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Daily Archives: August 26, 2016
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Richard Branson, Neil Amin-Smith, Earthquake Survivor, Chris Christie, Kevin Swanson, Michael Sam: HOT LINKS
Richard Branson, Neil Amin-Smith, Earthquake Survivor, Chris Christie, Kevin Swanson, Michael Sam: HOT LINKS
CHRIS CHRISTIE. NJ Governor crafted Trump’s immigration flip-flop, says Giuliani: “And, Giuliani says, even more Christie-inspired changes to Trump’s immigration stance will be forthcoming, like his call for tracking immigrant visas like Fedex packages, and using the E-Verify system to reduce illegal labor.”
DONATIONS. Mafia-linked businessman visits Trump Tower, gives $5,400 to campaign: “The businessman, Felix Sater, also donated the maximum allowable contribution to Trump’s presidential campaign, according to the campaign’s most recent FEC filing. Sater, whose firm co-developed a major Trump project in New York and who was later hired by Trump to drum up business in the former USSR, has said that he closely associated with Trump and his family, while Trump has suggested he wouldn’t even recognize Sater.”
STEVE BANNON. Trump campaign chief registered to vote at vacant Florida home.
RICHARD BRANSON. Virgin chief in near-death bike accident. “I really thought I was going to die. I went flying head-first towards the concrete road, but fortunately my shoulder and cheek took the brunt of the impact, and I was wearing a helmet that saved my life (however, perhaps they should build bike helmets that protect the side of the face too – does anyone know of one?). My bike went flying off the cliff and disappeared. We’ve since recovered the crumpled bicycle, completely destroyed. My cheek has been badly damaged and my knee, chin, shoulder and body severely cut.”
My life flashed before my eyes – fell headfirst over my bike handlebars t.co/aEh6TsDQz4 pic.twitter.com/U9fWDGVWhO
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) August 26, 2016
HRC. John Lewis and Tim Kaine to speak at National Dinner. “Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Kaine has spent his entire career fighting for the equal rights of all Americans,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “As part of the most pro-equality presidential ticket in American history, Tim Kaine will help ensure another four years of unprecedented progress for LGBTQ equality in this country and around the world. Representative John Lewis is an American hero, and his lifelong work for the civil rights of all people has transformed our nation. In his nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, Representative Lewis has been one of the strongest and most outspoken champions of LGBTQ equality. With all the progress we have made under President Obama, Tim Kaine and John Lewis will remind all of us just how important it is that we fight to elect a President who will champion LGBTQ equality every single day she sits in the Oval Office. We are honored to welcome them both to our 20th annual National Dinner.”
HEARTBREAKERS. The inside story of North Dakota’s only gay bar: “Heartbreakers, however, illustrates the challenges of running a gay bar in a state where there are few resources for LGBTQ people, let alone gay clubs. North Dakota is a state that’s not only legislatively hostile to queer folks but also geographically difficult to live in. Heartbreakers stands in the middle of downtown Williston — and when it opened, it became the only LGBTQ bar in North Dakota. If Williston residents want to go to a gay or lesbian club elsewhere, they have to travel all the way to Billings, Montana, five hours away. Winnipeg, Minneapolis, and Sioux Falls are a day’s journey.”
MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE. WTF on reporters and Trump’s alleged support for gay rights? “Latest example: Week before last, the Washington Post‘s Phillip Rucker, in a storyheadlined, “For Millennial Voters, the Clinton vs. Trump Choice ‘Feels Like a Joke,’” claimed that both Hillary Clinton and Trump are reaching out to millennials even though millennials supposedly aren’t interested in either. Now, it’s hard to find any examples of Trump even talking about millennials — unlike Clinton many times discussing college tuition, for example, or discussing outreach to Bernie Sanders’ supporters — so Rucker grasps in giving an example of Trump not “ceding” this demographic.”
KEVIN SWANSON. “Kill the gays” pastor Kevin Swanson claims Steven Spielberg and Lady Gaga, along with Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche have all been possessed by the devil.
HUGH ELLIOTT. Gay people made Hollywood, but you wouldn’t know it from the movies: “Who, exactly, is this mystery audience confounded by movie leads acting straight? Gay men would believe it. Hell, we’re experts on that grift. I can’t imagine women really care. The ultimate concern of course is that precious young male heterosexual demographic, the one whose buying powers are legend. Just knowing your screen hero is gay could call into question what it means to be masculine, what it means to be yourself, what it really is to be a man who is honest about who he loves. Perish the thought. What would ever happen then?”
