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Daily Archives: August 11, 2016
Out Olympian Denounces Daily Beast's Grindr Article
Out Olympian Denounces Daily Beast's Grindr Article
The Daily Beast “should be ashamed” of the article, which could potentially endanger closeted athletes, says Amini Fonua, a swimmer from Tonga.
www.advocate.com/sports/2016/8/11/out-olympian-denounces-daily-beasts-grindr-article
New 'Star Trek' TV Series Features Gay Character (Video)
New 'Star Trek' TV Series Features Gay Character (Video)
www.advocate.com/television/2016/8/11/new-star-trek-tv-series-features-gay-character-video
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Orlando, Simone Biles, Larry Wilmore, Adele, Gigi Gorgeous, WWE: HOT LINKS
Orlando, Simone Biles, Larry Wilmore, Adele, Gigi Gorgeous, WWE: HOT LINKS
ORLANDO. Equality Florida holds #ForThe49 rally outside anti-LGBT religious conference where Trump and Rubio are speaking.
Pastors & activists frm @equalityfl rallied re: summit of 700 faith leaders, who they say have anti-#LGBTQ agenda. pic.twitter.com/Ox086SYGQb
— Julie Gargotta (@juliegargotta) August 11, 2016
A PICTURE’S WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. Time magazine on Trump’s ‘meltdown.’
SPILL THE TEA. Vin Diesel threatens to tell all about The Rock as ongoing spat continues.
ON NEWSSTANDS. Zayn Malik smolders in GQ.
EGYPT. Gay and transgender community goes underground: “Since the 2013 military intervention that established former Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the country’s ruler, at least 250 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been arrested in a quiet crackdown that has shattered what had been an increasingly vibrant and visible community.”
TRUMPISMS. The Donald isn’t backing down from his blatantly false assertion that President Obama is the founder of ISIS.
READING ROOM. Larry Wilmore has had enough of Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson.
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OLYMPICS SPOILER ALERT. (DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE GOING TO WATCH OLYMPIC COVERAGE TONIGHT) –> Team USA gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman win gold and silver all-around medal, respectively.
GOPANIC. Dozens of Republicans beg RNC to abandon the Trump campaign now before it’s too late: “More than 70 Republicans have signed an open letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump win in November and shift those contributions to Senate and House races.”
YAS QUEEN. Adele may be attending a gay wedding in Montana.
WWE. The wrestling organization is going to be getting more diverse: “According to WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, LGBT characters could soon become a part of WWE storylines and programming in the future. McMahon confirmed plans during an event hosted by Beyond Sport at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.”
GIGI GORGEOUS. Transgender model detained in Dubai and not allowed entry into Qatar because she is transgender: “Yesterday was one of the scariest moments of my entire life and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone. How you can be denied entry somewhere just because of who you are is seriously disgusting and also very scary. This further proves the need for CHANGE.”
THURSDAY THIRST. Brazilian swimmer Matheus Santana.
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Two Months After Pulse, Antigay Evangelicals Descend on Orlando
Two Months After Pulse, Antigay Evangelicals Descend on Orlando
The LGBT community is fuming that the American Renewal Project is hosting its gathering — with Trump and Rubio in attendance — in the same city where 49 people were murdered at a gay nightclub weeks earlier.
www.advocate.com/religion/2016/8/11/two-months-after-pulse-antigay-evangelicals-descend-orlando
PHOTO: Instagram Pic of Tom Daley And Greg Louganis Oddly Moving
PHOTO: Instagram Pic of Tom Daley And Greg Louganis Oddly Moving
In this life, there are mysteries; phenomena we’ll never be able to fully grasp or understand. For example, we don’t know quite what it is we find so endearing about this photograph of Greg Louganis and Tom Daley.
Related: Tom Daley Unwittingly Steals Spotlight From Equally Adept, Equally Speedoed Daniel Goodfellow
Perhaps it’s something to do with the affectionate gaze in each other’s eyes, or maybe there’s something oddly ineffable in the subtext — one generation handing the proverbial Olympic torch down to another; something like that.
