5 Years Later: See Lady Gaga's Meat Dress Now
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has acquired Lady’s Gaga’s infamous meat dress, and you won’t believe what it looks like now.
Bil Browning
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Kentucky Clerk's Husband Says His Wife Is 'Not Gonna Bow'
The husband of a Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who’s in jail because she refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples spoke out on his wife’s behalf Thursday.
“They have illegally put my wife in jail so we’re gonna ask the sheriff to do his job or step down,” Joe Davis said outside the Rowan County Courthouse.
His wife, Kim Davis, was jailed on Thursday after she refused to comply with U.S. District Judge David Bunning’s order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, citing her religious beliefs and “God’s authority.”
“We’ve had people running for president that knows more about the law than Bunning does,” Joe Davis said. “That’s sad that we have a judge that’s sitting behind the bench with a black robe on that don’t know the law.”
Bunning said he would keep Davis’ wife in jail until she complied with his order.
“They’re not gonna let her out and she’s not gonna bow,” Davis said. “I promise you that.”
A reporter asked him how long his wife would be willing to stay in jail.”As long as it takes,” he responded.
The entire matter could be resolved for Kim Davis, and the gay couples of Rowan County, if the clerk resigned.
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Find out why Fort Lauderdale’s gay wedding campaign is winning awards
Fort Lauderdale’s tourism bureau has won some awards for its successful ‘Love Is Love‘ gay marriage marketing campaign.
The project won The Henry (gold) award in the Creativity in Public Relations category at the annual Flagler Awards, as well as an award in the Mixed Media Campaign and ‘Best in Show’.
The awards, established in the year 2000, are held annually in Florida in recognition of statewide excellence in tourism promotion, as the Sun Sentinel reports.
The Love Is Love campaign famously included the mass wedding of 100 couples in the gay-friendly city on 5 February, following the legalization of gay marriage in the state of Florida on 6 January; the official ambassador was *NSYNC’s Lance Bass.
‘While we can measure the success of the ‘Love is Love’ campaign with numbers and awards, this initiative was about creating a memory, a lasting impression, and a genuine celebration of marriage equality,’ said president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale tourism bureau Nicki E. Grossman.
‘To us, the success is measured in smiles, happy tears and hugs. And there were lots of those,’ she added.
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Jamie Tabberer
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HRC Mississippi’s First Statewide Equality Summit
Saturday was a day of history.
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Judge Tells Straight Couple They Can’t Divorce Because Of Gay Marriage
It looks like Kim Davis isn’t the only government employee refusing to do her job. Now, a local judge in Tennessee says he will not grant a divorce to a straight couple because of gay marriage.
Thomas and Pamela Bumgardner were wed in November 2002. The couple have no children together and filed for divorce in September 2014 because of “irreconcilable differences.” But Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Atherton give a damn about their wishes. Instead, he denied the couple’s request for a divorce last week after hearing from seven witnesses over the course of four days and going through more than 75 exhibits, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports.
Related: Texas Forces Same-Sex Couple Seeking Divorce To Remain Married
Atherton’s reasoning? In his words, the Supreme Court needs to clarify “when a marriage is no longer a marriage.”
“The conclusion reached by this court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorces,” Atherton wrote in his judgment.
In other words, the judge believes SCOTUS changed the definition of marriage when it ruled in favor of nationwide marriage equality earlier this summer, therefore it must also change the definition of divorce, and until then he won’t allow anyone, same- or opposite sex, to end their unions.
Good thinking, your honor.
When asked what exactly the couple should do now that they can’t get divorced, Atherton shrugged and said: “Hopefully, they can reconcile” unwittingly letting the world know that he was substituting his judgement for the couple’s own.
Related: In Alabama, Gay People Can’t Get Married… But They Can Get Divorced
Graham Gremore
Janet Jackson is ‘Unbreakable’ in the Title Track Off Her New Album: LISTEN
Following up the first single “No Sleeep”, Janet Jackson has released “Unbreakable”, the title track off her upcoming eleventh studio album.
She reunites for the first time since 2006 (20 Y.O.) with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for the track, a survival anthem dedicated to her “family…fans & friends.”
Said Jam: “It’s wonderful to be creating again with Janet. From songwriting, producing, arranging, singing, dancing, acting, she deftly does it all and truly personifies the word artist. Unbreakable is a gift to all of her fans who have steadfastly stood by her. It is a subject for conversation, a plea for compassion, and a call for action from someone who’s come a long way, but’s got a long way to go, and has much to say about it. In other words, if you want to know what’s on her mind you only have to listen.”
