19 Photos of #TwoMenKissing That Show Gay Love After Orlando
The Orlando shooter’s father said the sight of two men kissing might have incited the killings. In response, social media lit up with gay love.
www.advocate.com/people/2016/6/15/19-photos-twomenkissing-show-gay-love-after-orlando
Pat Robertson: Gay 'Alliance' With ISIS Created Orlando Massacre
Echoing a common claim touted by various antigay conservatives, the Christian televangelist says liberals and LGBT activists are responsible for the Pulse shooting.
www.advocate.com/religion/2016/6/15/pat-robertson-gay-alliance-isis-created-orlando-massacre
Mateen's Father: '90 percent, 95 percent' Sure Son Wasn't Gay
“My son, the 50 people that are victims, they are all victims of terrorism,” Seddique Mateen tells The Advocate.
www.advocate.com/crime/2016/6/15/mateens-father-90-percent-95-percent-sure-son-wasnt-gay
Convicted Gay Basher Kathryn Knott To Judge: Free Me!
Talk about bad timing, Katie.
Barely 48 hours after the worst mass shooting in America, which happened inside a gay nightclub, convicted gay basher Kathryn Knott formally filed yet another request with the Common Pleas Court for early release from jail.
Related: Convicted Gay Basher Kathryn Knott’s Legal Troubles Just Got A Whole Lot Worse
Attorney William Brennan filed the request on Knott’s behalf urging the judge to release her from Riverside Correctional Facility in Northeast Philadelphia immediately. The Fireball aficionado has been in protective custody since February due to the media attention surrounding her case.
Philadelphia Magazine reports:
In the motion, Brennan argues that while Knott’s minimum release date based on the sentence is July 8th, she would have become eligible for early release on June 6th, because inmates can get credit for good behavior while in jail. According to the motion, Knott hasn’t had any behavioral issues while at Riverside, and she completed a court-ordered anger management class in April.
This is Knott’s second attempt at trying to weasel her way out of jail before her sentence is officially up. About a month after entering the facility, she tried negotiating with the judge for early release, asking to instead record a public service announcement about being nice to gay people. The judge said no.
Once Knott is released, she will be required to complete two years of probation, during which she will be forbidden from leaving the state of Pennsylvnaia. She will also be required to pay a $2,000 fine, though we wouldn’t be surprised if she tried to negotiate that down as well. After all, think of all the shots of Jägermeister $2,000 could buy.
When Pride Weekend Doesn’t Quite Go The Way You’d Planned
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
Well we don’t know about the mice part, but the bit about men is spot-on.
Perhaps the adhesive glitter you bought winds up ruining your friend’s couch. Or maybe the guy you made eyes with from across the party was actually just looking for the bathroom.
Or, you know, you expected to be a star go-go boy and wind up being forced to play the “ugly caterpillar.”
Things happen.
Below, watch as one of those scenarios (and it ain’t the first two) plays out in the latest episode of Jimmy Fowlie‘s Go-go Boy Interrupted:
Found Guilty of Murder as a Hate Crime, Elliot Morales Sentenced to 40 Years to Life in Prison: WATCH
Elliot Morales was sentenced to 40 years to life on Tuesday for the fatal stabbing of Brooklyn gay man Mark Carson (right) in 2013.
Morales was found guilty of murder as a hate crime in March. Representing himself during the trial, Morales claimed Carson’s murder was “a tragic accident.” He said it was “beyond my comprehension how someone like myself who happens to be bisexual and part of the L.G.B.T. community can be falsely accused and then convicted of a hate crime.”
Jurors rejected Morales’s claim that his intimate relationships with transgender women proved he was not homophobic and that his crime was not based on hatred toward gay people.
Before his fatal encounter with Mr. Carson in May 2013, Mr. Morales stormed the Annisa restaurant on Barrow Street shouting antigay slurs and brandishing a weapon, after an employee there upbraided him for urinating on the sidewalk.
Mr. Morales left enraged and soon spotted Mr. Carson and Danny Robinson, a pair of friends from Brooklyn, dressed in shorts and tank tops. Mr. Morales taunted the men, calling them “gay wrestlers” and “faggots.” The friends challenged Mr. Morales’s mocking tone, and the confrontation moved into the shadow of a closed bookstore. There, Mr. Morales pulled out a revolver and shot Mr. Carson in the face while Mr. Robinson called the police.
Mr. Morales often flailed in offering explanations for his actions. After fleeing the scene of the murder, he told apprehending officers that he shot Mr. Carson “because he tried to act tough.” In a video taken during his arrest that Judge Bartley described as “chilling,” Mr. Morales laughed maniacally and exclaimed, “Diagnosis dead, doctor!”
At the trial itself, Mr. Morales claimed he acted in self-defense, afraid that the phone Mr. Robinson had retrieved was a weapon. The prosecution thwarted that notion, saying Mr. Morales had acted out of “bigotry” and “unjustifiable rage,” not fear.
Lead prosecutor Shannon Lucey described Morales as having “a lot of self-loathing issues.” She added that while the defendant had sexual relationships with trans people, he never appeared with them in public.
Elliot Morales sentenced 40 yrs to life for hate crime murder of Mark Carson, a 32-year-old gay black man. pic.twitter.com/m9llExq06n
— Telah Blac (@blacneighbor) June 14, 2016
Following the March verdict, one juror said Morales’s actions showed “he was kind of categorizing people” in a manner that exposed his anti-gay bias.
At sentencing, Judge A. Kirke Bartley said “I can’t help but perceive or observe the parallel tragedy in Orlando. That parallel is revealed in hatred, self-loathing, fear and death.”
In a statement following sentencing, Robinson said, “The guilt of asking [Carson] to go out with me that night, it’s like I feel it’s my fault.”
