Transgender models "Strut" onto Oxygen

www.glaad.org/blog/transgender-models-strut-oxygen

The Chasm of Empathy Between Jeffrey Tambor and Michelle Rodriguez

While one actor listens and appreciates the concerns of transgender people, the other dismisses them.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/9/19/chasm-empathy-between-jeffrey-tambor-and-michelle-rodriguez

The Roots' Subtle Stand Against Donald Trump

The Tonight Show band played some musical resistance to guest Donald Trump when host Jimmy Fallon failed to.

www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/9/19/roots-subtle-stand-against-donald-trump

#EmmysSoDiverse: LGBT Twitter and Allies React to Inclusive Awards

The Emmy Awards had numerous wins for LGBT folks and people of color. Here are the highlights in a Twitter roundup.

www.advocate.com/television/2016/9/19/emmyssodiverse-lgbt-twitter-and-allies-react-inclusive-awards

Tina Fey’s Face Melts As “Dr. Bill Cosby” Announced At Emmys

It was an unusually dark moment in the vanilla-as-Puddin’-Pops ceremony known as the Emmy’s Awards when a certain “Dr. Bill Cosby” was crisply announced as the next presenter.

Related: Tina Fey Worked In A Lesbian Joke During Her Hilarious Salute To Steve Martin

Turned out it was a bit of particularly ballsy trolling on behalf of host Jimmy Kimmel, who quipped, “Don’t worry, he’s not really here. I just wanted to see what you guys would do.”

Related: Tina Fey Hopes the Gays Accept Tracy Morgan’s Apology for the Sake of His Career

The audience went ashen and gaspy. A certain Tina Fey attempted to quell her own rapidly melting face as she boggled at the announcement, quickly recovering when she realized it was a joke.

Take a look here: 

Twitter quickly seized on the moment with a vice grip and has yet to release its grasp:

Announcer: Please welcome Dr. Bill Cosby!

Tina Fey: OOOOOO SHIT!!! #emmys pic.twitter.com/ZzEXYKNfQb

— Katie Corvino (@kTc0rvin0) September 19, 2016

Tina Fey saying “that’s gotta be a joke” with mild panic on her face after the fake Cosby intro was all of us, right? #Emmys

— Emerson Collins (@ActuallyEmerson) September 19, 2016

Tina Fey’s face after Bill Cosby joke: #ClimateCh‘Fey pic.twitter.com/P6v1F8U4wf

— Jack Bensinger (@JackBensinger) September 19, 2016

Tina Fey’s panicked look when they announced Bill Cosby is one of the top ten moments of the year #Emmys

— Josh McLean (@RadioMcLean) September 19, 2016

Tina Fey mouthing “Cosby joke” is everything I never knew I needed in life. #Emmys

— Lauren Pokedoff (@LaurenPokedoff) September 19, 2016

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New York City Bombing Suspect In Custody After Police Shootout

www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/09/new-york-city-bombing-suspect-custody-police-shootout/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

NC Governor Pat McCrory Planted Fake Questions at Presser to Avoid Grilling Over Anti-LGBT HB2

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory planted fake questions at a press conference, posed by an unwitting moderator, to avoid having to answer real questions about the anti-LGBT HB2 law that has cost the state millions of dollars in lost revenue.

The first three questions at the press conference in Charlotte were said to be from the Charlotte Observer. But they weren’t. They were questions written by McCrory’s own staff. The moderator was “a volunteer from the lunch audience” simply reading them from a sheet of paper.

When the real Charlotte Observer reporter tried to pose a question, it was denied by McCrory: “We’ve got three Observer questions answered already. I think you guys dominate the news enough.”

So what were the questions answered by McCrory?

They were softballs from his staff about what he wanted to do with his next term; how he wanted to reduce the state’s rape kit backlog; and how the state crime lab performed under McCrory’s opponent, Roy Cooper.

When the event was over, McCrory did not meet with the throng of reporters who were there. He ducked out a side door and down a hall that led to a back exit. I followed him to try to ask him about HB2, but his staff blocked me.

Ricky Diaz, a campaign spokesman, on Friday acknowledged the campaign provided questions for the governor, but said “we were asked to in order to keep the conversation format going.”

McCrory has at least 395 million reasons not to want to answer questions about HB2. That’s the amount, in dollars, that the law has cost the state, according to a new estimate from Wired magazine, as noted in our Hot Links earlier this morning.

