911 Calls Offer Harrowing Look Inside Pulse Shooting: 'He's Gonna Kill Us'
Twenty calls made to Orange County dispatch have been made available to the public.
www.advocate.com/2016/9/22/911-calls-offer-harrowing-look-inside-pulse-shooting-hes-gonna-kill-us
Mary Berry Leaves Great British Bake Off; Bottoms Everywhere Soggy
Stop the presses. Stop the mixers. Turn off your creme brulee torch. For God’s sake, get away from the mezzaluna.
Mary Berry is leaving the Great British Bake Off.
Henceforth, we can only assume, the show will be known as the “Okay British Bake Off.” And wait, it gets worse: Paul Hollywood is staying, one assumes so that he may continue to bellow like a numb-tongued musk ox.
“A peacocking manchild lingering wherever the money is, I am shocked,” said former contestant Ruby Tandoh.
A Channel 4 executive sought to calm everyone down by saying, “Paul really is the star baker.” Oh Jesus Christ.
The reason for Mary’s departure, she says, is loyalty to the BBC. (The show is moving to Channel 4.) But what could the real reason be? Is she perhaps tired of the headaches caused by rolling one’s eyes at everything Paul says?
Along with Mary go the presenters, Mel and Sue, and their frisson of manic pixie sexual tension. So, without the personalities, what exactly is Channel 4 getting?
“A few pots and pans,” says a parody Mary Berry account.
Looks like Channel 4 just payed for a tent and a few pots and pans #GBBO
— Mary Berry (@MaryBerryNOT) September 22, 2016
Well, it was a nice run, but British cuisine is hereby cancelled.
That parody account has been saying a few other things as well:
Dear Channel 4 pic.twitter.com/99MxSrcClJ
— Mary Berry (@MaryBerryNOT) September 22, 2016
Reasons I left:
– Channel 4
– The lack of Nadiya’s facial expressions this year
– Paul’s a cunt— Mary Berry (@MaryBerryNOT) September 22, 2016
Mary Berry has quit bake off pic.twitter.com/b9BYcBDk4H
— Mary Berry (@MaryBerryNOT) September 22, 2016
Fuck this shit
I’m off for a gin
— Mary Berry (@MaryBerryNOT) September 22, 2016
Me dealing with responsibilities pic.twitter.com/QZ9IXjLKze
— Mary Berry (@MaryBerryNOT) September 21, 2016
Justin Trudeau Subtly Disses Donald Trump During His First UN Address
“When leaders are faced with citizen’s anxiety, we have a choice to make… do we exploit that anxiety, or do we allay it? Exploiting it is easy, but in order to allay it, we need to be prepared to answer some very direct questions: What will create the good, well-paying jobs that people want and need and deserve? What will strengthen and grow the middle class, and help those working hard to join it? What will build an economy that works for everyone? What will help to make the world a safer, more peaceful place? To allay people’s anxiety, we need to create economic growth that is broadly shared, because a fair and successful world is a peaceful one.
We believe we should confront anxiety with a clear plan to deal with its root causes, and we believe we should bring people together around shared purposes like the UN’s sustainable development goals, because what is the alternative? To exploit anxiety? To turn it into fear and blame? To reject others because they look or speak or pray differently than we do? Every single day, we need to choose hope over fear, diversity over division.”— Justin Trudeau, not-so-subtly taking a dig at Donald Trump’s dismal campaign strategies during his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday evening.
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Short Film ‘American Male’ Exposes the Depressing Reality of Internalized Homophobia – WATCH
A new short film from director Michael Rohrbaugh takes a withering look at how oppressing masculine gender norms can truly be.
American Male follows a muscled-up frat bro as he goes through his day performing his ‘masculine’ identity–playing beer pong, doing steroids, chugging pre-workout, lifting weights, watching sports, hazing pledges, and most of all avoiding any behavior that could be deemed weak, feminine, or gay. Which are all basically different words for the same thing in the character’s mind.