According to a 2015 FBI report, 18.6 percent of 5,462 single-bias hate crimes in 2014 were because of the victim’s sexual orientation while 47 percent were attributable to race.
Watch a report on the case from Pix 11, below.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott: Orlando Shooting Was an Attack on ‘The Gays’ – VIDEO
Florida Governor Rick Scott paid tribute to the 49 victims of the massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub last weekend, labeling the mass shooting as an attack on “the gays.”
Laying flowers at a memorial, Scott – who has fought to ban same-sex marriage in the state – said, “This was an attack against the gays, an attack against Hispanics, an attack against our country, our nation and it’s disgusting.”
Scott reiterated that statement when asked by The Washington Blade if he had a message for the LGBT community. He added, “This was an attack, what else can you say?” and “The biggest thing we do now is ask how to make sure this doesn’t happen again.” He also said it was “horrible” that Noor Mateen, who tried to talk shooter Omar Mateen out of carrying out the attack, did not report her husband to authorities.
Scott also posted a message on Twitter using the #OrlandoUnited. Though his history of gay rights obstruction did not go unnoticed by users on the social network.
@FLGovScott You still fight gay rights in FL. How dare you pretend to care.Shame on you!Show u care by signing legislation for gay rights.
— David (@gdhiers) June 14, 2016
@FLGovScott You are personally responsible for these 49 deaths and all the other murders in #Florida, where you worked to enable murder.
— Adrian Benepe (@Adrian_Benepe) June 15, 2016
Scott also praised JetBlue for offering free flights to family members of the victims heading to Orlando for funerals. “I think the most important thing to do is first take care of all individuals impacted,” he said. “As a community, we’ve got to get back to work. As a country, how do we make sure this doesn’t happen? What do we do to stop that?”
Watch Scott address reporters on the day of the massacre, below.
(Image via Twitter)
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Trump Wanted to Win The LGBTQ Vote, Instead He Got The LGBTQ Shade
Well, that didn’t go so well.
After Donald Trump announced to the LGBTQ community that he was now a huuuge supporter of the cause and the community’s newest ally, he probably expected some love in return. Sadly for him, it didn’t go as planned.
Tuesday around 1:30pm ET, the presumptive GOP nominee (who was celebrating his 70th birthday) tweeted: “I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”
A few minutes later, a hashtag was born.
#LGBTQHatesTrumpParty started trending around 2PM and the tweets usually involved GIFs or videos. Oh, the shade of it all.
From 5 to 8PM, #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty was the most used hashtag in the country. By 6pm, it peaked at almost 15,000 tweets.
As RuPaul would say: “In the great tradition of Paris is Burning, get out your library cards. Because reading is fundamental.”
Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2016
Actual footage of me leaving the booth after voting for Hillary #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/38CQfvaNQy
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) June 15, 2016
walk up to the #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty like pic.twitter.com/L8meBFVhSO
— golden state spice (@goldengateblond) June 15, 2016
When pro gun homophobic bigots start tweeting us their thoughts and prayers . #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/YbsaOrd2z3
— Alec Mapa (@AlecMapa) June 15, 2016
Arriving to the #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty like pic.twitter.com/wWvrplSJzN
— Common Gay Boy (@CGBPosts) June 15, 2016
We are not gonna let an oompa-loompa colored racist exploit dead queer latinx people. #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/PSlyMPjpa0
— Ben Miller (@benwritesthings) June 15, 2016
Running into homophobes at the #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/A6ILCzTsuF
— The Gay Burn Book (@SouthernHomo) June 15, 2016
Arriving at the #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty like… pic.twitter.com/W8zDqkKCRL
— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) June 14, 2016
#LGBTQHatesTrumpParty You can’t claim to be a friend of Gays AND a friend of Putin (who HATES Gays). pic.twitter.com/nlDHdoWYLq
— jawillie (@jawillie) June 15, 2016
You see, Donald. A drag queen is always going to tell it like it is. #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/o2DGlI760t
— (((Laura))) (@princessomuch) June 15, 2016
When straight people see the gays having all the fun with their #lgbtqhatestrumpparty. pic.twitter.com/fOfvTbrfej
— Jeffrey Correa (@JCorreaNYC) June 15, 2016
#LGBTQHatesTrumpParty Accurate don’t you think? pic.twitter.com/7PdSZZFijP
— Judy Farelo (@JudyFarelo) June 15, 2016
We’ll dance anyway the memory of @realDonaldTrump exploiting queer deaths to push his hatred. #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/LGgZCWPIYC
— Scott Wooledge (@Clarknt67) June 14, 2016
On my way to the #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty pic.twitter.com/USnvSovXJg
— tommy (@heterostraight) June 14, 2016
arriving at the #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty like pic.twitter.com/JolWVNEanq
— Kevin O’Keeffe (@kevinpokeeffe) June 14, 2016
Some in the community do like the Trump Party, however.
GOProud founder Chris Barron says he’s the “most pro-gay Republican nominee ever.”
Conservative blogger Jim Hoft, who came out of the closet this week, says that “there is only one man who can lead this nation and protect all gays and all Americans. His name is Donald Trump.”
And a gay Trump voter posted on Reddit that “Twitter is currently ACTIVELY CENSORING #gaysfortrump, and boosting #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty. Twitter HATES conservative gays!”
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After Orlando, Faith Leaders Are Speaking Out Against — And Taking Ownership Of — Homophobia
“Sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people.”
The post After Orlando, Faith Leaders Are Speaking Out Against — And Taking Ownership Of — Homophobia appeared first on ThinkProgress.
thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/06/15/3788927/faith-leaders-condemn-homophobia/
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