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What Is Nick Jonas Implying About His Relationship With Brother Joe?
What Is Nick Jonas Implying About His Relationship With Brother Joe?
There have been murmurs in the Jonas camp lately; whispers and hearsay hanging thick in the air.
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“Never count anything out,” Nick Jonas said when asked by Entertainment Tonight about his intimate relationship with brother Joe. “We obviously like each other quite a bit. We’re roommates. We’ve just got matching tattoos.”
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When you put two and two together, that can only mean one thing: Nick is open to the possibility of collaborating once again with his brother Joe.
Just ahead of The VMAs, Nick and Joe got inked together, and then an especially giddy Nick told Entertainment Tonight to expect “some special brother bonding, in a sense.”
Watch the Entertainment Tonight interview here:
Now That She Knows Her Fiancé’s Best Friend Is Gay, She Doesn’t Like How They Fool Around
Now That She Knows Her Fiancé’s Best Friend Is Gay, She Doesn’t Like How They Fool Around
A tormented young woman with nowhere left to turn has taken to Reddit in the hopes that the Internet will solve her problems.
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Chief among them: Now that she knows her fiancé’s best friend is “secretly gay,” she no longer thinks it’s particularly cute the way they joke around. Things get a little flirty.
“My SO and I have been together for three years, and were recently engaged,” she explains.
His best friend “Bruce” has known my boyfriend since kindergarten, and I’ve known him for almost as long as I’ve known my boyfriend. Both of them are definitely the athletic “bro” type.
You know how a lot of straight guys do the hyperbolically fauxmo-erotic thing as some sort of weird male bonding ritual? Fuck if I get it, but I’m aware that a lot of guys do it, which is why this hasn’t been a problem for me….
This anonymous lady began working with one of Bruce’s exes a few weeks back, and she revealed that he’s at least bisexual. This overly chatty ex found homoerotic texts and nude photos, a gay dating app on his phone, and even an online dating profile in which he’s seeking male affection.
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“My SO has no idea yet,” she explains.
But, given what I’ve found out, I’m now uncomfortable with the kind of ‘joking around’ that the two of them do…. I want the physical contact between them to stop. I’m okay with them being friends. They’ve been friends forever, he’s been a good friend to my SO, and I would never “forbid” their friendship. I just don’t want him groping my future husband.”
Now she simply doesn’t know what to do. “I feel like I should tell my SO,” she says “I feel like Bruce’s girlfriend, if she doesn’t already know, deserves to know. But I also don’t want to out him against his will.”
Redditors were quick to offer their advice, which largely boils down to “don’t do that.”
“Tell no one,” writes Waffle_Cowboy. “You don’t even know for sure as you are hearing this all second hand from a woman who may be telling you this from a vindictive place or worse still, making it all up.”
“Have a conversation about boundaries with your BF without outing his friend,” advises Mittenbae.
“Don’t forget that fiancee chose you,” writes akaioi. “It’s bad form to out someone. He may still be trying to figure out what he’s doing, and likely doesn’t need someone to force the issue.”
What do you think she should do? Give up on life? Buy a new scarf? Weigh in in the comments below.
Anderson Cooper, Amy Schumer, Dharun Ravi, Samsung, Michael Phelps, Colin Kaepernick: HOT LINKS
Anderson Cooper, Amy Schumer, Dharun Ravi, Samsung, Michael Phelps, Colin Kaepernick: HOT LINKS
2016 ELECTION. Debate moderators announced: “The first presidential debate will be moderated by NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt. That will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Monday, Sept. 26….The second presidential debate will differ from the others because it will be held as a town hall-style debate. That will be co-hosted by ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper at Washington University in St. Louis Sunday, Oct. 9….The third and final presidential debate will be moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas Wednesday, Oct. 19.”
TYLER CLEMENTI. Dharun Ravi may have conviction tossed. “A three-judge panel will consider whether a judge overstepped his authority in 2012 when he sentenced Ravi, who had faced up to 10 years in state prison, to county jail and whether a state Supreme Court ruling last year invalidates some or all of his 15-count conviction. A ruling is expected in three or four months.”
TOM FORD. New film Nocturnal Animals getting raves: “Ford has surely raised his game from his faintly wan and over-determined drama A Single Man from 2009. There is something much more uninhibited and even raucous about this picture, which combines melodrama with a kind of teasing sophistication.”
