Federal Authorities Claim School District Violated Transgender Student’s Rights
Yesterday, federal authorities ruled that Township High School District 211 in Illinois violated a transgender student’s rights after the school prevented her from using the appropriate locker rooms at school.
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This Gay Couple Was Targeted By Antigay, Racist Trolls. Here’s How They Proved Love Always Wins.
Back in April, some candid photos of Noparuj Mond Kaendi, an ex-creative director of a Thai modeling agency, and model Thorsten Mid holding hands in a Bangkok skytrain went viral in the worst kind of way.
A barrage of nasty comments poured in, proving yet again that some people simply can’t contain their deep-seeded racism and homophobia from the comfortable anonymity of their keyboards.
Well judging by the couple’s recently shared wedding photos, all that hate couldn’t stop them from continuing to show the world what love looks like.
Congrats, gents!
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I officiated a same-sex wedding on Halloween. Since everyone else dressed up, I followed suit. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, it was a pleasure spending the night as you! [repost from /r/pics]
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I officiated a same-sex wedding on Halloween. Since everyone else dressed up, I followed suit. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, it was a pleasure spending the night as you! [repost from /r/pics]
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Hillary Clinton Smacks Down Bigoted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Over Disgusting Anti-HERO Tweet
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton had the perfect response to GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s disgusting tweet Monday opposing Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance.
As we reported, Abbott wrote that people should “Vote Texas values, not @HillaryClinton values,” and oppose HERO. He added, “No men in women’s bathrooms.”
Clinton, who came out in support of HERO last week, responded Tuesday: “.@GregAbbott_TX is right about one thing: equality is one of Hillary’s values. Houston—vote #YesOnProp1 today.”
Thus far, Abbott has not responded to Clinton’s tweet.
Meanwhile, BuzzFeed News took a lengthy look at why the LGBT movement is struggling to uphold a simple equal rights ordinance in the nation’s fourth-largest city, speaking with voters on the streets of Houston who were under the impression that HERO is about bathrooms, not discrimination:
One block down Travis Street, 44-year old Donna L., who refused to give her full last name, said the same: “I heard people saying pedophiles would be going into restrooms. That is the main thing everybody is talking about. I hadn’t heard anything else.”
The vote comes at an especially critical moment for the LGBT movement. After winning marriage at the Supreme Court in June, leaders of top organizations vowed to use the wind at their backs to pass laws prohibiting discrimination in cities, states, and eventually the whole country. A bill in Congress, the Equality Act, was introduced in July but has stagnated without a single Republican co-sponsor.
Yet the fact is, rather than expand the number of jurisdictions with such laws, LGBT activists are simply trying to defend this law already on the books in Houston. So this election, in the country’s fourth-largest metropolis, will test the LGBT movement’s ability to meet their recalibrated mission and gain momentum. Losing in Houston will suggest the LGBT movement has a steeper hill to climb now that it did with marriage equality.
In case you’re wondering, polls close at 7 p.m. Central time in Houston, so we’ll have early voting results shortly thereafter. Roughly half of voters cast ballots early, so if the results are lopsided, it will provide a pretty good indication of which way things are going. Election Day returns will trickle in over the ensuing few hours.
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Hillary Clinton Smacks Down Bigoted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Over Disgusting Anti-HERO Tweet
Support for Queer Youth Has Arrived
In 1999 it was estimated that the average age of people coming out as LGBT was 25. In 2010 the average age for coming out was 16. As people are coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender at much younger ages, their needs for connection and support have grown.
Which is why in 2014, Michael Belkin and his team launched Distinc.tt, an LGBT social network app for people ages 13 and up, which The Wall Street Journal described as “Foursquare meets Facebook for the LGBT community.”
“Gay people have special needs from technology,” says Distinc.tt Founder and CEO Belkin. “Being an invisible minority, we have a special need to meet and interact with others.”
As the app has become increasingly popular with users (whose median age is 16), their need for a helping hand has become increasingly evident to Belkin and company.
“We saw that people were posting about things that they needed support for, such as, ‘I just came out to my parents and they didn’t take it well. What do I do now?’ or trans youth posting, ‘I’m not comfortable in my own body.’ The community was helping, but we wanted to do more,” says Belkin.
Distinc.tt just launched its Community Support Resources component, which users can access through the app or anyone can access online.
