Women Explain Why It’s Not On Them To Stop Street Harassment

“I don’t dress for a guy.”

“I don’t dress for a girl.”

“I don’t dress to make somebody else happy.”

That’s how a new video about street harassment and personal style begins. Created by anti-street harassment organization Hollaback! and fashion company ModCloth, the video features eleven women discussing why no one should ever censor their style to feel safe on the streets. 

“I don’t dress to get your attention,” one woman says, with another adding, “Or to make you smile.”

Internationally, 70 to 90 percent of women experience street harassment in their lifetimes. That means that catcallers need to change their behaviors, not women. 

As one woman says: “It’s not my job to change.” 

Truth.

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Former archbishop dies ahead of standing in Vatican’s first child abuse trial

A former Polish archbishop due to go on trial for child sex offences has died overnight, a Vatican source has announced.

Jozef Wesolowski was found dead in the early hours of the morning of 28 August; he is thought to have died of natural causes.

He was accused of sexually abusing an undisclosed number of boys, all of whom are presumed to be between 13 and 16 years old, with at least one case of abuse taking place in public.

According to the Vatican, the former envoy to the Dominican Republic was also accused of owning child porn; he was ordered by the papal state to stand trial in June 2015.

After Dominican media reported in 2013 how Wesolowski would dress casually and visit a beachfront area frequented by child prostitutes, which led to a police investigation, the former archbishop was recalled to Rome.

Upon his return he was stripped of all his duties and, in 2014, put under modified house arrest.

As a reaction to the growing number of priests being accused of sexually abusing children in their care, Pope Francis had promised a zero-tolerance approach to such accusations and rewrote Church rules to allow Wesolowski’s trial to take place.

Wesolowski’s case would have been the first of its kind, and involving a high-ranking Catholic official, to be brought before a Vatican court.

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Houston Unites Airs First Radio Ad

This week, Houston Unites launched its first radio ad in support of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.
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When Is Dating A Much Younger Man The Wrong Decision?

Editor’s note: We’ve asked online comedian, voice actor and chest hair model Sam Kalidi to create a new meme each week for Queerty readers. This week he takes notice of gay men of a certain age who wonder if a May-December romance is right for them. Sam looks forward to all your hate mail. You can find him onTwitter, Facebook,Instagram and at your local glory hole.

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Miley Cyrus: ‘I’m Pansexual’

After months of hinting at her hetero-flexibility, Miley Cyrus is finally putting a label on her sexuality.

“I’m very open about it – I’m pansexual,” said Cyrus in an interview with Elle UK. “But I’m not in a relationship. I’m 22, I’m going on dates, but I change my style every two weeks, let alone who I’m with.”

Last month, Cyrus was linked with Victoria’s Secret Angel Stella Maxwell.

In a June interview with Paper magazine, Cyrus revealed that she first came out to her mother when she was 14:

“I remember telling her I admire women in a different way. And she asked me what that meant. And I said, I love them. I love them like I love boys,” she says. “And it was so hard for her to understand. She didn’t want me to be judged and she didn’t want me to go to hell. But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has.”

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Miley Cyrus Comes Out As Pansexual

Labels have not always been Miley Cyrus’ thing, but the singer reveals she identifies as pansexual in the latest issue of Elle UK. 

“I’m very open about it – I’m pansexual,” she tells the fashion magazine. “But I’m not in a relationship. I’m 22, I’m going on dates, but I change my style every two weeks, let alone who I’m with.”

Last month, Cyrus opened up about the fluidity of her sexuality, saying she told her mom about feeling same-sex attractions when she was 14 years old. 

“I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age,” she told Paper magazine. “Everything that’s legal, I’m down with. Yo, I’m down with any adult — anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”

She has most recently been linked to Victoria’s Secret model Stella Maxwell. 

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South Dakota high school sports policy stays trans-inclusive

South Dakota’s governing body for high school sports has decided to largely maintain its trans-inclusive policy on student athletes.

On Thursday (27 August), the South Dakota High School Activities Association (SDHSAA) gave preliminary approval to some revision of its 2014 policy allowing trans student athletes to request playing for the team matching their gender identity.

Their decisions increase the likelihood of conservative legislators trying to push for a birth certificate requirement.

The SDHSAA’s policy revisions include establishing an independent hearing officer, instead of a hearing committee, to evaluate applications; such an officer must be a licensed attorney and member of the State Bar of South Dakota.

Under the revised policy, a student and parent need to notify the school of their wish to play on the team matching their gender identity; the school would then help them gather necessary documentation, to be submitted to the association for review.

‘I do hope that this helps (lawmakers) understand that we are listening to them and their concerns,’ Linda Whitney, a member of SDHSAA’s board of directors, told Associated Press.

Earlier this week, state lawmakers expressed their preference for a policy requiring athletes to play for the team matching the gender on their birth certificate; according to the Sun Herald, the drafted policy could go to the Legislature in the upcoming season.

As part of such a policy, Republican Roger Hunt also proposed visual exams of trans students’ genitals, in combination with checking their original birth certificate, before they can compete.

So far, no student athlete has made a request under the existing policy.

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Ann Coulter: Donald Trump Proof God Wants To Save America

Ann Coulter has said that Donald Trump’s presidential run is a sign that “God hasn’t given up on America.” 

Coulter, who once joked that parents should disown their gay children, made the comments while introducing Trump at his rally in Dubuque Iowa on Tuesday.

Like a schoolgirl with a crush, Coulter extolled Trump’s plan to deport all illegal immigrants as “the greatest political document since the Magna Carta.”

Listen to Coulter’s speech below.

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Katrina Update: Where Are They Now?

Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Back then, we spoke to LGBT residents struggling to rebuild their lives; we caught up with two of them to see what their lives are like a decade after the storm.

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Sue Perkins threatens to kiss Cultural Secretary into ‘horrific submission’ over BBC cuts

Sue Perkins has threatened to kiss John Whittingdale, the UK’s Culture Secretary, into submission to save the BBC from budget cuts.

The gay Great British Bake-Off presenter and the Conservative MP had a debate during a dinner at the Edinburgh International Television Festival this week, according to the Guardian.

‘I’m a passionate person, there’s a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers, a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion,’ Perkins, who attended the dinner with her partner Anna Richardson, told the Guardian.

‘I went to this dinner and John was opposite and I took my opportunity, albeit after one or two glasses of wine, to engage with him about the Government and the BBC.’

She described the debate as a ‘well-intentioned but pretty fiery exchange’, lasting until the other guests had cleared their plates and the sparring pair had ‘bored the living daylights out of everyone else at the table’.

‘I said you will take my points on board,’ Perkins continued.

‘Otherwise I will kiss you into an horrific submission and with that he shut up sharpish.’

Whittingdale later called Perkins ‘a feisty lady’, saying he enjoyed talking to her and hoped there would be the opportunity to continue the discussion.

The BBC is facing a 20% funding cut, following the decision that the broadcaster has to pay the license fees for over 75s, and a review in light of the renewal of its royal charter.

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