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A swing dance revolution in Los Angeles invites LGBT folks to dance to old-school hits with new-school acceptance.
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Daily Archives: August 5, 2016
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Ariana Grande Mashes Up Whitney Houston’s ‘How Will I Know’ and ‘Queen of the Night – WATCH
Ariana Grande Mashes Up Whitney Houston’s ‘How Will I Know’ and ‘Queen of the Night – WATCH
The vocally-gifted Ariana Grande is no stranger to tackling the styles of famous pop divas that have gone before her. In fact, before she became a break-out star in her own right, she was known on YouTube for being able to perfectly imitate famous female singers.
Since that time, she has continued to show off how skilled she can be at musical impersonations (e.g. playing Wheel of Musical Impressions with Jimmy Fallon).
RELATED – Ariana Grande Channels Britney, Shakira, Rihanna, Celine Dion, and Whitney Houston in SNL Sketch: WATCH
Most recently, Grande performed a mash-up of two of Whitney Houston’s most iconic songs “How Will I Know” and “Queen of the Night” (from The Bodyguard).
Watch as Grande takes on the iconic Whitney Houston, below.
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Ellen Page and ‘Gaycation’ Head to Orlando to Talk About the Pulse Shooting – WATCH
Ellen Page and ‘Gaycation’ Head to Orlando to Talk About the Pulse Shooting – WATCH
Ellen Page and her VICE TV show Gaycation are back with a new episode that takes a heart-wrenching look at the LGBT community in Orlando following the June 12 massacre at gay nightclub Pulse.
That attack killed 49 people and was the deadliest mass shooting in American history, the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, and the deadliest attack on LGBT people in modern U.S. history.
Page and best friend/Gaycation co-host Ian Daniel decided to head to Orlando to talk to the survivors and the families of the victims who were at Pulse when an ISIS-inspired gunman unleashed hell.
“Losing so many at once, it’s almost impossible to deal with,” says a woman in the first trailer released. “Gaycation Presents: Orlando” includes one survivor’s harrowing story of escaping the night club and another’s day of burying one pair of friends. The special hopes to shed a glimmer of light and show that the seeds of love and recovery for Orlando are possible and that the strength of the community — LGBTQ and beyond — will persevere.
Gaycation began as a series where Page and Daniel could travel around the world and document what it’s like to be queer in a variety of different cultures.
RELATED: Watch Ellen Page Confront a Hitman Who Kills Gay People – VIDEO
Watch a trailer for the special episode of Gaycation which airs August 24, below.
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Katy Perry Tries to Go Up, Up and Away in ‘Rise’ Music Video – WATCH
Katy Perry Tries to Go Up, Up and Away in ‘Rise’ Music Video – WATCH
Katy Perry has released the official music video for her song “Rise,” and it’s a literal take on the track’s motivational theme.
The video shows Perry chained to a giant pink parachute trying to, you guessed it, ‘rise’ despite all the obstacles that face her–wind, rain, the sun, cliffs.
It’s on the nose but so is the song. Both are unabashedly music video incarnations of motivational posters and maybe that’s just what we need in 2016.
Also, is the video some sort of homage to Independence Day? If so, Perry really should have been dragging an unconscious alien.
Now that’s hard.
Perry performed “Rise” last week at the DNC. The song is also the official anthem for this year’s Olympics.
Watch the music video, below.
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The GLAAD Wrap: Lily Tomlin to be honored by SAG, Daniel Franzese joins 'Conviction,' 'Gaycation' travels to Orlando
The GLAAD Wrap: Lily Tomlin to be honored by SAG, Daniel Franzese joins 'Conviction,' 'Gaycation' travels to Orlando
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Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBT-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
1) The new romantic dramedy Front Cover premieres today in select theaters before a wider roll out. The film centers on Ryan, a gay stylist, and the friendship that develops when he is assigned to style famous Chinese actor, Ning. Check out the trailer below.
2) Sport docuseries Keeping Score, featuring out soccer star Megan Rapinoe, was released this week by Fullscreen Media’s streaming service. The series profiles Rapinoe and two teammates, Hope Solo and Crystal Dunn, on their quest for Olympic gold and equal pay. In other documentary news, the National Geographic Channel announced that it will be working with Katie Couric on Gender Revolution, set to premiere globally in January.
3) It was recently announced that a special episode of Ellen Page’s Gaycation will center around the aftermath of the shootings at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. The series follows Page and her best friend, Ian Daniel, on a journey of discovery of LGBT culture around the world. Gaycation Presents: Orlando will focus specifically on interviews of those affected by the Orlando shooting and will air August 24 at 10pm on Viceland before the series returns for season two on September 7.
4) TNT drama The Last Ship has been renewed for a fourth season, the series’ ensemble cast includes out Lieutenant Alisha Granderson. In other TV news, NBC will air Tony Bennet Celebrates 90: The Best is Yet to Come, with guest performances by Lady Gaga, Elton John, and Rufus Wainwright, to celebrate the musician’s birthday. It was also just recently announced that out actors Sean Hayes and Rosie O’Donnell have joined the cast of the network’s upcoming Hairspray Live! special.