The 82 resources include organizations, studies, articles, and other helpful information for LGBTQQ youth as well as parents, friends, families, and educators. The categories include helplines and chat, school and education, sex and health, legal, trans and gender identity, bullying and harassment, coming out, homelessness, depression, suicide and self-harm, and racism and diversity.
“It’s the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind,” says Belkin. “It can be nerve-racking to do that Google search, but if the resources are presented to you, you’re more likely to get the help you need.”
To access the Distinc.tt Community Support Resources online, go here.
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'McTucky Fried High' Launches Season Two Indiegogo Campaign
Queer talking junk food? Yes, please!
“McTucky Fried High,” one of our favorite animated web series, directly confronts many of the issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) kids today. Unapologetically queer in its approach, the project is now engaged in an Indiegogo campaign in order to fund its second season.
“Even progressive cartoons like ‘Adventure Time,’ ‘The Legend of Korra’ or “Steven Universe’ cannot directly address a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity because of censorship,” creator and director Robert-Carnilius says in the above video. “[‘McTucky Fried High] uses comedy to deal with issues like body image, coming out of the closet and gender identity.”
Want to see more? Head here to check out the first season of ‘McTucky Fried High’ or here to visit the season two Indiegogo campaign.
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Open Question: What's one thing that all Gay/Bi men should own?
I was just reading A post that stated that all Bi/Gay men should own a certain amount of things, and attend a certain amount of “gay” events in order to be considered part of the lgbt community, otherwise they’re just Homosexual/Bisexual what do you all think?
HRC Global Attends ILGA-Europe Conference
Last month, HRC Global attended the 19th annual ILGA-Europe Conference in Athens, Greece.
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PHOTOS: Hot Guys Blast Off At Starship Halloween In San Francisco
3…2…1… Blast-off! Legendary club promoter Gus Presents hosted Starship Halloween with DJ Kitty Glitter and DJ Josh Whitaker at Club Six in San Francisco. The club was transformed into a cosmic circuit party wonderland complete with battle-star lasers, big-bang sound, northern lights, red hot astronaut go-go boys, and an inter-stellar barrage of planetary decor. All these things combined made for a Halloween night that was truly out of this world.
Scroll down for a peek inside Starship Halloween, and check out the full gallery over at GayCities…
Photo credit: Marques Daniels
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Gay Couple Who Made Kim Davis a Viral Video Villain Gets Married
The gay couple who famously filmed Kim Davis denying them a marriage license with no legal authority to do so, making Davis a household name, has finally tied the knot.
David Ermold and David Moore went to the Rowan County Courthouse in July to seek a marriage license following the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down same-sex marriage bans nationwide. Though the ACLU had already filed suit against Davis, she was undeterred. She kept Ermold and Moore waiting, refusing to speak to them at first. Finally addressing them, she refused to marry them and ultimately invoked “God’s authority” to flout the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Since that time, the video recorded by Ermold and Moore has been viewed over 1 million times and Davis has become a nation villain and symbol of the anti-gay right-wing.
Though it was over three months delayed and involved unforeseeable tribulation, Ermold and Moore were finally able to get married. They tied the knot in a private ceremony on September 26 but decided to have a more public ceremony this past weekend at their Alma Mater, Morehead State. The end to the story was fitting, said Ermold: “Everything about [our struggle to get married] has been public so it kind of had to end that way.”
Morehead State’s The Trail Blazer reports:
An overture of soft folk music welcomed the couple as they waltzed down the library steps toward the Bell Tower. Friends and family cried, smiled and snapped photographs to preserve the memory.
“These are people who deserve to have their love seen like everyone else,” said Taral Thompson, a Morehead State graduate.
Linda Carpenter, Moore and Ermold’s former landlord, said she was happy to see the couple wed. She said, “No, I’m not gay. And no I don’t understand it. But it’s not my business either.” Of the public battle over their desire to get married, Carpenter added, “I watched them on television going through all that, and all I kept thinking was, why do these people hate them? They didn’t do anything wrong.”
Said Ermold of what he hopes people will take away from their battle with Davis, “If same-sex marriage is still an issue five years from now, I want people to be able to be open about who they are, and not be afraid of who they are and enjoy their life because this is the only life that we get.”
“This is our blessing from God,” he added.
Watch video of their wedding, below:
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Gay Couple Who Made Kim Davis a Viral Video Villain Gets Married: WATCH
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