LGBT Activists Plan For Next Battle

After the recent victories in the fight for same-sex marriage, some activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights found themselves wondering if they’d won their way out of a job. Could they sustain the momentum that helped legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, and if so, what exactly would they do next?

This week, a group of seasoned LGBT rights activists took steps that offer a glimpse at what’s ahead.

The group, Freedom For All Americans, is running a training program in Phoenix, Arizona, to develop what it describes as the “next generation of movement leaders.” Those who complete the program — called LGBT University, or just LGBT U for short — will be connected with campaigns in their part of the country with the goal of passing broad laws banning discrimination against LGBT people around the United States.

Sixteen people from all over the nation are attending LGBT U, which runs from Monday through Friday this week at a Phoenix hotel. Freedom For All Americans paid for all the expenses for the training, which includes interactive workshops, lectures and experiential learning.

The group says it won’t focus on attempting to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, proposed legislation that has been kicking around Congress since 1994 and is now widely considered to be dead. Instead, the new leaders will work to pass municipal, state and federal laws that protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace, public accommodations and housing.

As Matt McTighe, the campaign manager for Freedom for All Americans, pointed out, there are still 33 states that lack these comprehensive protections. And part of the goal of the new project is telling people that story — in much of the country, as the saying goes, you can now get married on Friday, only to be fired on Monday.  

“We’re combatting a misunderstanding,” he said. “So many people are just shocked that this isn’t already law. And a lot of people wrongly believe that winning marriage trickles down to everything and it’s full equality and that’s obviously not true.”

McTighe helped win the right for LGBT couples to legally wed in more than half a dozen states, beginning as the political director for the marriage campaign in Massachusetts, the first state to legalize same-sex marriages in 2004. In 2014, as it was becoming increasingly clear that the Supreme Court would rule on marriage soon, McTighe began speaking with other veteran activists and major donors about how to translate the marriage momentum into protections against discrimination.

The big questions, McTighe said, were “What are the tactics it’s going to take to win this, and what are the gaps in capacity right now?” He knew there would need to be people on the ground in dozens of states, and he also knew from experience that “senior people can be hard to come by in the LGBT space.” Thus, LGBT U was born.

This week marks the beginning of a year-long program where Freedom For All Americans will periodically check in with the students, offering additional in-person training sessions as well as monthly coaching. 

The program covers broad subjects like LGBT history, as well as logistical matters like how to deploy data-driven field programs and manage campaign budgets. “We are investing in the people on the ground doing this work in a way that hasn’t really been done before,” said Katie Belanger, the director of LGBT U program. “We’ve developed the kind of training that, as a former executive director of a state group, I wish I had gotten when starting this work.” Before joining, Belanger served as the president of the Fair Wisconsin, the state’s LGBT advocacy organization.

LGBT U will also focus on developing leaders who can win campaigns to protect transgender people from discrimination. “We’re teaching folks how to organize and engage a community that is really in need of these protections, but also very difficult to organize because it’s really not safe to come forward right now,” said Kasey Suffredini, a transgender attorney and staff member of Freedom for All Americans.

Despite a year of unprecedented visibility for transgender people, most Americans still don’t know a transgender person. “I think there are two big lessons that we learned over the course of the last two to three decades,” he continued. “First, when people know us, they come to be with us. And second, the importance of being focused, having discipline, and being organized.”

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HRC Calls on NY Attorney General to Investigate Turing Pharmaceuticals’ Exploitative Price Gouging

Today, HRC sent a letter to NY Attorney General Schneiderman asking him to investigate recent actions by Turing Pharmaceuticals to increase the price of Daraprim by 5000 percent.
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Tom Hiddleston Proudly Shows His Butt In New Film To “Redress The Balance” Of Hollywood Nudity

While Kevin Bacon leads the charge for more male full-frontal cinematic moments, Tom Hiddleston is warming up to the idea by starting with some ass appeal.

