Tell Your Mother: Performers Answer 10 Coming-Out Questions
Lance Bass, Jill Sobule, Dan Bucatinsky, and Nikki Levy celebrate National Coming Out Day by sharing their stories.
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13 Reasons Why You Must Come Out of the Closet
www.advocate.com/coming-out/2016/10/11/13-reasons-why-you-must-come-out-closet
Billy Gilman Nails “Man In The Mirror” Cover On ‘The Voice’
On the last episode of The Voice, former child country star Billy Gilman battled with Andrew DeMuro, making it to the next round after both men did a striking rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror.”
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After the sweeping performance, Blake Shelton said:
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more evenly matched battle. Billy has this voice that just cuts through everything — just like a laser voice. It’s so good, man! Then Andrew has all these little runs and things that he throws in that separates him from Billy. So, I don’t think you can go wrong here either way.”
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Alicia Keys concurred.
“Billy your voice started out in this crystal space,” she says. “And then you think of where we are in the world. It ended up making me feel that maybe things aren’t so bad as they sometimes seem, so thank you for that.”
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Miley Cyrus was into it. But Adam Levine very much wanted to eliminate Andrew, because Adam Levine is. a. monster.
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DVD: “Coming Out,” “Swiss Army Man,” “Into The Forest,” & More!
Need something to distract you from the Trump sh*tshow? We’ve got some diverse home entertainment selections indeed!
A gay man documents his coming out in the aptly titled Coming Out (above), while Daniel Radcliffe stars as an adorable corpse in the utterly gonzo Swiss Army Man. Finally, out queer actresses Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood star as sisters in post-apocalyptic drama Into The Forest.
Let’s scroll for the trailers, details, and your comments!
($26.95 DVD; Wolfe)
Brooklyn-based gay filmmaker Alden Peters decided to document his own coming out process, bringing a camera along as he shares his truth with family, friends, and more. Some of the interactions prove quite revealing, and Peters intersperses these episodes with discussions about sexuality with other camera-friendly guests like YouTuber Kayla Kearney, and also crowdsourced coming out accounts from other gay folk. Includes a special two-part version created for high school classrooms and discussion.
($19.04 Blu-ray, $19.98 DVD; A24)
Variety called this “Castaway meets Weekend At Bernies as directed by Michel Gondry,” and that’s not a bad way to describe this gonzo buddy movie in which Paul Dano plays a despondent castaway who, just as he is about to end his misery, finds a semi-animated corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe. So begins a very different buddy movie, which involves lots of flatulence. Weirdness abounds. Extras include a commentary, featurettes, deleted scenes, and filmmaker Q&A (because, frankly, someone needs to explain this one).
($24.99 Blu-ray, $19.98 DVD; Lionsgate)
Living in the remote, woodsy Northwest with their father, siblings Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) find all power and technology has suddenly gone down due to a mysterious event. However, that’s the least of their problems when a tragic accident, shifty strangers, and a horrific crime strike their once idyllic corner of the woods… Directed by out lesbian Patricia Rozema (When Night Is Falling, I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing), and based on Jean Hegland’s post-apocalyptic 1996 novel, this is a somber and sometimes intense meditation on family and survival. Extras include a making-of and commentary.
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Chris Kluwe Unloads on Trump, Explains What Really Goes on in the Locker Room
Former NFL player and LGBT rights activist Chris Kluwe eviscerated Donald Trump in a new op-ed.
Kluwe went after the Republican presidential nominee for attempting to write-off his remarks about sexually assaulting women as mere ‘locker room talk.’
Said Kluwe in his piece published on Vox, “I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male environment you’re so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility.”
Kluwe added, “Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys, and some guys I wouldn’t want to hang out with on any sort of regular basis, but we never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.”
Calling Trump “an over-tanned ham hock” who has plummeted “past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy,” “a Hitler wannabe who can’t even string together a coherent statement on domestic policy”, and “a Russian-backed presidential candidate whose foreign policy agenda can best be described as ‘gross negligence mixed with a spicy dash of treason’”, Kluwe schooled Trump on what actually does get talked about in the locker room: family, travel, money and even some crude jokes–but never bragging about sexual assault.
Wrote Kluwe,
We talk about women (and sex!). We talk about wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, fans, and groupies. Most guys respect women, some guys don’t, but never have I heard anyone use your particularly disgusting brand of sadism that refers to women as objects and not people. Even the most debauched club-hopping party animal talks about women more civilly than you. We don’t let each other talk like that about women, because it lessens our humanity, and even though we’re modern-day gladiators, we still hold ourselves accountable to the idea of basic human decency.
