Daily Archives: May 18, 2015
Polls Show Ireland Still Likely to Vote Yes on Marriage
Laverne Cox Stuns And Speaks The Truth On The 2015 Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet
Laverne Cox Stuns And Speaks The Truth On The 2015 Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet
Laverne Cox ruled the 2015 Billboard Music Awards red carpet for more reasons than one.
The “Orange Is The New Black” star has time and time again proved her sartorial savvy, so it was no shock that she looked gorgeous in a white, studded, form-fitting Marc Bower dress with Paul Morelli jewelry. What does come as a pleasant surprise, is that the actress, who exudes confidence both on and off screen, has a pretty fantastic way of dealing with her flaws.
In an interview with Giuliana Rancic, Cox explains that while she is comfortable with her looks, she can be pretty critical of herself, too. “In that nitpickiness, I also try to celebrate myself and love myself. In every moment, even if I find a flaw, I have to love that flaw today,” she said.
And just like that, Cox gives us yet another reason to admire her.
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Anti-Equality Legislators in Texas Desperately Trying to Resurrect Bills
Anti-Equality Legislators in Texas Desperately Trying to Resurrect Bills
Last week the Texas Legislature passed a key deadline and we celebrated a victory in Austin as anti-LGBT bills (including Rep. Cecil Bell’s anti-marriage equality HB4105), died in their current form.
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Creepy School Bus Driver Corners Kids, Lectures Them About The Evils Of Homosexuality
Creepy School Bus Driver Corners Kids, Lectures Them About The Evils Of Homosexuality
Creepy bus driver alert!
A Missouri school bus driver has been accused of cornering an 11-year-old girl and her friend at the back of an empty school bus and telling them they were going to “burn in hell” for being gay.
“She’s just been the most horrible bus driver I’ve ever had!” 11-year-old Maurissa told her local news station.
Related: Elementary School To Bullying Victims: Lighten Up, Losers!
Maurissa is a fifth grader at an elementary school in Kansas City, MO. She says she and her friend were playing a game on the bus last Friday morning. When they arrived at school, the bus driver let off all the other students, but told the little girls to stay behind. She then ordered they move to to back of the bus, where she proceeded to lecture them for ten minutes about homosexuality, calling them gay and saying the children would “burn in hell real bad.”
“She was talking really bad to me and I didn’t like that,” Maurissa, crying, said.
The little girls had been playing a game that involved innocently touching one another’s arms. Maurissa said the driver told her she was “touching her best friend too much” and she was “gay for it.”
“She hurt my feelings very bad,” she sniffled.
Related: “Antigay Day” Held At Pittsburgh High School, “Lynch List” Circulated Among Students
When the crestfallen children were finally released from captivity, Maurissa raced inside the school and told a teacher.
Maurissa’s mother, Patricia, is upset because she says the school did not inform her of the incident until the end of the day.
“I feel like she was all day by herself, dealing with it,” she told local news. “How do you deal with that at 11?”
“She’s been through so much,” the mother continued, “she just did not deserve to be put in this situation. It’s not fair!”
The school claims it is not their responsibility to notify parents of incidents that happen on the bus, but rather it is the responsibility of the company that operates the buses, First Student, to reach out.
First Student said the bus driver, whose name has not been released, was immediately terminated.
Related: Seven-Year-Old Boy Launches Anti-Bully Club To Repent For His Days As A “Former Bully”
Graham Gremore
Lindsey Graham Prematurely Spills His 2016 Presidential Plans
Lindsey Graham Prematurely Spills His 2016 Presidential Plans
No need to wait till June 1 for the official announcement, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is already pretty much a go for 2016, The Washington Post reports:
“I will make an announcement on June 1st. You’re all invited to come — spend money when you do — and I will tell you what I’m going to do about running for president,” Graham said on CBS “This Morning.”
Although Graham initially declined to say if he is running when asked by the CBS hosts, he nonetheless indicated he is pursuing the GOP nomination – potentially declaring his candidacy ahead of schedule.
“I’m running because of what you see on television. I’m running because I think the world is falling apart. I’ve been more right than wrong on foreign policy,” Graham said. “It’s not the fault of others, their lack of this or that that makes me want to run. It’s my ability in my own mind to be a good commander in chief and to make Washington work. “
Earlier this month, Graham told the Boston Herald that society and the nation must “move forward” if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.
