Cate Blanchett: Love scene with Rooney Mara in Carol is ‘very erotic, tender and beautiful’

In her latest film Carol, two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays a wealthy 1950s housewife who enters into a secret romance with a young store clerk who played by Rooney Mara.

The romance is a passionate one – something the film does not shy away from.

‘The consummation of their relationship was very important and it was done in a way that was not gratuitous,’ Blanchett said at the film’s New York premiere on Monday (16 November).

‘It was very erotic, tender and beautiful. That is very true to the relationship the two women had. It’s very easy to forget that the love that these two women are experiencing was considered to be criminal and they risked everything to be with each other.’

Fueling the physical passion between the two women is deep emotion.

‘To me, the film is about the power of falling in love,’ says Blanchett. ‘Whether it’s a woman falling for another women or a heterosexual couple falling in love, any great love story has roadblocks and impediments, but our film shows that it’s about the dangerous, volcanic feelings that you experience when you fall in love.

‘When you fall in love, you’re out of control and there’s some fear and panic and your heart beats faster. That doesn’t change if you are gay or heterosexual. There’s universality to that. It happens to all of us. It happened to me when I met my husband.’

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Lesbian Parent Petitions U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Adoption Rights Case

If the justices decide to select the case for review this term, a decision would be expected by the end of June.
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Antigay Pastor Steven Anderson Says Victims Of Paris Attacks Worshipped Death And Therefore Deserved To Die

Antigay pastor Steven Anderson is back and he’s angrier than ever.

In his latest hate speech, the father-of-eight went after victims of the Paris terrorist attacks, who he says are completely to blame for their own senseless murders.

Anderson was talking about one of the attacks, in particular, that happened at the Le Bataclan Theatre, where the band The Eagles Of Death Metal was performing.

Related: The Best Of The Worst Antigay Video Meltdowns Of 2015 (So Far!)

“When you go to a concert of death metal, somebody might get killed,” Anderson preached. “You know, you’re worshiping death, and then, all of a sudden, people start dying!”

Way to keep it classy, Steven.

Oh, and for the record, The Eagles Of Death Metal isn’t actually a death metal band. The name is meant to be satirical. Not that it really matters.

Related: Pastor Envisions An AIDS-Free World By Christmas If We “Execute The Homos Like God Recommends”

Anderson continued: “Well, you love death so much, you bought the ticket, you love worshiping Satan! Well, let’s have some of Satan’s religion come in and shoot you! I mean, that’s what these people should think about before they go into such a wicked concert!”

In the past, Anderson has called for all the “homos” in America to be executed by the government, for President Obama to be murdered, for Caitlyn Jenner’s heart to be “ripped from his chest,” and for all “gay pedophiles” to die of brain cancer, among other things.

Fast forward to the 5:45 mark in the video below to hear Anderson’s latest vomit-inducing comments. Or don’t.

h/t: Joe.My.God.

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It’s Official: Salt Lake City Elects Openly Gay Jackie Biskupski as Mayor

The vote count is official. Jackie Biskupski has been elected Salt Lake City’s mayor, beating incumbent mayor Ralph Becker. She’s the first openly gay person to hold the office.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:

The official canvass was approved by the Salt Lake City Council shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday — two weeks after Election Day. The official vote count had Biskupski beating Mayor Ralph Becker 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent. Of the 38,598 ballots, Biskupski received 19,896 to Becker’s 18,702. That’s a 3 percentage-point difference.

On election night, Biskupski led by 1,450 votes with a 4 percentage-point edge. Becker refused to concede the election although he would have had to capture 2 of every 3 outstanding votes to pull even.

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Jonathan Groff Promises 'The Most Intense Sex Scene' In 'Looking' Finale

Sounds like “Looking” is planning to go out with a literal bang. 

In a Nov. 7 appearance at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, series star Jonathan Groff revealed that he’d just wrapped a particularly steamy scene for the show’s wrap-up movie, which is slated for release early next year.

“There’s a lot of sex,” Groff told writer and editor Kevin Sessums in an onstage interview, according to Broadway World. “I don’t want to say who it was with, but I just shot the most intense sex scene I’ve ever done.”

The 30-year-old actor, who is currently on leave from his Beyoncé-approved stint as King George in the smash Broadway musical, “Hamilton,” said he was proud of the way that “Looking” opened minds, particularly when it came to gay sex. 

“One of the cool things about ‘Looking’ is that after the first season, a lot of people — shockingly, liberal, open artists in New York and L.A. — said they didn’t know that gay people could have sex while facing each other,” he said. “The show illuminated intimacy in sex [between men] without being porny or salacious. Those scenes felt very real and true to life. I was excited to do them.”

Despite critical raves, “Looking” struggled to find an audience, and in March, was canceled by HBO after just two seasons, a fact which still saddens Groff. But the cast has happily reunited for the wrap-up movie, as evidenced by these Instagram shots posted to the official “Looking” account. 

“Not a day has gone by that I haven’t wept,” he said. “It’s been very emotional [but] great that we get to say goodbye to San Francisco and our characters.” 

The out actor also opened up about still being “deep in the closet” during his breakout role in Broadway’s “Spring Awakening,” for which he received a 2007 Tony Award nomination. 

“I had a boyfriend who was my ‘roommate.’ And we kept two bedrooms [in case] family or visitors came over,” he recalled. “I was only gay between the four walls of that apartment. I was very compartmentalized.”

