Meet New York's First And Only Trans Woman Firefighter
Brooke Guinan is someone you’d probably think of as brave because of her position: she’s a FDNY firefighter. Others are praising her bravery for something else: she’s the department’s only transgender firefighter, and one of its only 41 women firefighters citywide on a force of over 10,000.
A Promising Crossroads in the Fight Against AIDS
A Promising Crossroads in the Fight Against AIDS
Gay Men’s Health Crisis Public Affairs and Policy Managing Director on the importance of PrEP
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Shia LaBeouf Strips Down and Bears It Up For 'Interview': PHOTOS
Shia LaBeouf Strips Down and Bears It Up For 'Interview': PHOTOS
Shia LaBeouf shows off his buff physique for Interview Magazine‘s latest issue. He talks with Elvis Mitchell about his dark upbringing and, among other things, that now-infamous run-in with Alan Cumming:
LaBEOUF: …Really I’m gaining control over myself again. I’ve given up so much control over myself to this industry. I felt like a slave who wasn’t allowed to read. That’s extreme, but it really is that debilitating when you have no say over it anymore. A lot of my actions in the public—and not all of them, because there have been some straight-up mistakes, like grabbing Alan Cumming’s ass and getting arrested in New York at Cabaret.
MITCHELL: Was that about you walking into a theater and turning it into a performance space?
LaBEOUF: I was reading about [pioneering performance artist] Allan Kaprow happenings, and performance art of the ’60s and ’70s. So I thought, “All right, I know a little about that.” We’re all involved here. It’s not just you on your stage. We’re all in here and we’re all part of this. I was wrong. The New York crowd didn’t see it the same way, and I totally understand that. So I see the error of my ways. But that moment actually saved my life, forced me to look at myself. And when you’re in a cell with a f–king mask on your face and a lead jacket, you can really see that some of your life choices were skewed wrong. And for some people it does take that. I still am a very stubborn, hardheaded person who is theatrical by nature. […]
LaBEOUF:…That’s partly what I’ve been doing for the last year, trying to reinvent myself, in very calculated behavior, and sometimes in very uncalculated behavior.
MITCHELL: What would be an instance of the uncalculated behavior?
LaBEOUF: Well, like, grabbing Alan Cumming’s ass and being a drunken buffoon in New York. But the way it gets construed in the media, I have no control over.
Check out a few more photos of LaBeouf baring his body (and bearing it up) for Interview, AFTER THE JUMP…
You can also read the full interview HERE.
Sean Mandell
www.towleroad.com/2014/10/shia-labeouf-strips-down-and-bears-it-up-for-interview-photos.html
Conservative Provocateur Creates Fake LGBT Group To ‘Expose’ Voter Fraud
Conservative Provocateur Creates Fake LGBT Group To ‘Expose’ Voter Fraud
Conservative Provocateur Creates Fake LGBT Group To ‘Expose’ Voter Fraud.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgu6bY4T7YE&feature=youtube_gdata
Op-ed: Be a Lady, Not a Tramp
Op-ed: Be a Lady, Not a Tramp
Gay Days Disneyland is no place to be supercalifragilisticexpialislutty.
Levi Chambers
www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/10/21/op-ed-be-lady-not-tramp
Daily Meditation: Soulmates
Daily Meditation: Soulmates
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these daily meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.
Today’s meditation features a song by The Postal Service and covered by folk singer Iron & Wine. The song is a ballad for love and perfect connection, which so many strive to find in their lifetime.
Such Great Heights
I am thinking it’s a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They’re perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God himself did make us
Into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it’s thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you’re away
When I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we’ll stay
I’ve tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon listening
And that frankly will not fly
You’ll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
When this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we’ll stay
DVD: “Snowpiercer,” “Sex Tape,” “Listen Up Philip,” & More!
DVD: “Snowpiercer,” “Sex Tape,” “Listen Up Philip,” & More!
Douches and dystopias and Diaz, oh my!
This week in home entertainment we have a film fest fave about a narcissistic New York writer, Listen Up Philip; Snowpiercer, a dystopian sci-fi about a world where a train serves as the last home for humanity; and Cameron Diaz again flexing her comedic muscles in Sex Tape (above).
(VOD)
After making a splash at Sundance in January and other festivals since, Alex Ross Perry’s comedy comes to VOD this week. Jason Schwartzman stars as a frustrated, super douchey Manhattan novelist who stirs up drama in everything he does. It’s fun, acerbic stuff!
($29.99 Blu-ray, $24.98 DVD; Anchor Bay)
Based on a European graphic novel, Korean director Joon-ho Bong’s sci-fi thriller sees a future where, due to climate change, all that remains of humanity exists on a bullet train. While the posh, rich folks live in its first class section, the lower classes exist in squalor and slave-like conditions to the rear. A rebellion is, of course, inevitable! The cast is sometimes unrecognizable – including Chris Evans, John Hurt, and Tilda Swinton in villain mode — and things do get darkly comic and gory. It’s a fun, wild ride. Extras include a making-of documentary, featurettes, cast interviews, a commentary, an animated prologue and more.
($35.99 Bu-ray, $30.99 DVD)
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel play a couple who, in an effort to spice up their sex life, learn that sex videos can sometimes end up in the wrong hands. Or, you know, a storage cloud. When will they ever learn? Extras include bloopers, deleted scenes, line-o-rama improv outtakes and more.
ALSO OUT:
Life After Beth
The Purge: Anarchy
Lawrence Ferber
Kelly Clarkson Covers Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me': VIDEO
Kelly Clarkson Covers Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me': VIDEO
The songstress turned in a soulful performance over the weekend of Sam Smith’s breakout ballad about one night stands and the modern (gay) man, saying that she loves the smash hit because it’s “bluesy” and a real “singer song.”
Watch and listen to Kelly’s take, AFTER THE JUMP…
Sean Mandell
www.towleroad.com/2014/10/kelly-clarkson-covers-sam-smiths-stay-with-me-video.html
MRF – Be Strong LGBT Youth (Official Music Video) feat. Lisa Bello, Justin Waithe and Sher
MRF – Be Strong LGBT Youth (Official Music Video) feat. Lisa Bello, Justin Waithe and Sher
MRF – Trying on iTunes: #MRF #Trying #MobMusic Smooth Jazz and Billboard radio single Trying off of the iTunes chart-topping album. MRF – Be Strong is available for download here: Download…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVvXjkS9c8&feature=youtube_gdata
LGBT Seniors
