People Apparently Love To Imagine Mike Pence As A Secret Gay Adult Film Star

It all started with this meme:

It’s a side-by-side image of Mike Pence and retired gay adult film star Brad Patton. The picture began making the rounds on social media late last week, receiving thousands of likes and shares on Twitter and Facebook. Despite the fact that these are clearly two very different people, that didn’t prevent some folks from questioning if Mike Pence had a secret gay porn past:

@Doogi_ WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ? pic.twitter.com/V7VF5o55TM

— P13r6 (@P13r61) November 21, 2016

Related: Mike Pence’s Seven Most Vicious Homophobic Moments (There’s A Lot To Choose From)

The rumors were quickly debunked, however, when one internet sleuth tracked down the original photo of Batton, who retired from the industry and became a competitive male figure skater in 2008. It was discovered on an ancient Myspace profile belonging to fellow performer Martin Mazza:

Others pointed out that, in his younger years, Pence was actually a brunette, as evidenced by this 1988 campaign flyer:

So, just so everyone is totally, 100 percent clear, Mike Pence does not have a secret gay porn past… that we known of. Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, William Holcombe “Bill” Pryor Jr., may be another story, however.

Related: Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist May Have A Secret Gay Porn Past

www.queerty.com/people-apparently-love-imagine-mike-pence-secret-gay-adult-film-star-20161122?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

LIVE Updates From the NYT’s Meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump – READ

Donald Trump on Tuesday met with staff and reporters from The New York Times to discuss the media’s coverage of him during the 2016 election as well as the race itself.

Big turnout for the president-elect’s visit to The New York Times mothership. His arrival’s expected within minutes. pic.twitter.com/Qa2ku67ycx

— Ashley Southall (@AshleyAtTimes) November 22, 2016

Trump was originally scheduled to meet with the Times earlier in the day. However, after reports of Trump flying off the handle at a meeting with network news anchors and execs leaked, and after incoming WH Chief of Staff lobbied to cancel the meeting with the Times, Trump took to Twitter to accuse the Grey Lady of changing the terms of their meeting at the last minute–something the NYT ardently denies.

I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016

Shortly thereafter, the meeting was rescheduled, as the NYT notes:

“Mr. Trump’s staff has told us that the president-elect’s meeting with The Times is on again,’’ the paper said in a statement. “He will meet with our publisher off the record and that session will be followed by an on-the-record meeting with our journalists and editorial columnists.’’

Here is a list of those who were in attendance at the meeting.

The attendees at today’s meeting between the President-elect and The New York Times. pic.twitter.com/8kPqRp3AVE

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

Below, read updates from the meeting via journalists at the Times.

On white supremacists supporting him:

Trump on alt-right supporters: “It’s not a group I want to energize. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Trump gets asked again about the alt-right conference. ‘Boy you are really into” this issue, Trump replies. Then disavows again.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Will the President-elect condemn Richard Spencer’s alt-right gathering? “I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn,” says Trump.

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

On the electoral college:

“We had a great victory,” Trump says. “I’ll see every once in awhile someone says, ‘Well, the popular vote.'”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Adds: “Until now.” Also says Electoral College “gets you out to” see states you wouldn’t otherwise.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Without EC “You wouldn’t leave New York,” Trump says.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

On prosecuting Hillary Clinton for alleged crimes having either to do with her use of a private email server or alleged wrongdoing at the Clinton Foundation:

Trump is pressed if he has definitively ruled out prosecuting Hillary Clinton. “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about.”

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t. She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

Says he wants to move on and move forward. “I’m not looking to go back and go through this,” Trump says.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Trump on disappointing his supporters re Clinton: “I don’t think they will be disappointed…” 1/2

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

2/2 “I think I will explain it that we in many ways will save our country.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“I think it would be very very divisive for the country,” Trump says about prosecuting the Clintons.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

On climate change:

Tom Friedman asks if Trump will withdraw from climate change accords. Trump: “I’m looking at it very closely. I have an open mind to it.”

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

Does Trump think human activity is linked to climate change? “I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much.”

