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4 Young LGBTQ People Share Intimate Coming Out Stories
4 Young LGBTQ People Share Intimate Coming Out Stories
National coming out day still means something, even as diverse identities become more accepted.
People still in the closet or deciding to take the plunge and come out clearly benefit from the outpouring of support today. But even if you came out of the womb in drag and belting Cher, we should all be paying attention.
It’s not often that we slow down to just listen to a stranger’s experience, unless it involves falling into a lion enclosure or some equally dramatic twist of fate.
But today is a chance to absorb everyday struggles and triumphs people in our community face, and that can only lead to greater understanding.
Watch below as GLAAD chats with four young LGBTQ people about their coming out experience:
Sound off below and share how your coming out story is similar or different.
Soccer Star Antonio Luna Dropped Following Threesome Sex Tape Leak
Soccer Star Antonio Luna Dropped Following Threesome Sex Tape Leak
As we reported last week, Antonio Luna of Spanish soccer club Eibar and his friend Sergi Enrich were quickly identified after a sex tape featuring the two men involved in a threesome with an unidentified women was posted online and instantly went viral.
Now, Luna has been dropped from the team, as The Sun reports. According to AS, the woman is now filing a complaint “for the damage to her image” since the tape was released without her consent.
If convicted, the punishment for distributing such content without full consent under Spanish law is three months to a year in jail.
Related: This Week In Leaks: Videos Surface Of Brazilian Gymnasts Arthur Zanetti And Sergio Sasaki
Last week, Enrich and Luna released a joint statement, which you can read in full below:
We likewise regret the potential damage [not only] to our image but in particular to that of our club, whose colours we represent, and that it could have offended our supporters and the city of Eibar in general.”
“We are aware that professional footballers should set an example in every walk of life, especially to children; this being the reason we apologise if this incident has caused harm to anyone.”
“Equally, we want to apologise for the damage the circulation of this video could cause to the third person involved in the video.”
“We wish to stress that, as SD Eibar players, an exemplary club that represents a set of fans and a city equally exemplary, we stand by the values that have been shown to us since we arrived in Eibar. We hope this incident does not in any way harm the image of the club, nor that of our team-mates.”
You can view the clip HERE.
Billy Bush: Manspreading, and Proud of It
Billy Bush: Manspreading, and Proud of It
Just days before the video leak showing Donald Trump bragging with suspended Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about sexually assaulting women, Billy Bush posted to Facebook with some simple mansplaining about manspreading — the conscious or unconscious practice by some men involving the spreading of their legs on mass transit to take more than their fair share of space. (If post has been removed, we’ve got a screenshot at the bottom of the post.)
Some attribute the manspread to a biological imperative, an animal instinct driving men to strike a post suggesting they need a lot of space for their, uh bigger hands, as an advertisement of strength and standing one’s ground in order to attract sexual mates.
Of course the spread legs position doesn’t have the same power for women and more writers see it as just another extension of male privilege ingrained in society. If you have any questions, a male writer on EveryDayFeminism.com explains,
“We as men have been so inundated with the idea that all space is our space that we, often subconsciously, act as if that’s true – both in our body language and in more overt expressions of entitlement like dominating conversations, talking over other people, and harassing women on the street. “
It seems eerily of the same source as Trump’s aggressive body language in the second debate with Hillary two days after the leak, possibly a sitting version of Trump’s aggressive stage stalking. Or perhaps we didn’t know ya, Billy, and he wants you to grab his ____”. Probably not his intention.
Commenters who discovered the post are having a field day, and it’s likely not going to be up for long, so Towleroad has captured and preserved this unprompted display of natural instincts by the most important Bush in this election. Here’s to it becoming an endangered species.
It’s a show of strength which as the Daily News wrote, “is decried by female commuters as a symptom of male privilege and defended by partakers as a necessity to protect their genitalia.” And while we know there’s some insecurity about those parts in Trumpland (remember the hands), we think it’s quite clear that Billy’s quite comfortable with his privilege.
Recently, there have been backlash efforts to rehabilitate the practice, in light of widespread blogging in support of efforts to curtail the practice on public transport in New York and Seattle. Men have been increasingly posting images like Billy Bush’s but showing themselves manspreading, and the Daily News recently began it’s report on a study saying this way of sitting was biological and related to being sexually attractive:
Men have to manspread, according to two mansplaining men.
