This Guy Just Tried a Bidet for the First Time – WATCH

Hunky straight vlogger and LGBT ally Chris Thompson recently went on a trip to Europe and found his accommodations outfitted with a bidet, as many bathrooms in Europe are.

Thompson, having never used a bidet before, decided to give it a try. And the results are pretty funny and adorable.

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Thompson’s video also makes you ask the question (at least if you haven’t used a bidet before), how does one actually use a bidet?  It turns out there are more logistics involved than you might think.

Watch, below.

[h/t WickedGayBlog]

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Craig Jungwirth, Man Who Made Terrorist Threats Against Florida Gay Bars, Appears in Court

Craig Jungwirth, the south Florida man who is accused of having threatened an Orlando-style terrorist attack against the LGBT community over Labor Day, was in federal court on Friday.

Jungwirth is charged with making online threats, violating a federal law that prohibits “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”

Wrote Jungwirth on Facebook, “If you losers thought the Pulse nightclub shooting was bad, wait until you see what I’m planning for Labor Day.”

Jungwirth was scheduled to appear in court earlier this week but that hearing was cancelled after Jungwirth complained of chest pains and was taken to a hospital.

WESH reports on Jungwirth’s day in court:

In his first court appearance Thursday afternoon, Jungwirth’s attorney told federal Magistrate David Baker that he will ask for Jungwirth’s release Monday on a pretrial bond. Prosecutors asked for that matter to be continued Thursday to give them time to get an FBI agent from South Florida to court Monday to provide testimony.

Before his arrest Saturday, Jungwirth had been staying with his mother at her southwest Orlando duplex. She was also at his Thursday afternoon court appearance. When asked by WESH 2 News if she was afraid of her son, she said, “No, no comment.”

Jungwirth’s sister, Shanna Berger, twice blew him kisses in court and said she was there to support him.

Speaking with WESH, Berger said of Jungwirth, “He’s musically inclined, a mechanical engineer. A very caring person.” She added, “He’s very peaceful. He’s not violent.” Asked if he’s capable of harming people, Berger replied, “No.”

Jungwirth’s mother declined to comment when she was seen leaving the courtroom.

Watch a news report from WESH here.

And below, watch comments from the Wilton Manors, Florida Police Department on Jungwirth’s case.

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Trump to Address Coalition of Anti-LGBT Extremists at Values Voter Summit

The GOP nominee’s speech will be livestreamed on YouTube at 3 p.m. Eastern.

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Renee Zellweger Addresses Rumors Country Star Ex Kenny Chesney Is Gay

Photo of Zellweger by David Shankbone, CC 2.0. Photo of Chesney by Larry Philpot of www.soundstagephotography.com, CC 3.0.

During Renée Zellweger‘s recent sit down with The Advocate to talk about her new movie “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” the subject of those old gay rumors about ex-husband Kenny Chesney came up.

Zellweger and Chesney married in 2005. Zellweger cited “fraud” as the reason for having the marriage annulled after just four months, spurring speculation and rumors that Chesney might be gay.

Related: Country Music Is Gay-Friendly – Unless You Actually Want To Be A Country Singer

“I forgot about that. It’s a pretty big thing to forget, isn’t it?” Zellweger said when asked about the rumors. “That made me sad. It made me sad that somehow people were using that as a way to be cruel and calling someone gay as a pejorative, which has fateful consequences. Of course, there’s the bigger-picture problem of why anyone had to make up a story at all.”

So did she feel pulled to rush to his defense?

“Well, I’d said all I needed to say on that subject,” she said. “I’m an old-fashioned gal who doesn’t feel it’s appropriate to hang out your laundry on the lawn. I feel you devalue yourself as a human being when you share very personal things with a bajillion strangers who are making fun of you. I just don’t see that there’s any dignity in that. But sometimes it is difficult to just let something be what it is, especially when it’s unnecessary ugliness. Once you’ve said your piece, shouldn’t that be enough? And why is the ugliness that’s perpetuated in the media so attractive to people?”

Related: Zachary Quinto Offers Gallant Defense Of Renée Zellweger’s Appearance

Chesney commented on the rumors in an interview with Playboy in 2009.