5) A number of new castings have been announced ahead of the upcoming fall TV season. Out actor Daniel Franzese has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming ABC legal drama, Conviction. Franzese will play Jackson Morrison, a tenacious political operative who handles his mother’s Senate campaign and sister’s legal dilemmas. ABC’s The Real O’Neals will return for season 2 on National Coming Out Day and include cameos by several out stars including Jane Lynch, Tyler Oakley, and Lance Bass. In cable news, Maribeth Monroe has been cast alongside Wanda Sykes in the TBS dark comedy pilot, World’s End. The show follows an English teacher who tries to navigate an asylum and will feature Monroe as Suzanne, Sykes’ ex-wife and head nurse at Kingsley Hospital.
6) Out creators have been taking networks by storm as both Alan Ball and Nahnatchka Khan closed production deals this week. Ball, creator of True Blood, will be developing a HBO series that focuses on a multi-racial family and the trouble 
that follows when one child can see what others cannot. Meanwhile, Fresh Off the Boat creator Khan will develop new projects in her three-year deal with FOX studios.
7) To round out th
e end of the week, a series of out woman are being honored in recognition of their work on and off the screen. Lily Tomlin, star of Grace and Frankie, will be receiving the SAG Life Achievement Award for her work as an actress, singer, and humanitarian. Tomlin is the first out actor to receive the honor. OWN’s Supersoul 100 has also showcased the work of out entertainers on their list of leaders “elevating humanity” including Amandla Stenberg, Janet Mock, Ingrid Nilsen, and Jill Soloway.
8) Hayley Kiyoko has released the music video for her new single “Gravel to Tempo” from her upcoming EP Citrine. “From the beginning of writing that song, I envisioned myself in front of all the girls I had crushes on in high school,” Kiyoko told Refinery29. “I remember so well what it was like to idolize other people and look for validation from them. But then I grew up, and I realized: The only validation I need is from myself.”
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Police Killing of Korryn Gaines Is 'Outrageous,' Says LGBT Org
Police Killing of Korryn Gaines Is 'Outrageous,' Says LGBT Org
The fact that nine black women were killed by police this year has one LGBT organization making a strong statement.
www.advocate.com/crime/2016/8/05/police-killing-korryn-gaines-outrageous-says-lgbt-org
Lily Tomlin, Donald Trump, George Michael, Brazilian Model, TSA, DeRay Mckesson: HOT LINKS
Lily Tomlin, Donald Trump, George Michael, Brazilian Model, TSA, DeRay Mckesson: HOT LINKS
TRUMP’S CABINET. Donald can’t name any women he’d put in it, aside from Ivanka: “I can tell you everybody would say, ‘Put Ivanka in, put Ivanka in,’ you know that, right?” Trump said. “She’s very popular, she’s done very well, and you know Ivanka very well. But there really are so many that are really talented people — like you, you’re so talented, but I don’t know if your viewers know that.”
DAVID DUKE. I’d be Trump’s biggest supporter in the Senate. “As a United States senator, nobody will be more supportive of his legislative agenda, his Supreme Court agenda than I will.”
2016 ELECTION. California GOP official resigns over Hillary ‘noose’ tweet. “An Inland Republican Party official resigned from his state government job Thursday, Aug. 4, a day after he sent tweets from the party’s official Twitter account that featured a menacing hangman and the words ‘I’m Ready for Hillary.’”
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— Jeff Horseman (@JeffHorseman) August 3, 2016
BATON ROUGE. Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson sues city over his arrest: “Mckesson was among nearly 200 protesters arrested in Baton Rouge following the July 5 shooting death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling. A class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court on behalf of Mckesson and two other arrested protesters, accuses the city and police officials of violating their civil rights and using excessive force.”
SAG. Lily Tomlin will be first openly gay person to receive Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. “Tomlin, who shot to movie fame in Nashville in 1975 and starred in 9 To 5 opposite Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda, married Jane Wagner, her partner of 42 years, in 2013. She will be the 53rd recipient of the actors’ union’s highest honour, following in the footsteps of Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor.”
PRAISE THE TSA. When they deserve it, like this time:
BUG BOUNTY. Catching fireflies for profit: “For over three decades, children across the U.S. spent their summers hunting fireflies #9, Issue #3, Page #18 | Earn Extra Money Catching Fireflies” href=”https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=3562″>for profit. The Sigma Firefly Scientists’ Club, a subsidiary of the Sigma Chemical Company (now Sigma-Aldrich), paid kids a penny for each lightning bug they captured and returned to the company before quietly shuttering in the mid-1990s. Today, one of Sigma-Aldrich’s few remaining jars of desiccated firefly tails (lanterns) can be yours for the low, low price of 392USD. But what did they want all those fireflies for in the first place?”
