#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: October 21, 2015
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Daily Archives: October 21, 2015
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Fakes Injury For Attention, Plan Backfires
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Fakes Injury For Attention, Plan Backfires
Pharma bro/professional douche Martin Shkreli got so pissed off after Bernie Sanders rejected his campaign donation that he allegedly punched a wall and fractured his wrist. Or so he tweets.
Shkreli was named “the most hated man in America” by several media outlets last month after he raised the price of Daraprim, a drug used by some HIV patients, from $13.50 to $750 per tablet. He dug himself into an even deeper hole when he went on a Twitter rampage firing off smug responses at anyone who criticized him. He later said he was going to lower the price of the drug, though he’s yet to actually do so.
Related: Bernie Sanders Rejects Donation From Price-Gouging AIDS Drug CEO Martin Shkreli
Last week, Sanders sent out an email soliciting donations for his campaign. Shkreli sent him $2,700, the maximum amount allowed by law and the cost of approximately 3.6 tablets of Daraprim. But he soon had his donation returned.
“We are not keeping the money from this poster boy for drug company greed,” said Michael Briggs, a spokesman for the Sanders campaign in the email.
Shkreli took to Twitter to express his outrage with Sanders:
SO ANGRY AT @BernieSanders I COULD PUNCH A WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 18, 2015
Then apparently he punched a wall:
Ugh, does anyone know how to treat a wrist fracture without going to a hospital? — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 18, 2015
Then he tweeted a picture of his x-ray:
This is such bullshit. pic.twitter.com/t0Hgx8xdmy
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 19, 2015
The x-ray, however, was photoshopped. Gawker did some sleuthing and found a reverse image of it on Google. When someone sent a link to the image, Shkreli replied “thats what the doc sent me IDK.” In an effort to prove he wasn’t lying, Shkreli then tweeted this picture of himself wearing an arm brace:
FML. pic.twitter.com/8ModeaBPVB — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 20, 2015
Since then he’s dropped the fractured wrist act and has instead taken to trolling Bernie Sanders:
Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders @SenSanders raised the donation requested from his supporters by 755% in one day. Price gouging.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 19, 2015
Bernie Sanders, exposed. @SenSanders @BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/nXwAuW6kcB
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 19, 2015
He also took a moment to complain about an unattractive picture of him that’s been circulating around the internet:
WILL EVERYONE PLEASE STOP USING THAT UGLY PIC OF ME. I HATE BLOOMBERG FOR TAKING IT–THERE ARE SO MANY BETTER ONES!!!!!!!!!1111111ONE — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 20, 2015
Here’s the picture:
Graham Gremore
D.C. Trans Woman Murdered After Attacker ‘Embarrassed’ in Front of His ‘Crew’
D.C. Trans Woman Murdered After Attacker ‘Embarrassed’ in Front of His ‘Crew’
A Washington, D.C. man charged with the murder of transgender woman Zella Ziona (above) on October 15th in Montgomery County shot his victim multiple times because she embarrassed him in front of his friends, reports The Washington Blade.
According to a police statement, witnesses told detectives that Rico Hector Leblond (right) and Ziona knew each other and the shooting took place following a “simmering dispute that had been escalating” between the two.
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The statement, which refers to Ziona by her birth name, reads:
“It appears that Smith and Leblond had some sort of friendship and that information had now become public. Leblond was very upset with Smith when this information came to light. In the recent past, Leblond was with his crew at the Lake Forest Mall when Smith approached his group and began acting flamboyantly towards Leblond and greatly embarrassed Leblond in front of his peers.
“Detectives believe that Smith was assaulted by a subject with a stick at that time. This event may have served as a precursor to lure Smith into the alleyway to fight and where she was ultimately murdered.”
Capt. Darren Francke, commander of the Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division, said “it’s clear that this was an absolutely premeditated murder…Leblond sought out the victim and killed her.”
Charged with first degree murder, Leblond was being held without bond since his arrest. He was scheduled to appear in court on Monday. His priors include assault, robbery, theft and trespassing.
[Zella Ziona image via Facebook. Rico Leblond image via Montgomery Country Department of Police]
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Michael Fitzgerald
D.C. Trans Woman Murdered After Attacker ‘Embarrassed’ in Front of His ‘Crew’
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff, SF Pride 2015
Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
Top Mormon Official: Kim Davis Is Wrong, Same-Sex Marriage Is 'Valid'
Top Mormon Official: Kim Davis Is Wrong, Same-Sex Marriage Is 'Valid'
Apostle Dallin H. Oaks, second in line to the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a former Utah State Supreme Court justice, told a gathering of believers that renegade Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is abusing the principle of religious freedom to justify her anti-LGBT stance, and urged conservative activists to stop trying to overturn LGBT nondiscrimination laws.
Davis infamously refused to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples despite being ordered to do so by a federal judge and was sent to jail in early September for contempt of court. Many far right politicians and religious activists have championed the lawbreaker’s cause.
Government officials “are not free to apply personal convictions — religious or other — in place of the defined responsibilities of their public offices,” Oaks told the group, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. “A county clerk’s recent invoking of religious reasons to justify refusal by her office and staff to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples violates this principle.”
