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First Same-Sex Couples Marry in Alaska

First Same-Sex Couples Marry in Alaska
It appears that at least two same-sex couples have been married in Barrow, Alaska, according to Kristine Hilderbrand, who said state Magistrate Mary Treiber waived the three-day waiting period required after issuing of marriage licenses.

Hilderbrand said she married Sarah Ellis at around 4 p.m. today. The two are likely the first same-sex couples to be married in Alaska.


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The World’s First Erotic Haunted House Will Scare You Stiff

The World’s First Erotic Haunted House Will Scare You Stiff

Screen Shot 2014-10-13 at 3.46.30 PMIs that a meat cleaver in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Finally, the world’s first “erotic haunted house” is open for business. We know how long you’ve been waiting.

San Francisco’s Disneyland of taboo sex, the equal parts historic and imposing Kink.com Armory building in the Mission District, home of the “controversial” prison-themed circuit party and the subject of a James Franco documentary, is now welcoming visitors to an evening of sexy scares.

“We know that many people find Kink’s films scary, so we wanted to have a little fun with that,” said Andrew Harvill, the producer of the event. “The Armory building itself is actually haunted, so setting up a real haunted house using our dungeons and sets was a natural fit. It’s both terrifying and, depending on your kink, arousing.”

“The two emotions, fear and sex, are inextricably linked. We wanted to play off that and offer people a truly old school scare in an unexpected setting.”

The event, called Hell in the Armory, bills, “Over-the-top production featuring contortionists, nude models body painted by the city’s top talent, prosthetics, animatronics, interactive art and a menacing cast of characters.”

We’d like to hear more about those prosthetics.

h/t Accidental Bear

 

Dan Tracer

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What To Watch This Week on TV: Laverne Cox's Trans Documentary

What To Watch This Week on TV: Laverne Cox's Trans Documentary

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Check out our weekly guide to make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

— As the first trans woman on the cover of Time Magazine and the first Emmy-nominated trans actress, Laverne Cox has already helped raise awareness of the trans experience in popular culture, but this time her focus is on real-life coming out, dating and discrimination. Cox tells the story of seven trans youths in her new documentary The T Word airing Friday at 7p.m. Eastern on MTV and Logo.

A pregnant virgin, the return of Top Chef and more TV this week, AFTER THE JUMP …

 

— The premise of Jane The Virgin may seem a little kooky. A 23-year-old virgin gets mistakenly artificially inseminated, and it only gets loopier from there. As soapy as it sounds, the show has a lot more soul than you might expect, thanks in no small part to its lead, Gina Rodriguez. Catch the first episode tonight at 9 p.m. on the CW.

 

— With same-sex marriage sweeping the country, how long is it before we get our own sitcom about a middle-class couple that won’t just get hitched already? In the meantime, we’ll just have to make due with Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Ken Marino (Party Down) as they play a couple that can’t quite make it to the altar on the new show Marry Me, premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBC.

 

— If you missed last week’s premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show, you missed an incredibly strange and delightful performance of David Bowie’s “Life On Mars” by Jessica Lange. Catch up on everything you missed in our recap, and tune in to the next episode Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on FX.

 

— Top Chef tackles Boston in its latest season, premiering Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Bravo. This time, Top Chef-alum and All-Stars winner Richard Blais joins the judges’ table.

What are you watching this week?


Bobby Hankinson

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