RELATED: NC Governor Pat McCrory Will Call Special Session to Repeal HB 2 if Votes are There, Says Hospitality Group

Writes Wired:

…the total cost to North Carolinians so far from HB2 protests is slightly more than $395 million. That’s more than the GDP of Micronesia. And the bulk of it is from sporting organizations, who even five years ago would likely not have waded into political territory like this. But experts aren’t that surprised that the NBA, NCAA, and ACC have taken this step now. “They’re not out on a limb here,” Durso says. “They’re in line with their base.” The near unanimous outcry against HB2 and in support of the NCAA and ACC confirms that. Legislating discrimination has become an expensive bad habit.

And McCrory has reason to worry politically. The latest RealClearPolitics polling average has the governor trailing Attorney General Roy Cooper by 48.7 to 44.

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Two Gang Members Sentenced For Beating Long Island Man To Death Because They Thought He Was Gay

Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Zayas has sentenced two gang members who fatally beat and stomped an 18-year-old Long Islander because they thought he was gay.

Brooklyn-based Jonathan Echevarria (22) pleaded guilty last Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter and will serve 18 years in prison. Queens-based Nolis Ogando, also 22, pleaded guilty on Thursday to first-degree gang assault and received a sentence of eight years.

I remember all too well the tragic killing of Anthony Collao in #Woodhaven. The wheels of justice turn slowly. t.co/8AxLknwDT3

— Alex Blenkinsopp (@AlexBlenkinsopp) May 12, 2016

Anthony Collao was chased by a gang of six men after he left a party in Woodhaven in March 2011. The six men caught Collao at 12:50 a.m. Yelling slurs and brandishing weapons, the six men threw Collao to the ground and punched, kicked and bashed him before robbing him, reports NY Daily News. Collao died two days later as a result of his injuries.

RELATED: Murder of Mother and Daughter in Missouri Under Investigation as Anti-LGBT Hate Crime: VIDEO

Police apprehended five of the men around fifteen minutes after the attack. The sixth defendant was arrested three months later.

Three of the defendants, Calvin Pietri, Luis Tabales and Christopher Lozado were convicted in 2013 while Alex Velex pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter last April and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Queens district attorney Richard Brown described Collao’s murder as a “brutal and unprovoked attack. The last two defendants in this case,” he added, “have now admitted their roles in this heinous attack that cost a young man his life.”

(Image via Twitter)

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Dad Becomes Viral Sensation After Hacking Wife’s Facebook to Take Down Anti-Gay Politician

Australian father Peter Roberts, 71, has become a sensation online after he hacked into his wife’s Facebook account so he could publicly call out an anti-gay politician.

Roberts, it turns out, has a gay son, and wouldn’t stand for seeing him disparaged by one of his nation’s leaders.

As BuzzFeed reports, the Facebook post that started the conflagration was written by Conservative MP George Christensen. He  was apparently disgusted that a new law in Australia lowers the age of consent for anal sex to 16.

Said Christensen on Facebook, “So the State Labor government just made it legal for 50 year old men to have se with 16 year old boys. […] Where are the State Government’s priorities at? And do we really want 16 year old boys being preyed upon and groomed by much older men for what is now legal sex?”

Using his wife Mary’s Facebook account, Peter to respond to Christensen’s post with this scathing retort:

A few Anzac years ago you bought me a beer, as a 20 plus veteran with two tours of Vietnam. if you did it now I would tip the bloody thing over your head. The typical homophobic, they must be pedophiles. So it is alright for old men like me to try and find a younger women but not a Gay man. I have a GAY SON who I am so proud of what he has achieved in his life. His condition, or what you want to call it, came from my Fathers ancestor,y so I have passed it on to him. he should have the same rights as I have to Marry, to adopt if he and his partner wants to and not have clowns like you who live in the past helping to run this country and make decision for us and him. If you decide to come to the Reef Gateway Hotel at Cannonvale for an Anzac Day please ask for me. 18201 Warrant Officer Second Class Peter Roberts. I have hacked my wifes facebook for this as she probably would be harsher.

Peter’s gay son, Dale, was more than proud to share what his father had done.

At the age of 71 without a social media account my dad has gone viral & is on Buzzfeed. It’s been a bizarre weekend. t.co/1ISGHqpSeD

— Dale Roberts (@ozdale) September 19, 2016

Dale told BuzzFeed,

“Dad is by no means public with his politics. And definitely not on social media. He’s 71 and doesn’t have his own account. He’s very quietly supportive of me (he met my partner for first time recently at mum and dad’s 40th wedding anniversary), I think he’s just frustrated that we don’t have the same rights and opportunities he does.”

As for what in particular might have spurred his father on, Dale says that the recent debate over same-sex marriage in the country could have played a part. “I think dad’s post and the reason it’s gone off is because people can relate to the frustration with it all, marriage equality can happen immediately,” Dale said.

[Top photo via Twitter]

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