This Video of Lawmaker Brian Sims Lip Syncing 'Little Mermaid' Is Going Viral
Out Pennsylvania legislator racks up the plays for his solo performance of “Part of My World.”
www.advocate.com/video/2016/9/02/video-lawmaker-brian-sims-lip-syncing-little-mermaid-going-viral
Next Week: Drag Performers Honor the Late, Great Juan Gabriel (Video)
The Advocate ventured out to find Juan Gabriel drag in Los Angeles. Here’s a teaser of what we found, then coming next week find interviews about what the star meant to these performers as queer people.
www.advocate.com/people/2016/9/02/next-week-drag-performers-honor-late-great-juan-gabriel-video
Celebrating and Remembering the Disappearing Lesbian Bar
Once the mainstay of gathering places for queer women, lesbian bars are disappearing.
www.advocate.com/women/2016/9/02/celebrating-and-remembering-disappearing-lesbian-bar
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WATCH: New Movie Documents Birth Of Gay Adult Films
When Chuck Holmes founded adult film studio Falcon Entertainment, aka Falcon Studios, in 1971, gay porn was generally of poor quality. Holmes set high standards and began creating an empire, which continued to grow with the rise of VHS.
Documentary film “Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story” takes viewers inside the birth of Falcon Studios, its rise amid antigay laws and the subsequent philanthropic efforts of Holmes, who found his money more welcome than himself.
Related: How Chuck Holmes Helped Bill Clinton Get Elected And Gays Gain Rights
Holmes was a key figure in helping to build organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund with his large donations. He died in 2000 from liver failure, a complication from AIDS.
Some credit Holmes with helping legitimize gay and bisexual male desire. Falcon remains one of the major players in the industry and many of their main competitors, like Hot House Entertainment and Colt Studios, are run by former employees.
“Seed Money” was officially released last year and has played at a number of major gay film festivals, such as Inside Out and Outfest Los Angeles.
Related: WATCH: “Pokémon Go” Gets The Gay Adult Film Treatment. Because Of Course.
The new official trailer suggests they may be preparing for the video-on-demand and DVD release of “Seed Money,” although there is still no news on that front.
Watch the new trailer below.
ABC Reporter Calls Gay Trump Supporter Milo Yiannopoulos A “13-Year-Old Idiot”
An interview between ABC Nightline host Terry Moran and professional maggot/Breitbart grotesquerie Milo Yiannopoulos didn’t go exactly according to plan.
Not that Moran wasn’t onto something. During the course of the exchange, he alternately called Milo “revolting,” an “idiot,” and accused him of having the mentality of a “13-year-old” boy.
We imagine 13-year-old boys will be firing away angry screeds on Twitter.
During the story, which was all about “trolling,” ABC described Yiannopoulos as “the tip of the iceberg in a rising tide of hate and abuse in social media, one he clearly sees as a noble purpose.”
Moran wondered if Yiannopoulos would be willing to call Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones a “dude” if she were standing before him. (Yiannopoulos has particularly been targeting her on Twitter, for some ungodly reason.) He responded that he “probably would.”
“Then you’re an idiot,” Moran fumed. “You’re going to go after somebody’s body to go after their ideas? Are you a 13-year-old?”
As peroxided millennial homocon silverfish are wont to do, Yiannopoulous tries to paint himself as a “virtuous troll” who’s doing “God’s work.” He reckons himself a social engineer and Situationist prankster who gamely jabs at sensitive issues in order to get the people talking.
“My rudeness creates conversation,” he crows, “provokes people into saying oh what a monster, and then 20% of people start talking about what I was actually saying I will consider my career to be a terrific success.”
Watch the back-and-forth here. We should warn you he’s a total bummer:
Anti-LGBT Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Dines With Family of Transgender Boy
Rabidly anti-LGBT Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s behind two federal lawsuits seeking to legalize discrimination against transgender people, had dinner with the family of a trans boy on Thursday.
Paxton recently accepted a longstanding invitation from Amber and Adam Briggle, the parents of 8-year-old MG.
Equality Texas reports:
Last May at an Equality Texas press conference, Amber challenged Attorney General Paxton, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and other leaders to sit down for dinner with her family and get to know them, so they will understand, they are just like everyone else. They are an ordinary Texas family who has been forced into the spotlight to protect their child. Yet the Briggles are not alone in this: There are at least 140 parents of transgender children from the Dallas Fort Worth area.
“I invited Attorney General Ken Paxton to sit down with our family and get to know his constituents and fellow Texans. I am pleased the attorney general took the time to visit with our family and to meet our son and to have a conversation with our family. We are Texans, just like everyone else. My most important job in life is being a mom, and my son and his safety are my top priority. Since the attorney general has never met an openly transgender child, Adam and I felt that it was important for him to meet our amazing son, so that he could put a face to this issue. We expressed to him that it is his job as attorney general to protect the rights of all Texans, including transgender kids like MG, and we hope that after meeting our family, he will see that these disciminatory lawsuits and actions put our child in danger and affect his ability to succeed in school.”
Adam added “I hope that this meeting can set a tone of civility for our public discussions about LGBT issues. The dinner table is where we gather to share and celebrate our common humanity — love and family, hopes and worries, laughter and tears. At our meal together, I think we all were reminded that behind the political disagreements there are genuine and caring human beings who are striving to do the right thing as best as they can see it. Sympathy is the wellspring of morality and it can only be cultivated through sincere and friendly conversations like we had last night. I’d like to encourage other LGBT families to invite public officials to dine with them, and I hope those public servants will follow the example that the Paxtons set by so graciously accepting our invitation.”
Paxton, who was in court Friday for a hearing in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission, has not commented on the dinner. Paxton is also facing first-degree felony criminal charges for alleged securities fraud.
More from The Denton Record-Chronicle:
Amber and Adam Briggle confirmed that Paxton and his wife, Angela Paxton, came to their home at about 6:30 p.m. and stayed for about two hours. The Briggles said the two couples found that they had a lot in common, including places they lived and visited, the bonds they have with family pets and the love they have for their children.
“Honestly, it was a very pleasant evening,” Amber Briggle said. …
The couple didn’t ask Paxton for anything specific in relation to the federal lawsuit or legislation, Adam Briggle said. Instead, they asked the attorney general to remember them when considering their actions in the future.
“Your job is to protect all Texans,” Amber Briggle said.
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Brock Turner Released Early for 'Good Behavior' (Video)
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