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Rob Fusari's 'Cary NoKey' Opening For RuPaul's Drag Race's 'Battle Of The Seasons' 2015 Condragulations Tour: VIDEO

Rob Fusari's 'Cary NoKey' Opening For RuPaul's Drag Race's 'Battle Of The Seasons' 2015 Condragulations Tour: VIDEO

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Screen Shot 2015-01-21 at 1.46.30 PMRob Fusari, the award winning songwriter behind No. 1 hits with several artists including Destiny’s Child, Lady Gaga and Whitney Houston, is joining RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Battle of the Seasons 2015 Condragulations Tour as the show’s opening act. The show is hosted by Michelle Visage and features several notable drag queens including recent winner Bianca Del Rio, Sharon Needles, Courtney Act, Raja, Adore Delano, Manila Luzon, Detox, Pandora Boxx and Darienne Lake among several others. Fusari, who wrote hit songs like Paparazzi, Love That Man, and Beautiful, Dirty, Rich segued out of the music industry machine and decided to start writing songs for himself that led him to develop Cary NoKey.

Said Fusari:

“On the outside it seemed like I had everything but I was never able to understand or accept certain elements that existed within me.

“Cary NoKey was always there inside. I simply needed to embrace my glam American Dream.”

Cary NoKey’s opening setlist includes cover songs and eight original songs from Cary NoKey’s full-length debut album, Journal 8, set to release in early March. NoKey is set to debut his new single Do Ya? in the opening act and perform his recent single American Dream live. NoKey’s American Dream, which has a music video on YouTube featuring trans actresses Trace Lysette, Dina Marie, Victoria Beltran and Bailey Jay, details the fall of the American dream and how trans people are becoming the true face of the American dream in a recent press release.

Said Fusari:

Screen Shot 2015-01-21 at 2.48.50 PM“The Pollyanna ideas of work hard, follow the rules, pay your taxes and ask not what your country has done for you but what you can do for your country have fallen into the abyss.

“Today’s American Dream isn’t about achieving goals. It’s about doing what you got to do to get by. No one wants to earn anything anymore. We expect everything to be handed to us. The new American dream is a lottery ticket.

“Transsexuals (sic) represent the larger idea that the American dream is something within. Like when Glinda the Good Witch says to Dorothy after she clicks her ruby slippers, ‘You’ve always had the power’. Pre-transitional transsexuals (sic) know they have to fight to release the truth that hides beneath the uniform the world forces them to wear. The moment we each find our own personal ‘I have to’ is when life really begins.”

The Condragulations Tour officially starts in Las Vegas on Feb. 1, ing throughout North America and ending in Europe with its last show on April 16 in London. The lineup of participating drag queens varies by city and dates. You can watch Cary NoKey’s vision of the American Dream, in the music video for the single AFTER THE JUMP…

 


Anthony Costello

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/rob-fusaris-cary-nokey-opening-for-rupauls-drag-races-battle-of-the-seasons-.html

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While Waiting for a Leader Like Dr. King, I'm Learning to Use My Own Voice

While Waiting for a Leader Like Dr. King, I'm Learning to Use My Own Voice
It’s no mere coincidence that the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear endgame freedom-to-marry cases on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. I take the synchronicity as a sign that hope for equality is alive and well in America. It bolsters my confidence that all people will soon have the freedom to marry whom they love. And secretly, it helps me believe we’re still getting help from the spirit of Dr. King to move us forward.

That may sound a little supernatural, but the truth is that I need Dr. King’s leadership in 2015. I long for his strength, his resolve, his command, and the safe harbor of his dream. Most of all, I long for his magnificent voice — a voice that people trusted when they were scared and a voice that transformed fear to inspire millions of people into civic action.

With a turn of phrase, elongation of a syllable, or elevation of tone that could scale mountains, King moved audiences to vote, protest in the streets, serve the poor, and love one another. His voice oriented a generation moving through a dark night of America’s soul. It’s not just his message that resonates more than 50 years later, it’s the southern preacher’s God-filled voice that echoes through time.

On Friday, after the Supreme Court announcement was made, I had an opportunity to offer my reaction to the local Nashville news. Rushing to the interview, my mind raced with all the things I wished to say. Even though I’ve been somewhat embarrassed that Tennessee is a domino yet to fall toward social justice, I wanted to express pride that my home state is now helping to accelerate marriage equality across the land. I wanted to discuss the many protections that legal marriage will offer lgbt families, especially those with children.

And I wanted to share my excitement that I, too, will finally have the option to marry. That’s a big deal considering that I had long written off the prospect of finding someone with whom to share my life. Recently, I’ve been dating a man who’s causing me to re-evaluate plans. Marriage equality’s not just theoretical for me anymore; it’s suddenly very personal.

Once the camera started rolling, though, my chest was jumbled full of words and emotion, and I couldn’t squeeze anything meaningful from my mouth. When the reporter asked a question, I stammered and lost my verve. After four takes, I was able to string along a few sentences, letting viewers know they were were witnessing “the beginning of the end of inequality in America.” That’s the sound byte that made it on air. Good enough.

I spent part of MLK Day reflecting on the experience and once again listened to Dr. King’s voice as a guide. I was reminded of these words he offered in a 1957 speech: “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

A leader of King’s caliber has yet to emerge and inspire lgbt people in this new era of civil rights battles. On Friday, in want of such a leader, I was asked to use my own voice. While it was as shaky as the leg of a newborn calf, I did it.

On behalf of lgbt youth and adults who feel they have no voice at all, I’m willing to keep stammering and crawling… until I fully find my own voice and learn how to fly.

