#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: October 10, 2016

HILLARY CHANNELS FLOTUS: “WHEN THEY GO LOW…”: After a bizarre — and extraordinarily lewd — weekend on the campaign trail was triggered by Access Hollywood video of Donald Trump regaling Billy Bush about his sexually predatory behavior, Hillary Clinton on Sunday night gave a master class in restraint. While headlines focused on Trump’s shocking, and at times creepy, behavior at the debate, Hillary Clinton repeatedly attempted to return the discussion to policy issues, including health care, foreign policy and the Supreme Court. Among the contrasts she drew: her vow to appoint Supreme Court justices who will uphold marriage equality and “protect the constitutional principles of liberty and equality for all.” Meanwhile, Donald Trump pledged to appoint justices in the mold of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who used his seat over the course of several decades to support laws designed to discriminate against LGBTQ people. For more on Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees, read HRC President Chad Griffin’s (@ChadHGriffin) piece for NBC News at the beginning of the Supreme Court’s term.

DEBATE PREP: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell (@MitchellReports) reminded audiences of vice presidential nominee Mike Pence’s career-long goal of rolling-back LGBTQ equality, including signing a “license to discriminate” bill that could have allowed businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people — and subsequently defending the bill over an outcry from the business community and a majority of Hoosier voters. She also emphasized the power of the LGBTQ vote and HRC’s unprecedented #turnOUT effort to elect pro-equality candidates up and down the ballot. There are nearly 10 million LGBTQ voters in this country, and in many key states the LGBTQ adult population exceeds margin of victory in the 2012 presidential election.

.@chadhgriffin on @mitchellreports calls out Pence’s extreme record, from his license-to-discriminate bill to voting against hate crimes act pic.twitter.com/fto9o6u4IG

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) October 9, 2016

#turnOUT THE VOTE:

• North Carolina: Last week, HRC announced the latest push in it’s multi-state GOTV effort aimed at turning out the nearly 10 million LGBTQ who can decide this election in key states. On Sunday morning, CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson highlighted HRC’s campaign to reach an estimated 400,000 equality voters in NC, one of the tightest states in the 2016 presidential race — and a key gubernatorial race as advocates seek to defeat Governor McCrory and his hateful HB2 law.
• New Hampshire: HRC President Chad Griffin spent late last week campaigning across New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton in Concord, Portsmouth, Dartmouth, and Manchester. Along the way, Griffin also campaigned alongside Senate candidate Maggie Hassan and New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern.
• Iowa: Check out Anne Holton stopping by to thank HRC volunteers getting out the vote for Clinton-Kaine via Instagram.
• Pennsylvania: Last night, Griffin joined volunteers calling prospective voters and knocking on doors to kick off Pennsylvania’s final two days of voter registration.
• Omaha: With early voting set to begin tomorrow morning in Nebraska, Griffin heads to Omaha tonight for a series of GOTV events with LGBTQ voters!

ICYMI: @niaCNN notes GOTV strength of @HRC making 400,000 voter contacts in tight NC race #turnOUT pic.twitter.com/MYWkSWFPTe

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) October 9, 2016

MILBANK MUST-READ: “A WATERSHED MOMENT” FOR LGBTQ EQUALITY: In his Sunday column, Dana Milbank (@Milbank) of the The Washington Post writes on the potential “watershed moment” for LGBTQ equality if North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is defeated this fall. Milbank notes it “would be the first case of a prominent official being voted out of office because his anti-gay actions backfired.” Indeed, McCrory has watched his  approval ratings and polling numbers plummet amid the fallout from his hateful HB2 law. HRC President Chad Griffin agreed, noting the defeat of McCrory and his vile brand of hate “holds the possibility of being a turning point in the political history of our fight for equality.”

NYT MAG: “WHAT HAPPENED TO NORTH CAROLINA?” In The New York Times, Jonathan Katz (@KatzOnEarth) comprehensively tracks the terrible damage McCrory and his discriminatory HB2 have inflicted on North Carolina, a state that “has long traded on a reputation of relative political moderation, or at least balance.” Katz details hits the state taken because of the anti-LGBTQ law, and reports that the cost of the backlash is “politically obvious,” with polls consistently finding that a majority of North Carolinians believe HB2 has hurt the state’s economy and reputation. The approval rate in the state for the law continues to sink – down to 36 percent in a recent poll. Read more here.

MEANWHILE The Charlotte Observer has filed a lawsuit against McCrory seeking emails related to HB2 that the newspaper first requested in April under the state’s public records law. HRC filed a similar open records request in April, and has yet to receive a response. More from The Charlotte Observer.

