Okla. Lawmakers Lie, Revive Anti-LGBT Bill
Legislators reneged on their promise to not advance a bill that would allow religious objections to transgender students using bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/5/24/okla-lawmakers-lie-revive-anti-lgbt-bill
Megyn Kelly and DeRay Mckesson Clash Over Freddie Gray
The Fox News host cut short an interview with the gay Black Lives Matter activist.
www.advocate.com/media/2016/5/24/megyn-kelly-and-deray-mckesson-clash-over-freddie-gray
Dave Matthews Band to Donate Proceeds of N.C. Show to LGBT Organizations
The band is donating part of its proceeds from an upcoming show in Charlotte to five local N.C. LGBT organizations.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/5/24/dave-matthews-band-donate-proceeds-nc-show-lgbt-organizations
What Happens When 3 Best Friends Become ‘Bed Buddies’? – WATCH
A new short film from director Reid Waterer looks at what happens when three gay friends take their relationship into amorous territory.
What begins as a casual night of drinking escalates after an erotic encounter with a hot guy clad in leather (right).
Director Waterer is known for his previous gay-themed short films Foreign Relations, Performance Anxiety, and You Can’t Curry Love. His films have racked up millions of views on YouTube and played at film festivals around the world.
Said Waterer of his latest effort, “I wanted to take a comic look at an interesting dilemma gay men and lesbian women face. The group of people they have the most in common with are also the group they are romantically and sexually attracted to. This is yet another way we are differentiated from most straight people, who can form lifelong same-sex friendships without any confusion whether they’re actually meant to be romantic relationships instead.”
Waterer added that Bed Buddies was partially inspired by right-wing opponents of same-sex marriage who frequently argued that marriage equality would lead to plural marriages. “I started to wonder why a multiple-partner relationship was being portrayed as evil and terrible,” Waterer added.
Bed Buddies has already begun to play at film festivals around the world. It stars Dylan Wayne Lawrence, Daniel Lipshutz, Enzo Nova, and Colin Van Wye. Collin Brazie served as the film’s director of photography.
Bed Buddies will be released on YouTube following its festival run.
Watch a trailer (possibly work-unfriendly for language), below.
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Fans Demand That Marvel #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend
After becoming the first movie in 2016 to pass the $1 billion mark worldwide in just 24 days since its release, Captain America: Civil War is already gaining legendary status. Now, fans of the Marvel muscled superhero want to find him a boyfriend.
Since last Sunday, social media has been inundated with requests for Marvel Comics to find Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers, his true (same-sex) love.
The #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend movement started trending on Twitter earlier this week, and as of Tuesday evening 176,000 tweets with the hashtag were trending on the social media website.
It sounds serious.
Captain America’s fans want it, and they want it now. Many of them say they have found the perfect match: Bucky Barnes. Friend, turned enemy, turned friend again, it’s got love story written all over it. Evidently, Steve and Bucky already have their own power-couple name: Stucky. Other fans think Tony Stark, or Ironman, might be a better match. Power-couple name: Stony.
THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD’VE BEEN! WHOEVER MADE THIS REALLY KNEW LOVE #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend pic.twitter.com/o1LvUnNo1x
— maia˚◡˚ (@mishaIeckiss) May 24, 2016
The current obsession to play Cupid with Stucky or Stony comes amid an effort to find a same-sex partner for Queen Elsa of Arandelle for the second installment of Disney’s Frozen.
Broadway legend Idina Menzel, who is the voice behind Elsa in the movie loves the idea: “I think it’s great,” she told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday. “Disney’s just gotta contend with that. I’ll let them figure that out. No matter what, Elsa changed my life.”
Dear @Disney, #GiveElsaAGirlfriend
— Alexis Isabel (@lexi4prez) May 1, 2016
Alexis Isabel Moncada, the 17-year-old who created #GiveElsaAGirlfriend told NBC News she created the hashtag to encourage Disney to give Queen Elsa her own Queen. “We see princes and princesses, beasts and women, women and frogs … yet no women who love other women?” she asked.
Of course, just like in the movies or comic books, not everybody is happy when two people fall in love.