NEIL AMIN-SMITH. The Clean Bandit singer shows some skin for Gay Times.
ORDER UP. Cheeky drive-thru attendant knows how to work the window.
FRIDAY FLESH. Michael Sam.
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Carly Rae Jepsen Debuts ‘Emotion Side B’ Dedicated to Her Fans – LISTEN
Carly Rae Jepsen Debuts ‘Emotion Side B’ Dedicated to Her Fans – LISTEN
On Thursday night, Carly Rae Jepsen released Emotion Side B, the B side follow up to her breakout 2015 album Emotion.
The new release has 8 new tracks that were made in the process of creating Emotion. In a post shared on social media, Jepsen said she wanted to release the songs for all the fans who inspired her while touring over the last year. Jensen also promised that a new album was forthcoming, but that this was intended to hold fans over in the meantime.
For you. Love, Car 💌 t.co/vTzW8kRNkF pic.twitter.com/rnRmvcSEgY
— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) August 26, 2016
PREVIOUSLY: Carly Rae Jepsen Has ‘Boy Problems’ and Doesn’t Know What To Do – WATCH
Listen to Emotion Side B on Spotify, below. You can also download the album on iTunes.
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Barbra Streisand Duets with Donald Trump and His Growling Hair: WATCH
Barbra Streisand Duets with Donald Trump and His Growling Hair: WATCH
Barbra Streisand hit the stage on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for a duet with ‘Donald Trump’.
The duet was, as might be expected, a war of egos, with both Streisand and ‘Trump’ trying to outdo one another on “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” from the Broadway classic Annie Get Your Gun.
As the duet ended, the PrimaDonald’s hair came out of place and as Streisand tried to fix it up, it growled at her.
“What am I doing here?”, she asked.
Watch:
In the rest of Barbra’s appearance (with Alec Baldwin who appears on her Encore album) she talked about how many of the duets on the album came to be, and how they were recorded. She also told the story about calling Tim Cook to ask him to get Siri to pronounce her name correctly.
More on her concerts, her Encore album, and her top 5 collaborators:
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Democratic VP Nominee Tim Kaine & Rep. John Lewis to Speak at National Dinner
Democratic VP Nominee Tim Kaine & Rep. John Lewis to Speak at National Dinner
Today, HRC announced that Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Senator Tim Kaine will deliver the keynote address at the 20th annual HRC National Dinner onSaturday, September 10, 2016, in Washington D.C. Civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) will also speak at this year’s sold-out event, which will take place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
“Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Kaine has spent his entire career fighting for the equal rights of all Americans,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “As part of the most pro-equality presidential ticket in American history, Tim Kaine will help ensure another four years of unprecedented progress for LGBTQ equality in this country and around the world.”
“Representative John Lewis is an American hero, and his lifelong work for the civil rights of all people has transformed our nation. In his nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, Representative Lewis has been one of the strongest and most outspoken champions of LGBTQ equality,” Griffin continued. “With all the progress we have made under President Obama, Tim Kaine and John Lewis will remind all of us just how important it is that we fight to elect a President who will champion LGBTQ equality every single day she sits in the Oval Office. We are honored to welcome them both to our 20th annual National Dinner.”
Kaine has a strong commitment to LGBTQ equality. In addition to supporting marriage equality, Kaine is an original co-sponsor of the Equality Act — federal legislation that would finally guarantee explicit, permanent protections for LGBTQ people under our existing civil rights laws. One of Kaine’s first actionsas Virginia Governor in 2006 was to sign an executive order adding sexual orientation protections to the non-discrimination policy for state workers. Kaine also recently signed onto an amicus brief in the 2nd Circuit case, Christiansen v. Omnicom Group Inc., arguing that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination are prohibited under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He has voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and co-sponsored the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA).
Representative John Lewis (D-GA) will also be addressing the crowd at the September 10 event. Lewis knows the struggle for equality first hand and has been a longtime, outspoken advocate for LGBTQ civil rights. At the 2014 HRC Atlanta Gala Lewis said, “No government — state or federal — should tell a person who they can love and not love, who they can fall in love with and get married to… I will be there with you now and forever, as long as I have breath in my body.”