Kyler Geoffroy
www.towleroad.com/2015/05/lindsey-graham-prematurely-spills-his-2016-presidential-plans.html
'Boy Story' Dives Into The Fascinating World Of Male Burlesque Dancers
'Boy Story' Dives Into The Fascinating World Of Male Burlesque Dancers
Photographer Magnus Arrevad has spent the last five years or so traveling the world, following in the footsteps of a very distinct population of entertainers — the men of burlesque. From Paris to County Sligo in Ireland to a trailer park in Tacoma, his “Boy Story” series captures the male dancers and singers who come alive at night, taking part in an often underground realm of performance.
The project started accidentally, Arrevad recalled, in none other than a dungeon in Copenhagen. “I was photographing the Gay Pride Festival in an unrelated capacity, and received a glimpse into a world I could never have imagined,” he told The Huffington Post. That world was the world of boylesque, filled with men in makeup and costumes, taking part in complicated and liberating routines.
After Copenhagen, Arrevad returned to his home base, opting to explore this newly discovered world further, turning his lens on what The New York Times referred to as “the Real Hedwigs.” His images offer just a glimpse into his findings, revealing equal parts pasties and panache. For the photographer, the men or burlesque represented something more than performance under the guise of an alter ego. To him, these “boys” had found a way to channel their selves through art.
“A million times I’ve heard people saying, ‘just be yourself,'” Arrevad said. “To which the only sensible answer is, ‘which one?’ We act different selves to our parents, our friends, our lovers and to our selves. The self we act to ourselves is the most interesting, because in most cases, the sense we have is that we’re too scared to express it, to explore it in public. Figuring out oneself is a process, and what the subjects of ‘Boy Story’ have allowed me to do is to watch them constructing their inner selves.”
Arrevad’s pictures are inspired by paintings by Old Masters, particularly Rembrandt’s use of shadow, and Ruben’s relationship between characters and backgrounds. Although he adds a caveat. “The nature of my process is so spontaneous, and theirs so methodical, that the most I can claim is that they trained my eye,” he said. “So far as the ‘world’ of the works is concerned, though, and the sense the works provide, I suppose I owe more to the German expressionists, particularly Otto Dix in his wilder periods, than even to the Masters.”
As most of his images take place behind the stage, Arrevad’s work pushes the viewer into the position of voyeur, a role the photographer is all too comfortable taking on. He says he began “Boy Story” from the very particular vantage point of a voyeur — “who wouldn’t be, given the chance” — but transitioned to the point of a participant, going so far as to insert himself into a few of his images.
“The only two modes of documentation possible are voyeurism and participation,” Arrevad concluded. “Either one’s peeking in, or one’s trooping in like a marauding elephant and becoming an unseen part of the subject. This idea of neutral, objective documentation is a nonsense. Even the unseen eye has a gaze, has a charge.”
Magnus Arrevad will launch an exhibition and book associated with “Boy Story” on Nov. 10, 2015, in London. For more information, visit his website.
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HuffPost Live Spotlights LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
HuffPost Live Spotlights LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
Today, HuffPost Live will feature a special segment on National Foster Care Month and the experiences of LGBTQ youth in foster care.
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John Oliver Digs Into Why Chicken Farming Isn't All It's Clucked Up to Be: VIDEO
John Oliver Digs Into Why Chicken Farming Isn't All It's Clucked Up to Be: VIDEO
If you’ve stumbled across an ad run by the poultry companies, you might think chicken farming is an adorably quaint way to make a living, but as Last Week Tonight host John Oliver explains its not just the chickens who are often mistreated on these farms.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
Op-ed: We Must Protect Disabled LGBT Adults From Conversion Therapy
Op-ed: We Must Protect Disabled LGBT Adults From Conversion Therapy
The government is helping to fund ‘ex-gay’ and ‘ex-trans’ programs for disabled LGBT adults, and it must stop.
Jordan Gwendolyn Davis
www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/05/18/op-ed-we-must-protect-disabled-lgbt-adults-conversion-therapy
