ACC Pulls 10 Championships Out of N.C. in Protest of Anti-LGBT Law
This is yet another major blow to the state after similar decisions by the NBA and NCAA.
www.advocate.com/sports/2016/9/16/acc-pulls-10-championships-out-nc-protest-anti-lgbt-law
Daily Archives: September 16, 2016
The LGBT Comedians of Twitter React to the iPhone 7
The LGBT Comedians of Twitter React to the iPhone 7
A roundup of the best LGBT tweets about this fall’s most anticipated piece of technology.
www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/9/16/lgbt-comedians-twitter-react-iphone-7
Mash It Up With The Rhodes Brothers For #NationalGuacamoleDay
Mash It Up With The Rhodes Brothers For #NationalGuacamoleDay
When they’re at their best, they’re soft to the touch. They can be sweet or savory depending on the environment. Oh, and two is always better than one.
We’re obviously referring to the ever-charming Rhodes brothers, who have teamed up with Los Angeles LGBT Center Coordinator Arlita Miller and Center board member and celebrity chef Susan Feniger to celebrate National Guacamole Day.
Related: When You And Your Sibling Are Both Gay, Things Can Get Interesting
So cut, scoop, mash and season your way to glory this NGD — it’s what the founding fathers would have wanted.
Watch below:
And if you still have an appetite for some guac, revisit this classic:
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From ‘Bridget Jones’ To ‘Spa Night,’ 16 Films We Can’t Wait To See In 2016
From ‘Bridget Jones’ To ‘Spa Night,’ 16 Films We Can’t Wait To See In 2016
This year Hollywood has already brought us super-heroic civil wars, fabulously forgetful fish, and hilariously bad moms, but 2016 still has a lot of cinematic sweetness on the way.
Whether you prefer popcorn fare and laser rays, potential Oscar winners, or the story of a gay porn superstar, Hollywood has saved the best of 2016 for last.
These are the 16 films we still can’t wait to see this year.
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Premieres: September 16
15 years after she stole our hearts with Bridget Jones’s Diary, one of our favorite quirky gal pals of the big screen is back, and yes, her love life is more complicated than ever. (Though having two total DILFs vying for your attention isn’t a bad problem to have.) Also, with a killer soundtrack that features new tracks from Years & Years and Ellie Goulding, as well as old favorites from Annie Lennox and Sister Sledge, we have no doubt Ms. Jones came to party. So grab your BFFs, some cookie dough ice cream, and get ready for a girls night out that’s long overdue.
Snowden
Premieres: September 16
Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone gathers an all-star cast for this biographical political thriller based on the controversial true story of American computer professional Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency to The Guardian in 2013.
Goat
Premieres: September 23
Director Andrew Neel’s peek into the homoerotic and homophobic world of fraternity hazing won’t set any new cinematic standards, but with a cast of nearly naked men that includes James Franco, Nick Jonas, and Gus Halper the eye candy quotient makes this trip well worth the price of admission.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Premieres: September 30
Equal parts X-Men and Harry Potter with a dash of every fairy tale you’ve ever heard, Tim Burton’s latest fantastical film about people with peculiar abilities who are outsiders is tailor-made for garnering a huge LGBTQ fan base.
Spa Night
Screening: September 30 – October 6 at The Roxy in San Francisco, CA.
When 18-year-old David Cho (played by Joe Seo) takes a job at an all-male spa to help support his financially-struggling immigrant parents, he unexpectedly awakens his own hidden desires and begins to discover his true self. This steamy coming-of-age story from director/writer Andrew Ahn has been a darling of the film festival circuit garnering several awards. The film is slated for a home video release in December from Strand Releasing, but if you’re in the San Francisco area you can catch select screenings at The Roxy theater September 30 – October 6.
King Cobra
Premieres: October 21
The film loosely based on the life of gay porn star Brent Corrigan – and the events that led to the shocking murder of gay porn producer Bryan Kocis by two aspiring producers who wanted to buy out Corrigan’s contract – has been garnering mostly positive reviews since it hit the film festival circuit in April. Featuring a rock-solid cast that includes James Franco, Molly Ringwald, Christian Slater, Alicia Silverstone, Keegan Allen and Garrett Clayton as Corrigan, the film will officially hit theaters October 21 and give moviegoers a peek at one of the darkest moments in modern gay porn history.
Moonlight
Premieres: October 21
From the gay teen struggling with his sexuality and homophobic thugs to the drug-dealing bad boys and the crack-addicted mother, Moonlight is a film filled with characters that could easily fall in the cliché category, but director/screenwriter Barry Jenkins masterfully turns the expected on its head in this coming-of-age film for an rare cinematic feat that is one of the year’s best. (h/t Prince of Snarkness)
Hacksaw Ridge
Premieres: November 4
Don’t let the fact that this film is directed by bat-shit crazy Mel Gibson stop you. The historical drama has been enjoying powerful positive buzz since it made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Based on a true story, the film follows the inspiring life of Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield), a U.S. Army medic who refused to bear arms during World War II because of his religious beliefs, and still managed to save the lives of more than 75 people, single-handed, while under fire during the Battle of Okinawa. Grab the tissues and get ready for a good old fashioned ugly cry.
