'Kimmy Schmidt' Star Tituss Burgess Follows Up 'Pinot Noir' With Ode To Multicultural Penis

If you’ve ever watched “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” chances are you’ve sung along to Titus Andromedon’s self-professed “ode to black penis,” aptly titled “Pinot Noir.” 

But what about all the other shades of D? Do those packages deserve praise?

Here at HuffPost Live, we definitely think they do — and Tituss Burgess, the actor behind Titus, agrees. Look no further than the clip above to see the Emmy-nominated star wax poetic about multi-cultural peen. And expect even more of this hilarity come “Kimmy Schimdt’s” return in spring 2016, which Burgess assured HuffPost Live is even “more absurd” than Season 1.

Watch more from Tituss Burgess’ conversation with HuffPost Live here.

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Drag host Danny Stafford offers 7 reasons to check out Bingocams

Online gaming with a human face, Bingocams is an innovative way to play bingo online. It’s unique selling point is that players can appear via webcam and interact with hosts, who also appear via webcam and offer advice, guidance and chat during play.

The site has a growing following around Europe including plenty of LGBT fans, as testified by host Aaron Watts, who also presides over games as his drag alter ego, Danny Stafford.

Aaron is a trained actor, who began a drag career after a one-year stint in a production of the Rocky Horror Show after studying drama in Manchester. His career as an actor, backing singer and female impersonator has taken him all over the world, including stints in the US and Hollywood.

Here are his reasons why Bingocams is worth a gamble…

1. You can win money; sometimes big money

Bingocams offers a multitude of different gaming rooms, with prizes ranging from less than £5 upwards.

‘We’ve got so many different rooms and events, and you get anything from 10 players in a room to 700-800 for a special events. I do a show as Danny once a week every Friday, so that’s always busy,’ says Aaron.

‘The prizes are different in every room. The last big one I did, someone won £1,000 every month for a year. Last Friday I did a rollover – and that was about £3,500 in that room – it’s all different depending on what rooms you go in. Someone won about £14,000 a month ago, so big money.’

2. You don’t have to deposit money to participate

‘The biggest selling point,’ says Aaron, ‘is that you don’t have to make a deposit when you join up, but you still get all the functions free – such as chatting live to each other through the video links. There are a few rooms that you can enter only if you make a deposit, but I’d say about 80% of the site you don’t have to deposit.’

3. Players can take part via webcam, so you can see other players and they can see you

‘But people can pick and choose whether they want to appear on screen or not. They can have an avatar or a live webcam. And we can also see them when they win. Many people play anonymously, but when they realize how easy it is to play via webcam, they give it a go and play that way.’

4. You can enjoy webcam footage of players winning

Bingocams keeps an archive of webcam footage of people who have won and who are happy to share their online delight with others. Watching others realize that they just won big money can be strangely addictive!

5. Danny Stafford adds some camp humor to the proceedings

Chat hosts provide entertainment, advice and a human face to the site. One of the most popular is Aaron, who hosts as himself four times a week and offers a show as Danny Stafford once a week.

‘It’s 50-50 that they cotton on Danny is actually me,’ says Aaron. ‘The players that have been on a while know it’s me, but the new players think, “I know that voice!” When I’m hosting as myself, they talk about Danny as if it’s another person. Of course, all the other players think that’s funny. It happens every week.’

6. It’s a new way of meeting people

‘People meet up all the time,’ says Aaron. ‘Especially if they live quite near each other. They get together and post photos and videos on our Facebook www.facebook.com/bingocamsUK?fref=ts . We say it’s not a dating site, but people do meet up.’

7. There are regular special promotions and deals, plus the opportunity to earn loyalty points or take part in free games

These include a £5 sign-up bonus, plus a 300% welcome deposit bonus (i.e. deposit £10 and they’ll give you a £30 bonus to play with and familiarize yourself with the site). Anyone who films a ‘live win’ moment and allows Bingocams to use the footage gets an extra 15% on their winnings.

