Meet the First Same-Sex Couple Married in Colombia (Video)

“We are all universal in that we are united in love,” said one of the newlyweds. 

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In Show of Fierce Force, Ariana and Christina Unite for ‘The Voice’ — WATCH

When a much anticipated hologram of Whitney Houston doesn’t show up for a concert and you don’t really mind, you know something went right.

For weeks, the internet was buzzing about the Aguilera and Houston duet, which had already been approved by Whitney Houston’s estate to be part of NBC’s The Voice finale. However, after footage of the video leaked late last week, Pat Houston, executor of Houston’s estate decided to axe it at the very last minute, claiming the technology wasn’t “perfect” yet.

The gay gods were on it, and last-minute replacement Ariana Grande (who does a killer impression of Christina Aguilera) saved the day. Coming from her critically acclaimed performance a few days earlier at the Billboard Music Awards, Ariana sang two songs from her latest album Dangerous Woman.

The former Nickelodeon child star proved once again she’s not kidding when she says she feels “like a dangerous woman.” She started the performance with her latest single Into You, a catchy pop tune, synthesized to perfection, and a huge early contender for song of the summer. She lit up the stage in an all-white pantsuit and a sparkly white choker, surrounded by 12 male dancers in black-and-white.

But that was just the beginning.

Ariana goes on to sing Dangerous Woman, another single from the same album, and she is then joined by a fierce-looking Christina Aguilera, who storms in from backstage, all in black, leading an army of 12 female dancers, commanding attention and bringing back the good ol’ Aguilera Fighter days. Bad girls are so good.

A jaw-dropping duet of Barbra and Donna proportions ensue, and the two generations of pop music royalty (Aguilera started her career in 1993, the same year that Ariana Grande was born) destroyed the stage in an epic display of diva power.

Today, as aftershocks continued to rock the gay world, Gay For Play’s Todrick Hall posted on Youtube a tribute to Ariana Grande’s music.

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Fleet Week, Shia LaBeouf, San Diego Padres, Obamas, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Conversion Therapy: NEWS

ANCHORS AWEIGH. It’s Fleet Week in NYC.

DISNEY. The Little Mermaid may be the next animated movie musical to get the live-action treatment after the Beauty and the Beast teaser was viewed 92 million times within the first 24 hours of being posted online.

TEXAS. AG Ken Paxton refused to answer if he believes transgender children exist.

Question: Do Trans students exist?
Paxton: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ t.co/GwD89DiuIw

— Nathaniel Miller (@OAcourts) May 25, 2016

PERFORMANCE ART. Shia LaBeouf is hitchhiking across America “utilizing Twitter and geographical coordinates as part of a program called #TAKEMEANYWHERE, which involves him tweeting out coordinates and then meeting up with people, who maybe take him places, or maybe just grab lunch with him.”

SAN DIEGO. Padres’ CEO says the team is “open-minded” on the return of the DJ who mistakenly played off the gay men’s chorus of LA during this year’s Pride Night: “A Padres spokesperson said on Tuesday that the team would have no further comment until Major League Baseball concludes an investigation on the matter. But in a radio interview Wednesday morning on The Mighty 1090, Padres President and CEO Mike Dee said the organization would be “open-minded” to speak with DJ ArtForm once the MLB investigation concludes.”

1990s REDUX. Trump campaign accidentally emails POLITICO reporter about plan to attack Hillary Clinton on ‘Whitewater.’ 

BEDTIME STORIES. Zac Efron and Adam DeVine answer, Where Do Brothers Come From? 

ARYAN NATION. Apparently, Neo-Nazis claim Taylor Swift as their queen. 

REAL ESTATE. Peer inside the $6.3 million Washington, DC home that will be the Obamas’ new residence after leaving 1600 Pennsylvania.

DEMOCRATIC DIVIDE. Democrats discuss dumping Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC Chair: “Wasserman Schultz has had an increasingly acrimonious relationship with the party’s other presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters, who argue she has tilted the scales in Clinton’s favor. ‘There have been a lot of meetings over the past 48 hours about what color plate do we deliver Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s head on,’ said one pro-Clinton Democratic senator.”

EX-GAY. Vermont bans conversion therapy: “Vermont follows California, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. in banning conversion therapy. Earlier this year, New York Governor Cuomo announced regulations banning public and private insurers from covering the practice. The ban takes effect July 1.”

