VIDEO: TransGriot's Monica Roberts accepts Special Recognition Award at #glaadgala San Francisco

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RuPaul on the Death of Alexis Arquette (Video)

The Emmy-winning drag star speaks about his friend, trans actress Alexis Arquette.

www.advocate.com/video/2016/9/14/rupaul-death-alexis-arquette-video

At Least You're Not Robbing Banks to Go Back to Jail

The story of a trans woman who committed a felony just to return to prison illustrates how good so many of us have it.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/9/14/least-youre-not-robbing-banks-go-back-jail

Pulse Survivor Dies Unexpectedly Three Months After the Shooting

Chris Brodman was found dead at a birthday party on Sunday morning. The cause of death is unknown.

www.advocate.com/crime/2016/9/14/pulse-survivor-dies-unexpectedly-three-months-after-shooting

Enter To Win A Trip For Two To New Orleans For Halloween

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Below find a pictoral look at all the fun you’ll find in New Orleans:

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Remember “Mickey” Singer Toni Basil? Now 72, Her Dancing Will Blow Your Mind.

Is 72 the new 24? Judging by this footage of ’80s icon Toni Basil cutting a rug, the answer is demonstrably yes. Possibly even “yasss.”

Related: Is There A Hidden Message In Madonna’s New Album Cover?

Best known for her manic 1982 anthem “Mickey,” Basil went on to become a hugely successful choreographer, helming the fancy footwork for Tina Turner’s last tour, Bette Midler’s Vegas spectacular, and various routines in films like Legally Blonde and My Best Friend’s Wedding. 

Related: 16 Incredible Drag Queen Interpretations Of Your Favorite ’80s & ’90s Heroines And Villains

Clearly she hasn’t lost an ounce of the ferocity demonstrated on that bouncy “Mickey” vid on endless rotation in the early days of MTV.

Let’s compare and contrast, shall we?

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Gay Marriage is Legal in Mexico, but Mexicans are Still Fighting Over Whether it Should Be Allowed

Protesters for gay marriage at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City

Gay couples in Mexico already get married when they wish, thanks to the blessing of the highest court in the land.

But big demonstrations across the country in recent days show that, politically at least, the issue of same-sex marriage is far from settled.

Thousands of people marched throughout the country this past Saturday to protest President Enrique Pena Nieto’s initiative to legalize gay marriage. Counter-protesters came out in force, too.

The National Front for the Family, a coalition of conservative religious groups, called for the protests. The coalition is also planning a mass march for Sept. 24 in Mexico City.

“Long live the family, in the image of the Virgin Mary, the baby Jesus and Saint Joseph,” read one sign at the protest in the city of Puebla, the capital of a central Mexican state with a strong Catholic presence.

“Papa + Mama = Happy Family,” read another sign at that protest, where many of the protesters wore white and carried pink, blue, and white balloons.

An estimated 5,000 people marched in Veracruz, where some got into verbal clashes with gay rights counter-protesters.

Thousands of people of various religious denominations also turned out to protest in the streets of the northern border city Ciudad Juarez.

In May, Pena Nieto announced a constitutional reform that would legalize same-sex marriage across Mexico. Several other Latin American countries already allow such unions.

The announcement followed a Supreme Court ruling last year declaring that a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

“Legally, the question is basically settled,” says Lester Feder, who covers LGBT issues for Buzzfeed. “But there’s an implementation problem and that is what has brought this to a broader conflict.”

Currently, only a handful of the country’s 31 states and Mexico City allow such weddings.

The National Front for the Family is strongly against same-sex couples adopting children, and also opposes teaching about homosexuality and transsexuality in school sex education classes.

A gay rights advocacy group said that homophobia has surged in Mexico since Pena Nieto’s proposal. The Citizen Commission against Homophobic Hate Crimes said at least 26 people from the LGBT community were killed so far this year.

The group reported 44 anti-gay murders in 2015, down from 72 in 2014.

The majority of the population of Mexico is Roman Catholic, and church leaders in Mexico are firmly opposed to same-sex marriage.

“But the fact that the country is Catholic doesn’t mean that it’s going to be less likely to embrace marriage equality,” Feder says. “A number of Catholic countries have been at the forefront of marriage equality.”

Feder points out that in Europe, Spain, Portugal and Belgium have all adopted same-sex marriage. And in Latin America, Argentina legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, despite opposition from Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then-Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who went on to become Pope Francis.

“The issue is about the different political cultures and the power of the church [in Mexico],” Feder says.

Mexico has a long history of preventing the Catholic Church from getting directly involved in politics, Feder adds — “Including for a long time, prohibiting priests from voting.”

“The question here,” he says, “is whether the church will have the political clout to endorse these marches and help stop the marriage amendment.”

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.

This article first appeared on PRI The World.

(photo: TheImadatter Wikimedia Commons)

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Hillary-Hating Hypocrite Rudy Giuliani is Next on Keith Olbermann’s Expose and Destroy Mission: WATCH

In his second video for GQ, Keith Olbermann eviscerates (as only Olbermann can eviscerate) Rudy Giuliani for attacking Hillary Clinton’s health, calling out his hypocrisy and sad manners:

“Rudy, do you even remember when you ran for president yourself starting in 2006, when you were still considered a short term survivor of prostate cancer? Do you remember anyone then saying it was disqualifying in any way? Do you remember anybody saying that the possibility of recurrence or the chance that you might have cancer anywhere else in your body, that that might make you unfit to seek the highest office in the land? Did any of your opponents have the gall to attack you over your own health? Did any of your opponents do that when you were first diagnosed? While you were running for the senate seat for New York? Who were you running against again? Oh right, Hillary Clinton.”

ALSO: Keith Olbermann Channels Edward R. Murrow in Blistering Takedown of Donald Trump – WATCH 

Olbermann goes on to destroy Giuliani, followed by fellow citizen doctors Newt Gingrich and Tom Brokaw.

Finally, Olbermann lands a concluding zinger:

“For crying out loud, Hillary Clinton has been campaigning with pneumonia since at least last Friday, and making more sense than Donald Trump has in his entire campaign. How’s her health? She’s frickin’ Wonder Woman!”

Watch:

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