Inspired by Trump, Former KKK Leader Runs for Senate
David Duke is so “overjoyed” with the Republican presidential nominee’s recent speech that he has decided to run for office.
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When It Comes To Roommate Hookups, LGBTQ People Seem To Do It Better
Photo by Torsten Seiler, CC 2.0.
What is it like to hook-up with your roommate? Basically, it’s all the feels.
Vice wanted to know what the realities of look like when you, as they put it, “swapping spit with the same people with whom you split the cable bill,” so they found people who had tried it and asked them to report their experience.
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Since, as they point out, more young people are living with others due to a more difficult financial landscape than that of their parents’ generation, they had no trouble finding individuals who had made the transition from roommates to roommates with benefits, including two members of the LGBT community. Below we highlight those stories.
Notably, they were the only two who had overall happy experiences to share.
Heath, 25
At 19 Heath moved from Kentucky to Portland and used the gay hookup app Scruff to meet people. One of those people ended up being Chris, a man 26 years older than Heath.
When we first hooked up, I wasn’t experienced, so we just made out and went slow. At the time, he was partnered to a guy named Lance, and the three of us messed around together. Then they told me, “This home is your home too.”
Eventually, Lance left him, and I ended up moving in with Chris. I’ve been living in his house in a separate room for almost five years. We don’t have sex anymore—we stopped three years ago. But we have a lot in common.
I’m transgender and transitioned freshman year of high school. I faced hardcore bullying. My hair was set on fire. I was punched in front of teachers who did nothing. Death threats galore. I needed a safe space, and Chris provided one. Chris just got married less than three months ago, and we’re all looking for a house with a basement I can live in. He still wants me in his life. I grew up with a single mother, so he’s like the dad I never had.
Heath is working on getting a bachelor’s and has started dating, this time more with an eye toward a peer with which to grow old.
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Scott, 50
Scott also took to a gay dating app, in his case Grindr, to connect with others. He met someone and they hooked up. Scott wanted to date the man, but he wasn’t interested. Instead, Scott ended up with a new friend and roommate for six months after he learned that his new acquaintance needed a place to stay.
Once he moved in, we agreed the fooling around had to end.
He was from Pakistan, and he cooked delicious meals almost every day, which was certainly nice for me. After dinner, I would make us a pot of English tea, and we’d watch his Pakistani soap operas on YouTube. I couldn’t understand a word, but I knew exactly what was going on. Then I would give him a foot massage, and he’d be off to bed. In some ways, we were like a married couple, without the sex. It was a sweet, nice relationship, but without sexual tension or any stress.
On the whole, I really enjoyed it, and I miss him today. Once he moved away, I went back to living alone. It was one of those rare, special experiences that occasionally come along in life. I gained a lovely friend—we still stay in touch and have warm memories of our time together.
Related: 10 Signs Your Roommate Might Actually Be Your Boyfriend
h/t: Vice
‘Looking’ Star Raul Castillo Came Out as a Straight Man to Co-Star Jonathan Groff ‘Trepidatiously’
Ahead of the premiere of the movie-length season finale of Looking, Towleroad brought you an exclusive interview with Murray Bartlett and Frankie J. Alvarez, stars of the HBO series about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco who shared their experiences on the show.
Last week, Raúl Castillo talked to the New York Times and shared his experience about being one of the few straight actors in the series. Castillo played the part of Richie, a Mexican-American barber and the love interest of Patrick Murray, played by Jonathan Groff.
In an interesting role reversal of what most gay men have to go through in their lives, Castillo said he was apprehensive when he had to come out as a straight man to Groff, who’s openly gay.
“We were talking about a love affair, or at least the beginning of a love affair between these two guys,” he recalled, “and I brought up meeting my girlfriend for the first time. But I did so trepidatiously, because I didn’t want to spoil any kind of chemistry that was beginning to happen.”
He didn’t.
The hot chemistry between both actors was evident in the many steamy sex scenes in the show, and it was also one of the reasons why The New York Times referred to Castillo as “arguably the breakthrough star of the series,” and talked about his “heartthrob” status.