APPLE. Company to hold first-ever bug bounty program: “While security has been a crucial part of its corporate narrative, Apple has quietly refused to pay for bug reports, at times frustrating security researchers who found it difficult to report flaws to the company. That changed today, as Apple’s head of security engineering and architecture, Ivan Krstic, announced to Black Hat attendees that Apple will begin offering cash bounties of up to $200,000 to researchers who discover vulnerabilities in its products.”
SLIP N SLIDE. Dog gets launched into lake.
FOOD THEFT. Internet chef says Burger King stole his Mac n Cheetos recipe: “If I could write an open letter to the fast food b—— I would tell them I love them and their artery clogging food, and if they want any help creating new exotic menu items to drop me a f—ing email.”
ADAM LAMBERT. George Michael’s “Faith”.
RED HOT IN RIO. Brazilian model Douglas Tavares.
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Victim’s Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Houston Gay Bar Where He Was Murdered
Victim’s Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Houston Gay Bar Where He Was Murdered
The family of a man who was fatally shot outside a Houston gay bar last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the establishment’s owners.
Juan Carlo Ramirez (above), 22, was killed in a carjacking as he was leaving the popular F-Bar in the city’s Montrose gayborhood in the early morning hours of March 12, 2015.
The suit filed last month by Ramirez’s parents, Sergio Ramirez and Reinalda Rubio, alleges that owners Irwin Palchick and MK 202 Entertainment were negligent in failing to provide adequate security given that F-Bar is in a high-crime area.
Ramirez was carjacked as he was returning to his vehicle in the bar’s back parking lot, where his attackers had reportedly laid in wait. After Ramirez was shot, his friend “Chloe” ran back inside F-Bar to get help, but was kicked out by an employee, the lawsuit alleges. It would be 15 minutes before paramedics arrived, and Ramirez managed to walk 75 feet to near the bar’s entrance before collapsing.
“In January 2015 alone, just a few months before Juan died at F-Bar, there were one hundred and ninety-eight (198) thefts, robberies, and aggravated assaults in the area,” the suit states. “Club owners are well aware or should be aware of the security risks to their businesses and patrons. Despite these known risks, on the night Juan Carlos died, F-Bar did not have any security posted in the back of the club. F-Bar only had a doorman posted at the front entrance.”
Ramirez was one of two people shot in the same area that night, part of a violent crime wave that led to “Take Back Montrose” protests.
The suit seeks monetary damages of more than $1 million. Police later arrested two suspects, ages 15 and 16, and charged them with capital murder in Ramirez’s death.
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Former CIA Chief Endorses Hillary, Says Trump Poses Threat to National Security
Former CIA Chief Endorses Hillary, Says Trump Poses Threat to National Security
A former acting director of the CIA has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president and denounced Donald Trump as a threat to the United States’ national security.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Michael J. Morell, who served as acting director of the CIA twice during the Obama administration and was at George W. Bush’s side on 9/11, says that while he has never made his politics public before, and has voted for and worked with both Republicans and Democrats, he is making his position clear this year because of the unique risk Donald Trump poses to the country.
Morell declared, “I will do everything I can to ensure that [Hillary Clinton] is elected as our 45th president.” Explaining his decision, he writes,
“Two strongly held beliefs have brought me to this decision. First, Mrs. Clinton is highly qualified to be commander in chief. I trust she will deliver on the most important duty of a president — keeping our nation safe. Second, Donald J. Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.”
Morell worked with Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. “I found her to be prepared, detail-oriented, thoughtful, inquisitive and willing to change her mind if presented with a compelling argument,” he says of Clinton. Seemingly aware of the media narrative that suggests Clinton puts political calculation above all else, Morell says,
“I never saw her bring politics into the Situation Room. In fact, I saw the opposite. When some wanted to delay the Bin Laden raid by one day because the White House Correspondents Dinner might be disrupted, she said, ‘Screw the White House Correspondents Dinner.’”
Morell also notes that Clinton was an early advocate for the raid against Bin Laden and suggested a policy on Syria that he believes would have prevented ISIS from taking a strong footing in that nation.
In assessing Trump, Morell suggests that the Republican nominee is dangerous because of his “need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect for the rule of law.”
Morell argues that Trump has already put America’s national security at risk by playing into the hands of Vladimir Putin. Trump has, in essence, become Putin’s puppet, according to Morell:
“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated.”
RELATED – Donald Trump Tells Russia to Find Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 Missing Emails: WATCH
Morell sums up the Trump-Putin love affair thus: “In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
As for Trump’s proposed ‘Muslim ban’, Morell warns that it “plays into the hands of the jihadist narrative that our fight against terrorism is a war between religions”–to say nothing of it flying in the face of the principles that founded our nation.
Morell concludes, “My training as an intelligence officer taught me to call it as I see it. This is what I did for the CIA. This is what I am doing now. Our nation will be much safer with Hillary Clinton as president.”
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