What Inspires Me on MLK Day of Service in Alabama
HRC Alabama Field Organizer Tori Sissons shares what MLK Day of Service means to her.
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Queer As Folk Creator Wants More Male Nudity On TV
Queer As Folk Creator Wants More Male Nudity On TV
Charlie Hunnam, Queer As Folk
There is not enough male frontal nudity on TV. You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame — it doesn’t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. I’m not out to shock.”
— Russell T. Davies, creator of Queer As Folk and the new series Cucumber, preaching to the choir in a new interview with The Telegraph
Jeremy Kinser
News: Nick Jonas, SCOTUS Disruption, Disneyland Measles, NASA
News: Nick Jonas, SCOTUS Disruption, Disneyland Measles, NASA
Poll shows Hillary Clinton with a double-digit lead over her potential GOP presidential rivals Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. Biden, meanwhile, is keeping the 2016 door open.
Nick Jonas keeps his clothes on (mostly) for sexy new GQ photo shoot.
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been arrested on federal corruption charges.
The Supreme Court was disrupted this morning by overturned chairs and shouts of protest by Citizens United protesters. Via NPR: “The session had just begun when protesters in the back of the chamber began yelling things like, “One person, one vote,” “We are the 99 percent,” “Money is not speech,” and “Overturn Citizens United.” This last was a reference to the Court’s 2010 decision, issued on this day five years ago. That decision struck down limits on corporate and union campaign spending, uncorking a flood of campaign cash.”
California health officials are warning people without proper vaccines should avoid Disneyland after an outbreak of measles was traced back to the Anaheim amusement park.
TIME’s Steve Friess dissects the reaction to Billy Crystal’s reaction to gay sex on television. “Gays won, essentially, by persuading everyone to view us as sexless because we knew that how we express love and lust was at best unfamiliar — and at worst repulsive — to many people…But now, after decades of telling the folks that what we do in our bedrooms is not of their concern and should not matter to their opinions of us, we demand that they be happy to look upon depictions of gay sex with a big shrug or, even, a round of applause. If anyone breathes even the slightest hint of discomfort or dismay, they must be berated and humiliated. Where once the anti-gay legions used shame to scare and silence us, now it’s the pro-gay forces who think it’s a weapon.”
Jennifer Aniston sort of suggests Brad Pitt didn’t actually cheat on her with Angelina Jolie.
The Atlantic picks apart Mike Huckabee’s recent assertion that states can ignore the Supreme Court on gay marriage while Mother Jones follows the money of Huckabee’s PAC that paid his family almost $400,000.
NASA unveils its 100 millionth photo of the sun.
Zooey Deschanel is engaged to be married to boyfriend Jacob Pechenik.
MSNBC on the vote to get Senators on record about climate change. “In all, out of 54 Senate Republicans, only five – Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsay Graham (S.C.), and Mark Kirk (Ill.) – were willing to acknowledge what climate scientists tell us is painfully obvious. In other words, about 91% of Senate Republicans have effectively positioned themselves as climate deniers, evidence be damned.”
Jamie Dornan disappointingly reminds us we won’t be seeing his full frontal goods in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Madonna says Israeli police have arrested the hacker who leaked her Rebel Heart album online.
Dan Savage tackles whether NASA should name a telescope after James Webb, a guy who helped advance the space program but also persecuted gays in the 1950s.
Frankie Grande wants to #breaktheinternet with a shirtless shot of him and his Big Brother cuddle buds.
After some initial concerns from Rice University, a ball-loving student was free to transform his dorm room to better reflect his passions.
Tom Felton, who played Slytherine-supreme Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, is actually a Gryffindor.
Are Adele and Lady Gaga teaming up? Will Anderson Cooper become a game show host?
The House has approved a bill that would bar federal funding for abortions, despite a White House veto pledge.
Gallup finds the American public’s satisfaction with the acceptance of gay people has plateaued at 53%.
