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Human Genome Project, ACLU, Hillary Clinton, Barbra Streisand, Paul Ryan, Prince: NEWS
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT. Scientists will try to chemically recreate human DNA: “The authors of the proposal said that the ability to fabricate huge stretches of DNA would allow for numerous scientific and medical advances. It might be possible to make organisms resistant to all viruses, for instance, or make pig organs suitable for transplant into people.”
FRANCE. Louvre moves some artwork due to flooding of the Seine.
Some artworks at the Louvre museum in Paris will be moved to protect them from flooding t.co/L4AhR5JiEc t.co/rD1PII6LGw
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 2, 2016
UCLA. Gunman who murdered his former professor before killing himself planned to kill two professors but could only find one. He also had a kill list and murdered a woman in Minnesota before driving to California. “Mainak Sarkar, 38, a former doctoral student and Minnesota resident, left a list at his home in that state that included the names of the woman, UCLA professor William Klug and a second professor who is safe, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. Sarkar shot Klug multiple times in a small office in UCLA Engineering Building 4 before taking his own life, authorities said. Sarkar had accused Klug of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, according to police.”
MUSIC. Madonna wins lawsuit over “Vogue” copyright.
TONYS. Barbra Streisand to make first appearance at the awards show since 1970.
OBAMA. Trump is trying to bully POTUS.
ACLU. Leader of Georgia chapter resigns over transgender bathroom rights: “Maya Dillard Smith’s decision comes as the ACLU is taking a larger role in legislating the transgender lobby’s concerns. But the issues surrounding transgender policy led Smith to leave the agency, which she said has become ‘a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights.’”
BRITNEY SINGS. Rare video of Britney Spears performing live in 1998 at a showcase in Singapore surfaces.
NETFLIX AND CHILL. Julie Andrews is doing a Netflix show for kids about the performing arts.
GOT. Kit Harrington has ditched the beard.
FOREIGN POLICY. Hillary Clinton rips Donald Trump in speech in San Diego.
RACISM. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley warns rhetoric like that being used by Donald Trump led to the Charleston massacre.
TENNESSEE. Blue Angel jet crashes in Smyrna, Tennessee: “The rare Blues crash — the first in nearly a decade for the elite demonstration team, whose aviators are hand-picked to fly in tight formations and high-G force maneuvers — comes within hours of the crash of an Air Force F-16 Thunderbird after an Air Force Academy graduation flyby. The pilot ejected safely and is to be meet [sic] with President Obama.”
#Breaking: @BlueAngels jet crashes in Symrna, Tenn. t.co/nEnbGhAi3W (photo: Twitter) pic.twitter.com/O0Os59ZnKs
— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) June 2, 2016
PRINCE. The musician died of an opioid overdose according to authorities.
GOP. Paul Ryan finally endorses Donald Trump: “On Thursday, the speaker penned a guest column for his hometown newspaper in which he trumpeted the controversial real-estate mogul as someone who could support the speaker’s conservative agenda. The move consolidated Trump’s backing from Republican congressional leaders and most party leaders, leaving a small-but-influential bloc of conservatives who have vowed to never support the real-estate mogul isolated and without a significant leader carrying their flag.”
THURSDAY THIRST. David Calderon.
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Colton Haynes Is On A Tight Leash – LOOK
Colton Haynes surely doesn’t lose track of what day it is, because the recently out actor shared some thirsty photos on Instagram Thursday.
The photos, taken by photographer Tyler Shields, show Haynes sporting his newly platinum hair and a collar.
The collar is being tugged on by an unseen individual whose arm effectively operates as a leash.
Haynes hinted at a book collaboration with Shields, writing on Instagram,
Every single time we work together we push boundaries & make incredible art. Our photography book is gonna be pretty shocking to say the least…
Check out the photos, below.
And check out previous collaborations with Shields, here:
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Did Army Secretary Eric Fanning Hint at Lifting Trans Military Ban?
It’s been less than three weeks since Eric Fanning made history by becoming the first openly gay leader of any U.S. military branch. On Wednesday he hinted at more progress to come.