Related: PHOTO: Greg Louganis Goes Fully Nude For ESPN Magazine — At Age 56
Anyway, once you take a look, and after you’re finished gutturally sobbing, perhaps you can explain why this image has somehow succeeded in awakening our craven brittle hearts, and made us feel something we suspect is akin to natural human emotion.
Quick pic with @tomdaley1994 and I at the #RioOlympics IBC #GregLouganis #TomDaley #rio2016 #Diving
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Trans Model Stands Tall In Dress Made Of Flags From Countries Where Being LGBTQ Is Illegal
Trans Model Stands Tall In Dress Made Of Flags From Countries Where Being LGBTQ Is Illegal
Transgender model Valentijn de Hingh wears a dress featuring flags where being LGBTQ is illegal. Via screenshot.
Talk about a fashion statement!
A team of Dutch designers has created a dress made with the flags of 72 countries where being LGBTQ is still illegal, and in some cases could get you killed.
Related: Where Love Is Illegal: Powerful Queer Stories From Antigay Parts Of The World
Fashion designer Mattijs van Bergen and spatial designer Oeri van Woezik collaborated on the Amsterdam Rainbow Dress, along with LGBTQ rights group COC Amsterdam, and in conjunction with EuroPride festivities. It was unveiled at the COC Shakespeare Club in the Amsterdam Museum on Friday.
Unfurling the dress. Via screenshot.
The bodice of the dress, worn by transgender model Valentijn de Hingh, is made from the Amsterdam flag. Amsterdam is known as an overall welcoming place for LGBTQ people. They became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, in 2001. The Equal Rights Law, enacted in 1993, banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment, public accommodations and more. Transgender individuals are allowed to legally change their gender, although protections on the basis of gender identity and expression have not yet been enacted countrywide.
Related: Hari Nef Talks To Vogue About What It’s Like Being A Transgender Model
The rest of the 52-foot long dress is made up of the flags from the 72 countries where being LGBTQ is illegal, including ten countries that have the death penalty for homosexuality, such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen.
Modeling the dress. Via screenshot.
Photographer Pieter Henket documented Hingh wearing the dress in the Rijksmuseum.
After Amsterdam’s annual Pride parade, Arnout van Krimpen and Jochem Kaan of COC Amsterdam reached out to Bergen and Woezik to see if they could do something interesting with Amsterdam flags, Upworthy reports.
Bergen and Woezik working on the dress. Via Facebook.
If a country should change its laws, legalizing homosexuality, then they will update the dress by adding a rainbow flag in the place of that country’s flag, reports COC Amsterdam.
Related: Pat Robinson On Gays And Muslims: Let Them Kill Themselves
“Historically, Amsterdam has always been a safe haven for those who were not safe because of their ideas or because of who they were,” Chairman of COC Amsterdam Peter de Ruijter told The Huffington Post. “We wanted, however, to give an activating message, that this role as a safe haven is not automatic. It needs to be supported and upheld by the Amsterdam citizens from a shared understanding of equality for all…Given the current influx of refugees from the Middle East and Africa the dress signals to the Amsterdam citizens: contribute, involve yourselves, connect.”
Watch video of the dress being modeled and photographed below.
Hingh also gave a TED Talk several years ago about the gender dichotomy and her decision to have gender reassignment surgery. Hingh was the subject of a television documentary, Valentijn, following her life as a transgender child, from the ages of 8 to 17.
Rio Olympics Show More Same-Sex Love, LGBT Acceptance
Rio Olympics Show More Same-Sex Love, LGBT Acceptance
If team LGBTI were a country, it’d be tied with Poland and Chinese Taipei in 21st place for the total medal count: one gold medal for Brazil’s newest hero Rafaela Silva in Judo, one bronze medal for diver Tom Daley of Great Britain, and another bronze for Jen Kish of Canada in Rugby.