“It’s so often in movies that women are more naked than men and that’s unfair,” the actor tells E! News. “We wanted to sort of redress the balance.”

But social injustice isn’t the only reason Hiddleston is mooning audience members of his upcoming Gothic horror flick Crimson Peak.

“I didn’t have a problem with the nakedness because I felt that there’s always been a strain of sexuality in Gothic romance as much as there has been the fear of death and the threat of violence,” Hiddleston explained. “It’s a very violent film and I felt like we needed to balance that. So if we’re going to bring up the violence we needed to bring up the sense of sexuality.”

Sex and violence, huh? When it works, it works.

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Crimson Peak, directed by Guillermo Del Toro also features Charlie Hunnam, Mia Wasikowska, Jim Beaver and Jessica Chastain. It comes out October 16.

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#StillBisexual Campaign Promotes Bisexual Visibility Week With Daily Video Series: WATCH

The bisexual visibility campaign #StillBisexual is celebrating Bisexual Visibility week with a daily video series documenting bisexual peoples’ stories and dealing with the frustration of people categorizing their sexuality based on who they’re dating, or in a relationship with at the moment reports shewired.com.

Many of the stories in the video series deal with finding love with someone regardless of their gender, understanding their own sexuality and dealing with some of the annoying questions that come with being bisexual. Watch the #StillBisexual stories of Kai, who clarifies that marrying a man didn’t make her straight, and Faith, who grew up in a Christian Pentecostal home and entered a relationship with a trans partner, and their experiences growing up bisexual, below:

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Religious Right: The Muppets Are 'Sinful' and 'Perverted'

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the rest of their Muppets gang are coming under fire by Christian fundamentalists who claim their new program is “perverted,” “sinful” and promotes “interspecies relationships.” The Muppets premiered last night on ABC.

Christian activist Franklin Graham and the group One Million Moms have declared war on the latest show featuring the famous frog, pig and assorted characters, who have entertained kids of all ages for generations. The twist, as Kermit explained in an online preview, is that “The show’s going to be all about our personal lives, behing the scenes, our relationships. Sort of an adult Muppet Show.”

“1MM suspects there are going to be a lot of shocked moms and dads when they discover that the family-friendly Muppets of the 1970s are no more. It appears that no subject is off limits,” the group wrote in an email blast to supporters. “The new show is aimed at a mature, modern audience and addresses subjects not suitable for family viewing.”

Despite its name, the group One Million Moms does not have one million members and is affiliated with the American Family Association, which is classified as an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Graham is the son of noted evangelist Billy Graham.

The group cited that promotional video — featuring a scene in which actor Topher Grace makes out with the famous, flirtacious pig — and a poster promoting the show with the tagline, “Finally, a network TV show with full frontal nudity.” Kermit and many other characters like Fozzie the Bear do not wear pants, because they are hand puppets.

“The mature version of ‘The Muppets’ will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs,” the group continued. “Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during an MSNBC interview. The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond are now weighing in on abortion and promiscuity.”

Graham weighed in on the kooky controversy yesterday in support of the group’s boycott. No subject is “off limits,” Graham claims, saying the show will promote “topics from sex to drugs to interspecies relationships.”

“It sounds to me like the whole show should be off limits! Hollywood seems to be in a frenzy to see what new moral low they can reach in their programming,” Graham wrote on Facebook. “Their agenda is to promote sin to a younger and younger audience. I applaud the group One Million Moms for speaking out against this and urging parents to call on ABC to take it off the air. The Bible says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.’ That goes for Kermit the Frog as well!”

What these Christian critics appear to be ignoring or have forgotten is that in addition to the Muppets’s work on Sesame Street beginning in 1969, Jim Henson’s creations also appeared on late night television in 1975 with the birth of Saturday Night Live. NBC required Lorne Michaels to include Muppets in his radical, no-holds barred show, to “soften it,” as Salon reported. 