Due to territorial gaming laws, Bingocams is only accessible in certain countries. For advice on responsible gambling, check here.

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Chris Christie: “Businesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate”

At the Iowa Soapbox on Saturday, presidential hopeful and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie offered his insight on religious freedom laws, admitting that private organizations should not be able to refuse service.
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Condoms Don’t Decrease Sensitivity Or Cause Erectile Dysfunction, According To New Study

We’ve heard the argument a million times: Condoms make you lose your erection and reduce sensitivity. Well, according to a new study, that may not be true after all.

Approximately 500 men between ages 18-24 years participated in a study to see if condoms did, in fact, cause erectile dysfunction. The results: 38 percent of participants reported rubbers had no effect on their performance in the bedroom, while around that same percentage said they experienced problems either during application or sex itself.

“Condom-associated erection problems have been a very under-researched topic,” Dr. Cynthia Graham, who co-authored of the study which was published by The Journal of Sexual Medicine this month, explained. “Increasing evidence suggests, however, that they may influence whether condoms are used correctly or from start to finish of sex.”

Related: Study Finds Gay Men Far More Likely To Bareback With A “Good Looking Guy”

The study goes on to argue that a guy’s psychological state may have more to do with his ability (or lack thereof) to get it up than the condom itself.

“Men who first experience loss of erection when they use condoms might worry about [difficulty] experiencing erections more generally and hence be more vulnerable [to erectile problems],” the study states before citing another study that found roughly 16 percent of men under the age of 40 reported trouble with maintaining an erection, and then another study that found difficulties performing usually only lasted for the first 60 seconds of sexual activity.

Researchers also learned that more than one third of participants reported that they were never actually taught how to use a condom, which may factor into why they believe using one can have a negative impact in the sack. Their conclusion: Schools need to up their game when it comes to sexual education.

So there you have it, fellas. The next time your trick tells you he can’t wear a rubber because it will cause him to go limp, tell him to try reapplying and then wait 60 seconds.

Related: Don’t Be A Fool, Wrap Your Tool: Queerty’s Top 10 Condom Picks

h/t: The Daily Beast

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Emotional EastSiders Season 2 Trailer Explores Open Relationships: WATCH

Popular gay web series EastSiders is back and teasing viewers with a look at its second season.

We last left Silverlake couple Cal (creator Kit Williamson) and Thom (Van Hansis) on the rocks after infidelity tore their relationship apart. Now, “against their better judgment”, Cal and Thom are seeing each other again. They no longer live together, though, and “they no longer trust each other (or themselves) to remain completely exclusive.” Which leads them to opening up their relationship in an attempt to determine “what kind of couple they want to be.”

Season 2 is being released through Wolfe Video and Vimeo. You can pre-order the entire second season HERE.

EastSiders also stars Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat), Matthew McKelligon, John Halbach and features guest turns from Sean Maher, Stephen Guarino, Brea Grant, and Traci Lords. Brianna Brown joins the cast this season as Cal’s sister, Hillary, and Satya Bhabha, Adam Bucci, Vera Miao, and Willam Belli round out the season’s new additions.

Watch the trailer below:

Eastsiders Season 2 from Wolfe Video on Vimeo.

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Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color

Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads to the production of brown or black pigment. Yet, in cases when both parents are carriers of the recessive MC1R gene and said receptor is mutated or antagonized, it fails to turn hair darker, resulting instead in a beautifully fiery buildup of red pigment. 

As previously estimated by BBC News, between one and two percent of the world’s population — or 70 to 140 million people — are redheads. In Scotland and Ireland, around 35 percent of the population carry the recessive gene that yields crimson locks, and the redhead count is around 10 percent. As such, the word ginger often calls to mind visions of Celtic-Germanic attributes — namely, pale, white skin. 

White skin and red hair may constitute the stereotypical image of a redhead, but it’s by no means a comprehensive one. French-born, London-based photographer Michelle Marshall is documenting the stunningly diverse manifestations of the MC1R gene, particularly in people of color. 

