Colin Farrell: It's 'Insane' That My Gay Brother Left Ireland to Marry
The actor is encouraging Ireland to vote for marriage equality in a national referendum next year.
Lucas Grindley
www.advocate.com/world/2014/11/16/colin-farrell-its-insane-my-gay-brother-left-ireland-marry
Michigan Claims 300 Same-Sex Marriages 'Never Existed'
The Sixth Circuit’s decision upholding marriage bans is being cited as reason to ignore 300 same-sex couples who got marriage licenses.
Lucas Grindley
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) Claims Obama Is Prioritizing LGBT Rights And Ignoring Religious Persecution Abroad: AUDIO
Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado expressed on Thursday with Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch,” that the Obama administration is more concerned with defending LGBT rights than preventing religious persecution abroad reports Right Wing Watch.
Said Rep. Lamborn:
“We have the sad situation of persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East and other parts of the country, including Christians and other various sects out there, that are being really persecuted, sometimes they’re being beheaded or crucified or tortured because of their religious views. So the State Department, you would think, would want to be all over that, would want to be pressing for countries to be respecting the rights of religious minorities.
“But it seems like they are really more motivated and active promoting things like lesbian and gay rights, transgendered (sic) rights and those kind of issues to the neglect of religious prosecution (sic). And I just want them to pay attention to the severe and deadly prosecution (sic) of Christians and other religious people wherever that occurs in the world.”
Lamborn ignores the fact that President Obama ordered airstrikes in Iraq this summer to deter ISIS violence against Christians, Yazidis and other muslims. Media Matters for America cited several instances where President Obama addressed ISIS violence and genocide in early August, with mentions of Christians fleeing their homes to avoid ISIS’ onslaught. President Obama and National Security Advisor Susan Rice met with Christian leaders from the middle east to discuss the plight of Christians under ISIS’ oppressive regime. The administration also freed several Christians imprisoned abroad including Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a child in prison while shackled to the prison floor, before suffering a cruel fate at the hands of the Sudanese government after she was accused of abandoning the Muslim faith and committing adultery.
And yet the religious right’s persecution complex continues, with Lamborn and Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins claiming Obama continues to ignore the rights of Christians within the U.S. and believing Christianity will soon end up becoming criminalized. However, Perkins is perfectly content with anti-LGBT laws and even praised Uganda’s “Kill the Gays,” bill. FRC meanwhile has a habit of capitalizing and exploiting current events to further their religious agenda, including blatant disrespect for the recently deceased.
Anthony Costello
One Direction's Harry Styles jokes gay sex can't be disapproved of until tried
‘Hey, don’t knock it ’til you try it’
Jamesw
TDOR Series: Finding a Light in the Darkest of Times
Achim Jeramiah Howard reveals his internal struggles of being a trans man who is also HIV positive.
HRC.org
Is the Colonization of Mars Actually Possible? – VIDEO
The guys over at ASAPScience have a new video all about Mars and the obstacles we’d need to overcome in order to set up a human colony on the red planet – gay club presumably included.
Check out the fascinating video, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2014/11/is-the-colonization-of-mars-actually-possible-video.html
Nicolas Sarkozy Wants to Reverse Marriage Equality in France
Just because same-sex couples are already marrying, that hasn’t stopped a campaign to rid the country of equality.
Lucas Grindley
www.advocate.com/world/2014/11/16/nicolas-sarkozy-wants-reverse-marriage-equality-france
Viral video star 'cured' from being gay explains himself
‘That video was not planned. I did not know I was going to get that mic. When I walked up there, I was walking up there, chains bound. I was walking up there, not knowing that I had more hope to myself’
Jamesw
www.gaystarnews.com/article/viral-video-star-cured-being-gay-explains-himself161114
Perfume Genius Tour T-Shirts Feature Eminem in Drag
Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas), who made his debut on The Late Show with David Letterman two weeks ago and is currently playing dates in Europe, is not the only artist on his tour who will be wearing a bit of lipstick.
Hadreas took to Twitter this week to remind folks that his tour apparel targets a rapper known for his homophobic lyrics, for those of you wanting to ‘dress up’ your t-shirt collection:
I am selling tshirts that feature an emasculated Eminem on this tour. Just a f–kin reminder pic.twitter.com/7qDP1KcpU0
— Perfume Genius (@perfumegenius) November 11, 2014
Pretty sure I could destroy him with Just a Look, someone put us in a room together and watch Eminem slowly wither from my witch glance
— Perfume Genius (@perfumegenius) November 11, 2014
Feminem tshirts are available here as well: t.co/KCs5V64z4V
— Perfume Genius (@perfumegenius) November 12, 2014
Andy Towle
www.towleroad.com/2014/11/perfume-genius-t-shirts-feature-eminem-in-drag.html
We Need to be Better PrEPared
By now, many of you may have seen the headlines or read news about what sounds like encouraging results, announced in late October, about two clinical trials of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) in gay and bisexual men.
It’s important, however, to not make assumptions based on the preliminary findings about the PROUD and IPERGAY studies.
Before the scheduled end of the trials, the safety monitoring boards determined Truvada was effective in reducing the HIV infection rate among study participants, so they stopped the trials early and offered Truvada to all study participants.
The IPERGAY trial was especially interesting because it was testing different dosing strategies for Truvada, other than once a day. It’s important to know, however, that we don’t yet have the critical information we need to make firm conclusions about the frequency, timing or exact dose of PrEP required for protection.
Although there will be a full reporting of the data in scientific meetings and publications, it will take some time for that data to be fully analyzed. And because the trials were halted early, it’s possible there will not be enough data to answer all of the questions initially posed by the investigators.
We also don’t yet have important data regarding the risk behaviors of study participants, rates of HIV infection and adherence to the PrEP regimen.
So as we wait for more information from these and other important studies still underway, including the Center’s own study, I agree with the statement recently issued by the CDC. They “recommend the FDA-approved and proven regimen of daily oral Truvada for HIV prevention among those at substantial risk for HIV infection. Consistent daily use of PrEP (measured by a detectable level of medicine in the blood) has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection among MSM by as much as 92%.”
The Los Angeles LGBT Center believes PrEP is a very important component of a comprehensive strategy to reduce the number of people infected by HIV. Learn more about our position here.
Robert Bolan, M.D., is the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s medical director. A former president and chairman of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Dr. Bolan has been caring for people with HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic and is one of the nation’s foremost experts on HIV treatment.