Conversion therapy only perpetuates discrimination against the LGBT community. Proud Vermont banned this dangerous and discredited practice.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 25, 2016

BUST A MOVE. Like Drake, Oscar Isaac’s dancing skills are perfect when set to any song. 

twitter.com/oscardances/status/725936688959090689/video/1

COVER CONTROVERSY. Flap ensues over TIME Magazine’s use of the gay pride flag colors instead of the transgender pride flag colors in its transgender bathroom rights cover story.

@amaditalks Here you go, @TIME. FTFY. In ten seconds. Using freeware. pic.twitter.com/LKbDqR0JKw

— Rachel Sharp (@WrrrdNrrrdGrrrl) May 20, 2016

CITIES BEHAVING BADLY. San Francisco quickly abandons plan to allow certain sections of grass at Dolores Park to be rented by picnickers. Further class warfare temporarily avoided.

HUMP DAY HOTNESS. Presented by Levi (just Levi).

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Desmond Tutu's Daughter Marries Woman, Booted From Church

The marriage of Mpho Tutu-van Furth causes a mini-schism in the Anglican Church.

www.advocate.com/religion/2016/5/25/desmond-tutus-daughter-marries-woman-booted-church

More Than Just Winter Is Coming After ‘Game Of Thrones” Kit Harington Reveals His Fine Assets

This season of HBO’s Game of Thrones already feels like an action-packed rollercoaster of drama and intrigue, and the icing on the cake was the (spoiler alert!) totally unexpected resurrection of everyone’s favorite character, John Snow.

Actor Kit Harington can do no wrong right now — who doesn’t have a crush on him?

Aside from kicking all kinds of ass on GoT, Harington recently took to the stage in the West End for a production of Doctor Faustus.

We don’t know much about the show, except that audiences were treated to an up-close-and-personal view of Kit’s perfectly proportioned assets.

Head here to see the mildly-NSFW shots from the show.

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Even Hillary Clinton Gets Distracted By Hot, Shirtless Men

At a campaign rally in Buena Park, California earlier today, Hillary Clinton got a little, ahem, hot and bothered when two young gentlemen unexpectedly took off their shirts for her. One of them had a giant “H” scribbled across his chest.

Related: Hillary Clinton Shows What A Phony Donald Trump Is Without Saying A Word

As soon as security noticed the men, they began escorting them out of the room. That’s when one of the guys yelled, “Hillary, they’re kicking us out because we don’t have our shirts on!”

“They’re making us leave,” the other chimed in.

“Because we don’t have shirts on!” the first man added.

And that’s when Mrs. Clinton told secret service to let the two stay. Under one condition.

Related: Hillary Clinton’s New Ad Hilariously Skewers The Ridiculous Republican Debate

“Well, um, you know what, as long as they don’t take anything else off,” she said from the podium.

Then, never missing an opportunity to remind folks just how ready she is to be commander-in-chief, she added, “You know, you gotta make split decisions. That’s what leadership is about.”

She continued: “OK, where was I? I gotta admit, it is a little distracting standing up here looking at them. So I’m gonna look over this way, and I’m gonna look over that way. I’m gonna look back there.”

Future female presidents. They’re just like us.

Related: Hillary Clinton Shatters Rand Paul’s Homophobic Employment Policy With Single Tweet

h/t: Politico

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Brad Paisley Wrote a Song About Transgender Bathroom Laws: WATCH

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel asked country star Brad Paisley if he writes any songs about current events. Turns out, Paisley had something very contemporary prepared.

“Country music dealt with this in the ’60s,” said Paisley, before diving into his own version of Tammy Wynette’s 1968 classic “Stand By Your Man”.

Sang Paisley:

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Especially when you were born a man.
In North Carolina, they’re checking for vaginas…
…if you want to use the can.
(And I say) Sit by your man,
we’re all just human beings.
He’s just a human peeing…
in the stall right next to you.
Sit by your man
Why is this such a big deal?
Hike up your dress…and take a stand…
and sit by your man!

Watch:

At the beginning of the segment, Paisley referred to Kimmel’s “the thing in the beginning…the restroom logo,” which was a man-on-the-street segment in which Kimmel attempted to see if strangers saw what he did in the gender neutral bathroom symbol:

Paisley also performed his new duet with Demi Lovato, “Without A Fight:”

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Vermont Bans Use of 'Ex-Gay' Therapy on Minors

Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill into law today.

www.advocate.com/health/2016/5/25/vermont-bans-use-ex-gay-therapy-minors

11 States Are Suing Obama For Supporting Transgender Rights

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