All I wanna do
Julie Bracken posted a photo:
I’m not a stalker I just gotta know
How it feels when I hold you close
So tell me what you like
Cause I’m runnin’ out of time
Promise you I’m not insane
Something about you that I can’t explain
I’m going out of my mind
~Martin Jensen video link
Photo, makeup and styling by the talented Kelayla of www.transvista.co.uk/
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11 Nov 16
Cover Shoot
kengikat40 posted a photo:
Two weeks ago I photographed my 3rd national magazine cover for Positively Aware, an HIV magazine based in Chicago. Its their gay men’s health issue.
I had the opportunity to work with folks I admire, respect and call me friends.
ISIS Claims to Have Executed Another Gay Man
The execution, in which the man was thrown off a building and then stoned, reportedly took place in Aleppo, Syria.
www.advocate.com/world/2016/12/06/isis-claims-have-executed-another-gay-man
Beyoncé, Mike Pence, Pat McCrory, Extreme Manscaping, Tom Hardy, Dan Patrick: HOT LINKS
POST ELECTION BLUES. Madonna knows why Hillary lost: “It feels like women betrayed us. The percentage of women who voted for Trump was insanely high.”
GRAMMYS. Beyoncé leads with 9 nominations (Adele has 5): “Beyoncé’s haul of nine included album, song and record of the year, the top three Grammy accolades, for her hit song “Formation” and visual album Lemonade, a collection of songs about race, feminism and empowerment.”
RUNWAY. Lady Gaga performs” A-YO”/”John Wayne” medley, “Million Reasons” at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
DICK CHENEY REDUX. Mike Pence has a Freudian Slip, admits he’s running the show while talking to Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe.
SECRETARY PAT MCCRORY? Trump to meet with the defeated NC governor and hate-monger: “Voters kicked McCrory out of office four weeks ago, but McCrory helped deliver his battleground state to Donald Trump. In fact, Trump took North Carolina by 3.6 percentage points.”
TWINK LIFE. Austin Butler flexes outside the gym.
QUEER VISIBILITY. Huffington Post names NYT vet Lydia Polgreen as new Editor-in-Chief: “I feel like we’re living in a moment right now where media has to fundamentally rethink its position vis-a-vis power,” she said. “I think that the election of Donald Trump and the basic difficulty that the media had in anticipating it tells us something really profound about the echo chamber in which we live, the ways in which journalism has failed to reach beyond its own inner limits.”
EXTREME MANSCAPING. People who go bare down there face higher risk of STIs: “People who have “mowed the lawn” at least once in their lifetimes were nearly twice as likely to say they had had at least one STD. And “extreme groomers” – those who remove all their pubic hair more than 11 times each year — were more than four times as likely to have had an infection. “High-frequency groomers,” who just trim their hair a few times a month, fell between the two extremes. They were about three times more likely to have reported an STD.”
INK. Tom Hardy shows off his tatts, lost a bet to Leonardo DiCaprio and has to get a tattoo that says “Leo knows everything.”
FAKE NEWS. Trump campaign denies Gen. Michael Flynn’s son had role in transition (but he did).
EVERYTHING’S BIGGER IN TEXAS. Anti-LGBT bill could cost the lone-star state $8.5 billion: “Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has made passing a so-called bathroom bill — which would ban transgender people from using the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity — a top priority during the legislative session that begins in January. Republican House Speaker Joe Straus said the legislation is not a priority for him, and enterprises large and small, including the NCAA, have warned its passage could threaten ties with Texas.”
TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY. Tevin Baker.
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Beyoncé, Mike Pence, Pat McCrory, Extreme Manscaping, Tom Hardy, Dan Patrick: HOT LINKS
GLAAD calls on media to accurately report on Oakland fire victims
Photo credit: NBC News (l-r) Em Bohlka, Cash Askew, Feral Pines
On Friday, December 2, a fire engulfed a warehouse in Oakland, California leaving more than 30 people dead. Among the deceased were Cash Askew, 22, Em Bohlka, 33, and Feral Pines, 29 – all of whom were transgender.
In some of the media reporting, Askew, Bohlka, and Pines have been misgendered and their birth names used. Journalists should refer to all of them with the names shown above and with female pronouns. (Feral Pines’ family has also stated that Feral sometimes used names Riley and Fyrah).
GLAAD worked with the Trans Assistance Project based in Oakland, who knew the victims and provided detailed information about their identities.
GLAAD reminds and urges journalists to follow these guidelines to help ensure the transgender victims of this tragedy are treated with respect and dignity. These guidelines apply to all stories that involve the transgender community, and are especially important when there is loss of life.
Gender & Pronouns: A victim’s gender is how they currently identify or, if they were killed, how they identified at the time of the incident. Always use the gender and pronoun that corresponds with the way the victim identified. If how the person identified is not known, use the pronoun consistent with how the person lived publicly. This holds true even if you have only been given the victim’s birth name, and even if the only name you have for the victim does not match their self-identified gender. Disregarding the victim’s gender identity and misgendering them in news reports adds further insult to injury, compounding the tragedy by invalidating who the victims were.
