Mexico Catholic Church Claims Censorship Over Marriage Equality Opposition
“There is persecution against the Church,” said a spokesman for the Archdiocese.
Daily Archives: September 23, 2016
Kentucky Judge Thinks Men Don't Hug Anymore Because Gay Marriage
Kentucky Judge Thinks Men Don't Hug Anymore Because Gay Marriage
The judge compared called same-sex marriage an oxymoron akin to “jumbo shrimp.”
www.advocate.com/politics/2016/9/23/kentucky-judge-thinks-men-dont-hug-anymore-because-gay-marriage
13 Things Never to Say to Bisexual People
13 Things Never to Say to Bisexual People
Yes, bisexual people really do exist, but they aren’t any more — or less — promiscuous, monogamous, or indecisive than anyone else.
www.advocate.com/bisexuality/2014/06/02/13-things-never-say-bisexual-people
“Fat Ugly Face”: Intense New Clinton Ad Captures Trump’s Misogyny
“Fat Ugly Face”: Intense New Clinton Ad Captures Trump’s Misogyny
It turns out there is something worse than a misogynist gay man, and that’s a misogynist Republican presidential candidate. Just days after her daughter Chelsea accused Donald Trump of “sad, misogynistic, sexist rhetoric,” a powerful new Clinton ad called “Mirrors” brilliantly captures how pigheadedly pervasive his hatred for women is — simply by showcasing some of the rhetoric he’s used on the campaign trail: “She’s a slob;” “she ate like a pig;” “fat ugly face;” and “a person who is flat-chested; it’s very hard for them to be a ten” are just a few recent examples of his bizarrely hateful rhetoric. Awfully judgmental for a sentient tub of pumpkin cream cheese.
Related: Justin Trudeau Subtly Disses Donald Trump During His First UN Address
Only 30 seconds in length, the new Clinton ad undoubtedly packs quite a punch. Unfortunately, it’s probably time to forgo the attack ads altogether, and just put Hillary and Trump in a boxing ring so she can punch him in the face.
Watch the new Clinton ad below:
Asexuals Are Tired Of Your Crap, Demand Greater Visibility
Asexuals Are Tired Of Your Crap, Demand Greater Visibility
It may be Bisexual Awareness Week, but Asexuals the world over say they want to be noticed as well. They are demanding greater visibility, saying they want asexuality to be recognized as an official sexual orientation by the government, the National Post reports.
In a new review published by the University of British Columbia, Canadian sex academics are insisting that asexuality isn’t some bizarre form of “psychopathology” or the result an extremely low libido as famously diagnosed by zoologist and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s. Instead, they say, “we surmise that the available evidence points to asexuality being best conceptualized as a unique sexual orientation.”
In other words: Having no sexual orientation is itself a sexual orientation. Just like being gay, straight, bisexual, etc. So start treating it as such!
Related: Ten Sexual Orientations Besides Gay, Straight Or Bi To Round Out Your Sexicon
But the movement isn’t just happening in Canada. In the U.K., asexual activists are seeking to have “asexual” added the list of options around sexual identity in the upcoming 2021 census questionnaire, arguing that “around one per cent of the population is asexual” and should therefore be counted.
“It is most likely that the best part of a million British residents are asexual,” the sex academics write, “yet we have almost no data that sheds light on the causes of asexuality, its correlates or the implications of identifying as asexual.”
Activists and researchers alike argue that making “asexual” an official sexual orientation on government census forms “would challenge much of the stigma and myths that suggest asexual individuals are just celibate, or that this is some kind of manifestation of psychopathology or trauma.”
Indeed, a study published by Yale University back in April documented the “coming out” experiences of over 150 asexuals. Many reported being met with disbelief and dismissiveness. One woman reported being called “ridiculous” by a friend. Another said the person she told responded by saying, “You’re not a tree.” Similarly, a 2012 study found asexuals were met with significant bias and negative attitudes, particularly be heterosexuals.
