38 Folsom Street Fair DOs and DON’Ts

www.advocate.com/sexy-beast/2016/9/22/38-folsom-street-fair-dos-and-donts

Anthony Weiner, Blake Skjellerup, Mel Brooks, Terence Crutcher, West Wing, Netflix: HOT LINKS

OHIO. Donald Trump’s campaign chair in Mahoning County says there was no racism in America before Obama was president: “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected. Growing up as a kid, there was no racism, believe me. We were just all kids going to school…If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you.”

THIRST LEVEL: OLYMPIC. Gay Olympian speed skater Blake Skjellerup finds his light.

When you wake up at 5.30AM and do those lifts, then find the light in the bathroom after 👍… t.co/CU1AVe399l pic.twitter.com/loOWxrXeXK

— Blake Skjellerup (@BlakeSkjellerup) September 22, 2016

FOOD. Australia has invented some sort of horrible/possibly amazing combination of a hot dog and hamburger, the hamdog.

BRANGELINA. Marion Cotillard would very much like to be excluded from the narrative surrounding their divorce: “As this situation is spiraling and affecting people I love, I have to speak up.”

PRANKSTER IN CHIEF. Mel Brooks pretends to pull POTUS’ pants down.

Mel Brooks pranks @POTUS, pretends to pull his pants down t.co/hBfO3lpVNk pic.twitter.com/vgR41qYKsa

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 22, 2016

ARIZONA. John McCain is having general election trouble because of his endorsement of Donald Trump. 

SEXTING. FBI and NYPD investigate whether Anthony Weiner sent sexually explicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl: “The teen has claimed he encouraged her to role play rape fantasies with him and to say his name while touching herself. It’s just the latest in a devastating series of cybersex scandals that destroyed Weiner’s political career and public image over the last five years — not to mention his marriage.”

PAY IT FORWARD. Michael B. Jordan knows how to give good tip.  

POLICE VIOLENCE. Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot Terence Crutcher charged with first-degree manslaughter: “The prosecutor filed the charges against officer Betty Shelby on Thursday, a full six days after multiple cameras showed her shooting 40-year-old Terence Crutcher as he stood beside his  stalled sport-utility vehicle. Moments earlier, cameras had captured Crutcher walking away from Shelby with his hands in the air.”

SPACE. Clouds form similarly on Saturn’s moon Titan as they do on Earth.

NETFLIX. Complete list of everything leaving in October. 

REUNION. The cast of The West Wing got back together to campaign for Hillary Clinton in Ohio.

NEW –> The gang is getting back together: the cast of The West Wing will campaign for @HillaryClinton in stops across Ohio this weekend. pic.twitter.com/ZwyoIyiIDX

— Ian Sams (@IanSams) September 21, 2016

MR. THURSDAY. Hair artist téQuan.

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Anthony Weiner, Blake Skjellerup, Mel Brooks, Terence Crutcher, West Wing, Netflix: HOT LINKS

Workplace Discrimination Is No Match for Bianca Del Rio (Video)

The past RuPaul’s Drag Race winner talks to The Advocate about how her new comedy Hurricane Bianca raises awareness of anti-LGBT employment discrimination.

www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/9/22/workplace-discrimination-no-match-bianco-del-rio-video

Pulse Shooter's Ex-Wife Says He Was Gay, Targeted Club to Impress Father

The FBI, however, has not characterized the act as a hate crime.

www.advocate.com/crime/2016/9/22/pulse-shooters-ex-wife-says-he-was-gay-targeted-club-impress-father

Troye Sivan Launches Unisex Underwear Line in Response to Nude Leaks

Singer, actor and YouTuber Troye Sivan has responded to nude photos of himself being released online without his consent by creating a line of unisex underwear. 

Sivan made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday.

as a response to my nudes leaking I made a line of unisex undies :// t.co/BzUD4yCv3v pic.twitter.com/Z9GlJJkuTw

— troye sivan (@troyesivan) September 21, 2016

The boy briefs come in black only and feature Sivan’s name on the waistband along with a rosebud logo.