Henson’s daughter, Lisa, who now runs The Jim Henson Company with her siblings, endorsed both the show and its adult themes, in an interview with Variety: 

“The fact that the TV show is different in tone is consistent in what we’ve always done … We’ve always played the Muppets different tonally from one production to the next. As long as the characters remain recognizable and as lovable as they always are, the kind of tone of the different pieces fits perfectly.”

Fans have clamored for a return of these favorite characters since the original Muppet Show went off the air in 1981. Last night’s premiere has been highly anticipated since it was announced.

Watch the video that sent One Million Moms to the fainting couch below.

 

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Natasha Lyonne Didn't Like Judy Greer For Over A Decade Because Of One 'Specific Penis'

It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday in September, and no space in Manhattan holds more energy, laughter and love than the “Addicted to Fresno” press room at the Loews Regency Hotel. Instead of my two originally planned back-to-back interviews, one with director Jamie Babbit, and a subsequent one with stars Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer, I’m thrust into an impromptu four-on-one with all three women plus the screenwriter and Babbit’s wife, Karey Dornetto (“Portlandia”).

As Greer and Babbit discuss the actress’ A.L.C. dress and her “Gay Academy Award” — referring to the Outfest Best Actress award Greer won for the film earlier this year — Lyonne walks in last, wearing sunglasses and amped as ever. “Hi guys! Good morninggg,” Lyonne says gleefully. “Is this too far away?” Lyonne shouts from across the room as she plops down on one of the awkwardly spaced-out chairs in the hotel suite. “I’m just gonna talk at this volume, seems totally normal,” she yells. “What if I was just pretending to be funny, but in fact I was losing my hearing?”

After more giggles about the chairs, chatter surrounding Lyonne’s Prada boots and reminiscing about the “But I’m a Cheerleader” anniversary feature for which I talked to Babbit and Lyonne last summer, we get into “Addicted to Fresno.” The dark comedy stars Lyonne and Greer as sisters, but in roles opposite of what you’d expect. Lyonne is Martha, a lesbian living a content life as a homeowner who works as a hotel maid in the Central California city. Greer plays Shannon, Martha’s erratic, impulsive, sex addict sister, who arrives to incite much unexpected chaos. When Shannon accidentally kills a hotel guest, the sisters attempt to get rid of the body with one plan that includes robbing a sex shop, followed by a hilarious dildo montage.

The Huffington Post caught up with the four women to talk about the female-centric film and Lyonne and Greer swapping their usual archetypes, only to sit back and overhear many sarcastic jokes, tangents, and the oral history (no pun intended) of how Adam Goldberg’s dick divided, and then brought together, Lyonne and Greer. (For clarity: the actor Adam Goldberg, not the other one.) 

It’s rare to see so many comedic actresses in a film made by women about women. How did “Fresno” come about?

Babbit: I’ll tell you the genesis of the movie, which is basically, Karey and I are wives. Karey is a television writer and she had never done a movie before. She said, “I want to write a movie for you,” and I said, “Pitch me some ideas and I’ll see if I like them or not.” So she pitched me like three ideas, and I chose this idea. It was very general. It was just like, sisters, one is a lesbian and one is her sister.

Dornetto: It was based on me and my sister.

Babbit: And I knew that was very bright fodder because she has an extremely complicated relationship with her sister. Case in point, at the premiere of our movie she made her cry.

Lyonne: But it was allergy-related. [Laughs.]

Greer: Yeah, she threw hot sauce in her eyes.

Babbit: I knew there was a lot there. So we developed the script for two years. And then we texted Natasha and said, “Hey, can we send you a script?”

Lyonne: I was obviously over the moon at working together again. And I’m a big major fan of Karey, as a human being and a writer — against the advice of many friends, mind you. But it was a no-brainer. If they had sent it to me and it was one scene, which I always assume because of my self-esteem, I would’ve been like, “Oh, yeah sure.” So I was really shocked and surprised. I knew, obviously, Jamie personally, but I was so surprised that such a good movie was coming to me as a first-choice person, to be totally honest.