The Daily Wire’s editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro says the whole thing is an attempt by “leftists” to “destroy” the characters the “conservatives” love. “Make your own icons, jerks,” he wrote on his blog when complaining about the “master-level trolling by leftists.” He continued to express his frustration adding that “the left won’t stop. And then they won’t stop complaining if anybody challenges their stupid, irritating, immoral attempts to destroy the characters we loved.”
The Insulting Stupidity of #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend And Female James Bond | Daily Wire t.co/O75kpsZHKM pic.twitter.com/7Ae1fof2vG
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 24, 2016
Shapiro is not really big on a female James Bond, either.
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Kenneth Starr, Sean Patrick Maloney, Trump’s $60K Weave, Laverne Cox, 49ers: NEWS
KENNETH STARR. President and Chancellor of Baylor University known for investigating Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky has been fired because of a sexual assault scandal involving the school’s football team: “On Starr’s watch, the school is accused of failing to respond to rapes or sexual assaults reported by at least six women students from 2009-2016. Although the problem of sexual assault at the university goes beyond the football team, at least eight former Baylor football players have been accused of violence against women over the last eight years and Coach Art Briles and Athletic Director Ian McCaw have received increasing criticism. The regents, according to Brown, believe Starr bears more responsibility in the matter than Briles.”
Statement from Baylor RE: Ken Starr’s reported firing and additional reports stemming from the investigation. pic.twitter.com/eXuknOoQK2
— Adam Silverstein (@SilversteinAdam) May 24, 2016
BILL COSBY. Accuser willing to testify at trial of the fallen star who stands accused of three aggravated assault charges. Cosby allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted the victim in his home in 2004.
SEAN PATRICK MALONEY. The openly gay New York congressman is not giving up on his anti-discrimination measure to protect LGBT workers despite shady Republican obstruction: “Maloney said Tuesday that he would try and attach his proposal to the energy and water spending bill scheduled to be debated in the House this week — that measure is scheduled for a final vote on Thursday. ‘There is a majority [in] the House of Representatives right now to oppose discrimination in the workplace,” Maloney said in an interview. “Really, the only way discrimination is going to win is if Kevin McCarthy keeps rigging the votes.’”
NORTH CAROLINA. San Francisco 49ers calls for repeal of HB 2: “Saying the 49ers “strongly urge Governor Pat McCrory and the leadership of North Carolina’s legislature to repeal this law in the current legislative session,” [49ers CEO Jed York announced] the ‘San Francisco 49ers are deeply concerned about North Carolina’s recently-enacted House Bill 2, which overturned protections for LGBT people and sanctioned discrimination across the state. HB 2 does not reflect the values of our organization, of our country, or the majority of North Carolinians.’”
KING OF THE JUNGLE. Alexander Skarsgard teases 6 pack in new Legend of Tarzan poster.
MUSIC VIDEO. Ariana Grande releases her latest, “Into You.”
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND. Group announces it will donate proceeds from North Carolina concerts to equality groups.
LET’S DO THE TIME WARP. Laverne Cox responds to critics of Rocky Horror Picture Show remake: “People can be very… challenging and critical, but I put everything I had into this. I gave 250 percent, and I hope people like what we came up with.”
CANADA. Iranian gay rights activist thrives in Toronto.
PRIMARY POLITICS. Bernie Sanders continues to bristle at the suggestion that his staying in the race is hurting Hillary Clinton’s chances in November: “I guess if we take your assumption, and Clinton supporters’ assumption, that that is the logical conclusion, we should go back to a monarchy and not have any election at all.”
DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY WIGS? Gawker takes a thorough look at whether Donald Trump actually has a $60,000 weave.
MAN IN (AND OUT OF) UNIFORM. Demetrius Jenkins.
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San Francisco 49ers Call for a Repeal of N.C.'s Anti-LGBT Law
The CEO of the 49ers called HB 2 “bad for our employees, bad for our fans, and bad for business.”
www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/5/24/san-francisco-49ers-call-repeal-ncs-anti-lgbt-law
Out TV Reporter to Antigay Viewer: 'I Won't Stop on Your Behalf'
Arkansas journalist Mitchell McCoy responds to a viewer who emailed him, “I can’t stand your gayness.”
www.advocate.com/media/2016/5/24/out-tv-reporter-antigay-viewer-i-wont-stop-your-behalf
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No Pride in War protest outside City Hall, againt the planned Red Arrows flypast of the Pride in London parade.
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