Autopsy Report Reveals Omar Mateen Was Shot Eight Times
Police shot off nearly 150 bullets at Mateen, an autopsy report reveals.
www.advocate.com/crime/2016/8/06/autopsy-report-reveals-omar-mateen-was-shot-eight-times
Daily Archives: August 6, 2016
Scooters On Parade
Scooters On Parade
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June 18, 2016 – Stonewall Pride Parade. Columbus, Ohio
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Party Like It’s 2002: A Look Back At Gay Culture In The Aughts
Party Like It’s 2002: A Look Back At Gay Culture In The Aughts
This week marked the end of an era when Gay.com announced it was permanently deleting all chatrooms, along with all profiles, photos and chat histories effective August 1.
Related: End Of An Era: Gay.Com Chat Rooms Are No More As Of Today
The site was a defining part of our lives in the late ’90s and early ’00s, and even though we hadn’t visited it in over a decade, we were still flooded with nostalgia.
Related: Queerty Readers Relive The Gay.com Chatroom Glory Days
The whole thing got us thinking about other pieces of gay culture that have been lost to the ages. Scroll down to join us for a jaunt down memory lane…
Online chatrooms
Before there was Grindr and Scruff there were online chatrooms. Gay.com and AOL were probably the most popular ones. Guys would hang out late at night in their underpants chatting with complete strangers over dial-up internet, swapping pics, engaging in “cybersex,” and arranging hook ups. It was all very exciting at the time.
Fag hags
Just as the term “fag hag” has fallen out of fashion, so have fag hags, in general. Sure, there are still a handful of hangers on who relish in surrounding themselves exclusively with homosexual men, but for the most part, everyone just hangs out with everyone these days.
Structure
Before becoming Express Men, then just Express, and then finally being sold to SEARS, this men’s fashion line was all the rage in shopping malls across the nation in the late ’90s and early ’00s. It specialized in modern everyday basics–jeans, polo shirts, hoodies, button-downs. Unfortunately, the basics were a little too basic and the brand vanished seemingly into thin air.
Streaky hair highlights…
…gelled, spiked and sprayed to resemble the look and texture of a porcupine.
Edgy gay-themed cable television dramas
Queer as Folk. Noah’s Ark. The L Word. These were just a few of the edgy gay-themed dramas that dominated cable television channels. The shows generally dealt with timely topics such as coming out, dating, drugging, clubbing, cruising, and workplace discrimination, with a little autoerotic asphyxiation and underage prostitution thrown in for good measure. You now, typical “gay” stuff.
Baitbus
Though nobody’s fooled by Baitbus anymore, back in the day the site had us totally mesmerized. Heterosexual men were picked up on the street and tricked into having gay sex in a van with a complete stranger all while being filmed. Then afterwards they were abandoned on the side of the road butt naked and angry at having been duped. It was truly amazing just how many straight guys fell for the scheme. Almost as amazing as how many gay guys actually believed the whole setup was real.
Dance vault remixes
Remember dance vault remixes? Female pop artists with strong gay followings would remix their non-dance tracks into upbeat club bangers often to mixed results. The musical trend helped turn guys like Felix da Housecat and Paul Oakenfold into same-sex household names.
Original iPods
And we listened to these remixes on iPods so large and so bulky that they barely fit into our bootcut jeans pockets.
Kelly
Remember her?
Blackberries
Before the iPhone, anyone who was anyone had a Blackberry, including “It” girls like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, who were both famously snapped by paparazzi stumbling out of bars looking glossy eyed and clutching their bedazzled devices. Even President Obama famously pleaded with the Secret Service to keep his Blackberry after being sworn into office in 2009.
The novelty of being gay
It wasn’t all that long ago that simply “being gay” gave a person an edge or made them more interesting. But with more and more folks embracing sexual fluidity or coming out as bisexual or heteroflexible, paired with the advancements in LGBTQ rights in recent years, just “being gay” isn’t enough anymore. And, honestly, that’s probably for the best. Though we’d be lying if we said there wasn’t a small part of us that didn’t miss using our sexualities as a crutch to seem more cool at parties.
Related: Don’t Be That Gay: The 10 Most Obnoxious Types Of Homosexual Men
PHOTOS: Meet The Olympic Baes Of Team USA
PHOTOS: Meet The Olympic Baes Of Team USA
The Olympics are officially underway, and while the ramp-up hasn’t been without its fair share of terrible press — everything from raw sewage in the water to inadequate housing for athletes to that pesky ‘ole zika — at the end of the day, audiences will still tune in to catch top athletes competing at the highest level on the world’s biggest stage.
And oh — these athletes!
Not only are there a record number of LGBTQ competitors this year, Team USA is chock full of major babes.
NBC recently took a closer look at the baes of team red, white and blue.
Let’s get to know these sporty fellas:
Jordan Burroughs — wrestling
Ashton Eaton — decathlon
Ryan Lochte — swimming
Jake Dalton — gymnastics
Nathan Adrian — swimming
Sam Mikulak — gymnastics
Daryl Homer — fencing
John Mann — water polo
David Oliver — track and field
David Boudia — diving
Danell Leyva — gymnastics
Madison Hughes — rugby
Trayvon Bromell — track and field
Carlin Isles — rugby
Carlos Balderas — boxing
Conor Dwyer — swimming
Alex Naddour — gymnastics
Steele Johnson — diving
Isiah Young — track and field
Chris Brooks — gymnastics
Lucas Schrimsher — modern pentathlon
Logan Dooley — trampoline
Connor Fields — BMX cycling
Matt Centrowitz, track and field
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Delta Air Lines Removes Gay Kissing from Oscar-Nominated Film ‘Carol’
Delta Air Lines Removes Gay Kissing from Oscar-Nominated Film ‘Carol’
Delta Air Lines is screening a version of the Oscar-nominated film Carol for passengers in its in-flight entertainment program which deletes kisses between Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett, according to a report in AfterEllen.