HRC RELEASES CONGRESSIONAL SCORECARD FOR 114TH CONGRESS: HRC’s Congressional Scorecard measures support for LGBTQ equality in the 114th Congress. The 114th Congress saw a record number of Republicans vote at different times to affirm President Obama’s executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, the scorecard showed there is still work to be done — check out the “Hall of Shame” here.

Get the facts before Election Day & see where your members of Congress stand on #LGBTQ equality #HRCScorecard t.co/ojobs45rbe

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) October 10, 2016

PATTY JUDGE FOR U.S. SENATE: HRC endorsed of Patty Judge for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Chuck Grassley. While Judge will fight for Iowa values of fairness and equality, Grassley has abused his leadership position in the Senate to block any progress on equality. Grassley has demonstrated again and again that he would leave LGBTQ people around the country at risk for being fired or denied a job because of who they are or whom they love. More from HRC.

NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY COINCIDES WITH JEWISH AND MUSLIM HOLY DAYS: Tomorrow, LGBTQ Jews and Muslims will be celebrating National Coming Out Day as well as  Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and Ashura, commemorating the day Musa (Moses) was saved by God. For LGBTQ adherents of Judaism and Islam, and their allies, this is a particularly important time that makes coming out even more meaningful. Read more at HRC.

• For National Coming Out Day, HRC highlights the celebrities who came out in 2016.
• And, over the weekend….Glamour reports that Sara Ramirez, formerly Dr. Callie Torres of Grey’s Anatomy, shared that she is bisexual while speaking at the True Colors Fund’s 40 to None Summit, a two-day event to help end homelessness among LGBTQ youth. Read more here.

NIH DESIGNATES SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES AS HEALTH DISPARITY POPULATION: The National Institutes of Health has formally designated sexual and gender minorities as a “health disparity population” for purposes of NIH research.  The term “sexual and gender minorities” includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.  The announcement, writes HRC Senior Legislative Counsel Robin Maril, empowers NIH to undertake additional research on issues specifically affecting the LGBTQ community and elevates the health disparities faced by our community within the NIH research agenda. Read more here.

READING RAINBOW

The New York Times takes a look at transgender young people acting in Hollywood… PositiveLite interviews HRC’s Noel Gordon about HIV treatment as protection…

Have news? Send us your news and tips at [email protected]. Click here to subscribe to A.M. Equality and follow @HRC for all the latest news. Thanks for reading!

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Donald Trump Vows to Appoint Supreme Court Justice 'In the Mold of Scalia'

Trump, who has promised to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on marriage equality, called Scalia a “great judge.”

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Rentboy CEO Pleads Guilty To Promoting Prostitution, Faces Two Years Behind Bars And $10 Million Fine

Rentboy.com CEO, Jeffrey Hurant, has pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and conspiring to commit money laundering.

On Friday, Hurant accepted a plea deal of no more than two years behind bars and a $10 million fine after a year-long battle with the feds, the New York Daily News reports.

Related: Ex-Rentboy CEO Jeffrey Hurant Nears Plea Deal In Prostitution Sting

The drama began in August 2015 when Rentboy’s New York offices were raided by federal officers. Hurant and six employees were arrested and boxes and boxes of files, computer hard drives, and other company property was confiscated.

Authorities claimed the site was a poorly-disguised front for an online prostitution ring. On Friday, Hurant admitted this to be true, telling a judge in the Brooklyn Federal Court that he knew the ads on his website were for male sex workers.

Related: Rentboy CEO Breaks Silence, Begs For Help On Facebook

Many have claimed the investigation into Rentboy.com, which claimed to have a database of over 10,000 men in 2,100 cities worldwide, was fueled by deep-seated homophobia, accusing the government of targeting the LGBTQ community.

“It was a completely sketchy, outrageous prosecution in the 21st century,” activist Bill Dobbs said after Friday’s court proceeding. “I presume [Hurant] was backed into a corner by [U.S. Attorney General] Loretta Lynch and company.”

According to the New York Daily News, “Hurant agreed not to appeal the sentence if Federal Judge Margo Brodie gives him two years or less in prison and a fine of $10 million or less.”

Neither Hurant nor his attorney have released a comment.

Related: Should Sex Work Still Be Considered A Crime?

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Wife To Bi Husband: ‘What Are You Talking About? We Have A Mortgage And A Dog Together!’

A woman in her mid-30s says she was completely “devastated” when her husband recently told her he was bisexual.

