This ‘gay’ exchange between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair has us scratching our heads
Released documents have disclosed a treasure trove of conversations between former US President Bill Clinton and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair … place over the phone in April 2000. The pair chat for a while, with Clinton candidly discusses …
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Ted Cruz Continues His Attack on Transgender School Children
Ted Cruz Continues His Attack on Transgender School Children
Earlier this week, at a campaign event in Spirit Lake, Ted Cruz went on a familiar tirade against the Obama Administration and the Department of Education for their decision to support equal treatment for transgender students. He told attendees that it would be better to “inflict” a transgender student on a faculty restroom than let them use student facilities. He of course also used one of his favorite lines: “my five year-old… knows there’s a difference between boys and girls.”
Attacking transgender people is nothing new for Cruz, but his rhetoric against transgender youth is particularly disturbing. While Cruz makes these remarks in an attempt to score cheap political points, there are real world consequences for transgender youth who are at an increased risk of rejection from their families, homelessness, depression and suicide.
Cruz, who is currently surging amongst the evangelical right, is proudly racking up a host of endorsements from some of the nation’s most hateful and bigoted organizations and people. So far he’s been endorsed by the National Organization for Marriage and the leader of Iowa’s worst anti-LGBT group, the Family Leader, ultra-conservative Iowa Congressman Steve King, and Sandy Rios of the American Family Association – an organization that has been classified a hate-group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
For more information on Ted Cruz visit hrc.org/2016RepublicanFacts, an online resource that highlights the anti-LGBT rhetoric of 2016 GOP presidential candidates. The research document on Cruz also highlights his longtime record opposing marriage equality, non-discrimination protections for LGBT people and his out-of-touch belief that being gay is a “choice.”
For more information on HRC’s efforts supporting transgender youth, go to hrc.org/trans-youth
Actress Amandla Stenberg comes out as bisexual, talks about importance of representation
Actress Amandla Stenberg comes out as bisexual, talks about importance of representation
Actress and advocate Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) today came out as bisexual and spoke about the importance of seeing yourself represented in the culture around you as part of her takeover of the Teen Vogue Snapchat account.
“I cannot stress enough how important representation is, so the concept that I can provide for other black girls is mind-blowing. It’s a really really hard thing to be silenced, and it’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity and just mold yourself into shapes that you just shouldn’t be in. As someone who identifies as a black bisexual woman, I’ve been through it, and it hurts and it’s awkward and it’s uncomfortable. But then I realized, because of Solange [Knowles, who interviewed Stenberg for the magazine’s February cover] and Ava Duvernay and Willow [Smith] and all the black girls watching this right now, there’s absolutely nothing but change. We cannot be suppressed. We are meant to express our joy and our love and our tears, to be big and bold and definitely not easy to swallow. I definitely believe in the concept of rebellion through selfhood, and rebellion through embracing your true identity, no matter what you’re being told. Here I am, being myself, and it’s hard and vulnerable, and it’s definitely a process, but I’m learning and growing. Thank you for supporting me and doing this, and thank you to Teen Vogue. This is just the beginning, though; we have a lot of work to do for all women of color. We need more representation in film and television. We need our voices to be louder in the media. And not just women of color—bisexual women, gay women, transgender women, mentally ill women. I’m sick of all the misogyny and homophobia and transphobia that I see around me, and I know you are too. Thank you for listening and goodnight.”
Stenberg, 17, helped bring the discussion of cultural appropriation to mainstream attention in 2014 when she posted a video she had made for a class, “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” to her Tumblr account. You can next catch her in the 1990s-set film As You Are about a trio of best friends whose group becomes the focus of a police investigation. Keep up to date with Amandla on Twitter at @amandlastenberg and on Tumblr @amandla.
