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Boxer In Gay Porn Video Says He Was Drugged, Producers Deny Accusation
Boxer In Gay Porn Video Says He Was Drugged, Producers Deny Accusation
A professional boxer claims he was drugged and forced to do gay porn, but the company who filmed his scene refuses to take that accusation lying down.
As a middleweight boxer, 35-year-old Yusaf Mack, has accumulated a 31-8-2 record since 2000. However, he reacted like he had been gut-punched earlier this week when the news that he had appeared in a gay porn video went public.
“All my real friends who really know me, know I like females,” Mack said, according to Towleroad.com. “My whole life, I’ve been what they call a whoremonger. I love females.”
The film in question, “Holiday Hump’n,” centers around a threesome with a man who looks like Mack named “Philly,” and two other males, “Bamm Bamm” and “Young Buck.”
The plot, such as it is, revolves around a series of explicit sexual acts between the trio.
The erotic opus was made by DawgPound USA, a porn company specializing in gay porn featuring African-Americans.
Mack, the father of 10 children, admits he agreed to be in a porn film earlier this year because he was short of cash, but claims he thought it would be with women.
The Philadelphia-based fighter took a train to New York in June. He ended up in an apartment in the Bronx that he said had a number of naked women inside.
“I think, ‘It’s about to go down.’ I needed a drink or something,” Mack told Philly.com.”They gave me a pill and a shot of vodka. I took the pill down with the vodka.”
Mack said he doesn’t remember anything after that, until he woke up on a train with $4,500 in his pocket.
Mack went on with his life until mid-October when some of his friends pulled him aside and told him about the video.
He claimed he’d never actually seen it. “That ain’t me. I don’t remember that,” he told Philly.com, rebutting claims that he was in the video. He changed his story, however, saying his friends convinced him that it was him in the recording.
Gawker reporter Rich Juzwiak is also convinced it’s Mack in the video. He delivers a blow-by-blow description of the film, but ultimately declares, “Mack seems dedicated to doing a good job, but his technique is amateurish.”
Mack insists he must have been drugged to have had sex with men.
“It’s entirely possible because [GHB is] a sexual stimulant and some people take it voluntarily to enhance the sexual experience,” according to Trinka Porrata of ProjectGHB.org. “It’s entirely possible to perform and yet not recall.”
DawgPoundUSA.com is punching back at Mack’s claims that he was drugged with the following statement to Gawker:
DawgPoundUSA.com is a reputable company which has produced high quality videos of men-of-color since 2002. At no time have we ever coerced or drugged any of our models. The claims made by Mr. Mack are false, slanderous, and vehemently denied on our part. We intend to take all legal steps necessary to protect our good name and reputation against these patently false and preposterous claims.
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This Super-Revealing Pic Of Rapper The Game Will Make Your Jaw Drop
This Super-Revealing Pic Of Rapper The Game Will Make Your Jaw Drop
Leah Remini isn’t afraid of Scientologists. The former-follower of the controversial “religion” has revealed how she was “written up” for telling Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to get a room.
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Want to know what’s more terrifying than all the Adele stans and American Horror Story: Hotel combined? It’s this video from comic-musician Greg Scarnici.
On the subject of scary, did you see the photo of Kathie Lee Gifford made up as Woodstock? Yee-ow! Check out the nearly-as-creepy pics of her Today show cronies as other Peanuts characters here.
Actor-rapper The Game posted this selfie that is, well, it’s a total game-changer.
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Jeremy Kinser
News: Eggplant Friday, Syria, Dinosaurs, Republicans, Matt Bomer
News: Eggplant Friday, Syria, Dinosaurs, Republicans, Matt Bomer
INSTAGRAM: Rapper The Game created a lot of thirst online today with an post-#EggplantFriday post.
MIDDLE EAST: President Obama to send special operations to help fight ISIS in Syria: “While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war. But with the fight against the Islamic State stalled, Mr. Obama concluded that a change was needed.”
ANCIENT ALIENS: NASA photos show mysterious ancient earthworks in Kazakhstan: “Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old. The largest, near a Neolithic settlement, is a giant square of 101 raised mounds, its opposite corners connected by a diagonal cross, covering more terrain than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Another is a kind of three-limbed swastika, its arms ending in zigzags bent counterclockwise.”
DINOSAURS: Rare dinosaur fossils airlifted out of national park in New Mexico: This was something that had never been seen before — the full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, a plant-eating dinosaur with large horns that once roamed what is now North America tens of millions of years ago.