Bleed For This
Premieres: November 4
Miles Teller and his newly-buff bod bring to life the inspiring true story of boxer Vinny Paz and his refusal to back down after a devastating car accident left him with a broken neck that threatened to end his boxing career.
Loving
Premieres: November 4
The moving true story behind the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia – which struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage and laid the groundwork for arguments in support of same-sex marriage, will absolutely resonate with LGBT filmgoers this November.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Premieres: November 18
The queen of the wizarding world herself, J.K. Rowling, brings us the first chapter in a Harry Potter prequel trilogy that finds Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) on a hunt for several dangerous creatures that escape from a magically expanded briefcase and threaten the balance between muggles and magic users.
RELATED: 10 Gay Fan Fiction Romances People Love (And Hate)
La La Land
Premieres: December 2
With a soundtrack that is bound to be a new addition to Karaoke night at gay bars around the globe, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star in a new musical about a jazz pianist who falls for an aspiring actress and discovers how quickly career success can tear young love apart.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Premieres: December 16
While we’re still waiting to officially see the first LGBT character in a Star Wars film (We’re not giving up on Poe Dameron yet.), Rogue One continues to diversify our favorite galaxy far, far away by highlighting strong women and people of color as major players in the latest instalment of the Star Wars saga. The fact that the film takes place shortly before the events of Episode IV is filling fans with nostalgic goodness – as well as the return of a certain Sith Lord.
RELATED: 9 Film Franchises That Need Gay Characters Now
The Founder
Premieres: December 16
The shady true story of how salesman Ray Kroc took over the McDonald brothers’ hamburger restaurant chain and built a fast food empire finally hits theaters with a limited release in December after two previously scrubbed release dates in August and November. However, with director John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks) helming the picture and Oscar winner Michael Keaton as the scheming Mr. Kroc, this film should be worth the wait.
Passengers
Premieres: December 21
As if seeing the dream team of Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt joining their star power on screen wasn’t enough to have us heading for theaters at warp speed, early buzz that the film could potential Oscars bait is already buzzing around the interwebs. Director Morten Tyldum’s tale of a spacecraft that malfunctions while transporting thousands of people across the galaxy to a distant colony planet and causes two people to awaken from their sleep chambers 90 years early already has us on the edge of our seats.
RELATED: 17 Classic Sci-Fi Studs You Forgot Were Totally Hot
Hidden Figures
Premieres: December 25
Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures follows the story of a team of African-American woman who provide NASA with the important mathematical data needed to launch the nation’s first successful space missions. The feel-good film should be a standout this awards season, but with Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae costarring, we already know this film wins fiercest cast.
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Biopic Based on the Life of Gay Erotic Artist ‘Tom of Finland’ Gets First Teaser – WATCH
Biopic Based on the Life of Gay Erotic Artist ‘Tom of Finland’ Gets First Teaser – WATCH
The first teaser trailer for a new biopic based on the life of Tom of Finland has just been released.
Directed by Dome Karukoski, the film follows Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, as he returns home to Finland after fighting for his country in World War II. But life during peacetime proves just as distressing as his time on the battlefields in Europe. Laaksonen finds Helsinki rampant with persecution of homosexuals and sees many men around him pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his art, specializing in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – “became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution,” as the film’s producers describe it.
According to film blog Dark Horizons, Tom of Finland is still being edited but will be released in February.
Watch the teaser, below.
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Peter Davis Is The Most-Liked Mover Among Uptown, Downtown and Digital Shakers
Peter Davis Is The Most-Liked Mover Among Uptown, Downtown and Digital Shakers
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Here’s what everyone writes about Peter Davis: Born uptown. Interned at “break the internet” Paper magazine (before there was an internet) because they supported legalization of marijuana…and later worked there. Went on to write for New York Times, WSJ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Out on style, society, and celebrities. More recently edited the elite uptown magazine, Avenue; helped launch a younger competitor, Scene, as editor.
And most in his traditional “uptown/downtown” demimonde of art/fashion/media/culture would agree with the Guest of a Guest intro to an interview: “Peter Davis is quite possibly the most well-liked gentleman making the party rounds these days…what we admire more than anything … is his very approachable and down to earth demeanor, as well as his passion for culture from all walks of life.”
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But what’s not yet part of the universal Peter Davis bio is the adding of digital to the uptown/downtown domains he’s already taken. Davis has quickly mastered not just the mechanics of social media (Twitter and Insta followers through the roof, both @PeterDavisNYC) but the culture. It’s the kind of living the legions of millennials calling themselves “influencers” — with a few thousand followers and the same number of selfies but no interest in or insight about anyone else — can only dream of.
He’s working in new business models with new titles as Brand Ambassador for Surf Lodge, a Montauk hotel, as well as Greats Brand (sneakers) and Thorsun swimwear. This summer he launched a beautiful visual magazine 57, about just 57th street in New York for a real-estate developer, and is working on an entirely visual “appazine” the details of which have not been released.