Related: What It’s Like To Be Gay And Asexual In A Sex-Crazed World?
h/t: National Post
Keith Olbermann on Kathy ‘No Racism Before Obama’ Miller: ‘She IS the Trump Campaign’ – WATCH
Keith Olbermann on Kathy ‘No Racism Before Obama’ Miller: ‘She IS the Trump Campaign’ – WATCH
Keith Olbermann took a look at the racism underlying Donald Trump’s campaign for president in his latest episode of his new web series The Closer.
Said Olbermann sarcastically, “I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but there’s a slight undertone of racism to Donald Trump’s campaign. No! Really! And of course when I say ‘slight undertone’ I mean something approximately the size of the SKY.”
Olbermann focused on The Guardian‘s interview on Thursday with Trump’s Mahoning County, Ohio campaign chair Kathy Miller, in which Miller said there was no racism before President Obama took office.
Said Miller,
“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.”
“You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it. It’s not our fault, certainly.”
PREVIOUSLY – Keith Olbermann Rips Trump’s Calls for Clinton’s Assassination: ‘What Kind of Sick Bastard Are You?’
Kathy Miller ended up resigning her post on Thursday.
But as Olbermann points out, Miller resigning doesn’t change one simple fact about her involvement with the Trump campaign: “[Kathy Miller] is the Trump campaign. She is him. She is all of them. Living a whole life made up of, ‘If it didn’t happen to me, it didn’t happen.’”
Preach.
Watch, below.
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Rick Santorum, Manatee, Yahoo Hack, David Beckham, Charlotte, Instapundit, Britney Spears: HOT LINKS
Rick Santorum, Manatee, Yahoo Hack, David Beckham, Charlotte, Instapundit, Britney Spears: HOT LINKS
FIVETHIRTYEIGHT UPDATE. Clinton 60.3%, Trump 39.7%, slight improvement for Clinton.
NEW POLL. Clinton up by 6. “Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is leading Republican Donald Trump by six points nationally, according to the latest McClatchy/Marist poll released Friday.”
ISIS. Clinton plans to hunt down its leader: “A key priority of Hillary Clinton’s proposed intelligence surge will be to kill or capture Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, her campaign has told the Guardian. During the past year, Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee, has placed bolstering the vast US intelligence apparatus at the center of her national security agenda. Days before the first presidential debate – and after the New York area escaped without mass casualties from multiple bombings – her campaign has for the first time expanded on how her policies would work.”
CHARLOTTE. Instapundit Glenn Reynolds won’t apologize for telling drivers to run protesters over: “Glenn Reynolds, a USA Today columnist and University of Tennessee law professor who goes by the name Instapundit, said on Thursday morning that he will not apologize for a tweet urging drivers to run over protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Reynolds told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he would “probably not” tweet the message if given another chance, but he was unapologetic.”
TERENCE CRUTCHER. Tulsa officer Betty Shelby, who shot unarmed Terence Crutcher, is charged with manslaughter, released on bond: “Tulsa officer Betty Shelby ‘reacted unreasonably’ when she fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, prosecutors wrote in an affidavit filed with the charge on Thursday. Police also acted quickly to provide videos of the shooting to black community leaders and members of Crutcher’s family and then released them to the public.Shelby was booked in the Tulsa County jail at 1:11 a.m. Friday and was released at 1:31 a.m. after posting $50,000 bond, according to jail records.”
FROTHY MIX. Trump taps Rick Santorum as advisor: “The actions are the result of Trump’s creation of a 35-member Catholic Advisory Council, which includes, in addition to Santorum, other individuals with anti-LGBT histories. Accompanying the creation of the council is a new statement from Trump outlining “Issues of Importance to Catholics” and reiterating his support for the First Amendment Defense Act, a federal “religious freedom” bill seen to enable anti-LGBT discrimination.
