#MusicMonday: Billy Porter Reveals New Song at HRC National Dinner

At HRC’s National Dinner Saturday night, Billy Porter premiered his still unrecorded new song “All That Matters.”

“A number of years back, I wrote this tune in support of the marriage equality movement and recently I realized that the lyric and sentiment of the song transcends just marriage and embraces the fact that something Martin Luther King Jr. said that, ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that,” he said at the event. “And hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Am I right? Love is love is love is love is love is love and that’s all that matters.”

Porter is a Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, actor, playwright and director. Among his numerous critically acclaimed roles, Porter starred as “Lola” in the smash hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, for which he won the 2013 Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical.

Porter told OUT Magazine, “There are many parallels between Lola and myself — mainly the idea of being an outsider and holding on to who you are. I think the joy and the pleasure of Kinky Boots is that it transcends sexuality, it transcends stereotypes, and it transcends fear, which I think motivates a lot of the bigotry and homophobia that exists in the world. It’s nice to reach people at a human level.”

Watch the video below to listen to the song and click here for all the videos from the 20^th annual National Dinner.

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Barbra Streisand Clowns Trump With Parody Version Of “Send In The Clowns”

Barbra Streisand skewered Donald Trump at an LGBTQ fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York on Friday with a parody of the Stephen Sondheim song “Send in the Clowns.”

Streisand followed Clinton, who introduced her saying, “We all love this woman, either from afar or, luckily enough, up close.”

Related: Tim Kaine Also Thinks It’s Absurd That Donald Trump Is Peddling “LGBT For Trump” Shirts

The crowd, of about 1,000, ate up every second of the performance. She begins:

Is he that rich?
Maybe he’s poor?
Till he reveals his returns
Who can be sure?
Who needs this clown?

Ouch. Since we know Trump is most sensitive about his wealth this has to hurt. She continues:

Something’s amiss
I don’t approve
If he were running the free world
Where would we move?
Name me a town
Just who is this clown?

And when we thought we’d heard it all
Huffing and puffing about his big fantasy wall
Making his entrance on stage
He just shoots from the hip
He’s full of bull
He’s lost his grip

And if by chance
He gets to heaven
Even up there he’ll declare
Chapter 11
Who’d hire this clown?
This sad vulgar clown
“You’re fired!” you clown

Hillary’s kind
Smart, that is clear,
While she is giving us hope, Trump is selling us fear
Look how he changes his views every time that he speaks
It’s lie after lie
Can’t take eight more weeks

This is no farce
Maybe he’s broke?
Is this the art of his deal?
Or some awful joke?
You’ve got to admit
This silly halfwit 
Is so full of shit!

Watch video of the performance below, captured by actress Debra Messing.

BABS rewrites lyrics to “Send In The Clowns” for Trump harpoon. Your Welcome??? pic.twitter.com/qVRF5yF6Ur

— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) September 10, 2016

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Tim Kaine Also Thinks It’s Absurd That Donald Is Peddling “LGBTQ For Trump” Shirts

There’s absolutely no question that Donald Trump is bad bad bad for queer people. He’s said over and over that he opposes marriage equality, he has zero plans for improving the lives of LGBTs, and he’s surrounded himself with anti-gay extremists. (Compare that to Hillary, who has multiple detailed plans to help queer people at home and abroad.)

And yet … Trump’s merchandising people have the nerve to produce a line of “LGBTQ for Trump” t-shirts that you can buy on the site. Of all the messages you can put on your body, why on Earth would you choose one that tells people you’re an easily manipulated lunatic?

Related: The Official Donald Trump LGBTQ Swag You’ve Been Waiting For Is Finally Here

This weekend, Tim Kaine, Hillary’s running mate, pointed out just how bizarre it is for the Republican frontrunner to offer such a product.“Go to the position page [and] search for an LGBTQ agenda. Or maybe I can save you the time — there isn’t one. No mention. It’s invisible. It’s a non-issue. Now, if you go to the store part of his website, you will find a shirt targeted at your community asking for your money.”

Yup, no plan to correct the records of service members discharged under DADT. No HIV policy. No mention of pressuring foreign governments to stop killing queer people. (Maybe that’s because Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, once defended the right of anti-gay countries to imprison and execute gays.)

But hey, you can still get a t-shirt! So Trump can’t be all bad!

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Nyle DiMarco Says a Major Advantage of Being Deaf is That He Can’t Hear Donald Trump: WATCH

Dancing with the Stars and America’s Next Top Model winner Nyle DiMarco spoke at the Human Rights Campaign National Gala over the weekend and gave an inspiring speech about what it means to him to be deaf, and also LGBTQ.

Said DiMarco:

“Tonight is about embracing our identities and our differences to find confidence to do whatever we are inspired to do. My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are. And myself, as a sexually fluid deaf man, I know that embracing all our identities is the way to thrive and to overcome the limitations and prejudices that surround us. There is no doubt in my mind that human diversity is what colors our world. For all LGBTQ Americans, we know from experience that labels can’t hold us back. We can change the world one person at a time simply by being our true selves.”

RELATED: America’s Next Top Model Stud And Fan Favorite Nyle DiMarco Comes Out as Sexually Fluid

DiMarco also joked that one major advantage he has over people who can hear is that he doesn’t have to listen to Donald Trump:

“Seriously, I don’t find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary. For me and for many of us, it is an advantage and it’s a part of my identity in fact. It’s a huge part of who I am. And in this very turbulent political year, trust me, don’t you want to sometimes just turn the volume off completely when Donald Trump starts to rant? I have a tremendous advantage there as well. I don’t hear a thing.”

Watch DiMarco’s inspiring speech:

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Brent Corrigan Talks to Davey Wavey: Gay Adult Film ‘Is a Way of Life’ – WATCH

Former gay adult film star Brent Corrigan sat down with Davey Wavey to talk about the gay adult entertainment industry, why he stepped away from it, and about James Franco’s movie based on his life, King Cobra.

Corrigan, aka Sean Paul Lockhart, joined Wavey as part of the YouTuber’s “Business of Sex” series.

Corrigan told Wavey that working in gay adult film “is a way of life.” He added, “It’s a day in and day out thing, cultivating fans, traveling.”

On why he stepped away from the gay adult film world, Corrigan said, “A couple of years ago I got to a point where [gay adult film] wasn’t giving me what I thought it would. I stepped back and thought – what would make me happy? For me, my passion was always horses. I went back to jumping with horses.”

Some people have been asking about my #SalvadoraDalí – she’s at the new barn learning to jump! #QuarterHorse pic.twitter.com/0VaB0J9qH1

— Sean Lockhart (@SeanPaulLock) April 4, 2016

And though Corrigan is not currently acting in gay adult videos, he says he’s not retired.

I’m not retired. Just TIRED. @LukeHassXXX

— Brent Corrigan (@BrentCorrigan) August 28, 2016

As for King Cobra, the movie produced by James Franco based on Corrigan’s rise to fame and the murder of gay adult film producer Bryan Kocis, Corrigan said, “I didn’t want to be a part of that film if they weren’t going to tell my story. I read the script – and it wasn’t my story.”

PREVIOUSLY: Brent Corrigan Turned Down Role in James Franco’s Gay Murder Movie ‘King Cobra’

Corrigan does, however, plan to tell his version of events in a tell-all book. “I am being brave and I’m self-publishing my book. I’m aiming for an October 31st release date, on my 30th birthday,” he revealed.

Watch, below.

[h/t Attitude]

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Mexico Roiled by Marriage Equality Protests, Counterprotests

An image of a boy standing defiantly in front of an antigay crowd has stirred emotions.

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