After he left the show, Groff says he went to Italy on vacation and had an epiphany of sorts, and these days, it’s a much different story. 

“I didn’t realize how suffocating being in the closet was all those years. Now that I’m out, it’s liberating to talk about it,” he said. “I’m really proud to be gay.”

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Tina Fey hopes gay men will always quote from Mean Girls at brunch

Nothing makes Tina Few happier than to know that plenty of gay men still enjoy quoting her 2004 movie Mean Girls over brunch.

It seems that lines like ‘Stop trying to make fetch happen!’ ‘Is butter a carb?’ and ‘Boo, you whore’ just don’t get old.

‘I hope that’s still going on,’ Fey tells The Advocate.

Then she jokes: ‘I have a really weird marketing point in my deal that I don’t get any money when it shows on TBS, but I do get money when it’s quoted at brunch.’

Fey wrote the script and had a supporting role in the movie about female high school social cliques that starred Linday Lohan. Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett and Amanda Seyfried.

She did not anticipate it would become such a cult classic among gay men.

‘I didn’t, but Damian (Franzese), the gay character, was in every draft. Someone once asked me, “How come everyone’s sort of paired off at the end but we don’t see what happens to Damian?” I said, “Because it’s a movie about girls.” We should’ve made another movie about Damian.’

As for her own high school days, Fey has described that time as the ‘four-year-long pride parade’ that marched through her house.

She thinks she had so many gay and lesbian friends during that time because ‘I’m certainly more open-minded to people’s differences.

‘it definitely gave me a wider swath of humor styles. I grew up so much in theater, so the gay community has always been a natural part of who I feel like I’m playing to. When you’re writing jokes, you’re always thinking of your friends.’

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HRC President Chad Griffin Testifies at First-Ever Congressional Forum on Anti-Transgender Violence

The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus held the first-ever Congressional Forum on Violence Against the Transgender Community in an effort to raise awareness of the scourge of violence impacting the transgender community – particularly transgender women of color.
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DVD: “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” “Steel,” “Trashology,” & More!

Sleepers and under the radar fare dominate this week’s home entertainment highlights!

Students become the teachers in disturbing thriller-drama The Stanford Prison Experiment (above), a gay man struggles with mental illness while a sexy 18-year-old tries to help him in Steel, and trashy camp comedy rules in anthology flick Trashology.

Now for trailers and the details!

The Stanford Prison Experiments

($24.99 DVD; IFC)

Having previously tackled the screen’s first David Sedaris story adaptation. C.O.G., openly gay director Kyle Patrick Alvarez dramatizes a 1971 experiment in which a Stanford University psychology professor simulated a jail setting and cast 24 students – portrated by a cast of hip young actors including Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, and Kier Gilchrist – in prisoner and guard roles to see what happens. Let’s just say the experiment resulted in shocking and atrocious developments and behavior in the young folk… and the ones who orchestrated it. Triple-feature this with another pair of films inspired by the famed 1971 experiment, 2001 German import Das Experiment and 2010’s The Experiment with Adrien Brody. A Blu-ray version will follow this early DVD release in January.

Steel

($24.99 DVD; Breaking Glass Pictures)

Director Sven J. Matten and his co-writer Melissa Kajpust tackle mental illness in this drama about a gay TV journalist, Daniel, who is suddenly plunged into deep depression. Plagued by panic attacks, his life threatens to completely derail, but when he meets the beguiling 18-year-old Alexander at a club, romance suddenly injects itself into the equation. Can love – and some pretty hot sex scenes – conquer all? Extras include deleted scenes.

Trashology

($19.99 Blu-ray, $14.99 DVD; Slasher Video)

Likened to “John Waters meets Troma” plus Quentin Tarantino and Tales From The Crypt, this is campy, gleefully low-budget anthology fare. The framing device sees an adult college student discover a book containing stories about revenge, violence, and horror. In “The Vat,” a bible-thumper gets comeuppance from a couple of fed-up friends. In “Big Debbie” a large gal becomes sex slave for two men, which leads to a Pulp Fiction-esque death and the clumsy cover-up that follows. And “Inglorious Bitches” sees a pair of female vigilantes use a smartphone app to track down and extinguish the lives of sex offenders. Make a drinking game of it!

ALSO OUT:

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

We Are Your Friends

Trash

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Davey Wavey’s New Underwear Line Features Trans and Gender Nonconforming Models: VIDEO

Gay YouTuber Davey Wavey has launched a new line of underwear for his label DirtyFit, the campaign for which is modeled exclusively by transgender and gender nonconforming models.

The Cosmic collection is designed to celebrate “every body in the universe.” Says Davey,

“As a creator and as an artist, my success has been built through the support of the queer/ LGBT community where certain body types get put in the spotlight a lot more than others,” said DirtyFit Founder Davey Wavey. “While this campaign doesn’t level the paying field, it celebrates many different members of our community. I would like to use my platform to share their stories and widen the conversation.”

A new video features the models talking about their experience modeling for the first time. One model says, “As a person who is bodied like I am, it’s empowering because it makes people see that there’s no one standard but a multitude that are all beautiful in their own way.” Another model adds, “I don’t have to listen to what society says about me…I can be both masculine and feminine. Some days I don’t have to be either. I can just wake up and be human.”

Watch as the models strut their stuff, below:

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