Hunky Star Of ‘Younger’ Nico Tortorella Comes Out As Sexually Fluid

Joining the club with Nyle Dimarco, Miley Cyrus and thousands of other label-defying young people, the very adorable star of TV Land’s Younger, Nico Tortorella, has come out as “sexually fluid.”

“I’ve never been in any sort of closet … I was never really in the house,” the 27-year-old actor said during a Pride event with The Infatuation blog in New York City this week. “I think it’s one thing to hide … and it’s one thing to come out of the closet in a public statement.”

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“But I’ve always done me and never been shy …” he added, “and have been vocal about it.”

Tortorella is currently dating a woman, but says he hasn’t shied away from his attractions towards men. “It’s just a fluidity,” he told Page Six. “We’re all kind of moving into this one situation.”

He’s also hip to the open relationship trend.

“I think that an open relationship or a polyamorous relationship or an understanding of sorts is acceptable in this day and age,” he told Cosmopolitan in January of this year. “Relationships and people are my hobby of sorts. I love exchanging energy with people and getting to know people and falling in and out of love.”

But, he says, cheating is another story entirely.

Related: “America’s Next Top Model” Hottie Comes Out As “Sexually Fluid”

“Cheating inherently is a terrible thing,” he expressed to Cosmo. “If you’re going behind the other person’s back and if there’s any type of malice, you’re a bad person, end of story.”

We’ve been saying the same thing for a while now — be honest with the people you love, even if it makes you uncomfortable. If they really love you back, they’re going to be understanding and compassionate!

We give Tortorella two big thumbs up for being man enough to speak so candidly and ditch the stigma.

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Paul Ryan Calls The Gun Control Sit-In “A Publicity Stunt”; Twitter Erupts

It all began with a plea: “Retweet if you agree.”

Upon hitting “Send,” House Speaker Paul Ryan sent a Tweet out into the world that generated a backlash in record time, for reasons that should be clear:

Retweet if you agree ? The sit-in by House Democrats is nothing more than a publicity stunt. #StopTheStuntt.co/YGgl2yLHyB

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) June 22, 2016

In the included CNN interview, Paul Ryan says that “we will not bring a bill that takes away a person’s constitutionally guaranteed rights without … due process.”

Related: PHOTO: Paul Ryan Is Pumped Up For The VP Debate

Needless to say, reactions on Twitter have not been favorable.

How dare you call this a political stunt. If these were your children killed, would you feel the same? @SpeakerRyan pic.twitter.com/1dKKH4FAEh

— Voice of Reason (@Montgomery_bjm) June 23, 2016

@realfacade1 @bett1230 @Montgomery_bjm @SpeakerRyan Real lives, no stunt. Turn the cameras on, #NoBillNoBreak #gunsense #holdthefloor

— cmad (@cmadmax) June 23, 2016

Paul #Ryan on #Orlando shooter: “We’re not going to take away a person’s constitutionally guaranteed rights without due process.” #guns

— Dale Dermott (@DaleDermott) June 23, 2016

@SpeakerRyan you’re disgusting

— Andrew Strauss (@straussanator) June 22, 2016

@drew @SpeakerRyan isn’t nuts. He’s corrupt. Meaning he knows exactly what he’s doing & why. For the money! He doesn’t care about the people

— CelesteHolmes (@Dallas4Bernie) June 23, 2016

Related: Paul Ryan Thinks Lying is the Only Route to Victory

Meanwhile, a stinging DailyKaos piece attempts to school Ryan on what, exactly, a publicity stunt is and isn’t — starting with the above workout photos of Ryan “looking all dudebro”:

“You know what isn’t a ‘publicity stunt’? Fighting for common sense gun control. One hundred thousand. That is the number of people who have been killed by guns in this country since the large scale massacre of children at Sandy Hook.”

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Carmen Carrera talks activism, motherhood and being a Renegade Warrior with Latina.com

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Stephen Colbert: Democrats' Sit-In Sends Mixed Messages, Interferes With Gridlock (Video)

The Late Night host critiques the Democrats’ messaging and Republican complaints, while noting that the C-SPAN shutdown upset the service’s “viewer.”

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Meet Trump's Horrifying Evangelical Advisory Board

Donald Trump says he’s a friend of the gays, but he just got in bed with some of our worst enemies.

www.advocate.com/election/2016/6/23/meet-trumps-horrifying-evangelical-advisory-board

123,000 Same-Sex Couples Said 'I Do' Since Supreme Court Ruling (Video)

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See How These Pride Trailblazers Changed The World Just By Being Themselves

Daniel Radcliffe at 2014 Logo Trailblazers

Logo established the annual Trailblazers Honors three years ago, honoring today’s most prolific LGBTQ advocates of equality. The show quickly established itself as a leading awards gala, and the 2016 version will be bigger and better than ever. As an official event of New York City Pride, VH1 and Logo will simulcast the pride event on Saturday, June 25 at 8pm ET/PT, from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

The evening is dedicated to the lives lost to the Orlando massacre.