Kyler Geoffroy
Vote The Advocate in ASME Best Cover Contest
Vote The Advocate in ASME Best Cover Contest
Help The Advocate win a Readers’ Choice Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Daniel Reynolds
www.advocate.com/politics/media/2015/01/22/vote-advocate-asme-best-cover-contest
HRC Arkansas Welcomes First Interns in Arkansas
HRC Arkansas Welcomes First Interns in Arkansas
HRC Arkansas is proud to announce our Spring 2015 Interns, Nicholas Bradford and Zachary Baker.
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New Kentucky Bill Targets Trans Kids Using The “Wrong” Bathroom With $2500 Bounty
New Kentucky Bill Targets Trans Kids Using The “Wrong” Bathroom With $2500 Bounty
Kentucky Republican State Senator C.B. Embry has sponsored a bill that would effectively put a bounty on transgender students who are caught using the “wrong” gendered bathroom. Students who catch their trans peers using the facilities of their chosen gender would be entitled to sue the school for $2,500 worth of damages relating to “psychological and emotional damage.”
The bill would “require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females.”
Embry says he has no problem with trans students, adding that “they’re certainly welcome to live their lives as they choose, if they want to dress as the opposite sex and the school is OK with that, that’s fine.”
In his mind, you have to draw the line somewhere, and that somewhere is the little male and female signs on bathrooms. Because god forbid we educate kids on what it means to be transgender. For Embry, it’s much easier to appease the “normal” kids while pointing a finger at the trans ones, telling them their identity isn’t real.
But before you go calling him a bigot, allow him to shove his foot a little further into his mouth. “I have a friend, and we can all say these things, who is a homosexual and she agrees that she doesn’t want men in her bathroom,” he told US News.
We’re so happy your one lesbian friend with no experience of being trans agrees with you on this. The rest of us, however, do not.
h/t Raw Story
Dan Tracer
Even More Bad Lip Reading of the NFL: VIDEO
Even More Bad Lip Reading of the NFL: VIDEO
The geniuses behind Bad Lip Reading are back to once again tackle the sideline shenanigans of the NFL.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2015/01/even-more-bad-lip-reading-of-the-nfl-video.html
Sam Smith Reportedly Splits From Boyfriend Jonathan Zeizel
Sam Smith Reportedly Splits From Boyfriend Jonathan Zeizel
Just weeks after their romantic Australian vacation, singer Sam Smith and boyfriend Jonathan Zeizel have reportedly called it quits.
The 22-year-old Grammy nominee, who is currently in the midst of a U.S. tour, seemed to hint at an apparent split with an emotional Instagram post:
Une photo publiée par Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) le Janv. 20, 2015 at 9:30 PST
Many have interpreted Smith’s words at a Jan. 20 performance in Toronto as an implying that he and Zeizel had gone their separate ways, too. In the middle of the concert, he introduced his song “Good Thing” by telling the crowd, “This is about a very similar thing I had to do today with someone I’ve been seeing.”
“Good Thing,” a cut off Smith’s smash debut album, “In The Lonely Hour,” features lyrics which reference a breakup: “Too much of a good thing won’t be good for long/Although you made my heart sing, to stay with you would be wrong.”
The Mirror cites a new interview with The Sun, which quotes Smith as saying, “Hopefully I will find someone soon and when I do I think it will be a bit more difficult to sing songs because I will want to sing happy songs.”
In the interview, said to have been conducted following his Toronto performance, Smith added, “Right now when I’m on stage I feel like it is good for me, it is like therapy every night. The music comforts me.”
Smith, who nabbed six Grammy nominations in December, confirmed last month that he was in the “very, very, very early days” of a relationship with an extra he’d met on the set of his “Like I Can” video.
He went public with Zeizel, a dancer and model, in a series of cozy Instagram snaps over the holidays. The couple even re-enacted the iconic scene from “Titanic” in one image.
#Trailblazer: James Dreyfuss: 'I was called a "weird looking fruit" in Texas'
#Trailblazer: James Dreyfuss: 'I was called a "weird looking fruit" in Texas'
Former Gimme Gimme Gimme star and out gay actor on his travel heaven and hell, from Bombay to the USA
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/trailblazer-james-dreyfuss-i-was-called-weird-looking-fruit-texas220115
HRC Nebraska Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
HRC Nebraska Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
HRC Nebraska sends a huge thank you out to the many volunteers who helped to make our Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service a success.
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