Tom Daley Explains Why His Speedos Are So Small (and Russell Crowe Cannot) – WATCH

Tom Daley was on The Graham Norton Show on Friday and things heated up when talk turned to Daley’s tiny speedos.

It was Jodie Foster, another guest on the show, who brought up the subject. Cutting off Daley and Norton at one point, Foster eagerly asked, “When do you put on the speedos?” To which Daley replied, “I basically live in them.”

Foster liked that answer.

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Norton then brought up Daley’s new Team GB uniform designed by Stella McCartney for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Norton joked, “Sadly she ran out of material, money and interest.” He added, “They are very small, Tom!”

But Daley explained, “Well everything has to stay in place. If you’re spinning around the last thing you want to do is have something come out of place!  And when you hit the water you don’t want things flapping about because it would hurt.”

And another guest on the show, Russell Crowe couldn’t.

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He could not.

But Norton wasn’t done. He wondered, “I don’t want to be indelicate, but what if anything changes and you’re wearing those?”

See what Daley has to say, below.

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Kim Davis: Gays Wanted to Shove Supreme Court Ruling Down My Throat and Make Me Eat It For Dinner – WATCH

Kim Davis is again playing the victim card when it comes to her willful flouting of the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage last year.

Kim has repeatedly claimed that she was the real victim when she denied and degraded a gay couple seeking a marriage license after the Supreme Court struck down gay marriage bans nationwide.

As Right Wing Watch notes, Davis says in a new interview that the gay couple she denied wanted to “shove” the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges down her throat and make her eat it for dinner.

Said Davis,

“I was obeying my law. I had couples bring in the whole Supreme Court ruling and I said, ‘You know, I really don’t need to see this because that’s not a law, that’s a ruling’ [and they’d say] ‘Well, why won’t you do this?’ And so then I go to the Bible and I’d tell them, [and they’d respond,] ‘Don’t be reading me the Bible.’ Well, you asked why I couldn’t issue you a marriage license and I’m explaining to you, I’m showing you why I cannot. They didn’t want to hear that though. They wanted to shove that paper down my throat and make me eat it for my dinner.”

PREVIOUSLY – Kim Davis Says She Was ‘Chosen By God’ To Fight Gay Marriage: LISTEN

Watch, below:

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Dozens of Republicans Take a Stand for Equality During Heated Debate on House Floor

Yesterday, dozens of Republicans voted in favor of an amendment to protect LGBT workers from discrimination.  However, the House leadership held a vote open on the floor longer than permitted to persuade seven Republicans to switch their votes, just enough to kill the amendment.

In July 2014, President Obama issued Executive Order 13672, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating in employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Yesterday’s amendment, offered by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), says that no funds from the bill can be used to contract with companies that aren’t in compliance with this executive order.

The 29 Republicans who voted in favor include:

• Justin Amash (R-MI)
• Mike Coffman (R-CO)
• Ryan Costello (R-PA)
• Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) 
• Charlie Dent (R-PA)
• Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
• Bob Dold (R-IL)
• Dan Donovan (R-NY)
• Tom Emmer (R-MN)
• Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
• Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
• Chris Gibson (R-NY)
• Richard Hanna (R-NY)
• Joe Heck (R-NV)
• Will Hurd (R-TX)
• David Jolly (R-FL)
• John Katko (R-NY)
• Leonard Lance (R-NJ) 
• Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
• Tom MacArthur (R-NJ)
• Martha McSally (R-AZ)
• Patrick Meehan (R-PA)
• Erik Paulsen (R-MN)
• Tom Reed (R-NY)
• Dave Reichert (R-WA)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
• Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
• Fred Upton (R-MI)
• Lee Zeldin (R-NY)

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The GLAAD Wrap: 'Margarita with a Straw' opens, 'Looking: The Movie' sets date, and more!

www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-wrap-margarita-straw-opens-looking-movie-sets-date-and-more

Maroon 5 Cancels N.C. Concerts in Protest of Anti-LGBT Law

Maroon 5 cancelled two shows in North Carolina in response to the state’s passage of House Bill 2.

www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/5/20/maroon-5-cancels-nc-concerts-protest-anti-lgbt-law

House Democrats Strike Back Against Anti-LGBT Republicans (Video)

The staff of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer relied on the Force to produce this video showing how the Republican leadership stopped a Democratic amendment to protect LGBT workers. 

www.advocate.com/politics/2016/5/20/house-democrats-strike-back-against-anti-lgbt-republicans-video

Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist May Have A Secret Gay Porn Past

You will no doubt be shocked to hear that a crazily homophobic federal judge has been tied to a gay sex scandal. But here’s the fun twist this time: Donald Trump is thinking about nominating him to the Supreme Court.