“I am currently interested in documenting the incidents of the MC1R gene variant responsible for red hair and freckles, particularly amongst black and mixed raced individuals of all ages,” Marshall wrote in an email to The Huffington Post.

“I want to stir the perception that most of us have of a ‘ginger’ as a white caucasian individual, potentially of Celtic descent … As we struggle with issues of immigration, discrimination and racial prejudice, Mother Nature, meanwhile, follows its own course, embracing society’s plurality and, in the process, shaking up our perceptions about origins, ethnicity and identity.”

Marshall originally devised the project, which she referred to as a “visual census,” to document different manifestations of freckles. Eventually, she refined the project, embarking on a mission to document as many Afro-Caribbean redheads as possible. All of Marshall’s subjects thus far have been complete strangers who she has discovered through social media, word of mouth or running into each other on the streets. 

 The close-up portraits document every freckle and stray hair, with every image, expanding the dominant, narrow understanding of what redheads can and should look like.

The photographs and their subjects are undeniably stunning. However, the enchanting appeal of the images has its drawbacks. “A beautiful picture doesn’t always relate what it’s like to be different,” Marshall said in an interview with Vice. “There’s a flipside to being different: it’s not always accepted. Beautiful photography serves one purpose, but in the context of daily life people may not have that reaction.”

Model Natasha Culzac, who covered Marshall’s project in Vice and posed for the photograph above, shared her personal experience growing up with red hair and dark skin.

“For me, growing up tall, mixed-raced, with thick, frizzy ginger hair, in a predominantly white, working-class seaside town was not the ticket. At 13 years old I was buying skin whitening cream from Boots to pulverize the freckles and at 14, during my Slipknot phase at the turn of the millennium, was violently straightening my newly-dyed black hair. Now, though, I couldn’t care less and relish being unique.”

Categorizations fall short. Stereotypes disappoint. Difference is beautiful. There is a lot to learn from Marshall’s striking portraits, if we could only stop staring at them.  

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Why the case of the clerk refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples is all about profit

On the highway to LGBTI civil rights, there are many collisions. Willful ignorance runs headlong into justice.

Few are as fascinating as the wreck in Rowan County Kentucky. We, the American public, cannot stop ourselves from rubber necking as a cold hearted group, led by a county clerk, rudely deny a polite gay couple their marriage license.

The ‘good guys’ are two Davids – Moore and Ermold, who want to get married.

It is their legal right.

The ‘villain’ is Kim Davis who refuses to issue them a marriage license. She had also denied a second couple, James Yates and William Smith Jr.

The state governor has told her to comply, as has a federal judge.

Her representation, the right wing Liberty Counsel, has told her to refuse. She calls her homophobia ‘religious freedom’, the Liberty Counsel may call it a number of things, but what it really is to them is profit.

Davis’s behavior bothers me. I look at the messages not just to me, but to my kids and their counterparts in LGBTI families across the nation.

First is her attempt to disparage families such as mine and declare us invalid. Kids in LGBTI families, and kids who are LGBTI should not hear a government official would rather they didn’t exist.

Second is her behavior. I am teaching my kids principles of responsibility and citizenship. Davis violates that principle at every turn.

I have written her a letter.

Dear Ms Davis,

I understand you are angry the fight for marriage equality did not go the way you had hoped. I will not be able to persuade you into liking the Supreme Court’s decision, but as a public servant, I do expect you to respect it.

Respect is the key. You are demanding respect for your beliefs far beyond what is reasonable, and the couples are demanding respect for their ability to determine the course of their own lives. Their demands are not just reasonable; they are the way things should be.

As a Christian I do not understand the religious system you claim to have. Nowhere in the Bible does it demand you impede the family of a same-sex couple. It does not imply you should. Christ’s great commandment to ‘love your neighbor as yourself’ is counter to your current behavior.

