Gay TSA Agent Canned For Groping “Roughly A Dozen” Attractive Male Passengers
Just as we always suspected, TSA employees have been using their x-ray powers for evil!
Two TSA agents from the Denver International Airport have been fired from their jobs after allegedly using those creepy x-ray scanners to hand select men to grope.
The employees’ names have not been released, so we’ll just call them Perv #1 and Perv #2.
Perv #1 is a gaymale and Perv #2 is a female. According to police, whenever a man he thought was attractive stepped into the x-ray scanner, Perv #1 would signal Perv #2, who would rig the machine to flag the traveler, thus requiring a government-sanctioned molestation enhanced pat down.
Perv #1 would then lead his victim into a private area, where he would grope his privates with the palm of his hand (TSA guidelines mandate that all screenings be conducted with the back of the hand) before sending him on his merry way.
It is believed “roughly a dozen” men fell victim to the scheme, which began all the way back in November.
“These alleged acts are egregious and intolerable,” a TSA spokesman said. “All allegations of misconduct are thoroughly investigated by the agency. And when substantiated, employees are held accountable.”
Perv #2 reportedly confessed to the plot, but the Denver District Attorney’s Office says it will not be pressing charges “because there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction and no victim had been identified.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time TSA employees have been accused of getting handy with male travelers. In 2012, a former U.S. Air Force officer wrote to his local Congressman after he claims he was molested at an Orlando Airport when a TSA agent “shoved his genitals to one side in order to ensure ‘it really is your crotch.’”
Mike Huckabee Says Friendly Call Between Obama And Michael Sam Is Sign Of America’s ‘Utter Collapse’
Mike Huckabee appeared at a “Family Leadership Regional Summit” in Iowa hosted by Bob Vander Plaats and The Family Leader. The potential GOP presidential candidate remarked that the fact President Obama telephoned Michael Sam after the football player came out is a sign of America’s “utter collapse,” reports Right Wing Watch. Huckabee also decried boycotts against anti-gay businesses, calling it “economic terrorism.”
Said Huckabee:
“The values that so many of us hold dear are values that are under assault today. I never believed that in such a short period of time, the culture in America would go into utter collapse. If you told me just a few years ago that one day the President of the United States would use his precious time in the Oval Office to call people up simply to congratulate them for being gay, I would say, ‘No, surely he’ll call a veteran and thank them for their service, for losing a limb or a leg,’ but even when Chris Kyle was murdered, his widow didn’t get a phone call, but a gay football player who came out did.”
Huckabee punctuated his statements with warnings that religious liberty is under attack in America, specifically citing the boycott against Chick-Fil-A several years ago after the company donated millions to anti-gay groups.
Watch Huckabee’s “Chicken Little”-like view on the collapse of American culture, AFTER THE JUMP…
Islamophobes fail to hijack anger against homophobia in Berlin
Several thousand people demonstrated against homophobia in Berlin on Sunday of last week—and resisted attempts to pit LGBT people and Muslims against each other.
Shooting Suspect With Possible White Supremacist Ties Arrested, Wayne Community College Shooting Victim Was Gay
THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY.
The suspect in a Goldsboro, N.C., campus shooting on Monday was arrested early Tuesday morning in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Suspect Kenneth Morgan Stancil III shot his victim on the campus of Wayne Community College on Monday morning. The victim is a gayman and Stancil might have white supremacist leanings.
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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Recap Realness: This Space Intentionally Left BLANK
As the show opens, I immediately wonder if the other contestants were as ready for Kandy’s exit as the audience was. No one even says goodbye to her, so I have to assume that she was already gone in their minds. Instead, all eyes are on the future. Max plans to honor Michelle’s request precisely once before going back to her signature gray, which I think is fair given that neither Kennedy nor Pearl has been similarly challenged for wearing the same hair color on the runway every week. It’s rich that Violet immediately jumps in to defend Vicious Visage. How does her scrawny neck not snap from the speed of that whiplash?
The following day, it’s a new day. I’m stunned that the producers actually prompted a queen to say that every week, and further shocked that they actually included the footage in the finished episode. Like, they’re all walking through the door together wearing different outfits. It’s evident. I promise that no one at home is wondering why they all went into the hall and changed clothes.