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

On climate change, Trump says he is also thinking about “how much it will cost our companies” & the effect on American competitiveness.

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

On white supremacist Steve Bannon:

On Bannon:”If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn’t even think about hiring him.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Trump on Bannon: “I think it’s very hard on him. I think he’s having a hard time with it. Because it’s not him.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Trump: “Breitbart is just a publication.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Trump is asked about concerns from minority groups about Breitbart News’s coverage under Steve Bannon. His reply: pic.twitter.com/FBqCGwQpBr

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

“A lot of people are coming to his defense right now,” Trump says of Bannon. Reince voices support too at conference table.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

On his business and conflicts of interest now that he will become president:

Trump on his businesses/conflict q’s: “The law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“My company’s so unimportant to me relative to what I’m doing.” Trump.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

Trump acknowledges the DC hotel he owns is “probably a more valuable asset than it was before.” Says the brand is “hotter.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“I don’t care about anything having anything to do” with something other than the U.S., Trump says. “I don’t want to influence anything.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There’s never been a case like this,”he says of his tangles

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“I’d assumed that you’d have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you don’t,” Trump says.But he adds “I would like to do something.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

What about selling your company? “That’s a really hard thing to do, because I have real estate.”

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

Conflicts of interest? Trump says: “If it were up to some people, I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again.”

— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016

On meeting President Obama:

“I had a great meeting with President Obama,” Trump says, says he never met him before. “I really liked him a lot.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“He said very nice things after the meeting and I saidvery nice things about him,” Trump says of Obama.Says he didn’t know if he’d like him.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

“I think he’s looking to do absolutely the right thing for the country in terms of transition,” Trump says of Obama.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

‘He did tell me what he thought were the biggest problems, in particular one problem,” Trump says. Won’t say what that was.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

 

 

The post LIVE Updates From the NYT’s Meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump – READ appeared first on Towleroad.

LIVE Updates From the NYT’s Meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump – READ

Donald Trump Announces Plans for First 100 Days in Office

In a two-minute video segment, Trump discussed jobs, trade, and cutting federal regulation. 

www.advocate.com/politics/2016/11/22/donald-trump-announces-plans-first-100-days-office

Comedian Joel Dommett Fesses Up About Last Month’s Leak

“Yes, it’s easy to find on the internet. I was catfished.”

That’s comedian and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here cast member Joel Dommett, opening up about the explicit video that made the rounds last month. (Formerly, he’d made a nude appearance on BBC show Impractical Jokers.)

Related: British Comedian Joel Dommett Becomes Next Celeb To Bare It All

You can head over to omg blog to see the evidence for yourself, provided the boss isn’t leaning over your shoulder.

As the Daily Express reports, the 30-year-old entertainer fessed up to Gogglebox‘s Scarlett Moffatt after she asked if he’d ever sent naked photos to anyone.

“Basically someone messaged me online and after a while she said did you want Skype sex, so I was like ‘yes’,” he tells her. “I was so naive.”

I messaged a few weeks later and she didn’t reply and then a few years later the video was released online, it was released about a week before I came in here.

I thought I was having Skype sex with someone but it was actually a video and it turned out it was someone watching me, watching porn – a porno Gogglebox.”

Watch:

h/t: Attitude

www.queerty.com/comedian-joel-dommett-fesses-last-months-leak-20161122?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Right-Wing Media Misquoted a Gay University Official and Tried to Get Him Fired – WATCH

A number of right wing publications have fabricated quotes by a gay university admissions officer in order to get him fired.

Following Donald Trump’s election victory, George Mason University employee Andrew Bunting (right) voiced concerns about Brian Brown’s anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM), saying that he was “worried” about the future.

Bunting linked to a November 9 NOM blog post titled “The Plan” which outlines the goals that Brown’s group planned to work with Trump’s administration to achieve. Tandhese goals include reversing marriage equality, targeting “gender identity” directives, and passing anti-LGBT legislation such as the so-called First Amendment Defense Act. NOM also announced it’s intention to reverse Obama administration policies that “seek to coerce other countries into accepting same-sex ‘marriage’ as a condition of receiving US assistance and aid.”

you’re not a worthless piece of trash – t.co/pNiDc6g3HU pic.twitter.com/htzuunZv4B

— NOM (@NOMupdate) November 16, 2016

In his post, Bunting concluded that if you agree with NOM, you are “a worthless piece of trash.”