HACK. Hackers post emails revealing details of Clinton, Biden, Obama’s schedule: “The emails were stolen from the personal Gmail account of the Democratic operative, Ian Mellul. They reveal how widely White House officials, Clinton campaign operatives and Secret Service agents have exchanged detailed and sensitive information with people using personal email accounts. There is no indication that Mr. Mellul, 22, who was in effect working as a freelancer when the White House or the Clinton campaign needed help, did anything wrong, and government officials declined to talk about the use of the private account.”
2016 ELECTION. Mike Pence’s lieutenant governor won’t use Pence’s name in his ads: “In a new TV spot in Indiana’s gubernatorial race, Republican Eric Holcomb blandly talks about job creation. But interestingly, Holcomb brags that he worked with former Gov. Mitch Daniels—whose term in office ended nearly four years ago—yet doesn’t say a word about current Gov. Mike Pence.”
BRITNEY SPEARS. Her kids scared their mommy.
My damn kids 😂 pic.twitter.com/YNVWlo1jOH
— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) September 22, 2016
CAPE COD. Wayward manatee rescued: “We’re hoping that with additional medical care and after some time in the warm water pools at Mystic, the manatee will bounce back. Once stable and strong enough for transport, we will bring it to more permanent rehabilitation center in Florida where the manatee will have more time to recuperate before ultimately being released back to the wild. When this manatee was spotted in Chatham in late August, I was surprised. It’s pretty rare for these warm water sea cows to come this far north.” (photo IFAW)
CANADA. Alberta NDP calls on supporters to sign pro-gay-straight alliance petition: “The poll comes as Alberta’s Education minister and two Edmonton-area Baptist private schools engage in a game of chicken over a law granting all students the right to form a gay-straight alliance or similar club in school.”
TOM DELAY. The former House Majority Leader says something that no one believes.
DAVID BECKHAM. Footballer does the #22kill push-up challenge for director Guy Ritchie, on a piano.
iPHONE 7. New phone can survive boiling water and being frozen in Coca-Cola.
YAHOO. Hackers stole data from 500 million users: “The breach included swathes of personal information, including names and emails, as well as “unencrypted security questions and answers”.The hack took place in 2014 but has only now been made public. The FBI has confirmed it is investigating the claims.Stolen data includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, but not credit card data, Yahoo said.”
FRIDAY FLASH. Farley.
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Guernsey Votes To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Guernsey Votes To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Guernsey in the Channel Islands voted on Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage, meaning there’s only one part of the UK holding out.
Northern Ireland is now the only part of the UK that has not legislated for marriage equality.
A preliminary vote in December of last year made a vote in favor of gay marriage almost a certainty. In Wednesday’s second free vote, lawmakers voter by 33 to five to pass the legislation.
According to Buzzfeed, last year, 90% of of respondents in a survey said they supported “a non-discriminatory equitable system for the legal recognition of committed couples.”
RELATED: Isle of Man Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Ellie Jones, vice chair of LGBT activist group Liberate, said:
“We are ecstatic that Guernsey is now a more equal place to live and that the States have demonstrated their support for LGBTQ islanders, some of whom have waited a very long time to be able to get married.
“We would like to thank all of those in the States and the wider community who have worked so hard to bring this about, and we wish luck to all whose who will be hearing wedding bells in 2017”
So Guernsey approves gay marriage and @WBCSaysRepent don’t like it, that’s a double win in my books. #guernsey #pride #cult #realitytv
— James Le Huray (@Jameslehuray) September 22, 2016
The first same-sex weddings are expected to take place in the middle of next year.
(Image via Liberate.gg)
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The GLAAD Wrap: 'Dirty 30' out now, 'The Tyler Oakley Show' launches, George Takei's 'Allegiance' comes to big screen and more!
The GLAAD Wrap: 'Dirty 30' out now, 'The Tyler Oakley Show' launches, George Takei's 'Allegiance' comes to big screen and more!
Photo Credit: Lionsgate
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBT-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
1) Dirty 30 is out now in select theaters and through video on demand services. The film, which stars out YouTuber and GLAAD’s Davidson/Valentini Award recipient Hannah Hart, centers on three best friends throwing a thirtieth birthday part in hopes of escaping the different ruts all their lives all fallen into. The trailer includes Hart’s character Charlie announcing her engagement to her girlfriend. Check it out below and find Dirty 30 on your video service of choice now.