Last night he was honored at the Capital Pride Heroes Gala at the Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. where he received the Paving the Way award, along with eight other individuals. The award “honors those in public life who have shown courage and leadership in helping to advance the cause of LGBT rights,” and it’s given annually by the Capital Pride Alliance.
In his five-minute acceptance speech, Secretary Fanning “hinted at a possible lifting of the ban on out transgender military service,” as reported by Metroweekly:
“Time and time again in the military, as we have opened it up to people who weren’t allowed to serve in the past: African-Americans after World War II; women over many years, not just recently; the end of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’; [and] things haven’t fallen apart, they’ve gotten better,” Fanning said.
“The problems we’re facing, the challenges we’re facing, are ever more complicated in the world, certainly in the national security sphere,” he continued. “Why wouldn’t we want as many people as possible solving those kind of problems? The more backgrounds we have, the more viewpoints we have, the more experiences we have…the better off we’re going to be. And we’re going to keep getting better, fighting for more people to be included and have rights. … That’s all that this is about, to have the same opportunity to defend the nation we all love.”
Earlier today, Fanning told NBC’s Matt Lauer he didn’t even imagine he would have a future in the military as an openly gay man.
A little over five years ago, ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ prohibited gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the military.
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MTV announces pride month special 'Proudest Moments,' launches digital series 'No I.D. Required'
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In honor of Pride month, MTV will be celebrating their long history of LGBT representation in a 30-minute special, “MTV’s Proudest Moments” this Saturday, June 4 at 12:00 pm ET/PT. The special will feature LGBT celebs and advocates including Laverne Cox, Jazz Jennings, Mary Lambert, Andrew Rannells, Wilson Cruz and more as they discuss big moments in MTV’s history that have become iconic in pop culture.
MTV has a long history of LGBT-inclusion, from Pedro Zamora’s debut on The Real World in 1994 – which Cruz discusses in the below clip from the special – to the Emmy-winning special Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word in 2014, to this special. It is important to reflect on both how we go forwards as a community, but also how we’ve gotten here. MTV’s Proudest Moments allows us to reflect on the groundbreaking steps of those who have come before.
In addition to this special, MTV is also launching a digital profile series called No I.D. Required, which will premiere on June 6 on the network’s Snapchat Discover and MTV.com. This series showcases five teens of underrepresented orientations and gender identities as they talk about finding community, intersectionality, and celebrating self-acceptance and discovery.
Mormon Church Finds a New Target for Their Homophobia
Will LDS members continue to open their purses and wallets to stop marriage equality?
www.advocate.com/marriage-equality/2016/6/02/mormon-church-finds-new-target-their-homophobia
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Reflecting On 35 Years Since First Reports Of AIDS
We’re coming up on a grim anniversary–35 years since the first reported cases of what we would come to know as AIDS. To mark the occasion, the Bay Area Reporter has interviewed some high profile survivors about their experiences, their memories and what might lie ahead. It’s required reading for anyone who’s been touched by the crisis–which is everyone.
Related: “How to Survive a Plague” Explores The Passion And Progress Of Early AIDS Activists
One of the most important milestones of the last 35 years was the introduction of cocktails in the mid-90s. Following that innovation, death rates–which had been skyrocketing year after year– immediately took a nosedive.
That followed a decade of experimental treatments, many of which had no effect or actually made suffering worse. But there was virtually no knowledge about how the disease worked, and it was spreading so fast that doctors were desperate for any form of treatment. What’s more, officials in the Reagan administration did as little as they could to address the crisis.
Activist Cleve Jones recalls bringing the AIDS quilt to Washington in the mid-90s, when the Clinton administration was finally starting to take action to save lives.
“I talked to President Clinton on how my friends were now thriving and asking him to make sure these drugs would be available to everybody,” he tells the Bay Area Reporter.
In 1994, he suffered an infection that he expected to take his life, but the cocktails saved him.
Related: WATCH: Elizabeth Taylor’s Fight To Raise AIDS Awareness Changed History
Gabriel Quinto talks about being an early test subject. He also expected to die, and sold all of his belongings in preparation for the end. The drugs that he took saved him, but also had devastating side effects.