“What guy who loves girls wouldn’t be angry about that? I didn’t sign up for that,” he said. “I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I’m pretty confident in the fact that I love girls (laughs). I’ve got a long line of girls who could testify that I am not gay.”

Zellweger also talks gay best friends, both on and off screen, playing with lesbian subtext in “Cold Mountain,” and her connection to the LGBTQ community in the interview, which you can read in full here.

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Orlando Shooting Survivor Surprised By Katy Perry On “Ellen”

Pulse shooting survivor Tony Marrero and Katy Perry embrace. Via YouTube.

Tony Marrero survived the mass shooting at Pulse in Orlando, in part with the help of inspiration from Katy Perry‘s song “Rise.”

“The lyrics to that song are so powerful,” Marrero told Ellen DeGeneres while appearing on her show on Thursday. “So I embraced it.”

Related: Orlando Hospitals Will Not Charge Pulse Survivors

“Have you met Katy yet, or no?” DeGeneres asked.

When Marrero said that he had not, she asked, “Do you want to meet Katy?”

Before he could answer Perry walked out and embraced him. Both were left shaking and moved to tears.

“I just want to say thank you for everything you do,” Marrero told her. “Your lyrics to that song helped me from the day that I was in the hospital all the way to now.”

“Life isn’t easy and you need little reliefs, through songs quite possibly. I’m happy to be a joy, and I’m happy to be a light, and I’m happy I could be there in my own little way to help you,” Perry said.

Perry added that she heard he was a creative and wanted to personally pay for his first year of film school.

Related: “I Still See All The Red”: First Responder In Pulse Massacre May Lose His Job

Marrero was featuring on MTV’s “True Life” episode featuring the survivors of the Pulse shooting that aired in August.

Watch the video of Marrero meeting Perry from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” below.

Marrero was also featured in a segment earlier on her show, watch it below.

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Stephen Colbert Rips Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi – WATCH 

On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert took aim at Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, or as he called her “the stepmom who can’t understand why you won’t warm up to her.”

Colbert took a look at how Bondi dropped an investigation into Trump University after the Trump Foundation donated $25,000 to a PAC affiliated with her campaign. While Colbert said that nobody can say for certain that this was quid pro quo pay-for-play, “One thing’s for sure: Pam Bondi is the only person in the world who made money from Trump University.”

Of Trump, Colbert commented, “He said, ‘Yeah I cut the check, but it’s only because I like Bondi so much. I’m not the kind of guy who expects favors in exchange for political donations.’ Which makes me wonder, then who is this guy?” Colbert then showed a video of Trump talking about donating to politicians so they will ‘kiss his ass.’

Oh, also: Bondi apparently stole someone’s dog after Hurricane Katrina. So there’s that.

Watch, below.

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‘Gay Voice’ Donald Trump Meets Hunky Football Players and Wrestlers – WATCH

“Look at the size of these guys!”

In January, Donald Trump held a rally in Iowa in which he brought up a bevy of beefy, corn-fed Iowa State football players and wrestlers onto the stage to press the flesh.

While the event itself may have been fairly innocuous (aside from causing a scandal at the NCAA), it becomes far more entertaining if you take what Trump said and add a stereotypical ‘gay voice.’

YouTuber Peter Serafinowicz did just that in a video he calls, “Sassy Trump: Heterosexual Trump.”

You may recall that back in February we shared Serafinowicz’s video titled ‘Donald Gay Trump’ in which Serafinowicz first gave Trump a ‘gay voice.’ That video went viral with over 1.7 million hits as of this posting.

Wrote Serafinowicz of his latest video, “This actually happened. I dubbed his voice, but it’s all Trump’s words.”

Watch, below.

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Migaloo, a Rare All-White Humpback, Just Gave Whale-Watchers The Thrill of Their Lives: WATCH

Migaloo, one of four reported all-white humpback whales in the world, gave visitors to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef a treat this week when he was spotted near Green Island, an island near Cairns, off the Queensland coast.

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Migaloo, believed to be an albino but defined as hypo-pigmented for lack of definitive evidence, migrates from northern Australia to Antarctica along with a pod of pigmented humpbacks.

Tourists on Big Cat Green Island Reef Cruises gasped with joy at seeing the beautiful sight of Migaloo in the deep blue water.

Here’s another shot with more emotional gasping:

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