Daily Archives: June 20, 2015
WATCH: L.A. Crowd React to Gay Kiss at Dodgers LGBT Night
WATCH: L.A. Crowd React to Gay Kiss at Dodgers LGBT Night
The smooches definitely got some reaction.
Neal Broverman
www.advocate.com/sports/2015/06/20/watch-la-crowd-react-gay-kiss-dodgers-lgbt-night
Celebrities Join HRC and American Apparel to Move #EqualityForward
Celebrities Join HRC and American Apparel to Move #EqualityForward
In collaboration with HRC Foundation, American Apparel is featuring a limited edition #EqualityForward t-shirt and tank top.
HRC.org
Houston Gay Pride Rejects Anti-LGBT Activist’s Application To Appear In Parade
Houston Gay Pride Rejects Anti-LGBT Activist’s Application To Appear In Parade
Dave Wilson (above), a well-known anti-LGBT activist in Houston, was granted preliminary approval to appear in the city’s gay Pride parade taking place later this month.
However, Pride Houston Inc. has now rejected Wilson’s application after his entry was brought to the group’s attention.
Wilson, of Houstonians For Family Values, led efforts to pass a charter amendment prohibiting domestic partner benefits in Houston in 2001. He also made headlines in 2013 when he deceived voters into thinking he was black to get elected to the Houston Community College board.
Wilson recently led a petition drive to enshrine a transgender bathroom ban in the city charter, which was ultimately rejected.
Wilson told me he received preliminary approval to appear in the parade, and paid $805 in fees. He said he crossed out portions of the contract that said he supports LGBT equality. He planned to drive a 1956 Cadillac convertible, dressed as a groom with a woman dressed as a bride, dragging tin cans behind. On the side of the car would be signs advocating “traditional marriage” between a man and a woman.
“I thought the homosexual community was inclusive, nondiscriminatory, tolerant, all of those things they say,” Wilson told me. “It sounds like to me I fit right in … and I think if they do anything other than that, they’ll prove that they’re not.
“I don’t care if the Supreme Court and everybody else in the whole world thinks the other way, I’m never gonna change what I think,” he added. “You can’t reproduce with two of the same sex. It’s suicide to a culture if everybody is homosexual, so just from that standpoint, it’s not the right behavior for a culture to adopt and to praise and to propagate. It’s a suicidal lifestyle.”
After I contacted Pride Houston about Wilson’s entry, they informed me that he’d been rejected.
“This was actually an issue that was being addressed late last night by the Board,” Pride Houston’s David Ly said Friday. “Houstonians for Family Values did register and pay in full, however they were not fully approved. The contract they submitted had many lines struck out which go against Pride Houston’s mission. Therefore they will get a full refund and will not participate in the parade. They are being contacted.”
The parade is set for June 27 and will be held in downtown Houston for the first time.
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John Wright
Houston Gay Pride Rejects Anti-LGBT Activist’s Application To Appear In Parade
York LGBT Pride concert
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story Exposes The Gay Porn King
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story Exposes The Gay Porn King
A new documentary explores how the Falcon Studios founder revolutionized the porn industry – and became one of the gay community’s major philanthropists.
Adam Sandel
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2015/06/20/seed-money-chuck-holmes-story-exposes-gay-porn-king
Matt Bomer Singing ’80s Stripper Anthem Will Make Your Heart Race
Matt Bomer Singing ’80s Stripper Anthem Will Make Your Heart Race
You might have heard about a little movie coming out this summer called Magic Mike XXL, in which a group of genetically-blessed gentlemen (Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Adam Rodriguez, Matt Bomer, etc.) drop trou and put on a show to impress their fellow earthlings (there are many gay characters in the film, btw). If you need more incentive to see the comedy (in theaters July 1) here’s a clip of Bomer’s New Age-y character Ken, arguably the most conventionally handsome of the fellows, trying to lift the spirits and libidos of a group of ladies of a certain age, including the still-ravishing Andie MacDowell, by serenading them with a rousing rendition of “Heaven,” the Bryan Adams theme to 1983’s stripper comedy One Night in Heaven.