The 2016 Olympics already started out with a record number of out LGBTI athletes. On Friday, when the games officially started we reported that there were a record 44 out LGBTI athletes in this year’s Olympics, as well as three coaches, according to a list compiled by outsports.com. In comparison, only 23 athletes were out four years ago in London.
Today that number is already 49, including a gold medal winner (Rafaela Silva) who publicly came out as a lesbian during an interview, when she talked about her girlfriend of three years Thamara Cezar.
Brazilian news portal Globo Esporte highlighted the trend Monday in a piece entitled ‘Rio Olympics gets the gold medal for acceptance and love without discrimination.’
When Brazilian transgender supermodel Lea T led the host nation’s delegation into the Maracanã Stadium, Globo Esporte noted that the games were off to a good start.
Then, with athletes like Rafaela Silva going public about her three-year relationship with Thamara Cezar, and a very public marriage proposal, of Marjorie Enya to girlfriend Izzy Cerullo at the end of the Rugby tournament, Globo Esporte noted that such demonstrations of affection between same-sex athletes are becoming increasingly more common.
There is also high-profile power couple Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black; WNBA superstar Elena Delle Donne, who revealed in an interview with Vogue that she is engaged to Amanda Clifton; and one married couple, Helen Richardson-Walsh and Kate Richardson-Walsh, British field hockey players.
Cerullo, the lucky girl who said yes to now-fiancée Enya said that her phone didn’t stop ringing after the proposal, and that in two days she’d received over 700 friend requests on social media.
“I couldn’t read all of the Facebook messages. And my cell phone is almost exploding [from so many messages]. People are leaving words of love and affection, and they say that they were very touched with our story. We are really touched, ourselves. There are a lot of messages, and believe me, none of them were homophobic,” she said.
Carlos Tufvesson, Rio de Janeiro’s Secretary of Sexual Diversity, noticed the shift. He remembers when Michael do Santos, a volleyball player for Vôlei Futuro who had just come out of the closet and suffered intense homophobia when thousands of fans of the opposing team shouted anti-gay slurs at him during a match, a case which drew national attention.
The US Women’s soccer team has also complained about anti-gay slurs directed at them during their first matches in Brazil. And a recent New York Times article talked about an epidemic of anti-gay violence in the country.
But the fact that two same-sex couples at the games have received support on social media for showing their love is reason to celebrate.”I see a lot of facts that have contributed to this. First, it’s post-Sochi. Second, this all happened after Orlando’s horrifying attack, which made people start to think. Something needs to be done to fight this homophobia,” said Tufvesson.
Top photo credit: dibradoras/Twitter
Tom Daley photo: Dustin Lance Black/Twitter
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Apologize for Persecution of Gay Canadians – REPORT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Apologize for Persecution of Gay Canadians – REPORT
According to a new report, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will offer a formal apology on behalf of the government and all citizens to any Canadian who has ever been fired, persecuted or imprisoned because of their sexuality.
Trudeau has thus far been the most pro-LGBT prime minister in Canada’s history. He has also been one of the most social justice-conscious.
RELATED: Justin Trudeau to Grant Posthumous Pardon to Man Imprisoned for Being Gay
While Trudeau’s staff have not confirmed that the apology will in fact take place, The Globe and Mail reports that the announcement could come as early as this fall:
That apology is a key element in a broad range of reforms that will collectively represent one of the greatest advances for sexual minorities in Canada’s history. […]
Cameron Ahmad, press secretary to Mr. Trudeau, issued the following statement: “We have committed to working with Egale and other groups on an ongoing basis to bring an end to discrimination and further guarantee equality for all citizens. We are currently carefully reviewing the recommendations in their report, and will have more to say in the near future.”
These reforms stem from a series of Globe stories that examined the cases of people who were imprisoned or who were persecuted within the public service and the military because of their sexuality.
Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, was responsible for legislation that decriminalized same-sex acts during his tenure as PM.
[Top photo via Twitter]
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