Monthly Archives: August 2015
15 Beautiful Feminist Tattoos To Rock While Smashing The Patriarchy
15 Beautiful Feminist Tattoos To Rock While Smashing The Patriarchy
Wearing your (feminist) heart on your sleeve never looked so good.
From riot grrrrls to feminist killjoys, girl power tattoos are a badass way to show off your fight for gender equality and the values or ideas that carry a special meaning. To celebrate feminist body art (or give you some ideas for your next ink), we rounded up 16 awesome feminist tattoos.
Scroll below to see 16 of our favorite feminist tattoos.
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Nissan sponsors Gay Softball World Series
Nissan sponsors Gay Softball World Series
Japanese automotive manufacture Nissan announced Thursday that it has teamed up with the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) to sponsor the 39th annual, Gay Softball World Series (GSWS).
The World Series is a nine-day event currently taking place (14-22 August) in Columbus, Ohio. It attracts approximately 10,000 athletes, coaches and fans – with 185 teams from 43 cities from across the US competing.
‘We’re extremely excited to have a company as committed to diversity and inclusion efforts as Nissan batting a thousand for us this year,’ said Chris Balton, commissioner of NAGAAA in a statement.
The Nissan Gay Softball World Series advert
‘Nissan has the most diverse consumer base of any automotive manufacturer and is eager to champion grassroots LGBT events that give consumers a chance to interact with both our vehicles, and our LGBT and ally employees,’ said Rick Ash, senior manager, Nissan Marketing, in a press release about the deal.
‘It’s also an honor for Nissan to bring more visibility to out athletes (past and present) like Glenn Burke, Billy Bean, Sean Conroy and all of the LGBT athletes competing this week.’
The sponsorship deal has been partly driven by Nissan’s Gay Straight Alliance Network (GSAN). The company has previously sponsored the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and representatives of GSAN have taken part in Pride parades.
The Japanese-owned company has come on in leap and bounds in recent years in learning to embrace a diverse and inclusive work culture. In 2012, it scored a mere 30 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.
However, that score rocketed to 100 in 2013, and it has stayed at 100 each year since, making it one of the fastest risers in the history of the index.
Globally, Nissan has more than 247,500 employees. It sold 5.32 million vehicles and generated revenue of 11.38 trillion yen (US$103.6 billion/€93billion) in 2014.
‘With Nissan having the most diverse customer base in the industry and an engaged group of LGBT employees and allies, we’re well positioned to connect with the LGBT community,’ said Travis Parman, an executive sponsor of GSAN, to Gay Star Business.
‘Our LGBT outreach is a point of pride for employees and helps us attract not only new customers to the Nissan brand but also potential employees.’
‘The Nissan portfolio is known for design, technology innovation and safety—all of which particularly resonate with LGBT consumers.’
Alongside Nissan, the Gay Softball World Series is being sponsored by Coors Light, AllAmerican-Athletics.com, Smirnoff and Hyatt Regency, among others. It’s estimated that the event will help generate $5million (€4.5 million) in tourism revenue for Columbus.
‘Just as the tournament has grown, so have our partnerships,’ GSWS 2015 President Dallas Aldridge told Gay Star Business.
‘We are so grateful for Nissan joining the NAGAAA family in their inaugural year of what we hope will be a long term partnership and their first ever LGBT Ad Campaign. #DrivingPride.’
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David Hudson
www.gaystarnews.com/article/nissan-sponsors-gay-softball-world-series/
Rugby Star Comes Out, Talks Years Of Struggle: “I Tick Every Macho Box. How Could I Be Gay?”
Rugby Star Comes Out, Talks Years Of Struggle: “I Tick Every Macho Box. How Could I Be Gay?”
“I feel like I’m letting out a long breath that I’ve held in for a long time,” Rugby League star Keegan Hirst told the Sunday Mirror, putting an end to a lifetime spent hiding from his true self.
The 27-year-old has become one of the first in his sport to come out, but more importantly, he’s also opened up about his struggle with fulfilling cultural expectations of masculinity.
Sports fan or not, there’s a lesson there for everyone.
Related: Australian Rugby Star Takes A Mid-Game Stand Against Homophobia
“At first I couldn’t even say ‘I’m gay’ in my head, let alone out loud,” he said. “I had a wife and kids. I’ve been a builder, doorman, worked in factories – I play rugby. I tick every macho box. How could I be gay? I’m from Batley for goodness sake. No one is gay in Batley.”
Clearly, someone was gay in Batley, and we’re guessing it wasn’t just Hirst. Hopefully his story will inspire others to realize they aren’t alone.
“The only time I felt free of the torment was when I stepped on the rugby pitch,” he admitted, adding “Now I feel free.”
Of course, its not a purely joyous event — his wife also just discovered his sexuality a few weeks ago, and the two are now in the midst of a separation.
Related: High School Jock Comes Out By Slow Dancing With The Homecoming King
“I went to her and asked if I could have a word. My stomach was in knots. We sat at the kitchen table and I said, ‘There’s something I need to tell you’.
“I couldn’t get the words out, I felt like I was going to be sick. But I managed to say it.