“These drugs were not tested for people of color and the side effects could make you feel worse than the disease itself,” he explains. “Many of my friends could not take these drugs and gave up. … The current medications have not raised my number of T cells above 150, so consequently I have good days and bad days when I need to rest.”
Terry Beswick, who runs the GLBT Historical Society, holds regular events and organizes exhibits to reflect on the last three decades. He cites the crisis as having taught the LGBTQ community a hard lesson about organizing and establishing leadership, one that ultimately helped the fight for civil rights but at an unbearable cost.
“We need to meet people where they are at and base public health policy on science rather than morality,” he says. “My big goal is to build a bigger LGBT museum (than the one in the Castro), complete with an educational and cultural center so we can tell the story of AIDS more effectively and learn not to make the same mistakes we made 20, 30 years ago.”
Related: Six Pioneering Gay Writers Who Helped Bring HIV/AIDS To The American Forefront
“I think marriage equality came out of our struggle with AIDS. For my generation of radical activists, marriage was not on any of our priority lists,” Jones says. But when partners died and there were no legal protections, “suddenly that little piece of paper became critically important. And that’s why working class gays and lesbians lined up when Mayor Gavin Newsom opened up City Hall in 2004 so they could get married, despite flack from the political establishment.”
Gavin Newsom, it’s worth pointing out, recently sent out an email to supporters about that time. Back in 2004, when he issued marriage licenses, most of the Democratic Party abandoned him.
There was only one high-profile politician willing to work with him during that time: Hillary Clinton.
This Mississippi Teen Is A High Schooler By Day And A Drag Queen At Night
By day, Trevor Ladner is your typical Mississippi high-schooler. But by night, he’s high-fashion drag queen Annie Thang.
Ladner was struggling to fit into typical concepts of masculinity and femininity, but drag opened up a new way of thinking about it… and dealing with it.
Related: Nine Queens Who Turned Their Drag Careers Into Some Serious Coin
The Sun Herald brings you his story in a fabulous video piece that’s just begging to be extended into a documentary or adapted into a TV show/movie of the week.
And, oh yeah, did we mention he’s going to Harvard in the fall?
We know it’s the internet in 2016, but this one is definitely worth six minutes of your time. Check it out below…
The Maytag Man Wants to Celebrate Pride with You
For 49 years, he’s been America’s “reliable and strong repairman who loves to do the dishes.” This year, he’s also “dependable, powerful and stocked full of Pride.”
After last year’s successful ad campaign that showed the Maytag Man holding a colored layer cake with a caption that read “Proud to be in any home,” an allusion to bakeries that had refused to serve same-sex couples, Maytag is bringing back the rainbow version of the good-looking handyman to celebrate LGBT Pride month. And this year, Maytag’s parent company Whirlpool also joined in.
On its Facebook page, the caption reads “It’s just that simple.”
It’s not as simple, however, to please everybody. Tweets applauding and criticizing the initiative quickly appeared on the social network.
The lgbt pandering is nauseating @TheMaytagMan .
— DernDawn (@noprezzie2012) June 2, 2016
@TheMaytagMan love you Maytag Man lol 😁🌈
— des (@603Lezzy) June 2, 2016
@TheMaytagMan Stop making lgbt identities saleable product shit man machine seller
— real subtle (@realsubtle) June 2, 2016
@realsubtle @TheMaytagMan pic.twitter.com/Ia3ctr3NOX
— Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) June 2, 2016
Whirlpool is proud to be the first and only appliance manufacturer to receive a 100 score from the Human Rights Campaign on its annual Corporate Equality Index, a list of the nation’s most LGBT-inclusive companies based on their treatment of LGBT employees, consumers and investors. The company says it has received perfect scores since 2003.
#EqualityWorks, which is why we are proud to support the #LGBT community by participating in @HRC’s #CEI2016 pic.twitter.com/c9B9S3rFhY
— Whirlpool Corp (@WhirlpoolCorp) November 18, 2015
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