Babbit: I can’t remember if you said, “Do you really want me to play Martha?” 

Yeah, the roles are very reversed.

Babbit: But it was very similar to the part she played in “Cheerleader,” so in my creative mind, I know she’s really good at that part.

Lyonne: I loved the idea that only Jamie seems to me as so specifically and so successfully based on “Cheerleader” as that kind of a person, which I think —

Babbit: Is so different from who you are.

Lyonne: It’s so different from who I am and yet in other ways, there are a lot of aspects of Martha that probably are closer to me. Out there in the real world where there’s real tough people who are really sexually addicted, the real darkness that Judy gets into, I am definitely friendlier than that, certainly in my healthy life.

Babbit: And you can relate to the shiny, happy enabler in all of us.

Lyonne: But I guess only for like an hour a day. Like, I spend 23 hours being really sick in the head. And for one hour a day I’m like super-Martha.

Greer: I feel like your hour for Martha per day, though, is cut up into 10 minute increments.

Lyonne: That’s an excellent observation.

Greer: I don’t get an hour of that version of you. “Greer, Greer, I love you!” “Greer, Greer don’t touch me, I’m too hot.” “Why aren’t you talking to me?!” “OK, I need to just go smoke a cigarette.”

Lyonne: [Laughs.] This is a fair assesment!

Greer: I really love those 10 minutes so much.

Babbit: I can say the opposite about Judy. I worked with her on “Married” and I was blown away by what a talented actress she was. I came to her and offered her the part that was litterally the opposite of who she is.

Greer: I’m a 23-and-a-half-hours-a-day enabler, and 30 minutes of “Fuck you!” I started reading this script and I couldn’t believe the same thing. There’s a cover letter that comes when you get the script that said, “Please take a look at the role of Shannon.” And I said, “No, that’s wrong. So wrong.”

Babbit: You also made a career of playing the Martha.

Greer: The doormat. Yeah, I’m really good at that, so that was crazy to read it. 

Lyonne: I am presently, in real-time, obsessed with Judy Greer. I was so blown away at the idea of being able to work with you, especially in this capacity of us getting real parts under the direction of a real person. […] It’s so rare that you get to have a major role with somebody heavy like Judy to play opposite, under somebody like Jamie who’s a director I can trust. And I’m just a big fan of Judy’s from a distance.

Greer: I also changed your life. Do you remember what I told you?

Lyonne: Are we talking about the boyfriend situation?

Greer: So for 10-plus years, she thought —

Lyonne: So we all have ex-boyfriends, some of us more than others. [Babbit and Dornetto laugh.] I obviously was aware of Judy Greer. [In a mocking tone] She’s a funny, amazing actress. “Oh my god, everybody loves Judy Greer. Judy Greer can do no wrong.” And I’m like yeah, Judy Greer’s great, except that she fucked my ex-boyfriend after we broke up. [Everyone laughs.] So I always liked Judy Greer, but I remember Chloe [Sevigny], who’s my best friend, did a movie with Judy Greer. Comes home from the movie, won’t shut up about Judy Greer. “Oh my god, Judy Greer is so fucking amazing! I love her. I’ve never liked working with somebody so much in my life.” I’m like, “Thanks buddy, I’ve worked with you a bunch.” Just on and on, it’s like “The Judy Greer Show.” And that’s great. So when I get this call and on the first day I’m like, “Hey, buddy,” because in my mind, for about 15 years, I’m like, “Judy Greer’s that wonderful actress. Didn’t she … ?” Long story short: it never happened, but in my mind —

Greer: We never hooked up!

Lyonne: Finally I just told her, “Judy, isn’t it great we have that specific penis in common?” And Judy was like, “Which one?” And I was like, “Ya know the one, buddy.” 

Did you know, Judy?

Greer: No, I had no idea that she thought that … because we never really met.