A new “science-y” report researched and written by men claims men spread out on public transit because of their bodies’ proportions — so the dude taking up three seats on the subway is acting on his biology, not his bro privilege.
What do you think? Straight white male privilege or animal magnetism? Deaf ear or latent homo? Oh you need more?
How about another post from the day after in which Bush appropriates a Rihanna lyric and calls Hoda a b–ch for taking his eyeliner? The semiotics on this one are crashing the machine. Can he do anything that doesn’t both seem kind of gay and kind of rude?
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Cheyenne Jackson and Husband Jason Landau Welcome Twins
Cheyenne Jackson and Husband Jason Landau Welcome Twins
Actor and singer-songwriter Cheyenne Jackson and husband Jason Landau welcomed twins – Willow, a girl, and Ethan, a boy – on October 7. Jackson and Landau have been married for two years.
Jackson shared photos of the expanded family on social media.
He said, “Best day of our lives. We will never recover. Welcome to the world our beautiful Willow and Ethan.”
The post Cheyenne Jackson and Husband Jason Landau Welcome Twins appeared first on Towleroad.
Singer Sade’s Only Child Ila Adu Comes Out as a Transgender Man
Singer Sade’s Only Child Ila Adu Comes Out as a Transgender Man
Singer Sade’s only child has come out as a transgender man.
Mickailia “Ila” Adu, who identified as a gay woman before transitioning, captioned an Instagram selfie “Today is the first day of the rest of my life.”
According to BGLH, there has been speculation this year that the 20-year-old is transitioning.
RELATED: Transgender Child Actor Jackson Millarker to Make Debut on ‘Modern Family’ This Wednesday
There has been no indication of whether Adu will change his name now that he identifies as male.
Sade has not yet commented.
(Image via Twitter)
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Singer Sade’s Only Child Ila Adu Comes Out as a Transgender Man
#FiveFilms4Freedom to bring global LGBT images to NYC
#FiveFilms4Freedom to bring global LGBT images to NYC
Join GLAAD and the British Council at a screening of Five Films for Freedom, the world’s first and largest digital LGBT film festival on October 19 in New York City.
Five Films for Freedom is a social media campaign created by the British Film Institute and the British Council to promote LGBT acceptance by encouraging people around the world to watch five short films from BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. These five films have been available on digital platforms across the world for two years.
This year, the festival includes the films “Breathe”, directed by James Doherty of the UK and Ireland, “Swirl”, directed by Peterson Varga of the Philippines, “The Orchid”, directed by Ferran Navarro-Beltran of Spain, “Take Your Partners”, directed by Siri Rodnes of Scotland, and “Xavier”, directed by Ricky Mastro of Brazil. Since the films were released in March, there have been 1.57 million views of the films in 179 countries on Facebook and YouTube.
Five Films for Freedom works to bring LGBT representation to countries in which LGBT rights are limited or completely nonexistent. In Russia, same-sex couples are not granted any of the legal protections that opposite sex couples are, in Iraq, being LGBT has been decriminalized, but with the rise of ISIS LGBT people are being attacked, and in Saudi Arabia, and the UAE being LGBT is punishable by death. However, these countries whose governments are anti-LGBT were among the countries with the most views of the films.
GLAAD’s Ross Murray, Director of Programs, Global and US South, will be speaking on a panel following the screening. Other panelists include Siri Rodnes, the filmmaker who directed the film “Take Your Partners,” Jessica Stern, the Executive Director of OutRight Action International, and Jon Hurst, the Director of LGBTQ Student Center, New York University. The panel will be moderated by Charles Radcliffe, the Director of the United Nations Free & Equal Campaign.
The film festival takes place the day before Spirit Day, the largest and most visible campaign in the world working to advance acceptance of LGBTQ youth. The digital aspect of this film festival makes it possible for people all over the world to view them in safety, and help expand the message of acceptance for LGBT people all over the world.
The event will take place on Wednesday October 19th, from 6:00-9:00, at Barclays, 745 7th Avenue, New York. Register here.
October 11, 2016
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www.glaad.org/blog/fivefilms4freedom-bring-global-lgbt-images-nyc
5 Aspiring LGBT Politicians Share Their Coming Out Stories
5 Aspiring LGBT Politicians Share Their Coming Out Stories
Read inspiring coming out stories from five people trying to change the world.
www.advocate.com/coming-out/2016/10/11/5-aspiring-lgbt-politicians-share-their-coming-out-stories
