his mouth.
Grab the popcorn, this is gonna be good.
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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George Takei Fires Off Witty Answers to Dumb Questions About Gay People: VIDEO
Stopping by The Meredith Vieira Show this week, George Takei did a dramatic reenactment of his recent collaboration with Buzzfeed where he provided witty answers to dumb questions about gay people.
Later, Meredith introduced a new charity campaign called “Hugs for Honey” – with the show donating $25 to GLAAD for every hug George could rack up. In a separate video, George revealed his craziest encounter with a “Trekkie,” his celebrity crush, and whether he’s more of a Walking Dead or American Horror Story kind of guy.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
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James Manning, ATLAH Church Pastor, Claims Starbucks Uses 'Sodomites' Semen'
Here we go again.
The leader of the vehemently anti-gay Harlem ATLAH Missionary Church, James Manning, is once again making outrageous claims against the gay community. This time he might have outdone himself.
Last week, Manning asserted that Starbucks is “ground zero for Ebola” after the company released it’s first LGBT commercial starring Bianca Del Rio and Adore Delano of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fame.
Now, Manning has released another video in which the religious leader claims that Starbucks has been using the “sodomites’ semen” in their flavored coffee drinks. He states in the video:
“Starbucks is a place where these types frequent and a lot of body fluids are exchanged there. But the thing that I was not aware of is that there has been information that has been released… what Starbucks was doing, is they were taking specimens of male semen, and they were putting it in the blends of their lattes. Now, this is the absolute truth.”
ATLAH Missionary Church has a long history of anti-gay sentiment, predominantly expressed through the church’s main sign. The church first made headlines in late February when religious leaders posted a sign reading, “Obama has released the homo demons on the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man.” The church then later replaced the sign with one that read, “Jesus would stone homos,” along with “Stoning is still the law.” And later, “Harlem is a sodomite free zone. Stop sodomizing our children in schools across America.”
Happily, many LGBT people have stood up to the hate from Manning and ATLAH Church.
Earlier this week, activists protested ATLAH by providing free Starbucks coffee to pedestrians walking by the church.
In March, a lesbian transgender woman, Jennifer Louise Lopez, knocked on the church’s door and asked them to “stone” her for being part of the LGBT community. The video of the encounter quickly went viral and Lopez has continued to protest against the Church.
Christian university in Korea: 'No jobs for homosexuals'
Interview process also forces applicants to reveal their HIV status or if they’ve had a ‘transsexual operation’
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/christian-university-korea-no-jobs-homosexuals061114
Dating Website For People With STDs Outs Hundreds Of Thousands Of Users
Talk about a nightmare! Hundreds of thousands of people with sexually transmitted diseases have been outed by a popular free dating website.
PositiveSingles is an online service that caters to both gay and straight singles living with STDs ranging from herpes, to HPV, to syphilis, and more. It has now been sued for sharing users’ pictures and profile details with other dating websites, despite promising that it was a “100% confidential and comfortable community” that “[does] not disclose, sell or rent any personally identifiable information to any third-party organizations.”
It all started back to 2011 when an unnamed user accused the parent company of PositiveSingles, SuccessfulMatch, of a privacy breach.
SuccessfulMatch runs a number of niche dating sites, including Herpesinmouth, PositivelyKinky, AIDSDate, ChristianSafeHaven, and MeetBlackPOZ. The company also sells software to entrepreneurs looking to set up their own dating websites. That software, however, contains details of “hundreds of thousands of profiles” registered to SuccessfulMatch’s existing services.
“Plaintiff is… not black, gay, Christian or HIV-positive and was unaware that defendant was creating websites that focused on such traits that would include his profile, thus indicating that he was all of these things and more,” his lawyers argued.
Defense attorneys said that after a user completes their registration, a link to the website’s terms of services pops up, which notes that profile details — which include information about HIV and other STD statuses — may be shared with other websites within the SuccessfulMatch network, and that by posting a profile to the site, users agree to this.
But the jury wasn’t convinced.
This week, jurors ruled that SuccessfulMatch made misleading statements and ordered the company pay $1.5 million in compensatory damages and another $15 million in punitive damages.
A spokesman for SuccessfulMatch was not able to say whether the company plans to appeal the verdict.
Well, we definitely know which dating website we won’t be visiting any time soon!
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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