Bi representations soar in 28th annual #glaadawards nominees

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Frank Ocean’s dad is suing him for $14.5 million over a gay slur

Frank Ocean was just slapped with a multi-million dollar lawsuit from his own father over a Tumblr post he wrote last summer.

Related: Frank Ocean Opens Up About Being Elusive

Frank’s dad, self-proclaimed “singer, writer, and inventor” Calvin Cooksey, filed a defamation lawsuit against his son, citing a Tumblr post Frank wrote last summer short after the Orlando massacre, TMZ reports. In the post, Frank accused his father of using an anti-LGBTQ slur over 20 years ago.

“I was 6 years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a f*ggot as he dragged me out of a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty,” Frank wrote. “That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think.”

Apparently, Calvin didn’t appreciate being called a bigot. He also claims Frank’s comments cost him financial opportunities in both the film and music industries. So he wants his son to form over $14.5 million dollars.

Related: Frank Ocean’s mom wants Kim Burrell cut from son’s album ‘Blonde’ after homophobic rant

This isn’t the first time Calvin has tried suing his own son. In 2012, Ocean tweeted that his pops was trying to sue him for $1 million.

The tweet, which has since been deleted, said: “Father wanna sue me for a million. Like I owe him back child support. Weak individual bought me a swiss knife at 6yrs old then dipped on me.”

TMZ also notes that in 2014, Calvin filed a defamation lawsuit against hip hop mogul Russell Simmons for claiming he was a deadbeat dad. That time he wanted $142 million.

Related: Frank Ocean Shares Moving Essay About Orlando Tragedy

h/t: TMZ

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Milo Yiannopoulos Credentialed for White House Press Briefing Friday

Homocon white supremacist, Islamophobe, transphobe, fame-whore, Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos is credentialed for a White House press briefing on Friday, the NY Daily News reports:

“I’m a senior editor at America’s most influential news outlet. How the f–k do you think?” Yiannopoulos told the Daily News in a Thursday evening email when asked how he obtained credentials for the presidential briefing.

RELATED: Trump Defends Alt-Right Troll Milo Yiannopoulos, Threatens Berkeley Funding After Students Protest

Yahoo News adds:

Yiannopoulos said he didn’t know whether he would get to ask White House press secretary Sean Spicer a question at the briefing. He previously attended a briefing last March. Yiannopoulos asked former White House press secretary Josh Earnest about his belief that Facebook and Twitter are “punishing conservative and libertarian points of view.”

The briefing comes at the end of a week when a speech Yiannopoulos planned to deliver at University of California, Berkeley was canceled amid violent protests. President Trump responded to the demonstrations with a tweet on Thursday morning that seemed to suggest he might pull federal funds from the university.

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How does the amount of time you spend on dating apps compare to other Queerty readers?

After a U.K. man wrote to the Guardian about his addiction to hookup apps (“I spend hours and hours online looking at hook-up ads on my phone.”), we asked Queerty readers about their own hookup habits. Now, the results:

Related: How many hours per day do you spend on hookup apps? Take our poll and see what others say.

A total of 1,565 readers participated in our poll. 1,187 (76%) of you said you spend an average of 0-2 hours per day on hookup apps, and 295 (19%) said you spend an average of 3-6 hours per day.

43 (3%) of you reported that you spend between 7-9 hours per day on hookup apps, compared to 21 (1.3%) who say you spend 10 or more hours per day.

And then there are there are those of you who spend all day, every day on the prowl. A total of 19 (1.2%) Queerty readers said they are constantly on hookup apps 24/7.

Related: Dating apps are turning people into sex addicts, doctor warns

We asked Jake Myers, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Los Angeles, what he thought of these results.

“Dating apps are a convenient way to meet guys and aren’t going anywhere any time soon,” he tells us. “Where it can get dicey is if you find yourself constantly checking them, and it’s easy to go down that rabbit hole.”

He continues, “Apps can become a quick way to get immediate gratification and can be very additive. Even the little rumble sound that Grindr makes when you have a new message can trigger a euphoric response.”

