The House Just Screwed LGBT People Over Again
A step towards equality was thwarted by one vote and that’s completely unacceptable, writes Congressional candidate Emily Cain.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/5/27/house-just-screwed-lgbt-people-over-again
PHOTOS: This Is Certainly One Way To Keep A Travel Diary
Cobalto is billed as the “travel diary” of an Italian photographer based in Venice, Italy. We’ll be honest — we’re not exactly sure what that means.
But it goes without saying that this visual artist shares an appreciation for the same male form that shows up in some of the statues of his home town, and we can definitely relate there.
Oh the people places you’ll go:
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Tom Ford, Matt Bomer, Trump Sanders Debate, Justin Bieber, Homeland: NEWS
2016 ELECTION. Why certain Hillary supporters may be hiding in plain sight: “If you’ve been following the Democratic presidential contest, you might be wondering how it is possible that Bernie Sanders seems to have all the energy and enthusiasm and, yet, Hillary Clinton is way ahead in the race to the nomination. Lauren Winkler emailed us to offer an answer. ‘I get this feeling that many Hillary supporters (at least the younger ones, like me) are just biding their time to publicly display their support once she has the party’s nomination,’ wrote Winkler. ‘It’s so visceral. The reaction against her,’ she said when we met up with her in Albuquerque, N.M., where she lives. Publicly showing support for Hillary Clinton just isn’t worth the aggravation for Winkler and her friends Leigh Featherstone and Holly Chamberlin.”
TRUMP VS SANDERS. Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur offers $1 million to stage debate: “It would be among the most watched debates in the world,” touted Uygur. “It would be a clash of the titans in terms of ideology from the right and the left without the establishment in the middle.”
UNDERWATER. Microsoft and Facebook to build highest undersea data link ever: “The tech companies will help design the subsea cable which will run between Virginia in the US and Bilbao, Spain. The project will be managed by Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica, which will sell any unused capacity on the cable to other customers. The cable will help the tech giants move data more quickly and cheaply between their global data centres.”
SPERMHOOD. Mike Albo shoots a creative load: “What struck me about the way the show was organized is that rather than simply presenting a linear monologue describing Albo’s experience as a sperm donor, that underlying narrative instead supplies a framework in which to relate his findings of gay single-dom of a certain age, what he calls at various points the “condom generation.” He also touches on themes of the STD-stigmatization of the LGBT community, the pressures of making ends meet as a creative sort, and the implicit contract of obligation that both romantic and parental relationships entail–a contract he had implicitly assumed was not for him.”
PILOTS. Matt Bomer coming in June Netflix pilot: “The Last Tycoon, Academy Award nominee Billy Ray’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last work. It stars Matt Bomer as Hollywood’s Golden Boy Monroe Stahr as he battles his father figure and boss Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer). Lily Collins also stars as Cecelia Brady.”
NEXT WEEK. ‘The State of Marriage‘ special event and VOD release: ‘The State of Marriage’ is the untold story of how legal pioneer Mary Bonauto partnered with small town Vermont lawyers Beth Robinson and Susan Murray to establish the foundation for the marriage equality movement. Vermont became the first state to grant same sex couples legal recognition through a groundbreaking 1999 State Supreme Court decision, and the first to legalize marriage equality by legislative vote in 2009. The film features historical recollections with Freedom to Marry founder Evan Wolfson, civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis and Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally.”
LAWSUITS. Justin Bieber and Skrillex sued over vocal loops in “Sorry”. “Justin Bieber and Skrillex are being sued by the indie artist Casey Dienel, according to reports by TMZ. Dienel, who records under the name White Hinterland, claims the duo used one of her vocal loops without permission on their track Sorry. The eight-second snippet in question is used repeatedly through her 2014 song Ring the Bell. Dienel reportedly claims that the “unique characteristics of the female vocal riff” have been copied. According to TMZ, Bieber’s team received warnings not to use the part but ignored them.”
TELEVISION. Homeland Season 6 will focus on post-election NYC: “The entire season will take place between election day and inauguration day. It’s an interesting time; a transition and transfer of power is happening.”
