Which Political Party Is Most Obsessed With Sex?

The White House press secretary has some thoughts on the matter.

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Probably-Lesbian Hillary Clinton ’Embraces Every Sexual Deviancy,’ Says AFA Schnook Sandy Rios

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Mariah Carey, Blue Diamond, Trump Supreme Court, Mika Brzezinski, Louis Smith: NEWS

WOWZA. The “Oppenheimer Blue” diamond sets record for most expensive diamond ever sold at auction–$57.5 million!

The Oppenheimer Blue diamond sold for $57.5 million (CHF56,837,000) the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction. pic.twitter.com/yhtcJaU1EP

— Christie’s (@ChristiesInc) May 18, 2016

POTENT QUOTABLES. Republican strategist on Trump: “I think he is a stunning ignoramus on foreign policy issues and national security, which are the issues I care most about. And he’s said one stupid, reckless thing after another, and he’s shown absolutely no temperament to try to learn the things that he doesn’t know, and he doesn’t know just about everything.”

WORLD. Pentagon says Chinese and American fighter jets got dangerously close to one another on Tuesday over the South China Sea: “‘At least two Chinese J-11 tactical aircraft carried out an ‘unsafe’ intercept of a United States EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft that was conducting a routine mission in international airspace over the South China Sea, a U.S. defense official told CNN Wednesday. The Chinese jets came within 50 feet of the American aircraft at one point, the official said.”

SOBRIETY. Zac Efron says he stopped Googling himself when he got sober. 

POLITICS. MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski calls for resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

SCOTUS. Donald Trump unveils list of people he would consider appointing to the Supreme Court. One of whom has epically and hilariously trolled him—

–and another has been called the ‘most demonstrably anti-gay judicial nominee in recent memory’: “William Pryor, who now sits on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, has ‘made comparisons between the rights of gay people and ‘prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia,’ according to the well-respected LGBT civil rights legal organization.”

SUPER PACS. LGBT ‘Pride PAC’ to launch 8 city tour to raise $1 million for Hillary. 

ROAD TO RIO. Team GB gymnast Louis Smith is bendy.

SOCIAL MEDIA. Blake Lively pisses off the internet with Instagram post captioned “LA face with an Oakland booty.”

SPILL THE TEA. Jared Leto and Drake play ‘Never Have I Ever’ with Ellen. 

GLAAD. Mariah Carey accepts the Ally Award at least weekend’s GLAAD Awards.

GENERAL ELECTION. Fox News poll has Trump ahead of Clinton: “Trump has a 45-42 percent edge over Clinton, if the presidential election were held today.  That’s within the poll’s margin of sampling error.  Last month, Clinton was up by 48-41 percent (April 2016).”

HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Josh Miller.

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Trump's LGBT-Unfriendly Supreme Court Picks

Some of Donald Trump’s hypothetical Supreme Court nominees have pro-discrimination records.

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PHOTOS: Hungarian Dating Show Hunks Bare More Than Souls In Search Of Love

Sometimes the dating game can feel like you’re constantly expected to uncover yourself in uncomfortable ways.

So the good folks of Hungarian reality television decided to get literal with the metaphor.

Adam and Eve is like your typical dating show — participants partake is activities and have awkward small talk, except with one major departure: they’re nude.

It’s certainly one way of deciding if you’d like a second date.

Head here to see the NSFW shots of these hunky Hungarians in action.

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Eric Fanning, First Openly Gay U.S. Army Secretary, Sworn In: WATCH

Eric Fanning was sworn in today as Secretary of the U.S. Army, the first openly gay man to hold the position.

Fanning’s confirmation yesterday followed months of stonewalling by Senate Republicans who had been making demands of President Obama regarding detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

NBC News reports:

“It has been a long process to get here, one that I don’t think even the writers from ‘House of Cards’ could have scripted if they tried,” Fanning said after the swearing in, calling his appointment “a tremendous honor.”

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Fanning “embodies the kind of strong and steady leadership and civilian commitment to our men and women in uniform that have made our military the finest fighting force the world has ever known.”

Watch:

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United Methodist Church Takes ‘Historic Action’ Toward LGBT Equality

“This historic action by the Council of Bishops represents a significant institutional shift in the direction of inclusion and equality.”

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Tennessee Special Session Targeting Transgender Students Would be Expensive Failure in Leadership

Today, HRC released the following statement after news reports emerged today that lawmakers in Tennessee are considering a special session in order to target transgender students and write discrimination into state law.

“Tennessee lawmakers should learn the lessons of what happened in North Carolina, where dangerous and shameful attempts to target transgender students have harmed countless North Carolinians, done millions of dollars of economic damage to the state, damaged the state’s reputation, and cost jobs,” said HRC Communications Director Jay Brown. “Tennessee lawmakers who go down this road are gambling with the lives and safety of real people and their economy. The hateful bill that passed North Carolina has drawn opposition from hundreds of major employers who have said that putting transgender people at risk for discrimination is not just wrong, but bad for business.”

In North Carolina, 200 companies have spoken out and demanded the repeal of HB2, which discriminates against transgender students and forces them to use restrooms inconsistent with their gender identity. Since North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed HB2 into law, the state has lost at least 1750 jobs and suffered millions of dollars in economic damage.

There is bipartisan opposition to laws that target transgender people. South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill earlier this year that targeted transgender students for discrimination. A CNN/ORC poll recently found 6 in 10 people oppose laws like North Carolina’s HB2, which discriminates against transgender people. Tennessee Gov. Haslam also previously spoke out against anti-transgender bills in the state.

One academic study this year found that restricting restrooms for transgender teens correlates with a high suicide rate. Similarly, another study this year found that transgender youth who are allowed to express their gender identity have good mental health outcomes.

Already, 18 states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books allowing transgender people equal protections and the ability to use the restroom that matches their gender identity. More than 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies have adopted similar policies and continued to function without the costly creation of new facilities or disruption of their businesses.

Multiple fact checkers have found that there have been no recorded examples of public safety incidents from these policies.

Last week, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education issued guidance for school districts to ensure transgender students are treated with dignity in public and federally-funded schools, including having equal access to restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity. While this guidance is consistent with previous guidelines and enforcement by the Departments, the treatment of transgender students has become national issue following the recent passage of the discriminatory HB2 law in North Carolina. Among its shameful provisions, HB2 prohibits public school students from using restrooms and other school facilities consistent with their gender identity.

For several years, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice have been interpreting and enforcing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sex stereotyping as unlawful sex discrimination. Additionally the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit recently upheld the Department of Education’s assertion that the nation’s civil rights laws protect transgender students from discrimination, including in the provision of bathrooms.

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