Through a haunting voiceover that reads almost like a journal entry that could be titled “How to be straight”, we hear the internal monologue of this bro who will go to any length to hide his true feelings from the world. His words serve as instructions and also as a catalogue of all the things he must do to prove his heterosexuality, and hence his masculinity–and hence his worthiness.
“Order beer. Not wine. And beef, not chicken. Never light beer, though. And tofu. Can’t get more gay than tofu,” he says to himself, for instance, steering clear of making any choice that could suggest to others that he is gay.
In the end, the effect of all the frat bro’s performed ‘masculinity’ is that he becomes dehumanized. “I am no longer a person but a set of social cues,” he says.
American Male was recently singled out by MTV as one of the winners of its Look Different Creator Competition, which invited emerging filmmakers to create groundbreaking films on the topic of privilege.
Actor/comedian/activist Kenny Neal Shults says of the project,
“I think the most interesting thing about this video is how, as a gay man, it defines my own internalized oppression. Not only do I understand and know this male standard intimately as a man, and therefore act on these sentiments, but I am attracted to men who espouse them. I see men like this and my immediate association is “straight.” Which I know to be false anyway because gender expression and sexual orientation are two very different things. There are plenty of gay men that subscribe to the tenants the main character outlines, and most of the time I am saddened by the notion that I will never “have” one. At the same time, I, again, know very well that this need to present as “masculine” is often the result of tremendous internalized pressure to project this “set of social cues.” Either because it makes them feel safe, because their father instilled these ideas, because they are trapped in adolescence like so many gay men, or because it makes them feel more attractive and therefore worthy. The men who were “men” that I have had relationships with have all eventually shown their hand by plainly struggling with this need to appear strong, while unconsciously begging to be released from it in some way. Although I know this to be a weakness in an of itself, I still long for frat boys and bullies, likely because eroticizing them is an easier emotion to live with than terror. A friend once told me that if I had a clothing line it would be called “in plain sight” because the way I dress broadcasts my desire not to stand out in any way. Not only does this keep me safe, but like an adolescent I still attempt to look like the people to whom I am attracted.”
This fall, Rohrbaugh will be directing a network documentary exploring LGBT issues in American sports. He will also be going to market with his feature script, American Grunt, a military drama set during the final days of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
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Short Film ‘American Male’ Exposes the Depressing Reality of Internalized Homophobia – WATCH
Bumble Bee, Donald Trump, Brad Pitt, Nuno Costa, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants 2016, Colin Kaepernick: HOT LINKS
OWNING RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, ETC. Trump campaign website selling “I am a Deplorable” t-shirts.
UNPRECEDENTED SELF-DEALING. Trump’s campaign have paid his businesses $8.2 million: “The GOP presidential nominee’s campaign has paid his various businesses for services including rent for his campaign offices ($1.3 million), food and facilities for events and meetings ($544,000) and payroll for Trump corporate staffers ($333,000) who helped with everything from his traveling security to his wife’s convention speech. In all, the Trump campaign’s payments to Trump-owned businesses account for about 7 percent of its $119 million spending total, the analysis found.”
BIRTHERISM. Donald Trump gave up Birtherism not because he was wrong, but because… : “Well, I just wanted to get on with, I wanted to get on with the campaign. A lot of people were asking me questions. We want to talk about jobs. We want to talk about the military. We want to talk about ISIS and get rid of ISIS.”
ENDANGERED. Bumble bee proposed for Endangered Species status: “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once widely found in the upper Midwest and Northeastern United States, for federal protection as an endangered species.”
MACARTHUR FOUNDATION. 2016 ‘Genius’ grants announced. “There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work..he MacArthur Fellowship is a “no strings attached” award in support of people, not projects. Each fellowship comes with a stipend of $625,000 to the recipient, paid out in equal quarterly installments over five years.”
BRANGELINA. Brad Pitt under investigation for child abuse: “The Los Angeles Police Department and L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services are both investigating after someone anonymously reported the incident last Wednesday on the tarmac, a source tells PEOPLE. Pitt is accused of getting verbally abusive with one couple’s kids, as well as getting “physical,” a source says. Jolie was present at the time, along with at least some of their other children.”