There’s almost no banter before Ru leaps in with her video message, assisted so briefly by Bianca Del Rio that one wonders why they bothered including her in the first place. Though the segment drops many clear hits about throwing shade, no reading mini-challenge materializes. Was it filmed and then jettisoned because of the uniformly low quality? Did the ladies take a united stand and refuse to insult each other for someone else’s amusement? Did someone have a Jasmine Masters-esque allergic reaction to the sassy sunglasses touching her face? Or did I misread those cues and they’re just saving it for a different week? (Cut to Katya emphatically saying “it’s definitely the last one” for all the morons in the audience.) Anyway, they jump right to the announcement of this week’s main event, the eagerly anticipated Snatch Game!
It’s a new paragraph! Celebrity selection always involves a few rough moments, and this season is no exception. Fame and Violet immediately struggle because they have both chosen to play Maya Rudolph. Admit it, no one was doing a Donatella Versace impersonation before that SNL skit. It ends up not being that big a deal when Fame graciously agrees to play the Long Island Medium instead, but Ru doesn’t enjoy watching people resolve issues calmly like adults, so she swoops in to encourage both contestants to second-guess themselves. Oddly, Violet struggles with the idea of following the advice of a judge, even after instructing Max to do so only one day ago. It’s almost like she’s a headstrong primadonna who believes that others are inherently inferior yet finds herself above reproach. Almost.
Ginger and Katya try to steer Kennedy away from her choice to embody Little Richard, but for someone who was willing to undo two already-made decisions just moments ago, Ru is amazingly agnostic on this one. Her lack of concrete input comes across as shady, since asking one of the queens to figure it out on her own is usually about as helpful as lighting her on fire.
Everyone gets it together by the time the panel has been assembled, though. It’s Season 7, they know the drill. Rumor has it that Max was dissuaded from her original selection, Miranda Sings, but she manages a solid Sharon Needles. Jaidynn is visually acceptable as a pre-diet Raven-Symoné, but her one-note caricature is way off key. Despite her usual comedic prowess, Katya’s Suze Orman is bargain basement Wiig in a bargain basement wig. Violet and Pearl are inoffensive as Alyssa Edwards and Big Ang respectively. Maybe Fame should have gone back to Long Island, because the quality of her Donatella is well below medium. Closing out the panel are Kennedy, whose Little Richard is both creepier and campier than a cabin in the woods, and Ginger, who serves up an audacious, addled Adele.
It’s a good thing the guest judges this week are a hoot, because the runway theme of leather and lace elicits a surprising amount of uniformity from the ladies. Like, why it gotta be black? Thankfully, Tamar Braxton can make absolutely anything entertaining. She’s a human GIF. (Pronounced like the peanut butter, right, Ru?) And Michael Urie doesn’t have a lot to say, but he looks surprisingly cute while saying it, so I’m down. Call me, Michael.
In a Drag Race first, two queens tie for first place: Ginger and Kennedy, who march away hand-in-hand dressed as a set of drag-themed salt and pepper shakers that I hope to have on my dining room table one day. Jaidynn, on the other hand, pairs her messy impersonation from yesterday with a messy outfit today, and thus takes her second trip down Lip Sync Lane. Were I a judge, I’d have thrown Fame next to her; Max might not have perfectly embodied Season 4’s scream queen, but she clearly knows what a good performance looks like and gave it the 110% percent that only a theater weirdo can give. But it’s not my call, and Ru ushers the clucking mannequin to safety.
As soon as the music starts, it’s clear that Max’s kooky, character-based style won’t mesh with the song as well as Jaidynn’s high-energy diva strut. I’m staunchly #TeamMax, but my team loses and the Gray Lady gets sent packing. It’s frustrating that she was bullied into changing her appearance and then immediately punished for looking too plain, but that’s reality TV for you. Ru ends the episode by announcing that any of the eliminated girls could be brought back, so I guess there’s still a sliver of hope for the youngest old woman ever, but it doesn’t take Raven-Symoné’s visionary powers to know that Trixie is almost certainly the returning champion. Though if Kandy gets exhumed, we need to take to the streets, Boston Tea Party style: I’ll throw liquid liner into the ocean until the waters run black.
Chris J. Kelly performs under the drag name Ariel Italic; in addition to this recap, he hosts weekly Drag Race viewings at the 9th Avenue Saloon in New York City.
