PHOTOS: Power Ranger Star Davi Santos Bares All In Indie Bath Scene

It’s Wednesday. Summer is gone. The omnipresent election looms over us like a thick orange fog, and everywhere you turn, there’s pain, suffering and unrest.

Take a breath.

In troubled times, we like to remember that not all is lost. For our friends at OMG have given us the gift of Power Ranger booty, and who in their right mind could argue with that?

Davi Santos played Zack, aka the Gold Ranger, on Power Rangers Dino Charge. We must have just missed that one.

Santos also starred in the short film Densely Hollow, which involves an intimate bath scene with costar Christopher James Lopez. You can find the full 40 minute film on YouTube. It’s worth a view if you’re into the whole low budget, artsy thing, and we mean that as a compliment.

Head here to see the GIFs, and remember to report any and all sightings of Rita Repulsa to your local authorities.

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Trevor Noah Has a Ken Bone-r: WATCH

Last night, Trevor Noah dug into our nation’s obsession with Ken Bone, the undecided voter who stole Americans’ hearts during the second presidential debate.

Noah, like many people, fell even harder for Bone after he told Anderson Cooper that one of the reasons he worries about voting for Trump is that he could overturn marriage equality.

ICYMI: Ken Bone Reveals He Is a Marriage Equality Advocate – WATCH

Said Bone,

“[…] If [Trump is] allowed to appoint the next Supreme Court nominee, there’s a very good chance that we could lose some of the rights that we’ve fought for for the last eight years, rights that all Americans should share, like marriage equality. And I do not want see anyone’s rights taken away.

So that’s what makes it difficult for me. It’s–we’re looking at a personal interest versus community interest election.”

Said Noah after watching that clip, “Two things I love about this guy: One, everything. Two, he’s not just thinking about his own interests in this election.”

After a few more Ken Bone clips Noah was overwhelmed by Bone’s adorableness. “He’s so fluffy!” he screamed.

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Trevor Noah Has a Ken Bone-r: WATCH

Tyler Glenn Wants the Mormon Church to Know He Lives a Life So Shameless – WATCH

Tyler Glenn’s latest music video “Shameless” takes aim at the leaders of the Mormon Church in playfully flippant fashion.

Glenn, who is gay and came out in 2014, has been taking the Mormon Church to task in his music after the Church announced a new policy labeling gay members ‘apostates.’

PREVIOUSLY: Thousands Leave Mormon Church After New Policy Labels Gay Members ‘Apostates’ – WATCH

The video for “Shameless” is a flurry of fur, glitter, leather, mesh and religious iconography. Glenn teases and taunts someone tied to a chair wearing an old-white-man mask, supposed to represent the head of the LDS faith. He dances around him, licks his face and straddled his lap.

“To me, I’m definitely tying up the leader of the church and showing him that I’m shameless,” Glenn told Billboard. 

PREVIOUSLY: Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn Denounces Mormon Church in New Music Video, ‘Trash’ – WATCH

Glenn also features hunky male back-up dancers that don’t conform to stereotypes about gay male backup dancers.

Glenn explained,

“I’m attracted to guys like that. I’ve never got to be a seedy casting director, so it was fun to cast the guys that I thought were cute. I specifically wanted them not to be chiseled, twinky go-go boys. I wanted them to be built, hairy dudes.

I wanted the video to represent me authentically. I’ve never felt like I fit into any group and know there are other people that feel the same way. There isn’t just a stereotypical one-way, even in the gay community. I didn’t want to cheese it up, glam it up, gay it up just to do it. I wanted to do it in my own way.”

As for being an out gay male musician, Glenn said, “I think the rock world and the alternative world still has a way to go for gay representation. I hope my record moves that needle along.”

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Tyler Glenn Wants the Mormon Church to Know He Lives a Life So Shameless – WATCH

NEW MUSIC: Kate Tempest, She Drew the Gun, Shura

This week in New Music: London rapper, poet, novelist and playwright Kate Tempest (above) issues a wake-up call to a world in crisis; Liverpudlian psych-pop act She Drew the Gun are also concerned with the big questions; and Shura focuses in on the death of her parents via electro pop.

Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos

Kate Tempest – rapper, songwriter, award-winning poet and playwright, novelist.

Her 2014 debut album Everybody Down – followed by accompanying novel The Bricks That Built the Houses earlier this year – was a revelation, an acerbic look at urban culture in London.

Generally described as a rapper, Tempest is in reality an artist in the true sense of the world. Everybody Down was as much performance poetry and electronica as it was rap.

Her second album Let Them Eat Chaos covers many of the same concerns of her debut – urban culture in London, clubbing, isolation, drugs, alcohol, desperation to succeed, the environment, recession, police brutality… The album also follows a number of characters –  Bradley, Ester and Zoe – as they traverse the ups and downs of not getting lost in the metropolis.

