Op-ed: Why Are The Advocate's Commenters So Transphobic?
Antitrans vitriol posted in response to The Advocate‘s coverage of transgender issues is symptomatic of broader divisions in the LGBT population.
Autumn Sandeen
www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/11/07/op-ed-why-are-advocates-commenters-so-transphobic
Harvard offers class on anal sex
Organizer blames conservative backlash on ‘latent homophobia’
darrenw
www.gaystarnews.com/article/harvard-offers-class-anal-sex071114
Win A Date With Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black (Or At Least Buy Some Good Karma)
If you’ve ever fantasized about going on a date with Olympic diver Tom Daley or Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, now you can …
… Pay ten bucks for the opportunity to go on a date with them.
No, Daley and Black haven’t started an escort service. They’re raising money for two charities that are near and dear to their hearts, The Brain Tumour Charity in the UK and The Human Rights Campaign in the US.
In 2011, Daley lost his father to a brain tumor, and a year later Black lost his older brother to cancer. Which is why Blaley (or Dalack … seriously, why don’t these guys have a portmanteau?) have offered up a chance for you and a guest to join them on what they’re calling “the greatest double date ever”.
The winner will get a VIP trip to London, a makeover from a professional stylist (come on, you don’t expect Tom and Dustin to be seen in public with some ordinary schlub, do you?), followed by dinner and a night on the town.
To enter, go to Omaze.com/London.
For more information, check out their adorable promo video.
And just in case you don’t win, here are some other gay couples, both past and present, that we’d pay money to party with.
Marc Jacobs & Harry Louis
The clothing designer and the porn star were very conspicuous with their love, cavorting about on the beach in the sexiest bathing suits possible. But alas, after nearly a year-and-a-half together, the couple split in 2013.
Tab Hunter & Rudolf Nureyev
In his 2005 memoir Confidential, movie hearttrob Hunter mentions (rather, skims over) a brief and clandestine affair he had with the Russian dancer, who he met while enjoying a Mediterranean holiday in the late 1960s. While Putin certainly wouldn’t have approved, we do — and wish we’d been invited to join.
Dan Savage & Terry Miller
We envision a date with Dan and Terry would involve good food, an intense political discussion, and lots of free advice. And hopefully Dan wouldn’t mind us fantasizing about some alone time with Terry.
Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi
Who wouldn’t want to spend an evening with America’s best loved (and funniest) lesbian and her beautiful and talented actress wife? Even if we did nothing but sit around their amazing Santa Barbara love nest playing Heads Up!, it would surely be an evening of laughs and good cocktails.
Cary Grant & Randolph Scott
While many close to Grant and Scott have denied that the pair (who lived together on and off for ten years) had anything beyond a platonic relationship, the rumors of something more have lingered on for decades. Just imagine how fun it must have been to attend one of their pool parties …
Reichen Lehmkuhl & Ryan Barry
Speaking of pool parties, while we reckon a day of fun in the sun with Amazing Race winner Reichen and his former boyfriend, model and trainer Ryan might be lacking in meaningful conversation, it would at the very least be lousy with eye candy.
Lance Bass & Michael Turchin
Hopefully a date with Lance and Michael would be as over-the-top as the wedding they’re planning. Perhaps it would even involve a trip into space. If nothing else, it would be fun to get the dirt on all of Lance’s closeted celebrity friends.
Johnny Weir and Victor Voronov
Oh, the drama! That in itself would be worth the price of an up-close-and-personal with this couple.
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Latvian Foreign Minister Comes Out In A Tweet: 'I Proudly Announce I Am Gay'
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs apparently came out of the closet in a single, sunny tweet on Thursday.
I proudly announce I’am gay… Good luck all of you…
— Edgars Rinkēvičs (@edgarsrinkevics) November 6, 2014
His announcement — which is particularly astonishing given Eastern Europe’s conservative, and largely anti-gay, political environment — has made Rinkēvičs “the highest-profile gay man” in the region, noted Mediaite.
A constitutional ban on same-sex marriage has been in effect since 2005 in Latvia, where anti-gay sentiment is rife. Similar bans exist in other countries in the region, including Lithuania and Belarus. Russia, with whom Latvia shares a border, has long been unapologetic about its virulently anti-gay stance.
Rinkēvičs, who has served as Latvia’s foreign minister since 2011, said in an earlier tweet Thursday that his country “has to create a legal status for all kinds of partner relationships.”
“I will fight for this,” he wrote, according to a Washington Post translation. “I know that there will quickly be mega-hysteria, but #Proudtobegay.”
The Post reported that a spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of Rinkēvičs’ announcement. On Friday morning local time, the minister tweeted a message of gratitude, thanking people for their support.
As Buzzfeed notes, the minister’s words could “cause a furor” within Latvia and with its neighbors. Rinkēvičs’ announcement came just a day after his position as foreign minister was confirmed as part of Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma’s newly-formed government. Straujuma’s three-party coalition, which clinched 58 percent of the vote at last month’s general election, took the helm Wednesday, per the Wall Street Journal.
Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black are raffling off a double date – with them – in London
Olympic diver and Oscar winner raising money for causes close to their hearts
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The Advocate's Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin
Driving the governmental, religious, and popular disdain for gays and lesbians, the Russian president became the single greatest threat to LGBTs in the world in 2014.
Jeremy Lybarger
www.advocate.com/year-review/2014/11/06/advocates-person-year-vladimir-putin
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