NUNO COSTA. CrossFit star and Reebok team up for LGBTQ t-shirt.
“Tons of people asked me about it, and @reebok made it available for sale on the @Crossfit store.”—@ncosta78
🏪 t.co/vnX1SG6r9u pic.twitter.com/1bi1HF4Z3m
— The CrossFit Games (@CrossFitGames) September 19, 2016
CANADA. Toronto Diocese elects first openly gay bishop: “Robertson, incumbent at Christ Church, Deer Park in Toronto, was elected on the fourth ballot of the second election. According to an article on the Diocese of Toronto website, Robertson, who lives with his male partner, said it was a “historic day.” He said he believed he was the first openly gay and partnered bishop-elect in the diocese and perhaps even in the entire Anglican Church of Canada.”
IOWA. Man busted for measuring penis with ruler in public bathroom.
COLIN KAEPERNICK. The perilous fight.
Colin Kaepernick covers the October issue of Time Magazine. A true American hero, fighting the good fight for the culture. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/miiiMTUGgZ
— Aaron Dodson (@aardodson) September 22, 2016
THIRSTY THURSDAY. George Henri.
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Orlando Shooter’s First Wife Says He Was Gay, Attacked Pulse to Impress His Homophobic Father – WATCH
Sitora Yusufiy, the first wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, is speaking out about her relationship with the man responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
In an interview with Crime Watch Daily, Yusufiy says that she believes Mateen was gay and that his attack on the Pulse nightclub was motivated by a desire to win the approval of his father, Saddique, who often publicly disparaged gay people.
Sitora Yusufiy believes her ex-husband was gay and continually tormented by what she calls his homophobic father, Seddique Mateen. Sitora says Omar lived life in the shadows.
Yusufi tells Crime Watch Daily she is absolutely adamant her ex’s pledge to ISIS in the midst of the horror was a ruse. Sitora says he was really just out to win the approval of his dad, who often publicly disparaged gays.
“When I heard that he pledged to ISIS, I immediately knew that was nonsense, because I knew Omar,” Yusufiy says.
Yusufiy is convinced that Mateen was gay in part at least because “he never was sexually interested” in her. “There was no sexual connection between us,” Yusufiy explains.
Yusufiy also says that Mateen used gay dating apps and frequented gay nightclubs, proof in her mind that he was gay. “There’s no other way to explain him having so many dating site apps and visiting clubs and dancing with gay men and confiding in them.”
Some, however, have suggested Mateen may have been using gay dating apps as a sort of reconnaissance tool to find out more about the men he was targeting.
Yet according to Yusufiy, Mateen was wrestling with homophobia he had internalized from his father. “Omar would always say [gay people] are the biggest sinners, and they can’t be–they should not be alive,” she says. And much of that rhetoric Mateen adopted from her father.
According to Yusufiy, Mateen’s father also made fun of him in public for acting in a manner he perceived to be ‘gay.’
Yusufiy has previously gone on the record as saying she believes Mateen was gay.
Other individuals have come forward saying they recognized Mateen from gay dating apps and gay clubs. One gay man who went to high school with Mateen says he believes Mateen was gay and that he hit on him. Another man claims to have been Mateen’s lover. However, the FBI has said they have no evidence which leads them to believe that Mateen was gay.
Watch both parts of Yusufiy’s interview, below.
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Global Workplace Equality Program Launches in Mexico to Build LGBTQ-Inclusive Workplaces
Today, HRC joined with Francisco Robledo of Alianza por la Diversidad e Inclusión Laboral (ADIL) and Fernando Velazquez of FVConsulting – Consultores en Diversidad e Inclusion, S.C to officially launch HRC Equidad MX: Global Workplace Equality Program, a groundbreaking new program that will work to promote LGBTQ workplace inclusion throughout Mexico. The effort comes amidst historic progress for LGBTQ equality in Mexico by bringing together HRC and advocates on the ground to educate and mobilize the country’s business community in support of LGBTQ workers and consumers.
