Robbie Rogers Plans to Let His Gay Glitter Fly at the World Cup in Russia: WATCH

Out LA Galaxy player Robbie Rogers appeared on Chelsea Handler’s new show Chelsea Does, and Outsports clipped this moment where he’s asked about the 2018 World Cup and FIFA’s plans to hold it in Russia.

Rogers explains how “in a perfect world it wouldn’t be in Russia” given the country’s human rights record but says “racist, sexist, homophobic” FIFA has no plans to move it. In the case that the Galaxy does head over there, Rogers says he has a plan:

“If I were on the team I’d go and…I’d have glitter, I’d make sure people knew I was gay so I could be present and people would know. I’d have, like, a tiara.”

Watch:

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Hersheypark Stands Up for Transgender Community; Announces Inclusive Bathroom Policy

Hersheypark announced this week that guests visiting the popular amusement park are welcome to use the restroom that matches with their gender identity.

“[Hersheypark] has and will always strive to accommodate all guests and employees – including members of the LGBT community – to ensure those visiting or working at Hersheypark are comfortable and feel secure,” Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company spokeswoman Kathy Burrows said.

An HRC National Corporate Partner, Hershey was listed as one of the Best Places to Work in 2016 based on ratings in HRC Foundation’s 2016 Corporate Equality Index. The Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to LGBT employees.

This news comes as lawmakers across the nation are introducing and passing harmful anti-transgender legislation. Today, the Oklahoma legislature introduced an outrageous proposal would force schools to make accommodations for students who purport to have religious objections to sharing a sex-segregated space with transgender students. InNorth Carolina, Governor Pat McCrory is facing extreme backlash after signing a bill into law that forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity

Currently, eighteen states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books allowing transgender people non-discrimination protections in access to public accommodations and the ability to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, and more than 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies, like Hershey, have adopted similar policies. Multiple fact checkers have found that there have been no recorded examples of public safety incidents stemming from these policies.

HRC thanks Hersheypark for keeping their park and safe place for all visitors- no matter sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Free to Be Me, by Dev Blair
“I felt inspired by people like Jaden Smith and YouTuber Miles Jai – people who don’t let the clothing they wear define their masculinity. I’ve never completely felt like an individual who conforms to the expectations of my gender, and that’s before I even came out. Now I feel much more free to experiment and wear whatever I want to and express my gender whichever

www.noh8campaign.com/article/free-to-be-me-by-dev-blair

PHOTOS: Male Crop Tops Poised To Once Again Haunt Future Generations Of Gay Men

Male crop tops. As anyone who actually lived through the early ’90s will tell you, they’re one of those “it seemed like a good idea at the time” sort of things. Very few grown men look back at old polaroid photos of themselves wearing crop tops (or as we called them “belly shirts”) without feeling a slight pang of regret.

Related: Thank You For Being A Trend: The ’90s Are, Like, Totally Back!

But since what goes around always comes back around, especially in fashion, the male crop top has returned to haunt a new generation of men 20 years from now. The trend really kicked into gear last summer, and judging by the looks of things, it doesn’t seem like it will be going anywhere any time soon. Get ready for another summer of exposed male mid drifts.

Scroll down for the latest in male summer fashion…

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The Best Bathroom Panic Memes And GIFs (So Far!)

“Bathroom panic” is the term used to describe an individual’s abnormal obsession over the genitalia of the person in the stall next to theirs. It typically affects white, heterosexual, Republican men like Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, but anyone with a fragile enough ego can fall victim to it.

Related: From Ted Cruz To Pat McCrory, Republicans Cannot Stop Talking About Going Potty

In response to Gov. McCrory’s recent fixation with where people go to answer nature’s call, the Internet has erupted with bathroom panic memes, GIFs, and videos.

Embrace your inner 12-year-old and scroll down for the some of best bathroom panic memes (s0 far!)…

And then there’s this…

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Was Abe Lincoln Really Gay?