COLIN KAEPERNICK. Kneels during National Anthem: “Safety Eric Reid knelt beside Kaepernick. In Oakland, meanwhile, Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lanesat on the bench during the playing of the anthem, according to the Associated Press. Kaepernick told NFL Network’s Steve Wyche on Saturday that he was sitting during the anthem in protest of societal wrongdoings against African-Americans and minorities in the United States.”
Here’s Kaepernick refusing to stand for national anthem again on military appreciation night pic.twitter.com/5Ii1M363tD
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) September 2, 2016
EXPLODING TECH. Samsung recalling and halting sales of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones over explosions, fire: “Samsung, a giant South Korean company, said it had been alerted to 35 claims of faulty phones worldwide. It said it had so far found 24 devices with problems for every million sold.”
MICHAEL PHELPS. The Olympic swimmer kind of knew that #Phelpsface was going viral as it was happening.
CHAD GRIFFIN. What a Trump presidency would mean for LGBT equality: “In a Trump-Pence administration, does anyone think human rights for all will remain a pillar of our foreign policy? Or that our embassies abroad will provide the same beacon of hope to local LGBTQ communities? Or that whomever Trump selects as his secretary of state or UN ambassador will go before the international community to fight against discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity?”
AMY SCHUMER. How to destroy a heckler, in Stockholm.
FRIDAY FLESH. Hawaiian hottie Koal Apuna.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2 Gets Snatched [RECAP]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2 Gets Snatched [RECAP]
Time to separate the queens from the kweens with everyone’s favorite challenge: Snatch Game. We’re dealing with seasoned pros here, so this should have been a stellar Snatch. There were some high highs, but there were more low lows than I might’ve assumed going into this.
Let’s dish about our favorite impersonations below!
Before we get into the rankings, we’ve got some drama to discuss. Adore arrived the day after her harsh critique looking rough. When Ru visited the workroom, Adore threatened to leave. Ru begged her to stay, but no luck. Even Michelle Visage came a-calling to apologize for, I don’t know, JUDGING on the judging panel, but to no avail. So Adore walked before even getting her wig on for the main challenge. Bye, gurl.
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While I love this twist where the girls are sending each other home, I do not need to see the one-on-one convos before the lip sync. They are oddly cliched and stilted in a way that most reality shows are, but they are also the kind of thing this show usually satires so well. It’s just weirdly earnest, and no one actually says anything of value outside the typical reality show argle-bargle. I’d almost rather watch the other girls who are safe gossip and cluck about what they think is going to happen, what they would do in that situation, etc.
I also have a theory about these eliminated girls. Now, this is pure conjecture, but I’m thinking they are going to come back at the end Survivor-style for a final tribal council to pick the ultimate winner.
Alright, alright, let’s get down to business.
1. You know someone slayed the Snatch when they’re firing off jokes even when they’re not being featured. Alaska’s Mae West made the whole game more funny. She nailed West’s signature bawdy humor, but she still kept enough of Alaska in there to save it from being too one-note. I think the Anus singer will go down in the annals of Snatch Game herstory as one of the best. I did not think her lip sync was necessarily superior, and I want to be on the record that she has officially used up all her fake death drops for the season.
2. Right on Alaska’s heels, Katya created a character out of the grab-bag of eccentricities that is Bjork. The Icelandic singer is sort of an easy target, but Katya kept the crazy feeling consistent while still fitting her into the Snatch Game world. Her bathing beauty latex runway look was an instant classic.
3. Remember last week when I said Alyssa Edwards is unintentionally hilarious? Boy did that hold true this week. Don’t get me wrong, I was also cracking up whenever they flashed even the smallest glimpse of her Joan Crawford. But in terms of the actual performance, she recited some of the most obvious lines from Mommie Dearest, often completely apropos of nothing, and the voice was not quite all there. Alyssa’s choices were not great. However, Alyssa delivering these terrible choices was still entertaining, which basically sums up how I feel about her overall.
4. I actually don’t think Phi Phi was being shady when she warned Alyssa and Roxxxy about their Snatch choices. Alyssa’s Joan Crawford was too much Alyssa, and Roxxxy’s Sofia Vergara was not great. If only she could be as astute with her own character selection. She painted the Long Island Medium in broad strokes, and then repeatedly hammered the same joke about Theresa being a fraudulent psychic. It was fine, but it wasn’t great.