As Media Matters points out, a number of conservative outlets have misrepresented or fabricated Bunting’s comments. MRCTV, a conservative Media Research Center platform, mistakenly suggested that Bunting’s comments were aimed at all conservatives. MRCTV also noted that Bunting worked part time at a gay bar and “dressed provocatively.”

Following MRCTV’s lead, Townhall and Fox News went on to misrepresent Bunting.

Townhall noted:

College administrators everywhere are having a really difficult time accepting Donald Trump’s White House victory, but the admissions director at George Mason University just lost it. On his Facebook page, Andrew Bunting declared conservatives, Trump voters and anyone who dares to disagree with his progressive ideology are “worthless pieces of trash.”

In a conversation on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, Washington Examiner contributor Lisa Boothe and Bill O’Reilly called for Bunting to be fired:

BILL O’REILLY (HOST): If you are a student, and you’re applying to George Mason University, you have to write an essay. I mean, you have to tell the people about yourself. And if you hold a certain belief system, maybe that will be included in your essay. And one of the admissions deciders is telling you, “if you don’t agree with me you are a worthless piece of you know what?” Come on? How can he possibly do his job?

LISA BOOTHE: He can’t. And that’s the big problem here. And this is why he should be let go. Because his job is supposed to be objective with the admissions process. And clearly he is anything but. And, I think the university needs to take it one step further and do a review of the applications process to ensure that no students and previous applicants — that they were not discriminated against based off of their political ideology or Christian beliefs. Because the statement that this individual made on his Facebook post was related to gay marriage, and was actually — cited something from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled groups like the Family Research Council hate groups.

O’REILLY: So, well, I want to get this right. So, you would fire him outright? He’s done, if you were the chancellor?

BOOTHE: Yes. And I think he needs emotional therapy puppies. Maybe he needs to attend a cry-in. But yeah, I think he should be let go.

Breitbart noted:

“…if Bunting plays a role in denying admission into GMU’s freshman class a high-school senior because that student expresses Evangelical or Catholic beliefs on marriage or sexuality—or a secular conservative who expresses a conservative political viewpoint on any public issue or applaudes Republican victories on Election Day—then GMU would be violating the First Amendment, and could be sued by that applicant for illegal discrimination.”

Reactions also poured in on social media:

@GeorgeMasonU Are you aware you have a bigot as your Senior Assistant Director of Admissions creating a hostile environment? #andrewbunting

— SJW Buzz (@SJWbuzz) November 12, 2016

This college is a disgrace and #andrewbunting is a piece of human garbage at its lowest level !! #GeorgeMasonUniversity

— Larry T Basher (@LarryTBasher) November 16, 2016

#GeorgeMasonUniversity needs to fire #AndrewBunting 4 his hateful message! Protect your conservative students too! Hypocrisy of the left! t.co/nIjXtn1p9Z

— Mitchell Hirota (@hirotadad1) November 16, 2016

Watch Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor conversation below.

(Image of Bunting via Twitter)

The post Right-Wing Media Misquoted a Gay University Official and Tried to Get Him Fired – WATCH appeared first on Towleroad.

Right-Wing Media Misquoted a Gay University Official and Tried to Get Him Fired – WATCH

Nykolas Alford, HB 1523 plaintiff, reflects on how #MyMississippi treats its most vulnerable residents

www.glaad.org/blog/nykolas-alford-hb-1523-plaintiff-reflects-how-mymississippi-treats-its-most-vulnerable

This Guy Put A Rainbow Flag Outside His House After The Election, And Something Beautiful Happened

Here’s a positive twist on an all-too-familiar story. A young man on Reddit recently shared what happened to him after he put a rainbow flag outside his house, and it’s probably not what you expect.

The 23-year-old bisexual man lives with his parents in what he calls “a somewhat conservative northeast U.S. town. … with a lot of older, conservative, white folk.”