“I stopped dead in my tracks and screamed: ‘What on Earth are you talking about? We have been married for 15 years; we have a mortgage and a dog together!’” the woman recounts in a letter to advice columnist Just Jane.

Related: Bisexual Man Seeks Help After Wife Forces Him Back Into The Closet, Denying Him The D

Since the blow out, the woman says her husband has been “hiding out in a boutique hotel and insisting that our marriage is dead because he’s been living a lie.”

She continues, “He says he only married me because his family was putting pressure on him to settle down. He and I were working for the same firm when we met. And he knew that I was vulnerable, having just been jilted by my childhood sweetheart.”

A “whirlwind romance” ensued, followed by a “quick wedding,” which the woman now believes “wasn’t anything to do with passion on his part; it was in order to please his elderly parents–and inherit their house and wealth.”

Related: Bisexuals Are On Track To Take Over The World, Study Suggests

Oh, but it gets worse.

Because when she started pressuring her husband for children, he refused, saying he was “desperate to keep me all to himself.” But now she knows otherwise: “It was because he is a bisexual man who prefers much younger male and female lovers!”

“Now all of his relatives are dead and he’s living the life he always intended to live,” she babbles on. “He’s getting off with all sorts of people and painting the whole capital red. He’s nothing but a big. Fat. TART!”

And now, to add insult to injury, she says, “I’ve just had a letter from his solicitor pushing for a divorce.”

“How am I ever going to be able to trust anyone again when I didn’t even see this coming?” she wonders.

Gee, we can’t imagine why this man wouldn’t want to be married to someone so charming and emotionally stable.

Related: Wife Discovers Husband Sleeping With Guys; What Happens Next May Surprise You

In her response, Just Jane gets right down to business.

“Stop beating yourself up about this,” she writes, which is really just a polite way of saying, “Get a fucking hold of yourself!”

Jane agrees that what the husband has done is “cold and calculating,” but encourages the wife let it go.

“How could you possibly have known what was really in his head and his heart?” she asks. “You may have married him, but you’re not a mind reader. What you have to accept now is that you were duped by a very determined, single-minded individual.”

“Use your anger in a good way,” she advises. “Turn your energy around and tell his solicitor that you’re more than happy to facilitate a quickie divorce. Then make a wish list of all the things that you’d like to achieve and go for it.”

“Be honest with family and friends,” she continues. “Tell them that he was not the man you thought you married, [and] take that wisdom with you into your future relationships.”

We’d like to add that she may want to take a chill pill into her future as well.

Related: “Straight” Guys Are Having More Bisexual Sex Than Ever Before, Study Finds

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John Oliver Rips Republicans Trying to Jump Ship on Trump: ‘This Is On You Too!’ – WATCH

Last night, John Oliver addressed the leaked video of Donald Trump appearing on Access Hollywood in 2005 making remarks about sexually assaulting women.

Referring to Trump’s ‘apology’ posted on Facebook over the weekend, Oliver said,

First, he claims he’s never said he’s a perfect person—which, of course, is a lie.Then he said he never pretended to be someone he’s not right before claiming ‘these words don’t reflect who I am’—which is absolutely absurd. They could not capture his essence more if they were spoken by a spray-tanned Furby eating KFC and screaming at a Gold Star family.

Oliver skewered Republicans who responded to Trump’s comments by saying they couldn’t tolerate their nominee’s words because they themselves are husbands, brothers, and sons to women.

Oliver quipped,

As the son of a mother and a husband of a wife — what the f*ck does that have to do with anything? You’re going through an elaborate six-degrees-of-separation exercise to arrive at someone with a Y-chromosome that you can feel sorry for.

PREVIOUSLY: John Oliver Recaps Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week – WATCH 

Oliver also special attention to John McCain’s first attempt at denouncing Trump’s comments in which he said, “[Trump] alone bears the the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the consequences.”

“Except no, he alone does not bear the burden of his conduct, because he alone did not make himself your party’s nominee,” Oliver responded.

Watch, below.

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Billy Bush, Paul Ryan, Michael Steele, Samsung, Wet Wax Justin Bieber, Hurricane Matthew: HOT LINKS

SUSPENDED. Billy Bush won’t be at work on Monday: “I know we’ve all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours,” said “Today” executive producer Noah Oppenheim in a memo to staffers. “Let me be clear — there is simply no excuse for Billy’s language and behavior on that tape, NBC has decided to suspend Billy, pending further review of this matter.”

PAUL RYAN. Won’t defend Trump.

BREAKING– @SpeakerRyan tells house republicans he won’t defend trump and will focus the next 29 days on keeping the house majority.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 10, 2016

GRAB THEM BY THE. The name of Melania’s debate blouse was topical.

