Daily Archives: July 22, 2015
Ugandan Presidential Candidate Comes Out Against Homophobia
Ugandan Presidential Candidate Comes Out Against Homophobia
In the fiercely homophobic country, former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi offers hope.
James McDonald
www.advocate.com/world/2015/07/22/ugandan-presidential-candidate-comes-out-against-homophobia
Gawker Writer Rich Juzwiak Says Company Is 'In A Total Meltdown'
Gawker Writer Rich Juzwiak Says Company Is 'In A Total Meltdown'
The tension between Gawker’s editorial staff and senior management hasn’t subsided in the wake of Monday’s resignations by Tommy Craggs, executive editor of the site, and Max Read, its editor-in-chief.
Gawker writer Rich Juzwiak gave a glimpse of mood at the office in a conversation with HuffPost Live Wednesday. Wearing a T-shirt with the departed editors’ names, Juzwiak described the staff as being “just in a total meltdown.”
“People are furious — editorial is basically furious with our leadership,” he told host Marc Lamont Hill.
Gawker has been embroiled in controversy since the outlet published a piece outing a senior Condé Nast executive. After a public outcry, the senior management at the company voted 4-2 to take the entry down, with Craggs and Gawker Media’s chief legal counsel as the two dissenting votes.
Juzwiak said the anger stems from an unexplained shift in the Gawker’s editorial guidelines, which led the site’s senior leadership to remove the post without consluting the staff.
“Something changed, and we weren’t privy to what,” Juzwiak said. “Before Friday, we were a site that did not take down posts on whims. On Friday, we became a site that did that.”
Gawker has “been dealing with backlash forever,” but Juzwiak claims pushback has never before influenced the site’s editorial coverage.
“I think the backlash did persuade them [to take the post down],” he said. “We get backlash all the time. We laugh at backlash.”
Juzwiak, who critiqued the way Gawker went about the decision in a post of his own, called the controversial article one of his “least favorite stories that’s gone up on the site — possibly ever.” But removing it, he believes, only fueled the Internet drama.
“In my opinion, the story became a real story when the post was taken down,” he said. “Up until then you could deride it as typical Gawker sleaze if you wanted to. … [But] once the post went down, all this scrutiny went on it and then the story became not the story anymore. The story became the story about the story.”
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REVIEW: Love in the Time of Civil War
REVIEW: Love in the Time of Civil War
Love in the Time of Civil War (L’amour au temps de la guerre civile) tells the story of the fairly grubby and unglamorous life of Alex (played by Alexandre Landry) – a young gay guy living in Montreal.
Directed by Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean, this is a movie that celebrates the gritty realism of everyday life in a big city where people do whatever they have to do in order to get by.
Landry is convincing as the confused and directionless young, gay guy who lurches from one drug-fuelled encounter to the next. However it’s hard to feel much sympathy for any of the characters – they’re a fairly unlikeable lot.
This is a story that won’t give you many laughs – it is a bleak insight into a world that you don’t really want to be part of. It does however shine a light into the spiral of despair that drug addiction can create.
Observational film-making with a message.
Love in the Time of Civil War is distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures.
The post REVIEW: Love in the Time of Civil War appeared first on Gay Star News.
Gareth Johnson
www.gaystarnews.com/article/review-love-in-the-time-of-civil-war/
Mourning India Clarke, Tenth Transgender Woman Killed in 2015
Jake Gyllenhaal Shares His Thoughts On Gay Love, “How Far We’ve Come”
Jake Gyllenhaal Shares His Thoughts On Gay Love, “How Far We’ve Come”
Jake Gyllenhaal may look a bit menacing as a scarred-up boxer in his new film Southpaw, but behind that beefed up exterior is the same softie we’ve been quietly (or not so quietly) man-crushing on for over a decade.
And speaking of a decade, it’s been ten years — can you believe it?! — since the release of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.
Speaking to BET recently, Gyllenhaal was asked if he thought the landscape has changed for actors playing gay since then:
“Oh definitely it’s changed. I think playing a role and living a life are two very different things. I think telling stories, and all different stories, is what makes acting so great. It’s why I was really proud of Brokeback Mountain and everything it had to say. And it was an interesting journey to go on to learn about that world.”
Related: Brokeback Mountain Author Wishes She’d Never Written The Story
And how does Jake feel about the recent national movement on marriage equality?
“When I heard about the news I thought, wow, how far we’ve come in a decade. And how far we have to go in so many things. But I think hopefully something like that in terms of—the resistance of society and seeing that it’s possible to change was such an amazing thing. I remember thinking, my mom sent me the decision.
“And how it was written, I thought it was so beautiful. And she said it’s all about love. My brother said to me a few weeks ago, all we leave behind is the wake of our live, that’s all we have. And to know that that wins out sometimes is an inspiration to me.”