Sivan indicated that the undies are limited edition so anyone looking to snag these has impetus to move fast.

they’ll be up for like a week

— troye sivan (@troyesivan) September 21, 2016

Sivan previously responded to the news of his nude photos leaking first by joking that he looks good in the photos but then adding that having his privacy invaded “sucks.” He asked that his fans not share anything that they think Sivan “wouldn’t want the world to see.”

when ur almost nudes leak and ur talking to management pic.twitter.com/MYrdHZYB5l

— troye sivan (@troyesivan) September 14, 2016

Oi jokes aside, this sucks. Nothin I can do now but please don’t share anything you think I wouldn’t want the world to see

— troye sivan (@troyesivan) September 14, 2016

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Troye Sivan Launches Unisex Underwear Line in Response to Nude Leaks

Catholic Church in Mexico Accuses Government of ‘Persecution’ Over Gay Rights

Father Hugo Valdemar, the spokesperson of Mexico’s Catholic church has accused the country’s anti-discrimination watchdog, Conapred, of persecution.

Conapred has requested that clergy abstain from making comments following the constant attacks by Catholic organizations since Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto submitted a proposal that would legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

Valdemar was responding to a Conapred statement which said that a series of rallies last week opposing same-sex marriage were “absolutely discriminatory.” The cleric also attacked Conapred for taking a stance against an article in the Catholic outlet “Desde la Fe” entitled “No one is born gay” which claimed that ex-gay Dr. Richard Cohen of U.S.-based Positive Approaches To Healthy Sexuality has been successful in his use of conversion therapy.

RELATED: 12-Year-Old Mexican Boy Attempts to Block Thousands of Anti-Gay Protesters

According to Telesur, Valdemar said:

“There is persecution against the Church.

“It is something very serious, the state now determines the sexual behavior of citizens and forbids any attempt to return to normalcy…

“The state prohibits parents from helping their children to solve their sexual doubts and prohibits homosexuals from changing, but if they want to change their sex they fund that atrocity, it’s something diabolic.”

Same-sex marriage has been legalized in Mexico City and 9 of the nation’s 31 states. There are challenges in the 22 other states underway.

In Mexico, the Catholic Church is challenging the legalization of gay marriage. t.co/WFlld7ZhvB pic.twitter.com/vmfEtIVMT3

— PRI’s The World (@pritheworld) September 14, 2016

Anti-gay activists are planning a mega-rally this Saturday in Mexico City.

Below, watch a video of a march in Celaya, Guanajuato, last weekend during which a 12-year-old boy was photographed in the middle of the street trying to block the path of 11,000 demonstrators.

Young boy protests crowd of thousands against gay marriage in Mexico. #PowerOfOne 💥 #loveislove #justiceisjustice pic.twitter.com/iU3FBNQAto

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) September 14, 2016

(Image via Facebook)

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Matthew Dempsey Explains Why Gay Men Fear Aging – WATCH

Psychotherapist Matthew Dempsey is back and in his latest video he’s talking about why gay men, and also women for that matter, fear aging.

The root cause, Dempsey explains, is that we live in a culture driven by, more than anything, consumerism and marketing. The emergence of youth culture and a youth market meant that companies and corporations could easily identify who they wanted to sell things to. Which meant they could figure out a way to target buyers and turn a profit more easily.

The problem with youth-obsessed culture is that we unwittingly internalize the message that youth is the most important thing in life. Dempsey explains that we often find ourselves buying into the notion that, “When you’re younger, you’re more valuable”, because “it’s where more attention and money goes.” The end result? “[We] want to reflect what we believe is most valuable because it’s just human nature. We want to fit in. We want to belong. We want to know that we connect with others and that other people will see us valuable too.”

PREVIOUSLY: Matthew Dempsey and Broderick Hunter Find Out If ‘Masculinity’ Makes a Man More Attractive – WATCH

Of course, Dempsey calls bulls*t on the idea that youth is the most important thing in life. The way to counterbalance the instinct to devalue ourselves as we age, he says, is to focus on “our passions, the relationships in our lives, because those are the things that actually make us light up so we can then cast away the dark fears that we’re going to somehow age out of the ability to be loved.”

Watch, below.

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