“She didn’t say anything at first. I explained why and how I felt, it was very emotional. We were both in tears.
“She didn’t ask a lot of questions, but she was supportive. She was totally blind-sided. She’d had
absolutely no idea.
“It was incredibly tough, but for me it was a weird situation because it also felt liberating.
And while Hirst says she’s remained supportive, the pain will need time to heal.
“She blamed herself when we separated but I knew she’d done nothing wrong. I couldn’t bear it any more, the guilt of it all, of her not knowing why I left. It was eating me up.”
The next hurdle will be telling the kids.
“We haven’t told the kids yet, they’re too young to understand. I’m not sure how I’d explain it.”
Related: Coming Out To Your Parents Can Be Tough, But What About Coming Out To Your Kids?
Dan Tracer
Ellen’s Teen Choice Awards Acceptance Speech Was Just What LGBT Kids Need to Hear: WATCH
Ellen’s Teen Choice Awards Acceptance Speech Was Just What LGBT Kids Need to Hear: WATCH
Ellen DeGeneres had an inspiring message for her Choice Comedian acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards this weekend, telling the young crowd:
It feels good to be chosen but there was a time in my life when I was not chosen. I was the opposite of chosen because I was different. And I want to make sure that what makes you different right now makes you stand out later in life. So you should be proud of being different. You should be proud of who you are.
Ellen also noted the award ceremony fell on her seven year wedding anniversary with Portia de Rossi, who was sitting in the audience cheering her wife on.
The post Ellen’s Teen Choice Awards Acceptance Speech Was Just What LGBT Kids Need to Hear: WATCH appeared first on Towleroad.
Kyler Geoffroy
Ellen’s Teen Choice Awards Acceptance Speech Was Just What LGBT Kids Need to Hear: WATCH
Copenhagen 2015
Texas Republican Leader: Fight 'Homofascists' With Swords
Texas Republican Leader: Fight 'Homofascists' With Swords
In a speech denouncing LGBT people, the conservative firebrand urged supporters to ‘drive them out of our city.’
Bil Browning
www.advocate.com/texas/2015/08/17/texas-republican-leader-fight-homofascists-swords
7 Ways the Gay Community Is Failing Youth On HIV
7 Ways the Gay Community Is Failing Youth On HIV
7 Ways the Gay Community Is Failing Youth on HIV
HIV infection is becoming a bigger and bigger problem—going up 132.5% among gay men ages 13 to 24. A new Advocate piece highlights seven of the biggest reasons why, including bad sex ed, shame left over from older generations, and “Truvada whore” stigma.
Why Lesbians Get Fewer Cervical Cancer Screenings
A new study looked at why lesbians get screened for cervical cancer less often than other women. The biggest reasons? Discrimination, lack of screening opportunities, and uneasiness about penetration during the procedure.
Queer Women and Post-Partum Depression
Bad news on the pregnancy front: a new study found that queer women currently in different-gender relationships had worse postpartum depression than queer women currently in same-gender relationships. Why? No idea.
Hepatitis C Theme Week
Is it Hepatitis C week and no one told us? Three new studies on Hepatitis C out this week teach us that: 1. 20% of gay & bi men who had it and got cured then got reinfected; 2. The chance of it coming back again on it’s own (without a reinfection) is higher if you’re HIV+; and 3. When gay and bi men get it again after being cured, it’s rarely the same strain.
California to Pay for Inmate’s Gender Reassignment Surgery
Good news: for the first time in the nation’s history a transgender person in prison will be able to get gender confirmation surgery. California has agreed to pay for Shiloh Heavenly’s surgery, deciding that it is medically necessary and not to do so would be harmful. Excellent.
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Why did this man shout homophobic slurs, whip out his genitals and then tell police he was Batman?
Why did this man shout homophobic slurs, whip out his genitals and then tell police he was Batman?
A lot of us know what it’s like to have a drunken night you’d like to forget, but not many of us can say we have had the same night as a 27-year-old from Manchester, England.
Nathan McMahon and a friend had turned up at the Bell Hotel in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, clearly already drunk.
He had called the landlord a ‘gay git’, exposed himself and put his genitals on the bar in front of customers, and kept on swearing when the landlord took away his cider.
The landlord subsequently pressed the panic button to call police.
When the two realized the cops were coming, McMahon and his friend staggered out of the pub. He punched a ‘for sale’ sign, tore up plants, urinated in the street and shouted threats, according to the Plymouth Herald.
When police caught him, they threw him in a riot van. In custody, he told officers his name was ‘Batman’
McMahon pleaded guilty to threatening behavior and damaging property when he appeared at Yeovil Magistrates Court.
He was given a 12 month community order with 120 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £235 ($370, €330).
Tom Biggs, who defended McMahon, described it as a ‘drunken night that went terribly wrong’.
Yeah, no kidding.
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Joe Morgan
HRC Supports the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey
HRC Supports the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey
Even as transgender visibility has increased, transgender Americans still face significant discrimination in housing and employment, barriers to accessing healthcare and direct services and alarming levels of harassment and violence.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/hrc-supports-the-2015-u.s.-trans-survey?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