Much has been made of the fact you have been married multiple times. There are, theoretically, county clerks who would find your requests for re-marriage counter to Jesus’s directive on divorce.

But I would defend you. I feel Christ has given us the awareness to understand his directive on divorce was to a specific time and place. His purpose was not to saddle people like you into hopeless permanent unions, but to protect women from destitution.

I ask you reconsider your choices. You set a horrendous example for young people, like my sons, who should be learning how to effectively co-exist with others in society.

When my son Jesse is putting his foot down on something he needs to do, but doesn’t want to, he calls in his allies for credibility or support. ‘My friends don’t think that is fair!’ Invariably those he calls upon to do the wrong thing have a vested interest.

Such is your relationship with Liberty Counsel, an organization that gained $3.5 million (€3 million) in donations in 2013.

As the Lexington Herald-Leader observes: ‘Liberty’s attorneys know they can’t win the case in Rowan County. Same-sex marriage is legal since the Supreme Court’s decision and it’s Davis’ job to issue marriage licenses.

‘So, why is Liberty Counsel marching alongside Davis in this losing cause?

‘It takes a lot to keep that marketing machine humming and those executives paid, and the only way to keep those donations coming is to stay in the news. For that purpose a losing cause is just as good as, perhaps better than, a winning one.’

Your ‘friends’, who themselves will reap millions, are telling you to hang out until the end where you will be potentially unemployed, and perceived globally as a selfish intolerant hypocrite who was cruel to her neighbors.

As a ‘Good Samaritan’, I am telling you to do the opposite: do your job, respect people making their own life choices, and trust in God that love will prevail in the end.

If you do, the couples will walk away with the licenses they want and the protections they deserve.

You will walk away with dignity. You will be a woman who changed her mind, evolved and chose the path of compassion.

The Liberty Counsel won’t be able to use you for fund raising. You won’t be their pawn. You will be the real winner.

A few years later, you will be walking down the street of your town. You will see a gloriously happy little girl holding her dad’s hand. She will smile at you. As that warms your heart, you will look to her father and realize you know him. He is one of the men you tried to deny a marriage license. Your eyes will dart back to the little girl who will still be beaming at you.

In that moment, you will know without a doubt that you ultimately did the right thing.

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Zachary Quinto Explains Why Coming Out Publicly Was A Great Career Move

— Zachary Quinto, who first publicly acknowledged he was gay in 2011, reveals why his career is stronger than ever in a new interview with The Telegraph

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Gay Men Share Horrific Stories of Life Under ISIS: ‘In My Society, Being Gay Means Death’ – WATCH

For months, we’ve reported on the dire conditions faced by gay men living in ISIS-controlled territory. The Islamic State has claimed to have murdered more than 30 gay men since it rose to power. While many have been unable to confirm these figures for various reasons, not least of which being that ISIS often labels any dissident as a homosexual, two gay men who lived in ISIS-controlled areas are speaking out for the first time about the brutality and fear they and others faced living under the draconian regime.

As ITV News reports, Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas told of the fear that ruled him living in an environment so hostile even his family proved a threat to his safety:

“I was terrified to go out. Nor was my home safe, as my father, who suspiciously monitored my every move, had learned I was gay. I bear a scar on my chin as a token of his rage.”

Nahas also spoke of the horrific public executions of gay men who were hurled from building by ISIS militants, remarking that he had even accepted that “This was to be my fate, too”:

“At the executions, hundreds of townspeople, including children, cheered jubilantly as at a wedding. If a victim did not die after being hurled off a building, the townspeople stoned him to death.”

Nahas was able to flee to Turkey, but even there, he still was not safe:

“Death threats followed me to Turkey. A former school friend from Idlib named Khalil had joined Islamic State. He relayed through a mutual friend that he wanted to kill me, aiming to go to paradise. I was terrified.”