Lyonne: The guy in question is Adam Goldberg because they’d done “The Hebrew Hammer” together. And I remember right after Adam and I, who was a real boyfriend of mine, we went out for like two years —

Greer: He was f**ked up over you when we shot that movie.

Lyonne: Thank you!

Greer: You’re welcome!

Lyonne: Uh, so you know, that was where I left it with him. I thought I really solidified that destruction. And in my mind, they went off and did a movie together and he was just in love with Judy Greer. I don’t know why in my alcoholic warped mind I decided that that was reality, but I never checked in with anyone about it and I just sort of carried it with me for like, the better part of a decade. Until finally being face-to-face with Judy Greer and being like, “Hey, you like f**king Adam Goldberg too, huh?!”

Greer: I had a boyfriend at the time!

Lyonne: Apparently. I still only like, 85 percent believe her.

Greer: Did I tell you about when Adam called me?

Lyonne: No, what happened?

Greer: Adam called me not too long ago, it was maybe before we shot the movie. But he called, and I’m like, “Hey what’s going on?” And he goes, “Ugh. I dialed the wrong Judy.” And I was like, “Alright, um … “

Lyonne: They’re still f**king! How much more evidence does a person need? 

Greer: You were so tripped out over it. For like, many days after, “So you really didn’t f**k Adam Goldberg? Swear to god?” She couldn’t.

Lyonne: Because every time I would see Judy Greer’s name in a movie, which is like on a daily basis, I was like, “Oh, that’s the girl who f**ked my boyfriend!”

Greer: Yeah, it’s like walking through a glass door. I just recently walked through a glass door. It was terrifying. And now I feel like, how do I know there’s not a glass door in front of me all the time?

Last question. So, uh, is there gonna a be a sequel?

[Everyone laughs.]

Greer: Yeah. We’re going to do a sequel, we might be writing it ourselves.

Lyonne: Sorry, Karey.

Greer: Yeah, we’re definitely gonna do a sequel.

Lyonne: It’s actually just called “Addicted 2 Fresno” so it’s going to be very confusing. But whatever, we’re gonna stick with it. We’ve given it a lot of thought, we know what we’re doing.

This interview has been edited and condensed, even though there were many more wonderful interjections, courtesy of Lyonne and Greer.

“Addicted to Fresno” is now available on VOD and hits theaters on Oct 2.

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You have to see Taylor Swift dance to Shake It Off with a very excited 7-year-old boy

Taylor Swift is so good to her gay fans, from complimenting one teen on his prom outfit to getting obsessed with Todrick Hall’s medley of her hits.

But it is one tiny dancer that has got her impressed today, with seven-year-old Dylan becoming a viral sensation after he danced to her song Shake It Off in his living room.

It ended up with him being invited on to Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show.

So Taylor couldn’t resist meeting Dylan at her Kansas City show, and they had a little boogie together.

‘Finally got to meet Dylan, the 7-year-old who passionately danced to Shake It Off on Ellen – and this happened,’ she wrote.

Finally got to meet Dylan, the 7-year-old who passionately danced to Shake It Off on Ellen— and this happened.

A video posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Sep 21, 2015 at 10:42pm PDT

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HRC Ready to Welcome Pope #WelcomingbyGod

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Religious Conservatives Abandon Principles In GOP Presidential Race

Judging by his lackluster performance, Scott Walker’s decision to end his presidential campaign was not a loss to the art of political warfare. A speaker for whom the word boring was invented, at best Walker aspired to be bland. But at the start of the current silly season, Walker was considered a formidable candidate, if not the one to beat.  Instead, he end up an also-ran five months before the first vote was even cast.

Given the exercise in chaos theory that is the current Republican primary, Walker’s exit can’t be all that surprising. But what is surprising is that Walker was so swiftly abandoned by the people whose support he had staked his candidacy on: religious conservatives. Even more surprising is who they abandoned him for: Donald Trump (a three-time married gambling mogul), Ben Carson (a Seventh-Day Adventist) and Carly Fiorina (a nondenominational Christian who doesn’t seem to go to church).

