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Michael Sam Perplexes TMZ Cameraman with 'Game of Thrones' Wedding News: VIDEO

Michael Sam Perplexes TMZ Cameraman with 'Game of Thrones' Wedding News: VIDEO

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NFL free agent Michael Sam and his fiancé Vito Cammisano arrived at LAX and were immediately confronted by an aggressive TMZ cameraman who began questioning them about their engagement and wedding date.

Sam was prepared though, and began giving the cameraman all the information he wanted. Unfortunately for the photog, he doesn’t watch Game of Thrones.

Sam told the photog the couple was getting married in Westeros with Tyrion and Tywin Lannister, and is registered at King’s Landing. He also told the photog the wedding date is April 17 (the premiere date for the show).

Said Sam: “Hopefully it will not be at the red wedding though. I will be very upset to be at the red wedding.”

The photographer was mystified.

Replied Sam: “Maybe — gay people — you don’t know our terminology.”

Watch the genius exchange, AFTER THE JUMP

Last night, TMZ reported that Sam had signed to compete on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.


Andy Towle

www.towleroad.com/2015/02/samtmz.html

FBI reveals it had anti-gay Westboro Baptists founder Fred Phelps on its radar since 1967

FBI reveals it had anti-gay Westboro Baptists founder Fred Phelps on its radar since 1967

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations kept records on pastor Fred Phelps over four decades but ultimately dismissed him as a time wasting attention seeker who deliberately sought to provoke death threats against himself

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www.gaystarnews.com/article/fbi-reveals-it-had-anti-gay-westboro-baptists-founder-fred-phelps-its-radar-1967240215

Kentucky Senate Committee Passes School Restroom Mandate For Transgender Students

Kentucky Senate Committee Passes School Restroom Mandate For Transgender Students
A Kentucky Senate committee on Monday approved a bill that would require transgender students to use restrooms designated for “their biological sex,” days after an identical measure failed.

The legislation, introduced last month, would require schools to “provide separate, private areas designated for use by students based on their biological sex” rather than their gender identity.

The legislation last week failed to earn seven votes needed to pass the Senate education committee, but legislators voted again on Monday and approved the measure 8-1, sending it to the full Senate. When a Kentucky Senate bill fails a committee vote, the committee chair can order a reconsideration, Amber Duke, communications director of the ACLU of Kentucky, told The Huffington Post. Bad weather was blamed for two senators missing last week’s vote, Duke said.

In a statement Monday evening, a coalition of Kentucky pro-LGBT groups noted that three senators, including two who voted against the bill last week, were missing from Monday’s vote.

“Unfortunately, tonight, the Kentucky Senate chose to prioritize an issue of discrimination after it was defeated just days ago with bi-partisan opposition,” Chris Hartman, the director of the Kentucky LGBT advocacy group Fairness Campaign, said in the statement. “Given the number and scale of important issues before the Senate this session, it is shocking the committee felt the need to re-vote on this. It is willful, mean-spirited, and does nothing to move our commonwealth forward.”

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/kentucky-transgender-restrooms_n_6740162.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices