Alabama Chief Justice Suspended For Violating Marriage Equality Ruling
Banning same-sex marriage might just be the second sword that Roy Moore falls on.
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Two Transgender Parents in North Carolina Who Are Leading the Fight for Equality
Tina White and Maddy Goss have made headlines in North Carolina over the past several weeks. They are both openly transgender parent who are working hard to repeal HB2, the state’s outrageous and unprecedented anti-LGBT law. The new legislation, which was rammed through the state legislature in March, eliminates existing municipal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people; prevents such provisions from being passed by cities in the future; and forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity, putting 4.5 billion dollars in federal funding under Title IX at risk.
White recently moved to the Tar Heel State and is stepping away from work to engage in social activism. As she explained it, she wants to pay it forward to the LGBT community that so welcomed her and her family. She feels that it is her calling to live openly and to speak up about transgender rights.
Goss, an openly transgender woman from Raleigh and former HRC Board of Governors member, has testified about the harmful impact HB 2 would have on her life and the transgender community.
Their work and advocacy is extremely important not just in North Carolina, but around the country. HRC reported this year that more than one-third of Americans now say they personally know or work with someone who is transgender and that this historic level of visibility is accompanied by increasing acceptance of transgender people.
This Mother’s Day, HRC thanks White and Goss and other transgender parents who are working to increase transgender visibility, understanding and acceptance.
Bear Icon Seth Rogen Is Sorry About Those Homophobic Jokes
Who knew? Apparently, Seth Rogen has a sensitive side, and we don’t just mean his taint. In an interview with The Guardian, he acknowledged that some of his earlier movies had some homophobic content — particularly 2007’s Superbad.
“There’s for sure some stuff in our earlier movies — and even in our more recent movies — where even like a year later you’re like ‘Eh, maybe that wasn’t the greatest idea,’” he said. “There are probably some jokes in ‘Superbad’ that are bordering on blatantly homophobic at times … They’re all in the voice of high school kids, who do speak like that, but I think we’d also be silly not to acknowledge that we also were, to some degree, glamorizing that type of language in a lot of ways.”
What language in particular? Well, there’s an f-word in here:
So, yeah, less of that kind of thing would probably be nice. Seems like he’s gotten a little older and wiser since then, and discovered, miraculously, that it’s possible to write funny insults without also insulting wide swaths of your audience.
It’s nice to hear that Rogen is sorry about the language that he put in films a few years ago. It means that we can return to fapping to pictures of him without feeling guilty.
His new movie is Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and features Dave Franco playing a gay guy in what we can hope will be a somewhat more sensitive portrayal than just the throwing-around of random slurs.
And his film from a few months ago, The Night Before, has a gay joke involving sexting and a dick pic that actually works and isn’t homophobic at all.
Marriage equality is nice and all, but this is what it must feel like to be truly accepted. No more jokes at our expense from Seth Rogen. It’s all we could ever have hoped for.
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30 Hilarious Gay Pulp Fiction Covers Of Yesterqueer
When we think of “gay pulp fiction,” John Travolta in a bolo tie and ponytail doing The Twist with a coked-up Uma Thurman immediately comes to mind. But let’s take a moment to remember yesterqueer and the exploitative “literature” of the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s detailing the seedy underbelly of homosexual life. They were the literary version of Bravo: cheap, trashy entertainment exclusively for gay men and bored housewives. And their covers were sometimes more entertaining than their plots.
In the spirit of reading being fundamental and a picture being worth a thousand words, here are 30 salacious covers from the golden age of pulp fiction:
Bernie Sanders Fine with Supporters Holding ‘Hillary Clinton for Prison 2016’ Signs at Her Rallies
Bernie Sanders told Rachel Maddow on Friday that he disagrees with protesters trying to shut down rallies when asked about what happened yesterday at a rally in East Los Angeles, when Clinton was forced to shut down because of disruptions from Sanders supporters.
Said Sanders:
“I am not comfortable with people disrupting other people’s meetings. The right to protest is absolutely right. Not my style to see people disrupting other people’s meetings. I’ve had meetings disrupted. I don’t like it.
Maddow, then asked: “If they’re not disrupting inside, do you want your supporters protesting outside Hillary Clinton events?”
Replied Sanders:
“I don’t mind. We have nothing to do with that. We have millions of supporters. If people want to protest outside, absolutely, that’s their right to do that.”
Maddow: “But you’re not encouraging it or discouraging it?”
Sanders:
“We are not encouraging people to disrupt meetings – that we are certainly not doing…If people want to [stand outside] that is absolutely appropriate. Why not? That’s what freedom of speech is about. Freedom of dissent is about. People standing outside by the hundreds, by the thousands, saying ‘look, we disagree’. I think it’s exactly appropriate.”
Maddow then asked about the tone of some of the signage held by Sanders supporters and how it might hurt the party’s chances in November:
“When I see people standing outside a Hillary Clinton event, though, holding ‘Feel the Bern’ signs and then people next to them holding signs that say ‘Liar, Liar, Liar’ and ‘Hillary Clinton for Prison 2016′ — that is what leads to these concerns that you and Hillary Clinton, worthy as you each may be in each of your messages, won’t be pulling in the same direction for the same things in November.”
Sanders refused to address Maddow’s question about the tone of the protests but moved on:
“Let me just say this. Donald Trump represents a whole lot that I passionately hate, and if I’m not the candidate, I will do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump does not become President…”
Watch:
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Liberal Redneck Has Some Thoughts About Ted Cruz Leaving the Presidential Race: WATCH
Liberal Redneck Trae Crowder is back with some thoughts about the goings on this week in the presidential race, namely, the exit of Ted Cruz.
Since Cruz was called on by God to enter the race, this can mean only one thing:
“The use that his lord picked out for him was to completely destroy the Republican party as we know it, while getting dusted by a carnie-handed mango man.”
Watch:
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Dan Savage and Ann Coulter Spar Over Transgender People in Bathrooms on Real Time with Bill Maher: WATCH
Bryan Cranston, Ann Coulter, Dan Savage and Nick Gillespie were on Bill Maher’s Real Time panel last night and talked about how transgender people, Maher notes, “somehow have risen to the top of the political charts about where they can go to the bathroom.”
Said Savage:
“They couldn’t demagogue anymore about gays and lesbians because too many of us are out and too many people know us so they took the same old script – oh they’re recruiting children, preying on children, threatening children, creeping in bathrooms. That was what they said about gay men 40 years ago. And they’re just taking that now and applying that to trans women and it’s bullsh*t and trans women and men use bathrooms all over the country and have for-ever. And they have no cases to point to where a trans person has exploited a civil rights protection to prey on a child.”
Interjected Coulter: “Can I give the alternative argument?”
Gillespie: “Wait is it about Mexicans?”
Coulter: “I can make it about Mexicans.”
Savage: “Instead of building a wall we need to build a stall, (imitating Trump) that’s beautiful and it’s huge.”
Cranston: I think that’s what Trump meant – build stalls all along the border.”
Maher: “And I’ll make Caitlyn Jenner pay for it!”
Coulter went on to present her argument:
“The argument on the bathrooms – it’s not that transgender people are going to go and molest children – it’s that once you say that men can go into women’s bathrooms – men who are out shopping with their little daughters and don’t have mommy to bring her in there. It’s not that the trans are going to molest them. It’s that a child molester now has the right to go into that bathroom.”
Responded Savage: “That’s bullshit. A child molester doesn’t need to put on a dress to go into a bathroom. You can Google ‘sexually assaulted in a restroom’ and you get thousands of examples of cisgendered straight men.”
Added Maher: “You know who the child molester is? It’s Dennis Hastert. Who was sitting watching boys shower year after year in a La-Z-boy chair – because he wanted to make sure nothing weird was going on in there – so he watched the boys shower…this is the child molesting we have.”
Watch:
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HRC Hails Suspension of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore
Today, HRC hailed the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama’s suspension of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, for his consistent defiance of pro-marriage equality federal rulings in the state.
“Roy Moore is an embarrassment to the state of Alabama,” said HRC Alabama State Manager Eva Walton Kendrick. “He has repeatedly used his authority to discriminate against LGBT people and their families, and to defy federal marriage equality rulings. Moore’s suspension is welcome news, and we expect the Ethics Commission will permanently throw him out of office after reviewing his pattern of intentionally flouting the laws he vowed to uphold.”
Since January 2015, when Alabama’s marriage ban was first struck down, Chief Justice Moore has used his position on the state Supreme Court to block marriage equality in Alabama at every juncture. Following the first ruling that found Alabama’s marriage equality ban unlawful, Moore wrote a letter to Governor Robert Bentley requesting that the ruling be ignored as non-binding “judicial tyranny,” and informing the state’s probate judges that they could ignore the ruling.
Last year, HRC and other civil rights organizations joined the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) ethics complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama, seeking Moore’s removal for violating the obligations of his office. The complaint details Moore’s blatant disregard for the law, including communications with the Governor and members of the state’s probate judges association. HRC also collected and delivered to the Judicial Inquiry Committee petitions signed by 28,000 people demanding Moore’s removal.
Chief Justice Moore caused havoc again in January when he issued another shameful order claiming that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges does not specifically address Alabama’s marriage equality ban. Moore justified his unconscionable position by asserting that state law allows him to “take affirmative and appropriate action to correct or alleviate any condition or situation adversely affecting the administration of justice within the state.” Despite his opposition to marriage equality, earlier this year Moore was forced to dismiss a final challenge to the state’s marriage ban that was brought by local anti-LGBT groups.
Moore is no stranger to this variety of ethics complaint. He was previously removed by the state’s Supreme Court in 2003 for ignoring a federal court’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. Chief Justice Moore is being represented by Mat Staver, of the Liberty Counsel — an organization that has been designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the SPLC.
Fox News Misinforms on Planned Parenthood's Services to Trans People
And it quotes a hate-group leader in doing so.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/5/07/fox-news-misinforms-planned-parenthoods-services-trans-people
PHOTOS: Guys Honor World Naked Gardening Day In Varying Stages Of Undress
It’s World Naked Gardening Day. All across the globe, men are stripping down to their birthday suits and exercising their green thumbs.
Related: PHOTOS: Outdoorsmen Get Back To Nature In Celebration Of Earth Day
“Why garden naked?” the World Naked Gardening Day website reads. “First of all, it’s fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude. Moreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment.”
Related: PHOTOS: See Cute Guys Wash Up As They Get Their April Showers On
We couldn’t agree more.
Scroll down to see pictures of men honoring today in varying stages of undress. Happy Gardening!
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I ? a man with a green thumb? —— @frugivoremag
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Happy Monday. ?? Stay productive and make every hour count. Make moves. Make your life better than it was yesterday instead of staying still. No matter what it is. My yard is now clean and looking great. Can’t wait to throw summer kick backs again ???? #yardwork #gardner #summer #comigsoon #kickbacks #gym #happymonday #productive
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Just learned that next week is World #NakedGardeningDay (and simultaneously learned that naked gardening was even a thing) ? . . . . #nakedinnature #naked #nakedgardening @naked.in.nature #nakedadventures @nakedadventures #befree #costarica #cahuita #puravida #explore #worldnakedgardeningday #exploreeverything
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A Lil hard work never hurt anybody #landscapingdesign #grinding #yardwork wit my homie @trankalank
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Happy “world naked gardening day” lol I had to! #nakedgardeningday
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Last day of Summer, they tried to hold on. Late bloomers… Melons #UrbanFarming #Sustainable #HippieLife
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He practices posing no matter where he is lol… at the gym… in a field of weeds… Don’t matter. Such a Hottie!!! #allmine #lovehim #hotgardner #Jaktmuscle #teamjakt #jaktlife #jaktfamily #npc #npcco #instagood #instafit #fitfam #fitness #fitnessfreaks #fitnessmodel #contestprep #coaching #mensphysique #npcmensphysique #asresearch #bodybuilding
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