As recently as July, Walker was the front-runner among Iowan evangelicals, whose support is crucial in the state’s GOP caucuses. His status as the favorite was easy to understand: Walker is the governor in a neighboring state, he’s the son of a Baptist preacher, and he’s reliably homophobic.

But none of that matters to the religious right. They want red-meat rhetoric. More than that, they want an outsider, on the grounds that someone with no experience in politics will turn Washington upside down for a change. If that means going with a candidate that violates their moral beliefs — well, hey, it’s politics after all.

Walker had neither of the two qualities that evangelicals are looking for. He has held political office since he’s been 24. He was not as vocal as the bottom-rung candidates, like Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, or the bottom-feeders, like Ted Cruz. In fact, he was wishy-washy. He tried to send a message that he was a compassionate conservative, while at the same time fundraising by pledging to pass a Constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. Whatever you might say about Santorum, Huckabee and Cruz, you would never accuse them of trying to have it both ways.

What does it say about the religious right that they are willing to pass judgment on everyone except the people who say what they want to hear? It seems that principles are far from immutable. In fact, they are quite flexible.

Consider the case of Trump. If ever there was a candidate whose lifestyle would seem anathema to religious conservatives, it would have to be him. But in fact, evangelicals love him. And Trump has been courting them for years, leaving them starstruck by his attention.

The same for Carson. As a Seventh-Day Adventist, Carson is suspect to many hard-core Christian leaders. In fact, he was once bounced from a Christian conference by organizers who consider his religion unorthodox. But Carson has been gaining steam among Iowan evangelicals, who see him as one of their own, at least culturally.

As for Fiorina, her emergence as a top-tier candidate despite a flurry of falsehoods at the last debate is a testament to the mainstream media’s reflexive desire to view everything as a horse-race. But Fiorina has been assiduously courting religious conservatives for months now. The fact that she professes to love God without stepping foot in a church regularly doesn’t seem to bother evangelicals one little bit.

There is precedent for this political hypocrisy. Ronald Reason was the first presidential nominee to have been divorced, which was still a bit of a scandal in 1980. A churchgoer, Reagan was not. But for conservative Christians he was the new Messiah. He said what evangelicals wanted to hear. After 35 years, nothing seems to have changed.

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Kim Davis Says She Has Gay Friends. Where Are They?

Yesterday, we showed you Good Morning America’s interview with Kim Davis in which the Kentucky clerk claimed she had “friends that are gay and lesbians” and that she’d already denied one of her alleged gay friends a marriage license.

“I can’t put my name on a license that doesn’t represent what God ordained marriage to be,” Davis declared.

The search is now on for these mythical gay friends, as The Daily Beast has reached out to Davis’ lawyers, co-workers, neighbors, and even her first husband.

“I don’t even know who they are,” said a Liberty Counsel spokeswoman. “I don’t think she would lie. Someone who goes to jail for her conscience wouldn’t lie about that.”

None of the other interviewees were able to provide any names of gay friends. Dwain Wallace, Davis’s first husband, said she didn’t have gay friends when they were married.

The Kentucky Equality Federation also joined in the search, posting the following on its Facebook page yesterday:

Does Kim Davis have gay friends whom she has denied marriage licenses as she claimed to ABC’s Good Morning America? Are you one of her gay “best friends” that she claims to have? If you are, the media would like to speak to you to verify this claim because Kentucky Equality Federation simply doesn’t believe anything that comes out of this woman’s mouth. If you can verify her claim, please email us here on our Official Facebook Page and we will pass the reporters information to you. Our position has been made very clear: community.kyequality.org by Federation officials.

The Federation went on to humorously note:

We have received over 60 emails asking for places to purchase “Kim Davis Halloween Costumes.” Multiple vendors will have her “hair” back in-stock soon and you can purchase a blue-jean dress at any K-Mart or Walmart.

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