2) The musical Allegiance, which starred George Takei and was loosely inspired by his own childhood, will play on the big screen for one night only on December 13. The musical follows a family displaced from their home in California and confined in an internment camp in Wyoming after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The full production will screen, as well as behind the scenes footage and interviews with the cast and creators. In other film news, a biopic about gay pop art icon Andy Warhol is in the works.
3) On December 21, DC Comics and IDW Publishing will release Love is Love, a 144-page graphic novel benefitting Equality Florida’s work to help the survivors of the Pulse shooting. The book will sell for $9.99 and includes over 100 stories set to art from some of the biggest names in comics. You can pre-order now.
4) The Tyler Oakley Show launched this week on Ellen DeGeneres’s digital network, Ellentube. Oakley will host the weekly talk show as celeb guests stop by for a chat and some fun. The premiere episode features Celine Dion and Kerry Washington.
5) In TV development news, Greg Berlanti’s newest drama, The Marquis, has been given a script commitment at ABC. ABC has also put into development a series called Grace about a group of adult siblings in Missouri whose lives are changed when their minister father comes out. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have teamed with John Stamos to develop a cable drama series about the “fame and excess of daytime soaps in the 1980s.” In casting news, out actress Cherry Jones has joined season three of ABC’s American Crime and Billy Eichner will join NBC’s production of Hairspray Live!.
6) Lady Gaga dropped the video for her new single “Perfect Illusion” this week. Tegan and Sara also dropped a music video for “Stop Desire.” Queer country duo My Gay Banjo released the video for “Like Magic” and Wrabel released a video for the track “11 Blocks.”
September 23, 2016
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Emmy-nominated Fiona Dawson on being bi, a trans advocate, and erased from LGBTQ spaces
Emmy-nominated Fiona Dawson on being bi, a trans advocate, and erased from LGBTQ spaces
In honor of #BiWeek and Bisexual Visibility Day, renowned advocate and media professional Fiona Dawson has contributed this guest post exclusively to GLAAD. Fiona Dawson is a national Emmy®-nominated multi-media director, producer and writer. She directed “Transgender, at War and in Love” commissioned by The New York Times and created the media project “TransMilitary,” which intimately shares the lives of American transgender troops risking discharge as they work to end the ban upon their service. In 2015 Fiona was honored by The White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change.You can find her on Twitter and Instagram as @fionajdawson.
Last year to celebrate three months of dating, my boyfriend, Emil Pagliarulo, and I went out to a favorite Italian spot of mine in Dupont Circle, a Washington D.C. “gayborhood.” Living in the suburbs it had been a while since either of us had been into town. As we stepped out of our Uber car Emil said, “Wow! I haven’t seen you light up like this before. You’re beaming. What is it?” “I feel like I’ve stepped home,” I said. “It’s been so long since I’ve been out among my people. I’m so excited!” “I can see that!” he concurred. “I’m happy for you,” he said.
Emil had been to a gay bar only once in his life. As a teenager his friend had begged him to accompany her and he begrudgingly complied. Today, as a cisgender, hetero man in his mid forties, he felt excited to be on a date with his girlfriend, who happens to be bisexual, and paid no mind to her restaurant choice being in the hub of D.C.’s LGBTQ night scene.
After dinner Emil and I decided to go to the bar above the restaurant for a nightcap. It was still early enough to grab a table from which we could people watch with our drinks. As the venue filled up we shared our spot with a few others, including a gentleman in his 50s, who started hitting on Emil. We laughed it off initially, although his wandering hands — particularly on Emil’s chest — became rather invasive. Emil uncomfortably pushed his hands away and instead we engaged with him in conversation.