Oaks’s speech, titled “The Boundary Between Church and State,” came at the Second Annual Sacramento Court/Clergy Conference yesterday. The LDS church has remained silent on the controversy until now, but Oaks’s high ranking position as part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles could be inferred to be the church’s position.
“Believers should acknowledge the validity of constitutional laws,” Oaks told the conference attendees. “Even where they have challenged laws or practices on constitutional grounds, once those laws or practices have been sustained by the highest available authority, believers should acknowledge their validity and submit to them.”
Oaks urged the gathering to moderate their stance on religious freedom and opposition to secular laws in favor of LGBT rights and other hot-button social issues. The goal, he said, is a balance between religion and government. He said believers need to find a “center path” with non-believers.
“Parties with different views on the relationship between church and state should advocate and act with civility,” Oaks said. “We all lose when an atmosphere of anger or hostility or contention prevails. We all lose when we cannot debate public policies without resorting to boycotts, firings and intimidation of our adversaries.”
“On the big issues that divide adversaries on these issues, both sides should seek a balance, not a total victory,” Oaks advised. “For example, religionists should not seek a veto over all nondiscrimination laws that offend their religion, and the proponents of nondiscrimination should not seek a veto over all assertions of religious freedom.”
Bil Browning
www.advocate.com/religion/2015/10/21/top-mormon-official-kim-davis-wrong-same-sex-marriage-valid
Big News For Logo TV
Big News For Logo TV
It’s been quite the year for Logo TV.
The queer TV network announced recently announced that last year it scored its highest ratings in the 10-year history of the network.
“Logo is celebrating its 10th anniversary with not only our highest rated year ever, but as the only cable network to achieve 9 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth,” Chris McCarthy, General Manager of Logo and VH1, said in a press release. “We have no plans to slow down as we roll out a diverse slate of programs that will continue to spark conversations, entertain our audience and drive results.”
Logo also announced a second season of “Cocktails & Classics,” the return of “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 5 RuVealed” and the premiere of a documentary about LGBT elders called “Gen Silent.”
Congrats to our queer brothers and sisters at Logo!
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Open Question: Why Do Bisexuals Get Hate (LGBT)?
Open Question: Why Do Bisexuals Get Hate (LGBT)?
I dont get why bisexuals seem to get more hate than gay people why?
I think it may be because no great famous people were bisexual, there are not many famous bisexual people that bisexual people can like.
I like many famous people but none are bisexual
Troye Sivan’s ‘Blue Neighbourhood’ Trilogy Ends in the Most Heartbreaking Way Possible: WATCH
Troye Sivan’s ‘Blue Neighbourhood’ Trilogy Ends in the Most Heartbreaking Way Possible: WATCH
Yesterday, multi-gifted YouTube superstar and artist Troye Sivan released the third video in his “Blue Neighbourhood” trilogy, which followed a young man’s obsession with his childhood friend through their adolescence and into adulthood.
Young adulthood brings complications, and all does not appear to end well for Sivan’s stand-in or his friend in the series.
If you’ve missed the first two videos, you may want to watch PART 1 (“Wild”) and PART 2 (“Fools”):
Watch Part 3 (“Talk Me Down”):
Sivan had already amassed a huge number of subscribers before coming out of the closet in a video in August 2013, but his following has grown by leaps and bounds. He’s also an actor – most famous playing the young Wolverine in X-Men: Origins: Wolverine and as the title character in the Spud film trilogy.
He appears to be laying all his talent on the table with his new Wild EP project, from which these tracks are taken.
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Andy Towle
Troye Sivan’s ‘Blue Neighbourhood’ Trilogy Ends in the Most Heartbreaking Way Possible: WATCH
Open Question: What is that offence called when a macho man ridicules females, effeminate males and the LGBT community?
Happy ‘Back to the Future’ Day!
Happy ‘Back to the Future’ Day!
October 21, 2015 is finally here. Welcome, Marty McFly!
It’s a day that you’ll see all of our present tech compared to the tech predicted in the 1985 Robert Zebecks classic: 3-D holograms, self-lacing shoes, video chat, robotic fueling systems, wearable tech, mobile payments, biometric sensors, and of course hover boards.
Doc Brown has a special message:
It’s also a day that has been hoaxed over and over, the L.A. Times notes:
For years, Photoshop hoaxsters have been tweaking it so that Jan. 23, 2009 — no, June 27, 2012 — no, July 11, 2012 — no, Jan. 4, 2015 — is the date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel in “Back to the Future Part II.” (In the original “Back to the Future,” they traveled backward to 1955, not forward to 2015.)
It comes up often enough to merit its own Snopes page.
Since 2013, a Tumblr account has been tricking people by automatically generating a new screenshot that shows that day’s date captioned with “Today is the day Marty McFly goes to the future!” According to the notes, a couple hundred people fell for it every day.
But yes, according to the film, for realz, Doc and Marty and their DeLorean arrived at October 21, 2015 in Mill Valley, California at 4:29 pm today.
The BBC surveyed some British kids’ reactions to the tech in the film.
Not impressed:
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Andy Towle
