Open Question: Does anyone know any Lgbt friendly gameboy/nds/android games?

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Apple Supports Houston Equal Rights Ordinance

Apple Inc. adds its support for the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), which is on the ballot this Tuesday.
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These Rescued Circus Lions are Recovering Nicely From a Lifetime of Abuse: PHOTOS

They were born in captivity and have no idea about the big cat sanctuary that’s in store for them in South Africa.
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By Simeon Tegel

LIMA, Peru — In a cramped, makeshift compound on the dusty outskirts of Lima, 24 rescued circus lions are enjoying more freedom than they have ever known.

But soon their lives are about to get even better. As GlobalPost reported in September, the animals will be headed in November to a big cat sanctuary in South Africa, along with another nine rescued in Colombia.

For animals born in captivity that have spent their entire lives in tiny cages — occasionally allowed out to create a spectacle for circus-goers, fed inadequate diets and often receiving no veterinary care — that will seem like heaven.

“The lions don’t know that their lives are going to change forever — from years of suffering in circuses, they will live in natural enclosures under the African sun. This is like a person applying for a visa for the trip of a lifetime,” said Jan Creamer, president of Animal Defenders International, the British nonprofit that organized the rescue and airlift.

But for now, the lions are getting ready for what is thought to be the largest-ever airlift of big cats. That means getting dental surgery to mend broken teeth and infected abscesses, extra portions of red meat to help them get back to a healthy weight and build muscle tone, and also slowly getting to know each other to allow them to form prides in South Africa.

The lions get to play with toys, including traffic cones. That’s more stimulation than most have had in their entire lives.

The cones last a day. The lions also love soccer balls, but those only last a matter of minutes, or even seconds, before the big cats burst them.

For some, one soccer ball is not enough.

Balls made out of rope are sturdier and last a few days.

Most of the lions have never had any veterinary care until now. This male needs dental surgery:

And this male, named Joseph, is almost blind from preventable cataracts:

The lions spend most of their time in cages as they await the airlift. But for the first time in their lives, all get an hour or two every day in this larger pen:

Some are also undergoing surgery for broken teeth and abscesses.

The lions are also being micro-chipped, to allow them to be tracked at their new home in South Africa.

This male has no idea of the new life of freedom that starts in November.

This article first appeared on GlobalPost. All photos courtesy Animal Defenders International.

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These Rescued Circus Lions are Recovering Nicely From a Lifetime of Abuse: PHOTOS

VIDEO: Nightmare's Heather Langenkamp Is the Final Girl of Our Dreams

Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, a burned bogeyman who created nightmares that carried over into waking life. However, this wholly original slice of fantasy terror also introduced moviegoers to Nancy Thompson, a resourceful “final girl” who inspired a generation of horror fans.

Played by Heather Langenkamp, Nancy was the furthest thing from a bimbo-fied scream queen cliché. She fought back with bravery, intelligence, and determination, while taking the fight to her attacker, rather than shrieking in terror as passive prey. Langenkamp would reprise Nancy twice — in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and the meta New Nightmare.

Three decades after the original Nightmare, the character not only maintains a place of honor in the horror hall of fame, she’s celebrated as a gay icon of the genre.

Langenkamp recently sat down with The Advocate’s entertainment editor, Jase Peeples, to discuss why Nancy inspired a legion of LGBT horror fans, why more people should be dressing as Freddy’s nemesis on Halloween, and the horror of gender inequality. 

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Gay Man Was Harassed At Work For Being A ‘Cocksucker,’ Court Says It Won’t Do A Thing About It

The Missouri appeals court acknowledged the discrimination happened; it just couldn’t do anything about it. Nor can most states.

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Zack Ford

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Is ‘Masc 4 Masc’ Homophobic?

Online comedian, voice actor and chest hair model Sam Kalidi creates a new meme each week for Queerty readers. This week he considers member of the gay community who are obsessed with obvious signs of masculinity. Sam looks forward to all your hate mail. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and at your local glory hole.