“What are you two doing in here?” he asked. One of us replied, “We’ve just had dinner and we’re enjoying a cocktail. How about you?” The man responded along the lines of this being one of his favorite places and how hot Emil was. I said something in an attempt to lay claim to my boyfriend, but ignoring our insistence that he was not interested, the man questioned what we, a seemingly “straight couple,” were doing in a gay bar. I said, “We belong here. We’re a part of the community just the same as you. I’m bisexual… I’ve spent decades in gay bars.”
The man scoffed and carried on hitting on Emil.
The lack of respect for Emil’s boundaries and the dismission of my sexual orientation hurt equally. I know gay bars have been the safe living room for us LGBTQ people for decades, so straight people coming into gay spaces has been frowned upon. But as I think back to this man letching over my boyfriend’s body, I can’t help but wonder if it would have made a difference if Emil were trans.
In the past, I have been in a relationship with a trans person and because he was perceived as cisgender we looked like a straight couple then too. So in dating people who the world sees as binary male, my identity as a bisexual woman is visually erased. Of course it was the same when I was in a relationship with a cisgender woman; then I was assumed to be lesbian. But neither the anatomy nor the gender of my partner determines the label applied to my sexual orientation.
Maybe it’s the erasure or the judgment that unites trans and bi people. Or that when people transition gender their sexual orientation is called into question. But certainly, in a world that operates within binaries, trans and bisexual people unite in a common experience — that gender and sex assigned at birth are different and there’s no wrong combination of each.
Trans and bi people are forced to face the intersection of gender, sex and sexual orientation in order to understand who we are as human beings in a way binary cisgender male and female people don’t. When you’re lesbian, gay, or straight you’re typically thinking of gender as opposites and defining male and female labels based on sex assigned at birth. Trans and bi people, on the other hand, readily see people — anatomy and gender — on a spectrum.
I didn’t come to this conclusion overnight. As an openly bisexual, cisgender woman I’ve been part of the LGBTQ community for over a decade. However, it was through working on my media project TransMilitary that I developed close friendships with transgender people, who live and work within the most gender binary environment you’ll find: the U.S. military. And they taught me a lot.
In an effort to raise awareness of the ban on transgender people serving, my team and I set out to create media sharing the reality of their lives. Studies show that media portrayals influence the way human beings are perceived and according to GLAAD, “84% of Americans continue to learn about transgender people through the media.”
In which case, Logan and Laila Ireland coming out as transgender in my short opinion documentary (Op Doc), “Transgender, at War and in Love” significantly changed the narrative for trans people and was a catalyst for changing policies within the U.S. armed forces. The same day the film was released, June 4, 2015, the U.S. Air Force elevated discharges for transgender airmen to the Pentagon level, Logan and Laila met with President Obama, and the Op Doc has become one of The New York Times’ most viewed online short films. Last night, we attended the 37th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards as nominees for “Outstanding Short Film.”
Despite the recognition, it’s how the story changes hearts and minds that matters the most. Earlier this year I was at the United States Air Force Academy chatting with a cadet, who asked me about my work. When I told her about the Op Doc she jumped to introduce me to a senior leader nearby. “This is the woman who made that film I showed you,” she said to him. This self-professed heterosexual cisgender Air Force parachute instructor told me that seeing Logan and Laila completely changed his attitude towards who transgender people are. He told me that before watching the film he was absolutely against the idea that they could serve in the military, then “Transgender, at War and in Love” showed him that he was already among transgender troops and his fears were unfounded.
So undeniably storytelling helps shape the world we live in and influences the way we see people for generations to come. I would love for that gentleman hitting on Emil in the gay bar that night to embrace the diversity within our community (and not be so forward with my unwilling boyfriend). Just because a couple appears straight, it doesn’t mean that their lived experience is such. The stats back it up, that in fact more people identify as bisexual than lesbian or gay. All those straight people who’ve been seen as stepping into a gay space may actually not be that straight after all.
This bisexual awareness week my hope is that stories of bisexual people will abound. It’s through the lens of those attracted to others who are the same as or different from themselves, who will positively move society forward in ending the binary perception of gender, sex and sexual orientation for us all.
September 23, 2016
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