LGBT Twitter Sounds Off on Trump's Leaked Misogynistic Conversation
The Republican presidential nominee was overheard bragging about philandering and sexual abuse, and LGBT Americans took to social media to respond.
www.advocate.com/election/2016/10/07/lgbt-twitter-sounds-trumps-leaked-misogynistic-conversation
Daily Show Destroys Racist Fox News Segment (Video)
Daily Show media correspondent Ronny Chieng rightly asks, “How was that on the news? In fact, how was that even on TV?”
www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/10/07/daily-show-destroys-racist-fox-news-segment-video
WATCH: Christian Slater Describes Getting Into Character For “King Cobra”
Central Park Five, Sam Smith, Juan Manuel Santos, Grindr and Meth, Black Mirror: HOT LINKS
CENTRAL PARK FIVE. Trump says Central Park Five are guilty despite the fact that they were cleared by DNA evidence. “They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said this week in a statement to CNN’s Miguel Marquez. “The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same.”
WATCH. Ken Burns’ documentary on the case.
ADJUSTING. Donald Trump changes statement about debate microphone. “’It wasn’t that the mike didn’t work,’ Mr. Trump said, during comments about the difficulties he had faced during the debate. The problem, he said, was that the people operating the soundboard had been ‘oscillating’ as he spoke, changing the levels of his voice. In any other election, this would have been an anodyne comment. But it came after Mr. Trump had spent days insisting he had had a ‘bum mike’ and theorizing that there may have been foul play.”
PENCE CONFIRMS. Trump will roll back Obama’s transgender directive.
KREMLIN CONNECTION. Russia files formal complaint with the United Nations after UN official’s condemnation of Trump. “…an intervention that underscores the unusual links between the Republican presidential nominee and the Kremlin.”
JUAN MANUEL SANTOS. Colombian president wins Nobel Peace Prize: “The president of Colombia was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for pursuing a deal to end 52 years of conflict, the longest-running war in the Americas, just five days after Colombians rejected the agreement with a leftist rebel group in a shocking referendum result.”
HOBOKEN. Train was going twice the speed limit at time of crash.
ORLANDO. LGBT Pride postponed over Hurricane Matthew: “Due to the incoming threat of Hurricane Matthew and the risk that it imposes to Central Florida, the organizers of Come Out With Pride are postponing this weekend’s festivities to November. The safety of participants and attendees is our highest priority.”
GRINDR AND METH. West Hollywood to meet with Grindr CEO Joel Simkhai over meth issue: “In a story published two weeks ago, WEHOville cited reports in other media and its own investigation of meth dealers in West Hollywood to call out Grindr’s app as a tool used to sell the highly addictive drug, which is popular among some gay men. As WEHOville noted, competing apps such as Scruff have taken steps to make illegal drug sales very difficult. Grindr has not responded to multiple requests from WEHOville about the issue.”
NATIONAL TREASURE. Comic Gary Owen raves about LeBron James’s junk.
PROM QUEEN. Musical “inspired by the true story of Marc Hall, the Ontario teenager who took his Catholic school board to court when they refused to let him attend prom with his boyfriend” to get premiere. “The real-life story came complete with a charismatic hero, a national controversy and an uplifting message,” said book writer Staines. “With so much grand emotion and joy packed into one event—and with such an empowering universal message, Marc’s story just had to be turned into a musical.”
RICKSHAW VIBES. Sam Smith and Adam Lambert hung out in London.
TRAILER OF THE DAY. Netflix’s Black Mirror Season 3.
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Trevor Moran “Get Me Through the Night”.
FRIDAY FLESH. S Rattichart.
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Central Park Five, Sam Smith, Juan Manuel Santos, Grindr and Meth, Black Mirror: HOT LINKS
Parsing the Log Cabin Republicans' Congressional Endorsements
The gay GOP group’s PAC has released its first round of endorsements, backing nine congressional hopefuls. Just how LGBT-friendly are they, and can they win?
www.advocate.com/election/2016/10/07/parsing-log-cabin-republicans-congressional-endorsements
Sexist, Smart, or Scary? 'Feminine' Fashion Accessories for Gun Owners (Video)
Will Anti-LGBT Muslim Cleric Be Expelled From U.K.?
LGBT activists are calling for Hamza Sodagar to meet the same fate that homophobic minister Steven Anderson did in Africa.
www.advocate.com/religion/2016/10/07/will-anti-lgbt-muslim-cleric-be-expelled-uk
Joshua Sasse and Kylie Minogue Won’t Marry Until Every Australian Can: WATCH
Actor Joshua Sasse and fiancee Kylie Minogue say they won’t marry until marriage equality passes in Australia. Sasse told Australia’s Seven Network of the couple’s plans.
Said Sasse to the network:
“I think it’s really important to see other nations that have gone through that process and to see the aftermath of that, and what it has promoted is love and equality. Isn’t there enough hate and intolerance in the world?”
Sasse told the BBC: “It’s important to us… I can’t plan a wedding when I know so many people are banned by law from doing so.”
Watch the Seven interview here.
Watch Sasse discuss their decision (full interview here):
(photo via instagram)
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Joshua Sasse and Kylie Minogue Won’t Marry Until Every Australian Can: WATCH
Christian Campus Group Intervarsity: Employees Who Support Gay Marriage Will Be Fired
InterVarsity, a nationwide Christian evangelical group with 1,300 staff members and programs at 667 college campuses, has told its employees they will be fired if they support gay marriage, TIME reports:
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA says it will start a process for “involuntary terminations” for any staffer who comes forward to disagree with its positions on human sexuality, which hold that any sexual activity outside of a husband and wife is immoral.
Staffers are not being required to sign a document agreeing with the group’s position, and supervisors are not proactively asking employees to verbally affirm it. Instead, staffers are being asked to come forward voluntarily if they disagree with the theological position. When they inform their supervisor of their disagreement, a two-week period is triggered, concluding in their last day. InterVarsity has offered to cover outplacement service costs for one month after employment ends to help dismissed staff with their résumés and job-search strategies.
Staffers are being told that they should only share views publicly that agree with their employer’s position.
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Christian Campus Group Intervarsity: Employees Who Support Gay Marriage Will Be Fired
Sweet Cakes, the Oregon Bakery That Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple, Has Closed
Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the Oregon bakery owned by Aaron and Melissa Klein which made national headlines over their refusal on religious grounds to bake a cake after they found out it was for a lesbian’s wedding, has closed for good.
The bakery left a notice on its Facebook page.
The Kleins were fined $135,000 by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) and paid it last year after some protest.
The Kleins had refused to pay the damages for nearly six months and the Klein’s attorney had requested a stay with the Oregon Court of Appeals, arguing the fine would ruin the couple’s business, despite the fact that supporters of the bakery had donated nearly $500,000 to the couple.
BOLI Comissioner Brad Avakia denied the Klein’s attorney’s request and noted that the couple’s massive donations are currently held in escrow.
The Kleins were granted all-star status alongside fellow anti-gay martyr Kim Davis at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. in 2015. They were present when Kim Davis received Family Research Council’s Cost of Discipleship Award from FRC Action President Tony Perkins.
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Sweet Cakes, the Oregon Bakery That Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple, Has Closed
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