January 8, 2016
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More customers turning to social media to resolve complex problems
More customers turning to social media to resolve complex problems
email and web chat. In addition, 18 percent turn to social media before any other channel when a complicated problem arises and, surprisingly, 14 percent turn to it first in a crisis – when a flight is cancelled, for example. Social media would also be …
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China Tears Down Grandiose Statue of Mao Zedong
China Tears Down Grandiose Statue of Mao Zedong
According to villagers and reports on online chat sites, the statue was the idea of a local businessman, Sun Qingxin, the head of Lixing Group, a conglomerate that owns food-processing facilities, makes machinery, and owns hospitals and schools.
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German Minister: Facebook Posts Criticizing Migrants “At Least As Bad” As Mass Rape
German Minister: Facebook Posts Criticizing Migrants “At Least As Bad” As Mass Rape
Ralf Jaeger, German interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, has said that “what happens on the right-wing platforms and in chat rooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women.” Jaeger was distressed that the multiple sex …
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More People Are Identifying As Bisexual, National Survey Shows
More People Are Identifying As Bisexual, National Survey Shows
More people are identifying as bisexual, a CDC survey shows.
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The GLAAD Wrap: 'Ellen DeGeneres Show,' 'Billy On the Street,' renewed, HBO docs slate, and more
The GLAAD Wrap: 'Ellen DeGeneres Show,' 'Billy On the Street,' renewed, HBO docs slate, and more
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBT-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
1) The BAFTA Film Awards nominees were announced this week and Carol tied for the lead with nine total nominations, including Best Film. The Danish Girl picked up five nominations, including Best British Film, and out writer Emma Donoghue is nominated in Best Adapted Screenplay for Room. Stephen Fry will host the BAFTAS February 14 in London.
2) Carol is nominated in Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild of America Awards. The film also picked up a nomination in Excellence in Period Film at the Costume Designers Guild Awards alongside The Danish Girl. LGBT-inclusive series Game of Thrones, American Horror Story, Empire, Transparent, Masters of Sex, and Penny Dreadful also picked up costuming nominations.
3) Ali Liebert (Bomb Girls) has been cast on the upcoming CW show DC’s Legends of Tomorrow as the love interest of superhero White Canary/Sara Lance (Caity Lotz). Liebert will play a closeted nurse, Lindsay Carlisle, whom Sara meets when she time travels back to 1958. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow premieres on The CW January 21 at 8pm.
4) HBO has announced the slate of original documentaries to air on the channel in the first half of 2016. LGBT-inclusive docs airing include Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures (April 4), Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper premiering April 9, and in June to celebrate Pride, the net will premiere Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolution and Suited.
5) The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been renewed through 2020! The series, which has won over 30 Daytime Emmy Awards, premiered in September 2003. DeGeneres was honored with the Favorite Humanitarian Award this week at the People’s Choice Awards. In other TV news, E! will premiere the new reality series Hollywood Medium on January 24 following out psychic Tyler Henry as he consults with celebs including Margaret Cho, Michael Sam, Ross Mathews, and Boy George. TruTV has also announced a 10-episode fifth season renewal for comedian Billy Eichner’s Billy On The Street to premiere later this year. TV Land’s Younger has been renewed for a third season and HBO’s Girls will end after the sixth season in 2017.
6) Sia has dropped a new track, “Reaper,” this week from her upcoming album This Is Acting. “Reaper” was co-written with Kanye West and was originally intended for Rihanna, but will now appear on Sia’s own album. This Is Acting hits shelves January 29.
7) George Takei’s Broadway musical Allegiance has officially announced a closing date, February 14. The musical is inspired by Takei’s true experience and follows the Kimura family who were forced into an internment camp during World War II. Tickets for the final month of Allegiance‘s run at the Longacre Theatre are available now.
January 8, 2016
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Will 2016 be the year of the 'sexbot'?
Will 2016 be the year of the 'sexbot'?
“It’s a bit over-hyped,” says Ian Pearson, of Futurizon, which, in conjunction with the online sex shop Bondara, recently published a report entitled The Rise of the Robosexuals. “The kind of sex dolls and toys that exist today are object
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