#lovewins #welovejake
Dan Tracer
Watch the Fur Fly in New Trailer For ‘Where The Bears Are’ Season 4: VIDEO
Watch the Fur Fly in New Trailer For ‘Where The Bears Are’ Season 4: VIDEO
Love it or hate it, the cheesy, hunktastic Where The Bears Are returns for its fourth season with lead couple Nelson and Todd preparing for their wedding, but in traditional Bears fashion things start going quickly awry. Watch the trailer up the camp factor, with a jet ski shootout and a shooting of a main character, below:
The post Watch the Fur Fly in New Trailer For ‘Where The Bears Are’ Season 4: VIDEO appeared first on Towleroad.
Anthony Costello
Watch the Fur Fly in New Trailer For ‘Where The Bears Are’ Season 4: VIDEO
this moustache goes so well with the redhead
Glasgow Free Pride Rescinds Drag Ban
Glasgow Free Pride Rescinds Drag Ban
Many are still fuming after a Scottish Pride gathering initially said no to drag performers.
Neal Broverman
www.advocate.com/pride/2015/07/22/glasgow-free-pride-rescinds-drag-ban
How My World Changed at Camp Pride 2015 Leadership Academy for LGBTQ Students and Allies
How My World Changed at Camp Pride 2015 Leadership Academy for LGBTQ Students and Allies
I woke up this morning, and the first thought I had was about the people I bonded with at Camp Pride. The camp is a 5 day opportunity for LGBTQ college students and Allies to talk about social justice and bond with each other. I had so many revelations last week. The first of which was drinking coffee for the first time. That was an eye opener. I mean that stuff did something to me. Between that, smiling too much, and not sleeping enough, my face was twitching some type of way.
But the experience ran so much deeper than that. The people I met gave me the strength to reflect on parts my life that I have avoided for a long time. I learned so many things from what we shared.
One of those things was to love people even if they make mistakes. Not everything was rainbows and sunshine in Charlotte. Things were said and done that annoyed me and that I didn’t agree with. But I understood that everything was for a good purpose. Intentions are important. We have to teach each other and we have to learn. If we don’t mess up sometimes and we don’t piss anyone off, we probably aren’t going anywhere.
While surrounded by these people that I love, I got to know myself on a much deeper level. I thought about the way I’ve come to be who I am. My goals and my life dreams were all born in the water. I used my swimming as an excuse to not deal with myself and my feelings outside of it.
It took me a very long time to accept that I am a lesbian. It took me even longer to accept that I don’t fit the normative definition of a female. When I finally did those things, I started to resent swimming.
I was angry at swimming for keeping me in a box. I was sad that it kept me from making connections with people that I could relate to. I was invisible to myself as anything other than an athlete. It was the only identity I knew how to express.
5 months ago that ended. I finished my NCAA career and all of a sudden my life was barely recognizable. I tossed my cap and goggles, knowing that I had to walk away from something that I loved because I had been fighting with it for too long.
At camp, I had to consider who I am from so many angles. It was the first time I had put myself out there as a whole person first. I thought about the other things that gave my life meaning and how my identities are connected. I learned that I’m indefinite. I can never and will never be just one thing.
I was up until 3 in the morning most days, feeling things I had never allowed myself to process. I was up late one of the nights with Matt, talking about something I had on my mind. It was something simple. But he made me realize that I have to trust myself to feel my feelings and I have to be honest about that.
I left Charlotte knowing myself in a way that I never have before. Because of that, I’m not afraid of what I want anymore. And as I told my friend Erick when I opened up a bottle of Pepsi right before bed at 1 a.m., I do what I want.
I want to change lives. I want to hold somebody’s hand and do the things that no one ever did for me. I want to be the things that were missing in my life, some of the things that everyone should have.
I want to stand up for those who have to fear the things that I am privileged not to face. I want to be brave enough to do my best and sometimes make mistakes that lead me to be a better person.
I want to fight for what I love, who I love, and every person’s right to live with those things. Because even when that has hurt me, it’s made me better for the endgame.
I want to Uhaul off into the sunset with the woman that I love, despite the number of people who will look at and treat me differently because of it.
I’m want to follow my heart everywhere, because that’s where I’m supposed to be. I want my life on my own terms. I want it now.
What I also want at this moment is still to swim. Not to be just a swimmer, but to be a person who swims. And that is what I am going to do.
Coming to terms with all of this was very emotional for me. I cried when I left, something I’m usually careful not to do in front of others. It was just so hard to think of what I was leaving. It was an inconvenience to say goodbye to you all and fly back into the real world. But when I was sitting on that plane, I realized something.
You are my real world. You just made it bigger. You left a mark on my life that I will carry with me every day, wherever I go. It was your love and friendship that helped me shine light through the holes in my heart. And now I’m gonna go on living my life like some kind of beautiful freaking candle holder.
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