Comedian Randy Rainbow's Exclusive 'Interview' With Hillary Clinton (Video)
The gay comedian asks who Ben Ghazi is, along with other tough questions.
www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/7/29/comedian-randy-rainbows-exclusive-interview-hillary-clinton-video
More Reason to Despise Him: Fired Fox Exec Roger Ailes Loved the F Word
The disgraced media executive was not only a serial harasser of women, he regularly dropped antigay slurs and denigrated other minorities, according to reports.
www.advocate.com/media/2016/7/29/more-reason-despise-him-fired-fox-exec-roger-ailes-loved-f-word
Liverpool Pride
*Richard Cooper * posted a photo:
Liverpool Pride. The columns of St George’s Hall lit up in the rainbow colours for this weekend’s Pride shenanigans.
Cory Booker On LGBT People Supporting Trump: “Terrifying”
Cory Booker on the floor of the 2016 DNC. Screenshot, via The Washington Examiner.
Donald Trump has been doing his best to convince voters that he is the better choice for the LGBTQ community. It is a claim he has made often on the campaign trail, and during his speech at the Republican National Convention he promised to protect LGBTQ people, citing the mass shooting in Orlando at Pulse.
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The Washington Examiner asked New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker after the Democratic National Convention about polls suggesting Trump has seen an uptick in support from the LGBTQ community.
They do not cite any such polls, and instead link to one of their other articles, hyperbolically titled “Trump set to break GOP’s record in winning LGBTQ vote.”
That article simply quotes a prediction made by Log Cabin Republican President Gregory T. Angelo that Trump will win in November against Hillary Clinton. Further, he cites a high of 31 percent for the Republican gay vote, which Angelo says Trump may best.
Related: Hillary Clinton Addresses 2016 DNC As First Female Candidate, Twitter Reacts
Our research did not turn up any such polls suggesting Trump is gaining ground with LGBTQ voters.
A poll released in early May, by Whitman Insight Strategies, found that 84 percent of likely LGBTQ voters backed Clinton, compared to 16 who would vote for Trump.
“What do you want to tell the gay community about Donald Trump?” the Washington Examiner asks, citing these supposed polls showing increased support.
“I mean, that’s terrifying. The reality is we have Donald Trump, who picked probably the most antigay vice presidential candidate we’ve had in a long time – than he could have picked, maybe that’s a better way of saying it,” Booker said. “Pence has led an effort to try to let there be legal discrimination against LGBTQ people. So, clearly we are the party of worker’s rights, civil rights, women’s rights, and definitely gay and lesbian, bisexual, transgender rights.”
Related: Cory Booker Shuts Down Heckler, Marries First Gay Couple In New Jersey
Watch the video below.
Watch Cory Booker’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Bryan Hawn Back As Sexy Zika Virus, Assets In Tow, In Latest Head-Scratching Display
The world is a place that increasingly makes less and less sense the deeper you dig.
And nothing makes quite as little sense as YouTuber Bryan Hawn’s latest foray into pop culture commentary.
Is it commentary? We’re not sure what we’re watching, actually.
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In the below video, Hawn performs a cover of Katy Perry’s 2016 Rio Olympics theme “Rise” in an American flag bikini bottom. If you’re at all familiar with Bryan, a lot of ass-shakery ensues. If that’s your kind of thing, great.
Then he comes out as a sexy Zika-carrying mosquito, and we’re left wondering if there was any sort of thought behind the self-congratulatory skinfest other than… actually, we can’t think of one good explanation for any of this.
If you’re looking for a few minutes to kill, watch below. Warning: you will never get this time back, so use it wisely.
Gay Officer Wounded in Dallas Shooting Faces Lengthy Recovery, 30% Pay Cut
An openly gay Dallas police officer wounded in the July 7 shooting that left five of his colleagues dead faces a lengthy recovery and a 30 percent pay cut while he’s unable to work.
Jesus “Jesse” Retana (above left), a 10-year veteran of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) police, was shot in the right tricep during the ambush that followed a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally. In addition to the five who were killed, Retana was among nine officers wounded in the attack orchestrated by gunman Micah Xavier Johnson, who later died at the hands of police.
According to Retana’s husband, Andrew Moss (above right), he faces “a long road to recovery,” including surgery and physical therapy. Unlike the Dallas Police Department, DART doesn’t offset the pay reduction officers receive when they apply for workers’ compensation. To make matters worse, Retana is unsure whether all of his medical expenses will be covered.
This is not the first time Moss and Retana have faced financial hardship. Several years ago, Moss had to retire from law enforcement due to health issues, and he later spearheaded a successful effort to convince DART to begin offering same-sex benefits.
Now, Moss has launched a GoFundMe page to help the couple through another “extremely difficult” period, but thus far it has brought in only $185 in five days. Other efforts in the wake of the shooting have raised tens of thousands, which begs the question of whether people are less likely to support Moss and Retana because they’re gay.
“Thursday July 7, 2016 started out just like any other day – Jesse and I woke up and watched the news and talked before he had to go to work,” Moss wrote on the GoFundMe Page. “We ALWAYS say I LOVE YOU before we leave each other because since we both have been Police Officers at some point in our lives, we are familiar with others who have left ‘issues’ open — WE DON’T! When I found out about this attack I was unbelievably scared but calm – I have worked with Jesse before so I knew he would do his best to make it home but I knew he would put himself between the innocent and this monster to do his best to save as many others as possible—that’s just who he is.”