When he started shooting, however, he felt nervous. “I always felt like I was going to lose my job,” he said adding that he “learned a lot about gay male intimacy on the show.” And, contrary to the fear that many actors who play gay roles share — one of being typecast — the 38-year-old resident of the gayborhood of Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan said that playing gay actually helped his career.
“Early on, people would ask me if I thought playing a gay character would pigeonhole me,” Castillo said. “If anything, because the character had the profile that he did, it’s opened up more doors than anything.” Castillo has since starred in Netflix’s Special Correspondents, Fox’s Gotham and the upcoming film adaptation of Justin Torres novel, We the Animals.
The heartthrob status probably comes from his huge gay following, and all the flirting that comes with it, especially in Hell’s Kitchen: “In some ways, it’s the closest I’ll ever come to knowing what it is to be a woman in the straight world,” he said of the attention he gets.
You can read the full interview here.
Looking: The Movie premieres Saturday on HBO.
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Which Show Are The Stars From ‘Looking’ Are Obsessed With?
Queerty was on the Looking movie red carpet in San Francisco for the premiere to talk with all of your favorite cast members. In the exclusive clip above, Frankie Alvarez reveal what shows they are currently obsessed with!
RELATED: How “Looking” Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay
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PHOTOS: We Need To Talk About Some Of The Pictures Taken Inside #RNCinCLE
The teleprompters have been shut off. The balloons and confetti have been cleaned up. The male escorts have deposited their money. Time to debrief on what the hell we just witnessed at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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Melania Trump recited Michelle Obama’s speech from the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Rudy Giuliani reminded us to schedule that dentist appointment we’ve been putting off. Ben Carson suggested Hillary Clinton worships Lucifer. Laura Ingraham accidentally gave a Nazi salute. Peter Thiel told us money is more important than human rights. And then we watched 125,000 balloons fall from the ceiling.
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All that was very entertaining. But perhaps the most entertaining part of this years #RNCinCLE were the pictures posted on social media, which, frankly, seem to capture the present GOP mindset better than any of the keynotes did.
Scroll down for some of our favorite shots highlighting the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland…
‘Looking’ Finale Makes A Fantastic Farewell – REVIEW
“Is it good to be back?” a cab driver asks Patrick (Jonathan Groff) in the opening of Looking’s wrap-up film, premiering tonight at 10 pm on HBO. If you weren’t already sold on the slow-paced drama, the 90-minute special finale likely won’t make you a convert. But if you were a fan of the first two seasons of the understated, slice-of-life look at a group of gay men in the Bay Area, the answer is yes, it’s very good.
The film picks up nine months after Patrick fled San Francisco and all the messy relationships he left in his wake. His time spent in Denver has done wonders for his career, his maturity, even his haircut. To Groff’s credit, some of Patrick’s most shrill neuroses have been tempered some, and he’s carrying himself with a newfound confidence and assuredness that finally makes Patrick someone you want to root for.
It’s a change that couldn’t come soon enough considering how the film spends its entirety by Patrick’s side. He’s back in town for a wedding and to close a few chapters along the way. While Patrick’s maturity is a welcome change, the focus on him comes at the expense of more time that could’ve been spent with Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez) and Dom (Murray Bartlett). The former character has come a long way from the acrid artist audiences largely loathed in season one. His growth is probably the most dramatic over the series’ run, and the film uses his scenes to underscore the seismic shift in his worldview (and, by extension, the gay community’s struggle to reconcile its radical roots with more acceptance in mainstream society).
But it’s Dom that seems to make the most with the smaller screen time he has. A brief, but memorable scene between him and Patrick crackles with an intimacy and familiarity between friends that rarely radiates so strongly on screen, especially between two men. The ease with which they relate is a testament to the actors’ natural chemistry, but it’s also a great example of what writer-director Andrew Haigh and series creator Michael Lannan do best.