5. Not to hate on Ginger too much, but I was really disappointed in her Tammy Faye. I’ll concede that maybe the edit didn’t give her time to shine, but I was actually most put off by her choice in wig. That wig did not scream Tammy Faye. It just felt like a very typical Ginger wig. I also felt like her runway look was heinous, which knocked her down a few pegs for me.
6. Detox’s limits were really on display here. You saw her trying so hard to be clever, and it just fell flat. Detox is often funny and biting and quick in her confessional interviews, but she just cannot write an actual joke.
7. Look, I wasn’t thrilled by Tatianna Grande, but she had at least one or two lukewarm jokes, and that’s more than Roxxxy had. I agree that her runway look was basic and blah, but I think she did a touch better than Roxxxy’s abysmal Alaska during the main challenge.
8. Considering how well she did in her season’s Snatch, it was surprising to see Roxxxy flounder here. Every time Roxxxy reduced her Alaska character down to a shrill “Hiiiiiiii!” I cringed. It was just so obvious that was actually the best she could come up with. These girls are so neck and neck, a lackluster performance like that can send a gurl packing.
9. I still don’t quite understand what Adore’s major malfunction was. Sure Michelle was tough on her, but that’s Michelle’s whole thing. Once she rolled in the workroom looking like a “swollen baby” I was over it and ready to see her go. I was tired of the pity party. I was tired of the humble brag about her fans. I was tired of late-‘90s Limited Too choker necklace and haircut. It’s sad, but this appearance has really soured me on Adore overall.
How would you rank the queens?
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Trump Says There are 2 Million ‘Criminal Aliens’ in the US. It’s Not Clear Where He Got that Number.
Trump Says There are 2 Million ‘Criminal Aliens’ in the US. It’s Not Clear Where He Got that Number.
Donald Trump says people don’t even talk about the issue. But he does. He calls them “criminal aliens” — undocumented immigrants with criminal records living in the United States. And he says there are 2 million of them.
“Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. Zero. Zero. They don’t come in here, they don’t come in here,” Trump said during a major speech about immigration on Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone,” the Republican presidential nominee said.
“According to federal data, there are at least 2 million, 2 million, think of it, criminal aliens now inside of our country,” Trump said. “Two million people, criminal aliens. We will begin moving them out, day one, as soon as I take office.”
So, how accurate is that figure? It’s hard to say with much precision, considering we’re talking about a population that’s largely living in the shadows.
Michelle Mittelstadt of the Migration Policy Institute, which describes itself as an independent, non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC, says her organization looked at numbers from the US Department of Homeland Security and came up with a different estimate from Trump’s 2 million.
“We estimated that there are 820,000 unauthorized immigrants in the United States who’ve ever been convicted of a crime,” Mittelstadt says.
The research she’s referring to looked at the estimated 11 million people living in the US without legal authorization. And it determined that 820,000 had some kind of criminal conviction.
Of that total, Mittelstadt says about 300,000 people had been convicted of a felony and 390,000 had been convicted of a serious misdemeanor, like robbery or drug distribution.
The 2 million figure cited by Trump may have come from the Center for Immigration Studies, another Washington, DC-based think tank that advocates tighter restrictions on immigration. Its estimate appears to be including green card holders.
Green card holders are legal residents of the US and they number about 13 million people. Including them in a tally of non-citizens with criminal records might account for Trump’s higher figure.
Trump accuses the Obama administration of failing to focus on this group of undocumented immigrants and to taking seriously the threat they pose to the American public.
“We will terminate the Obama administration’s deadly non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets, walk around, do whatever they want to do. Crime all over the place. That’s over, that’s over folks,” Trump said on Wednesday.
But Mittelstadt says Trump’s vow to target illegal immigrants who’ve committed crimes doesn’t sound like a reversal of the Obama administration’s approach.
“By prioritizing for removal criminal aliens, gang members, recent entrants, which were three of the categories that Mr. Trump mentioned last night, those actually are already groups of people who have been identified for removal,” Mittelstadt says.
“In some ways, it’s a continuation of the policy that is already in place.”
In 2014, President Obama made removing undocumented immigrants convicted of a felony a top priority for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But Mittelstadt says this enforcement focus goes back about a decade.
The number of deportations from the US hit its peak in 2013, with more than 435,000 people being removed from the country, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Almost 200,000 of those people had been convicted of crimes.
Here’s a comparison that might be useful for understanding all these figures.
Let’s assume Trump was exactly right, and there really are 2 million so-called criminal aliens roaming the streets of America — how does that compare to the larger US population?