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. Tom Ford film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams gets award season release date of November 18.
GIF OF THE DAY. Elijah Wood meets Daniel Radcliffe.
FRIDAY FLESH. Architecture student Emilio R.
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Colton Haynes is Now a Platinum Blonde: LOOK
Colton Haynes has come out of the closet as – a platinum blonde – just in time for Memorial Day Weekend.
He showed off the new look in an Instagram post, below:
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Bernie Sanders Angers HIV/AIDS Activists by Misrepresenting Meeting
Bernie Sanders met with HIV/AIDS activists on Wednesday and then pissed them off by putting out a press release suggesting that their meeting was about his endorsement of AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s ballot initiative to lower prices for taxpayer-supported AIDS treatments.
Said Sanders in the press release:
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday met with national HIV/AIDS advocates to discuss the epidemic and his support for a California ballot initiative to lower prices for taxpayer-supported AIDS treatments.
“Let me thank you for the work you do,” Sanders said at the conclusion of the meeting. “The issues you have raised are enormously important and effect millions of people in this country and more around the world.
“I look forward to continuing to work with you,” the senator added at the meeting hosted by Danny Glover, the activist and actor.
The ballot proposition Sanders supports – the California Drug Price Relief Act – is supported by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and National Nurses United, both headquartered in Oakland, California. The measure would prohibit the state from paying more for a prescription drug than the lowest price paid for the same drug by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It would make sure that state taxpayers will no longer be ripped off by pharmaceutical companies that charge exorbitant prices for AIDS treatments and other prescription drugs. “We think it’s a great start and we applaud the people of California for standing up to the pharmaceutical industry,” Sanders said afterward.
Sanders’ proposal to provide Medicare-for-all universal health care would also benefit the 1.2 million Americans with HIV/AIDS.
At the meeting, Sanders noted that he has introduced a plan to lower costs for HIV/AIDS drugs. His measure would establish a prize fund to provide incentives for drug makers to develop new treatments. Unlike the current system that lets drug makers charge the highest prices in the world for medicine sold in the United States, medical breakthroughs made under the prize fund system would make the new drugs available to the public at affordable prices.
Sanders also agreed to set a national goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by the year 2025 so that HIV is no longer a public health threat to any community in the U.S. and that people with HIV are able to live long, healthy lives.
Sanders also has called for expansion of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program which provides HIV-related services. The senator also promised to push for stronger civil rights protections for people living with the disease.
Activist Peter Staley lashed out on Facebook after the press release went out:
Feeling used and abused by the Sanders campaign right now. They just issued a press release making it sound like our meeting was about his endorsement of AHF’s drug pricing ballot initiative in CA.
Senator Sanders never brought the issue up during our meeting. WE brought it up near the end, only to tell him that we had been flooded with messages from all the leading AIDS organizations in CA with deep concerns about AHF’s initiative — they are worried it could actually negatively impact access to AIDS drugs.
Those groups have tried to reach the campaign with these concerns but had hit a brick wall. We asked Sanders to designate someone in his campaign to talk with these groups, and he agreed to this.
WE DID NOT ENDORSE AHF’S INITIATIVE.
His campaign should not have issued a press release implying this was a major topic of discussion at the meeting, and that there was general agreement on the Senator’s position on this. Anything but.
(top image via Peter Staley Facebook)
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13 Women Who Inspire the LGBT Community
The stars at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s An Evening With Women revealed their female muses.
www.advocate.com/women/2016/5/27/13-women-who-inspire-lgbt-community
Trans Youth Aren't Sexual Predators, They're Preyed On
The rightwing’s narrative is all wrong, and it has dangerous consequences.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/5/27/trans-youth-arent-sexual-predators-theyre-preyed
Dark, In-Your-Face Masculinity on Display
www.advocate.com/photography/2016/5/27/dark-your-face-masculinity-display
Red Alert: The One Rule Every Redhead Needs to Know Before Hitting the Beach (Video)
www.advocate.com/books/2016/5/26/red-alert-one-rule-every-redhead-needs-know-hitting-beach-video
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