Diana Nyad's Perplexing Take on Trans Women Athletes
“When it comes to the female trans athlete, I’m confused,” the lesbian swimmer said in a commentary on National Public Radio.
www.advocate.com/sports/2016/8/17/diana-nyads-perplexing-take-trans-women-athletes
Nate Parker's Past Raises Questions of How Courts Handle Rape
A rape accusation against Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker has recently resurfaced as Fox Searchlight prepares to promote the film, which will be released in October.
www.advocate.com/film/2016/8/17/nate-parkers-rape-controversy
Ben-Hur's Gay Subtext Is Needed Now More Than Ever
Gore Vidal — and GLAAD — would not be pleased by reports that the remake of the 1959 classic has been de-gayed.
www.advocate.com/film/2016/8/17/ben-hurs-gay-subtext-needed-now-more-ever
Appreciating Another Black Cat
For #blackcatappreciationday, we remember Los Angeles’s Black Cat bar, site of a pre-Stonewall gay rights protest.
www.advocate.com/politics/2016/8/17/appreciating-another-black-cat
Limit(less) Project: Taib
mowunna posted a photo:
Taib: Queer Ethiopian-Kenyan (Canada)
Q. How do you think your style incorporates/blends elements of your African and LGBTQ identity?
“Just recently I have been trying to incorporate more of my African heritage into my attire. Access to African elements from my heritage has always been a challenge living in the ‘great white north’. Besides the occasional gifts from my grandma from Kenya I really didn’t have much to go on. This past year I have had the opportunity to live and work in East Africa and have collected items along the way. I try to mix different elements into both my professional and casual wear.
Given the right circumstances, I like to flirt with aspects of femininity and masculinity. I like subtle accents like a dangly earring on one ear with the occasional application of eyeliner, and accent (s) of colour.”
– Taib (Queer Ethiopian-Kenyan, He/Him)
Donate to support the project: HERE
About Limit(less)
Limit(less) is a photography project by Mikael Owunna (@owning-my-truth) documenting the fashion and style of LGBTQ African Immigrants (1st and 2nd generation) in diaspora. As LGBTQ Africans, we are constantly told that being LGBTQ is somehow “un-African,” and this rhetoric is a regular part of homophobic and transphobic discourse in African communities. This line of thinking, however, is patently false and exists an artifact of colonization of the African continent. Identities which would now be categorized as “LGBTQ” have always existed, and being LGBTQ does not make us “less” African.
Limit(less) explores how LGBTQ African immigrants navigate their identities and find ways to overcome the supposed “tension” between their LGBTQ and African identities through their fashion and style. The project seeks to visually deconstruct the colonial binary that has been set up between LGBTQ and African identities, which erases the lives and experiences of LGBTQ Africans. #LimitlessAfricans
Donate to support the project: HERE
Website:
limitlessafricans.com/
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/limitlessafricans
Tumblr:
limitlessafricans.tumblr.com
Tony Perkins, Goldie Hawn, Barbra Streisand, Brooklyn Beckham, WikiLeaks, Irish Rowers: HOT LINKS
KARMA. Tony Perkins, after years of saying that gay marriage would incur God’s wrath, had his house destroyed by a “flood of biblical proportions.”
DUET. Barbra Streisand and Seth McFarlane sing “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I believe in the power of imagination… I love this song… recording it as a duet with @SethMacFarlane was a joy!t.co/1FuAvjhS75
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) August 17, 2016
MOVIES. Amy Schumer explains how she got Goldie Hawn to come out of retirement to make a movie with her.
CAMBRIDGE BOUND. Legendary AIDS activist Peter Staley is headed to Harvard: “In a momentary lapse of academic sanity, some much smarter folks at Harvard have asked me to teach there this fall. My ‘study group’ is titled ‘When Activism Works, with AIDS as an Example.’”
WIKILEAKS. Julian Assange says he is itching to dump info on Donald Trump: ““If anyone has any information that is from inside the Trump campaign, which is authentic, it’s not like some claimed witness statement but actually internal documentation, we’d be very happy to receive it and publish it.”
SCIENCE. How to shut down a climate change denier.
The existence of Twitter is forever validated by the following exchange. pic.twitter.com/f3TciHPFFh
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 16, 2016
MUSIC. Kesha is dropping sexual assault claims from NY case centered on her contract dispute with Dr. Luke.
ALLY? Brooklyn Beckham wears Palm Springs Gay Pride tank top after a workout with dad David.
RIO. Irish rowing brothers who won silver medal at the 2016 games have gone viral.
EXPECTO PATRONUM. J.K. Rowling says she plans to release 3 more Harry Potter books.
CELEBRITIES. Orlando Bloom reportedly wants to make babies with Katy Perry.
HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Japanese water polo player Atsushi Arai.
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Greco-Roman Wrestling at the Rio Olympics Is Everything We Wanted and More: EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
As we reported yesterday, Rio 2016’s wrestling tournament started this week.
For the first three days — Sunday to Tuesday — athletes competed in the Greco-Roman discipline, which is a style where wrestlers can use their arms and upper-bodies to bring their opponents down, and they are not allowed to grapple below the waist.
Only men can participate in the Greco-Roman events, and there are six weight classes: 59kg, 66kg, 75kg, 74kg, 85kg, 98kg and 130kg.
So far, Cuba leads the wrestling medal board (with 2 gold and 1 silver), followed by Russia (2 gold, 1 bronze) and Armenia (1 gold, 1 silver).
Women’s freestyle fights are happening today and tomorrow, and the men are back for the last three days of competitions — Friday to Sunday — for men’s freestyle. It’s quite a way to end the Olympic games.
If you haven’t had a chance to check out any of the fights, here are some photographs to make you wish you had.
All photos by Julio Reis
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Trump Adviser Denies that Donald is Down in the Polls: ‘Says Who?’ – WATCH
Trump counsel Michael Cohen refused to acknowledge on Wednesday that Donald Trump is getting, to use a Trumpism, schlonged by Hillary Clinton in the polls.
In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar about the campaign shakeup that saw the installment of two anti-LGBT right-wing politicos as the leaders of the Trump campaign, Cohen denied that the staff reshuffling was in fact anything “dramatic” or newsworthy.
When Keilar told Cohen, “You guys are down,” Cohen interrupted, asking, “Says who?” His response sounded almost perfectly like one you might hear from a character in Goodfellas.
Astounded, Keilar responded back, “Polls. Most of them. All of them.”
After what seemed an interminably long awkward silence between them, Cohen again asked, “Says who?” Keilar retorted again, “Polls. I just told you. I just answered your question.”
Cohen then questioned, “Which polls?” “All of them,” Keilar said. Cohen finally closed the repartee by saying rather bizarrely, “Okay, and your question is?”
Earlier in the interview, Cohen slammed the way the network was covering the news Wednesday about the Trump campaign’s staff shakeup.
“There’s no shakeup. Look at the words that you use and you blast at the bottom of your banner. Shakeup, overhaul, dramatic, desperate measures. There are no desperate measures,” Cohen said on CNN.
“These terms are not indicative of what’s going on at the campaign. All that Mr. Trump has done is he has added to the existing group of winners that he has hired for the campaign.”
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