NEW MUSIC: Villagers, Du Blonde, Anna B Savage, Inner Tongue, White Sage
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Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
Nominated for the Mercury Prize for his grandly conceived orchestral / electro-folk first two albums Becoming a Jackal and {Awayland}, Dubliner Villagers – aka Conor O’Brien (above) – has entirely stripped the sound back for the mostly acoustic nine tracks on new album Darling Arithmetic.
Recorded at home alone and self-produced, Darling Arithmetic abandons the big picture scope of his earlier work for one of quiet introspection in which O’Brien addresses his own sexuality.
Specifically not a “coming out album” – a label which O’Brien wants to avoid – Darling Arithmetic is “a human love album because everyone in the world feels those emotions at some stage.”
However, it is when he moves beyond the love songs beautiful in their simplicity – notably “Everything I Am Is Yours” and “No One To Blame” – to less personal subjects that the album leaves its mark.
In “Little Bigot”, O’Brien takes to task the notion that those campaigning against gay rights in Ireland are actually not homophobes, singing “So take the blame, little bigot/ And throw that hatred onto the fire.”
Sticking with the theme, on “Hot Scary Summer” O’Brien addresses an ex and the difficulties of working hard on a relationship in the face of “all the pretty young homophobes looking out for a fight”. It all gets too hard because “we got good at pretending, then pretending got us good.”
Although at times tending towards navel gazing as with the rambling “The Soul Serene”, Animal Arithmetic is a massively rewarding sea change for O’Brien.
Du Blonde is Beth Jeans Houghton from Newcastle, England.
Welcome Back To Milk, set for release on May 18th, is Houghton’s second album but the first to be released under the name Du Blonde.
As such, it represents a complete reinvention. With the new name comes a new sound, new band and a new attitude, leading to new freak psych pop given a shunt from potential obscurity with the appearance of inimitable Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring on “Mind Is On My Mind”.
Where 2012’s debut Yours Truly Cellophane Nose threw everything at a song, Welcome Back To Milk strips everything back and is one massive release of pent up aggression, captured perfectly by producer and Bad Seed Jim Sclavunos.
Listen to new songs by Anna B Savage, Inner Tongue and White Sage, AFTER THE JUMP…
Anna B Savage
Anna B Savage is a singer songwriter from London, England making stark, minimalistic guitar-based, emotionally raw songs that recall PJ Harvey, Sharon Van Etten and hugely underrated New York musician Julianne Mason.
Listen to two tracks from Savage’s forthcoming four-track debut EP which will be released May 18th.
“I” is a really quite beautiful laid back affair that is reminiscent of Joni Mitchell with a twist while “II” is its altogether angrier big sister.
Inner Tongue is a German electro indie pop songwriter.
Diagnosed in 2013 with a vocal cord disorder that could have meant never being able to use his voice in the same way again, this suitably burdensome landscape gave rise to a forthcoming EP Tz, Ka.
On the new EP, Inner Tongue says:
“The songs are essentially about starting over. Moving somewhere else. Putting a few things into empty spaces and feeling them becoming yours. Revealing your reincarnation to whom you’ve left behind. Feeling embarrassed, but passionate about what’s to come.”, going on to say, “[the songs] are all little places in my head.”
“Fallen Empire” is the forlorn and introspective first single from the EP.
White Sage is the solo project from Andy Walsh, a musician from Dublin, Ireland best known for his work with I Heart The Monster Hero.
Instrumental electronica crafted on vintage synths and organs, the EP Way Beyond Our Means has already drawn comparisons to the early electronic pioneers of the 1970s including Kraftwerk.
The EP title will speak volumes to Irish people of a certain generation and there is something inexplicably right about the music, (possibly) a journey through the malaise of recent history.
Have a listen to the absolutely hypnotic “Parnell Street June 1955″ below
“Parnell Street June 1955″ is taken from the EP Way Beyond Our Means which is out now on Little Gem Records.
The Starting Five, 4/14/2015
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Manifestação LGBT contra moção de censura aprovada pela câmara
Um grupo de manifestantes foi à câmara nesta terça (14) protestar na Câmara de Vereadores de Feira de Santana contra a moção de censura aprovada em repúdio a cenas de beijo gay exibidas…
Just as we always suspected, TSA employees have been using their x-ray powers for evil!