Names: A transgender person’s chosen name should be considered by reporters to be their real name, whether it has been legally changed or not. Often transgender people cannot afford a legal name change, or they live in a community where obtaining correct identification is difficult. All transgender people should be treated as though they have changed their name legally to their chosen name. If you do not know a transgender victim’s chosen name, make the source for the name you are using clear.
Both GLAAD’s Media Reference Guide and the AP Style Guide support these guidelines.
Conflicting Information: Many transgender people are only able to live as their authentic gender some of the time. Some have only disclosed the fact that they are transgender to certain people. Often a victim’s co-workers, neighbors, or even family won’t know that the person was transgender. In these cases, you should still listen to the friends who did know about the victim’s trans identity, and respect the way a victim identified at the time of the incident.
Incorrect Information: Often, police or witnesses will use the wrong name or gender for the victim. When possible, paraphrase rather than quote directly, or quote elements of the statement that do not include this incorrect information. If this is not possible, leave the quote as-is but make sure that you, as the journalist, use the correct information.
For additional information about how to report on transgender victims, read more here.
www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-calls-media-accurately-report-oakland-fire-victims
Trump's Education Sec. Pick No Homophobe, Claims Her Gay Employee
Betsy DeVos, a conservative Christian who may lead the nation’s public schools, is not a standard ideologue, says Greg McNeilly.
www.advocate.com/politics/2016/12/06/trumps-education-sec-pick-no-homophobe-claims-her-gay-employee
Limit(less) Project: Toshiro
mowunna posted a photo:
Toshiro: Queer/Bisexual Ivorian (Canada)
English
Q. How would you describe your style?
“I don’t like the idea of describing my style, because I believe my style is in constant evolution , depending on where I am in my life( professionally or artistically/ emotionally), who I am surrounded by …For instance, I have been pushing my dancing career to a professional turn for the past year and that have definitely influenced the way I choose to dress on a daily basis, knowing that I might have 3 to 4 differents rehearsal or shows/ casting in the same day where I need to be comfortable in my clothes and at the same time show who I am to create an interest in me a liltte extra, that can make the difference when all the other dancer in the room are looking for that same gig.
But there is few things that are constant in my style and that will be “the fluidity”, meaning the mix and match of what we call “men” clothes and “women” clothes, I do believe that any items of clothing can become an uni-sex garment and the need to look like no one else except myself.”
Français
Q. Comment décririez-vous votre style ?
«Je n’aime pas l’idée de devoir décrire mon style, car je pense qu’il est en constant changement et évolution. Dépendement de comment ma vie évolue et ou je me situe émotionnellement, professionnellement ou artistiquement, et par qui je suis entouré… Justement, le fait que depuis 1 an et quelques mois j’ai décidé de pousser d’avantage au niveau de ma passion qui est la danse et d’en faire une carrière professionnel. Ce choix influence bien entendu la facon que je m’exprime vestimentairement depuis un peu plus d’1 an, s’achant que je peux avoir 3 à 4 répetitions différentes, des shows ou des auditions dans la meme journée et que je dois etre bien sure confortable dans ce que je portes et en même temps montrer un petit plus de ma personnalité, pour attirer un intérêt dans une salle rempli d’autres tres bons danseurs qui veulent tous le même contract que moi.
Mais certaines variantes sont récurrente dans mon style et il s’agit de mon désire de garder une liberté et une fluidité dans le passages et le mélange d’habits dit “masculin” ou “feminin”, je pense qu’il y a moyen de rentre n’importe quel item vestimentaire uni-sexe et enfin le désire d’apporter quelque chose de nouveau et de ressembler à personne sauf a moi même».
– Toshiro (Queer/Bisexual Ivorian, He/Him, IG: @stylistiking Vimeo: vimeo.com/user53533211)
Donate to support the project: HERE
About Limit(less)
Limit(less) is a photography project by Mikael Owunna (@owning-my-truth) documenting the fashion and style of LGBTQ African Immigrants (1st and 2nd generation) in diaspora. As LGBTQ Africans, we are constantly told that being LGBTQ is somehow “un-African,” and this rhetoric is a regular part of homophobic and transphobic discourse in African communities. This line of thinking, however, is patently false and exists an artifact of colonization of the African continent. Identities which would now be categorized as “LGBTQ” have always existed, and being LGBTQ does not make us “less” African.
Limit(less) explores how LGBTQ African immigrants navigate their identities and find ways to overcome the supposed “tension” between their LGBTQ and African identities through their fashion and style. The project seeks to visually deconstruct the colonial binary that has been set up between LGBTQ and African identities, which erases the lives and experiences of LGBTQ Africans. #LimitlessAfricans
Donate to support the project: HERE
Website:
limitlessafricans.com/
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/limitlessafricans
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limitlessafricans.tumblr.com
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