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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1718
MANATEE ATTACK: They’re harmless but this girl doesn’t care.
THE RECIPES FOR LIFE: Joe Hanson spends some time in the primordial kitchen.
PRINCE HARRY: Not a fan of selfies.
DANCE PARTY: On the NYC subway.
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Andy Towle
www.towleroad.com/2015/04/towleroad-guide-to-the-tube-1718.html
Canine flu cases spike in Chicago area
Chicago-area officials are cautioning dog owners that a recent surge in cases of canine flu could last for several weeks.
woodtv.com/2015/04/07/canine-flu-cases-spike-in-chicago-area/
After Antigay Pizzeria Fundraiser, Nonprofit Serves Up a Slice of Equality
Planting Peace is hosting a virtual pizza party that will benefit homeless members of the LGBT community.
Raffy Ermac
Davey Wavey Offers Wives A Chance To See Their Husbands In Drag
Drag is deinitely having a moment in the mainstream and seems to be causing some people to wonder, “What would I look like if I played around with my gender presentation?”
Now, YouTube personality Davey Wavey has brought together three straight couples to have their male counterparts be made-over by a drag queen named Miss Haley Star. The results are hilarious, and kudos to these men for having such open minds!
Check out the video above or head here to see more from Davey Wavey.
(h/t The Gaily Grind)
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WATCH: Is “Boy Meets Girl” The First Truly LGB And T film?
Stealing the screen from Twilight hottie Michael Welch, transgender actress Michelle Hendley makes her auspicious screen debut in the heartwarming romantic comedy, Boy Meets Girl (out today on cable and VOD outlets including iTunes, Comcast, WolfeOnDemand.com and others). Breaking stereotypes and genre expectations, writer-director Eric Schaeffer (My Life’s In Turnaround, If Lucy Fell) delivers a satisfying rom-com from an unexpected set-up — as twenty-something transwoman Ricky (Hendley) plays the field with both her straight guy best friend Robby (Welch) and the super sexy rich girl Francesca (Alex Turshen). With this ambitious plot, Boy Meets Girl may just be the first truly LGBT film — it really has something for everyone.
Check out the trailer above and look for the film on fine digital platforms everywhere today (and on DVD April 28th from Wolfe Video).
About WolfeOnDemand.com
WolfeOnDemand.com is the global LGBT digital movie platform from LGBT specialty distributor Wolfe Video. The service showcases more than one hundred titles — features and documentaries — including popular favorites and hits like I Am Divine, The Circle, Getting Go, Undertow and many more. Most titles are available in HD and are priced at US $3.99 for streaming rentals and US $14.99 for digital download to own. Most of the films are available worldwide and are all also available on DVD directly from WolfeVideo.com for US viewers.
Jenni
Openly Gay California Police Chief Accused Of Harassing And Firing Subordinate
Chris Magnus, the openly gay and married police chief to the city of Richmond, California, is being sued by a former officer who alleges that Magnus repeatedly made untoward sexual advances before firing him. Thomas Hauschild (pictured right), the officer who filed the lawsuit last Friday, claims that Magnus was responsible for a bogus internal investigation that ultimately led to his being fired.
Issues between the men, the lawsuit recounts, first began when the police department received word of a potential attack on Magnus’s house. Hauschild was assigned to a special team responsible for guarding Magnus’s residence and one night, during Hauschild’s rounds, the police chief allegedly touched his arm and upper leg.
In the following days Hauschild claims that Magnus made a number of phone calls directly to his cell phone for reasons unrelated to work. When Hauschild rejected his superior’s advances, he says, he was immediately punished–removed from the special SWAT detail, and subjected to heightened internal scrutiny.
An investigation was launched into Hauschild’s personal life in the wake of a domestic dispute that led to his arrest and the confiscation of eight unregistered firearms. Soon after, Hauschild was terminated from the police force. Hauschild alleges that Magnus engineered his dismissal as an act of retaliation for rejecting his sexual advances.
“It appears that having assessed (that) some other claim of bias wasn’t his best option, this officer and his attorney apparently decided to exploit the fact that as a police chief who happens to be gay, I would be ‘vulnerable’ to this particular type of accusation,” Magnus responded in a lengthy Facebook post.
“If the goal of the plaintiff and his attorney is to embarrass, intimidate, or otherwise bully me for doing my job when it comes to addressing misconduct within my department, I can assure you it’s not going to happen.”
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul launches 'anti-establishment' run for presidency
Andrew V. Pestano LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 7 (UPI) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has announced he will be running for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2016.
