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Monthly Archives: November 2016
New Kids On The Block Singer Jonathan Knight Proposes To Boyfriend In Africa
New Kids On The Block Singer Jonathan Knight Proposes To Boyfriend In Africa
New Kids on the Block singer Jonathan Knight looked over at his boyfriend and personal trainer Harley Rodriguez.
“You got it,” he seemed to tell himself, holding back the excitement.
He may or may not have been planning to pop the question since summertime, but the time for mind games was through.
“We were in Africa, our parents were there — our moms were there — and I just figured this was the time to pop the question and make it official,” Knight recalled on Sirius radio’s The Jenny McCarthy Show on Tuesday.
“We were on the Zambezi River — it’s right above Victoria Falls. We took a nighttime raft dinner, just the four of us out on the river, there was like a hippopotamus in the background. It was a super moon. It was just absolutely beautiful, it was so romantic.”
The two have been hangin’ tough together for eight years, and the timing of the engagement comes just months before Knight joins the old gang for a nostalgia tour across the U.S., along with Boyz II Men and Paula Abdul.
Congratulations!
CNN Compares Reactions of Optimistic Gay Trump Voter with Scared Transgender Clinton Supporter – WATCH
CNN Compares Reactions of Optimistic Gay Trump Voter with Scared Transgender Clinton Supporter – WATCH
CNN aired a segment on Thursday that highlighted the division between gay voters who supported Donald Trump and other members of the LGBT community who fear what his presidency will mean for their safety and their civil rights.
In the wake of Trump’s election, the news network set up a voicemail hotline where people could call and leave their responses to the outcome of the presidential race. CNN compared the reaction of a gay Tennesseean voter who proudly supports Trump and a transgender woman from Massachusetts who says Trump’s election has left her scared to leave the house and constantly looking over her shoulder.
Said Thomas from Tennessee,
“I couldn’t be happier for the results of the election. I’m also a gay male. And it was great turnout. I think everyone is freaking out about Trump taking away rights, and he’s obviously not. He just said it on ’60 Minutes’ last night that he’s not going to touch gay marriage. So I think everyone should probably calm down a little bit and take a step back.”
Thomas did not make any mention of Trump’s list of virulently anti-LGBT potential SCOTUS appointees who could overturn marriage equality and make life worse for LGBT people innumerable ways.
Alicia from Massachusetts, however, said for her part,
“I’m a transgender woman. I’m [expletive] terrified. Everybody else I know it too. There’s tons of backlash, tons of violent crimes happening against people like us. And we’re so visible. Most of the girls I know have been staying inside for days now trying to avoid going out and about. I went out today I couldn’t stop loving over my shoulder I was so afraid.”
Despite the apparent division among some LGBT voters over Trump, the president-elect actually garnered a historically low amount of support from the LGBT community–only 14% of the LGBT vote.
The Washington Blade reports on how that stacks up to previous election years:
In 2012, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney received 22 percent of the LGBT vote compared to 76 percent received by President Barack Obama in his re-election bid, according to the exit poll conducted that year.
The Election Day exit poll conducted in 2008 showed that Republican presidential nominee John McCain received 27 percent of the LGBT vote compared to 70 percent of the LGBT vote received by then Democratic Sen. Obama.
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Christopher Street Day – No. 11
Zac Efron And Madonna Cozy Up To Men Tussling In Speedos
Zac Efron And Madonna Cozy Up To Men Tussling In Speedos
As William Carlos Williams wrote in his celebrated 1923 poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,”
so much depends
upon
and Madge
inexplicably watching
a UFC fight
and we’re supposed to give a flying copulation
Related: Dave Franco And Zac Efron Confirmed To Be Dating, James Franco Offers Congratulations
Now, 93 years later, it appears Williams — perhaps passing the time in-between shifts in the sterile corridors of Passaic General Hospital? — somehow prophesied the below Instagram posts during a moment of prescient whimsy:
As the likes of Bill Moyers pen eulogies to the American dream and spirit, perhaps these sort of puff pieces are just the antidote we need to bolster our hearts and spirits and whatever
Gay Office Manager Takes Billy Eichner’s Pointedly Topical ‘Immigrants or Real Americans’ Quiz: WATCH
Gay Office Manager Takes Billy Eichner’s Pointedly Topical ‘Immigrants or Real Americans’ Quiz: WATCH
Kevin, a gay office manager whose boyfriend Alex loves him, gets the third degree from Billy on the Street‘s Billy Eichner, before being barraged by a list of famous people, from which Kevin must pick those who are immigrants and those who are ‘real Americans’.