HRC Equidad MX: Global Workplace Equality Program will increase awareness about the importance of LGBTQ diversity and inclusion Mexico’s workplaces by developing consulting and education models for Mexican companies and organizations. It will also utilize HRC’s tools and relationships to engage interested companies in aligning their corporate policies on LGBTQ inclusion to international standards.
“HRC Equidad MX: Global Workplace Equality Program is the next phase in our work and fruitful partnerships in Mexico to promote LGBTQ inclusion,” said Deena Fidas, Director of HRC’s Workplace Equality Program. “As we have seen in the United States, engagement and education with the business community can deliver concrete results for LGBTQ workers. More and more Mexican and Latin American businesses are interested in working on LGBTQ diversity and inclusion and we look forward to working with advocates on the ground in our mutual work to build safe, respectful, and inclusive workplaces.”
Fidas will be kicking off the partnership with an address today about the return on investment for LGBTQ equality at the 3rd Forum of Best Practices at the Workplace at Consejo para Prevenir y Eliminar la Discriminación de la Ciudad de México (COPRED), Mexico City’s Council to Prevent and Eradicate Discrimination.
After numerous successes with U.S.-based multinational corporations operating in Mexico, HRC is partnering with two renowned experts to grow the number of LGBT-inclusive businesses and more broadly support a national dialogue on the business case for inclusion. FVConsulting – Consultores en Diversidad e Inclusion, S.C. – and firm founder Fernando Velazquez, who launched the first LGBT employee network group at American Express Mexico, provide sought-after expertise with corporate experience. ADIL – Alianza por la Diversidad e Inclusión Laboral – is an alliance of LGBT professional consultants and experienced social analysts who promote and offer business solutions toward inclusion and respect of LGBT people in the workplace.
“ADIL has sought for the visibility of LGBT inclusion and best practices of companies in Mexico for the last three years and this alliance with HRC will help us strengthen the relationship with decision makers and shorten the time to see tangible results,” said Francisco Robledo, founder of the Alliance for Diversity and Workplace Inclusion.
“HRC Equidad MX: Global Workplace Equality Program is the tool Mexican companies were needing to accelerate their LGBTQ inclusion efforts, I am honored and happy to have joined efforts with HRC to launch this program in México,” said Fernando Velazquez, founder of FVConsulting.
“The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has worked with HRC for over five years in support of equal labor practices in Mexico. We partnered with HRC to launch and support the Pride Connection network here and have since broadened our collaboration to work together on social inclusion efforts,” said U.S. Embassy Acting Spokesperson, Adam Lenert. “We congratulate HRC on their efforts to formalize their presence in Mexico and look forward to working with Mr. Velázquez and Mr. Robledo.”
Through its Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has laid the roadmap for the adoption of LGBTQ inclusive policies, benefits and practices across major corporations. HRC has collaborated for over five years with the U.S. Embassy, the American Chamber of Commerce, top-rated CEI partners such as Citigroup/Banamex, Dow, JPMorgan Chase & Co. among others, and civil society leaders to promote LGBTQ workplace inclusion and the broader business case for equality in Mexico. Last November, HRC launched its first international CEI in Mexico City along with partners, Dow, Pride Connection Mexico and the U.S. Embassy. This past spring, HRC was honored to again partner with these companies to deliver a keynote and panel moderation at the inaugural Pride Connection Mexico Summit of over 200 corporate and civil society leaders in Mexico .
To learn more about HRC Equidad MX: Global Workplace Equality Program, visit hrc.im/equidadMX
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work, and in every community.
ADIL – Alianza por la Diversidad e Inclusión Laboral. The Alliance for Diversity and Workplace Inclusion is an alliance of LGBT professional consultants and experienced social analysts that have ran two of the largest studies on anti-LGBT bias in the country. ADIL promotes and offers business solutions towards inclusion and respect of LGBT people in the workplace. ADIL is also a sought-after expert in the local and regional media world, with strong government and organizational relationships. www.adilmexico.com
FVConsulting – Consultores en Diversidad e Inclusion, S.C. is a Mexican LGBT consultancy firm which focus in engage companies in LGBT diversity and inclusion, thru a consultant method offer services like workplace transformation, leadership, training, development of employee networks, employee careers, business cases and certification. The firm founder is Fernando Velazquez launched the first LGBT employee network group at American Express Mexico, partnered with the US Embassy, he has become a sought-after expert with corporate experience and his connections are invaluable having helped launch Pride Connection Mexico. Web site is under development and will be www.fvc.mx
Gov. Pat McCrory Declares State of Emergency Following Charlotte Protests
Protests rocked Charlotte for a second night following a police shooting.