The Dallas Morning News reports that DART is trying to come up with a stop-gap measure to help the agency’s officers who were injured in the shooting. In the meantime, you can assist Retana yourself by going here.
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Trump Threatens DNC Speakers With Violence, Because Presidential
Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Iowa, on July 28, 2016.
In his most recent effort to see how far he can take this thing while still being taken seriously, Republican nominee for President Donald J. Trump told reporters on Thursday that he wanted to violently assault speakers at the 2016 DNC for saying mean things about him.
Related: Next Up At Those Violent Trump Rallies: Gay Bashing?
“You know what, I wanted to, I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard. I would have hit them. No, no. I was going to hit them, I was all set and then I got a call from a highly respected governor,” Trump said.
Apparently this unnamed governor was successful in stopping tough guy Trump from flying to Philadelphia and unleashing a one man assault on the DNC. Which he totally would have, you guys. He would have clocked them all with his not at all small hands until they were seeing Elephants.
Trump took exception with one speaker in particular, whom he describes only as “a very little guy.”
“I was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin. He wouldn’t know what happened. He came out of nowhere!” Trump yelled.
It is suspected that he was talking about Clinton‘s vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, who did an impression of Trump during his speech.
Related: Donald Trump Promises To Protect LGBTQ People, Twitter Reacts
Now, it is possible Trump was speaking figuratively, as in “hit them” with facts and arguments against their policies and visions for America. He has used the term in that way in the past.
Actually, that is giving him too much credit. But maybe he meant hit them by dishing out insults about their appearance, as he is wont to do.
But Trump’s rallies do have a history of real violence, both from those with and those against Trump, and he does have a history of promoting it.
When a protester was removed from a rally in Las Vegas, Trump said he would like to “punch him in the face” and waxed nostalgic about the “old days” when “guys like that…would be carried out on a stretcher.”
He also encouraged his supporters at a rally in Iowa to “knock the crap out of” anyone who might want to “lob a tomato” at him.
Related: Creator Of Presumably Accurate Nude Trump Painting Threatened With Lawsuit
“Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise. It won’t be so much ’cause the courts agree with us too,” he said.
Meanwhile, he blames Obama for the country’s violence.
Watch Trump’s latest meltdown below.
Sean Patrick Maloney Jabs Peter Thiel for Saying ‘Who Cares’ About LGBT Rights
In a direct response to Peter Thiel’s now infamous “Who cares?” remarks he used to address the Republican National Convention in Ohio last week, New York Representative Sean Patrick Maloney answered clearly: “Well, I care. My husband Randy and our three children care.”
Among other people who also care about LGBT rights, Maloney added: his fellow members of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus care; “the authors of our nation’s Declaration of Independence, signed right here in Philadelphia, cared; Americans at Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall – they cared,” he said.
“And Hillary Clinton cares, too.”
Maloney, the first openly gay New Yorker elected to Congress, marked a milestone in LGBT history in Philadelphia yesterday by introducing Sarah McBride the first transgender American to ever address a national convention of a major political party. “It’s an honor to make history with you,” he said to McBride, “because we are stronger together.”
But first, Maloney opened his speech addressing Peter Thiel’s comments. The billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal is “proud to be gay” but doesn’t seem to care much about non-discrimination laws. During his RNC speech he mocked transgender rights calling the debate on the so-called bathroom laws a “distraction from our real problems.” (He got a standing ovation, with the GOP crowd going wild with applause, as they waved their red and blue “Families for Trump” signs.)
Maloney knows the importance of “caring” about equality. He’s been with his husband Randy Florke since 1992, when they met while waiting in line to get into The Roxy, the legendary New York City club. They got married in 2014, and have raised three kids. He is currently serving his second consecutive term in Congress, and he’s a co-chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus. Last May, his amendment to prevent federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT employees passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 223-195.
Maloney talked about the joy he felt in June of 2015, when he heard the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that had legalized his union: “I realized that our family, our love was no longer less than. We were now equal.”
“It’s a beautiful thing when your country catches up to you. When your basic rights and your very family are on the line, it matters what happens in those beautiful buildings with marble columns. It matters who’s leading our country. It matters if they care,” he said.
While “Donald Trump doesn’t care about some families,” he said, Hillary Clinton is the exact opposite.
“When I first met Hillary Clinton in Manchester, New Hampshire 24 years ago, I was nobody. I was some queer kid sleeping on a couch. I was scared to death that who I was meant that no one would ever care about me. [So] here was this woman, about to be First Lady. She cared. Over the last 24 years she has kept on caring about me, my husband, and our kids. Hillary Clinton cares about all of our families. And that’s why we must all care about this election.”
You can watch Maloney’s full speech below:
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Joe Jonas Reveals Which Jo Bro Is the Most Well Endowed – WATCH
Joe Jonas, former member of The Jonas Brothers and current member of DNCE, told Andy Cohen which of the Jo Bros is the most well-endowed.
Jonas’ revealing answer was in response to a question from Cohen during a round of ‘Plead the Fifth’, a game he regularly has guests play on Watch What Happens Live! Nick Jonas had previously been on the show and pleaded the fifth when asked to spill the goods on the family jewels.
Joe didn’t hesitate in answering: “Um, you know this is Nick’s words not mine so I’m going to say me.”
Jonas also played a special ex-girlfriends edition of ‘marry, shag, kill’ in which Jonas had to choose between Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and Gigi Hadid.
Find out how Jonas replies, below.
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