Rare 70-million-year-old baby dino Pentaceratops airlifted out of New Mexico desert t.co/YBtAS3NzFx via @abc pic.twitter.com/VRw83GIGow
— Avianne Tan (@avianneflu) October 30, 2015
MOVIES: Sally Field is a hipster going after Max Greenfield in Hello, My Name Is Doris.
SQUAD GOALS: Ed Sheeran says he gets to hang out with Taylor Swift’s girl squad: “Of course. It’s not a vaginas-only club.”
GRAND OLD PARTY: Republican presidential candidates to hold summit on how to alter the party’s debate process. Oh, and they didn’t invite the RNC: “On Thursday, many of the campaigns told POLITICO that the RNC, which has taken a greater role in the 2016 debate process than in previous election cycles, had failed to take their concerns into account.”
SPORTS: ESPN The Magazine’s “Being Out” issue looks at the state of LGBT athletes in sports.
DEBATES: RNC cancels NBC debate over disastrous CNBC debate. RNC Chair Reince Preibus: “Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive. The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed.”
MEN: Matt Bomer proves that guys will make passes at guys who wear glasses.
INTERNATIONAL: Greek government commits to laws promoting LGBTI equality at the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference in Athens: “‘There was a palpable sense of urgency in the room today. With the backing of all major political parties, the Greek authorities have a mandate and responsibility to improve the legal and policy situation for LGBTI people in the country. We trust that the Greek government will prioritise the promises it has made at our Conference,’ commented ILGA-Europe Co-Chair, Paulo Corte Real.”
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Sean Mandell
News: Eggplant Friday, Syria, Dinosaurs, Republicans, Matt Bomer
Ben Carson's Surprising History with Pro-LGBT Companies Kellogg, Costco
Ben Carson's Surprising History with Pro-LGBT Companies Kellogg, Costco
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson, it turns out, has served on the board of not one LGBT-friendly company but two.
Carson, who got quizzed at Wednesday night’s Republican debate about his membership on the board of Costco and claimed his opposition to marriage equality doesn’t mean he’s homophobic, also was once on the board of Kellogg, a company rated even higher for LGBT-supportive policies than Costco. He resigned from both corporate boards earlier this year as he launched his presidential campaign; cutting such ties is usual for candidates.
At the debate, the retired neurosurgeon was asked how he squared his well-known opposition to LGBT equality with his board service at Costco, a membership warehouse club that scored 90 out of a possible 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s most recent Corporate Equality Index.
“There is no reason you can’t be perfectly fair to the gay community” even while believing, as he does, that marriage should be limited to opposite-sex couples, Carson responded. People, he continued, “shouldn’t automatically assume that because you believe that marriage is between one man and one woman that you are a homophobe. This is one of the myths that the left perpetrates on our society, and this is how they frighten people and get people to shut up. That’s what the P.C. culture is all about, and it’s destroying this nation.”
Carson, who has made statements that provide ample evidence of homophobia, wasn’t asked about Kellogg, although he got a query about his activities on behalf of a dietary supplements company, Mannatech, that has made questionable claims about its products (he tried to distance himself from the company). But he did serve on Kellogg’s board from 1997 until this year, according to a Detroit News story about his resignation. His association with Costco went back to 1999.
Kellogg, famed for its cereals, got a perfect 100 on the most recent HRC index. It offers the one thing that kept Costco from a perfect score — insurance coverage of medically necessary procedures for transgender employees. Companies are also rated on their antidiscrimination policies, employee support groups, diversity training, and other factors.
In an email to The Advocate, Kellogg spokeswoman Kris Charles declined to say if there’s any record of Carson discussing these policies, saying only, “Dr. Carson was a valuable member of our board for 18 years, and we are grateful for his contributions.” She did, however, explain the Battle Creek, Mich., company’s approach to inclusion:
“Kellogg has long been committed to diversity and inclusion — it’s core to our values. From how we treat each other to how we run our business, the company puts a tremendous amount of effort toward ensuring equality and respect through our policies, benefits and culture. We launched our company’s formal Diversity & Inclusion initiative in 2001, with policy and inclusive changes occurring over the following years.
“Our approach to Diversity & Inclusion is comprehensive, and we’re proud of the advancements we’re making. We’ve made progress in a number of LGBT-specific areas including offering domestic partner benefits, establishing a LGBT employee resource group, taking positions against discriminatory legislation and supporting various local and national LGBT-focused organizations to name a few. These efforts and more have helped us proudly maintain a perfect 100% score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for the past five years.”
