Brazilian Footballer Posts Nude Pic, Plus 10 Other Reasons We Love Him

Paulo Prestes is a 27-year-old left back currently playing for Brazil’s Villa Nova.

He recently sent ripples through the web when he posted this bubbalicious pic of his tight end:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Jul 20, 2015 at 8:48pm PDT

But there are plenty of other reasons to follow him on Instagram. Like, say, his team hot tub parties:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Jul 4, 2015 at 2:47pm PDT

Or his wistful gaze:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on May 5, 2015 at 1:09pm PDT

There’s nothing wistful about these digs:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Jul 24, 2015 at 10:35am PDT

Is that a statue? Nope, still Paulo:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Jul 14, 2015 at 5:37pm PDT

Somehow this is a gym selfie we don’t mind:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Jul 2, 2015 at 7:04am PDT

Here’s lookin’ at you, kid:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Jul 1, 2015 at 4:20am PDT

Dying:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Dec 29, 2014 at 11:54am PST

Who wears short shorts?

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Dec 12, 2014 at 3:37pm PST

And sometimes short shorts are a bit too long:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Sep 23, 2014 at 8:45pm PDT

Sigh:

A photo posted by Paulo Roberto Prestes Jr. (@pr_prestes) on Aug 1, 2014 at 1:44pm PDT

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Alabama Gay Marriage Plaintiffs Finally Adopt Child, Celebrate Victory Over Roy Moore

A lesbian Alabama couple put the icing on the cake of their victory over anti-gay Chief Justice Roy Moore this week.

After a four-year fight, Cari Searcy and Kim McKeand, the plaintiffs in Alabama’s same-sex marriage case, finalized Searcy’s adoption of their 9-year-old son, Khaya Searcy. And to add salt to his wounds, the retired judge who signed off on the paperwork was actually appointed by Moore to oversee the case.

Search and McKeand, who married in California in 2008, first realized Search couldn’t be a legal guardian when Khaya had health issues shortly after birth. McKean is Khaya’s biological mother, but Searcy has helped raise him since birth.

In 2011, the couple filed a petition seeking to have Searcy adopt Khaya, but both a probate judge and a state appeals court rejected it.

They sued in federal court, which led to a district judge striking down Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban in February. But then Moore intervened.

AL.com reports:

But hours before the law legalizing same-sex marriage was to begin, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore ordered the state’s probate judges to withhold same-sex marriage licenses pending the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the matter.

Searcy filed a second lawsuit after Davis indicated he would not give final approval of the adoption until after U.S. Supreme Court case resolved the same-sex marriage issue.

Subsequently, Davis recused himself from the case citing a second lawsuit, and the adoption was put into limbo until Moore could appoint a judge. The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide last month, striking down any remaining barriers to Searcy’s adoption.

In a moment of irony, Chief Justice Moore, one of the nation’s most outspoken gay marriage opponents, appointed Reid to oversee the case, clearing the way for Friday’s adoption.

After her adoption of Khaya was finalized: Searcy told WKRG-TV:

“It was just a surreal feeling when he said that it’s in the best interests of this boy to have two legal parents. I know for me, that’s when I just broke down. It was very emotional.”

“I really hope that we’ve changed a lot of minds and hearts. We try to see the best parents that we can be. We love our child. Community support has been overwhelming. We feel loved, we feel support. You can’t really worry about what other people think, and we haven’t. Otherwise we would have stopped a long time ago.”

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WATCH: Funny or Die's Lesson in Transgender Terminology

A clueless cisgender couple gets schooled by a ‘grammarian extraordinaire’ in this funny clip.

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Watch Caitlyn Jenner’s surprise guest appearence at Boy George concert

Caitlyn Jenner, the newly minted transgender icon, gave a brief speech amid much applause before Boy George’s Culture Club concert on Friday.

‘This is going to be a good group,’ she said of the audience, who were applauding her. ‘Thank you so much. Enough about me.

‘Thank you for being here tonight. This is so much fun for me and let’s hear it here at the Greek Theatre for Boy George!’

The Culture Club, consisting of band mates Boy George, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay and Jon Moss, played at The Greek in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

George may even have upstaged Jenner, with costume changes into ever more eccentric headdresses.

He posted a video on Instagram about Caitlyn Jenner opening for Culture Club with the caption: ‘Amazing, cosmic, gorgeous to have @Caitlynjenner open our show last night. Thank you for a super special moment!’

Amazing, cosmic, gorgeous to have @Caitlynjenner open our show last night. Thank you for a super special moment!

A video posted by Boy George (@boygeorgeofficial) on Jul 25, 2015 at 1:37pm PDT

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Androgynous Korean star defeats haters with moving words

With most Korean idols sticking strictly to conventional gender roles and beauty standards, Amber has always stood out as a unique presence.

But after being insulted in the face by haters, the 22-year-old from the multi-national K-pop girl group f(x) cannot but take to Instagram to vent her dismay. The carefully crafted message that goes with a black image has earned her tens of thousands of likes within hours.

‘I have been a tomboy pretty much all my life and honestly, to put it short, it really sucks sometimes,’ wrote Amber, a Californian native who often raps in her group.

While all of her fellow members usually wear a skirt, heels, and dress in performances, Amber tends to like shorts and sneakers.

‘I personally believe girls and boys are not limited to one specific look. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. We are all different. If we all sang the same melody how can there be harmony? Don’t judge someone just because they’re different. Hopefully we can all grow to respect each other’s differences.’

She has once stated she likes guys who looks really cold and rude. However, she still regularly faces questions like whether she goes on dates with lesbians.

Ever since a child, she has been ‘judged, avoided, bothered, and cursed at’ just for appearing manly.

Luckily for Amber and her fans, malicious words do not appear to hurt the boyish star quite as much now.

‘I really like myself, so why am I trying to hide myself?’ said Amber about the lyrics she penned for the solo song ‘Beautiful’ released earlier this year.

‘From now on, I will do things my way.’

Below is her full Instagram post:

Listen to ‘Beautiful’ here:

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Artist Spotlight: Dustin Papow

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Yannick Delva

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Australia’s Labor Party will not vote as a bloc for gay marriage before 2019

Australia’s main Opposition party, the Australian Labor Party (ALP), will not vote as a bloc in support of same-sex couples being allowed to marry before the year 2019, the party’s national conference has decided.

The ALP’s left wing faction had hoped to secure a bloc vote in support of legislation allowing gay marriage in the next term of parliament.

However after hours of negotiations with the party’s right wing faction a compromise deal was made, pushing a bloc vote in favor of the reform almost into the next decade and most likely two elections away

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he would only consider allowing same-sex marriage to be legalized if it was done in a non-partisan way and some supporters of the reform held the view that a binding vote on the issue for Labor MPs would have made it harder for Abbott to allow his MPs a conscience vote on the issue.

‘Let us ask of Mr Abbott that he gives a free vote to all members of his party and of course if we ask for him to give a free vote, we must extend that ourselves,’ Labor Opposition leader Bill Shorten said at the start of today’s conference.

However others on the ALP left feel that the party should vote for the reform as a bloc as a matter of principle and say conscience votes should only be allowed for Labor MPs on life-or-death issues such as abortion or euthanasia.

This new motion means that conservative Labor MPs will most likely not have to vote against their consciences on same-sex marriage until well after it has already become legal as it seems inconceivable that the Australian Parliament will not allow the reform before 2019.

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