Lewis is a longstanding champion for LGBTQ equality. He is an original cosponsor of the bipartisan Equality Act. He has a perfect 100 rating on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard and, among other things, is also the lead sponsor of the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, which prohibits any child welfare agency receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating against any potential foster or adoptive family on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
Donald Trump and Mike Pence have put at risk all the progress on LGBTQ equality made under President Obama. Trump has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn nationwide marriage equality, and supports vile laws like North Carolina’s HB2. Pence became a national disgrace in 2015, for his “license to discriminate” bill that could have allowed businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people — and for subsequently defending the bill after an outcry from the business community and a majority of Hoosier voters.
The 20th annual HRC National Dinner is expected to draw more than 3,600 guests. More information is available at www.hrcnationaldinner.org. Journalists looking to cover the event can request a credential by emailing [email protected]
Now shall I?
Now shall I?
Julie Bracken posted a photo:
…. or shall I not….
Now that is the question
( the scar from my heart surgery, at the end of May, is healing well )
Photo, makeup and styling by the talented Kelayla of www.transvista.co.uk/
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24 Aug 16
Delta Airlines Yanks Chris Rock Special From Flights Over Gay Slurs
Delta Airlines Yanks Chris Rock Special From Flights Over Gay Slurs
Orlando Hospitals Will Not Charge Pulse Survivors
Orlando Hospitals Will Not Charge Pulse Survivors
Pulse in Orlando. Photo by Walter via Flickr, CC 2.0.
Two Orlando hospitals will not bill survivors of the mass shooting at the LGBT nightclub Pulse in Orlando for out-of-pocket medical expenses, officials announced on Wednesday.
Orlando Health and Florida Hospital have said they will instead write off an estimated $5.5 million or more in care, the majority of that falling on Orlando Health at around $5 million in expected absorbed costs.
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“The pulse shooting was a horrendous tragedy for the victims, their families and our entire community,” Orlando Health President and CEO David Strong told the Orlando Sentinel. “During this very trying time, many organizations, individuals and charities have reached out to Orlando Health to show their support. This is simply our way of paying that kindness forward.”
The shooting left 49 dead and dozens injured. Orlando Health’s main hospital, Orlando Regional Medical Center, treated 44 of the more than 50 people treated. They will also not charge the families of those who were treated but did not survive.
While Orlando Health will charge insurance companies of those with coverage, but they will take on whatever costs are not covered by those plans, said spokeswoman Kena Lewis.
Florida Hospital, which treated a dozen victims, will not even charge their insurance companies. They will also not charge for any follow-up surgeries that may be necessary.
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Orlando Health said they will work with those who need follow-up surgeries.
“We can’t predict the future needs of these patients, their financial situations or what the state or federal governments may require us to do for charity policies,” Lewis said. “While we can’t assume the answer is free care forever, we will use our very generous charity and financial assistance policies to assess the best way” to help.
“It was incredible to see how our community came together in the wake of the senseless Pulse shooting,” said Daryl Tol, Florida Hospital’s president and CEO. “We hope this gesture can add to the heart and goodwill that defines Orlando.”
Survivor Mario Lopez said he was relieved to hear the news. He is uninsured and was facing a potential $200,000 bill he was not prepared to pay.
“I was so worried because I can’t afford any of that,” said Lopez, who was grazed by a bullet, with fragments exploding into his side. When he fell, he split his elbow on a shard of glass.
Related: The Heartbreaking Story Of The Mother Who Died Saving Her Son In The Orlando Attack
“I just went out for a fun night with friends. No one expected this to happen. My life was turned upside down, and then I had to worry about how I was going to pay back the hospital,” he said.
While his physical wounds are healing, he says the emotional impact stays with him.
“It’s tough,” he said. “Each day, I have my moments.”
Make Brian Sims a ‘Part of Your World’ with This ‘Little Mermaid’ Performance: WATCH
Make Brian Sims a ‘Part of Your World’ with This ‘Little Mermaid’ Performance: WATCH
Out Pennsylvania House lawmaker Brian Sims, who fights for our rights in the Keystone State and is occasionally known to break the internet with his beard, bravado, and belly button, may have just broken it again with a video he posted to Facebook yesterday.
And since we’ve already posted one Carpool Karaoke this morning, why not another? Carpool for one?
Here’s Sims’ rendition of “Part of Your World” from the Disney Classic The Little Mermaid. It has already been shared more than 3,200 times and viewed more than 300,000 in less than 24 hours.
Enjoy your camping trip, Brian.
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