Gender Mix-Up: NBC Sportscaster Calls Lesbian Olympian's Wife Her 'Husband'
NBC sportscaster Chris Marlowe had to apologize after referring to beach vollyball star Larissa França’s wife, Liliane Maestrini, as her husband.
Daily Archives: August 9, 2016
Black Lives Matter Continues Protest at L.A. City Hall, Seeks Police Chief's Ouster
Black Lives Matter Continues Protest at L.A. City Hall, Seeks Police Chief's Ouster
The protesters object to a police commission ruling that an officer did not violate department policy in the fatal shooting of a woman last year.
Olympian Chris Mosier Is First Transgender Athlete Featured in Nike Ad
Olympian Chris Mosier Is First Transgender Athlete Featured in Nike Ad
Chris Mosier keeps breaking barriers for transgender men in sports. Now he’s featured in a Nike ad.
www.advocate.com/sports/2016/8/09/olympian-chris-mosier-first-transgender-athlete-featured-nike-ad
DSC_0868 Pride 2016 c
DSC_0868 Pride 2016 c
Sam T (samm4mrox) posted a photo:
Taken at Pride Portland! Portland, Maine. Saturday, June 18th, 2016.
Why NBC Sports Never Noted Tom Daley Is an Out Athlete
Why NBC Sports Never Noted Tom Daley Is an Out Athlete
His fiancé, Dustin Lance Black, tells The Advocate that being out and visible makes a big difference to young LGBT people.
www.advocate.com/media/2016/8/09/why-nbc-sports-never-noted-tom-daley-out-athlete
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Sarbo City
Sarbo City
adamwright1989 resident posted a photo:
DJ Adz at Sarbo City. August 2016. Come and see Sarbo Beach and City. #djadz
Sneaky Dolphin, Beauty and the Beast, Zayn, Barbra + Adele, NASA: HOT LINKS
Sneaky Dolphin, Beauty and the Beast, Zayn, Barbra + Adele, NASA: HOT LINKS
SEAWORLD. Dolphin snatches a tourist’s iPad, celebrates by splashing around.
TELEVISION. Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah are leaving Saturday Night Live.
MANCANDY. Mario Lopez takes a shirtless vacation in Mexico.
MILLENNIAL MATH. The oft-derided generation is poor: “According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF), they earn $2,000 less than their parents did at a comparable age, they are more likely to live in poverty, and they are more likely to live at home. But Baby Boomers and Gen Xers still seem to find it hard to believe that basic economic math can explain much of the younger generation’s behavior.”
LOCK HIM UP. Former CIA Director General Michael Hayden on Trump’s “2nd amendment comment”: “If someone else had said that outside the hall, he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him.”
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Rock do a version of “Gaston.”
LOS ANGELES. After 31 years, Circus of Books in Silverlake is closing: “Before guys hooked up via apps and watched porn online, there was Circus of Books.”
GOLD CARD. Trump tries to riff on Hillary’s ‘woman’s card’, fails spectacularly with new ‘Donald J. Trump Gold Executive Membership Card’: “According to Trump, the card will signify to the world that you “are tired of a government that bows down to foreigners, refuses to even say the words ‘Radical Islam,’ and leaves our borders wide open!”
Trump rolls out “Gold Executive Membership Card” for donors.
Hoping I can charge millions, then declare bankruptcy pic.twitter.com/sJEvE6vm3J
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) August 9, 2016
DOUBLE THE DIVA. Adele and Barbra Streisand reportedly recording album of duets.
MUSIC VIDEO. Snakehips featuring Zayn, “Cruel.”
90s REWIND. The ‘Lost Boys’ from Steven Spielberg’s Hook get reunited for the movie’s 25th anniversary.
SPACE. NASA has a new toy: “NASA has created a camera that can film slow motion footage of booming rocket engines with higher dynamic range than ever before. It’s called the High Dynamic Range Stereo X camera, or HiDyRS-X, and late last week the agency released some of its footage to the public for the first time.”
TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY. Team USA badminton player Howard Shu.
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HRC Blasts Donald Trump and Marco Rubio for Courting Anti-LGBTQ Activists in Florida
HRC Blasts Donald Trump and Marco Rubio for Courting Anti-LGBTQ Activists in Florida
Today, HRC slammed Donald Trump and Marco Rubio for announcing they will campaign with anti-LGBTQ activists in Orlando on Thursday.
“Just when you think Donald Trump and Marco Rubio couldn’t go any lower, they announce plans to court anti-LGBTQ activists in Orlando. On Thursday, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are going to seek votes from people who fundamentally believe we are not equal, who support dangerous and harmful conversion therapy and who have worked to export anti-LGBTQ hate abroad,” said HRC Senior Vice President of Policy and Political Affairs JoDee Winterhof. “Donald Trump would put at risk all the progress the LGBTQ community has made over the last eight years. And we know all too well that Marco Rubio — who has refused to stand up for LGBTQ Floridians time and again — would be his loyal accomplice. Because of elected officials like Marco Rubio, LGBTQ Floridians remain at risk of being fired or denied a job because of who they are or whom they love.”
Polling released by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute found that both Rubio and Trump are massively out of step with Floridians on LGBTQ issues. A 53 percent majority of Floridians support marriage equality, while a 70 percent majority support LGBTQ non-discrimination protections, which Florida lacks.
When it comes to opposing LGBTQ equality, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are two dangerous peas in a pod:
Opposed to Marriage Equality: Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both oppose marriage equality and have specifically vowed to nominate Supreme Court Justices who would vote to overturn last year’s landmark marriage equality ruling. Rubio vowed he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Obergefell and in late January, Trump told Fox News Sunday he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would reverse marriage equality. When asked to clarify by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos a week later, Trump again doubled down. During the presidential campaign, Rubio even promised that he would “never change” when it comes to opposing marriage equality
Opposed to Transgender Equality: Rubio and Trump both oppose allowing transgender students to use facilities that correspond to their gender identity. Trump told The Washington Post he would reverse the administration’s guidance ensuring that transgender students are treated with respect, and can use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Trump has also endorsed North Carolina’s dangerous HB2 law, and has said he would let anti-LGBTQ governors write discrimination into state law.
Support Kim Davis-Style, Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination: Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both support and have said they would sign the so-called “First Amendment Defense Act,” (FADA) a bill to allow Kim Davis style discrimination in the federal government.
Revoking President Obama’s Executive Orders: Both Trump and Rubio have vowed to revoke President Obama’s executive orders on their first day in office — jeopardizing the President’s executive order protecting LGBTQ employees working for federal contractors. The loss of these protections is not just a hypothetical danger. Recently the House Armed Services Committee added an amendment to the defense authorization that would undermine President Obama’s executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity for federal contractors — an executive order that covers 20 percent of the workforce. And Trump has made clear he’s not going to fight these types of efforts.