The censorship of the Todd Haynes film was first brought to their attention by comic Cameron Esposito:
Watched CAROL on a plane & they edited it so the main characters never even kiss. Booooooo.
Two women kissing is fine for planes.
— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 3, 2016
A bunch of queer gals responded that they watched CAROL on a plane & didn’t know the main characters kiss. THEY KISS t.co/XTAU19BPga
— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 4, 2016
But apparently heterosexual BDSM is just fine:
BTW my seatmate totally watching something where Paul Giamatti was participating in BDSM w/ a lady but CAROL had no kissing!?
VERY MAD.
— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 3, 2016
AfterEllen later received this explanation from Delta:
“There were two versions of this film that the studio makes available–one that is edited and one that is not edited. The edited version removes two explicit scenes that do not meet our guidelines. The edited version also removes all kissing. The other version is fully non-edited and includes the kissing, but it also includes the explicit scenes. Unfortunately, Delta doesn’t have the rights to edit the movie, or to make the decision to keep some of that content (e.g. kissing).
Because of the explicit scenes included in the non-edited version, we chose the edited version. This is consistent with what is available to all airlines.”
The Weinstein Company has not responded to a request to comment.
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Julian Assange Tells Bill Maher Wikileaks is ‘Working On’ Hacking Trump’s Tax Returns: WATCH
Julian Assange Tells Bill Maher Wikileaks is ‘Working On’ Hacking Trump’s Tax Returns: WATCH
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange got a good grilling last night from Bill Maher over why his organization appears to be “working with a bad actor—Russia” and “putting [his] thumb on the scale to basically f**k with the one person who stands in the way of us being ruled by Donald Trump.”
Assange dodged that question by volleying one back to Maher, asking about a ‘William Maher’ who gave money to a Clinton-funded organization and asks if Maher plans to donate $1 million to Clinton as he did to Obama.
“F**k no,” replies Maher.
Adds Assange:
“We’re really good at this. We have a 10-year perfect record of never having got it wrong in relation to the integrity of what we release. There’s no allegation, even from Debbie Wasserman Schultz or any of these people, that any of the material is not completely valid and true. What there is, is a conflation between our publications—the DNC leaks—and an extensive variety of hacks of the DNC, and frankly other organizations over the last two years, possibly by state actors, that wasn’t at all surprising.”
“Why don’t you hack into Donald Trump’s tax returns?”, Maher asks.
“Well, we’re working on it,” replies Assange.
Also on the call – whether it was fair game to release the names of Democratic donors, and the idea of a “smoking gun” in the DNC emails,
Watch:
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Meet Pita Taufatofua, the Tonga Flagbearer Who Stole Rio’s Opening Ceremonies
Meet Pita Taufatofua, the Tonga Flagbearer Who Stole Rio’s Opening Ceremonies
Tongan flagbearer Pita Taufatofua, a taekwondo athlete, broke the internet when he entered the stadium in Rio leading his country’s contingent, greased up and smiling broadly.
Commentating for NBC Sports, Meredith Vieira nearly fell off her chair when Taufatofua entered.
“Oh, Look at Tonga,” she explained. “Wow, look at Tonga!”
Said Hoda Kotb, “Slow that down! We’ll just live here for a minute.”
“He just became a sensation in Brazil. I can tell you that.”
He is expected to compete in the men’s 80 kg division of taekwondo on Friday, Aug. 19. He appeared to be confident in his path as long as five years ago when Taufatofua visited a taekwondo museum in South Korea. He signed the guestbook: “Pita Taufatofua. Taekwondo Tonga. Future Olympian.”
Taufatofua has modeling experience under his belt already, including showcasing wedding wear for Australian events company Turning Paige. Company owner Kira Keam said the Tongan was not paid to don formalwear for the shoot, which was designed to demonstrate the work of other designers to potential clients.
There are a record 44 out LGBTI athletes who will compete in Rio, as well as three coaches, according to Outsports.com. (Four years ago in London, there were only 23.) There is also one married couple, Helen Richardson-Walsh and Kate Richardson-Walsh, British field hockey players, as well as 11 publicly out male athletes — another record — though none are from the U.S.
Yet.
The numbers keep growing. A list of openly LGBTI athletes compiled by outsports.com on July 11 had 27 names. Today, 42 athletes are out and proud. Just yesterday, NBA star Elena Delle Donne publicly came out on an interview with Vogue — and that was huge: one of the world’s hottest basketball players right now, Donne was recently voted Most Valuable Player by the NBA. “She is a once-in-a generation type of player,” NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum told Vogue.
Here are some more photos of Taufatofua from his Instagram account:
Oh, we didn’t miss it!
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It takes all kinds, I guess
It takes all kinds, I guess
* RICHARD M (Over 5 million views) posted a photo:
2016 Liverpool Pride participant. To each his own, eh?