An Iraqi man, identified only as Adnan, spoke to the Council via telephone from an undisclosed location. Adnan says he still fears for his life, and for that reasons camera were not allowed into the Council room. Adnan told the Council of how adept and intent ISIS has become in hunting down gay men to slaughter:

“In my society, being gay means death and when IS kills gays most people are happy because they think we are evil, and Islamic State gets a good credit for that.

They hunt them down one by one. When they capture people, they go through the person’s phone and contacts and Facebook friends. They are trying to track down every gay man.

And it’s like dominoes. If one goes, the others will be taken down too.”

Like Nahas, Adnan also spoke of fearing what his family would do to him:

“My own family turned against me when IS was after me – if IS didn’t get me, members of my family would have done it.”

While Adnan remains in Iraq, Nahas has successfully made it to the U.S. and now works with the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration, an organization specifically aiming to help LGBT refugees.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power underscored the importance of addressing LGBT rights globally, making note that yesterday’s meeting of the Security Council was the first time the committee had discussed LGBT issues. Via The Independent:

“It is impossible not to take up the struggle for their rights as our own as we have other great human rights struggles,” she is reported to have told the meeting. “Today, we take a small but important step in assuming that work. It must not be our last step.”

Before today, the #UNSC had never had a meeting on #LGBT rights. This was long overdue—a small but important step that must not be our last.

— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) August 24, 2015

Heartbreaking account today by one man in hiding after being repeatedly attacked by ISIL & others: “In my society, being gay means death”

— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) August 24, 2015

In too many places, denying LGBT rights still seen as just. Laws criminalize LGBT persons, rather prosecuting those who violate their rights

— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) August 24, 2015

My rmks on why today’s first-ever UNSC mtg on #LGBT rights matters—it’s an issue of human rgts & a matter of dignity: t.co/OW3NBxaCPI

— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) August 24, 2015

Watch a video on the historic meeting at the U.N. Security Council, below:

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Juggling A Baby And Studying For The Bar Proved Overwhelming

This is one story from Huff/Post50’s new series “This Will Be Our Year: 15 Women Over 50 Shaking Things Up In 2015.” We’ll be following 15 remarkable ladies throughout the year as they make a radical change in their lives, whether it’s embarking on a 500-mile hike, starting a new career or attempting to find love on the Internet. 

Mary Skinner became a first-time Mom last winter and is switching careers to become a lawyer.

“Since we last spoke, I graduated law school and took the California Bar Exam. Up to the first week July, I was also the baby’s primary caregiver. Believe me, taking care of an infant is not conducive to studying! When I wasn’t taking care of the baby I was studying for the bar. I studied when he slept, which until late June involved him sleeping on me. Quite a trick to read notes and not wake up a sleeping baby! I studied late into the night and when my spouse was available to care for him, which generally was on the weekends and two mornings during the work week. It was an extreme challenge.

 “My schedule was set for me. My finals, graduation, and bar exam dates were all set in stone so I had to stay on a study schedule. Sort of a study schedule. As I said, studying and caring for the baby at the same time was my biggest challenge. At times, it was overwhelming. Since we are basically a single-income family, hiring a nanny did not seem possible. We eventually decided that it was necessary because I could not maintain the schedule I was keeping. So we hired a nanny in mid-June. Sadly it didn’t work out. At the end of June, we finally found someone who was a good fit! A lifesaver. Although we have her part-time, it was enough to assist me in getting back on track with my studies.

“And the other good news I took the bar exam the last week of July. At the end of every day (it lasted three days), I felt mentally defeated. But, I regrouped and kept going because I have spent the past four years preparing for this exam. The last hour of the last day was the most difficult. Focusing every day so intensely is a tremendous brain drain. I stuck with my mantra: “Do your best, forget the rest.” 

“Now I am playing the waiting game. It will be close as to whether I passed or not. Results for the exam are not released until November.  Of course, I may go insane waiting! What if I don’t pass? I’ll fondly channel JFK, Jr. It took him three times to pass the bar! I’ll be in good company.”

Read the first and second parts of Mary’s story!

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