Everyone Is Pissed At OUT Magazine For Profiling Bigot Milo Yiannopoulos
So Out Magazine kinda sorta stepped in it this week when they published a profile on Milo Yiannopoulos, the racist, Islamophobic, transphobic Donald Trump surrogate and alt-right activist who managed to get himself permanently banned from Twitter earlier this year for his bigotry. And, as expected, people aren’t happy about it.
Related: ABC Reporter Calls Gay Trump Supporter Milo Yiannopoulos A “13-Year-Old Idiot”
The profile, which was published online yesterday, included an editor’s note explaining the magazine’s decision to feature controversial Yiannopoulos:
It should not need saying that the views expressed by the subject of this piece in no way represent the opinions of this magazine, but in this era of social media tribalism, the mere act of covering a contentious person can be misinterpreted as an endorsement. If LGBTQ media takes its responsibilities seriously we can’t shy away from covering queer people who are at the center of this highly polarized election year, and we ask you to assess Milos Yiannopoulos, the focus of this profile, on his own words without mistaking them for ours.
Some claimed the editor’s note was added after the blowback started; however, it was always there. Still, that hasn’t stopped people from voicing their outrage with the publication.
Related: Conservative Mouthpiece Milo Yiannopoulos Admits He’s Sexually Attracted To Trump
Noah Michaelson, the Editorial Director of Huffington Post Queer Voices and a friend of ours, posted a lengthy rant on Facebook yesterday, calling the piece “inexcusable and straight up gross”:
Then there are the folks on Twitter:
.@outmagazine‘s editor’s note on their Milo piece is basically saying “don’t @ us” but we’re giving a voice to a hateful person pic.twitter.com/PkMJg7wKa5
— corey (@coreykindberg) September 21, 2016
“If LGBTQ media takes its responsibilities seriously.” Fuck you @outmagazine. Your only responsibility is covering Nick Jonas’ abs. pic.twitter.com/daUXZUjVsk
— Ira Madison III (@ira) September 21, 2016
No publication, but ESPECIALLY not a gay one, should be glamorizing Milo like this. Just shockingly bad judgment. pic.twitter.com/Vd75pnV17s
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) September 21, 2016
“Not an endorsement” @outmagazine, yet your author @Chadwick_Moore is all on Instagram with racists by the pound? pic.twitter.com/U98BVQhBZB
— Ira Madison III (@ira) September 21, 2016
This was NOT “the mere act of covering” Milo as news. This was an over-the-top, full photo shoot and spread, not about “responsibilities.”
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) September 21, 2016
.@outmagazine added a missing-the-point editor’s note pic.twitter.com/8kTiMdvvhJ
— Mathew Rodriguez (@mathewrodriguez) September 21, 2016
I’m sorry, but black people are dying in the streets, and Out gave Milo a platform.
— Brandon Taylor (@brandonrambles) September 21, 2016
So respecting POC and trans folks is “social media tribalism” now?! Did Milo write the Editor’s note? ?
— Raquel Willis (@RaquelWillis_) September 21, 2016
That editor’s note is such a cop-out. From the jokey clown costume to the very decision to offer Milo a platform, editors made these choices
— Gabe Gonzalez (@gaybonez) September 21, 2016
As a result of the backlash, Out’s editor-at-large and author of the interview, Chadwick Moore, has flipped his Twitter profile to private. Meanwhile, Yiannopoulos issued the following response on his official Facebook page:
What do you think? Was Out wrong to profile this gay supervillain? Or are people overreacting? Share your thoughts in the comments section below…
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