When you include everyone who’s been arrested or detained, and not necessarily convicted of a crime, about 30 percent of the US adult population is thought to have a police record.
That’s about one in three adults.
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Dads for Transgender Equality: Wayne
Dads for Transgender Equality: Wayne
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Six Can’t-Miss Labor Day Circuit Parties Happening Around The Country
Six Can’t-Miss Labor Day Circuit Parties Happening Around The Country
Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial end on summer. (Whomp, whomp.) Come Tuesday, it will be time to pack away your speedos and tank tops, dump that summer fling, and get back to real life. But not before having on last fantastic harrah! There are tons of parties and events happening all over this weekend.
Check out these six can’t-miss Labor Day circuit parties happening in cities across the country…
Labor Day Weekend Underwear Party in NYC
Famed club promoter Daniel Nardicio, the self-proclaimed originator of the underwear party craze, joins forces with Alan Picus for one night of debauchery in New York City. The Dworld Underwear Party will happen on September 4 at Slake from 11 PM to 4 AM and will include go-go jocks, massages, and lube giveaways, plus a mandatory clothes check at the door.
Masterbeat: From Hell to Heaven in Los Angeles
Being bad has never felt this good. Club promoter Masterbeat presents the Los Angeles debut of Hell and Heaven, direct from Brazil, for their official North American kick off event with music by DJ’s Rodolfo Bravat of Brazil and Brett Henrichsen of NYC. From Hell to Heaven promises hot South American flare with an amazing production. The party goes from 9PM to 6AM on September 4 at the Stock Exchange in Downtown Los Angeles.
Southern Decadence in New Orleans
Handsome Southern men are currently packed shoulder to shoulder in the French Quarter in New Orleans enjoying six days of non-stop parties, parades and debauchery. Think Pride on Steroids washed down with a nice, refreshing pitcher of mint juleps. This year’s festivities includes performances by NYC-based string quartet Will-Strung, Australian dance starlet Zoe Badwi, British dance diva Rowette and, of course, the reigning Queen of Decadence Jeanie Tracy.
Yara Sofia from RuPaul‘s Drag Race, along with special guest Reybl Chyld will host this Latin-themed fiesta at Karamba Nightclub on September 4 beginning at 9PM and going until the sun comes up. The evening will also feature appearances by the Boys of Fantasy Entertainment direct from Los Angeles along with tons of free giveaways all night long.
Locoya’s Formation Kingdom: Labor Day Tea Dance in San Francisco
Forward! March! This sexy military-powered holiday weekend tea dance by Locoya Hill Entertainment will include high energy beats by Kingdom General DJ Tommy Love and DJ Russ Rich as well as a live performance by Zoe Badwi. Plus the all-new Black Card VIP lounge will feature hosts Ruby Red Munro and Au Jus. At ease, cadets.
Super Labor Day Weekend in Chicago
One of the biggest gay bars in Chicago, Sidetrack, is throwing a non-stop rager all weekend long, beginning with a Friday night GLOW Dance Party, Saturday night Stoli Deck Party on Saturday, Sunday Funday Dance Party, and Labor Day Flashback Party on Monday. Seriously, you might as well tell your boss your taking a sick day on Tuesday because you’re definitely going to need a full day to recover.
Police Arrest An Eight-Year-Old Girl For “Lesbianism”
Police Arrest An Eight-Year-Old Girl For “Lesbianism”
An eight-year-old girl has been taken into police custody over accusations of “lesbianism.”
Uganda is one of the worst places in the world to be LGBTQ, with a penalty of possible life in prison for anyone found engaging in sexual acts with someone of the same sex.
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Jinja Police Child Family Protection, which is based in the eastern region of the country, claims they brought the child in for questioning after a neighbor reported witnessing her “luring” female friends to a nearby farm where they would engage in sex acts.
The girl is said to have admitted under questioning to having engaged in similar behavior at school.
Authorities are investigating the adults in her life to see if someone might have “influenced” the girl.
Catherine Wobuyaga, head of the Jinja Police Child Family Protection unit, cautions parents to watch out for people who “lure underage children into illicit relationships.”
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Uganda recently considered a bill that would have made homosexuality punishable by death. American evangelicals have had an influence over the country, as well as over Africa in general, encouraging them to pass viciously antigay laws.
This year, police broke up a pride event in Uganda and arrested approximately 20 people, moments after an Orlando tribute.
h/t Gay Star News