Rand Paul Is Officially Running for President
The Kentucky senator says he is a ‘different kind of Republican’ — but his past statements on LGBT equality indicate more of the same.
Sunnivie Brydum
www.advocate.com/politics/politicians/2015/04/07/rand-paul-officially-running-president
'Drag Race' Season 7 Star Katya: RuPaul Is Intimidating and Michelle Visage Is Terrifying
“I didn’t expect to be afraid of RuPaul,” admits Drag Race star Katya Zamolodchikova, “But I was.”
It was just one of many surprises in store for the Boston-based performer when she showed up to compete on Season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Katya now realizes just how “naïve” she was about elements of the televised competition, not the least of which being how difficult it would be to build a “rapport” with “The Supermodel of the World.”
“I didn’t go in there expecting to be pals with her or whatever, but it is different when you’re in front of the cameras,” she said of RuPaul.
“She’s a businesswoman. It’s her job,” Katya continued during a recent interview filmed for YouTube (below). “She goes in there, does a fabulous job of hosting the show, but that’s it. You don’t hang out with her or anything.”
In hindsight, though, Katya — pronounced “Kah-Tee-Yah,” not “Kotcha,” which she quickly corrected upon our meeting — has a better understanding of the superstar. For future contestants, she has clear-cut suggestions for interacting with the legend.
“It is intimidating meeting [RuPaul], and, yes, you can definitely get that ‘distant’ vibe, but she wants you to make her laugh,” she says, “She really, really wants that, so you just have to get over that nervousness or intimidation…Just go for it!”
Watch: Drag Race star Katya discusses her fear of RuPaul, dishes on the other queens of Season 7, names her all-time favorite Drag Race contestant & shares the inspiration for her quirky YouTube videos.
After facing elimination in the second episode of the series — in which she seriously flubbed a lip-sync in “The Glamazon Airlines” challenge — Katya has regained her footing and quickly become a standout. While audiences love her sassy wit and incredible runway looks, the show’s judges don’t seem entirely sold. She describes Michelle Visage as “particularly harsh.”
“She’s terrifying, I’m not going to lie,” Katya said of the long-time Drag Race judge, who also happens to be RuPaul’s BFF. Since the departure of Santino Rice from the panel of judges, Katya says Visage has become even more difficult to please.
“I think that she’s taken on the role of ‘head judge,'” she said, “[Santino and she] kind of had a good cop/bad cop thing going, and now Michelle’s the ‘bad cop.’ Well, she was always a bad cop, but now she’s a really bad cop.”
RuPaul and the judges weren’t the only things which had the contestant quivering in her stilettos. According to Katya, she was shaken to find New York’s Miss Fame also competing.
“I was like ‘Fuck, fuck, fuck!'” she recalled of walking into the workroom that first day to discover the 29-year-old YouTube sensation in the running to become “America’s Next Drag Superstar.”
Drag Race Season 7 star Katya & Pollo Del Mar, Photo by Jose A. Guzman-Colon
“She was so intimidating in such a specific way,” Katya shared of Fame, who revealed her somewhat bizarre love of chickens (I love Pollo too!) in the latest episode. “When I introduced myself to her, she was so confident — but not bitchy about it. She was so sure of herself.”
It was a radically different approach, Katya says, than fellow contestant Violet Chachki. The 22-year-old diva, who won the show’s first main stage challenge and appears to be a judge’s favorite, was much a more in-your-face competitor.
“She was like, ‘I’m going to win because I’m America’s fucking next drag superstar, and I’m going to claw my way to the top,” Katya recalled, “‘And if that means stepping on your face, I’m going to do it.’ That’s Violet.”
That said, the Bostonian still rejected labeling her talented young costar as Season 7’s “villain” (though I tried!). Instead, she views Chachki in a different way.
“I would call her this season’s ‘brat,'” Katya says. “I am a huge fan of hers, and I like watching her on the show…Her talent is not overshadowed by her brattiness, not at all!
“Every time she walks down the runway, it blows your wig off,” she concluded, “Every fucking time!”
To get more of the performer’s insights into episodes of Drag Race, told from the perspective [and in the accent of her Russian alter-(sh)ego], check out Katya’s YouTube Channel here.
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HRC Calls on Rand Paul to Take Position on Indiana’s Anti-LGBT Law
Today, HRC highlighted Sen. Rand Paul’s long history of opposing LGBT equality and called on him to take a position regarding Indiana’s anti-LGBT law signed by Gov. Mike Pence.
HRC.org
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