Kellogg has also stood up to right-wing criticism. Last year the company aroused the ire of the antigay American Family Association with an ad depicting Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger and the tagline “Wear your stripes with pride.” Kellogg had sponsored the Atlanta Pride celebration and taken out an ad in the event’s Pride Guide. The ad also touted Kellogg’s high HRC rating.
As the AFA lambasted Kellogg, the company released a statement showing it wouldn’t back down. “Kellogg is firmly committed to diversity and inclusion and puts a tremendous amount of effort toward ensuring equality through our policies, benefits and culture,” Mark King, head of global diversity, told The Huffington Post. “We are honored to have been named a Top 50 company for Diversity by DiversityInc, and for achieving a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.”
Costco, based in Issaquah, Wash.,, did not respond to The Advocate‘s request for comment, nor did Carson’s campaign organization.
Trudy Ring
The State of the Trans Community, Part 2 – Awkwardness as Progress
The State of the Trans Community, Part 2 – Awkwardness as Progress
This morning there was an interesting op-ed by David Ignatius in The Washington Post on the cultural context surrounding the Republican primary campaign for president. He discussed the evolution of the American cultural zeitgeist from irony to awkwardness.
I have sensed that awkwardness in the response of the LGB community to its trans siblings, and the straight community to its gay neighbors, for many years now. Once you get beyond bigotry, prejudice and religious hostility, you’re left mired in ignorance. And ignorance, at best, leads to at least a period of awkwardness before there can be understanding, and then acceptance.
In the growing cultural recognition of the gay community, straight people needed to get beyond the unthinking rejection based on religious condemnation rooted in the Biblical theme of “abomination.” Once that was done the gay community needed to fill that vacuum with their reality, of gay persons being just like straight ones except for the gender of their object of affection. Vito Russo’s The Celluloid Closet portrayed the culture in which most Americans wallowed, until that culture changed with Will and Grace, Ellen, Brokeback Mountain and the growing efforts of everyday persons for freedom and equality in the legislatures and courts of the nation.
The same holds regarding the place of trans society in the greater whole. The American trans cultural zeitgeist was set by the first openly trans American, Christine Jorgensen, in 1952. The response was generally positive, and Ms. Jorgensen had a successful career post-transition. By the time 1960 came around, however, the forces of darkness appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s, Psycho, which set the theme for cis people’s relationship to trans people, particularly women, even to today. The theme of trans women as nothing more than male predators was manifest last night on an episode of the groundbreaking ABC drama, How to Get Away with Murder (HTGAWM).
This Shonda Rhimes drama is cutting-edge in tackling critical current issues in minority communities, be it racism, homophobia or transphobia. Women are treated as full human beings, and various human sexual relationships are normalized. Just as importantly, the challenges faced by these characters in 2015 America are not minimized, which is as it should be, because challenges do remain.
This episode, “Two Birds, One Millstone,” had a subplot involving a trans woman professor at the program’s college. One the plus side:
• The trans professor was played by a trans woman, Alexandra Billings. It’s great progress when trans actors get quality work; it will be even better when they are allowed to play cis persons.
• Annalise Keating is shown to have a long-standing relationship with the trans woman, which is viewed as unremarkable. It is that relationship which allows the professor to skate free.
• “Transphobia” is rationally discussed. Intimate questions are asked, and after some defensiveness on the part of the professor, are answered. There is an allusion to the “third date rule” for coming out. CeCe McDonald is explicitly mentioned in highlighting the difficulties trans women have in engaging with the law without being presumed guilty (though that is a far greater problem for women of color, which this professor is not). The professor is a married woman in an academic community, and is suffering from domestic abuse, no different than many other women.
• The transphobia of the detective is called out, and the DA plays it cool.
• The thread is wrapped up by the professor realizing that there isn’t just one man who could validate and love her (though given the sexual insecurities of straight men and older lesbians there may in actuality be very few).
• And, fundamentally, a trans plot is worthy of consideration for a major primetime drama.
On the other side, however, is the refusal to die of that oldest trans theme, the one first projected by Hitchcock in 1960:
• The trans woman is a killer. Initially thought to be acting in self-defense, but turning out to have acted in a premeditated manner.
• She is shown in full rage and threatening another man, clearly capable of committing horrific acts of violence.
• She is shown under duress playing the victim, even though she acted with intent to kill.