MICHAEL STEELE. The former RNC Chair’s comment about the debate.

GOP at this moment. #debate pic.twitter.com/nD0gc29sWj

— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) October 10, 2016

HURRICANE MATTHEW. 22 dead after storm sweeps Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia: “Millions of people’s lives were disrupted, with the evacuation of more than 3 million coastal residents; the closing of hundreds of roads including parts of Interstate 95 — a major East Coast artery; the halting of Amtrak service in the Southeast; the cancellation of thousands of flights.”

GERMANY. Nation will set aside €30m (£27m, $33m) to compensate gay men jailed for sexual orientation: “Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas said the draft law which will be formally announced later in October will offer “relatively uncomplicated” individual claims, as well as allowing for collective claims. Maas told German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) that over 5,000 men have a personal claim.

SAMSUNG. Production of Galaxy Note 7 halted over battery explosions: “The decision amounts to a major setback for Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone maker, which continues to struggle with the industry’s largest-ever recall. Already Samsung had said it would recall 2.5 million Note 7 phones over reports that its battery can catch fire. The halt suggests the South Korean company has not yet gotten the problem under control.”

IT’S RAINING BIEBS. It’s always odd to see real people treating a wax figure like it’s real.

😍🙌💦 #ItsRainingBiebs pic.twitter.com/N7MQGCUlZV

— Madame Tussauds (@MadameTussauds) October 9, 2016

POLAND. Woodpecker confuses animal patrol officer for a tree.

MONDAY MUSCLE. DJ aka yourviewofme.

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Randy Rainbow Gives Donald Trump Damage Control Advice: ‘Grab ‘Em By The P—y!’ – WATCH

Randy Rainbow plays Donald Trump’s Olivia Pope in his latest musical parody of the 2016 election.

Randy offers advice the Republican nominee (and his friends) advice on what they should do in the wake of the leak of a 2005 video in which Donald Trump infamously said that women will let him grab them by the ‘p—y’ because he’s a celebrity.

When things aren’t going your way, Randy says, don’t grab life by the balls, grab it by the–well, you get it. Watch below.

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#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: October 9, 2016

HILLARY CHANNELS FLOTUS: “WHEN THEY GO LOW…”: After a bizarre — and extraordinarily lewd — weekend on the campaign trail was triggered by Access Hollywood video of Donald Trump regaling Billy Bush about his sexually predatory behavior, Hillary Clinton on Sunday night gave a master class in restraint. While headlines focused on Trump’s shocking, and at times creepy, behavior at the debate, Hillary Clinton repeatedly attempted to return the discussion to policy issues, including health care, foreign policy and the Supreme Court. Among the contrasts she drew: her vow to appoint Supreme Court justices who will uphold marriage equality and “protect the constitutional principles of liberty and equality for all.” Meanwhile, Donald Trump pledged to appoint justices in the mold of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who used his seat over the course of several decades to support laws designed to discriminate against LGBTQ people. For more on Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees, read HRC President Chad Griffin’s (@ChadHGriffin) piece for NBC News at the beginning of the Supreme Court’s term.

DEBATE PREP: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell (@MitchellReports) reminded audiences of vice presidential nominee Mike Pence’s career-long goal of rolling-back LGBTQ equality, including signing a “license to discriminate” bill that could have allowed businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people — and subsequently defending the bill over an outcry from the business community and a majority of Hoosier voters. She also emphasized the power of the LGBTQ vote and HRC’s unprecedented #turnOUT effort to elect pro-equality candidates up and down the ballot. There are nearly 10 million LGBTQ voters in this country, and in many key states the LGBTQ adult population exceeds margin of victory in the 2012 presidential election.

.@chadhgriffin on @mitchellreports calls out Pence’s extreme record, from his license-to-discriminate bill to voting against hate crimes act pic.twitter.com/fto9o6u4IG

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) October 9, 2016

#turnOUT THE VOTE:

• North Carolina: Last week, HRC announced the latest push in it’s multi-state GOTV effort aimed at turning out the nearly 10 million LGBTQ who can decide this election in key states. On Sunday morning, CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson highlighted HRC’s campaign to reach an estimated 400,000 equality voters in NC, one of the tightest states in the 2016 presidential race — and a key gubernatorial race as advocates seek to defeat Governor McCrory and his hateful HB2 law.
• New Hampshire: HRC President Chad Griffin spent late last week campaigning across New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton in Concord, Portsmouth, Dartmouth, and Manchester. Along the way, Griffin also campaigned alongside Senate candidate Maggie Hassan and New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern.
• Iowa: Check out Anne Holton stopping by to thank HRC volunteers getting out the vote for Clinton-Kaine via Instagram.
• Pennsylvania: Last night, Griffin joined volunteers calling prospective voters and knocking on doors to kick off Pennsylvania’s final two days of voter registration.
• Omaha: With early voting set to begin tomorrow morning in Nebraska, Griffin heads to Omaha tonight for a series of GOTV events with LGBTQ voters!