The man in question is William Holcombe “Bill” Pryor Jr., an eleventh-circuit judge and former Attorney General of Alabama. He’s married (to a woman), has two daughters, and he really really really hates queers. He’s said that queer people should be arrested for having consensual sex in their homes; that being gay is harmful; and he voted to keep kids in orphanages rather than allow them to go to supportive same-sex adoptive parents. Trump says he’d consider Pryor for the Supreme Court.

What a bunch of jerks.

He is also, allegedly, featured in nude photographs that floated around on BadPuppy in the 90s. It sure looks like him! The man in the picture is looking glumly at the camera, on full display, and is identified as “Bill Pryor.” Various unnamed officials have identified the photo as authentic; but then again, it’s easy to claim all kinds of things anonymously.

For his part, Pryor says it’s not him, just like every other Republican asshole caught doing something sexual.

For now, Trump hasn’t said anything about Pryor’s potentially-naked past. But lots of other legitimate legal observers have heard the rumors, and are only too happy to spread them. Maybe that’s the silver lining to Trump’s impending presidency: it’ll force some truly shocking secrets out into the open.

You can see the NSFW shot of possibly-Pryor here, along with some very wild theories on the topic.

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Leading Voice Against Circumcision Jonathon Conte Found Dead At 34

One of the California’s most outspoken voices against male circumcision has died.

34-year-old Jonathon Conte was an outspoken activist against the circumcision of males under the age of 18. In addition to collecting signatures for a 2011 ballot measure that would have outlawed the practice in San Francisco, he was also known for going around to Pride festivals and other public events carrying signs with slogans like “Got genital rights?”

Related: More And More Adult Men Are Snipping Off Their Foreskin And Here’s Why

On Monday, he was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. His partner of five years, Christopher Holden, says it was a suicide.

Conte often said that the reason he was so outspoken about male circumcision was because of his concern for others. In a 2011 video posted to YouTube, he explained that when he was 14, he saw a picture of an uncircumcised penis for the first time. That’s when he realized a part of his body “had been cut away from me.”

As a result, he suffered feelings of “incompleteness, both physically and sexually.” He ultimately decided, “If I as a victim, and other victims, don’t speak out against this practice, it will continue, and more men will continue to experience the painful emotions I’ve had to deal with.”

Related: San Francisco Isn’t The Only City That Might Ban Circumcision…

According to Holden, Conte’s suicide this week came as a complete shock. He tells the Bay Area Reporter that  Conte made pancakes for breakfast that morning, which was “unusual,” but that “he seemed fine.”

When Holden got home from work that afternoon, “I heard some soft music coming from the bedroom.” When he went in to check on Conte, he discovered him with a bag over his head connected to a helium tank.

“I went over there in shock and ripped it off and tried to do CPR, but of course it was too late,” he said. “It’s very fast acting.”

A suicide note has not yet been found.

Friends of Conte were shocked by the news. They have described him as “a lovely man,” “really sweet,” and “caring and vulnerable.” His funeral will be held over the weekend.

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Drag Queen Ambrosia Starling Considering a Run for Alabama Governor Against Roy Moore – WATCH

Ambrosia Starling, the Alabama drag queen who has been the worst nightmare for anti-LGBT state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, may end up running against Moore in Alabama’s next gubernatorial race.

Starling, who goes by her drag name so as to protect her family, says she is seriously considering running for governor if Moore throws his hat in the ring for the 2018 race, as he is expected to do.

As we previously reported, Rachel Maddow is one of Starling’s many fans who suggested she would be well-suited for the state’s top job.

Moore was recently suspended from his post on the state Supreme Court because of his defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage.

PREVIOUSLY: Rachel Maddow on the Alabama Drag Queen Driving Roy Moore Completely Nuts – WATCH

The Huffington Post reports: 

“When the idea was first thrown at me to run for office in the state of Alabama, at first I laughed,” Starling recalled. “And then I said, ‘Well wouldn’t that be something? That it finally takes a drag queen to straighten out the circus of politics’  If it takes a drag queen to get everyone to face the front, same direction, and listening, I’ll do that.”

In the meantime, Starling said that she will take on the fight in Alabama that has now turned to bathroom bills, with some legislators, like Rep. Will Ainsworth, attacking transgender students.

Earlier this week, Maddow also reported that Starling may run for governor, a prospect she declared to be “the best new thing in the world.”

Said Maddow of Starling’s potential run, “My dreams have come true.” As for what Starling’s platform would be, it’s simple: “Have good manners.”

Watch Maddow’s segment discussing Starling’s potential run for the governor’s mansion, below.

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