Related: This Behavior At Gay Bars Absolutely Needs To Stop

Jake’s advice? Log off from time to time.

“Pay attention to whether using the app is taking away from time that could be spent more productively,” he says. “If there are things being pushed aside because you’re spending too much time online, you might want to try a Grindr ‘detox.’ However, as long as it doesn’t affect the rest of your life in a negative way, why not take advantage of what technology has to offer?”

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A Former White House Official Says Trump Ignores Due Process at His Own Peril

President Donald Trump has spent the past two weeks issuing a spate of executive orders that are stunning in their reach.

There’s nothing unusual about the executive orders in and of themselves, of course. Presidents have been signing them since George Washington was in office.

But the problem, says former ambassador and White House official Stuart Eizenstat, is the “rapidity, breath and lack of interagency coordination.”

Eizenstat says Trump is churning out executive orders at a breakneck pace without consulting affected agencies, legal experts or cabinet members. His cabinet, Eizenstat points out, isn’t even fully in place: “[Trump] knows the confirmation process can sometimes take a matter of weeks, and [he] wanted to get out of the box as quickly as possible.”

Eizenstat held high-level positions in both the Carter and Clinton administrations. He watched Carter sign a controversial executive order his first day in office, pardoning Vietnam War draft dodgers. Eizenstat emphasizes that he is not against unilateral executive action. “Executive orders are a very good way at the beginning of an administration of showing direction,” he says.

And certainly, he says, President Trump “didn’t exceed his legal authority.”

Trump’s executive orders are dramatic and transformative. He has put a temporary halt on refugees, revived plans to build controversial oil pipelines, set the stage to repeal Obamacare, authorized a wall on the border with Mexico, and banned funding for abortion overseas. But historically speaking, Trump’s orders are far from the most consequential.

An executive order by Franklin D. Roosevelt enabled the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was also an executive order. “But Lincoln consulted his cabinet,” Eizenstat adds.

Trump, by contrast, has been moving so quickly that “the normal interagency process that would flag problems hasn’t existed.” Take the immigration and refugee ban, for example. “Green card holders were initially swept up, the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t consulted. There was no secretary of state in place, although this has a very real impact on our foreign policy.”

Eizenstat is concerned about what the ramifications will be for the country. “I’ve worked in the White House in two [administrations]. And to me, process is very important. A good process does not assure a good result,” Eizenstat says. “But an inadequate and bad process, a short-circuited process, a process which doesn’t touch base with the key departments, the key interest groups, the key congressional committees, is almost certainly going to be an imperfect decision.”

This article first appeared on PRI The World.

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A Former White House Official Says Trump Ignores Due Process at His Own Peril

Then and Now, James Baldwin Is the Voice of The Resistance

The black and gay writer died 30 years ago. But a new documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, gifts his words on race and rebellion to a new generation of Americans.

www.advocate.com/film/2017/2/03/then-and-now-james-baldwin-voice-resistance

Thousands Plan to Attend Anti-Trump LGBT Solidarity Rally at Stonewall Inn on Saturday

An anti-Trump solidarity rally organized by NYC Councilman Corey Johnson planned for Saturday afternoon at the Stonewall Inn has received responses from 8,000 already planning to attend.

Another 22,000 says they’re ‘interested’ in attending. The rally has the sponsorship of more than 60 groups and 16 lawmakers including Governor Andrew Cuomo, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Senator Brad Hoylman.

Says the invite:

“Join us in front of the Stonewall Inn as we stand in solidarity with every immigrant, asylum seeker, refugee and every person impacted by Donald Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and un-American executive orders. We will also speak out against Trump’s selection of the most anti-LGBT nominees and appointees in modern history.”

The rally takes place from 2-4 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.

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Thousands Plan to Attend Anti-Trump LGBT Solidarity Rally at Stonewall Inn on Saturday

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味方という意味での”ally”が今、求められています。

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White House: No Plans for 'Religious Freedom' Order 'Right Now'

But Press Secretary Sean Spicer did say that “political correctness” sometimes inteferes with religious expression.

www.advocate.com/politics/2017/2/02/white-house-no-plans-religious-freedom-order-right-now