All this is against the backdrop of his life: reports from the Kanye mosh pit, weekends in Southhampton, naming his new puppy, and his consistent, vocal support of gay rights, women’s rights, gun control, and more.
Towleroad spoke with him about what it takes to make it in New York City and in general and how being openly gay has been important and a matter-of-fact proposition.
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Liberal Redneck Trae Crowder: Trump Supporters Deserve to be Called Deplorable – WATCH
Liberal Redneck Trae Crowder: Trump Supporters Deserve to be Called Deplorable – WATCH
In his latest video, ‘liberal redneck’ Trae Crowder lampoons Trump supporters for being offended by Hillary Clinton’s remark that half of them are a “basket of deplorable.”
Said Crowder, “Apparently, the supporters of a campaign whose defining moments have all involved sweeping generalizations really don’t appreciate being painted with too broad of a brush…huh.”
Crowder impersonated a Trump supporter, summing up what are perhaps three crucial tenants among Trump’s base: “radical Islam is a scourge, the gay agenda is threatening America’s families, and illegal immigrants are mostly drug-dealing rapists.”
And yet if you call that agenda bigoted, Trump supporters take umbrage.
“These people are more offended than Salon.com at a mud wrestling tournament, all because the 70 year old lady they’ve been calling a crooked b-tch for 8 years said they were deplorable,” Crowder said.
PREVIOUSLY: Liberal Redneck Trae Crowder ‘Hates That S.O.B. Donald Trump’ – WATCH
As for the veracity of Hillary’s remarks, Crowder added, “Is what she said 100% accurate? OK, now, normally I’m all about facts, but this time I’m going to take a page out of their playbook and say ‘who gives a –k? They deserve it.”
And while Crowder believes that not entirely 50% of Trump’s supporters are racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and Islamophobic bigots, those who are not “need to stop acting like their guy is not the official candidate of the intolerant troglodyte because he absolutely f–king is.”
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Marc Jacobs Used Rainbow Dreadlocks At Recent Show, And Social Media Is Freaking The F Out
Marc Jacobs Used Rainbow Dreadlocks At Recent Show, And Social Media Is Freaking The F Out
Two years ago, his models wore no makeup. Last winter, black lips and Goth lipliner raised eyebrows.
Related: Marc Jacobs’ Bad Week: Allegations Of Drug-Fueled Grindr Orgies And Professional Collapse
Each season, Marc Jacobs closes New York fashion week and always manages to cause a scene. But for his spring/summer 2017 show on Thursday, he caused a scandal by decking out his predominantly white models in rainbow-dyed dreadlocks.
Related: Marc Jacobs’ Ex Harry Louis To Sue Starbucks For Telling Him To “Become A Man”
Twitter went into overdrive, providing a nearly instantaneous backlash:
so now I have to stop carrying my Marc Jacobs bag. Oh well
— Desi (@DesiLinda1) September 16, 2016
Black women straightening their hair isn’t appropriation, it’s assimilation. A means for survival. Fuck Marc Jacobs.
— L. (@omglaurstfu) September 16, 2016
You ain’t shit Marc Jacobs, never been shit. I ain’t forget about your foundation bullshit too. t.co/81xgEEcigx
— Shimmy (@ShimShimmy) September 16, 2016
We’re supposed shut up and sit down cause Marc Jacobs only included 1 black model. You done lost your rabbit ass mind.
— #WeMatter? (@TheMelaninPlug) September 16, 2016
Who’s in charge of Dr.Seuss’s “The Grinch” as of now because marc jacobs slaughtered mad grinch fingers for his fashion show props hairstyle
— DeVante S. Porter (@AhChieveGolds) September 16, 2016
Marc Jacobs took to Instagram to comment on the controversy, and ill-advisedly used the “I don’t see color or race” line:
“TO ALL WHO CRY ‘CULTURAL APPROPRIATION’ OR WHATEVER NONSENSE ABOUT ANY RACE OR SKIN COLOR WEARING THEIR HAIR IN ANY PARTICULAR STYLE OR MANNER- FUNNY HOW YOU DON’T CRITICIZE WOMEN OF COLOR FOR STRAIGHTENING THEIR HAIR. I RESPECT AND AM INSPIRED BY PEOPLE AND HOW THEY LOOK. I DON’T SEE COLOR OR RACE- I SEE PEOPLE. I’M SORRY TO READ THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SO NARROW MINDED… LOVE IS THE ANSWER. APPRECIATION OF ALL AND INSPIRATION FROM ANYWHERE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. THINK ABOUT IT”
The comment appeared on this post, but it looks like it’s now been deleted:
Prior to the show, several people predicted this outcome:
*sits back and waits for my timeline to fall apart once they see Marc Jacobs is featuring a dreadlock only runway. pic.twitter.com/GvuQBu3fFb
— Colin Anderson (@BallinWithColin) September 15, 2016