Looking has always shined brightest when it isolates two characters (think Richie and Patrick’s day playing hooky in “Looking For the Future”). There’s an extra layer of vulnerability and honesty that they’ve nearly perfected. It’s the same quality that made Haigh’s film Weekend so electrifying, and Looking’s wrap-up film is the closest the series has ever come to capturing (or maybe even surpassing) that magic. Perhaps the longer runtime gave those moments more room to breathe, or maybe the sense of finality made it feel like all the ambling, navel-gazing conversations were heading toward some kind of destination.
Haigh’s and Lannan’s other strengths are on full display as well. San Francisco is still as gorgeously portrayed as ever, bathed in that romantic, sun-washed haze. Capturing San Francisco’s unique blend of bustling metropolis and wide-open natural wonder is no easy task, but Looking has found a way to accomplish this. A feast for the ears as well as the eyes, Looking’s musical choices have always been killer, and the film is no different. Though the fantastic use of the crescendo in Perfume Genius’ “Hood” is probably the most iconic in the film, even the way John Grant’s “No More Tangles” is playing in Patrick’s earphones expertly reinforces his point of view. It’s a wonder how much effort goes into making this lived-in world feel so effortless.
The artistry on display has rarely been a target for the heaps of criticism the show has weathered. Even in sunny San Francisco, Looking’s final farewell does find time for some shade, addressing some of its more pointed feedback head-on. “Stereotyped, cliché-ridden dross … what the f*ck is the point?” That’s what Patrick says people have been saying about his and Kevin’s gay-themed video game, but it’s also not a far cry from what folks were saying about Looking.
The most pointed response to critics comes via a shouting match between Patrick and Brady (Chris Perfetti), an entitled, whiny, social justice-minded, know-it-all blogger (wow, turns out, it is powerful to see yourself reflected on screen). They’re trading barbs about becoming dull, femmephobia, and “everything wrong with the gay community,“ as if they could solve it in this bar on this one night (or as if anyone could solve it with one TV show). Instead of declaring a victor, the argument ends with Doris (the always fabulous Lauren Weedman) breaking in: ”I love it when gays argue with other gays about being gays.”
Perhaps that’ll be the show’s legacy. It never was going to be the paragon of perfect representation, but it’s a lovingly-crafted piece of dramatic storytelling that had the community asking: When it comes to seeing ourselves on screen, what is it we’re really looking for?
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Happening NOW: Hillary Clinton Introduces Running Mate Tim Kaine at Miami Rally
Hillary Clinton is set to introduce her running mate Tim Kaine at a rally in Miami, Florida at approximately 12 pm.
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Following Orlando Shooting, National Council of La Raza Passes Gun Safety Resolution
Today, the National Council of La Raza adopted new policies in favor of reducing and preventing gun violence.
“Our announcement today comes as we hold our Annual Conference in Orlando, the site of the largest mass shooting in our nation’s history, which took the lives of 49 innocent people, most of whom were Latino,” said NCLR President and CEO Janet Murguía said in a statement. “The tragic event at Pulse nightclub changed Orlando and it has changed NCLR. Today, by formally adopting this position, we join with the vast majority of Americans calling for an end to gun violence and we will urge policymakers to adopt common-sense measures to reduce mass shootings and gun violence, saving countless lives.”
Last month, HRC’s board adopted a resolution that addresses both the epidemic of hate that has fueled anti-LGBTQ-motivated murder, assault and discrimination as well as common-sense gun violence prevention policies that would help keep the LGBTQ community safe. The tragic killing of 49 innocent people on Latin Night at Pulse nightclub in Orlando — young lives taken solely because of who they were — has affected us all.
“As a society, we must hold accountable lawmakers, religious leaders and other public officials who put a target on the backs of LGBTQ people through hateful rhetoric and legislation, because they are complicit in the violence fueled by their words and actions,” HRC President Chad Griffin said. “The safety of the LGBTQ community depends on our ability to end both the hatred toward our community and the epidemic of gun violence that has spiraled out of control.”
Following the Orlando tragedy, it’s on all of us to keep the victims’ memories alive, and to ensure part of their legacy becomes meaningful action to end hate violence. Join HRC’s Stop the Hate campaign and urge your legislator to support legislation that will ensure LGBTQ people are safe and equal in every community and find out how to support the survivors and families of the Orlando victims.
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