Or, in this case, murderers and terrorists.
Watch:
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This Trans Woman’s Car Was Vandalized, And The Community Leapt To Her Defense
This Trans Woman’s Car Was Vandalized, And The Community Leapt To Her Defense
To make her position clear, Amber Timmons wrote “love trumps hate” and “not my president” on her car windows shortly after the election.
But when the Denver woman woke up Wednesday morning, she found her car spray-painted with an array of death threats, swastikas, slurs, and “Trump.”
There was also the incoherent but not-quite-incoherent-enough message “fag die he she,” and “die” written next to a swastika.
Related: Swastikas Carved Into Home Of Gay, Jewish New York State Senator Brad Hoylman
According to Denverite, Timmons’ neighbors were quick to show support by leaving notes of support all over her window.
Timmons moved to Cheesman Park because she thought the area would be more accepting of her as a trans woman.
“Like I said on the back, love trumps hate,” she told Denverite. “You don’t fight hate with hate. You fight it with love.”
“I try to tell people that because of the Trump thing, it’s all coming back. It’s coming back hard.”
Related: Donald Trump Says He’s “Fine” With Marriage Equality… For Now
“We live in difficult times,” said Glenn Barrows, congregational administrator at First Unitarian Society of Denver.
It’s our position at First Unitarian, has been for decades — we are an island of sanity in a somewhat insane world and we are here for anyone who is marginalized. It’s not just about the congregation, it’s about the community and about the world.”
We will be here. We aren’t going anywhere. We will be here forever. Because we need to be.”
Denver police are currently investigating.
Trailing by 5,000 Votes, NC’s Pat McCrory Files Challenges in 12 Counties – WATCH
Trailing by 5,000 Votes, NC’s Pat McCrory Files Challenges in 12 Counties – WATCH
Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has filed election protests in 12 counties, alleging voter fraud orchestrated by the state Democratic party.
McCrory is currently 5,000 votes behind his Democratic challenger, state attorney general Roy Cooper.
McCrory, who infamously signed HB 2 into law triggering a massive backlash, is arguing that fraudulent absentee voting has taken place which benefitted Cooper.
Concerns about duplicate handwriting on mail-in ballots are at issue in Halifax County and Bladen County. The campaign also points to money flowing from the state Democratic Party to local groups in Bladen and the 11 other counties to promote voter turnout.
Earlier Wednesday, the results of a quick investigation by a forensic document examiner has found indications that at least 167 mail-in absentee ballots cast in Bladen County were written by seven people.
Time constraints prevented the examiner from looking at the entire batch of votes cast as straight Democratic Party tickets with similar handwriting. They included write-in ballots for a candidate named Franklin Graham. There are about 400 ballots with Graham’s name and about 275 envelopes under scrutiny.
Complicating the matter is the fact that some of the handwriting has been linked to individuals paid by a local community association which in turn receives funds from the NC Democratic party to encourage voter turn out.
It is possible that those individuals were legally assisting voters in filling out their ballots, hence the same handwriting appearing on multiple ballots. However, such assistance must be disclosed on the submitted ballot, and as the News and Observer notes, “few if any such disclosures were made.”
Watch a news report from ABC 11, below.
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Trailing by 5,000 Votes, NC’s Pat McCrory Files Challenges in 12 Counties – WATCH
GLAAD launches a bilingual report on Spanish-Language Television in the United States
GLAAD launches a bilingual report on Spanish-Language Television in the United States
GLAAD
Nearly Invisible is the first GLAAD report that analyzes the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) characters in primetime Spanish-language scripted television airing in the United States between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. The report also analyzed the inclusion of characters of African and indigenous descent as well as characters with disabilities.