“Europe Is Lost” is worth quoting at length:

Europe is lost, America lost, London lost / Still we are clamoring victory / All that is meaningless rules / We have learned nothing from history / People are dead in their lifetimes / Dazed in the shine of the streets / But look how the traffic’s still moving / The system’s too slick to stop working / Business is good. And there’s bands every night in the pubs / And there’s two for one drinks in the clubs / And we scrubbed up well / We washed off the work and the stress / Now all we want’s some excess / Better yet; A night to remember that we’ll soon forget… / Oh but it’s happy hour on the high street / Friday night at last lads, my treat! / All went fine till that kid got glassed in the last bar / Place went nuts, you can ask our Lou / It was madness, the road ran red, pure claret / And about them immigrants? I can’t stand them / Mostly, I mind my own business / They’re only coming over here to get rich / It’s a sickness / England! England! / Patriotism! / And you wonder why kids want to die for religion? / It goes / Work all your life for a pittance / Maybe you’ll make it to manager / Pray for a raise / Cross the beige days off on your beach babe calendar… / It’s the BoredOfItAll generation / The product of product placement and manipulation / Shoot em up, brutal, duty of care / Come on, new shoes / Beautiful hair / Bullshit saccharine ballads / And selfies / And selfies / And selfies / And here’s me outside the palace of ME! / Construct a self and psychosis / And meanwhile the people are dead in their droves / But nobody noticed / Well some of them noticed / You could tell by the emoji they posted

An antidote to anodyne pop, Let Them Eat Chaos is a rallying cry for the world to wake up and one of the best urban protest album’s since Tricky’s Maxinquaye.

She Drew the Gun – Memories of the Future

Hailing from Liverpool, England, trippy indie act She Drew the Gun have been creating something of a buzz this year having already won Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent competition.

Generally described as psych-pop, the band fit into that mold from the outset with their woozy, 60s-influenced sound.

Opening track “Where I End You Begin” opens with a groove that sounds equal parts PJ Harvey and Pavement. “Poem,” a stark track reminiscent of the xx, is the one for which they have received most attention. Like Kate Tempest, this is protest music posing as pop. Singer and songwriter Louisa Roach is concerned with the big questions – homelessness, war, social injustice, political play-acting, youth disenchantment, immigration, racism. Rarely has protest sounded so good.

Can’t believe what I’m reading when I open up these sheets
they’ve got police getting busier, cleaning up the streets
‘Cos that’s what we need now to make the place neat
take the homeless mans rags,no sleeping bags no place to sleep
Because we’re far too civilised around here to see
an unkempt human being, a broken human being
open up your eyes are you seeing what I’m seeing, yeah
a misplaced made to feel disgraced human being
what it’s not enough to just pretend that you don’t see him
you can’t stand the sight so you’ve got to dissapear him
well I hope you feel more comfortable doing your sight seeing
taking pictures, buying fucking Union Jack magnets and keyrings

Shura – “311215”

Performing as Shura, Aleksandra Denton received many well-deserved accolades for her debut album What’s It Gonna Be?, released earlier this year.

Downtempo close-to-perfect electro pop with something to say, the album will appeal to fans of the brilliant Christine and the Queens.

While the title song of the album is all about panic attacks and mental illness in general, “hidden track” “311215” (apparently the day she completed the album) concerns Denton ruminating on the future death of her parents. Sounds right depressing but it’s a beautiful track that’s added to with a video containing clips of Denton’s childhood.

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Mobilizing Support for Hillary Clinton in Jacksonville

On Tuesday in Jacksonville, HRC National Press Secretary Sarah McBride stopped by the Hillary for America Jacksonville office to speak to and thank their staff and volunteers, as well as HRC’s steering committee members, for all they are doing to elect Hillary Clinton.

McBride helped kick off a phone bank in support of Clinton. McBride later posted about her visit on social media, and got a shout-out from Chelsea Clinton:

Stopped by the @HillaryforFL JAX to thank staff and volunteers for all they are doing to elect @HillaryClinton! #imwithher pic.twitter.com/ozMQV1lhDs

— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) October 11, 2016

Thank you Sarah! t.co/Nd5gVSqbsS

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) October 11, 2016

HRC has an organizer on the ground in Jacksonville. HRC is counting on our members and supporters to mobilize and #turnOUT the pro-equality vote in November. HRC members are volunteering thousands of hours for endorsed candidates and are visible at campaign events across Florida and across the country.   

With the election just around the corner, HRC Orlando/Central Florida volunteers will be phone banking every Thursday evening. If you live in the Jacksonville area and would like to join them or find out about other volunteer opportunities to help the campaign, send them a message through their Facebook page.

Local HRC Orlando / Central Florida leaders Don Boggs and Andrew Beaudoin with HRC National Press Secretary Sarah McBride

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Trump Is the Real Locker Room Predator

Republicans constantly claim trans people are a threat in public facilities, but a new report claims Donald Trump entered the dressing room of a pageant, where girls as young as 14 were getting dressed.

www.advocate.com/election/2016/10/12/trump-real-locker-room-predator

Is Rosie Preparing to Sue Trump?

The out celebrity mom has been a target of the misogynistic Republican presidential nominee for years — she may now be ready to fight back in court.

www.advocate.com/election/2016/10/12/rosie-preparing-sue-trump