Lessons Learned: Ellen Taught Us How to Fight Trump 20 Years Ago
A year after Ellen DeGeneres came out, her show was canceled. But her bravery in the face of uncertainty changed the world and paved the way for a brighter future.
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CH (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Tutu’s admirers see him as a great man who, since the demise of apartheid, has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.
Artwork by TudioJepegii, Photo by Roger LeMoyne
Mo’Nique has zero patience for Kim Burrell’s antigay foolishness
“There are so many other things we could be fighting for,” Mo’Nique said. “We’re wasting our energy fighting over love.”
Welsh Pop Princess Charlotte Church Tells ‘Tyrant’ Donald Trump To Take A Hike: VIDEO
Welsh singer Charlotte Church (above) has taken to Twitter to spectacularly turn down an invite to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Church joins a long list of musicians who have declined to honor Trump. As of yet, the only acts confirmed are Jackie Evancho, the Rockettes, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Talladega College Marching Tornadoes.
To add to Trump’s woes, 2010 Ex Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson (below, right) has also officially turned down the chance to perform for the incoming POTUS.
According to USA Today, Church wrote on Twitter: “Your staff have asked me to sing at your inauguration, a simple Internet search would show I think you’re a tyrant. Bye.” Harsh.
@realDonaldTrump Your staff have asked me to sing at your inauguration, a simple Internet search would show I think you’re a tyrant. Bye????
— Charlotte Church (@charlottechurch) January 10, 2017
Meanwhile, Ferguson said she is not participating because the committee in charge refused to accommodate her request to be allowed to sing Billie Holiday‘s ‘Strange Fruit’. The song is a condemnation of the lynchings of African-Americans in the late 1930s.
In a statement on her website, she said:
“I wasn’t comfortable with the song choice made on my behalf, and although I’m very blessed to have a gift that gives me amazing opportunities, as a mother and an artist, I had to defend my stance. That is why I made the decision to sing ‘Strange Fruit’ when I was invited. I requested to sing ‘Strange Fruit,’ as I felt it was the only song that would not compromise my artistic integrity and also as somebody who has a lot of love for all people, but has a special empathy as well for African American people and the #blacklivesmatter movement, I wanted to create a moment of pause for people to reflect.
“There are many gray areas about the offer for me to perform that I’m unable to share right now, but I will not be singing.”
Watch Church’s quite simply amazing “Glitterbombed” below.
(Church image via Twitter. Ferguson image via Twitter)
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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: January 11, 2016
WILL THE REAL JEFF SESSIONS PLEASE STAND UP? TRUMP’S AG NOMINEE DELUDES ON CAREER SPENT OPPOSING EQUALITY: During his confirmation hearing yesterday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) sidestepped clear and unequivocal commitments to LGBTQ equality and dodged questions about his anti-equality past. Here are the facts.
| What Sessions said yesterday: | Sessions’ actual record: |
| “I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the LGBT community.” — Sen. Sessions | Sessions understands the demands, because he’s made a career working against them. Sen. Sessions has earned a score of “zero” on HRC’s Congressional scorecard for every term he has served in the U.S. Congress. |
| “I will ensure that the statutes protecting their civil rights and their safety are fully enforced.” | Sessions has consistently opposed statutes to protect the civil rights of the LGBTQ community — and LGBTQ people are not protected from discrimination under federal law. |
| Sessions said he would uphold federal hate crimes legislation | In at least six different instances, Sen. Sessions has voted against, attempted to sabotage and warned against hate crimes legislation that protect the LGBTQ community. |
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After qualifying the 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges and the vigorous opposition of the dissenting justices, Sessions said, “I would follow this decision.” |
Sen. Sessions called the Obergefell decision “beyond the realm of reality” and was a co-sponsor of the 2004 Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have created a federal definition of marriage excluding same-sex couples and prohibiting state-level recognition of same-sex marriage. |
If past is prologue, Sessions understands the #LGBTQ community the way a bulldozer understands a building. Act now → t.co/c8uEw9YDGJ pic.twitter.com/gbKC6pEXQb
— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) January 10, 2017
DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL — CONFIRMATION HEARINGS CONTINUE TODAY FOR SESSIONS, START FOR SEC OF STATE NOMINEE TILLERSON: Today, Sessions begins day two of his confirmation hearings, and witnesses include civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) (@repjohnlewis), equality champion Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) (@CoryBooker), and NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks (@CornellWBrooks). Hearings begin today for Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. More on Tillerson from HRC.