GLAAD’s first report on primetime scripted programming on Spanish-language televison intends to inform regional conversations about inclusive LGBTQ representation, and also informs GLAAD’s own advocacy within the television industry. GLAAD will use this report as a baseline to measure any progress made to the stories and images being presented by Spanish-language television networks, and to encourage networks to include representation that is inclusive of complex characters that are LGBTQ, racially and ethnically diverse and have visible and invisible disabilities. The next report on Spanish-language television will be released in 2017.
El primer informe que analiza la programación con guión en hora estelar en la televisión en español propone informar conversaciones regionales acerca de la representación LGBTQ inclusiva, pero también impacta la abogacía que hace GLAAD con los productores de la industria. GLAAD utilizará este informe como una herramienta para medir cualquier progreso se hace en cuanto a las historias e imagines que son presentadas en la televisión en español y también para abogar para que se incluyan personajes complejos que son LGBTQ, diversos en raza y etnia, y tienen discapacidades visibles e invisibles. El próximo informe acerca de la televisión en español con guión será publicado en el 2017.
Below are some of the findings from this report:
- Of the 516 characters on scripted primetime series, there were 14 LGBTQ characters across the three networks.
- The overall percentage of LGBTQ characters on scripted primetime series was 3%.
- Ten of the 14 (74%) LGBTQ characters were gay men, 2 of them (14%) were bisexual women and 1 (7%) was a lesbian.
- No bisexual men were represented across the networks.
- Additionally, there was 1 straight transgender woman (7%), no transgender men were represented in primetime series.
- Of these 516 characters we found that 15 (3%) were of African descent.
- However, only two (14%) of the LGBTQ characters were of African descent as presented in character descriptions and confirmed by the networks.
- Additionally, one character (0.19%) was of indigenous descent identified by character descriptions and network press. None of the LGBTQ characters were reported to be of indigenous descent (According to the International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs, there are approximately 40,000,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean that belong to the over 600 identified indigenous peoples in the region.)
- In addition, of the 516 characters across the three networks, 14 (3%) were presented with a disability, however none of these characters were also identified as LGBTQ.
Abajo algunas de las concluciones del informe:
- De los 516 personajes en series con guíon, 14 eran LGBTQ.
- El porcentaje de personajes LGBTQ en las novelas durante la hora estelar es 3%.
- 10 de estos 14 (72%) personajes LGBTQ que aparecieron en las tres cadenas de televisión, fueron hombres gays, dos (14%) fueron mujeres bisexuales y una (7%) fue una mujer lesbiana.
- Ningún hombre bisexual fue representado en estas series en hora estelar.
- Adicionalmente, una mujer transgénero heterosexual (7%) fue representada.
- Ningún hombre transgénero fue representado en estas series en hora estelar.
- De estos 516 personajes, 15 (3%) fueron de ascendencia africana. Adicionalmente, dos (14%) de los personajes LGBTQ fueron de ascendencia africana de acuerdo a las descripciones de los personajes y confirmado por los canales.
- Solo uno (0,19%) fue representado de ascendencia indígena según están identificados por el historial del personaje y comunicados de las cadenas. Ningún personaje LGBTQ presentado fue de ascendencia indígena (según el Grupo Laboral Internacional de Asuntos Indígenas, hay aproximadamente 40.000.000 de personas en Latinoamérica y el Caribe que pertenecen a los más de 600 pueblos indígenas de la región).
- Adicionalmente, de estos 516 personajes en las tres cadenas de televisión 14, o 3%, fueron representados teniendo alguna discapacidad, pero ninguno de estos personajes visto este año fueron identificados como LGBTQ.
November 17, 2016
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Trump-Inspired Hate Crimes in 60 Seconds
Trump-Inspired Hate Crimes in 60 Seconds
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