Jeremy Kinser

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Ireland’s Marriage Bill Signed Into Law

Gay couples in Ireland will soon be able to marry, as the marriage bill has been signed in to law:

The Presidential Commission – which is made up of the Chief Justice, the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil and the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad – on Thursday signed the Marriage Bill 2015 in the absence of President Michael D Higgins, who is on an official visit to the US.

Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald (pictured) must now issue a commencement order which will allow same-sex couples to start getting married.

Fitzgerald has said that marriages will start by mid-November.

The Irish Times adds:

In May, the amendment was approved by more than 1.2 million people, or 62 per cent of voters, with a 60.5 per cent turnout. Roscommon-South Leitrim was the only constituency to reject the amendment.

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Here's Why the World Congress of Families Conference Is So Scary

This week, four months after the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling, a U.S.-based international anti-LGBT hate group is hosting a four-day conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference, called The World Congress of Families IX, is a powerful reminder that, despite the significant advances in the fight for LGBT equality at home, the anti-LGBT extremists who once dominated the U.S. political scene have not disappeared. Instead, American anti-gay activists are working to spread their extremism abroad, fanning homophobic attitudes and legislation in the countries they target.

The conference is an annual gathering that serves as a meeting space for hundreds of international antigay activists to share tactics and intelligence in their fight against LGBT rights. The conference is organized by the World Congress of Families — a U.S.-based “pro-family” international alliance that works to impose a narrow, Christian right definition of “family” as an international norm. The organization’s “pro-family” work has earned it the designation of an antigay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The 2015 conference marks the first time WCF has held its event in the United States. Since WCF announced the Salt Lake City event over a year ago, LGBT rights organizations have been working to expose and condemn WCF’s role in spreading homophobia around the world.

Most notably, WCF has been linked to the extreme and international anti-LGBT movements taking place in Russia and Uganda in recent years. Hannah Levintova of Mother Jones has documented WCF’s activism in Russia as being largely responsible for the 2013 anti-gay “propaganda” law passed before the Sochi winter Olympics. Similarly, U.S. News & World Report linked WCF to the rise in anti-LGBT legislation and attitudes in Africa. Earlier this week, Theresa Okafor, WCF’s Nigerian coordinator who has worked to advance laws in Nigeria and Uganda to ban gay sex and relationships, was honored with a WCF lifetime achievement award.

As journalists and LGBT rights organizations have spotlighted WCF’s anti-LGBT activism abroad, WCF has attempted to deny its contribution to antigay laws in Russia, Uganda, Nigeria and elsewhere. To try to exculpate itself, WCF takes advantage of its own structure as an “international gathering” rather than a centralized organization. WCF itself has a limited budget and a small staff, allowing it the flexibility to distance itself from anyone not designated an “official” representative of the organization.

But WCF’s conference serves as a space for anti-LGBT extremists to gather and exchange strategies and policies designed to marginalize LGBT people. As a review of the latest documentary exposing WCF’s anti-LGBT lobbying notes, “View footage of any high-level meeting to draft draconian, homophobic legislation, anywhere in the world, and it seems you’ll find a WCF member or affiliate lurking in the corner of the frame.”

Given the recent progress of LGBT rights in the U.S. over the past few years, it might be tempting to brush off the WCF conference as irrelevant to the domestic fight for LGBT equality. But while groups like Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage wield less power and influence over U.S. politics than they once did, the WCF conference gives these groups and other anti-LGBT activists an opportunity to export their homophobia abroad. WCF is only a four-day conference, but the connections made there will allow U.S.-based groups to grow their international reach and continue the global spread of anti-LGBT extremism for years to come.

RACHEL PERCELAY is an Equality Matters researcher at Media Matters. Previously, she worked at the Human Rights Campaign advocating for LGBT health care equality. She graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College with a degree in neuroscience. 

Rachel Percelay

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