• As in the title of the program, she literally gets away with murder. At least it’s not the murder of a cis woman, but of a man.
This is progress, but the progress is awkward. We haven’t seen a trans person play a normal character on a recurring basis since Helen Shaver played Erica Bettis on The Education of Max Bickford in 2001. Shonda Rhimes painted an honorific picture of a transition on Grey’s Anatomy last year, which was far more true to life than this episode, if only because there was no violence involved. As long as trans persons are cast in roles that portray them either as perpetrators of violence or its victims, we will be stuck with the old zeitgeist and end up with campaigns such as the one nearing its end in Houston, where the civil rights ordinance is being challenged solely on the theme of trans women as male sexual predators. It’s not enough for Norma Rae to support equality; we need a village and maybe even a city of allies to shift the discourse.
Ignorance and awkwardness are fertile ground for bathroom panics, which are most evident in school battles when elementary school age trans girls are viewed as sexual threats. You can’t get much more absurd than that, and the much larger cisgender community needs to speak out. It can do it, if we begin, once again, to explain that the needs of trans kids are no different from everyone’s needs. Children and adolescents need privacy, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. What they don’t need is privacy from one small class of kids who are not nor have they ever been a threat to any other person. And the best way to get people to understand that is to portray trans persons, and women in particular, as just like everyone else.
That’s why I fear that the planned remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, forty years after the original, is such a potential threat to our ability to change the zeitgeist. What was avant-garde and edgy forty years ago, and an oasis in the desert for trans women who had no major media representations for guidance save an occasional lyric of recognition from Lou Reed or the Beatles, would be a throwback to a more dangerous world if it is true to its forbear. The film itself won’t help matters, and casting Laverne Cox as the protagonist, the “sweet transvestite from Transexual [sic], Transylvania,” compounds the projection. I’m not suggesting Ms. Cox should be denied a job, but she must be aware that she is playing a character in this film that is the antithesis of the person she has been expressing to the world. She is not Dr. Frank N. Furter, and neither am I or the hundreds of thousands of other trans women. This is more a role for RuPaul, though even that is not a truly appropriate casting, but for Laverne this role may not only undermine her image but that of the rest of us.
Lou Adler, the 1975 producer of Rocky Horror, said: “I don’t want to do it if it’s not going to live up to the way people embraced the movie over the past 40 years.” Sir, the world has changed greatly in the past 40 years, and the trans women who embraced this film have grown up and moved on. The rest of the world needs to see us as regular women, and not as “sweet transvestites,” thank you very much.
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Open Question: Did I laugh because it was silly or was it because I understand the LGBT Community or both?
Ted Cruz’s Dad Believes Gays Will Try To Fully Legalize Pedophilia
Ted Cruz’s Dad Believes Gays Will Try To Fully Legalize Pedophilia
The rotten, worm-eaten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, the expression goes and it’s particularly true of GOP Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and his charming pops Rafael, a pastor. Senor Cruz was asked at the antigay World Congress of Families 2015 in Salt Lake City this week whether there’s a link between LGBTQ people and pedophilia. He responded that it’s just a matter of time before the LGBTQ communities will try to normalize the psychiatric disorder.
“I think that’s the next thing that they’re going to push, to try to legalize pedophiles,” Cruz offered. “Pedophilia, you have all these laws to forget about – we have laws on the books about statutory rape. You have to basically throw away the statutory rape laws to legalize pedophilia.”
Related: Turns Out Ted Cruz’s Father Rafael Is Just As Obsessed With Gay Sex As His Son
Watch the hatred spew below.
Jeremy Kinser
Billy Eichner and James Corden Parody Adele’s ‘Hello’, Discuss Farts: WATCH
Billy Eichner and James Corden Parody Adele’s ‘Hello’, Discuss Farts: WATCH
Billy Eichner, aka Billy on the Street, joined forces with late night funnyman James Corden to create a Halloween-themed parody of Adele’s new hit “Hello.”
The hopelessly bromantic video shows Corden dressed as Chewbacca preparing to go trick-or-treating when he notices something is missing: his wingman, Han Solo. He decides to call his former Han, Billy, to tell him he misses the times they shared together.
Later in the show, Corden also took to discussing whether passing gas in front of your significant other is a sign of true love. Billy and guests Kate Hudson and Ruth Wilson shared their thoughts.
Watch both clips, below:
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Sean Mandell
Billy Eichner and James Corden Parody Adele’s ‘Hello’, Discuss Farts: WATCH