#THANKSOBAMA — OBAMA’S FAREWELL ADDRESS IN CHICAGO: Last night, President Barack Obama, whose legacy will no doubt go on as one of the most pro-equality presidents our country has seen, gave his final farewell address in Chicago. He listed among his many accomplishments pushing the country forward on LGBTQ issues; He is the first sitting president to endorse marriage equality and appointing two of the five Supreme Court justices who made it the law of the land. He made a dedicated call to remain strong and continue pushing for justice — specifically mentioning the epidemic of violence and discrimination against the transgender community and continuing to push for LGBTQ rights abroad.
.@BarackObama: “I know our work has not only helped so many Americans. It has inspired so many Americans.” #ObamaFarewell ❤️�������� pic.twitter.com/d4m3cAn5TL
— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) January 11, 2017
The Washington Post interviewed nine White House Staffers about their time working for President Obama. Tyler Lechtenberg, senior presidential speechwriter, recalled the day the Supreme Court of the United States, with the help of two justices appointed by the president, ruled that marriage equality is the law of the land. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, White House LGBT Liaison, remembered the unveiling of the Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument dedicated to the LGBTQ community. More from The Washington Post.
WHAT WE’RE READING WEDNESDAY: POZ interviewed HRC Foundation’s HIV and AIDS Project Manager Marvell Terry for its cover story this month. Terry spoke frankly about his experience as a Black, gay man from the South living with HIV, and his work to reverse the epidemic of HIV in the South. Read the full interview here.
NC MUST MAKE FULL, NO-STRINGS-ATTACHED REPEAL OF HB2 A TOP PRIORITY THIS SESSION: To make the first day of its legislative session, HRC and Equality NC are calling on North Carolina lawmakers to fully repeal the state’s deeply discriminatory HB2 at the beginning of the new legislative session. For more than nine months, HB2 has harmed North Carolina’s people and economy as businesses, major sporting organizations, entertainers, and others have moved events out of the state over the outrageous law. Just this week, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) confirmed that a decision to move the ACC Championship out of the state will be made soon if HB2 is not repealed. “North Carolinians have resoundingly rejected the hate and discrimination of HB2, and it’s far past time for their elected representatives to do the same,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Those who stand in the way of a clean vote to fully repeal HB2 are directly responsible for the continued harm this destructive law inflicts on the people, reputation, and economy of the state of North Carolina. HB2 must be repealed, and it must be repealed now.” More from HRC.
TREVOR NOAH INTERVIEWS NATGEO EDITOR ABOUT “AMAZING” SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER: Susan Goldberg (@SusanBGoldberg), Editor in Chief of National Geographic, spoke to The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah (@TrevorNoah) about NatGeo’s groundbreaking new special issue, “Gender Revolution.” When asked by Noah about what he characterized as an “amazing, amazing issue,” Goldberg said that the magazine undertook the project because gender writ large is being vigorously discussed around the world. For the issue, the magazine interviewed young people from 80 households around the world, eliciting funny, heartbreaking, and illuminating stories. The issue features Avery Jackson and Trinity Neal, whose moms are members of HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council. Avery and her mom were also featured in HRC’s Moms for Transgender Equality video series. Watch the interview here.
HRC PARTNERS WITH PREVENTION ACCESS CAMPAIGN TO CORRECT MISINFORMATION ABOUT HIV: Noël Gordon, HRC Senior Program Specialist for HIV Prevention and Health Equity writes about HRC’s new partnership with the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) to correct misinformation about HIV in the news media through a new joint initiative called the Accuracy Watchdog. PAC and HRC are among a growing number of organizations getting the word out that people living with HIV cannot transmit the virus to a partner if they’ve consistently taken their medication and achieved an “undetectable viral load.” This means the amount of HIV in a person’s body is so low that it cannot be detected by a standard HIV test. More from The Body.
SHOCKING REPORT OF ANTI-LGBTQ EXECUTIONS BY AL-SHABAB EXTREMIST GROUP: The Associated Press says the al-Shabab, an affiliate group of al-Qaida, announced it killed a teenage boy and a young man for engaging in same-sex relations. This is the first report that the group has committed executions because a person engages in same-sex sexual activity or is LGBTQ. More from AP.
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BuzzFeed highlights a new campaign featuring LGBTQ women to help increase breast cancer screening rates… Washington Blade reports on a Cuban LGBTQ activist prevented from leaving the country… Wicked Local Arlington interviews a local nonbinary student on their experiences in school…
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Why ‘National Geographic’ put a trans girl on its cover
There’s a wonderful post over at National Geographic, explaining their groundbreaking new cover. The image is of Avery Jackson, a 9-year-old girl in Kansas City. She’s the first openly trans person to appear on the cover of the magazine, and people are freaking out. (Both good and bad.)
