PHOTOS: Milwaukee Memorializes the Loss in Orlando

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PHOTOS: Anchorage Feels the Grief

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Morrissey Writes Resolutely Morriseyesque Screed About Orlando, Trump, Hillary

Nearly 24 hours a day, Morrissey can be depended upon for being unswervingly Morrisseyesque, languidly lobbing gladioli and well-placed adverbs at any number of societal woes.

Tuesday proved no different, finding the singer penning a long, customarily acidic screed on his official Morrissey fan website, True-to-you.net.

Related: Morrissey Denies That He’s Gay, Claims He’s A “Humasexual”

Entitled “Hate-rosexuality,” the entry takes on everything from the Orlando massacre to human Orangesicle Donald Trump to Nancy Reagan trivia expert Hillary Clinton.

Praise is reserved only for Bernie Sanders. Everyone else gets linguistically drawn and quartered.

On Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, he writes:

Although the gunman who massacred 49 people at an Orlando gay club is said to have been ‘repulsed’ by homosexuality, he nonetheless left behind a slew of self-adoring ‘selfies’; a handsome man gazing enchantedly at his own face. It is therefore acceptable for him to lovingly admire his own maleness, but it is not OK for other men to like other men. Does Islamic scripture say it is fitting for a man to sit alone taking adoring photographs of himself? I doubt it.

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Unfortunately, CNN obliged the gunman once again with a flashing flood of publicity – which is all he ever wanted, and which will encourage the next shooter to prepare for international fame. Why show the gunman’s face? Nobody needs to see it.

Related: Morrissey Rescues Elderly Woman Who Collapsed At NYC’s Legendary Strand Bookstore

On Donald Trump (who, in perhaps not his shrewdest witticism, he refers to as “Donald Thump” throughout):

Meanwhile, Donald Thump, probably America’s next President, reacts to the Orlando massacre by explaining how, if the people within the club were themselves armed with guns, then there would have been fewer casualties. This, of course, is his way of avoiding any words of support to the Orlando gay community (it is their own fault for going into a nightclub without hand grenades). Donald Thump would therefore probably claim that the massacred children of Sandy Hook would still be alive today if only they’d had the common sense to carry sawn-off shotguns to school. The Thump response to Orlando is therefore anti-gay and pro-gun possession. Ann Coulter will be waving her baseball cap and cheering. It’s all going so well for America!

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Thump’s only achievement so far is in making Sarah Palin seem intelligent, which, admittedly, is so difficult as to be a colossal strike in his favor.

On Bernie Sanders vs. the presumptive nominees:

Bernie Sanders has been pushed out by the media because the idea of a self-made man who does not crave international war is completely alien to such as Fox News. The idea of a man who is popular because he calls for world peace and for rescue of the environment cannot provide outraged headlines for CNN, who have devoted their online news page to Donald Thump long before Thump was even a logical contender. Thump doing absolutely nothing has been more newsworthy to CNN than Sanders’ state-to-state victories.
Ballot papers for 2016 should include a NO CONFIDENCE IN EITHER NOMINEE box, and it is this box that would collect the most votes.
Clinton and Thump may be popular with the party faithful – but the party faithful aren’t that large, and are not America, therefore a sad day looms in November – a day that only Bernie Sanders could have saved – had he been allowed his rightful share of media support. But, clearly, the presidential election really is none of your business. Did you ever seriously think it was?

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This PR Firm Is Using The Orlando Victims To Push A Stupid Novel

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Pam Bondi Is Pissed Anderson Cooper Held Her Accountable for Fighting Gay Rights: LISTEN

On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi called into a friend’s radio show to complain about what she called Anderson Cooper’s “extremely disappointing” behavior towards her yesterday in an interview on CNN.

As we reported, Cooper on Tuesday held Bondi accountable for her entrenched opposition to gay marriage over the years. Cooper particularly went after Bondi for the argument her office used to oppose same-sex marriage, that allowing gay couples to wed would cause “significant harm” to the state of Florida.

Speaking on WOR’s “Len Berman and Todd Schnitt in the Morning”, Bondi today said she was blindsided by Cooper’s questions on gay marriage and that he “completely flipped and got into a constitutional issue of course.”

She added, “The interview was supposed to be about helping people’s families, not creating more anger and havoc and hatred yesterday. Yesterday was about unity, about bringing people together, about helping people.”

Bondi also suggested Cooper’s line of questioning was inappropriate, saying, “You know, There’s a time and place for everything, but yesterday wasn’t the time nor the place in front of a hospital when we could have been helping victims…And Anderson Cooper is the champion for the LGBT community and he could have been helping people yesterday. So I was disappointed in that.” She added, “It just wasn’t the time nor the place for that yesterday because all it did was encourage anger and hate — and families who we’re trying to help to probably not trust my office and the 14 advocates we’ve brought in.”

Listen to the interview, below.

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Mark Cuban Donates $1 Million for Dallas Police Response to Orlando Attack

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is giving the city’s police department $1 million to support its response to the terror attack that left 49 people dead at a gay Orlando nightclub last week.

The donation will pay for 16,000 hours of police overtime for enhanced counterterrorism efforts, including increased patrols in Dallas’ Oak Lawn neighborhood, which has been the site of dozens of unsolved anti-gay hate crimes in recent months.

Cuban is a longtime LGBT ally who serves on the advisory board of Athlete Ally, the nonprofit dedicated to ending homophobia in sports.

“I’m proud to be able to help the City of Dallas,” Cuban said of the donation in a news release.

Mayor Mike Rawlings praised Cuban for demonstrating “his devotion to his city by stepping up in a time of need.”

“In the wake of national tragedies, we often hear empty talk from politicians and other influencers,” Rawlings said. “With this pledge, Mark shows he is a man of action who cares deeply about his fellow Dallasites.”

Police Chief David Brown, who recently came under fire for partnering with Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church, said: “These funds will be used primarily to protect the LGBT community. We will earmark and track the expenditure of these funds to ensure its effective use in creating a safe environment.”

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Eli Lieb and Brandon Skeie Sing Emotional Duet for Orlando, ‘Pulse’ – WATCH

Out gay singers Eli Lieb and Brandon Skeie penned an emotional duet in the wake of the Orlando gay nightclub massacre aptly titled, “Pulse.”

The singers dedicated the song to the victims of the mass shooting. The most resonant lyric of the song might just be, “I shouldn’t have to change who I am to count as a human.”

Lieb and Skeie filmed their music video on the streets of West Hollywood on Sunday after writing the song in just a matter of hours.

Watch and listen, below.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

So you say this is human
Your heartbeat versus mine
Im in chains cause I’m choosing
showing love or living life
I shouldn’t have to leave where I stand
I shouldn’t have to change who I am
To count as a human
Feel my pulse
With your hand on my heart
You know it beats just as hard as yours
Feel my pulse
Feel my pulse
Can’t you see that im scarred
I’m just the same as you are so just
Feel my pulse
I wish I could reach them
And strip away what separates
It’s the same air we’re breathing
The same tears run down our face
So I don’t have to leave where I stand
And I don’t have to change who I am
To count as a human
Feel my pulse
With your hand on my heart
You know it beats just as hard as yours
Feel my pulse
Feel my pulse
Can’t you see that im scarred
I’m just the same as you are so just
Feel my pulse

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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Cruel Response To The Orlando Shooting

The only time Southern Baptists can name LGBT people is when they’re rejecting them.

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