This year’s honorees are longtime contributors to the cause: playwright Harvey Fierstein, tennis champion Billy Jean King, and The Advocate magazine, which next year celebrates its half century mark. That’s right, the big 5-0.

A star-studded cast will pay homage to this year’s winners, including Emma Stone, who will present an award to Billy Jean King, Lance Bass, presenting to The Advocate. Video tributes by Laverne Cox, Judith Light, Matthew Broderick, Bernadette Peters, Billy Porter, Edie Falco, Joel Grey, Tegan & Sara, Matthew Morrison, Jason Collins, Troye Sivan, and Cheyenne Jackson.

Tune in for a look at our visionary leaders for inspiration in a difficult time:

Harvey Fierstein

photo by Bruce Glikas

Harvey Fierstein has knocked down barriers not just in Broadway but in Hollywood. In 1982, Fierstein wrote and starred in “Torch Song Trilogy,” for which he won his first two of four Tony Awards. The play became a hit movie, starring Fierstein and Matthew Broderick. Fierstein went on to churn out the hits “La Cage aux Folles,” “Kinky Boots,” and “Casa Valentina.”

Fierstein also starred as an actor in multiple movies, including “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Independence Day,” as well in guest appearances on television shows such as “Nurse Jackie.” (Fierstein will reprise his iconic role of Edna Turnblad in NBC’s upcoming television special “Hairspray Live!”) Most recently, Fierstein and his “Kinky Boots” co-writer Cyndi Lauper rewrote the lyrics to the show’s finale song “Just Be” to speak out against anti-LGBT laws in North Carolina and other states. The video for the revised song, “Just Pee,” has been viewed over 8.5M times.

“In prep for this lovely honor, Logo sent me a bio they’d put together of my accomplishments. YIKES! It looks like I’ve done a lot but, truthfully, none of it was done alone,” Fierstein says. “There’s been an unseen army of contemporaries and pioneers who’ve come before me that has made everything I’ve achieved possible. I hope, by accepting this honor from Logo, that I am helping to celebrate our entire community of LGBT warriors.”

Watch Edie Falco’s and Matthew Morrison‘s tributes to Fierstein

Billy Jean King

Watch Chris Evert’s tribute to Billy Jean King

The Advocate

The Advocate launched as a newsletter in 1967, following America’s first known riot protesting harassment at the Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles. That year–two and a half years before Stonewall–the broadsheet’s purpose was to inform gay men and lesbians of the dangers of police raids while educating them about their legal recourse. The Advocate quickly blossomed into the periodical of record with a team of experienced journalists doing award winning journalism awards at a time when the mainstream media largely ignored or denigrated all things LGBTQ. During the AIDS pandemic editors worked tirelessly to convince gay and non-gay celebrities to use the magazine as a vehicle to champion a community readership that one former Editor-In-Chief says was, “Choking on the self-hate most straight institutions were spewing at them about AIDS.”

In the early 90s and 2000s, the glossy mag conducted coming out interviews with k.d. lang, George Michael, Chaz Bono and Melissa Etheridge at at time when it was still an act of remarkable courage and sometimes even sacrifice. It also conducted the first live interview with a sitting president, questioning President Clinton on Air Force One.

“We are so excited to accept this award for The Advocate‘s five decades of journalism on behalf of the LGBT community,” says Matthew Breen, editor-in-chief of The Advocate. “It is a profound responsibility to chronicle our triumphs and tragedies, victories and defeats. And we strive to do it with the integrity shown to us by previous generations of brave editors, reporters, photographers, and publishers, who proved to the world that our stories must be told.”

Watch Cheyenne Jackson’s tribute to The Advocate

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Canadian Singer-Songwriter Shawn Mendes: ‘I’m Not Gay’

Canadian singer-songwriter and Vine phenom Shawn Mendes posted several messages to his Snapchat account declaring that he’s not gay after reading YouTube comments suggesting that he gives off a “gay vibe.”

Says Mendes in the messages, which were compiled and posted to YouTube:

So I don’t usually do this or bring up problems but I was on YouTube just watching some of my interviews and I was going down the comments and noticed a lot of people were saying I gave them a “gay vibe”.

First of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t made a difference if I was or if I wasn’t. The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.

Now I know 99% of you guys aren’t making assumptions like this but this is for the 1% of you that are. I just want you guys before you judge someone on the way they speak or act to think, I want you guys to think ‘hey, maybe I shouldn’t be judging someone’ or ‘wait it actually doesn’t even matter.’ They can do or be or feel however they want to feel.

Now I’m not frustrated because people were saying that I was gay at all, I have no problem with that cause it wouldn’t make a difference to me. I’m frustrated because in this day and age people have the audacity to…write online that I’m gay as if it were a bad thing.That’s all I really have to say about that. I just wish those 1% of people would grow up. I love you guys.

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Roland Emmerich Claims His Whitewashed ‘Stonewall’ Film Was ‘Politically Correct’

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