WATCH: Scary Reaction to Men Holding Hands in Jerusalem
The video was filmed after a girl was murdered, and several others injured, at Jerusalem Pride.
Neal Broverman
www.advocate.com/world/2015/08/09/watch-scary-reaction-men-holding-hands-jerusalem
Prominent US minister ‘evolving’ on gay equality
A US minister is not that worried about marriage equality, and advises his flock to focus on other matters.
A portion of a sermon by Bishop TD Jakes, of The Potter’s House located in Dallas, is getting some viral attention. The snippet is taken from a sermon he gave earlier this summer, right after the US Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling on marriage equality.
‘I’m really not as concerned about it,’ Jakes said. ‘I think that we should not lose our mind about the world being the world and the Church being the Church. This is not a news flash. The world is gonna be the world and the Church is gonna be the Church, and you have to understand the difference.’
Last week, Jakes was a guest on HuffPost Live. He has a new book out called Destiny: Step Into Your Purpose. The bishop was asked if the LGBTI community and black church could co-exist.
‘Absolutely… I think it is going to be diverse from church to church,’ Jakes said. ‘Every church has a different opinion on the issue and every gay person is different…. to think [each] are all the same is totally not true.’
Host Marc Lamont Hill, a professor at Morehouse College, asked the bishop where he stood in terms of LGBTI equality.
‘Evolved and evolving… We (the church) bought into the myth that this was a Christian nation…Once you begin to understand that democracy…is designed to be an over arching system to protect our unique nuances, then we no longer look for public policy to reflect Biblical ethics.
‘We need a neutral government that protects our right to disagree with one another and to agree with one another.’
Below is a video of Jakes’ sermon:
h/t: NewNowNext
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James Withers
www.gaystarnews.com/article/prominent-us-minister-evolving-on-gay-equality/
REVIEW: Stikki Nikki ice cream stockholm
Stikki Nikki is a small ice-cream shop located on the picturesque square Maria on the island of Södermalm in Stockholm.
It’s organic, Italian-style ice-cream and it’s really good.
There’s not a huge range of flavors (which is a good indication that the ice-cream is freshly made) – I opted for the burnt butter flavor and it was spectacular.
Exactly what I was looking for on a sunny day in the capital of Stockholm.
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Gareth Johnson
www.gaystarnews.com/article/review-stikki-nikki-ice-cream-stockholm/
Watch What Happens When Two Guys Hold Hands on the Streets of Jerusalem: VIDEO
With the city of Jerusalem in the news following the anti-gay attack at a July 30 gay pride parade, two guys decided to emulate the hand-holding social experiment that recently took place in Ukraine and Russia and see how people on the streets reacted to same-sex PDA.
Sadly, a good number of the bystander comments shown in the footage were ugly and abusive.
The post Watch What Happens When Two Guys Hold Hands on the Streets of Jerusalem: VIDEO appeared first on Towleroad.
Kyler Geoffroy
Watch What Happens When Two Guys Hold Hands on the Streets of Jerusalem: VIDEO
Inclusive Sense8 Renewed for Second Season
Netflix orders another season of the hit sci-fi series.
Neal Broverman
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2015/08/09/inclusive-sense8-renewed-second-season
Trans woman murdered in Detroit
Activists and local media are reporting the murder of Amber Monroe, a Detroit transgender woman.
According to Fox 2 Detroit, the 20-year-old Wayne State University student was last seen at 6 Mile and Woodward, a well-known area to the local trans community.
‘A lot of transgendered women go out there and don’t have support systems or employment,’ transgender rights activist Julisa Abad said to Fox 2. ‘So they are forced to do whatever they can do to survive,’ Abad continued, who knew Monroe.
Police say Monroe was employed as a sex worker when her body was discovered yesterday, 8 August, morning.
‘She’s been shot 2 or 3 times,’ Abad said. ‘But this time she didn’t make it. I’ve witnessed people pushed out of cars, shot, robbed – not a good environment at all.’
Equality Michigan, an activist organization, posted the following statement on its Facebook page:
‘We have no idea yet whether this attack was fueled by transphobia, but we do know that Amber’s murder is the 12th murder of a transgender woman in the United States this year, and the 10th murder of a transgender woman of color. Transgender women, and especially transgender women of color, are disproportionately affected by violence.’
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James Withers
www.gaystarnews.com/article/trans-woman-murdered-in-detroit/
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