It seems the rumors of Abe Lincoln’s homosexuality have been greatly exaggerated—at least according to a new book by the author whose researched sparked the enduring speculation about our 16th president.

In his new book, Your Friend Forever, A Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, psychoanalyst and history professor Charles Strozier debunks and complicates the misconceptions that arose from his own depiction of Lincoln and Speed’s friendship in his 1982 book Lincoln’s Quest for Union. The key to understanding the true nature of that relationship, according to Strozier, is understanding the difference in both the way sexuality was understood and the way male friendships functioned in the 19th century.

Related: Republican Official Outs George W. Bush, Karl Rove AND Obama In Gay Sex Scandal Of The Ages

“The historical context is really important to understand,” Storzier told The Daily Beast recently. “Now where homosexuality is so much more accepted … we accept males loving one another and being sexual with one another. But in the 19th century, the taboo of homosexuality is absolutely rigid. Whitman was gay. He had to stay in the closet. Sodomy, buggery, was illegal and severely prescribed. But friendship, intimate, loving friendship like that between Lincoln and Speed, was not only accepted but encouraged as the long as the boundary against sexualization was rigidly and absolutely maintained.”

Strozier goes on to insist that despite the ways contemporary culture might interpret their relationship, there is no evidence to suggest that Lincoln and Speed’s relationship was sexual. However, it was “loving and close.” In fact, Strozier says, it may have saved Lincoln’s life: “Lincoln was in very bad shape when they got together … Speed provided a safety, a security, a loving relationship. And I think it was loving in the way that Aristotle talks about loving between men, real friendship between men.”

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Sexy Body-Positive Photo Series Challenges Perceptions Of Male Beauty

“I started this series to bring body positivity to the queer male community and to celebrate the many different shapes and sizes within it,” photographer Adam Moco tells Queerty about his most recent series Bare. “I primarily use gay hookup apps to find models. For Bare, I also opened it up to people in my daily life because I wanted to showcase a wide variety of men.”

Related: Gay Hookup Culture Captured In Beautiful Homoerotic Photo Series

Moco, A Toronto native who is currently based in Lisbon, Portugal, says he hopes to challenge how some gay men speak about their various types and preferences, specifically guys who write things like “no fats,” “no femmes” or “no Asians” on their dating profiles.

“What concerns me is users whose online dating profiles are restrictive and blatantly rude in how they project preferences,” he explains. “I don’t think there is anything wrong with having sexual preferences, but I do think the way preferences are expressed is wrong.”

Related: Barbie’s Gonna Flip When She Sees What Ken And His Buddies Are Up To

Moco continues: “There is a difference between preferences and tastes versus outright racism, sizeism and the like, and it’s the latter that is problematic. Bare is my way of creating an inclusive platform for those who want to celebrate their bodies.”

Scroll down for a sampling of Moco’s BARE series, and see more at his website…

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A Just-Married Gay Couple’s Guide to Planning a Wedding: WATCH

YouTubers Will and (former Towleroad contributor) RJ got married! Congrats guys!

They say that planning their wedding was, to be quite honest, a lot of work, some of it having to do with challenges they had to deal with because they’re gay, so they thought they would offer a few tips for those of you planning your weddings….

Things like why you shouldn’t get hung up on tradition, or if you’re going to have a problem with wedding vendors because you’re gay (spoiler alert: you probably won’t, even in the South).

Says RJ: “Turns out, those ‘not bake wedding cake people‘ – turns out they’re like shark attacks. They exist, but they’re surprisingly rare. You see them all over the news and you think they’re way more common than they are.”

Also, be prepared to get jacked on the price for everything and what’s going to cost you the most. Who you should invite – people who are there to support you and not people you feel obliged to invite.

And don’t forget to have fun with the ceremony – it’s not about what you spend but the thought you put into it.

Does it feel different once you’re married?

Find out:

Oh, and PS – here’s their wedding:

Once again, congrats guys!

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