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News: Nick Jonas, SCOTUS Disruption, Disneyland Measles, NASA

News: Nick Jonas, SCOTUS Disruption, Disneyland Measles, NASA

Road 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

JonasRoad Nick Jonas keeps his clothes on (mostly) for sexy new GQ photo shoot. 

Road New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been arrested on federal corruption charges. 

Road 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.”

Road 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.

Road 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.”

Road Jennifer Aniston sort of suggests Brad Pitt didn’t actually cheat on her with Angelina Jolie. 

Road 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. 

SunRoad NASA unveils its 100 millionth photo of the sun. 

Road Zooey Deschanel is engaged to be married to boyfriend Jacob Pechenik. 

Road 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.”

Road Jamie Dornan disappointingly reminds us we won’t be seeing his full frontal goods in Fifty Shades of Grey.

Road Madonna says Israeli police have arrested the hacker who leaked her Rebel Heart album online. 

GrandeRoad 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. 

Road Frankie Grande wants to #breaktheinternet with a shirtless shot of him and his Big Brother cuddle buds. 

Road After some initial concerns from Rice University, a ball-loving student was free to transform his dorm room to better reflect his passions. 

Road Tom Felton, who played Slytherine-supreme Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, is actually a Gryffindor. 

Road Are Adele and Lady Gaga teaming up? Will Anderson Cooper become a game show host?

Road The House has approved a bill that would bar federal funding for abortions, despite a White House veto pledge. 

Road Gallup finds the American public’s satisfaction with the acceptance of gay people has plateaued at 53%.


Kyler Geoffroy

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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

senator-embry-facebook-800x430Kentucky 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

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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:

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.

H/T Towleroad

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James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Charlie Carver's Sex Scene Revealed in New 'I Am Michael' Photos

James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Charlie Carver's Sex Scene Revealed in New 'I Am Michael' Photos

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A set of new stills from the upcoming film I Am Michael, about former gay rights activist turned “ex-gay” poster boy Michael Glatze and starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Charlie Carver, gives us the first look at a three-way sex scene between the actors as well as other key moments.

Franco plays Glatze while Quinto plays his then boyfriend Bennett. The duo bed Carver’s character in a club, according to a November report from E!:

“They first meet in a club. The music is pumping. It’s the eighties!” a source said. “When Charlie’s character questions Franco about having a boyfriend, Franco says, ‘He’d like you, too.'”

Cut to the bedroom, where the three are naked, intertwined and “kissing,” the source said. “You see their asses.” […]

The three enjoy a romance, but when Michael leaves, the breakup is “disastrous and heartbreaking,” the source said.

The film, produced by Gus van Sant, is premiering at Sundance. It’s based on the Benoit Denizet-Lewis NYT article “My Ex-Gay Friend”. Denizet-Lewis is a co-producer on the film. The film is directed by Justin Kelly.

Additional stills show the main characters at a rave party, Carver and Quinto together, Franco alone and despondent in what appears to be a tiled bathroom, Franco and Quinto kissing, and Franco embracing Emma Roberts.

Check them out, AFTER THE JUMP

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Andy Towle

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