Fans won’t be disappointed – the sound is nothing new, but it’s classic Janet.
Listen:
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Andy Towle
Janet Jackson is ‘Unbreakable’ in the Title Track Off Her New Album: LISTEN
'Body Utopia' Explores The Explosive Beauty Of Nonconforming Bodies
In a recent ARTnews essay, Wangechi Mutu — the artist of the work above — implored her fellow feminists to not only think deeply about the amount of women artists active in the contemporary art world, but also the way women are portrayed in artworks themselves.
“How often do women appear in art, and how do they sit and perform in the works?” she asks. “Is the figure always represented as docile, inactive, sexualized, or subordinate? Does she have an inferior role in a larger narrative that emphasizes the superiority of the male protagonist? Is her appearance stereotypical in terms of weight, skin color, hair texture, and facial expression?”
Do you know what Mutu’s talking about here? Shall we take a five-second tour through art history to refresh our memories?
In part inspired by Mutu’s words, Rhia Hurt and Mary Negro, directors of Trestle Gallery, set out to exhibit a show that puts the nonconforming body on display. Bodies of color, queer bodies, bodies with disabilities, bodies that don’t conform to societal norms and conventions.
To curate the exhibit, titled “Body Utopia,” they enlisted queer, feminist Brooklyn-based painter Clarity Haynes. Haynes, who has worked continuously on “The Breast Portrait Project” since the 1990s, focuses her practice on fondly visualizing the beautiful figures that are so often rendered invisible by mainstream culture. In Haynes’ words: “I think of my portraits as a cultural intervention — ‘before’ pictures lovingly drawn and painted, meditative descriptions of specific bodies that need no correction.“
For Haynes, it was crucial to include both a diverse array of artists and a wide range of represented subjects. “Often we think about the nonconforming body as being represented from the outside, an external view,” she explained in an email to The Huffington Post. “And that is important. But I’m also interested in how we (and by we, I mean all human beings) experience embodiment in an internal, felt way.”
“As Mutu points out, prejudices and constrictions regarding the kinds of bodies we’re allowed to see and create are strongly entrenched in the art world, just as in society at large,” Haynes continued. “I believe we need imagery and artwork about the nonconforming body because it expresses a totality — a depth — a truthfulness in our experience, that patriarchal mandates do not permit us.”
So, she selected five artists to join her in displaying their body positive work, projecting their own images the ways they want them to be seen. The following six artists, merging the personal and political, render bodies that are willful, active, and dominant. Superior. Nonconformist. Free.
Get to know the artists, with introductions provided by Haynes, below.
BODY UTOPIA runs from September 25- October 30, 2015 at Trestle Gallery in New York.
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Male babysitter charged with taping two boys to chairs and forcing them to watch Mommie Dearest
A male babysitter has been arrested after allegedly taping two young boys to their chairs and forcing them to watch Mommie Dearest.
Glenn Oliver, 29 of Nebraska, is being charged with child abuse and false imprisonment after reportedly making the two boys, aged four and six, to watch the camp cult classic about Joan Crawford.
In court records obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Oliver claims he was babysitting the boys when his mother had asked him to make her children watch the film.
When they wouldn’t listen, according to the reports, he duct-taped them to their chairs. He used the tape on the boy’s mouths, wrists, chests, ankles and heads.
Officer Benjamin Murry claims Oliver told him ‘he didn’t think it was that big of a deal’ and that the boys ‘wouldn’t listen’ about why Mommie Dearest was worth watching. He said he got ‘tired and frustrated’.
The policeman said he was shown photographs of the boys restrained to the chairs, by a woman who had removed the two boys from the home, along with one other child who had not been tied down.
He said the duct tape was ‘very tight’ on the four-year-old, and in his opinion, could have meant the child couldn’t breathe properly.
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Joe Morgan
FINALLY! Marriage Equality Arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky
After county clerk was found in contempt of court, deputy clerks agree to follow the law and being issuing marriage license
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‘Scream Queens’ Stars Scream Bloody Murder In Deliciously Campy Intro: WATCH
The opening credits for Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens is deliciously campy as the series’ Kappa Kappa Tau sorority sisters and other characters find themselves at the mercy of the series’ big bad of the season.
Watch as stars Emma Roberts, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd and others scream bloody murder when they find themselves at the whim of the red devil in the trailer, below:
Scream Queens premieres Tuesday September 22.
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Anthony Costello
‘Scream Queens’ Stars Scream Bloody Murder In Deliciously Campy Intro: WATCH
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