Related: This Trans Woman’s Car Was Vandalized, And The Community Leapt To Her Defense

“Our home is right next to a church, and directly across the street from their Catholic grade school,” he writes. “I went to that church my whole life, and my family still has many friends there, and is close with priests, nuns, and teachers that still work there.”

Despite having a boyfriend of six years, the young man says he’s never been able to come out to his conservative parents… Until Donald Trump was elected president.

After the election, the young man felt compelled to take a stand against bigotry. So he purchased a rainbow flag online.

“I didn’t ask anyone. I just ordered the flag and got some hooks and mounted it to hang right off of our porch, attached to my lifelong home,” he says. “I was terrified waiting for it to arrive, and even more so just waiting for my family to get home the day I hung it.”

Related: After Orlando, This Random Act Of Kindness Towards A Gay Couple Will Help Restore Your Faith In Humanity

To his surprise, his family was fine with it.

“Nobody said anything,” he writes. “At one point, my mom asked where I got it. I told her I’d bought it online and that I knew there was at least one kid who gets off the bus at school across the street every day, who needs to know that they have support somewhere.”

But it gets better. Because a few days later his mom gave him note someone had left in the mailbox. It read:

Dear fellow,

As I passed your home today I saw your flag and it lifted the pall that has been over me and my family since the election. I know it is weird for a stranger to drop you a note for a home adornment, but you should know that your sign of acceptance of diversity and sign that that there are people close by who feel differently than our future leaders do, gave me hope for our town, for what I try to teach my kids and hopefully for our country.

Thank you, so much.

Related: Man Seriously Regrets Coming Out After Family Is Aggressively Supportive

“I know this seems so melodramatic, but I’m 23, living at home after college, still closeted to my family, and feeling more and more uncomfortable in my home town,” the young man writes. “This letter meant so much to me, even though it doesn’t even say much of anything. I wish I could tell them how often it makes me smile still, days after reading it.”

www.queerty.com/guy-put-rainbow-flag-outside-house-election-something-beautiful-happened-20161122?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Liberal Redneck’s Thanksgiving Message for Trump’s America, His First Since the Election: WATCH

“Liberal Redneck” Trae Crowder hasn’t posted a video since before the election. Like all of us, he has been a bit shell-shocked, but he’s back to talk about it just days before Thanksgiving, and slap a bit of reality back into everyone.

Crowder says the endless debates about who’s right and who’s wrong need to stop and we need to understand what happened, learn from it, and move on.

Says Crowder:

“Right now in this moment in this America, do you really feel like that matters? Who’s right and who’s wrong. Cause it don’t. What matters right now is who won and who lost. And there ain’t no debating that part, baby. So we can keep shoving our heads up our high horse’s asses all we want, acting like there ain’t shit for us to learn about what just happened, but as long as we do that, we ain’t no better than a climate change denier who gets dickslapped with evidence and goes ‘ah well it was cold on Easter – f**k the grandkids anyway’. We ain’t no better. And as long as we do that we will continue to lose.”

Crowder also has a message for those of you who are about to go sit down for Thanksgiving dinner with your racist grandpa who voted for Trump.

“What’re you gonna do? You’re gonna throw gravy in his stupid old face? Tell him to shove the turkey baster up his ass? That ain’t no way to act. It’s a problem I’d love to have by the way. Both my papaws are dead and gone, all right? Both somewhat racist, both probably would have voted for Trump. Still miss ’em. Still give anything to be able to get drunk on dressing with ’em on Thursday. I loved ’em in spite of that shit. Ain’t that how it’s supposed to work?”

So here’s some advice:

“Just take a deep breath and remind yourself, we’re all still in this house together. And we all still gotta eat.”

Watch:

The post Liberal Redneck’s Thanksgiving Message for Trump’s America, His First Since the Election: WATCH appeared first on Towleroad.

Liberal Redneck’s Thanksgiving Message for Trump’s America, His First Since the Election: WATCH

No Gender. No Race. No Limits. Just Art.

www.advocate.com/art/2016/11/22/no-gender-no-race-no-limits-just-art