ICYMI: @niaCNN notes GOTV strength of @HRC making 400,000 voter contacts in tight NC race #turnOUT pic.twitter.com/MYWkSWFPTe

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) October 9, 2016

MILBANK MUST-READ: “A WATERSHED MOMENT” FOR LGBTQ EQUALITY: In his Sunday column, Dana Milbank (@Milbank) of the The Washington Post writes on the potential “watershed moment” for LGBTQ equality if North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is defeated this fall. Milbank notes it “would be the first case of a prominent official being voted out of office because his anti-gay actions backfired.” Indeed, McCrory has watched his  approval ratings and polling numbers plummet amid the fallout from his hateful HB2 law. HRC President Chad Griffin agreed, noting the defeat of McCrory and his vile brand of hate “holds the possibility of being a turning point in the political history of our fight for equality.”

NYT MAG: “WHAT HAPPENED TO NORTH CAROLINA?” In The New York Times, Jonathan Katz (@KatzOnEarth) comprehensively tracks the terrible damage McCrory and his discriminatory HB2 have inflicted on North Carolina, a state that “has long traded on a reputation of relative political moderation, or at least balance.” Katz details hits the state taken because of the anti-LGBTQ law, and reports that the cost of the backlash is “politically obvious,” with polls consistently finding that a majority of North Carolinians believe HB2 has hurt the state’s economy and reputation. The approval rate in the state for the law continues to sink – down to 36 percent in a recent poll. Read more here.

MEANWHILE The Charlotte Observer has filed a lawsuit against McCrory seeking emails related to HB2 that the newspaper first requested in April under the state’s public records law. HRC filed a similar open records request in April, and has yet to receive a response. More from The Charlotte Observer.

HRC RELEASES CONGRESSIONAL SCORECARD FOR 114TH CONGRESS: HRC’s Congressional Scorecard measures support for LGBTQ equality in the 114th Congress. The 114th Congress saw a record number of Republicans vote at different times to affirm President Obama’s executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, the scorecard showed there is still work to be done — check out the “Hall of Shame” here.

Get the facts before Election Day & see where your members of Congress stand on #LGBTQ equality #HRCScorecard t.co/ojobs45rbe

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) October 10, 2016

PATTY JUDGE FOR U.S. SENATE: HRC endorsed of Patty Judge for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Chuck Grassley. While Judge will fight for Iowa values of fairness and equality, Grassley has abused his leadership position in the Senate to block any progress on equality. Grassley has demonstrated again and again that he would leave LGBTQ people around the country at risk for being fired or denied a job because of who they are or whom they love. More from HRC.

NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY COINCIDES WITH JEWISH AND MUSLIM HOLY DAYS: Tomorrow, LGBTQ Jews and Muslims will be celebrating National Coming Out Day as well as  Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and Ashura, commemorating the day Musa (Moses) was saved by God. For LGBTQ adherents of Judaism and Islam, and their allies, this is a particularly important time that makes coming out even more meaningful. Read more at HRC.

• For National Coming Out Day, HRC highlights the celebrities who came out in 2016.
• And, over the weekend….Glamour reports that Sara Ramirez, formerly Dr. Callie Torres of Grey’s Anatomy, shared that she is bisexual while speaking at the True Colors Fund’s 40 to None Summit, a two-day event to help end homelessness among LGBTQ youth. Read more here.

NIH DESIGNATES SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES AS HEALTH DISPARITY POPULATION: The National Institutes of Health has formally designated sexual and gender minorities as a “health disparity population” for purposes of NIH research.  The term “sexual and gender minorities” includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.  The announcement, writes HRC Senior Legislative Counsel Robin Maril, empowers NIH to undertake additional research on issues specifically affecting the LGBTQ community and elevates the health disparities faced by our community within the NIH research agenda. Read more here.

READING RAINBOW

The New York Times takes a look at transgender young people acting in Hollywood… PositiveLite interviews HRC’s Noel Gordon about HIV treatment as protection…

Have news? Send us your news and tips at [email protected]. Click here to subscribe to A.M. Equality and follow @HRC for all the latest news. Thanks for reading!

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