“More than a few have vowed to cancel their subscriptions,” the NG editors write. But they felt that it was important to include her in this issue, which focuses mainly on how gender roles are affecting young people. Inside the magazine, there are portraits of 80 9-year-olds from 8 different countries, and the editors hail Jackson as “strong and proud.”
The issue notes that the very concept of gender is in a state of evolution — far from when Freud declared that gender is destiny. “Many of us learned in high school biology that sex chromosomes determine a baby’s sex, full stop: XX means it’s a girl; XY means it’s a boy. But on occasion, XX and XY don’t tell the whole story,” writes Robin Marantz Henig.
The piece concludes that particularly now, in the digital age, young people face new opportunities (and challenges) brought about by growing flexibility when it comes to self-identifying. On balance, the editors seem confident that that is a good thing: they hope, they write, that the cover can spark conversation about what’s changed and how much more progress remains.
Trump Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson Confirmation Hearing: WATCH LIVE
Trump Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, is also undergoing a confirmation hearing today.
On a side note, Tony Perkins, the leader of the hate group Family Research Council and an evangelical ally of Donald Trump, is roiling over Trump’s decision to pick ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State. Why? Not for the reasons most are troubled. Tillerson was for gay troop leaders in the Boy Scouts, and his corporation gives to Planned Parenthood.
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Equality NC & HRC to NCGA: Make No-Strings-Attached Repeal of HB2 a Top Priority This Session
Today, Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on North Carolina lawmakers to fully repeal the state’s deeply discriminatory HB2 at the beginning of the new legislative session. For more than nine months, HB2 has harmed North Carolina’s people and economy as businesses, major sporting organizations, entertainers, and others have moved events out of the state over the outrageous law. Just this week, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) confirmed that a decision to move the ACC Championship out of the state will be made soon if HB2 is not repealed.
“Every single day, HB2 has put LGBTQ North Carolinians at risk for discrimination and violence. North Carolina voters have sent a clear message by rejecting Pat McCrory, the face of HB2, at the ballot box,” said Equality NC Executive Director Chris Sgro. “Today’s convening of the 2017 session is an opportunity to show that North Carolina is not what is represented by the deeply discriminatory HB2. With HB2 still on the books and the Charlotte Ordinance fully repealed, we will only continue to lose businesses and put LGBTQ North Carolinians in harm’s way. The North Carolina General Assembly has but only one option — a full and complete repeal of HB2”
“North Carolinians have resoundingly rejected the hate and discrimination of HB2, and it’s far past time for their elected representatives to do the same,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Those who stand in the way of a clean vote to fully repeal HB2 are directly responsible for the continued harm this destructive law inflicts on the people, reputation, and economy of the state of North Carolina. HB2 must be repealed, and it must be repealed now.”
During the latest special session, the NC GOP doubled down on discrimination by pulling out of a deal brokered by Governor Cooper for full and total repeal of HB2. At the last minute, GOP leadership in the General Assembly blew up the governor’s deal when they sought to keep hateful, anti-LGBTQ provisions that would have maintained, potentially indefinitely, HB2’s prohibition on cities protecting their own LGBTQ residents from discrimination. These very same commonsense non-discrimination protections exist in more than 100 cities across the country, including Jackson, MS, Louisville, KY, Orlando, FL, and Minneapolis, MN — a city which has had these protections in place since 1975.
Following passage in March of 2016, HB2 triggered a national outcry of opposition and a broad range of voices spoke out over the last 9 months demanding its full and complete repeal. The economic fallout — including more than $600 million in lost business — grew as companies concerned with protecting their consumers and employees moved conventions, trainings, operations, productions, and other events out of state. In November, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory became the only incumbent governor from either party to lose on election day specifically because he championed and signed HB2 into law.
North Carolina polling released by HRC and Equality NC found that HB2 was the number one issue leading to Governor Pat McCrory’s defeat — the only incumbent governor from either party to lose on election day. The HRC and Equality NC survey found that 62 percent of voters opposed HB2, while only 30 percent supported the law. HB2 was also listed as the leading reason to vote against McCrory — with 57 percent citing the bill, 17 points above any other issue.
Have a look inside London’s gender neutral barbershop
Gay Star News visits Barberette, London’s longest running gender neutral barbershop.
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