Related: Win Tickets To The Magic Mike XXL Premiere In L.A. With Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello
Watch Bomer being all Bomer-y below.
Jeremy Kinser
Ann Coulter Thinks Donald Trump Is The GOP’s Best Hope And Bill Maher’s Audience Is Aghast: VIDEO
Ann Coulter Thinks Donald Trump Is The GOP’s Best Hope And Bill Maher’s Audience Is Aghast: VIDEO
On the “Overtime” segment from Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher asked guest Ann Coulter (she of the crazed right-wing opinions) who she thinks is the GOP’s best hope to win back the White House in 2016. Coulter’s answer left Maher’s audience in shock. Said Coulter, “Of the declared [candidates]? Right now, Donald Trump.”
The audience shrieked and continued to reel as Coulter attempted to explain herself. However, as Mediaite reports, the best reaction belonged to one of Maher’s other panelists, MSNBC’s Joy Reid who gave us the most ‘WTF’ face maybe ever.
Watch Coulter give her response and Maher’s audience lose it, below:
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Sean Mandell
Niqi Brown as Tina Turner
Waiting for the Court – But Not for History
Waiting for the Court – But Not for History
Seem a bit familiar? Here we are again, waiting for the Supreme Court to rule. It’s become something of a Pride month tradition, a bit like parades and rainbow flags and motorcycles roaring up San Francisco’s Market Street.
Yes, we’ve been here before . . .
Twenty-nine years ago, in June of 1986, we found ourselves at this place, reading tea leaves, weighing odds, and then seeing that wait end in the nightmare decision that was Bowers v. Hardwick – rather crassly announced the day after Pride.
Ten years later, we were back to argue against Colorado’s dreadful Amendment 2 – and this time, after seven months of waiting, we won (6-3 no less!). Then in the June just 17 years after the hated Bowers – an eternity in denying human rights, but a judicial nanosecond – we waited again, dissecting the oral arguments, speculating and analyzing and daring to hope for what, just in time for Pride, actually came to pass: the monumental victory in Lawrence v. Texas and the end of anti-sodomy laws in the United States.
And we can all remember two years ago, waiting for what came down, to our joy, when Windsor gutted the Defense of Marriage Act. Now, today, within less than two weeks, we’ll know the outcome of Obergefell v. Hodges, and whether we will – at long last – have the right to marry from coast to coast.
Of course, we’ve never just waited – for anything
It doesn’t really do us justice to say that we waited. Yes, we waited, often anxiously, in the weeks and days and hours before these rulings. But the LGBT movement has never called a time out to sit patiently until someone else hands us our rights. We’ve fought for them. For more than half a century. Thousands of protests and marches, thousands of lawsuits, thousands of lobby visits, thousands of acts of courage and resistance and defiance, acts both large and small, have paved the way for every single last step forward.
After all, the first Pride parades marked perhaps the quintessential moment when LGBT people rose up to claim our full rights as citizens and our full dignity as human beings – the Stonewall Riots.
The real meaning of Pride
The joy of Pride – the pride of Pride – of course isn’t really about whether the Supreme Court rules in our favor. It’s not really about what anybody else has to say or how they feel toward us. The Court’s decisions matter immensely. But they don’t determine Pride.
We determine what Pride is, what Pride means. Pride lives in our families, our communities, the arts and cultures we’ve created. Pride lives in our history, in the record of dumbfounding challenges and stupefying odds that we’ve come so far toward overcoming. Pride lives in all the dizzying, dazzling ways that we march in Pride parades; all the ways that we love; all the ways that we fly our own rainbow flags.
Pride is ultimately what we make it – always has been and always will be. We all hope that 2015’s Pride will bring another great legal triumph. But in the end, Pride has, does, and will matter even more.
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