Kluwe addressed off-color remarks that do sometimes take place in locker rooms, saying,
We talk about jokes. Clean jokes, dirty jokes, jokes that are in between. Hell, I made a joke about Penn State that got me in trouble years later, because someone thought I was attacking the victims instead of the institution that allowed such depravity to happen. You know what I did? I apologized. I said I was sorry. I didn’t apologize with “if your feelings were hurt by it”; I didn’t try to deflect it by attacking someone else, or their spouse; I didn’t lie to an entire nation on live TV and say, “Nope, that never happened.” I simply said, “I’m sorry, I made a mistake, I’m accountable, I’ll do better next time.”
Kluwe closed with some advice for the Donald:
The next time you want to claim that something is “locker room talk,” take a moment to recognize the fact that were you in an actual locker room, you would be universally reviled as a cancerous, egotistical train wreck of a disgrace that no team could possibly find the time to employ and, honestly, would never even have on their draft board to begin with.
I’ve been in locker rooms, Donald, and you’re the type of narcissistic, pants-soiling fecal eruption that just doesn’t belong. Even football players are smart enough to know that.
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Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, and the DNC Stand by LGBT Americans on National Coming Out Day
Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, and the Democratic National Committee marked today’s National Coming Out Day with messages of support.
Clinton tweeted a message this afternoon that read “You have millions of allies who will always have your back. I am one of them.”
She added, in an appended note to her social media followers: “Coming out often takes incredible courage. On#NationalComingOutDay, let’s honor that courage by showing LGBT Americans we’re with them.”
Coming out often takes incredible courage. On #NationalComingOutDay, let’s honor that courage by showing LGBT Americans we’re with them. pic.twitter.com/LBhyK1Ounm
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 11, 2016
The Democratic National Committee also put out a press release. They write:
“Today, on National Coming Out Day, we celebrate one of the most powerful forces in the fight for LGBT equality. When someone decides to come out as member of the LGBT community, it gives their friends, family, loved ones and neighbors a personal reason to support LGBT rights, and it inspires more members and allies of the LGBT community to stand up for what is right, even in the face of discrimination, bigotry and violence. Despite the great strides we’ve made in recent years – marriage equality, the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and more – the sad fact remains that coming out is still a risky, even dangerous thing to do for too many Americans, young and old. But that’s why it’s so important. Together, we can end the discrimination and build a brighter, safer future for all.
“The Democratic Party is proud to stand with the LGBT community, and proud to support candidates for elected office who are fighting for the promise of full equality. If we hope to continue building on the progress of the last eight years, we must elect Hillary Clinton and Democrats up and down the ballot across the country.”
And Clinton running mate Senator Tim Kaine joined ATTN: Editor-In-Chief Matthew Segal to say that leaders must promote acceptance.
From the Clinton campaign:
Amid clips of LGBT kids describing the bullying and hate-speech directed at them, Senator Kaine says that National Coming Out Day is important because we need to let kids know that they should “be proud of who you are. You’re made the way you’re made for a reason…celebrate that and accept it.”
Senator Kaine also said that school districts receiving school safety funding should work to reduce the rate of bullying in their schools. As someone who has been standing up to bullies her whole life, Hillary Clinton, together with Tim Kaine, will continue fighting for the the LGBT community and celebrates National Coming Out Day.
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7th Circuit to Reconsider Whether the Civil Rights Act Prohibits Anti-Gay Discrimination
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider whether existing civil rights law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The court previously found in July that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not prohibit anti-gay discrimination.
The issue, raised in Kimberly Hively’s case at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, is whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects lesbian, gay, and bisexual workers from discrimination under its ban on sex discrimination in the workplace.
The question is one that has been percolating in the lower courts in recent years, but this will be the first time a full federal appeals court is due to consider the issue en banc in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of marriage equality in June 2015.
This summer, a three-judge panel of the court ruled against Hively, extending prior decisions of the appeals court declining to protect gay people under Title VII.
The court’s ruling from July has been vacated by the en banc ruling.
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Embrace Your True Self at Home and Then Work
The founder of Executive Pride says his confidence to be out was learned early, and not from his parents.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/10/11/embrace-your-true-self-home-and-then-work
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