Maybe I can learn to be the leader I’m longing for.

www.huffingtonpost.com/del-ray-zimmerman/while-waiting-for-a-leade_b_6505228.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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Five Reasons Why President Obama’s SOTU Last Night was the Most Pro-LGBT SOTU Address … Ever.

Five Reasons Why President Obama’s SOTU Last Night was the Most Pro-LGBT SOTU Address … Ever.

During last night’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to legal and social equality for LGBT Americans.
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Bryan Fischer: 'Muslim' Barack Obama Cannot Be Christian And Pro-Gay – VIDEO

Bryan Fischer: 'Muslim' Barack Obama Cannot Be Christian And Pro-Gay – VIDEO

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Wingnut Bryan Fischer, the head of rabidly anti-gay listed hate group the American Family Association, has bad news for Barack Obama because the president can’t be Christian and support LGBT rights, reports Right Wing Watch.

Fischer is no stranger to such ridiculous attacks, having recently claimed that equality for gay people “represents the greatest single threat” to liberty the United States has ever faced.

Speaking on hate-fest radio show “Focal Point” last Friday, Fischer claimed that Obama is not a Christian because “nobody can support and promote and celebrate homosexual behavior who is a sincerely devoted follower of Christ.”

Taking advantage of his direct line to god, Fischer added “I do not know what goes on inside Barack Obama’s heart, but I do know that he is not a sincerely devoted follower of Jesus Christ. So, in my mind, that means he’s not a Christian.”

Just on the off-chance his listeners had forgotten, batshit Fischer reminded his brainwashed readers that Obama “walks like a Muslim…talks like a Muslim…sounds like a Muslim…acts like a Muslim.”

Watch Fischer’s latest in an increasingly desperate recent series of outbursts, AFTER THE JUMP…


Jim Redmond

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/bryan-fischer-muslim-barack-obama-cannot-be-christian-and-pro-gay-video.html

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'If Guys Acted In Real Life The Way They Do On Gay Apps' Skewers Gay Internet Hookup Culture

'If Guys Acted In Real Life The Way They Do On Gay Apps' Skewers Gay Internet Hookup Culture
OK, let’s face it: if you identify as a gay man, at some point you’ve probably downloaded a gay hook-up app — and chances are people probably acted terrible.

The framework through which gay man communicate on apps like Grindr and Scruff often allows for the worst to come out of these disposable interactions. This is the topic explored by a new video from gay social networking app Jack’d titled, “If Guys Acted In Real Life The Way They Do On Gay Apps.”

The video explores how ridiculous it would be if men said things like “no fats, no fems” or suddenly flashed their junk outside of the presumed safety of the Internet and then had to deal with the consequences in the offline world. So what would happen if we turned the tables and talked to each other in real life the way we talk on gay hook-up apps? As the video shows, it probably wouldn’t be pretty but it definitely would be hilarious.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/21/gay-app-real-life_n_6518360.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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PHOTOS: Inside The May-December Wedding Of Stephen Fry And Elliott Spencer

PHOTOS: Inside The May-December Wedding Of Stephen Fry And Elliott Spencer

Actor, QI host and Harry Potter audiobook narrator Stephen Fry surprised everyone earlier this month with news of an engagement to boyfriend Elliott Spencer, saying at the time:

“Oh. It looks as though a certain cat is out of a certain bag. I’m very very happy of course but had hoped for a private wedding. Fat chance!”

The two tied the knot last Saturday, and though Stephen wanted a private ceremony, the two have released some photos of their big day.

Say what you will of the 30-year age gap the two share, happiness is happiness. We wish them all the best.

Here are some scenes from the wedding:

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Mr Fry said: “Oh and @ElliottGSpencer and I had our vows witnessed by a mini Oscar Wilde. Because one should. #greencarnations”

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“Gosh. @ElliottGSpencer and I go into a room as two people, sign a book and leave as one. Amazing.” Not sure we completely agree with that biology, but hey it’s cute at least.

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h/t PinkNews

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Mike Huckabee Says States Can Ignore Supreme Court 'Judicial Supremacy' On Gay Marriage

Mike Huckabee Says States Can Ignore Supreme Court 'Judicial Supremacy' On Gay Marriage

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Perhaps in response to his very public drubbing on The Daily Show over his bizarre culture war against Beyoncé, Mike Huckabee has gone back to his other favorite whipping boy: gays and gay marriage.

On Tuesday night he disputed what he calls the “notion of judicial supremacy“, meaning that what the courts rule is what reigns supreme in the law of the land:

One thing I am angry about though … is this notion of judicial supremacy, where if the court makes a decision, I hear governors and even some aspirants to the presidency say, ‘Well that’s settled, it’s the law of the land.’ No, it’s not the law of the land.

Deliberately or not, Huckabee is nit-picking semantics. No, the Supreme Court does not make laws. It does decide implementation of existing laws, however, and should the Court determine that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional then all state bans are null and void, just as with what happened with Loving v. Virginia and the anti-miscegenation laws. The states do not get to decide whether they abide by that ruling, courtesy of the Supremacy Clause which, incidentally, explicitly states that laws made in pursuance of the Constitution are, in fact, the law of the land.

In an attempt to truly emulate Christ, Huckabee was sure to put himself up on the cross for his beliefs:

I may be lonely, I may be the only one, but I’m going to stand absolutely faithful to the issue of marriage not because it’s a politically expedient thing to do because it isn’t. I’m going to do it because I believe it’s the right position, it’s the biblical position, it’s the historical position.


Christian Walters

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/mike-huckabee-says-states-can-ignore-supreme-court-judicial-supremacy-on-gay-marriage.html

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